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He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.
The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.
As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.
What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.
There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.
However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.
Of all the Whig tracts written in support of the Succession, The Crisis is perhaps the most significant.
It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.
He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
The most famous document that comes out of this dispute is perhaps Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie For Poetrie, published in 1595.
His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.
the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
It is perhaps too late now to talk of mandate because it is inconsistent with what is termed political realism.
The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.
-- Is this, perhaps, one of the things that is wrong with our country??
Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.

is and instructive
The Minḥat Ḳenaot is instructive reading for the historian because it throws much light upon the deeper problems which agitated Judaism, the question of the relation of religion to the philosophy of the age, which neither the zeal of the fanatic nor the bold attitude of the liberal-minded could solve in any fixed dogmatic form or by any anathema, as the independent spirit of the congregations refused to accord to the rabbis the power possessed by the Church of dictating to the people what they should believe or respect.
It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.
It is instructive to compare his title for this knowledge, Watching the waves in a Sacred Sea to a Western-style title for all knowledge.
It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
It is instructive therefore to read some of what Ballard and Moorcock were writing that engendered such animosity from the established SF community.
All, however, is by no means of this description, and many parts of the book abound in information, easy to comprehend and both instructive and entertaining.
This is somewhat below the Sun's 1373 W / m², but still instructive.
The distribution of atolls around the globe is instructive: most of the world's atolls are in the Pacific Ocean ( with concentrations in the Tuamotu Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Coral Sea Islands, and the island groups of Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tokelau ) and Indian Ocean ( the Atolls of the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, the Chagos Archipelago and the Outer Islands of the Seychelles ).
This very simple model is quite instructive, and the only model that could fit on a page.
An instructive example of this is the population of Superb Lyrebirds in Tasmania, which have retained the calls of species not native to Tasmania in their repertoire, but have also added some local Tasmanian endemic bird noises.
The physical philosophy and anthropology which Baader, in connection with this, unfolds in various works, is but little instructive, and coincides in the main with the utterances of Boehme.
In this way blurring detail that might have been instructive to the excavator is avoided.
The bubble in closed-end country funds in the late 1980s is instructive here, as are the bubbles that occur in experimental asset markets.
Although it is possible that this work was inspired by Johnson asking for an " index rerum " for Richardson's novels, the Collection contains more of a focus on " moral and instructive " lessons than the index that Johnson sought.
Unfortunately, the critical period between 950 and 954 has produced comparatively few charters ( owing perhaps to Eadred's deteriorating health ), but what little there is may be instructive.
my excuse is forceful and instructive, if he cares to profit from it.
His anthology is a very valuable collection of extracts from earlier Greek writers, which he collected and arranged, in the order of subjects, as a repertory of valuable and instructive sayings.
The manner in which each Gospel concludes the parable is instructive.
A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or ( sometimes ) a normative principle.
The paragraph immediately following the above quote is also instructive.
This very simple model is quite instructive.
It is instructive to compare Carracci's Assumption with Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin.
To understand the functionality provided by an MMU, it is instructive to study a counter example of a system that achieves this functionality by other means.
It is instructive to note that the $ 2. 5 trillion Social Security Trust Fund has value, not as a tangible economic asset, but because it is a claim on behalf of beneficiaries on the goods and services produced by the working population.

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