The view generally entertained by naturalists is that species, when intercrossed, have been specially
endowed with the quality of sterility, in order to prevent the confusion of all organic forms.
For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each
endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself.
The act released his physical energies without unfettering his will; his mind was still spellbound, but his powerful body and agile limbs,
endowed with a blind, insensate life of their own, resisted stoutly and well.
Instead of men
endowed with divine authority and directly guided by the will of God, modern history has given us either heroes
endowed with extraordinary, superhuman capacities, or simply men of very various kinds, from monarchs to journalists, who lead the masses.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and
endowed the public.
Perhaps the men she carried had asked her to do too much, had stretched beyond breaking-point the enduring faithfulness which seems wrought and hammered into that assemblage of iron ribs and plating, of wood and steel and canvas and wire, which goes to the making of a ship - a complete creation
endowed with character, individuality, qualities and defects, by men whose hands launch her upon the water, and that other men shall learn to know with an intimacy surpassing the intimacy of man with man, to love with a love nearly as great as that of man for woman, and often as blind in its infatuated disregard of defects.
The side turned up to the public view, presented the spectacle of a gentleman, possessed of considerable reputation as a speaker at charitable meetings, and
endowed with administrative abilities, which he placed at the disposal of various Benevolent Societies, mostly of the female sort.
He saw that the soulless thing within was
endowed with a kindlier and more noble nature than he himself possessed.
After Pagolo died, he fought under his brother Vitellozzo, and in a very short time, being
endowed with wit and a vigorous body and mind, he became the first man in his profession.
Janetta was then only fifteen; naturally well disposed,
endowed with a susceptible Heart, and a simpathetic Disposition, she might, had these amiable qualities been properly encouraged, have been an ornament to human Nature; but unfortunately her Father possessed not a soul sufficiently exalted to admire so promising a Disposition, and had endeavoured by every means on his power to prevent it encreasing with her Years.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
At this dim inceptive stage of the day Tess seemed to Clare to exhibit a dignified largeness both of disposition and physique, an almost regnant power, possibly because he knew that at that preternatural time hardly any woman so well
endowed in person as she was likely to be walking in the open air within the boundaries of his horizon; very few in all England.