"I had only made the
first line when I saw you were going to ring the bell and say the time was up.
Let thy pity be a divining: to know
first if thy friend wanteth pity.
The bad man, if he is being brought into a better way of life and thought, may make some advance, however slight, and if he should once improve, even ever so little, it is plain that he might change completely, or at any rate make very great progress; for a man becomes more and more easily moved to virtue, however small the improvement was at
first. It is, therefore, natural to suppose that he will make yet greater progress than he has made in the past; and as this process goes on, it will change him completely and establish him in the contrary state, provided he is not hindered by lack of time.
One-fourth of the
first page is taken up with the heading of the journal; this gives it a rather top-heavy appearance; the rest of the
first page is reading-matter; all of the second page is reading-matter; the other six pages are devoted to advertisements.
To move down so cunningly that never a leaf stirred; to wade knee-deep in the roaring shallows that drown all noise from behind; to drink, looking backward over one shoulder, every muscle ready for the
first desperate bound of keen terror; to roll on the sandy margin, and return, wet-muzzled and well plumped out, to the admiring herd, was a thing that all tall-antlered young bucks took a delight in, precisely because they knew that at any moment Bagheera or Shere Khan might leap upon them and bear them down.
His demeanor was also regulated with premeditation; he spoke little, and only on impersonal matters; he wished her to realize that in visiting him for the
first time alone she was doing nothing remarkable, although, in fact, that was a point about which he was not at all sure.
At
first the princess noticed nothing but that Kitty was much under the influence of her engouement, as she called it, for Madame Stahl, and still more for Varenka.
They wanted to arrive at the truth,
first, about the nature of justice and injustice, and secondly, about their relative advantages.
In May, 1881, near the close of my
first year in teaching the night-school, in a way that I had not dared expect, the opportunity opened for me to begin my life-work.
This approximation grows more and more nearly exact as the difference grows less; in technical language, the laws of perspective account for the differences to the
first order of small quantities, and other laws are only required to account for second-order differences.
By the reception that the public gave to his telephone, he learned to sympathize with Howe, whose
first sewing-machine was smashed by a Boston mob; with McCormick, whose
first reaper was called "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow, and a flying- machine"; with Morse, whom ten Congresses regarded as a nuisance; with Cyrus Field, whose Atlantic Cable was denounced as "a mad freak of stubborn ignorance"; and with Westinghouse, who was called a fool for proposing "to stop a railroad train with wind."
For these reasons Louis the Twelfth, King of France, quickly occupied Milan, and as quickly lost it; and to turn him out the
first time it only needed Lodovico's own forces; because those who had opened the gates to him, finding themselves deceived in their hopes of future benefit, would not endure the ill-treatment of the new prince.