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The sum of human knowledge is vast; but how much more vast seem the achievements of each of these men, when we realize how few his years, and how many the obstacles and impediments of his all too short career!
He spoke to her, in gallantry, but offered no impediment to her entrance.
Again the query began to revolve through his mind whether the impediments were really insurmountable.
Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will.
The impediments to all military operations which proceeded from the want of such a navigation and the reliance which was placed, notwithstanding those impediments, on such a commerce can not be forgotten.
I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passions within.
We had partly overcome this impediment, when Captain Wickham decided upon giving up the attempt, and ordered the boats to return, considering the evident risks too great to justify further perseverance.
Not only do I think that quotations are deformities and impediments, but I am apt to believe that my own opinion, at least in those matters of which I venture to treat, is quite as good as any other man's, living or dead.
Who can affirm that the wild ambiguities of our hearts and the gross impediments of our physical existence are less real than the most pointed of our feelings and 'thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls'?
She felt suffocated, impelled to rid herself of every impediment.
That neither hills, nor a citadel, nor even the sea itself, had formed an impediment to their arms.
I have, however, found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments, and give one the satisfaction of reality, the sense of having been met, and a larger horizon.
We passed along several reaches without meeting any impediment, but, at length, an accumulation of drift timber and gravel brought us up at a spot where two large trees had fallen across the stream from opposite banks.
The very impediments in his way served to retard pursuit, and he did not despair of escaping.
They were no impediment to a man or bullock in motion, but grew to the height of about seven or eight feet.
The difficulty of our descent under such circumstances was therefore increased, but no impediment could have arrested us then, the lower regions having so many attractive charms for such cold and hungry beings.
That active cavalier set forward at once, but found considerable impediments to his progress.
Browning is simply a great demagogue, with an impediment in his speech.
At first sight it seems an absurd question, but it is permissible because one must recognize the fact that what perhaps prevented Balzac and Browning from being successful has not proved an impediment to the triumph of Shakespeare.
"I am in a condition to prove my allegation; an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists."
The repairs of the fleet, the provisioning, and every other circumstance connected with the land, lay under increased impediments; but they were all gradually overcome by the vigilance and intelligence of the admiral.
"You cannot marry Don Giovanni," she said at length, "because there is an insurmountable impediment in the way."
In producing this book the Author's purpose was to help mankind to overcome these weaknesses, which are a serious impediment to mental development, and hinder personal advancement and general progress.
I heard the unimpeded march forward, and I distinguished at the same time every delicate impediment thronging the way.
The tender plant, when, cramped and clogged by existing impediments, cannot spring up into beauteous maturity.
Such mutilations are impediments to the growth of the intellect.
The removal of the impediments to import is the only effectual remedy.
The individual insolence of her people has been the real impediment to the increase of her dominions.
The most stubborn impediments which block the American national advance issue from the imperfections in our democracy.
In the next letter I shall take a view of the causes which helped to remove these impediments, in addition, it must always be remembered, to the general increase of knowledge and improvement of experimental philosophy.
Brooke's definition of the place he might have held but for the impediment of indolence.
The native leader on the other hand, in addition to other impediments, has to contend with the difficulty of financing his own tours in a country whose settled policy is to see that Natives do not make any money.
Persons who are about to get married should give their pastor timely notice of their intention, make known to him privately whatever they suspect might be an impediment to the marriage, and make sure of all arrangements before inviting their friends.
They should not presume to make final arrangements and invite friends before they have made arrangements with their pastor; because if there should be any delay on account of impediments it would cause them great inconvenience.
Then he got into the wagon, and carefully clambering over impediments came toward her.
The sensibility of the master, since we have allowed him genius, will be an impediment: the uniformity of the same dull tedious round will give him disgust, and the student will turn from it with aversion.
Those men through whom other people are relieved and rescued from fear and sin and the impediments that lie in the way of what they wish to accomplish and poverty and the afflictions of disease, succeed in ascending to heaven.
Language of that sort, used in a country which boasts that no artificial impediment can be suffered to exist in the career of genius and virtue, would quickly meet the reception merited by its arrogant absurdity.
There is apparently no constitutional impediment to a still further extension of the principle of flexibility and to the minimizing of loss by what has been a costly trial and error method of fitting the pupils and the subjects to each other.
In which are five little islands of much fertility and beauty, full of high and spreading trees, among which any numerous fleet, without fear of tempest or other impediment of fortune, could rest securely.
When summoned to a Synod I will come, unless hindered by a canonical impediment.
It is not possible to say how long it will operate as an impediment to a high industrial development, but from the lessons taught in other countries where race and religion create similar castes, we may believe in its long continuance.
Only one impediment could we have foreseen to such a consummation: he might have been drawn into public life.
As the degree of intensity or extent varies, so is there a dissimilarity in the character of the impediment.
In the diagnosis of hip lameness, one is guided in a general way by the character of the impediment manifested.
John, with a twinkle, "your handmaiden appears to me a quite just cause and impediment."
He did not come to the point at once, but drove round it, as if there might be some impediment in the way, which, though it could not possibly upset the whole affair, might make a little unnecessary delay.
I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passion within.
With this early start, every artificial impediment was cleared from his path; his extraordinary ability was able to assert itself, and could be given due opportunity, without a too violent straining of service methods.
Sponge soothingly, whose anxiety in looking after the hounds had prevented his seeing this formidable impediment.
Premature resolutions she made none; she had been warned against them by Madame Fournier as mischievous impediments to making the best of life, which is so much less often "what we could wish than what we must even put up with."
The clog should be only heavy enough to be an impediment, and may consist of a log or heavy stone.
We must clear away with a thorough hand all impediments to success, and we must make every adjustment of law that will facilitate the full and free use of our whole capacity and force as a fighting unit.
As to M.P.ship I may have had other chances, but I never cared for a position of endless care and toil by night and day, to say nothing of my impediment of speech, and as to the magic letters I rather despised them: this being one reason.
You are a clog and an impediment in the way of my happiness, the one encumbrance to be got rid of at any sacrifice.
The only impediment to its being so recognized and acted upon is the doubt as to her actual decease.
Similar impediments occur at every step, to exhaust the strength and delay the progress of an invader.
They insinuated themselves into the substances about them, and the impediments to their progress yielded at their touch.
Somewhere he had heard that the Strangers' Club aspired to the establishment of a gambling Mecca which should rival Monte Carlo in magnitude and that the present impediment was the frown of the government upon such a wholesale gambling enterprise.
This venerable impediment has some hundred or more thousands which he can bequeath to whom he likes.
No impediment has been placed by these taxes upon enterprise; no hampering restrictions interrupt the flow of commerce.
The same impediment which checked one column forced the other likewise to pause; and after having driven in an advanced body of the enemy, and endeavored, without effect, to penetrate through the marsh, it also was commanded to halt.
Mother said Pol had some kind of impediment in her speech, which caused her to say 'ah' at the close of a sentence.
I thought I had reached the threshold of liberty, but here was an impediment that threatened to be insurmountable.
This circumstance constituted no inconsiderable impediment to the progress of the negotiation.
The vulgar, who take things according to their first appearance, attribute the uncertainty of events to such an uncertainty in the causes as make the latter often fail of their usual influence, though they meet with no impediment to their operation.
The greatest of their impediments had been surmounted, but there were difficulties still to be overcome.
A large quantity of arms and ammunition which had been brought over for the use of the expected reinforcements was now found to be an impediment, and O'Neil decided to destroy them to prevent their falling into the hands of the Canadians.
Often his morals are unsavory, but these prove no impediment.
Put your name on the roster of your country as a free man, unmarried and without impediments of any sort.
In like manner, Emerson has little to say of that horrid burden and impediment on the soul, which the churches call Sin, and which, by whatever name we call it, is a very real catastrophe in the moral nature of man.
Although the modern reason given for their use at funerals was, that all impediments might be removed from the roads before the funeral procession arrived, still it is probable that the custom at one time meant something more than this.
His coat and necktie he left hanging over the back of the chair, disdained as unnecessary impediments on a fishing trip.
Such impediments, such intricacies of bog and bush!
I was a good swimmer, but light as were my clothes, I was not aware of the impediment they would prove to me.
It seemed as if a blast was sweeping over the land, hurling down trees and buildings and all impediments in its course.
Now a rock or a sandy patch intervened, but they leaped over all impediments, the long dry grass catching fire from the sparks which, like a vast courier of destruction, were borne forward by the breeze.
The eyelids, transparent and bloodless, offered no complete impediment to vision.
Not that he was really, I found, in a great hurry, but it was his habit to get over the ground as fast as possible when he could, so that he might not be inconvenienced by delays from impediments when they might occur.
Her old racket had been her greatest impediment, and she had not liked to borrow often from her classmates.
A morsel of ice in his path, that would have been no impediment even to a child, caused him to stumble.
A natural impediment in his speech, affecting him most when excited, caused some delay in his first vehement utterance.
The conformity to law, with which the forces of nature act, far from being an impediment to his appointing and reaching his ends is much more the indispensable means by which he is enabled in general to reach them.
It progressed without impediment two, three, six, eight inches, and when at the depth of about ten inches appeared to touch bottom, which in this kind of angling is the signal for a "strike" and the landing of the game.
Keeping close watch of that relaxed, dozing form, he recklessly tramples all impediments.
He seemed struggling with some unwonted emotional impediment to proper speech.
Of course, there were many impediments to the amelioration of law by this agency.
The chief impediment to their plan was the continuance of the frigate on the coast.
There is no sense in having the hooks too small, and, if I may venture to offer one more opinion, no spinning flight for trout is perfect which has not a hook or hooks clear of all impediment at the tail.
The battery had been rapidly thrown up, and offered no insuperable impediment.
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The rule was that no natural impediment should cause them to digress or to stop.
I followed her, and having removed these impediments we returned to the boudoir.
Not that he purposed putting any hitch or impediment in the way.
We may, nevertheless, understand that the various impediments of passions, prejudices, etc., to which its union with the body has given rise, are not immediately dissolved on its separation from the body.
It is a common observation that differences of taste, understanding, and disposition, are no impediments to friendship, and that the closest intimacies often exist between minds each of which supplies what is wanting to the other.
No doubt there were great physical and natural impediments in the way of Cook and his associates making anything known to the natives of those islands; but these impediments were overcome in relation to other matters.
"I require and charge you both as ye will answer at the dreadful Day of Judgment when the secret of all hearts shall be disclosed that if either of you know any impediment why ye may not be joined together in Matrimony ye do now confess it."
He has an impediment of the speech which at all times causes him to stammer badly.
It would clearly be the interest of persons engaged in an important trade, provided there were no legal impediment in the way, to establish a regular postal communication in connection with it, even without aid from the state.