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As far as any idea of doing the delicately nurtured a bit of good went, he tells me, he was prepared to stand underneath and catch them in blankets, but no more.
English poetry is so great because it has not withdrawn from life, because it was nurtured in such a cradle.
Is it not a delight to acknowledge a child bearing the nature of both, to nurture and educate it, a physical image and a spiritual image, so that in its growth you yourself live again?
Who can tell into what blossom of poetry that little germ might have expanded, if it had been kindly nurtured under gentle and refining influences?
The nurture of "civility and decent behavior in company and conversation," is not of secondary, but primary, importance.
In all else the child has vanished, and given place to this good-looking girl, with a spring in her gait and a glow on her cheek that tell of clean country nurture.
Here he was carefully nurtured and trained, and here were planted the seeds which have since sprung up and brought forth fruit in his intellectual and moral life.
Under the nurture of a grandmother to whom religion was a convenience and social form, she had received the strictest ceremonial but in no wise any spiritual training.
In all those years he had never spoken to her, nurturing his original dislike and rather suspecting that it was she who had so ruined him.
I saw how the goat, hare, and wolf live, but to feed and to nurture their young, and are contented and happy.
This act more than any other was a reminder of the fact that she was a bit like all other women: a female animal there to be bred and to nurture the continuum of her breed.
If he does break silence it will probably be in terms of the religious cult that has given him nurture.
Grace and refinement dwelt within the household; without, voices of the forest awakened and nurtured his naturally active mind, which later on was not less influenced by the mysteries of the sea.
Every man is the result of his nature and nurture, i.e. of countless individual conditions, and every one of his expressions, again, is the result of all of these conditions.
Then there were his favorite dogs, his pony, some pigeons he had reared; and all had some claim on his affection, home nurtured as he had been in a most kindly household.
For the present he made it his business to nurture their faith in him, and when appealed to for help by one of these foreigners, he refused to "take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs".
And what induced a person so delicately nurtured to expose himself to the fatigue of visiting this grove of penance?
My conversation became prematurely advanced in terms and principles, and my childish confidence was nurtured by nothing less wonderful than books and theories, experiments and dissertations.
He might be violently dragged away, but he would never live elsewhere; his heart had struck its roots too deeply into the earth which nurtured him.
The night air was heavy with the scent of the late dry harvest and all that the late dry harvest meant to the man nurtured on the side of a wet hill.
Only those conditions in the life, therefore, which seem most imperative in their demands upon nurture will be chosen for discussion.
Another condition of great import to nurture appears in the increasing power of the social feelings over the life.
The responsibility that grows out of this thought of nurture is almost crushing, yet its opportunity is sublime.
It is that each soul may enter the door and give back to a waiting world its best, that nurture has brooded and guarded through the years.
Since the subject will be discussed more fully in a succeeding chapter, only the necessity for the nurture will be considered here.
This is the goal toward which all nurture of activity must be directed, else no life is safe after it goes out from the restraints of the home.
Is it not the work of nurture to see that memory is provided with that out of which it can supply every need of the developing life today?
Keeping in mind the law that some impression must precede a feeling, true nurture asks, "In what way can these impressions best be given, that desired feelings may be aroused?"
This is evident in the matter of obedience, whose strengthening into a habit is one of the most imperative tasks of nurture during childhood.
This gives still graver emphasis to the work of nurture in guarding these wide-open doorways to a hungry soul.
Failure to recognize the fact of two sets of tendencies in the life will lead to a fatal mistake in nurture.
It must, of course, be remembered that the influences of both breed and nurture are alike influential on the fate of the individual.
Do you with those that relate to your nurture when born, and the education with which you were instructed?
He proudly thought; "it is no longer a leap in the dark to bring a woman of delicate nurture and cultivation to the prairies."
You will understand she went with one step from cherished ease to single-handed battle with life, a delicately nurtured lady, with no preparation for her trials.
The cure preached a very pretty, short sermon, telling them about Saint Cecile, the delicately nurtured young Roman who was not afraid to face martyrdom and death for the sake of her religion.
In the same way no expense was too great for him to spend on the breeding and nurture of elephants, for they were very valuable animals for the warfare of that day.
Both had, no doubt, long resisted and could resist no longer a love increasing day by day through invincible obstacles, nurtured by terror, strengthened by youth.
He compared these rude necessities with the associations amid which he knew this girl had been nurtured, and the thought gave him nothing but dissatisfaction and rebellion.
Then was I nurtured under fair hope, a bride for princes, having no small competition for my hand, to whose palace and hearth I should come.
Ivan was naturally of a very hasty temper, which was nurtured by the cruel and shameful neglect of his early years.
She refused to recognize Raymond, or receive from him any assistance in the education and nurture of his son.
And it will be such a happiness to watch the development of talent which may blossom into genius through having the right nurture.
It will be nurtured and well looked after, and the one regret will be that it does not bring in an annual income in proportion to the original amount.
He was nurtured in a Cave, and even at that early age was identified with the Ram or Lamb, into whose form he was for the time being changed.
The young of every animal has the triangles new and closely locked together, and yet the entire frame is soft and delicate, being newly made of marrow and nurtured on milk.
The maintenance of the religious life is to some extent a matter of nurture and observances, of religious habit and practice.
We should give so frequently as to impress and nurture the conviction that we were made not only for ourselves, but for others; and that the noblest use of property is its distribution to the needy.
And so he is privileged to bring to marriage and the delicate nurture of children the fine insights of a man of genius who has been wholly true to the costly gift he possessed.
I know that that ambition is not at all personal to himself, but indulged in and nurtured on my account, and for my advancement in life.
Perhaps by nurturing both mystical and rational inclinations, society could explore the realm beyond the surface world of reason while keeping pace with the charismatic predators of the New Age.
Hospitals and Homes and Charitable institutions all combine their energies, and direct their efforts to nurture those whom the laws of nature decree should die.
According to this definition nurture has to do with that period of our existence when we are not able wisely to make choices for ourselves.
To insure for each individual soul in the struggle of life a fair opportunity to be itself is the end of nurture.
Nurture is what is done for the soul by parents and friends in its plastic years; culture is the means which the soul chooses in order that its growth may be hastened.
The roads were heavy with mud, but the earth was left green, the bud of spring having been nurtured beneath the kindly shelter of the snow.
In this kind of scholarship Matthew Arnold was nurtured; and whatever in this respect his training had left imperfect, he perfected by close and continuous study.
I might enlarge on the nurture and education of your rivals, but that would be tedious; and what I have said is a sufficient sample of what remains to be said.
In one form or another, they all present some world of values which is born and nurtured within the mind and soul.
The gardener was impressed by the beautiful coloring of the blossom, so he nurtured, transplanted and cultivated it into a beautiful flower.
It is remarkable that I can discover no well-established instance of a man who had been nurtured in a wolf's den having been found.
Back through the channels of his heart rolled, for an instant, the full tide of his once secretly nurtured affection for her.
To-day the nurture and culture in the schools are society's attempt to remember the little ones in bonds.
There he beheld all those that had been his companions, and his mother who bore him and nurtured him, while, yet he was a little one.
If he were not, in the best sense of the word, well-bred, he had at least been well nurtured, well schooled in the conventions.
Her care is to nurture and train him for his part in life; this is the object of her constant endeavor.
Now that we have married our citizens and brought their children into the world, we have to find nurture and education for them.
Let the citizens at once distribute their land and houses, and not till the land in common, since a community of goods goes beyond their proposed origin, and nurture, and education.
Those only that come under the generous nurture of freedom can be counted on for hearty and willing devotion.
To the mother belongs the privilege of planting in the hearts of her children those seeds of love, which, nurtured and fostered, will bear the fruit of earnest and useful lives.
"If to cultivate is to think of and to nurture, to strive always for greater perfection, then, yes, let us say cultivated."
There must be early sunshine far the first nurture of that delicate plant: the storm comes afterward to perfect its life.
She had only to nurture, as they faced old age together, a happiness already in full measure theirs.
Large broods mean low organization; small broods imply higher types and more care in the nurture and education of the offspring.
As she advances in years she often returns to the habits of her youth, while she almost invariably adopts the practice of her own mother in the early nurture and training of her children.
The sense of a secret to be gained, of a mystery to be revealed?of a broken reflection of some fuller world?has been nurtured by the reflections of form and light and color in nature's mirror.
It is in your family that my taste for domestic society and domestic enjoyments has been nurtured and preserved.
Thus nurtured and trained, she will be a fit mate for a free man, a fit mother for free children, a fit citizen for a free and equal community.
Her cheek is pale, for she has ever been the delicate flower of the family, and the winter winds must not visit her too roughly: she is one to be carefully nurtured.
When once we see that vision all our pride of virtue dies in us, and quicker yet to die is the temper of contempt which we have nurtured towards those whose faults offend us.
In nurturing this order, writing, travelling, praying in its interests, with intervals of silent retreat, she spent the rest of her days.
It is devoted to the nurture of those benign virtues which it so plainly shows waiting on and winning the best beauty and joy of the world.
These instructions must be given to every mother to serve her as a guide, so that each will train and nurture her children in accordance with the Teachings.
One further preliminary remark: the problem of nature vs. nurture can not be solved in general terms; a moment's thought will show that it can be understood only by examining one trait at a time.
It no longer wanted to be told, no matter how minute the details, that "nature prevails enormously over nurture."
This gave another means of measuring nurture, for it was also possible to measure the relation between any trait in the child and some factor in the environment.
The Supreme, accordingly, produced an egg, in which the elementary principles might be deposited, and nurtured into maturity.
We who are alive are responsible for environment and nurture, and we must believe that the purpose to be achieved is of supreme importance.
Statesman he was not; for the nurture of national wealth, such as Cromwell and Caesar planned for, he was incapable of.
With the majority of children we can certainly do nothing better than to nurture such a taste for knowledge into vigorous life.
Further, we know that nurture alone accounts for this remarkable splitting of one sex into two contrasted varieties.
Probably we are on the whole correct in instituting no deep distinction of any kind in the nurture, either physical or mental, of children during their early years.
A small chamber from the main room serves as the nursery, and here the babies are born and nurtured.
To doubt of the truth of the creed in which you have been nurtured is not so terrific as to doubt respecting the intellectual vigor on whose strength you have staked your happiness.
His father had been a bold, and for many years a successful merchant, and the young Herbert, his only child, had been born and nurtured in the lap of wealth and luxury.
On one occasion, he had several blooms that he was nurturing for a coming show, one of which was being produced on a bush of his favorite variety.
Resentment and antagonism, nurtured on a hundred small incidents and trifling jars, and, to begin with, a matter of temperament, had come at last to speech.
This new interest in the vote was steadily nurtured by Elizabeth Stanton, whom Susan now saw more frequently.
These men were probably blind to the racism implicit in their policies, a racism nurtured by military tradition.
If the mother is proved wholly incompetent in mind or character we have acquired a social right to take her child from her and place it where it can receive better nurture and training.