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He went to it with an open and receptive nature, and with an earnestness of purpose which could not fail to be productive.
She pictured her as her own mother would be, a good deal older and feebler, in a gentle, receptive, patient old age.
He listened eagerly, with receptive ears, lying on his back and looking up and joying in each movement of her lips as she talked.
He was extraordinarily receptive and responsive, while his imagination, pitched high, was ever at work establishing relations of likeness and difference.
She's trying to make herself negative and receptive, as she calls it, but can't, of course, succeed.
Their sympathies are awake for the good everywhere, their minds receptive of the highest teachings.
It is a very admirable treatment, and I hasten to congratulate all men of receptive mind on the feast of wisdom which is theirs for the mere plucking of a book from a shelf.
A nervous strain means that the emotional or the receptive faculties gain an undue influence over the reasonable intelligence.
The third aim of the wise was to educate the receptive and all who came to them in the attitude of disciples.
Robert, with that singular temperament of his, so receptive to all impressions, began to feel it.
All this, and more, the mere presence of this retired clergyman poured into his receptive and eager little soul.
In a blind, mechanical way, his brain receptive to nothing else, Jimmie Dale walked on along the street.
Whenever there emerged in him the signs of that demonic something that makes greatness she would be receptive, eager, humble even.
His mind, it is true, remained clear, even vividly receptive; but, just as earlier this morning, his will proved insufficient for its direction or control.
We mean that he was receptive of new spiritual impressions and capable of further spiritual development.
The Chancellor was what a certain other chancellor styles "a full man," and Henry Clay was a receptive youth.
And this is in reality no contradiction to what has just been said as to the necessity of a receptive condition of mind in the production of works of true genius.
It is creative mind, addressing itself in worthy expression to the common receptive mind of mankind.
When one becomes physically and mentally at rest, he is apt to become receptive to psychic influences; and when these are not desired it is advisable to protect oneself while mentally negative.
Lundy's mind was full of the subject of slavery, and Garrison's proved to be receptive soil.
Bob realized that it was now or never; that he must take advantage of this receptive mood a combination of skill and luck had gained for him.
If you agree upon hours, let him place himself in a relaxed attitude and receptive condition.
Carlyle, in these first essays, already shows the influence of his master Goethe, the most widely receptive of critics.
He felt her tremble like a cold little kitten, and his eyes pleased to her, to reveal her thoughts to him and gain strength from his willingness to be receptive.
They were alike in this: they both loved books and were possessed of the eager, earnest, receptive mind.
I said Robert liked Lizzie Flower first-rate; and she declared that he was the brightest and most receptive pupil she had ever had.
She had an exquisite independence, he was certain that she had humor, and he remembered how alive she had seemed to him, receptive, like a woman with ten senses.
The lover of art has a receptive nature, so that he does not concern himself much, with these considerations, he does not even compare pictures.
Here are found history, philosophy, political science, poetry, and ethics as they were received and given out again by one of the most receptive and imparting minds ever possessed by woman.
More than mamma, she had shrunk from this first painful plunge, and now that it had come she was receptive to impressions which quite escaped the older lady.
He had spent the four most recent and most receptive years of his life in an atmosphere in which religion had no existence.
Mystical for ages steeped in the mystical; poetic for minds receptive of nothing beyond story and allegory and parable.
Your uncle reasons well and has a clear logical mind, but he has neither creative nor receptive imagination.
Painters cultivate a similarly receptive attitude towards nature, but lay themselves open to receive a different impression of it.
On the contrary, my mind was unusually alert, and in a more receptive condition than usual.
The voice of the Masters is always in the world; but only those hear it whose ears are no longer receptive of the sounds which affect the personal life.
In a few formative and receptive years he gains from the parent the results of centuries of human experience.
"I think it's just splendid how receptive and progressive working people are in these days."
The initial or receptive portion, that which notices a situation, recognizes it as significant, and sends in the signal for action, can be trained to discrimination.
Each one of these diseases develops some sort of bacillus in its first appearance, and this leaves the body and may fall on receptive soil in the body of another child.
Dan's attitude toward the world was receptive; here in the Bassett domestic circle he felt no shame at being a Bassett man.
His expression in repose appeared frank and receptive; but to-day his face wore a look half anxious, half ferocious.
In the candy shop where they ate, her mind was even more receptive to tremendous opportunities for acquiring comparative wealth with practically no initial expense and no effort whatever.
On one of these receptive occasions the thing that happened put me permanently out of business.
To the receptive mind all our ancient cathedrals, and a few of our modern ones, possess a subtle atmosphere of their own, indescribable but plainly felt, both within and without their walls.
To the evolution of formal thought in his age he held himself receptive rather than directing.
They had absorbed the ideas of their time with such receptive capacity as they possessed; and they occupied much the same place in society which the chorus in an opera occupies on the stage.
This something receptive is the natural temperament, a basis more or less apt to receive what training and habit may bring to bear upon it.
Michael Angelo is thoroughly original; Raphael possessed a peculiarly receptive nature, that caught something from all with whom he came into close contact.
In the winter there are no strangers, and my mind is, I fancy, at such times, more receptive to the sermon.
They could not fail to hear the caressing tone of her every word, or to mark his receptive but gloomy silence.
Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing and abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.
Our attitude towards it is, for the most part, frankly receptive, and full of joyous possibilities.
In fact, the attitude of either in relation to the other might in no way have been termed receptive.
Still, she was in a more receptive mood than usual, and he wondered if that would not be as good a time as any to speak about his new plan as to the mill.
You match breathing with your subject for fifteen breaths, and they unconsciously become receptive to your suggestions.
It was almost an intoxication, this wonderfully stimulating contact with a mind so receptive, so brilliant, so sympathetic.
For him the word meant not merely "mind" in the sense of receptive and comprehending intelligence, but directive and creative intelligence as well.
His mind was open and receptive; he was eager only for facts which might lead him to an understanding of a problem which seemed utterly obscure.
He could only tell himself that she was less merely receptive, either firmly or weakly, than he would have expected.
The little cloud of sentiment in which he had been moving, perhaps, made him more than ever receptive to the impressions which she seemed to create.
That was my first difficulty, to sit here quiet without being bored, to wait without being impatient, to be receptive and very alert, though for a long time nothing particular happened.
That he should be grateful, that he should approve, was neither here nor there; the indispensable thing was that she should know him conscious, receptive.
The writer reproduces the thoughts and words of others, because his mind is essentially receptive and not creative.
He knew what Elsa, usually quick and receptive, did not know, that he was not afraid of her, but terribly afraid of himself.
The only difficulty was that he had no way of being more receptive to the impulse than he now was.
There is a rightful and wholesome insistence on the necessity for a receptive attitude of mind.
To all such questions he replied with more or less extended observations, and sometimes he had the pleasure of finding himself the center of a group respectfully receptive of his opinions.
From the first his poem had come in contact with a few receptive minds, and borne the blessed fruit of appreciation.
Winfield's mind, being a peculiarly receptive one, readily grasped all the details of the business, and he soon wished to enter life on his own account.
Religion has little to do with outward facts, it taxes but little the receptive power; it has to do rather with changing knowledge into wisdom, applying the few vital facts to the life.
It is the necessary instrument for inducing the proper, the receptive, mood in him who hears.
He did not answer that immediately, but eyed both Moira and me as if to test our receptive capacities.
He was particularly glad to hear the working people, the backbone of every nation, are receptive to the Cause and being taught.
When you do not know it, and are in a receptive attitude, they are able to make suggestions to you, if you are in difficulty.
The people there seem to be broad in their outlook, receptive to any idea which helps the human family from decreasing its burden.
The Guardian would advise you to teach the Mormons, like everyone else, the Faith, when you find them receptive.
Sitting in a chair in a solitary corner one is infinitely more receptive to truth than in a lecture hall or in a discussion group.
One should search out those who are receptive to the Faith, and then concentrate on those persons in their teaching.
In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential.
The feelings which inspire them and the feelings which they arouse in receptive souls are totally independent of the intellect.
I found her unusually receptive, and quite prepared to follow up the ideas I put before her.
The higher kind of interest is direct, intrinsic, not simply receptive, but active and progressive.
To read with imagination, you must be, in the first place, active; in the second place, sensitive, and, because you are sensitive, receptive.
"I'll tell you," and the old correspondent, bent forward toward him earnestly, glad that he had a young, receptive mind opened out toward him.
As men and women grew to cultivate the hospitable mind and receptive heart, tears filled their eyes and as they listened they came to understand.
Doubtless we may carry our efforts to excess in this direction as well as any other, by calling into unduly vigorous and persistent action the merely receptive energies of the mind.
In the words of the Revivalist hymn, "We must lay our deadly doing down," and in receptive silence wait for the inspiration from on high.
In order that it should do so in the modern mind, it must be again and again borne in upon this not always too receptive intellectual substance.
Yet even at this remarkably early stage H. was found to be in some degree receptive to certain Suggestions conveyed by repeated stimulation under uniform conditions.
As children have receptive memories, it is easy for the teacher to lay films of information on the surface of their minds.
Much of it is lost, but some reaches the stigmas, or receptive parts, of other corn, willow, or pine flowers.
With his guard down to about the sixth level, highly receptive but not at all selective, he strolled up one street and down another.
I am sure that our educational agencies would be very receptive to putting more emphasis on this sound and fundamental practice.
She had a curious, receptive mind which found much pleasure and amusement in listening to other folk.
She did not, indeed, learn all this at that time; but she had her receptive mind opened to the first lessons of the glorious truth on than summer evening on the mountain-top.
There is no subject in regard to her, not even her receptive intelligence, which fails to afford me innumerable surprises.
It will be a long time before you can master that, but receptive empathy is your natural trait.
The best of blood ran in her veins, and by nature she was quick, sympathetic and receptive.
He saw behind the scenes and what he learned made a distinct impression on his receptive brain.