Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was t...hat their secret?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, tha...n what ought to be done against our enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealed... from me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by very... different ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more ...calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the small naked children, running lightly in the sun beneath the palm-trees, the little girl's sex membership is as clear as he...r brother's, but there is less that she can do with it. When she trips and falls, she clutches at her head, or tries to fold her arms across her chest. Her femininity is concealed deep within her, nothing that she can touch and see, depend upon or flaunt. In those societies where children's sex membership is recognized by adults, in which the men treat the little girls with flirtatious attention and the women tease and challenge the small boys, the little girls respond with movements of the entire body, which undulates and postures in delicious indulgence of feminine response. The small boy struts, sometimes with emphasis on his penis, more often carrying hatchet, knife, stick, pole, in upward positions as he marches, parries, performs. His behaviour, however symbolic, is to the extent that it is male a concentrated phallic exaggeration, while his sister's is more diffuse and involves the whole body. The little boy is sure about his specific maleness, but seems not to be so sure of his adequacy to operate it. He supplements with various symbolic objects. Very often he shouts, adding the vigour of his voice to the vigour of his posturing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Objects are concealed from our view, not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not bring o...ur minds and eyes to bear on them.... We do not realize how far and widely, or how near and narrowly, we are to look. The greater part of the phenomena of Nature are for this reason concealed from us all our lives. The gardener sees only the gardener's garden. Here, too, as in political economy, the supply answers to the demand. Nature does not cast pearls before swine. There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate,--not a grain more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half... concealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I... climbed alone over huge rocks, loosely poised, a mile or more, still edging toward the clouds; for though the day was clear elsewhere, the summit was concealed by mist. The mountain seemed a vast aggregation of loose rocks, as if some time it had rained rocks, and they lay as they fell on the mountain sides, nowhere fairly at rest, but leaning on each other, all rocking stones, with cavities between, but scarcely any soil or smoother shelf. They were the raw materials of a planet dropped from an unseen quarry, which the vast chemistry of nature would anon work up, or work down, into the smiling and verdant plains and valleys of earth. This was the undone extremity of the globe; as in lignite we see coal in the process of formation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The morning was a bright one, and perfectly still and serene, the lake as smooth as glass, we making the only ripple as we paddled... into it. The dark mountains about it were seen through a glaucous mist, and the brilliant white stems of canoe birches mingled with the other woods around it. The wood thrush sang on the distant shore, and the laugh of some loons, sporting in a concealed western bay, as if inspired by the morning, came distinct over the lake to us, and, what was more remarkable, the echo which ran round the lake was much louder than the original note; probably because, the loon being in a regularly curving bay under the mountain, we were exactly in the focus of many echoes, the sound being reflected like light from a concave mirror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »