We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, b...ut not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had supposed their formula was fixed. They had obeyed instructions to devise... A type of cold, a type of hooded gaze. But when the Negroes came they were perplexed. These Negroes looked like men....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust... our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavours in it, may also become clearer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When they sometimes Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed... Behind the door and headboard of the bed, Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers, With sounds like the dry rattling of a shutter,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A transition from an author's books to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect.... Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendor, grandeur, and magnificence; but, when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the sam...e light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well;... Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Judean threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »