Evolution of Expression - Volume 1

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of skill, you must understand, between the kettle and the

't hear of accommodating itself kindly to the knobs of coal; it would lean forward with a drunken air, and dri

serving of a better cause, dived sideways in, down to the very bottom of the kettle; and the hull of the Royal George has never made half of

e with an air of defiance, and cocking its spout pertly and mockingly at

kettle laughing. Meantime the jolly blaze uprose and fell, flashing and gleaming on the little haymaker at the top of the Dutc

indulge in short vocal snorts, which it checked in the bud, as if it hadn't quite made up its mind yet to be good company. Now it was that, after two or three such vain attempts to sti

y ascended a few feet, then hung about the chimney corner, as its own domestic heaven, it trolled its song with that strong energy of cheerfulness that its iron body hummed and stirred upon the fire; and t

s, to somebody at that moment coming on towards the snug, small home and the crisp fire, there

t know that it is one, for its nothing but a glare of deep and angry crimson, where the sun and wind together set a brand upon the clouds, for being guilty of such weather; and the widest open country is a long, dull strea

ate to its size, as compared with the kettle (size, you couldn't see it!)-that if it had then and there burst itself, like an overcharged gun, if it had fallen a

but the cricket took first fiddle, and kept it. Good heaven, how it chirped! Its shrill, sharp, p

its legs, and made to leap again, by its own intense enthusiasm. Yet they went very well together, the cricket and t

at top. Chirp, chirp, chirp! cricket round the corner. Hum, hum, hum-m-m! kettle sticking to him in his own way; no idea of giving in. Chirp, chirp, chirp, crick

her the kettle chirped and the cricket hummed, or the cricket chirped and the kettle hummed, or they both ch

de song of comfort streaming into a ray of the candle that shone out through the window, and a long way down the lane. And this light, bursting on a certain person, who, on

, being dead beat, boiled ove

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frequently the subject of popular praise, or the end of vulgar effort, than what we call

nmanageable, nor if it is in the common sense of the word "free." So far from being free, it must be under a control as absolute and accurate as

could by any philosophy exalt himself to. There is no courtesy in him; he does not care whether it is king or clown whom he teases; and in every step of his swift mechanical march, and in eve

up from the ground in one massive field, hovered over you in the air for a second, and came crashing down with an aim. That is the external aspect of it; the inner aspect, to his

y, for his own ends; and will ask no advice of yours. He has no work to do-no tyrannical instinct to obey. The earthworm has his digging; the bee her ga

, with rich variety of choice in feast, from the heaped sweets in the grocer's window to those of the butcher's back yard, and from the galled place on

e to any of us whether we get liberty; but of the greatest that we deserve it. Whether we can win it, fate must determine; but that we

ake of it. Folly unfathomable! unspeakable! You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is loaded with sweet wine and fruit- some poisoned, some not?-you will say to him, "Choose freely, my little child! It

between life and death. There is no act, nor option of act, possible, but the wrong deed or option has poison in it which will sta

w better next time!" No. Next time will never come. Next time the choice will be in quite another aspect-between quite different things,-you, weaker than you were by the evil into which you have fallen; it, more doubtful than it was, by the increased dimness of your

my errors?" Indeed, the effort by which partially you recovered yourself was precious: that part of your thought by which you discerned the error was precious. What wisdom and strength you kept, and rightly used, are rewarded; a

ther could not have taught you to know better habits and pleasanter tastes, if you had stayed in his house; and that the knowledge you have lost would not have been more, as well as sweeter,

erty may in general be summed in a

schievous: there

th fall into the ditch: therefo

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s inconvenient; much mo

bound down to their sides: therefore they shou

te clearly discernible by human reason. So far as these are discovered and obeyed, by whatever machinery or authority the obedience is procured, the

inferior's good, conquer him. The punishment is sure, if we either refuse the reverence, or are too cowardly and indolent to enforce the compulsion. A base

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idea of some one working blithely, and made quite pleasant music. Tink, tink, tink-clear as a silver bell, and audible at ev

gs of hawkers; still it struck in again, no higher, no lower, no louder, no softer; not thrusting itself

heir pace, and were disposed to linger near it; neighbors who had got up splenetic that morning, felt good-humor stealing on them as they heard it, and by deg

h a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart. There he stood working at his anvil, his face radiant w

o an idle doze, as from excess of comfort. The very locks that hung around had something jovial in

sh strong-box or a prison door. Storehouses of good things, rooms where there were fires, books, gossip, and cheering laughter- t

ealthy, honest-hearted fellow, who made the best of everything and felt kindly towards everybody, could have done it for an instant. He might have been a

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-tree bole ar

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gland

pril, when

roat builds, and

blossomed pear-

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think he never

fine carel

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and kinsmen, and

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me, with this l

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form, and so

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stood dangling hi

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the hall door, and

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I

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front the

dare the u

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tyrant t

et the wa

home, and

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