(said she after a short pause) "I cannot support this silence you must not leave me to my own
reflections; they ever recur to Augustus."
These are the
reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
"I am not wishing him too much good," said Marianne at last with a sigh, "when I wish his secret
reflections may be no more unpleasant than my own.
But to understand phenomena man has, besides abstract reasoning, experience by which he verifies his
reflections. And experience tells us that power is not merely a word but an actually existing phenomenon.
"Hang your
reflections! Has Sir Patrick left the inn?"
It is true that he had no wife, that is to say, she was as no wife to him, and so I was in no danger that way, but the just
reflections of conscience oftentimes snatch a man, especially a man of sense, from the arms of a mistress, as it did him at last, though on another occasion.
These
reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the
reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, "Is any affliction like mine?" Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.
Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members, will be incorporated into the operations of the national government AS FAR AS ITS JUST AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY EXTENDS; and will be rendered auxiliary to the enforcement of its laws.[1] Any man who will pursue, by his own
reflections, the consequences of this situation, will perceive that there is good ground to calculate upon a regular and peaceable execution of the laws of the Union, if its powers are administered with a common share of prudence.
The truth is, as the sagacious Sir Roger L'Estrange observes, in his deep
reflections, that, "if we shut Nature out at the door, she will come in at the window; and that puss, though a madam, will be a mouser still." In the same manner we are not to arraign the squire of any want of love for his daughter; for in reality he had a great deal; we are only to consider that he was a squire and a sportsman, and then we may apply the fable to him, and the judicious
reflections likewise.
Weller bestowed a look of deep, unspeakable admiration on his son, and, having once more grasped his hand, walked slowly away, revolving in his mind the numerous
reflections to which his advice had given rise.
She continued in very agitated
reflections till the sound of Lady Catherine's carriage made her feel how unequal she was to encounter Charlotte's observation, and hurried her away to her room.
I exercise myself in
reflection, and consequently with me every primary cause at once draws after itself another still more primary, and so on to infinity.