You wish the
contents of the pouch I wear about my waist, and I wish my life and my liberty even more than I do the jewels.
The
contents increased my wonder; for this is how the letter ran:
It happened one day that I passed a tree under which lay several dry gourds, and catching one up I amused myself with scooping out its
contents and pressing into it the juice of several bunches of grapes which hung from every bush.
He locked himself again in the turret-room, and laid the opened chest on a table, and in the darkness began to unpack it, laying out the
contents, which were mainly of metal and glass--great pieces in strange forms--on another table.
"Every psychical phenomenon is characterized by what the scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional (also the mental) inexistence of an object, and what we, although with not quite unambiguous expressions, would call relation to a
content, direction towards an object (which is not here to be understood as a reality), or immanent objectivity.
In the first case, if inevitability were possible without freedom we should have reached a definition of inevitability by the laws of inevitability itself, that is, a mere form without
content.
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way.
Since we cannot hope for reward, let us be
content with what we have."
The term refers also to
content, as in the case of a vessel and wheat, or of a jar and wine; a jar is said to 'have' wine, and a corn-measure wheat.
It was unsatisfactory, and I could not imagine that she would be
content with me; I was not
content with myself.
Some are blessed with a
contented mind, some are wanderers by destiny.
The poor lieutenant was more peculiarly unhappy in this, that while he felt the effects of the enmity of his colonel, he neither knew, nor suspected, that he really bore him any; for he could not suspect an ill-will for which he was not conscious of giving any cause; and his wife, fearing what her husband's nice regard to his honour might have occasioned,
contented herself with preserving her virtue without enjoying the triumphs of her conquest.