He was astonished at this, and again touching the ring he turned the collet
outwards and reappeared; he made several trials of the ring, and always with the same result-when he turned the collet inwards he became invisible, when
outwards he reappeared.
The definition of a "momentary thing" involves problems concerning time, since the particulars constituting a momentary thing will not be all simultaneous, but will travel
outward from the thing with the velocity of light (in case the thing is in vacuo).
Whether the insatiable curiosity of this good woman had carried her on to that business, or whether she did it to confirm herself in the good graces of Mrs Blifil, who, notwithstanding her
outward behaviour to the foundling, frequently abused the infant in private, and her brother too, for his fondness to it, I will not determine; but she had now, as she conceived, fully detected the father of the foundling.
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of
outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
If you have ever observed how courteous and gracious and mannerly you feel when you don a beautiful new frock; if you have ever noticed the feeling of reverence stealing over you when you close your eyes, clasp your hands, and bow your head; if you have ever watched your sense of repulsion toward a fellow creature melt a little under the exercise of daily politeness, you may understand how the adoption of the
outward and visible sign has some strange influence in developing the inward and spiritual state of which it is the expression.
Believe me, Hester, there are few things whether in the
outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought -- few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.
Indeed, many are the Nantucket ships in which you will see the skipper parading his quarter-deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much
outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the shabbiest of pilot-cloth.
"I may be a baby," said the Mouse, gravely, as he passed
outward through the forest of shins, "but I know tolerably well how to diagnose a volcano."
At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life--that
outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.