| 单词 | caprice |
| 例句 | “My Emma!” replied Mrs. Weston, smiling, “what is the certainty of caprice?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne m4nagdre, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Had all those years, as well as Mom and Dad’s time on the street—not to mention their current life in an abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You do not understand, Monsieur. I have been very fortunate in my profession. I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take now only such cases as—interest me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She had taken an amiable caprice to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne ménagère, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z One newspaper editor had sagely, if cynically, observed that “the usual custom is for the capital of new empires to be selected by the whim or caprice of a despot.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “My dearest, don’t mention governesses; the word makes me nervous. I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice. I thank Heaven I have now done with them!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn’t understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a massively successful Hollywood figure like Judd Apatow could give this band such an appearance; retrieving them is his rich man's caprice, which he has fictionally transformed into something financially catastrophic. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-14T15:29:01Z He believed that the future lay in the hands of caprice and that to find out what would happen you had to possess an acute instinct. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z The show, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, a serious-minded artist I would not have associated with glitter or caprice, can’t make up its mind. ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Review: An Adaptation That Needs Tailoring 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In a cunning pre-emptive strike, he also makes passing reference to the "caprice" of "literary critics". Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z Even the opening scene of Episode 1, that of a boatload of Vikings stranded on the shores of a hostile America, demonstrates the war god Odin’s power and caprice. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Galante’s arrangement of the Adagio from Mahler’s 10th Symphony, for 21 players, ably preserved, and in some instances amplified, the bittersweet caprice and agonizing pangs of its source. Music Review: Janacek and Mahler in Moving Sounds Festival - Review 2011-09-20T21:00:08Z As the zoologist St. George Jackson Mivart complained in an influential early review of “Descent,” “the instability of vicious feminine caprice” was too soft and slippery a force to drive something as important as evolution. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The acclaimed author of works including “Eurydice” and “The Clean House,” Ruhl goes nearly overboard with fanciful caprice in “Melancholy Play.” Review | Sarah Ruhl’s quirky take on depression at Constellation 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z She isn’t ridiculous in the role, and her eyes do look violet, but she is oddly passive, sleepwalking through scenes that call for passion and caprice. Television Review: ‘Liz & Dick,’ Starring Lindsay Lohan, on Lifetime 2012-11-23T21:58:09Z That genius and art-making must be stymied by the sticky clutter of life, whether ketchup bottles or the caprice of the publishing market, is hilarious, tragic, maddening and true. Mining the Madness of Pure Logic in Stories That Dazzle and Discomfit 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z However, as Roy discovers, his good parents, good choices and mostly good fortune do not shield him from the pain and caprice of the world. A Marriage Upended, a Life Destroyed 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z And I think he would have liked Dennison’s writing style, lush but clipped, with such phrases as “the ubiquity of caprice” and “buoyant with slang,” full of a reader’s zest. A Rosier View of Roald Dahl 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Bryan Arias is astonishing as Caliban, full of a demon's violence and caprice. 'The Tempest Replica': dazzling dance, stage wizardry in Seattle 2012-10-24T19:31:05Z Philharmonic, was an intense solo introduction for Koh’s confident playing; “Kinski Paganini” deconstructed a Paganini caprice until all that was left was a handful of dry glittering bits, like salt crystals. Review | Music by female composers uplifts the art form, in two strong concerts 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z But in this, I was ignoring the fact that old people are just as vulnerable to disorder, not to mention happenstance, caprice, and bad luck, as anybody else. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s caprice, too, when it all dries up and goes away. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Individuals being destroyed by a cosmic caprice to which their errors of judgment are merely a garnish: this seems to be the tragic model in these two books. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z Just as impressive: Pine displayed a gift for drawing in an audience, enhancing her playing with insightful and entertaining discussions and demonstrations of each caprice's challenges. Rachel Barton Pine on making music personal, her comeback and the advice she got from Itzhak Perlman 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Events, meanwhile, generally seem like the caprice of a cruel God-like narrator rather anything that makes sense – even within the warped logic of the novel. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z Hardy’s interest in the operations of accident and caprice — in the “purblind Doomsters” who governed human fate — is reduced to a few plot points. Review: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd,’ the Rom-Com 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Its fortune is subject to fashion and whim, weather and the caprice of travelers. Seeing the Whole of Antigua 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The Lennon raunchiness has become mere caprice in “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite.” From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z One important reason for their early success was the widespread belief among sailors that they brought good luck—another example of the role of human caprice in the domestication process. How fancy cats evolved: The science of our most adorable pets 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Life, as it did in Synge’s time, revolves around the caprices of weather and the ties of community. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z There’s caprice in the formation of a fluky inland sea, giving rise to all kinds of lives and livelihoods and art projects. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Berlioz described his own opera as “A caprice written with the point of a needle”; Morlot wielded that precise “needle” as his baton. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The Paganini rhapsody, originally conceived as a ballet, is not a rhapsody in any Lisztian sense, but another set of variations, this time on the ubiquitous tune of Paganini’s 24th solo violin caprice. CD reviews: Trifonov channels Rachmaninoff, Young’s Bruckner 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z This was no light caprice, but a darkly capricious work falling into two sections. Walker/Watkins 2010-06-09T21:15:00Z As grand as they were, many of the structures played to their owners' caprices and passions. Great American Castles 2010-12-10T17:45:00Z Ms. George expressed some dissatisfaction with Oscar’s treatment of her craft but acknowledged the caprices inherent in awards season. Eye-Catching Costumes Rule the Oscar Race 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The short pieces featured on Ms. Koh’s program, called “Shared Madness,” are inspired by the fiendishly gymnastic caprices for solo violin by Paganini. A Guide to the NY Phil Biennial From Our Critics and Reporters 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The pianist Robert Glasper pitches his tent at the junction of coolheaded logic and digressive caprice. Review: The Robert Glasper Trio Presents Moody Covers at the Village Vanguard 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The product of a brilliant mind reckoning with the brutal caprices of fascism, the novel now feels like much more than a curious entry in the Beckett canon. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Stalin’s last years were an awful waiting time for his party entourage and for the millions who fell victim to the caprices of their bizarre leader. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z That Paganini “theme” refers to the final and best-known caprice in the Italian composer’s “24 Caprices for Solo Violin,” completed in 1817. Stephen Hough, polymathic pianist, will return to Seattle bearing Rachmaninov 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z "But despite its moments of charm and caprice, the film is prolix, inert, indulgent and often just plain dull." Alain Resnais revisits classic Greek legend at Cannes 2012-05-21T16:54:01Z This subtle effect turned a historically and ideologically loaded subject into contemporary caprice, though without taking the history and ideas away. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z The Flemish master, a savvy observer of court life, noted at the time Buckingham’s “arrogance and caprice.” Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The caprices, written in the early 19th century and published around 1819, were initially deemed unplayable. Music Review: Rachel Barton Pine Performs at Rockefeller University 2012-03-22T21:02:22Z There is a bit of the Old Testament in his caprice, something pagan in his appetite. Starring Steve Buscemi as God, “Miracle Workers” Is Sappy, Juvenile, and Sharp All at Once 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z No one is immune to the forces of the marketplace, and I'd done a terrible job of insulating myself from the caprices of big publishing. ArtsBeat: On the Rocks: Benjamin Anastas Talks About 'Too Good to Be True' 2012-10-18T19:55:53Z The Flemish master, a savvy observer of court life, noted at the time Buckingham’s “arrogance and caprice.” Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But despite its moments of charm and caprice, the film is prolix, inert, indulgent and often just plain dull. Cannes 2012: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet ? review 2012-05-21T11:24:05Z But if Cazabon is willing to leave some aspects of her work to chance, “Diluvian” is not an argument for caprice. Review | In the galleries: Where nature and technology’s detritus collide 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z In the first, Mr. Sciarrino, clearly inspired by Paganini’s dazzling violin caprices, writes an avant-garde equivalent, with whirlwinds of jagged, scratchy-toned arpeggios that flow into slinky, sliding tones, then erupt in staccato madness. Review: A Tiny Garage Explodes in Pianistic Madness 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Pine said she used to find No. 12 the “most awkward and annoying of the caprices,” and it is easy to see why, although she played it gracefully. Music Review: Rachel Barton Pine Performs at Rockefeller University 2012-03-22T21:02:22Z Ms Morris does not pretend that this book is anything other than a self-indulgent caprice, but it is both enjoyable and instructive. Venetian love affair 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z A nightcap of Paganini’s ninth caprice, nicknamed “La Chasse,” a further study on double stops, was the perfect finish. No signs of dissent in BSO at Strathmore 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z This was caprice with just the right amount of edge. Review: Philharmonic Ties New Threads to a Recent Premiere 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z More hauntingly, it winds up resembling our own workplaces, with the deceitful caprice, the unanswered queries, the disregard for process, the phony notions of teamwork — it’s all painfully familiar. HBO’s ‘The Leisure Class’: As expected, Jason Mann’s precious movie stinks 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z There is, with these accidents, the sheer caprice factor. Harrison Ford plane crash stirs subconscious fears 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In “Listen Up Philip,” he turned the uproariously callous literary caprices of a frustrated rising novelist—and the pain that’s left in his grinding pathway—into another kind of music. Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Itzkoff does a good job of capturing this period’s madcap caprices. A Comic Force of Nature: The Life — and Death — of Robin Williams 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z If the caprice of the billionaire owner dictates a statue is erected to someone with no connection to the game much less the club, then so be it. Al Fayed defends Jackson statue? 2011-04-03T17:28:36Z When Kinga finally has a revelation, it’s triggered by home videos, records of the past untouched by the caprices of the mind. ‘Fugue’ Review: Lost Time 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The most impressive technical achievement was revealed on George Thalben-Ball’s mostly pedal-only variations on Paganini’s 24th caprice, including glissandi for both feet and polyphonic textures requiring the feet to play more than one note simultaneously. Latvian organist shows pedal power at the Kennedy Center Every year, in a spirit of whimsy or caprice, journalists decide who is their king or queen of Cannes. Nicole Kidman in Cannes: her tortuous journey to Queen of the Croisette 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z I believe choosing a name for your child is a solemn responsibility; it should not be subject to whim or caprice. Perspective | His grandson’s name was at stake. Would the Nats throw Gene Weingarten a curve? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z We call aid programs “entitlements” but, for those who depend on them, they feel less like rights and more like privileges given, or yanked away, at the caprices of a cold and unsympathetic state. Why I came out as being poor 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z How else to explain, for example, the anti-rational, superstitious caprice of the obsessive compulsive or the obsessively religious? Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z That’s precisely the aim of Rachmaninov’s “Rhapsody,” comprising 24 variations on the 24th caprice. Stephen Hough, polymathic pianist, will return to Seattle bearing Rachmaninov 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z What once felt like an extended caprice now feels weightier, not least when Thatcher late in the play praises the queen and her family as “a focus of patriotism, loyalty, affection and esteem.” At the End of Her Reign, the Queen Takes a Bow Onstage 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z He was capable of caprice, but not much genuine idiosyncrasy. William Merritt Chase, modernist in moderation 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z If that is true, then it follows that any translation, and any translator, is good, too; and it becomes possible to sing the praises of the Lowe-Porters: as artists entitled to their caprices. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z With a whip in one hand and a wind-bent tree in the other, the barefoot girl makes a taunting entrance, radiating caprice like some malicious sprite. Review: In This ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Music, Moors and Untamed Spirits 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Their romance created such a sensation that the Vatican denounced the happenings as the "caprices of adult children." Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z Yet Eros House, the Tricorn and Trinity Square were cranky, strange things, doomed to commercial failure because of their architectural caprices. Gateshead car park: in praise of Brutalism 2010-07-27T21:00:00Z He built enormous castles, loved the music of Richard Wagner, and amazed the peasantry with his caprices. In conversation with Werner Herzog: 'Facts do not constitute truth' 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Humboldt’s atmospheric caprices echo the character of a county that proudly resists any consensus about what constitutes a sane or normal way of life. T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z They see you at your worst, and they're vulnerable to your whims and eccentricities, which makes great material for tragedy or for comedy, depending on the caprices of the employer. Clip joint: maids and servants 2013-04-03T14:57:14Z Maybe you’ve lived after a fashion, but not with his color, caprice and heartbreaking imagination — heartbreaking because when you try to replicate it yourself, it never quite comes out the same. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z None of this is accident or folly, not caprice nor diary. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Our personalities meet in the middle with a balance of caprice and control: We play against type when it comes to writing, as the poet is the taskmaster and the military officer is the scatterbrain. Why write a collaborative novel? Well … why write alone? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z But there are also attractive exceptions such as "Whale Music", in which Motion offers us a whale's eye view in a poem of marvellous gravity and caprice. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-11-25T00:05:29Z But despite her placidity, Poplavskaya has leapfrogged to prominence in recent years, profiting from the malaises or caprices of others. Marina Poplavskaya: 'I am a person of extraordinary ability' 2011-04-09T23:05:35Z An especially noteworthy achievement was his recording in the 1960s of Paganini’s 24 caprices for solo violin. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z But I chalked those adventures off to caprice. Coming out to my wife 2013-02-19T01:00:00Z At first, it seemed to be another caprice of two already unusual animals: Flying squirrels and platypuses were found to be fluorescent, absorbing invisible ultraviolet light and re-emitting it in shocking pink or bright cyan. The Glowing Secret That Mammals Have Been Hiding 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z One theatergoer’s mindless fluff is another theatergoer’s inspired caprice. Ranking this year's Tony best musical nominees from worst to best 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z The liberation of the convict depends entirely upon the caprice of the superintendent of the mine. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z But to mitigate the enormous disruption, the transition cannot be left entirely to the caprice of employers. Column: Does AI mean the four-day workweek — and its happy companion, the three-day weekend — is almost here? 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z It will soar off into some life of its own — uncommonly alive and maybe even delighted by its own caprice. An immortal World Cup final rewards Argentina’s Lionel Messi at last 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z At that time, she called the reform a “caprice” and a “plan that goes against nature”. Caroline Cayeux quits French government over spat about personal wealth 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Nowadays, emergencies exist when presidential caprice proclaims them. Opinion | Biden’s slapdash, election-season student loan gambit may be in trouble 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The extreme case of atmospheric caprice highlighted a growing issue plaguing communities across the United States and the world: weather whiplash. Record rain is hitting drought-stricken areas. That’s not good news. 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Such expectations were always tempered by the individual personality and caprice of the slaveholder. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z At the time, she called the reform a "caprice" and "plan that goes against nature". French public figures accuse new minister of homophobic comments 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z What makes tournament golf compelling is that it’s a meritocracy posed against nature’s inherent caprices. Perspective | Golf at St. Andrews is real, which is why it has no room for Greg Norman 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Small businesses of long standing, and families who went into debt to launch, say, restaurants or bars or bakeries just before the pandemic, now have blighted futures — the caprice of rotten luck. Opinion | Rescuing restaurants (again) ought to give Congress indigestion 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z I witnessed the dizzying effects of this caprice firsthand about a decade ago. How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway? 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z And they don’t want their money riding on the foibles and caprices of human officials. Opinion | One bad call for the Giants; one giant leap toward robo-umpires 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z “That’s the genius of it: They came at us through our women. ... The heart of our empire brought to a shuddering halt by the caprice and ambitions of those for whom ambition was never meant.” Review: 'The Nevers' is HBO's next great fantasy series 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Making decisions on long-pending issues is hardly caprice; it is testimony of serious governance. Opinion | Indians show through elections that they like their prime minister 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The sculpture made manifest just how closely his work has become lashed to the caprices of global capital. The Surprising Ascent of KAWS 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Karl Marx inveighed against the “murderous, meaningless caprices of fashion.” Opinion | Fashion Will Not Disappear. It Will Transform. 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Chegeni’s days in immigration detention, its uncertainties and its caprice, were all too painful reminders of his time in prison in Iran. Fazel Chegeni wanted 'nothing but peace'. Instead he died alone in Australia's island prison 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Core institutions are in the grip of leaders scared of the president and in thrall to his caprices. Be thankful for the independent judiciary 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z They are the Americans who work in our military, a call to service that doesn’t indulge inconstancy or caprice. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Was this simply one of those games that defied the chalkboard, that surfed along on a wave of high energy, high emotion and high caprice? Anarchic spectacle leaves Bielsa's and Guardiola's heads spinning | Jonathan Liew 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z The answer depends greatly on players’ and coaches’ individual discipline, the caprices of a viral scourge and the power wielded by players, who are using it, across all sports, like never before. N.F.L. Season Starts With Eyes on Anthem and Pandemic 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z I have found some vexed pleasure in practicing caprices, short technical exercises, by the 18th-century violinist Pierre Rode. Perspective | Musicians always crave time to practice. Lockdown gave us nothing but. 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z It has become a staple of the Trump administration: sending mixed messages that reflect a good-cop-bad-cop tactic, a real internal disagreement over policy or simply the caprice of the president. Coronavirus Worsens U.S.-China Ties and Bolsters Hawks in Washington 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z There is nothing to be done about the caprices of memory – but somehow, that makes quizzing more exciting, not less. Question time: my life as a quiz obsessive 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z His Brexiteer cheerleaders pray democracy in aid of their cause, but in confrontation with a sovereign parliament they reached for the tools of premodern monarchical caprice. The verdict is in: Boris Johnson is a liar. And he should pay the price | Rafael Behr 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z And yet, the Trump Administration’s sudden enforcement of the death penalty reflects the President’s over-all approach to criminal justice, marked by caprice, contradiction, and a certain brutishness. Witnessing a Federal Execution 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Even in a book full of ghoulish caprice, this incident stands out, but Gilot treats it with an eye roll. How Picasso’s Muse Became a Master 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Many players, especially those who live by the putter, can’t cope with their caprice. To win one of golf’s majors, you better have a good story to tell 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z If strategic rivalry, existential fear and plutocratic caprice were the only narratives science fiction had lent the moon, one might feel justified in taking a dim view of the whole affair. Lunacy: how science fiction is powering the new moon rush 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z But nor are they equal now, in the open field of modern relationships—“this idiocy of caprice and sentiment,” Andersson calls it. Reason Gets Lovesick in Lena Andersson’s Fiction 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The outgoing French ambassador to the US has compared the Trump administration to the court of King Louis XIV, filled with courtiers trying to interpret the caprices of a “whimsical, unpredictable, uninformed” leader. 'Whimsical, uninformed': French ambassador's parting verdict on Trump 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The title is derived from the Greek word for “whim” or “caprice.” The Shape-Shifting Music of Tyshawn Sorey 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z You could also call it “commander’s caprice” — the president’s servants awkwardly jitterbugging as they try to follow the leader. Mike Pompeo’s Mission: Clean Up Trump’s Messes 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Enlightenment France was not Soviet Russia; sources of power were dispersed through the caprices of patronage and the existence of an aristocracy wealthy enough to be, within limits, independent of the King. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Both ANT and Chronicles of Turkmenistan say the black-car ban is also down to presidential caprice. Turkmen police stop women drivers 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z And, like so many of Trump’s decisions, it stems not from analysis but from caprice. Opinion | Trump is incompetent, impulsive and amoral. Heaven help us all. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z In “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” with its gossipy behind-the-scenes look at the caprice of art and commerce, Mr. Goldman coined an enduring phrase in the Hollywood lexicon: “Nobody knows anything.” William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘Butch Cassidy’ and ‘All the President’s Men,’ dies at 87 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The drawing’s billowy cloud is less a dramatic caprice than an ominous fog-bank, however, its representation of lust less a playful sin than a fraught occasion for possible violence. Review: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer's searing paintings delve into the structures of spiritualism - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z We were discussing the ups and downs of the creative life, the caprices of the publishing industry, and the deliciousness of the drinks; talking shop, essentially. A tragedy of manners: Patrick deWitt's fiction stands alone 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z My version of history is a history of caprice, a history of unintended consequences, of horrendous results from very minor antecedents or seemingly minor antecedents. Opinion | The Devil in Steve Bannon 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Powerful “barons” can pursue their caprices with few limitations. No bosses, no managers: the truth behind the ‘flat hierarchy’ facade | André Spicer 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z This was a World Cup that first defied expectation and then prediction, a glorious mayhem, a month that captivated the planet with its volatility and its caprice. France, a World Cup Champion That Stood Above It All in Russia 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Phoebe keeps changing her middle name, according to caprice. Reading “The Catcher in the Rye” in 1951 1951-08-04T04:00:00Z The idea was that each piece would be a virtuoso caprice that was about the violin and the violinist. Jennifer Koh and the 'Shared Madness' of coming between a violinist and her violin 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Vietnam is also a valuable hedge against Chinese administrative caprice. Why Samsung of South Korea is the biggest firm in Vietnam 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The story of his career since that triumph exemplifies the caprices of literary celebrity and the indignities of old age. Charles Sprawson wrote a celebrated book. Then he vanished 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Trump is at his most furious when the exceptions arise — say, when complicated political maneuvering in Congress subverts his whims, or when the Constitution stops him from exercising autocratic caprice. Opinion | President Trump is the freest man alive 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z For the rest, detention was at the Pentagon’s caprice. Will religion decide the fate of the Guantánamo Bay detainees? | Aziz Huq 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z One is that as sample storage time increases, mercury detection results with the methods applied become less reliable, and inorganic mercury measurements are “particularly susceptible” to such chemical caprice. Mercury and Autism: Enough Already! 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The Bleacher Creatures, who sit right above the paneled area in right field, were particularly derisive about such a caprice and took to Facebook to express their discontent. The Yankees’ Judge’s Chambers: A Promotion to Dismiss? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z There is a loss in that—in the elimination of some of the wonder at the universe’s seeming caprice. The Beauty and Science of a Total Solar Eclipse 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z At the very least, we are fundamentally changing the basis on which people can live and work in the UK, swapping residence as a right for a much more uncertain system dependent on political caprice. They say after Brexit there’ll be food rotting in the fields. It’s already started | John Harris 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z You’ll also be reporting to Kelly’s own boss, who rewards loyalty, mendacity, caprice and excellent television ratings. Opinion | With ousting of Scaramucci, White House seeks ‘clean slate.’ Too late for that. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z We expect officials representing our country to have been elected by the voters or appointed because of merit, not installed by the caprices of heredity. Opinion | Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Funding from commercial entities presents its own ethical questions, including potential conflicts of interest, a lack of oversight and a dependence on benefactors' caprices. Astrobiology: Hunting aliens : Nature : Nature Research 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z First, the Federal Aviation Administration’s funding is volatile, subject to the caprices of Congress, and hasn’t kept up with technology and large-scale capital improvement needs. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Relying more on Victorian male prejudice than scientific reasoning, Mivart concluded that “the instability of vicious feminine caprice” could never shape the evolution of males. Opinion | Can female preferences shape male behavior? In scientific terms, probably. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But a sense of the caprice of fate never left Milosz. Czeslaw Milosz’s Battle for Truth 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z To hear Gibbs tell it, the whole enterprise began in 1991 as a caprice. A Reclusive Millionaire’s Vast New Zealand Sculpture Park 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Trump, an erratic and impulsive spokesman for his own policy, needs competent civilian advisers, if only as a counterweight to the military point of view and his own self-admiring caprices. A Hundred Days of Trump 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z All the protection for our beaches, air quality and energy efficiency would be at the caprice of a Conservative government that includes climate sceptics. Leavers, beware: Theresa May is offering the exact opposite of what you voted for | Tim Farron 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Unencumbered by a sense of constitutional duty or a responsibility to tell the truth, he is nonetheless discovering that reality cannot be shaped by mere caprice. In Donald Trump’s fantasy world, hints of reality are dawning | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Trump’s caprices are likely battering other, smaller economies, and thereby driving up uncertainty in other countries in ways that may not be reflected in just the U.S. numbers. Opinion | Uncertainty is sweeping the globe. That’s very bad for business. 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z And the way projects are given priority has less to do with real regional planning or economic good sense than with the caprices of government horse-trading and funding. The Second Avenue Subway Is Here! 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Democrats delayed action on three of Trump’s nominees Tuesday to protest the executive’s caprice, but ultimately only the majority GOP can stop Trump. Opinion | The GOP senators who spoke up against Trump’s ban are all talk 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z It relates to a conceptual caprice from 1970: a flight that she took in a small private plane, and documented, with a series of photographs, as a work of art. Marisa Merz’s Factory of Dreams 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z I’d rather be subjected to the caprice of the ignorant than submit to this sort of elitism. Dismayed by democracy? The alternative is far worse| Tom Clark 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Already enacting a robust domestic agenda, the two leaders are busy corralling their own members, and allies say they are not eager to devote extensive time to managing the caprices of Trump. One administration, two styles: Trump the brawler and Pence the cajoler 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “Low policy interest rates are not the caprice of central bankers, but rather the consequence of powerful global forces, including debt, demographics and distribution,” Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney recently told British lawmakers. Central Bankers’ Zeal for the ‘Natural Rate’ Draws Skeptics 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z That’s because there’s a lot of human caprice and whim in electoral behavior that can’t always be explained or predicted with scientific precision. No matter who wins the presidential election, Nate Silver was right 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z But the image is a caprice: There is no forest at all, but a model of a forest, meticulously constructed from some 270,000 cut-paper leaves attached to cardboard trees and branches. National Gallery’s East Building reopens with rich addition to its photo collection 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Apple officials insist this redesign delay is neither caprice nor complacency. Mossberg: Apple, the king of tech taste and daring, takes a breather 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Seibert slammed what he called “revolting scenes of caprice and revenge” against soldiers on Turkish streets. U.S. and EU Officials Concerned About Turkish Leader Erdogan’s Response to Failed Coup 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Fortunately, this time of the year brings one reliable reprieve from the dispiriting caprices of our politics: commencement speeches. The 5 best commencement speech zingers of the graduation season 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s even possible that some teams suited by type of talent or group dynamic for the regular season are at a loss when faced with caprice and high emotion in the playoffs. Choosing between regular season and playoff success is sports’ trick question 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z After Mao’s death, Deng tried to create a leadership of equals in order to push China away from Maoist caprices. Chairman of everything 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z You could say that Uggs, like skinny jeans, have defied fashion’s normal laws of gravity or the caprice of the trend cycle. Ugg: the look that refused to die | Marisa Meltzer 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z We have enough problems with our national security state as it is — caprice is the last element we need to put into the mix. Horrors of the Trump doctrine: Inside the GOP frontrunner’s terrifying interview with the NY Times 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Khweis portrays himself as a rather hapless soul, buffeted by a whirlwind of events, falling prey to curiosity, caprice — and, of course, to the girl, who is never named. A young Virginian met a girl abroad, and soon was living in a place called Islamic State 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Victorious campaigners expected the landscape would be protected against human caprice for their great-grandchildren and beyond. World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z He once inscribed books and made hand-drawn posters, both flawless in terms of fine design and flawed in the slight caprices of an artist's hand. Professional mourners to street dentists: India's dying professions - BBC News 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z But there is likely more than just caprice behind Mr Jammeh’s decision. The Gambia fashions itself as a kind of Islamic state 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Boomers have reformed and reinforced every caprice of their age, so it’s no wonder that now, as they confront aging and the ends of their lives, they’re choosing quality of life over quantity. David Bowie planned his end as he lived – on his own terms, blazing a trail | Ann Neumann 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z What the caprices of genetics had provided, those of economics had taken away. Holy cow! A farmer tries to make a better calf through genomic analysis. 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Mythological and religious explanations of weather not only failed at prediction but excluded it as a possibility; you cannot accurately forecast the caprice of Zeus, or the will of an omnipotent God. Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The result, in “Walden,” is an unnavigable thicket of contradiction and caprice. Henry David Thoreau, Hypocrite 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z For some, that is further evidence of the caprice with which the death penalty is applied, a problem highlighted by differential treatment of black and white murderers. Cruel and increasingly unusual 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z California legislators have required such exhaustive reviews and procedures as “an important safeguard against arbitrariness and caprice,” the state holds, quoting from a 1976 Supreme Court decision. California Death Penalty, Struck Down Over Delays, Faces Next Test 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The vocabulary in the show includes words one might not expect in a children’s show — “surrealistic,” “entrepreneur,” “caprice” and the silly phrase “follicle filching.” What’s onstage for kids 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Despite all the pension funds and others with a need for long-term assets, infrastructure is often a slave to short-term political caprice. Banking on Green Investment Means Political Risks 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Despite himself, White winds up treating Gos quite as his parents had treated him: with cruelty, caprice, and fatal neglect. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z In a brief address before he delivered the verdict, Judge Farid insisted the ruling was “free of any interference or caprices.” Egyptian court sentences activist to 5 years in prison 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Of the bitter whimsy that poked through “Headhunters,” Tyldum’s previous film, no trace remains, and any caprice is reserved for the choice of what is left in, left out of, or tacked onto the story. “The Imitation Game” and “The Babadook” Reviews 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z But such calls tend to be swiftly followed by new evidence of the Putin regime’s caprice, prompting further disillusionment. Trillion-dollar boo-boo 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Seemingly unaware that some people might view such legerdemain as a lapse in his world-renowned personal character, Eisenhower later reminisced about the episode as if it were a youthful picaresque caprice. Eisenhower’s Baseball Secret 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Icarus and Job and Frankenstein inform us that even rocket science and rocket scientists are subject to all too human whim and caprice and... Challenger, Columbia and the Nature of Calamity 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z These Winter Olympics are an “extravagant caprice,” with few pretensions to rallying national sentiment. Sochi’s post-Olympics time bomb: Can the city survive when the games are gone? 2014-02-09T00:00:00Z Golf's deepest romantics have always extolled its art and caprice, finding endless charm in the vast and variable playing field and the rub of the green, most comfortable when the game is perceived as unknowable. Embracing The Stats Revolution 2014-01-08T05:00:00Z Jessica Parks, the set designer, provides a genteel room in gold, cream and pink for this comedy about a whimsical mother whose caprices are less than fabulous. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Saving Kitty,’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company 2013-08-02T20:45:29Z The real point is that there should not be caprice in the way that the law is applied. Links 23 June: The Unpredictability Of The Law. FTC To Probe Google's Waze Acquisition 2013-06-23T14:01:00Z Icarus and Job and Frankenstein inform us that even rocket science and rocket scientists are subject to all too human whim and caprice and arrogance and hubris and chance. Challenger, Columbia and the Nature of Calamity 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z "She is a vital, natural person, without any caprices typical of ambitious people," said Slava Zaitsev, a top Moscow fashion designer who has dressed her on several occasions. For Lyudmila Putin, solace now that first lady 'shift' is done 2013-06-07T17:03:00Z Despite the caprice of its path, she still found herself thinking as she drove on, “It’s not going to hit you.” Racing the Clock and a Storm: A Way of Life in Tornado Alley 2013-05-24T03:20:52Z “They excused the prince for many things; they forgot his caprices.” Sciences Po’s Future Cloudy After Leader’s Death 2013-01-16T01:37:11Z Instead, medicine should be standardized like other business processes, so each patient will receive the best known care for their particular condition, rather than be subject to the whims and caprices of the treating physician. Three Tensions In Medical Innovation To Watch For In 2013 2012-12-25T01:06:36Z Maybe it won't matter, given the caprices of the regular season and voters. Irish likely to stay in national picture 2012-10-29T01:30:00Z But if you win by politics you ultimately lose, since political success is based on the impulses, whims, and caprices of other people--other people you don't even like. 11 Ways You Let Your Life Suck 2012-07-16T17:39:38Z Its interweaving of voices, their independence, the caprice and audacity of it all are astounding. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Plus what he seems to do well is very simple and therefore repeatable, not beholden to conditions or the caprices of the "click". The Spin 2012-05-22T12:58:01Z You need a system that protects the majority from the whim and caprice of the minority. Netanyahu Calls for Elections: Will It Really Change Israel? 2012-05-08T00:05:32Z And what a motley crowd of gods they were on whose caprice or indifference he pours his vials of anger and contempt! Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z It holds good in favour of peasant proprietorship to this extent—that the ruin of a peasant proprietor can only occur through his own fault or misfortune, and not through the caprice of a landlord. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z A little fellow that I had the caprice to bring here into the world prevented the carrying out of the plan. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z For that object he humoured her caprice, and played with her light vanity. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z It is on them that we pour forth our caprices. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z So that ‘definite and certain succession of events,’ their determination ‘by immutable laws’ to the elimination of caprice, chance, or accident, are expressions which apply, on the whole, as well to Religion as to Magic. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z The demoniac character of the event vanishes, for the supposed spirit acts not by caprice, but according to fixed laws. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z It embodies the passions, caprices and enterprises of the community. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Isabel has been the companion of both from youth; and to her, in early days, Dacre would go for consolation and kindness, when worn out by this cold, vain lady's caprice and perverseness. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z The latter is spontaneous, allowing the child to follow his caprice of mind. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Cause and not caprice are at the bottom of the wind’s listings. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Obviously, I opine, the cause is individualism, isolation, caprice,—and as obviously, I ween, the only cure is combination, organization, system. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z To Sterne, living among smaller men, these passionate egotisms are dwindled to mere caprices, and a jest becomes more appropriate than a sneer. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z I have never yet seen in her," said the young Marquis, "either vanity or caprice; and besides, good friend, such things to me at least are not matters of mere calculation. Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z The sea was a trackless wilderness, and the winds were things of vagrant caprice. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z Shall I be the slave of his caprices? Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z But you must pardon my caprice at the idea of a forest life; for I am not much of a woodsman, you know. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z It may be that we do not always in our impatience recognise how artfully the caprices of Sterne's manner are adapted to creating this atmosphere of illusion. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z The very circumstance of his turning innkeeper was regarded by Withering as savoring far more of caprice than necessity, and Barrington took care to strengthen this impression. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z "I am at a loss to understand what they mean by introducing all these caprices into their means of life; but, assuredly, it will not attract strangers to the house." Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Either from caprice or policy, Cleopatra did not wear the Greek dress that day. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z At length, when they were fully out of earshot, Manners himself stopped, thinking that he had humoured his companion's caprices far enough. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Outwardly, he maintains an impenetrable screen of self-control, observing with a cynical smile the foibles and caprices of those around him. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z It would be to make a caprice seem a plan. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z It was government by mistresses and for mistresses, the government of ignorant and idle caprice, that broke down monarchy in France and set the world on fire. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The civil service mechanism of the government would, on the other hand, resist the too free play of popular caprice. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z Yet of them all, only one was ever driven away by her caprices before she was fully ready to dismiss him. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The renewal of English enterprise in the direction of the Pole was not due to sudden caprice, but was greatly stimulated by the generous rivalry of other nations. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Still, in the absence of any strong religious sentiment, the best dispositions are at the mercy of violent passions, and are subject to the most dangerous caprices. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z Changes of ministry, questions of peace or war, promotions and appointments of generals and admirals, the arrest of authors and nobles—all were traceable to the will or caprice of a mistress. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z With the modesty ever manifested by Smith, he gave his own name only to a small cluster of islands, which, by some strange caprice, are now called the Isles of Shoals. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z The place was designed by himself, but was never completed: every day brought with it some new suggestion or caprice, which the architects must at once set themselves to realize. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The renewal of these attempts was not brought about by accident or caprice, but was due to a great change, which had been noted by many whalers and navigators. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Vulgarity, imperiousness, peevishness, caprice on the part of the heads, will produce their corresponding effects upon the household. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z I had seen more of her odd fits and caprices than had the others. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z The man was used to be kicked and abused, but it seemed to him that his master's caprices were taking a fresh direction. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Olive was a great favourite in the west of England, and was restored by a caprice of fashion as Olivia in the eighteenth century. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z Chelsea’s campaign, not for the first time, is that of a team soldiering on despite the caprice of its owner. Global Soccer: At Some Point, Dreams End in the Champions League 2012-03-28T15:49:23Z Moreover, this entity, this personality, this spirit, has his individual will, his caprices, his cantankerousness, and sometimes acts in opposition to our own thoughts. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Besides, where shall we now find a nation, a mob even, ignorant enough not to be aware that they are only expressive of pontifical caprice or spleen, or a puerile regret for some foolish prerogative? The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z No human foresight could predict the sallies of their fierce caprice, and in ceaseless watching lay the only safety. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Even in James I.’s days thousands of our countrymen had no fixed surnames, and changed them according to caprice or fancy. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z I … hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But, “in order to secure themselves the better from its “intrusion, your predecessors surrounded them- “selves with skilful doctors, whom they commanded “not to teach duties, but to justify caprices. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z In England, previous to the accession of the Stuarts, the supporters of the royal arms were changed at the caprice of the sovereign, and almost every king or queen adopted new ones. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z He dwelt on the unjust Excise caprices which permit this privilege to humorous and scientific weekly periodicals, but deny it to the avowed "news" columns of the daily press. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Not their comfort and welfare only, but their humours and caprices become the law of the house. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z She is a perfect passion with the French, and seems to have out-charmed their usual caprice. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z The good man is he who does good for its own sake, without effort, not out of momentary caprice, but out of perfect knowledge and conviction. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Born in the public streets— Oh, blind caprice of fate, To trail through muddy streams A flower so immaculate! The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z His wife, Isabella of Fieschi, had frequently suffered from his caprice and jealousy; at length she learned that he had resolved on putting her to death. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Within a year after this epistle was penned, Rome was burnt and the crime of its burning washed out, at Nero’s caprice, in Christian blood. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z He is a young man of twenty-eight or thirty, and spends his time and money in travelling, as caprice takes him. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Self-consciousness could, at first, interpret good and evil only as having reference to self, just as it also conceived its freedom as that of its own caprice. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Yes—no more doubt—there I saw them below me, although, with the caprice incident to dreams, I was prevented from dropping down in the midst of them, or rendering myself either visible or audible. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z She had room in her heart but for two things, Braine and money to spend on her caprices. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z A god to put in a phial; thus far has the zigzag caprice of theory attained. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z On other subjects a jest or a caprice could often turn him aside. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z No wonder Muslim wives are obsequious, when it depends on the will, pleasure or caprice of their husbands whether they shall be re-married in the other world or not. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z There is no caprice of fashion in this straining to the hills, but a natural impulse as strong as that which stops a hot and weary man beside a roadside well. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Hath not every man his likes and his dislikes, his whims and his caprices, his fancies and his hobbies, his faults and his failings? Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z Hebraic, tragic, melancholy, the boisterousness of the Russian, the swift modulation from mad caprice to Slavic despair—Elman is a magician of many moods. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z His caprice, or rather obstinacy, are, however, excessive; just as ever: and this falls particularly hard upon me, since he wishes to have absolutely nobody about him but myself. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z The Cynic paints the world in the flaring colours of his undisciplined, individual caprice. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Landolfo, though somewhat stunned by this fresh caprice of fortune, yet saw clearly how improper it would be to give all this wealth to the old woman. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z He had had a long experience regarding her changing caprices; he never disputed them. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Citizens generally shuddered, as they realized how nearly the caprice of a mad leverman had come to causing wide-spread death and disaster. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z These people cannot separate the man oppressed by fate from the caprice and irritability which are caused by that fate; they cannot see the noble side of his disposition. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z You know the opinion I entertain of mankind, and how much it is my desire to preserve myself free from particular attachments, and to keep my happiness independent of the caprices of others. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z For nothing is more certain than that the course of trade is not determined by caprice. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z For that was his idea of it—a caprice. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z He becomes a pensioner on the caprice of well-to-do parents, and the instrument of their not generally very enterprising will, or of their too enlightened pleasure. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The stores of thought which crowded upon him, the caprice by which he was led on, the variety of treatment, and the difficulties, whether accidental or called forth by himself, were inexhaustible. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z Just through the caprice of a boy whom he had brought up and cared for. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z The caprice of this obstinate girl robbed him of that which he had bought by a long servitude, by much patience, by many a tiresome ride between town and country! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z And remember that a man's first duty is to protect the weaker sex, and his second duty is to endure from them all taunts, caprice, and torments without revenge. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The Spaniards of the 16th and 17th centuries knew humores in the same sense, and still employ the word as a name for caprices, whims and vapours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Individual relative interests at different times, according to these records, do not vary according to mere caprice. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Some of the quaint devices which pass for the arms of particular towns have nothing heraldric about them, and seem to have originated in the caprice of the artists who engraved their seals. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Its charms, while uncertain and dependent on the whim and caprice of an arbitrary old man, had not fixed him, for to attain to them he must give up other things, equally to his mind. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z It lets the player wield consummate mastery while consigning him simultaneously to the caprices of fate. John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 2012-02-18T21:12:50Z The study of the mind is not an arbitrary pursuit, suggested by vanity and conducted by caprice, to be taken up idly and relinquished at a moment's notice. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z By a malicious caprice of fate cage and menagerie were put down right under the Dutchman's organ of self-torture. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Porny places them in the category of Assumptive Arms—“such as are taken up by the caprice or fancy of upstarts, though of never so mean extraction.” The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Thus it did not present itself to my mind as a caprice of power, to be followed perhaps by an onslaught on Belgium and an invasion of England. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z When the caprice seized her, she could take things with so high a hand as to be bewildering. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z It did not depend on the caprice of the lord, although it depended theoretically on his will. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Nor was this new sentiment a mere caprice: she was quick at reading character, and saw in Margaret Brandt that which in one of her own sex goes far with an intelligent woman; genuineness. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z For the moment peril was averted, the palace safe; but who might tell when the unreasoning flood, lashed by the agitators into foam, would, in caprice, flow back and drown its inmates? The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z He followed at his heels like a dog, looking into his eyes for orders as dogs do, bearing his whims and caprices with stoical endurance, as we bear the wind that blows on us. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Riots grew more frequent, which were suppressed or not according to caprice. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Yet even in this extremity every caprice of the Sultan must be supplied. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z But when is a vulgar-minded, low-born woman happy who is consumed in the ratio of pampering by ambition and greed and caprice? The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Sidewalks exist only as balconies for individual houses, and vary in height at the caprice of the builder, making the middle of the street the only convenient highway for the passers-by. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z The government of the world was the composite result of the caprice of God, the malice of Satan, the prayers of the faithful—softened, it may be, by the charity of Chance. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Philosophy does not include the caprice of the Infinite. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Next to this, his caprice has been the buying of ironclads. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Thus we substituted personal caprice for the permanency of parties and at the same time cut down the practical means of holding organizations together. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z It is easy enough to conceive of an honest man denying the claims of a church based on the caprice of an English king. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z No caprice in chemistry; no interference from without. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z The basis of morality with him lies not in the nature of things, but in the caprice of some deity. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z The miraculous has departed from chemistry; in that science there is no magic, no caprice and no possible use for the supernatural. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z They have no caprices, no prejudices, that can vary or control their action. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Meantime the tyranny and caprice of Ala-ed-deen had given many of the principal persons about him cause to be apprehensive for their lives, and they resolved to anticipate him. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z He believed in the sublime, unbroken, and eternal march of causes and effects—denying the chaos of chance, and the caprice of power. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z In the universe there is no chance, no caprice. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z In this world there is neither chance nor caprice, neither magic nor miracle. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z The mother humoured her in this caprice, not thinking it of any consequence. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Allusions to the young lady's pride, to the poverty which she hid under jewels and fine clothes, to her caprices and his meek submission to them, were dinned into his ears all day long. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z He felt that she would not have asked him for the helm merely out of caprice, or unless she could steer. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z To believe that the world is governed by chance or caprice. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z How would England, for example, depend on the caprices of foreign rulers, if she contained within herself all the necessaries, and despised whatever they possessed of the luxuries of life? A Vindication of Natural Diet. 2012-02-02T03:04:34.883Z A flame, pure as the fire of Vesta, burns for thee in her bosom, and would waste her life, should folly and caprice overcloud thy soul to the refusing her favour. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z The child is happy to be freed from the sway of its wayward caprice, to feel that its feeble will has been taken up into a will larger and stronger than its own. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z You would not see that I had faults and caprices. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z But Americans will never be thoroughly independent of England until they arrange their habits to suit a climate whose caprices are so sudden and unexpected as to deal death to the unwary. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z She is tender at times, but only through caprice; she is never faithful except for profit or lack of occasion to be anything else. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z You yourself have been complaining this morning of their caprice. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z You may think it a mere whim, a girlish caprice; but understand this—I am thoroughly in earnest about it. Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience 2012-01-25T03:00:36.210Z By the time November comes the year is used to the caprices of the sun and no longer frantically brings out flowers for his gaze or hides them in hurt surprise from his indifference. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Indeed I cannot," she answered, "and you know I am not one to refuse anything from caprice. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z Lady H. That to wound his heart I'm fated Fills my heart with pity and pain, Ah, our mad caprice is working Pain and sorrow, all in vain. Martha or, The Fair at Richmond 2012-01-19T03:00:23.947Z While there was no law for the lower classes, save that dictated by the caprice of their masters, there were special exemptions and priveleges for the noble and wealthy. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z But there is really no accounting for the wild vagaries and caprices of the Vermilion Pencil. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Afterwards, even though his passion from time to time revives with its old vehemence, and he again becomes the slave of Lesbia's caprice, his tone becomes angry, hard, and scornful. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "There's no end to their wants and their caprices." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z All her charm, her kindly manner Were caprice and cruel sport To amuse a lady's leisure hour— O, just heaven, how harsh thou art. Martha or, The Fair at Richmond 2012-01-19T03:00:23.947Z But with much power comes caprice, and the feudal lords too soon forgot the interests of their dependents in serving their own ends. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z They forced the greatest masters to conform to their caprices. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Bees do not, like ourselves, dwell in towns that are open to the sky and exposed to the caprice of rain and storm, but in cities that are entirely covered with a protecting envelope. The Children's Life of the Bee 2012-01-10T03:00:15.617Z Their caprices, their follies, to soften the expression, has caused this distaste in you. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z This was by the overland route, which was liable at any moment to interruption by the caprice of the Pasha of Egypt or the enterprise of Bedouins. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z If one servant was driven away by my caprice, another attended my bidding. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z In front of the houses are shops or booths, where are exposed—generally in the open—goods and merchandise of all kinds, arranged in fanciful pyramids in accordance with Oriental caprice. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z It is indeed a local stimulation; but there seems no reason beyond some deep-seated caprice of the organism why the special tract which is thus sensitive should have become developed in that direction. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Would to heaven he was more uniform! or that he would suffer himself to be guided by his own understanding, and not by the whim or caprice of others so much inferior to himself! The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Is it a mere caprice of chance to be born beautiful? Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z The majority were dressed in European clothes, the chiefs usually wearing a black cap with gold band, the rest in the most various costumes, apparently as accident or caprice had dictated their choice. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z As Uncle David, with a caprice of curiosity, follows slowly in the wake of this accession to the company, a figure passes and goes before him into the room. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z All this, in my view, is the expression of subliminal control over the organism—more potent and profound than supraliminal, and exercised neither blindly nor wisely, but with intelligent caprice. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Not being able to reward women with luxury, he would rather flee in order not to accept from them and be obliged to tolerate from them their caprices. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The feelings of the homeless man were described in a manner that shows the writer felt his subject, although it is hinted that the experiences related may have been the result of caprice. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z When he spoke, it was of other matters, but the air was troubled by his efforts to surrender hopeful anticipations to the caprice of empirics. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z You accuse me of caprice—has any one ever accused you of impertinence?” Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z They follow arbitrary arrangements;—sometimes corresponding to rough popular notions of divisions of the body,—sometimes seeming to reflect a merely childish caprice. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z How could she take as a caprice the grave decision that he had finally reached after so long and difficult a debate within, the way one evolves a truly great decision! The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Perhaps I have a caprice—a fancy—for stopping up all night. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z You cannot forgive me some little errors of caprice and folly. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z In Mr. Longcluse's case, this dismal caprice of countenance did not last beyond a second or two. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z What happens in hypnotism in obedience to the hypnotiser's caprice happens in hysteria in obedience to the caprice of the hypnotic stratum itself. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z If it had not been for this opposition, Nadina's caprice for Salda�a, like so many of her whims, would have lasted only a few days. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z This was evidently for the purpose of annoyance and to gratify a malicious caprice, for the names tendered were unexceptionable. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z For this reason she never would have endured to live with her son; his expensive tastes, and, yet more, Clementina's extravagance and disreputable caprices enraged her, and would have embittered every moment of her life. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z To take life without sufficient cause, from mere wantonness or caprice, subjected him to punishment and removal from office. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z These also are a kind of capricious id�es fixes; only the caprice in such cases raises what was previously submerged instead of exaggerating what was previously emergent. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The man would not give any more, and it was necessary to reply in haste, before his caprice should turn toward some other acquisition. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Not even the caprices of fashion can have an excuse for purchasing the dearer commodity. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z It never for an instant occurred to her that such losses might seriously affect her comfort or convenience, her ostentatious display, or her caprices. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z At the same time Bismarck hastened to acts whereby the free action of the German bishops were nullified at the caprice of the State. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z In split personalities, in genius, in dreams, in sensory and motor automatisms, we find the same fitfulness, the same apparent caprice. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z I receive you in my house, I look upon you as a friend; and you treat me like one of the women with whom a man seeks to gratify a caprice! Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z But you loved Armantine; I did not choose to be simply a passing caprice to you, so it was necessary to break off our relations altogether. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Certain well-intentioned friends, in their compassion for Do�a Carmen, kept her informed as to the enormous sums this woman was costing the Duke by her extravagance and caprices. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Four years of republican rule ruined the country; liberty was betrayed by a license which permitted everyone to live according to his own caprice. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z He suffered nothing that their meetings should be thus fugitive and at caprice, in main, of Rollo's moods and movements. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z In girls of that age, the slightest sentiment, the most trivial caprice, at once assumes the form of a passion. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z We are kind or cruel to others only as it gratifies our caprices. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z But to these apparently unpretending garments they had contrived to give a stamp of individual caprice, distinguishing them, as was but right, from all the shooting coats and wide-awakes hitherto invented. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The subjects, in spite of acts of cruel caprice which affected certain persons, were incomparably better off than those of the Assyrians, or of the dynasties which afterwards ruled the East. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Perhaps you consider," said Castell, "my patience of several years, my sufferings, the silent, constant service I have given you, a mere caprice. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z He is, indeed, as unwilling as is any scientific worker to trust private caprices. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z "Oh! no, no! tell me; women are entitled to have caprices without number." Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z The Illyrian is blinded and constrained by her fervent temperament, by the climate, by poverty and credulity; the Italian errs through ambition, avarice, and caprice. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z They have also got many women at their caprice, and have no law of marriage. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z Then you believe that the position of woman is nothing more than that of a domestic animal, caressed or beaten by man, according to his caprice? The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z Yet, as I just pointed out, this freedom is never mere caprice. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z I have come back to you, to ask your forgiveness, to swear to you that hereafter I will have no more caprices, that I will believe all that you say—all, do you hear? Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z This was certainly nothing very splendid; but neither would the wealth of Crœsus have been anything to boast of in the hands of an extravagant family, ruled only by the caprice of its component members. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Others were also clad in the fashion of landsknechts, but in blue, in green, in scarlet, in azure, in crimson, slashed, broidered, blazoned at their own caprice. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z A novel may be read at any time, but a play depends on the caprice of a manager to "present" it or not, as suits his commercial convenience. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z He would have obeyed the slightest whim or the wildest caprice of the woman, at that time. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z But do you not know that women sometimes have caprices, moments of irritation, which they themselves cannot understand? Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z His fancy, command of dramatic situations, intuition into character, rhetorical eloquence, and inexhaustible inventiveness expatiated in the region of caprice and wonder. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z In the belief that he was returning to Nature, he merely followed caprice and comfort, with the smallest possible amount of self-control. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z They had little to eat, had to work hard, and were often punished and tortured if they failed to satisfy their master’s caprices. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z I might indeed have helped her if caprice of fortune had not destroyed my work—perhaps I will yet have occasion to tell you about it. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z I had learned that one can no more rely on a woman's friendship than on her love; that there must inevitably be a strain of inconstancy or caprice in all their affections. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z The latter were not necessarily experts, for they owed their own original appointment to the caprice of the lot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z This was Sunday, and with the next day came one of those changes which resemble in kind, not in degree, the caprices of our own Continental climate. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z He assumed that the dog had abandoned his caprice of being outside his master’s door, and had betaken himself to his usual haunts in the basement rooms and passages of the house. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z This singular inequality in development appears to be merely a matter of chance—of caprice in fermentation; and is quite inexplicable and uncontrolled by any known laws or causes. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z A. When the latter subjects him to his caprices, and does what he wishes with him. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z Sometimes it is merely a caprice of the public that holds them to a particular line of operas. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z I should like to know what idle fancies and caprices I have ever encouraged in you, monsieur. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z It is probable that Graun was subjected to considerable humiliation from the arbitrary caprices of his royal master, who was never tired of praising the operas of Hasse and abusing those of his Kapellmeister. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Art-critics are wordy and ignorant, praising from caprice rather than from conscience. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z In a city so abounding in churches and halls as Rome this seemed an act rather of ill-tempered caprice than of hospitable care. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z It is evident that he who regulates his conduct upon sacerdotal molality will only follow the caprice and passions of the priests, and will be a very dangerous man, while believing himself very virtuous. Letters To Eugenia Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices 2011-11-24T03:00:47.570Z Much less can their necks be submitted to his sword, their breath be held at his will or caprice.... Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z It was her caprice to remain among the throng. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z And it gives, too, a suggestiveness, a mystery we are more apt to seek in architectural disorder and caprice. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z It gives full play beforehand for arbitrary caprice and paves the way for the infallibilist dogma. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z They have the indescribable puzzling characteristics that we call feminine; sudden caprices, flashes of unexpected jealousy, deep loyal tenderness, unlimited capacity for self-sacrifice, and in the last analysis, Mystery. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z My notion is, the thing's a rather expensive caprice, but after all, Jimmy's rich. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z He spoke very indifferent English, and always kept the last caprice of slang in glib readiness, as a tradesman will keep his newest goods where he can soonest reach them. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z They were outcasts, paupers, dependent for the food they ate and the clothes they wore, on Nature and the caprice of the sea. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z But how 118 unlike was the discipline of family work and love, which saved Louisa from fatal caprices and fitful gusts of fancy called passion, to the lot of the wealthy and admired Sylvia. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Mr. Hardy's women are full of tenderness and full of caprice; and whatever feminine readers may think of them, they are usually irresistible to the masculine mind. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z And as Monsieur Plays was one of those men who would like to be on good terms with the whole world, his wife's caprices sometimes caused him very great embarrassment. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z She would have swayed a man of much firmer will, and it is certain that he grew steadily more deferent to her judgment, her counsel, or even her caprices. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z It was before his quarrel with the Duc de Bourbon, and we lived in Paris and elsewhere according to his caprice. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z On her face glowed the excited, anxious joy of a caprice about to be gratified. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z It is not only, my noble-hearted friend, that your will is bountiful and your means small,—were you richer you would still be tormented by ingratitude, caprice, and change. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Justice, equity depending on individual caprice, the responsibility of the criminal logically disappears. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z You know the opinion I entertain of mankind; and how much it is my desire to preserve myself free from particular attachments, and to keep my happiness free from the caprices of others. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Meanwhile, in spite of all Mrs Mowbray's eccentricities and caprices, Adeline, as she grew up, continued to entertain for her the most perfect respect and affection. Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z Nor were these military establishments left to the caprice of petty officers for their judicial system. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z “The law” in those days was merely another name for the caprice of the King, and de Harcla had no trial. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z Books so true, so honest, so simple, so thorough as these, depend for their ultimate fate upon no transitions of fashion, no caprices of the public taste. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Its caprice, said he, is equalled only by its worthlessness, and the misery of that being who lives on its breath. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z They were so stupefied for the moment that they could only gape and stare, marvelling at the inscrutable ways of Providence and the incalculable caprices of rich men. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z Or that he will give a free rein to his caprices, because the predestined cannot be made worse by that course. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z I will no longer be the slave of caprice and impulse. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z Compare that, my friend, with the maternity which is often the undesired consequence of a caprice or ceremony. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z What to him had been a mere prank, a caprice of the moment, was to her a thing of vital import. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z During an enfeebled condition, loathsome morsels become injurious; for digestion is clearly at the command of the mind, and is often checked by its caprices. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Clearly this, that every one thinks himself most free where his vitality is strongest; hence, as I have said, now in passion, now in duty, now in knowledge, now in caprice. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z But perhaps she will weary of caprice as well, for she certainly desires something more than that. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z The real sacrifice consists in refusing to leave the maternal function at the mercy of a momentary caprice, and, on the contrary, in consecrating it to a noble purpose and to the general good. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z Numerous as the instances are, there has been some apparent caprice in the matter, not easily explained. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z The resolve was to control the production of the principal staples of industry and trade, and subject the commercial world to their caprices. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Here for once the so-called bird's-eye view is not an artistic caprice, but the sole possibility. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Perhaps she was influenced by vanity, for there was no genuine passion or tenderness in her, but Brooke was a well-favored man, and she had her caprices and drifted easily. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Contains chapters on impairments of the will and of voluntary attention, the realm of caprices, and extinction of the will. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z I certainly did not expect this wish," he said, "I thought you had forgotten this caprice. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z Demand of your spiritual superiors that they rule according to law and privilege, and not after their own caprice; be no longer their tame and passive slaves. John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z Quite unexpectedly it was recalled to momentary life by the caprice of the great Corsican, who then ruled the destinies of the world. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z I'll fly thee, and die a maid, rather than live under the same roof with jealousy and caprice. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z If it has a merit, it is in its being purely a work of imagination, caprice, and fancy.' Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z She knew that this man did not care much for her, and because of some strange caprice she wanted to please him, in order to enjoy tormenting him. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z When his monastic revenues proved inadequate to satisfy her caprices, he ran into debt, and when his credit was exhausted, he had recourse to stratagems to obtain money from his mother. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z To the untutored caprice, the overmastering impulse, in brief to the realism of the passions is opposed the law of right feeling, which ethics expresses. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z He would have nothing further to do with her; would forget her existence; would leave the unfortunate woman to the caprice of fortune. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z If one goes on foot, one is exposed at the caprice of an administration, on the least suspicion, or from a false accusation, if not to death, to imprisonment of long duration, spoliation, or torture. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Owing to this caprice of the elements, I was unable to leave until three o'clock in the afternoon. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Never had one imagined so many seductions, so many caprices, so much gaiety. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Those which remained were injurious rather than beneficial, since they often gave an appearance of lawfulness to the caprices of arbitrary sovereigns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z "Yes," interrupted the King with trembling voice, "until to-day I flattered myself, I thought--but appearances are deceiving, and the caprices of a woman are in most cases difficult to understand." The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z It was a flame of pain and cruelty to Claes, for following the caprice of the breeze, it preyed upon his legs, or touched his head so that it smoked, licking and singeing his hair. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Leads and gutters were notoriously capricious, and Denis was prepared for any caprice but the one that he encountered this very morning. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z She had," says he, "all the charms of an agreeable character without any mixture of caprice; while her only desire, her most delicate attentions, were directed towards rendering her lover happy. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z By a voluntary submission to the tyrant's caprices, they retained the high privilege of his smile and favour, and built the bulwark of their safety on their own personal insignificance! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Augustus' cold and sometimes cruel treatment of his best favourite warned the others to be armed against the caprices of their lord, who could take everything from them. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z If I go away, shall I not leave my beloved child exposed to the determinate will and caprice of the queen, and others, who, doubtless, will vex her as much as possible? Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z She has no frugality; she is all luxuries and caprices and always in debt; and for a while it seemed as if really she would be scarcely of any use at all. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Two performers belonging to this theatre, called Chantilly and Beaumenard, were his favourite mistresses; and he declared that their rivalry and caprices plagued him more than the Queen of Hungary's Hussars. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z At every step we need better counsel than any instinctive fondness, or childish caprice, or worldly fashion. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z To enable you to conquer your diffidence, or caprice, on month I will give you;—one month I will allow to the struggles of maiden bashfulness, or the wayward humour of your sex. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z Their caprices were various, but those of the prince was most strikingly evinced in his abruptly declining his engagements with the celebrated Mrs. Robinson. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z He is capable of anything, nothing stops him if he has a caprice. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The only limit to their sufferings was the weariness or the caprice of their persecutors. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z We must look for the true idea reverently, as under religious guidance, not according to our own caprices or opinions. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z She naturally resisted so extraordinary an impression as a caprice or a delusion. In Answer to Prayer The Touch of the Unseen 2011-09-23T02:00:24.177Z I am famed for my beauty; and I have kept kings waiting on the threshold of my villa on Lake Mareotis merely out of caprice. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z This tame ending to an unwarrantable intrusion was certainly not to his liking, and he, for one, was unaccustomed to see his whims or caprices thwarted. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Perhaps this mask was not chosen out of mere caprice. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z "Very well," said Julia, rising proudly and walking towards the door, "the grisette will not yield to the caprice of the great nobleman." The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z An odd mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice. Pride and Predjudice, a play 2011-09-17T02:00:30.190Z Bless us! how fine!'—were repeated from mouth to mouth, with that contemptuous exultation, which springs from the narrow pleasure of envy, in fixing upon superior merit the stigma of insolence, or caprice. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z These first caprices of her tormentors were followed a little later by a more dangerous persecution, and to one possessed of Tekakwitha's sensibilities, the most cruel of all. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z The latter were rather sorcerers, who by their own will summoned forth even hostile spirits; they resembled those Arabian magicians, who, at their caprice, could endow stones with life, and turn living beings into stone. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z This is not a passing caprice; these are not desires to which the heart is a stranger. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z If a man's actions are not guided by thoughtful conclusions, then they are guided by inconsiderate impulse, unbalanced appetite, caprice, or the circumstances of the moment. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Still, however, she sustained her own reserve, for the difficulty of devising to what the change might be owing, made her cast it upon mere caprice. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z The moment this is wanting, its value diminishes, and it is powerless to survive the caprice of fashion. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z These caprices made the King impatient, who ended by making negotiations with Lorraine without any longer occupying himself with his cousin. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z He bore her pettishness and imperiousness not as a slave, but indulgently as one bears the caprices of a loved child. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z We should describe him as, at best, a person of an exceedingly variable disposition who satisfied the caprice of the moment irrespective of the feelings and needs of others. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z Yet Miss Brinville made no progress in self-perception: his changes were attributed to caprice or fickleness; and her desire grew but more urgent to fix her wavering conquest. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z Like all artists, he is fascinating, and full of his whims and caprices. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z But into this one subject Ruth was as ready to enter at a hint from Tiny as she was now contented to quit it at her caprice. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z Some made a system of what with him was merely a mood or caprice. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z In each lodge a porter lived, and Charles' caprice insisted that a gatekeeper should be on the watch day and night. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z She allowed him to become selfish and vain by yielding to his caprices. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z The roofs of houses, haystacks, prominent trees, if once they are caught in the savage sweep of her garment, she hurls up to the sky, and then dashes to the earth again with furious caprice. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z It depended on the caprice of the courier. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z He was a public school man, and had been prepared for the Army, a profession he had set his heart on but had been prevented from entering by the caprice of his guardian. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z The old Fleming, no doubt, found it pleasant and profitable to lend himself to his royal patron's caprices and indulgences. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Such repeated wanton and wilful acts of drivers to gratify their caprice, ambition, or passions, generally under the stimulus of ardent spirits, calls aloud on the community to expose and punish these shameful aggressions.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Thus is God governed by the neglect of a poor, and very likely drunken, nurse, and the recipients of his grace are chosen for him at the caprice or carelessness of men. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Have they mutinied because their wages were kept back, or from caprice? The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z You affected to know me, and you don't; through caprice or listlessness or curiosity you wished to converse, not with a lady, but with a costume. In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 2011-08-25T02:00:31.597Z Speak harshly to me, require anything of me that your cruel woman's caprice may suggest to you as hardest to be endured, but, my beloved, do not doubt my love! The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z And these court ladies were fairly emancipated, and far from being subject to the caprices of men. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z I had no principles; I merely had caprices. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z I burned Volmontovichi, 'tis true, and cut down some people; but let God judge me if I did that from caprice. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z That evening the weather behaved with extraordinary caprice. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z It was far easier then than now to make oneself the fashion and be talked of by all Paris; a witticism was often quite enough, or the caprice of a woman. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Even as he went, the impulse seemed more than a caprice; in his own words, had his feet been manacled, he would have gone there crawling on his knees. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Her father was always full of caprices; he wouldn't have died a poor man if he had not been. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z It was perhaps that experience with the caprices of the game that propelled Crist to think forward, rather than reflect on the semantics of how he got here. Irish QB Crist: 'This is just the start' 2011-08-23T19:21:00Z They make their own choice, and it often seems to us a matter of folly or caprice. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z To Minna this amazing blossom seemed a caprice of Nature, who had amused herself by endowing a handful of gems with the freshness, tenderness, and fragrance of a plant. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z A sort of will or caprice, governed only by chance, was exercised in relation to this disease, and man was powerless, because he was unarmed against chance. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z |
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