| 单词 | factitious |
| 例句 | I hadn't known what factitious meant, so I looked it up in the dictionary. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The first story is about young women living in a college dorm for students with factitious disorders — they are referred to not by name, but by number — who become subjects of a sociological thesis. New Short Fiction, Including a National Book Foundation Honoree 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s good that he’s sharing it with us, but it comes packaged with a theme so transparently factitious that one can’t take it seriously. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z That’s because, for the most part, music is used in movies as sonic wallpaper, covering silences and images with an indifferent and casually factitious unity. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The attacks take many forms, all of them chiefly employed by Republicans and their right-wing acolytes and all of them equally factitious. Column: Right-wing hatemongers count on the cowardice of companies such as Target 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Prof Marc Feldman is one of the world's most renowned experts on factitious disorders like Munchausen syndrome. Her illness fooled celebs. The truth may be even darker 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Once he becomes Twitter’s sole proprietor, its flaws will be his flaws; if he continues to use it to promote factitious narratives, he will be responsible for its debasement as a “public square.” Column: Is Elon Musk already looking to bail out of his Twitter deal? 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z There is even a pathological manifestation of the condition called “factitious victimisation”, of which Munchausen syndrome is an extreme version. Jussie Smollett’s story shows how intolerant of ‘victims’ we really are | Nesrine Malik 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Instead, she explained that Munchausen syndrome by proxy – classified under “factitious disorder imposed on another” in the latest American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – doesn’t always, or even usually, involve poison. For my entire childhood, my mom convinced me I was dying 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z He exhorts men – women are almost entirely omitted – to give up everything that keeps them imprisoned in the “factitious cares and coarse labours of life”. In Thoreau's footsteps: my journey to Walden for the bicentennial of the original de-clutterer 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z “Frustrated opponents of the president are grasping at straws and factitious rumors to advance their own political agenda rather than the interests of the country,” Mr. Sensenbrenner said in an emailed statement. House Democrat From California Seeks Support to Impeach Trump 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The myths in them didn’t seem at all factitious. Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things 1966-01-14T05:00:00Z Today, Munchausen is considered the most severe type of factitious disorder, a group of mental illnesses in which a person feigns a physical, emotional or cognitive condition. Who would fake a tragedy on Facebook just to get sympathy and attention? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z A New York judge said at her sentencing she suffers from Munchausen by proxy, now known clinically as factitious disorder imposed on another. NY mother guilty in fatal salt poisoning proclaims innocence 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “The heroic image that cancer survivors increasingly have is attractive to factitious disorder patients,” Marc Feldman writes in his book scholarly Playing Sick. Cancer cons, phoney accidents and fake deaths: meet the internet hoax buster | Rachel Monroe 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z It hard to get an estimate on how common Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a severe form of a factitious disorder, might be. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The first description of VCD dates back to 1951, when it was dubbed “factitious asthma”; doctors essentially thought patients were lying. Medical Mysteries: She couldn’t stop coughing. Were fragrances to blame? 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Because of his specialization in factitious disorder, Feldman hears from both victims and perpetrators of Munchausen by Internet. Who would fake a tragedy on Facebook just to get sympathy and attention? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z She knew that her liveliness was a little factitious. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z By nature, someone suffering from a factitious disorder is dishonest, so it’s difficult for doctors and/or therapists to get an accurate count. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z In "Vivian Grey," the young D'Israeli, an educated Englishman, but with the blood of sunnier climes glowing and careering in his veins, gave us the very flower and essence of factitious life. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Experts believes Munchausen by Internet has similar origins and motives as other forms of factitious disorder, which is thought to involve both biological and psychological factors. Who would fake a tragedy on Facebook just to get sympathy and attention? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z With the virtuous life was further to be conjoined a humble disposition to adore the Creator, avoiding all factitious forms of worship as worse than useless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z It is interesting, because I am determined not to fall into the temptation of introducing a factitious love-interest, which in my opinion spoilt Schiller's version. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z They had no authority except the purely factitious authority created by the accident of seniority. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Life has become too factitious; it has no longer a leg left to stand upon, and cannot be carried much farther in this way. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z According to one study on factitious disorder, half of patients also had borderline personality disorder, while a third showed signs of narcissistic personality disorder. Who would fake a tragedy on Facebook just to get sympathy and attention? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The great fact for us all there is that, relish Europe as we may, we belong much more to that than to this, and stand in a much less factitious and artificial relation to it. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Louisville has attained her present rank and position without having resorted to any of the factitious means so generally employed to promote the progress of cities. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z All sudden elevations are either imaginary or factitious. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Cosimo Roselli, a painter of no inconsiderable reputation, attempted, by the assistance of gold and ultramarine, to give a factitious splendour to his performances. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z He had been brought out from Chicago during my absence, to set up in Higgleston's one department store, that factitious air of things being done, which passed for the evidence of modernity. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z And to-day it is a thousand times truer than ever before, that at the start the genuine fame which endures is bound up with much that is purely factitious. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z It is the small dealer and the small manufacturer, who is content to rise by his own efforts, unaided by factitious means of any sort, who is needed here. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z Such a condition resembles some hypnotic trances, and some factitious personalities as developed by automatic writing. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z When he talked it was with a factitious and cunning simplicity which was not unattractive, but through it pierced the old man, the Valencian foundling, shrewd, sarcastic, crafty and uncommunicative. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z It may be that to etchings in books of Cruikshank's period is ascribed, since the usurpation of the process-block, the factitious value of curios, and that he, Beraldi's Great Omitted, profits thereby. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The fatal notion that human beings are more prone to evil than inclined to good, and the fatal practice of creating factitious sins, are dreadfully in the way of natural health of conscience. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z The division into clubs is factitious, representing no real rivalry such as exists among English colleges. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The Bible, like the Koran, and like every other revelation, stereotyped old ideas, and gave them a factitious longevity. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z It is the first of duties to expose him and his factitious reputation. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z It is natural, therefore, to think of law as a factitious thing, made and unmade by the people who happen for the time being to constitute parliament. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Impose upon him a number of factitious considerations of duty, and you will perplex his moral sense, and make him tired of a self-government which has no certainty and no satisfaction in it. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z After a brief period, the public began to discover that it was a foreign plant, which under a new sky gave out but a factitious brilliancy. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z It has been deprived of the commerce of luxury; of that factitious splendour which was found at courts, and invited strangers hither. Considerations on Religion and Public Education 2011-10-19T02:00:19.747Z And yet they are not understood to the bottom; they retain an indefinably factitious air, which is not sufficiently justified by their position as ideal figures. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Prayer is as the artificial stimulant which excites, but does not strengthen, and lends a factitious brightness, which is followed by deeper depression. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Perhaps only Courtlandt, in his wise, grave taciturnity, saw just how factitious the smile was. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Indeed, we shrewdly suspect that even Franklin's idea that he was such a debtor to his factitious system of moral practice was not much better than a conceit. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z And he probably falls into the further error that the emotion which he utters becomes as factitious as the laws which he invents. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z As they went, so they return; happily, or rather pitifully, unconscious of the narrow circle in which move their factitious enjoyments, their confined experience, their half-awakened sympathies! Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z We have already explained the causes of this factitious augmentation. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Speaking much in the throat identifies that factitious voice, which, drawing the air into the lungs, proceeds out of the thorax, and not from a lower region, as the ancient etymology indicated. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is not made to express complicated and factitious sentiment, nor terrestrial and vulgar sentiments. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z We shall find without difficulty among our own people the expression of such factitious sentiments and as much eloquence as sincere Christians find in their enthusiasm. The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion 2011-04-01T02:00:43.730Z Proposition 24.—Sexual shame was the consequence of the fall, and is factitious and irrational. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Tell me about her!' changing her tone to one of factitious temperate interest. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z He thought of her old simplicity, her open-mindedness, her frank disregard of the factitious, her courage to act, and realized that it would take a veritable revolution to even modify her temperament. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z But if this unity that is imposed upon him is a factitious unity, if there are in nature only essentially dissimilar beauties, art deceives and lies to us. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Neither husband nor wife had allowed riches to put a factitious gloss upon their primal simplicity. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z He made no pretence to himself of a factitious tenderness about her. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Prue accompanies her to their gate, still with that strained look of factitious content on her childish face; and, as she parts from her sister, whispers feverishly: 'Find out how soon they are going!' Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z They besieged the bakers and vendors of flour with the same pertinacity as during the period of the former factitious and transient abundance, produced by the first tariff of Antony Ferrer. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Some fancied theory of popular wrongs, she thinks, gave her a kind of factitious heroism; elevating her, at least to her own mind, above the frivolous corruptions around her. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Such were the joyous and exultant reflections which passed through her brain—unnaturally active in the factitious wakefulness caused by excessive fatigue. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z There is no occasion to import factitious bitterness into the tragedy, which was born in prejudice, suckled in suspicion, and reared to its foul maturity on hatred. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z And at the same time the half-dead body was trembling and using up in involuntary movements its fragile and factitious life. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z At the same time he perceived that she was terribly pale, not with a factitious pallor, which until then he had attributed to the crudeness of the light, but with a real and deathly pallor. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z In these there are not many delights of “life under the greenwood tree,” as in Robin Hood, or our factitious gipsies’ songs. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z His robust pride prevented him from experiencing any discouragement, but he was always irritated, and in that state of exaltation, at the same time factitious and natural, which is characteristic of comedians. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Sarah Munro, defending, told the court that her client suffered from a factitious disorder and a factitious disorder by proxy. 2010-01-22T15:24:00Z It is dwelling on factitious things that gives them force. The Law of Hemlock Mountain What could be expected of the zoologist's reconstruction, however, if the original bone handed to him was factitious, what a curious result might be expected from his deduced skeleton. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time For our own part, we are glad that generous Mr. Morikofer has pulled off the bleached horse hair wig of factitious gravity, and shown us the natural moist and waving hair of a human-hearted poet. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Then he felt himself small, insignificant, fit for nothing; and something in his soul fell feebly, helplessly from a factitious height, without energy and without will. Majesty A Novel But words of newsprint broke through this factitious barrier. The Tempering In some respects he wished that his factitious indolence were real, for he felt no pride in the occult fashion in which he was directing the activities of his henchmen. The Law of Hemlock Mountain His factitious and absurd device is therefore not bimetallism, but monometallism on a basis of gold. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The rural movement has been brought to its present state without any demand for special privilege, without bolstering by factitious legislation, and to a remarkable degree without self-seeking. The Holy Earth And, as the measures of the song rose and fell, they brought him a transient exhilaration like to that which comes of champagne, dowering him with factitious force wherewith to strive anew. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel A factitious gaiety animated her, even though the death of her mainstay had crushed her into invalidism. The Tempering It is but a factitious need that would change them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 She bore up manfully if I may use the word; laughed, and actually joked; but just as I handed Coco in, her factitious courage yielded, and she burst into an agony of grief. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 It distinguishes the elemental virtues as against the acquired, factitious, and pampered virtues. The Holy Earth His was one of those natures which no earthly elevation can corrupt, no factitious system deprive of its innate simplicity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Unfortunately even a number of people in the provinces, relaxed by the factitious prosperity of the imperial régime, were too willing to yield to the invaders. A History of the Third French Republic But good judges have assured me that there was much that was factitious in the manner of this eminent comedian, and that his vivacity was a trifle mechanical. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. A factitious excitement that induced a false pitch throughout. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 It is all the more dangerous when associated with aristocracy of birth and of factitious social position, which usually accompany it. The Holy Earth The more men shut out Nature from their hearts and homes, and surround themselves with the hundred little appliances of a factitious existence, the more do they become attached to the world. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands That is, if society were not factitious, every woman, without exception, would be utterly dependent upon marriage for a living. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 So the experience or the traditions of generations form a sort of factitious and accumulated conscience for women independent of any abstract or eternal laws, and amounting in strength to something like intuition. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. He did not know how much of the royalty was left-handed, nor how much of the nobility was factitious. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Whatever display of popular enthusiasm may be made will be chiefly of a factitious nature. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. It was a tall, lean old man who moved with a factitious sprightliness. The Deaves Affair Through the influence of the monks the military spirit declined; a vile fetichism of factitious relics, which were working miracles in all directions, constituted the individual piety. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition In short, this factitious voice played, as it were, every where about him, and seemed to proceed from any quarter or distance from which the operator chose to transmit it to him. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed He confounds his own point of view with that of the immediate actors in the scene; and hence presents you with a conventional and factitious nature, instead of that which is real. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature But suppose this factitious charm is really wanting? By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects All we know is that many of its miseries are factitious, inessential, eminently curable; and till these are eradicated, how are we to determine whether there are other evils too deep-rooted for our surgery? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' I declare it: I led Flora forward to the set with a gaiety which may have been unnatural, but was certainly not factitious. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Since 1877 the Southern states have been almost solidly Democratic; but, except on the negro question, such unanimity among Southern whites has been, naturally, factitious; and by no means an unmixed good for the party. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" They are the anomalous growth of our diseased civilizations, and, removed from their own factitious soil, flourish, I half believe, in none other. Records of Later Life Among the most insignificant of mankind; but they all acquire a factitious consideration by the influence they possess to do good and evil, the extension of it over multitudes of dependents. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II The first duty of an Opposition is to oppose, and even if some good measures are factitiously resisted, many a 'job' is prevented by this relentless criticism. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways Yet the promoters of disaffection miscalculated the numbers and strength of their party, and the resulting demonstration was factitious and puerile. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Renan thought the modern poetic or imaginative contemplation of the universe puerile and factitious compared with the scientific contemplation of it. Whitman A Study They are as factitious as the old-fashioned appeals to the memory of Brutus. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The Italian receipt books are well provided with receipts for producing black, which suggests that most of the ebony used in inlay was factitious. Intarsia and Marquetry Evil is once more and always something factitious and unessential. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle The Government easily coped with this factitious rising, which nowhere reached the importance of an organised revolt. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France What is this farcical, factitious glamour that will not bear the light of day? Dreamers of the Ghetto For him the charms of scenery, lights, odor, costume, singers, and the subtle voice of the prompter seemed factitious, mere excrescences on the fair surface of art. Melomaniacs This species of factitious air is obtained from all the metals except zinc, by means of the nitrous acid; and Dr. Priestley informs me, that as a sweetener and antiseptic it far surpasses fixed air. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air She was too high-bred, too fine, to demand payment of his debt; but her very reticence and delicacy, he foresaw, would make his repudiation of that debt––that factitious debt––more difficult. The Heart of Thunder Mountain But far beyond the factitious influences derivable from such sources, he had great elements in himself. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. There were no women in the kitchen, but there was an amatory stewardess, fat and forty, upon whom the factitious technique of the saloon fell with singular insipidity. The Vagrant Duke He looked factitiously fresh, with a Turkish bath freshness, his linen was spotless, and in his hand he held a newspaper. Melomaniacs They owe, and are half conscious that they owe, their present existence only to factitious weaknesses of human nature, and to the antiquated terrors of communities long kept in leading-strings and afraid to walk alone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 But the brilliant was a true, not a factitious brilliant, whatever the value of the setting; and the price, if ever proffered, had not been sufficiently large. Leading Articles on Various Subjects A thousand anecdotes without any basis in truth have been told of him, altogether to no purpose; for one who has so many real claims to distinction need never appeal to factitious honors. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 Hence the recourse to adventitious leverage to push it in, to factitious drill to drive it in, to artificial bribe to lure it in. The Child and the Curriculum This picture," he says, "so full of merit in other respects, presents a striking example of the factitious and unnatural effect produced by the extraordinary opposition of black and white. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 What folly was it that made life into this, the fulfilling of some stupid, factitious duty? The Rainbow If we continue, we mislead the child's mind, and, whilst we deprive him of his natural reward, we give him a factitious taste. Practical Education, Volume I "A man right often thinks he knows things when he jest suspicions 'em," Bas reminded him, with a forced and factitious calm summoned for his final interview, but the other waved aside the subterfuge. The Roof Tree Aside from adulteration by mixing substitutes with ground coffee, and an occasional case of factitious molded berries, the main sophistications of coffee comprise coating and coloring the whole beans. All About Coffee We saw the picture out of its frame, and down against the wall, and saw no factitious unnatural effect, nor any black and white. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 I soon peopled it with beings after my own heart, and, dismissing opinion, prejudice, and all factitious passions, I brought to these sanctuaries of nature men worthy of inhabiting them. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Under these sad conditions the music of the orchestra became factitious, a brazen clatter raised to reinforce the courage of the ushers, who flitted about like uneasy spirits. The Light of the Star A Novel Their counterfeit of cheer and factitious courage stood nakedly exposed to both of them, and the man's smile faded as though it were too flippant for such a moment. The Roof Tree He descants perpetually on virtue, religion, “the good man,” life, death, immortality, eternity—subjects which are apt to give a factitious grandeur to empty wordiness. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Until the meeting of the Chamber, my new title of Deputy called for no step or demonstration, and I sought not for any factitious opportunity. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 Spencer criticizes this conception of Hobbes as representing society as a "factitious" and artificial rather than a "natural" product. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Her joyous companionship with Douglass, her work on his sane and wholesome drama, their discussions of what the stage should be and do unfitted her for the factitious parts she was playing. The Light of the Star A Novel To have understood them at all one must have seen far under the surface of that bland and factitious normality which he maintained before his fellows. The Roof Tree Whatever unjust barriers or factitious discrimination there may be against any must be abolished, and equality must be for all. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II I deem the intellectual, like the physical capacities of women unequal in the average to those of men; but I perceive no reason in this natural diversity for a factitious and superinduced legal inequality. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Their emotions are factitious; they are diffuse in their descriptions; they pile up words for mere effect. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Before this book the factitious institutions and gorgeous establishments of the modern priesthood will fade and die, like Jonah's gourd. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. It is no factitious, no accidental or temporary want, but an essential part of our nature. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes The truth seems to be that factitious import has been attached to the Tsuchi-gumo. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era This unrecognized half desires these factitious restraints removed, and to be placed side by side with the other, simply that there may be full, free, and equal development in the future. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Clysters of carbonated hydrogen gas, or of other factitious airs, might be tried. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life He could not endure the thought that all ideas of right were arbitrary and factitious, that all knowledge was unreal, that truth was a delusion, and certainty a dream. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It remains for us to speak of the factitious rights and wrongs, supposed to be created by law. A Manual of Moral Philosophy It is either real or factitious, and often consists merely of the scrapings and refuse morsels, melted into lumps, and manufactured into cheap mouth-pieces. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 "Did you get me in here to start the Bible-banging business?" inquired the girl, her factitious refinement deserting her. The Orchard of Tears Clysters of Harrowgate water are recomended, either of the natural, or of the factitious, as described below, which might have a greater proportion of liver of sulphur in it. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Gordon resumed his coat, the clerk returned the books to their shelf, and the factitious excitement subsided. Mountain Blood A Novel The prices of farms and improvements vary greatly, and are influenced much by factitious and local circumstances. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West If he at times threw off his melancholy, it was to run into the opposite extreme, and abandon himself to a gaiety as violent as it was factitious. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 It is however most likely that it is altogether factitious, and Mr. Surtees' own production, Anne Douglas being a pure invention. Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Yet there is no place where the interest in art seems to a stranger so factitious, so much a matter of fashion and custom, of instinctive following of chance-appointed bell-wethers. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 But to the student he is interesting, and the interest has nothing factitious in it, and nothing to be ashamed of. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Meanwhile, besides a growing affection 232 for Jack, I take a factitious interest in him because he was your daily companion for several months. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance There are absolutely no grounds for supposing that the excitement which the death of Edgar caused was factitious. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 As for the emperor, who was not so easily deceived, he had but a few moments of factitious joy. The Two Great Retreats of History In the expenditure of money there is usually a great deal of the conventional, the factitious, the purely ostentatious, but we are here dealing with the most serious realities of life. The Map of Life Conduct and Character The widow is somewhat rococo; an old-fashioned jewel kept in cotton-wool, and brought out on occasions to shine with a factitious brilliancy, like old Dutch garnets backed with tinfoil; but she is still pretty. Vixen, Volume I. Thus, in renouncing the factitious unity which the understanding imposes on nature from outside, we shall perhaps find its true, inward and living unity. Creative Evolution No discord within has marred the loveliness without—no strife of the factitious world without has disturbed the harmony within. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical All these measures being taken, Lassaigne constructed a factitious body in linden wood. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Yet all the melancholy thus engendered was accidental and factitious, springing from the excessive sensibility of his physical and moral being, as well as from circumstances; his griefs resembled the usual griefs of youth. My Recollections of Lord Byron For its kind, its extent, and the absence of everything unreal or factitious in the causes that contributed to it, it is unexampled in literature. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Thus to taboo a subject is at once to lend it a factitious interest, and more than half to endorse its truth: and I believe modern spiritualism has been very generally treated in this way. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis No factitious or external control was sufficient to restrain such an exuberance of sensibility and fancy: and those who praise the philosophy of Portia and the heroism of her death, certainly mistook the character altogether. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical That law of unity, which has its foundations, not in the factitious necessity of custom, but in nature itself, the unity of feeling, is everywhere and at all times observed by Shakespeare in his plays. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Indeed, the Chinese make a factitious cheese out of peas, which it is difficult to discriminate from the article of animal origin. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock This book has passages of masterly description, and is as fresh as a landscape from another world; but it seems to me that it has always had a reputation partly factitious. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Culture, if it is to be genuinely educative and not an external polish or factitious varnish, represents the vital union of information and discipline. Moral Principles in Education If a country can thus rapidly attain prodigious wealth, yet this factitious system cannot last long. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World They actually achieved a certain factitious respectability in comparison with the fresher and more active dangers afforded by the Novel. On the Vice of Novel Reading. Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. He manufactured odes with skill in the mechanism of verse, and carefully secured the fine disorder required in that form of art by factitious enthusiasm and the abuse of mythology and allegory. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. And I cannot pump up emotions to order; and if I could they would be factitious, artificial, insincere, and do me more harm than good.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John These measures were generally approved, and Arthur calculated that the more equal "distribution of the revenue would suppress every factitious cause of discontent." The History of Tasmania, Volume I The factitious exhilaration produced by uttering these beautiful sentiments did not last very long, as you may imagine. The Long Run 1916 Returned to New York, I found that the characters on the wall, so long invisible, had blazed forth, and the vast factitious wealth, like the gold of the dervish, withered and faded in a night. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War It lacks unity, because its author's mind was many-sided, and he would not suppress a portion of himself to secure a factitious unity. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. It was so unexpected a development in the young man’s character, and, with all due respect to the discretion and resisting powers of Miss Addison, so entirely gratuitous and factitious. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic The factitious barriers of rank once broken over, all early associations, whether of workshop or college, go for nought, or, rather, for what they are worth. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy We must have something new—and we create a factitious existence, a refinement of living, that the vulgar crowd has not the wherewithal to procure. The Simple Life At some point of time—probably as soon as they felt themselves strong enough to resist extrinsic pressure—all these states ceased to recruit themselves by factitious extensions of consanguinity. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society The wife, mother, and human creature were all swallowed up by the factitious character which an improper education and the selfish vanity of beauty had produced. Mary Wollstonecraft It was surely a short-sighted policy which gave to a man so constituted a factitious importance, and which made him for some years the most notorious personage in Upper Canada. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion "Well, some things have in a higher degree that one, and some have the associational or the factitious, and some the clear artistic." The Outcry He fired off a volley of redundant but gorgeously florid adjectives, what time he peeled factitious whiskers from his face and shook their stickiness from his fingers. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Of the two expedients Adoption, the factitious creation of blood-relationship, is the only one which has suggested itself to the greater part of archaic societies. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society But the whole quarrel seemed to him so trivial and so factitious that he could not believe the reality of the story was before the world. The Dictator The nest-egg may be wholly factitious and made of china, marble, chalk, stone or iron painted white; the hen does not seem to care so long as it bears some resemblance to an egg. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals The end is not violent or factitious, it is necessary and inevitable. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) He had bathed, and drunk some tea, and under the stimulation he felt the factitious vivacity of excessive fatigue. Clayhanger The revenues of the bishopric being now claimed by the crown, and the monasteries suppressed for the most part, even the factitious splendour caused by the ecclesiastical courts and inhabitants is no more. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 We cannot enter here on the questions which gather round that phrase, and which give it a factitious importance in regard to present controversies. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. But if their possession is to be prolonged by conduct, not by factitious arrangements, we must recognise this consequence, that conduct becomes subject to fresh demands and liabilities. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 This appears to me an insoluble question, and probably, even, a factitious one. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps In theory he had the bachelor’s factitious horror of a spoiled child. Clayhanger Daudet and Mark Twain are imaginative realists; their most amusing extravagance is but an exaggeration of the real thing; and they never let factitious fantasy sweep their feet off the ground. The Nabob, Volume 1 Medieval romance, in its most characteristic and most influential form, is almost as factitious and professional as modern Gothic architecture. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature An immense factitious stimulus is given to labour at the time—and thus much more labour is brought into the market. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 These are, it has been very justly said, factitious problems, imaginary difficulties which do not exist. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps In after times, in front of Richmond, we had such duty to perform, without any factitious reasons. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A year passed away; these fine friendships cooled: 't is the fate of these factitious tendernesses. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 His style, like Joseph's coat of many colors, appealed to pianists because of its factitious brilliancy. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques She bore up manfully, if I may use the word; laughed, and actually joked; but just as I handed Coco in, her factitious courage yielded, and she burst into an agony of grief. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II He felt that he loved her with a perfect love: that she was to him what no other woman had been, even in the factitious delirium of early passion. The Young Duke In these cases, it is not merely that everything is exaggerated, but everything is factitious. Tancred Or, The New Crusade The pretensions of this checked gravity which settled upon his factitious hilarity were enough to melt the hearts even of his enemies, if such a fellow could pretend to have enemies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 The selfishness created by sophistication and a factitious state of things renders such acts quite frequent, for it is more my wish to offer you distinctive traits of character than exceptions. Recollections of Europe However, as he passed the garden gate of Tamiya his eye caught the factitious sotoba standing white in the fitful moonlight. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) We are not, then, to make a factitious differentiation of set purpose in the interests of society and to the detriment of individuals. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles The members of the country corporations will play the game of a London party, to secure their factitious local importance and obtain the consequent results of their opportune services. Sketches What a chain of miserable, tame, factitious sensations seemed the whole course of his past existence. Henrietta Temple A Love Story He left the impression, however, of a man whose natural powers were checked by a trained and factitious deference to the rank of those with whom he associated. Recollections of Europe Any interest that attaches to Stella lies in the fact of its being a lively presentment of a phase of Goethe's own experience and of the world of factitious sentiment which made that experience possible. The Youth of Goethe The natural, spontaneous exercise having been forbidden, and the bad consequences of no exercise having become conspicuous,108 there has been adopted a system of factitious exercise—gymnastics. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Before he could face life again, he felt, he had to build up about him the sustaining fabric of some new and factitious faith. Phantom Wires A Novel Such verses are a spring in the desert, a gush of the true feeling, which contrasts with the strained and factitious sentiment in his earlier rhetoric, and almost forces us to love the writer. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Because the real phenomena, if admitted, would spoil the pleasant music of their thoughts, and convert its factitious harmony into a discord. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity While we concede the important rôle of economic determinism, we can not help feeling that its importance in the eyes of socialists is somewhat factitious. Applied Eugenics We look through the glittering atmosphere of place, and title, and factitious distinction, at the man himself. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 As the lip is wetted with friendly wine, the bosom expands in the generous warmth of honest enjoyment; the cold formalities of factitious station give place to undisguised welcome and open-handed cheer. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 In spite of the main incident and its consequences being historically factitious, the tale presents a vivid picture of the young King and his people, and the London of that time. A Mother's List of Books for Children The other was a factitious mound, of which I shall hereafter treat at large. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Nayland Smith, the unsuitable silk hat set right upon the back of his head, was pacing the room excitedly, his fuming pipe protruding from the tangle of factitious beard. The Devil Doctor And, if so, does he not believe that the best condition of society is that which presents divisions based upon the factitious distinctions of birth and fortune? Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions We suspect, indeed, that a part of the popularity of this class of writers is factitious. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Of this kind are the manufacture of factitious pepper, the adulterations of mustard, vinegar, cream, &c. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Raised among poor children, you never acquired those factitious, expensive tastes; never experienced those bitter envies or vain jealousies which often influence our fate fatally. A Cardinal Sin Lies were unknown In those times, nor had the sheep's fleece yet learned to assume factitious hues; and my soul has remained unchanged from that day to this. The Well of Saint Clare The colonel, in his first hours at Quebec, had bought at a bazaar of Indian wares the photograph of an Indian warrior in a splendor of factitious savage panoply. A Chance Acquaintance Now these are all arbitrary and factitious distinctions upon which to found so profound a social difference as that which exists in American, or, at least in New York, society. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Many thousand pipes of spoiled cyder are annually brought hither from the country, for the purpose of being converted into factitious Port wine. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy It insured that they should be fully developed, and should not flag; for it preserved his full command over them by delivering him from the factitious burdens of the imagination. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy The more rusty the tenor, the more wrinkled the prima donna, the greater the need of an army of iron-fisted, brazen-visaged hirelings to get artificial applause, and inoculate the public with their factitious enthusiasm. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 All factitious colouring disappeared—death rose like night, and, protected by its murky shadows the blush of modesty, the reserve of pride, the decorum of prudery were frequently thrown aside as useless veils. The Last Man The friends of Mr. Adams rested his claims for the presidency on no factitious qualities. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States However, there is a sort of native white pepper, produced on a species of the pepper plant, which is much better than the factitious, and indeed little inferior to the common black pepper. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Many say that it is a factitious power from which one comes at last to deliver one's self by resisting it. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism As for the Emperor, who could scarcely be deceived, he had but a few moments of a factitious joy. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 The short black mustache which he wore was also factitious. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor No walls of brick and mortar cramp one; no factitious distinctions mould your habit. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons In ascending from the simple and rude gastronomy of the savage, they have brought the art of cookery to such an excess of luxury as to enervate society by merely factitious appetites. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 Nature itself is comparatively pure; all that we desire is the removal of the factitious matter that the vice of fashion, evil hearts, and infamous desires, graft upon it. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art It was a factitious strength, the restlessness of incipient insanity. Romance Now I do not mean to say, that this is a purely factitious and ill-grounded employment of the metaphysical sciences. Practical Essays The factitious ties of wealth, of place, of reputation, vanish from his bleared eyes; and the earnest heart, deep under all, craves only heartiness! Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons Even should he succeed in forgetting some of these factitious details, the result will still be stiff enough, so hard is it to re-adjust one's attitude after manipulating the T-square. Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise He invented, he created, in these improbable manors, factitious horizons, obtained by means of theatrical artifices, changes of view, painted forests, fabled empires, in which the leaves of the trees became precious stones. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Thus they too often adapt them to their use by imparting to them a factitious sense foreign to their proper scope and meaning. Companion to the Bible I now proceed to the objects that are more or less factitious. Practical Essays Their evident feeling—and evidently genuine feeling—is feeling for the factitious, for the manufactured, for what the French call the confectionné. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Jewels as a portable form of concentrated costliness have been in favor from the earliest ages, but now they are losing their factitious value through the advance of invention. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Is it fair to condemn severely a young painter for trying to give his picture a factitious interest, or even for trying to conceal beneath striking wrappers the essential mediocrity of his wares? Art To his secondary and factitious position of delegate from the King of Naples, he virtually sacrificed the consideration due to his inalienable character of representative of the King and State of Great Britain. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Sweep away their gossamer fabrics of factitious religion, and they would catch no more flies. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 His picture—which is always nevertheless a picture—is as inconceivable, as traditional in its inspiration, as factitious as you like; his figures are always sapiently and often happily exact. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture In one of the earliest of Herschel's memoirs, we find, that the apparent sidereal diameters are proved to be for the greater part factitious, even when the best made telescopes are used. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men A factitious metal, consisting of copper and zinc. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. When she turned once more into the street, she had already set herself gravely, with a strange and factitious composure, to face her life. A Comedy of Masks A Novel But Catholicism invested them with a factitious consequence, representing them as inheriting peculiar rights and privileges by ecclesiastical descent from the apostles. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Native or foreign, real or factitious as the inspiration of French classicism may be, the sense of style and of that perfection of style which we know as elegance is invariably noticeable in its productions. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture The natural, spontaneous exercise having been forbidden, and the bad consequences of no exercise having become conspicuous, there has been adopted a system of factitious exercise—gymnastics. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library A transparent, solid, brittle, factitious body, produced by fusing sand with an alkali. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Yet the hair-dresser seemed to find in that very dependence his best happiness, and to have built up a factitious self-respect from the very ruin of true dignity. Idolatry A Romance So strangely vivid those fancies were, so brightly definite, as about to take visible form, to move with factitious life, to play some unholy drama upon the stage of dreams! Some Chinese Ghosts It is surely intellectual, classic, even factitious in conception as well as in execution. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture They could have no relation but to factitious rules of decorum. Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman Hence those who create factitious unity of creed render these fructifications impossible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 This constitution of mind is beneficial: the Irishman seldom or never hangs himself, because he is capable of too much real feeling to permit himself to become the slave of that which is factitious. The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three His mind turns towards combinations, arrangements, legal or factitious organisations. Essays on Political Economy I had some difficulty in making myself understood; this perpetual see-saw of nature and art which enshrouds æsthetic dialectics as in a Scotch mist seems curiously factitious to the truly imaginative mind. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Men of genius, whose great occupation is to be conversant with the inspirations of Nature, made up a factitious one among themselves, and assumed that they could operate without the intervention of the occult original. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions As if the disembodied, in the light of truth, by which they are surrounded and pierced, could be pleased with our make-believe, or tolerate the folly of our factitious phrase! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 He was possessed of a factitious ease and self-possession that was almost aggression. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Third, enjoyment of certain more or less factitious “comforts of civilization.” The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Lack of ambition is not an American fault, but it is too often an ambition that regards irrelevant and factitious honors rather than those to which it may legitimately and laudably aspire. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 And what if men of genius, relinquishing their habits, could do this violence to their nature, should we not lose the original for a factitious genius, and spoil one race without improving the other? Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Like most men who have risen to distinction in the United States, Judge Field commenced his career without the advantages of wealth, and he prosecuted it without the factitious aids of family influence or patronage. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State It is difficult to see anything in the factitious but delightful brilliance of this very characteristic swagger that could have endangered the book's reception. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 They are factitious forms, showy spectacles, glittering effigies. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 To clear-headed outsiders, there was something factitious in this parade of enthusiasm for Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics You have as yet acquired no factitious tastes; you still retain the power of enjoying the simple pleasures of innocent childhood. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends The battle of the Boyne, which from its peculiar religious colouring has obtained a somewhat factitious celebrity, may be taken as the date at which the English crown was firmly fixed on William's head. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union These factitious plaudits, tricks, and manoeuvres of players, singers, dancers, and orators, in truth, deceive no one, he maintained; while they make very happy, nevertheless, all those who have recourse to them. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character "The ministers," he said, "will depend on the Crown not the Crown on ministers" if George but showed "his resolution to break all factitious connections and confederacies." Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham The irony is factitious and forced; the sentiment unappealing; the coarseness quite destitute of Rabelaisian geniality; and the nomenclature may be sampled from "the Countess of Liberal" and "Lord Beef." The English Novel Human feelings, it is true, are the same every where; but we have more of the artificial and factitious in us than we are aware of. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations An air of factitious geniality pervaded the dining-room. Septimus The complete suspension of applause, genuine or factitious, must result in the exceeding depression of the player. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Inscriptions, artificial rocks, factitious ruins, are scattered lavishly, with artlessness and conviction.... Over Strand and Field There is something extremely amusing to me in the number of factitious wants, the loads of imaginary conveniences, but real incumbrances, with which the luxurious are apt to burthen themselves. Bracebridge Hall But the cleverest women hide their real selves behind a factitious smile. The Dangerous Age And the sentiment in it is not so much human as French, a factitious idealism in depravity which one associates peculiarly with Paris. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory It is an anticipation of the factitious gloom of Byron, not of the nerve-shattered gloom of Dostoevsky. The Art of Letters The factitious taste for the shoe is only a reflection of that for pretty feet. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy At first sight, it seems paradoxical to define modesty as an aspiration towards truth in love; it seems, on the contrary, to be an altogether factitious feeling. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The battle of the Boyne, which from its peculiar religious coloring has obtained a somewhat factitious celebrity, may be taken as the date at which the English crown was firmly fixed on William's head. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 There is something extremely amusing to me in the number of factitious wants, the loads of imaginary conveniences, but real encumbrances, with which the luxurious are apt to burthen themselves. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Our young men are not attracted to the German universities by such factitious considerations as cheapness of living or the acquisition of the language, but by sympathy with German methods and academic liberty. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 All powerful Nature, how dost thou lead me into thy heart and rebuke every factitious feeling, every thought of pride, which has severed me from the Universe! Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II To you who have a personal interest and—may I say? affection for me, the girl's exercise assumes a factitious value, but to the public the matter is otherwise and ought to be otherwise. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Yet I do not remember a stronger conviction of the superiority enjoyed by true over factitious greatness, than that which flashed on my mind, when I was told this fact. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland The feeling of fatigue from overwork is natural; the repugnance of caste to manual labour is factitious. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Mingled with the factitious mass, there was a large spice of sincerity which sanctified the whole composition, and restored the social body to sanity, health, and increased strength and vigor. A Collection of College Words and Customs No; to multiply factitious desires, to stimulate depraved appetites, to invent unnatural wants, to heap up incense on the shrine of luxury, and accumulate expedients of selfish and ruinous profusion. Headlong Hall There was a note of intimacy and of challenge in Lady Massulam's demeanour that pleased Mr. Prohack immensely, and caused him to see that the romance of Frinton was neither factitious nor at an end. Mr. Prohack There is an intrusion of what seems like factitious melodrama instead of that tissue of events which one expects from a stern necessitarian. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Our prospective regard to the comforts of our declining years points to a real interest; our feelings as to the disposal of the body after death are purely factitious and sentimental. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics He abandoned himself to the music, yielding to it, accepting its ideals, interpreting it as though it moved him, until in the end it did produce in him a sort of factitious emotion. The Pretty Lady Lois's tone and attitude tore fatally the whole factitious 'Parisian' tradition, as her hand had torn the wrapper. The Roll-Call Its romantic side has made it familiar to all Americans, and given it a factitious importance. George Washington, Volume I The crowded and factitious gaiety of the place actually annoyed him. The Regent Still, our moral approbation or disapprobation is disinterested, and has a factitious independence. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics It goes so far that we are tempted at times to think of it as a factitious gloom. Old and New Masters After a period of shallow sleep he woke up in the morning factitiously refreshed as the train was rumbling slowly over the high-level bridge. The Roll-Call And to my mind, all discussion about Good is for this reason rather factitious and unreal. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue I will not cling to her falsely; Nothing factitious or forced shall impair the old happy relation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 The factitious and unnatural life she had lived so many years had seriously undermined the stamina of her constitution; and, after the birth of her third child, her health failed altogether. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel The Hibernians get a factitious reputation for antiquity by saying that Eve married an Irishman after Adam died, and that is about as much claim as your European nobles have to respectability. A Roman Singer Now a radically democratic system, like that of New England, at once sweeps all factitious reliances of this kind from the soul. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 The form will seem from this point of view something factitious and artificial given to the stuff, not indeed by themselves, but by one like themselves, and in their interest. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue No need now to dress my voice in the tones of factitious tragedy—no need to lengthen my face artificially. Nancy TRUTH, like that which animates every line of the 'Empyrean,' needs no factitious attractions. Round the Block "I think so," said he; "the laws of the mental world, in my judgment, require that your recovery should follow the period concerning which your factitious memory is brightest." Who Goes There? In an article in the first number of this magazine, the financial fluctuations in this country are ascribed to the alternate inflation and collapse of our factitious paper-money. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 Accordingly, pure art and pure artifice, sincere creation and sheer fabrication, flow; from the mixture of these, or from any mixture of natural and necessary with factitious expression, comes embarrassment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 "Do you mean to say," cry I, my factitious smile vanishing, and flashing out into honest, open passion, "that you mean to deny that you were there?" Nancy This perverted men's notions of right and wrong, by imparting factitious value to a literary and historical proposition, "Jesus is the Messiah," as though that were or could be religion. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed An immense bin of the material occupied a corner of the cellar and furnished the means of imparting a factitious homogeneity to the contents of the cask. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta Manners are factitious, and grow out of circumstances as well as out of character. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice There is no longer in France clergy, or noblesse, or third estate; the distinction is factitious, merely representative and without real meaning; the monarch speaks, all else are people, and all else obey. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 If he had emerged from among the laurestines, depressed, and vainly struggling for a factitious cheerfulness, I think I could have understood it. Nancy I certainly here feel myself delivered from the danger of factitious sin. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed King Louis XIII. was growing weary of Simon Vouet's factitious lustre; he wanted Le Poussin to go to Paris. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 Manners are partly factitious, but, mainly, there must be capacity for culture in the blood. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Every effort of the French governors who succeeded one another only too rapidly in Canada was directed towards maintaining the natural or factitious barriers between the two territories. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 This is what had become of the factitious and ephemeral unity of that Empire of the West which Charlemagne had wished to put in the place of the Roman empire. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 All the factitious strength, which had made him loud and violent in his delirium, was gone; he seemed as weak as a sick child. Fenton's Quest Madame de Stael was forcibly struck by the factitious tone of the best society in London, and wished very much to have an opportunity of judging of that of the second class. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 It is, however, a high merit in George Eliot, that she does not resort to factitious elements of interest in her books, but works honestly, conscientiously, and with a pure purpose. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy It would be of interest, as contrasted with the later growth of the sentimental element in literature, which speedily exhibits the influence of factitious feeling, of self-conscious effort, and of ambitious display. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 The worst that can be said of them is that their inspiration was factitious, and that their motives had been handled better in the age of Greek sincerity. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts I woke up from one of those dozes which, after a sleepless night, give the brief illusion of complete rest, all my senses sharpened, and my mind factitiously active. Sacred and Profane Love When I entered Edinburgh College the students were tolerably free from any of those clubs or parties into which some factitious subject—often a whim—divides them. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII As for the commercial towns, taken in connection with the upper classes, these were little more than so many reflections of English feeling, exaggerated and rendered still more factitious, by distance. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Him, skill'd alike great Nature's genuine form, Or Fashion's light factitious traits to trace, The scene confess'd;—with glowing pathos warm, Or gaily sportive in familiar grace. Poems (1828) She realized afterward that there had been something factitious about her tranquillity. Mary Wollaston The elevation which he aims to produce is real, not factitious,—absolute, not relative. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Here all is clearly made out with strokes of the pencil, by fair, not by factitious means. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits His book too was spreading and throwing out tendrils, and he worked at it in the white heat of energy which his factitious exhilaration produced. The Custom of the Country He must—he does in these days—colour Nature with the records of his own mind, and bestow a factitious life and interest on her by making her reflect his own joy or sorrow. Literary and General Lectures and Essays Such a relation is dangerously factitious and unnatural; and the practical moral is that the less said at home about specific family affection the better. Treatise on Parents and Children The sovereignty of the Union is factitious, that of the States is natural, and derives its existence from its own simple influence, like the authority of a parent. Democracy in America — Volume 1 Within the bounds of his epical scheme, which was always factitious, every person was so natural that his characters seemed like the characters of biography rather than of fiction. Emile Zola He could picture the sudden decomposure of her firm placid features, to which a lifelong mastery over trifles had given an air of factitious authority. The Age of Innocence This is notably the case in seasons of scarcity, when the high price of provisions is always more or less factitious. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery The effort of rising, and of composing his face to meet her, gave him a factitious sense of self-control. The Reef He had been living in a factitious world wherein his emotions were the sycophants of his vanity, and it was with instinctive relief that he felt its ruins crash about his head. The Touchstone Without factitious support, man is sure to come to earth again beyond that distance. Walden But there she stood, pale and drawn, yet radiating the factitious energy of one who has passed beyond fatigue. The Age of Innocence I have known many men who, besides any factitious advantages that I may possess, had money and brains into the bargain; but somehow they have never disturbed my good-humor. The American "If I were to be the happy possessor of a likeness of Miss Blanchard," he added, "I should prefer to have it in no factitious disguise!" Roderick Hudson His sentiments had lost all their factitious complexity. The Touchstone Whatever humanity I might conjure up against it was all factitious, and concerned my philosophy more than my feelings. Walden For his own soothing he kept up a factitious belief in her. Jude the Obscure He threw out biting remarks on Lydgate's tricks, worthy only of a quack, to get himself a factitious reputation with credulous people. Middlemarch It may be that the growing celebrity of the book imparted by degrees a kind of factitious renown to its author. The Art of War People build their faith on Christ, as a rock,—a factitious aid. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Walden I can not tell how I suffered at the sight of that factitious joy; there was, in that grief which crazed her, something more sad than tears and more bitter than reproaches. The Confession of a Child of the Century As Eve uttered this, both the young men involuntarily turned their eyes towards her, each thinking that a being so fair stood less in need than common of the factitious aid of ornaments. Homeward Bound or, the Chase Kirkwood, perplexed, put the pipe in his pocket, and assumed a factitious look of resignation, regarding her askance with that whimsical twist of his eyebrows. The Black Bag Hence the diamond reflects half as much more light as a factitious gem in similar circumstances; to which must be added its great transparency, and the excellent polish it is capable of. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation From time to time I have known, beyond the possibility of deception, that the kindred spirit was still my companion, my own inalienable possession, in spite of all factitious ties, of all physical intervention. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Then in the midst of that factitious joy, she would turn her back and I could see her shudder until the flowers she had placed in her hair trembled. The Confession of a Child of the Century Virginia examined Miss Portman's countenance with a species of artless curiosity and interest, that was not restrained by factitious politeness. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Mr. Calendar was furthermore possessed of a polished bald spot, girdled with a tonsure of silvered hair—circumstances which lent some factitious distinction to a personality otherwise commonplace. The Black Bag To follow them in every absurd variety of the mode, either in dress or, equipage, was his first ambition; and all their factitious wants appeared to him objects of the first necessity. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 And yet the halo is not altogether factitious. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Perhaps the consciousness that the day's work was in reality over lent a little factitious energy to my tired legs. The Forest Without force or any factitious excitements, the taste for knowledge, and the habits of application, were induced by example, and confirmed by sympathy. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 For us to meet, would not be more contrary to the factitious dignity of rank, than shocking to the simple and unadulterated feelings of our nature. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian Lydia had learned to distinguish between real and factitious silences; and under Gannett's she now detected a hum of speech to which her own thoughts made breathless answer. The Greater Inclination A studied and factitious pronunciation, which requires perpetual attention and imposes perpetual constraint, is exceedingly disgusting. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 But this factitious bucolicism is pervaded by a pathos, which, like volcanic heat, has fused into a new compound the dilapidated debris of the Theocritean world. Milton The sovereignty of the Union is factitious, that of the states is natural, and derives its existence from its own simple influence, like the authority of a parent. American Institutions and Their Influence It requires a peculiar development of the genius and sympathies, rare among men of factitious life, who are not men enough to revive with force and beauty the thoughts and scenes of childhood. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. A philosophy of religion, apart from the comparative science of religions, and apart also from a disinterested and general philosophy of history, must always be more or less arbitrary and factitious. Amiel's Journal It seems to me to go deeper, to be something innate, and not merely factitious. Among My Books First Series A factitious taste had taken the place of honest and simple likings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics The controversy between Religion and Science still rages, in spite of the declaration of Professor Huxley that in his opinion the conflict between the two is entirely factitious. Books Fatal to Their Authors It is a young girl who not only does not like "classical" music, but does not even profess to, which I hold to be virtuous in factitious times. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis Why is it that we find so large an element of factitious grandeur, mingled with true grandeur, in this drama of 1640, from which the whole dramatic development of monarchical France was to spring? Amiel's Journal You feel, in looking through the book, that its interest is in great part factitious. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions They are speculations; they attack us from without, exploiting a factitious enthusiasm, and exhausting the soil in one short season, so they may only carry off the present fatness of the land. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics How could Thackeray not think Swift a misanthrope and Sterne a factitious sentimentalist? Literary and Social Essays He spoke with a factitious vivacity which almost gave a sense of chill. Bertram Cope's Year "Ay, ay," was thrown back from a clear voice, that swept across the water with a fullness that needed no factitious aid to render it audible. The Pilot This we believe can be done by a rigid adherence to justice, by fidelity to human rights, by loving and honoring man as man, and rejecting all arbitrary, factitious distinctions. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs Strangely enough, it is very well worth doing, for, though it is even more factitiously Moorish than the Alcazar, it is of almost as great beauty and of greater dignity. Familiar Spanish Travels Power has left our order; this is not an age for factitious aristocracy. Coningsby An hour passed before her excitement—an excitement kept up, perhaps, rather factitiously—was calmed, and she trusted herself back in her own room. Bertram Cope's Year "Barker?" said the minister, with a cold thrill of instant recognition, but playing with a factitious uncertainty till he could catch his breath in the presence of the calamity. The Minister's Charge What honour do I injure that is not factitious? Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 These current dramas, these current conflicts seem scarcely less factitious. Mankind in the Making You would find a Locofoco majority as much addicted to Class Legislation as a factitious aristocracy. Coningsby She stared, with the factitious interest of one who is very nervously awaiting an encounter, at the titles, and presently deciphered the words, 'Victor Hugo,' on each of the thin volumes. Hilda Lessways Who but a madman would sweep away civilization with its factitious and remediable evils for barbarism with its untutored impulses and animal life? Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam The factitious indignation will fall without doubt; but cotton remains: at the bottom, the South counts much more upon cotton than free trade to bring the Old World into her interests. The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. And this nature, as they present it, is really not nature at all, but a factitious admiration for certain isolated aspects of the universe conventionally regarded as "natural." Mankind in the Making None sooner than the Parisians can draw the line between factitious notoriety and honest fame; or sooner distinguished between the counterfeit celebrity and the standard reputation. Coningsby In a recent survey of Mr; Cooper's works, by one of his admirers, it is intimated that the reputation of this work may have been, in some degree factitious. Precaution The effect of all factitious systems is to render the feelings subservient to expediency. The Bravo Its plan, accepted with great difficulty by a factitious majority, never appeared to have much chance of adoption. The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. "I know it is a work expressly established to sustain one of the most factitious political systems that ever existed, and that it sacrifices every high quality to attain its end." Home as Found Mr. Melton had never been there before, except at Christmas, with the house full of visitors and factitious gaiety. Coningsby Jamaica certainly had fallen greatly away from her period of temporary and factitious prosperity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 The man had learned to smother every natural impulse in the assumed and factitious duties of his office. The Bravo But this feeling, if it be more than slight and transient, if it seriously influence our conduct, is somewhat factitious or somewhat morbid. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 Well, to be sincere, I shall say that your women live under a system too sophisticated and factitious to give fair play to common sense, at all times. Home as Found I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies, and checking the enterprise of a nation. Coningsby Fabricate, fabulous, facetious, factitious, fallacious, fallible, fastidious, fatuous, feasible, feculence, fecundity, felicitous, felonious, fetid, feudal, fiducial, filament, filtrate, finesse, flaccid, flagitious, floriculture, florid, fluctuate, foible, forfeiture, fortuitous, fractious, franchise, frangible, frontal, froward, furtive. The Century Vocabulary Builder They were drilled to a factitious humility, prone to find utterance in expressions of self-depreciation and self-scorn, which one may often judge unwisely, when he condemns them as insincere. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century The peasantry, indeed, may be said to have gained by the exchange; and, in a situation, in which all factitious distinctions were of less worth than individual prowess and efficiency, they rose in political consequence. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 It was useless to appeal to elevated sentiments when happiness consisted in an outside, factitious life. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Every factitious precept and conventional law was now overthrown; these poetical Protestants broke away entirely from the yoke of tradition. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Accordingly, here, too, it claims perfection also for factitious religious rites. Apology of the Augsburg Confession As for the Cyprus stole, its location alone gives it a factitious importance. Assyrian Historiography Now these are all arbitrary and factitious distinctions upon which to found so profound a social difference as that which exists in American, or, at least, in New York society. The Potiphar Papers But all this is the necessary attendant on a factitious state of society. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The entire structure of their social life reposed on feelings, and not on a factitious conception, on a work of art. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller The American Jew and I took a caleche, a little two-wheeled local carriage, driven by a lively Frenchman with a factitious passion for death-spots and churches. Letters from America Yet, however great be our natural desire to convince others of beauty, we want their conviction to be as sincere as our own: we do not want it to be factitious,—suggested or dragooned. The Principles of Aesthetics From this to the fabrication of a factitious human fossil was, it is suggested, but a short step. The Antiquity of Man But when men are earnest and true, uncorrupted by the vices of self-interest, and unseduced by the pleasures of factitious life, then even nature, in all her wildness, is a teacher and an inspiration. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. He has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals; and is so nervous, by factitious life, that he thinks, the more barbarous man is, the better he is. Representative Men One of their incomprehensible customs was that at certain intervals the tribe divided itself into two factitious divisions, each headed by various chiefs, and gambled furiously for many days, one party against the other. Letters from America Closely allied to freshness are spontaneity and inner necessity, the signs of a genuine, as opposed to a factitious, expression. The Principles of Aesthetics Focussed in books or plays to a factitious unity, the rays are sadly scattered in life. Without Prejudice Culture, if it is to be genuine and educative, and not an external polish or factitious varnish, represents the vital union of information and discipline. How to Study and Teaching How to Study Having no factitious weight of dignity to carry, the Montagues steadily improved their condition from the day they landed, and they were never more vigorous or prosperous than at the date of this narrative. The Gilded Age, Part 3. The one fact was that there were two Paul Moles—one real and one factitious. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel They control a large proportion of the newspapers and magazines, and are thus able to distort facts, protect themselves from attack, and even stir up a factitious distrust of would-be reformers. Problems of Conduct He acquires a factitious fame and an artificial value by printing only a few copies, thus making his paper and print sought after rather than his matter. Without Prejudice Looking at the subject in all its bearings we may count three varieties of thirst: latent, factitious and permanent. The Physiology of Taste Nothing could more conclusively show the factitious origin of this delineation and its worthlessness as an exposition of the Verrazzano discovery. The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America It was the factitious Paul Mole who stole the ring and who stood for one moment gazing into clever citizen Chauvelin's eyes. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel "Well, mater," he said, in a voice of factitious calm, "I've got it." The Old Wives' Tale It was a large class, ultimately reaching 353 and breaking the record of the Edinburgh classes without having recourse to the factitious assistance proposed in the letter of May 16. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 He certainly was not justified in making the slightest expression of factitious affection. The American Senator My sentiment and my reason combat more than ever the idea of factitious distinctions, the inequality of conditions imposed as a right acquired by some, as a loss deserved by others. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters But that same factitious Paul Mole had disappeared in the crowd even before your colleague had recovered his presence of mind. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel This melancholy was factitious, was less than transient foam on the deep sea of her joy. The Old Wives' Tale One is not mocked by any factitious gaiety. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel My spirits, factitious as they were, never flagged. Basil When he arrived in the bedroom where Hale was lying groaning, Jennings had the factitious strength of the spirit. The Secret Passage Nevertheless, he felt anxious and nervy; he could not comprehend the apathy assumed by the factitious Mole. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Approaching her with factitious ease, he kissed her through her veil, which she then lifted with an impulsive movement, and he kissed her again, more ardently, perceiving that her ardour was exceeding his. The Old Wives' Tale Now that he found there was to be no struggle he understood how largely his zeal had of late depended on such factitious incentives. The Valley of Decision I could not tell why, but this bit of talk between her father and mother seemed to take all the factitious spirits out of Phillis. Cousin Phillis The jealousy of that other lover, for whom these words and images and refined ways of sentiment were first devised, is the secret here of a borrowed, perhaps factitious colour and heat. Aesthetic Poetry Here it is that his romanticist origins reappear rankly like weeds, giving us factitious melodrama that accords ill with his sober harvest of actuality. Balzac But before he had walked half a square, the factitious energy inspired by drink deserted him. File No. 113 And that polish of manners, that studied and factitious refinement, which is to compensate for the heartlessness or the stupidity we are doomed to—is my host of last night deficient in that refinement? Sybil, or the Two Nations Sometimes such revolts are factitious, for political purposes. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 ‘What a funny thing!’ said the lady, with a wretchedly factitious smile. The Hand of Ethelberta Those writers are particularly useful, in my opinion, who make man feel for man, independent of the station he fills, or the drapery of factitious sentiments. Vindication of the Rights of Woman The sound of M. Fauvel's voice inspired the cashier with the factitious energy of a great crisis. File No. 113 It was a pursuit that seemed to him more real than the life of saloons, full of affectation, perverted ideas, and factitious passions. Sybil, or the Two Nations Too often a play upon words or alliteration takes the place of inspiration, and ideas give way to factitious combinations. Rashi ‘Want some bread and butter, do ’ee?’ he said, with factitious hardness. Life's Little Ironies The wife, mother, and human creature, were all swallowed up by the factitious character, which an improper education, and the selfish vanity of beauty, had produced. Vindication of the Rights of Woman Real character is not one thing, but a thousand things; actual qualities do not conform to any factitious standard in the mind, but rest upon their own truth and nature. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Even the maternal passion in Mrs. Penniman would have been romantic and factitious, and Catherine was not constituted to inspire a romantic passion. Washington Square Isabel's cheek burned when she asked herself if she had really married on a factitious theory, in order to do something finely appreciable with her money. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 At the next he thought with factitious solemnity: 'Yes, my boy! Five Tales Public spirit must be nurtured by private virtue, or it will resemble the factitious sentiment which makes women careful to preserve their reputation, and men their honour. Vindication of the Rights of Woman What does not fall in with their own bias and mode of composition strikes them as common-place and factitious. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners In conferring grades and passing examinations, it arranges and overburdens the school program of study; hence, it incites in others what it practices at home, the over-training of youth, and a factitious, hot-house education. The Modern Regime, Volume 2 They no longer stir for any purpose; riots are wholly factitious. The French Revolution - Volume 2 Not only was the outward factitious but, again, the inward; there was a certain prescribed mode of feeling and of thinking, of living and of dying. The Ancient Regime He was a tall and naturally powerful man—almost as strongly built as his son, with long arms like his, which were dangerous even yet in such a moment of factitious strength and real excitement. Robert Falconer The whole passage is excellent, and, I should think, conclusive against the general and factitious style of art on which he insists so much at other times. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners She had a keen appreciation for genuine values, but none whatever for factitious ones. The Women of the French Salons Obliged, meanwhile, to see these young creatures, placed, by the mere factitious circumstance of wealth, in possession of happiness which they had not had time either to earn or to appreciate. The Heir of Redclyffe The interest most women feel in politics is secondary, factitious, engrafted on them by the men nearest to them. Female Suffrage: a Letter to the Christian Women of America We no longer distinguish the insidious and factitious but indispensable line which separates the years that have gone by from the years that are to come. The Unknown Guest But this is also characteristic of the age, and serves as a contrast to the airy and factitious character which is the principal figure in the plot. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners In this versatility she has been likened to Mme. de Genlis, whom she resembled also in her moral teaching and her factitious sensibility. The Women of the French Salons You will ask what my purpose was in cultivating this factitious despondency. The Story of a Bad Boy "There is one point in American manners, that is very good," said Harry: "among our very best people we find a great deal of true simplicity; simplicity of the right sort; real, not factitious." Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 As the words passed his lips, his factitious spirits deserted him. Armadale The passing emotion was a thrill produced by factitious habits, while the more settled opinion which remained was the offspring of nature and principles. Pathfinder; or, the inland sea She could easily have made a mark upon her time through her intellectual gifts without the factitious aid of the men with whom her name is associated. The Women of the French Salons It is a grievous thing that the populace should have compelled musicians to adapt their expression to words, to factitious emotions; but then they were not otherwise intelligible to the vulgar. Massimilla Doni He paused, for his strength, which was only factitious, born of the excitement that Marguerite's presence had called forth, was threatening to give way. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel But you"—addressing the factitious landscape painter—"must go up at once and rig up that easel of yours near the table and be ready. The Trees of Pride It has been held by some that the Haggadah contains no popular legends, that it is wholly a factitious, academic product. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 We fall under the glamour of the luminous but factitious atmosphere that surrounded them. The Women of the French Salons His science and his incessant care had given factitious life to this frail creature, which he cultivated as a florist cultivates an exotic plant. The Hated Son She coated her cheeks so thickly with rouge that the wrinkles were scarcely visible; but her eyes, far from gaining a factitious brilliancy from this strong carmine, looked all the more dim. Domestic Peace That was the right idea: to keep sloughing them off, throwing overboard the unreal and factitious Gissings, paring them down until he discovered the genuine and inalienable creature. Where the Blue Begins |
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