| 单词 | littleness |
| 例句 | They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is the country of littleness, where words first fell into your mouths. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Thus, when visiting Versailles, he described the palace as a "huge heap of littleness". Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z There is, though, a problem with the form: for all its littleness, it packs an enormous punch of presumption. The Lost Art of Losing by Gregory Norminton – review 2012-07-10T12:12:01Z In fact, it is its littleness which is the problem. The Lost Art of Losing by Gregory Norminton – review 2012-07-10T12:12:01Z The banal truth is that, as with every age, the Victorian period was a mix of greatness and littleness. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z These postulates take form in the attributes that seem so clearly to characterize littleness: Not made by great men: Enter the Little Man theory of history 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z “God loves littleness, and through it he loves to accomplish great things,” Francis told priests, nuns and bishops from around the region during a Saturday encounter in the cathedral. Francis opens clinic on 1st papal visit to Mongolia. He says it’s about charity not conversion 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z In his homily, Francis urged the faithful to focus on the “littleness” of Jesus, and remember that he came into the world poor, without even a proper crib. Pope celebrates Christmas Eve Mass as virus surges in Italy 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z “These guys are galactic deal-makers, transaction merchants, not people who face the extraordinary littleness of life,” said Bart Naylor of Public Citizen. How Goldman Sachs made it back into Washington’s inner circle 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Clinton is “defined by littleness,” Will said, adding, “He is the least consequential president” since Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. A consequential president 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z It is true we are little but we are as God made us, perfect in our littleness.” The real Tom Thumb: History's smallest superstar 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Those churches, he wrote, expressed “an emotion, the deepest man ever felt — the struggle of his own littleness to grasp the infinite.” MONT-ST.-MICHEL. Journal: Restoring the Sea and the Romance to Mont-St.-Michel 2013-04-23T23:38:39Z Oh, how often does that desire to become a great man render one a little man!--how often is it the source of littleness in those who might otherwise be great indeed! Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z And when one is violently wrenched out of his place, let him accept it as a Divine interposition to save him from eternal littleness. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Unaccustomed to restraint, vigorous manhood asserted itself in all its greatness and its littleness, whether in wreaking cruel vengeance upon the defenceless or in offering itself joyfully as a sacrifice to humanity. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z He said: "It is true we are little but we are as God made us, perfect in our littleness," he wrote. The real Tom Thumb: History's smallest superstar 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z There lay the greatness of the heroic epos for readers of old,—the sense of human littleness, the melancholy of broken aspirations, swallowed up in the transcending sublimity of man's endurance and daring. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z In very truth, man is strangely presumptuous to desire to measure infinite greatness by the foot-rule of his infinite littleness. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z The sublime results to which this discovery has led should suffice to console us for our extreme littleness, and the rank which it assigns to the earth. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe Ð the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The first is intellectual blindness; the second, vicious excuses; the third, greed of vain-glory; the fourth, an argument based on envy; the fifth and last, littleness of soul, that is, pusillanimity. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z It is idle to oppose to this conviction the fact of the littleness of the terrestrial globe. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; and he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z Go forth in silence and alone, This glorious sight to scan, And bid the humbled spirit own The littleness of man.” Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z And, averting his eyes in shame, seeing now all the littleness, all the baseness of his position, "Has he--married her?" he continued. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Whenever during the day, we shall be conscious of our littleness, give us at that moment the vision of our possible largeness. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z The immense conceptions of science dwarf these petty conceptions of mythology to a littleness which reduces them beneath consideration, which in our days reduces them even beneath contempt. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Just makes a man feel like soaring, though never before so conscious of his littleness and downright insignificance. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z He has a littleness of mind, which I have held in contempt since my infancy. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z The Kingdom of God—the Soul—the moral law—is within us: within us, as supreme, supra-personal and infinite intelligences, even amid all our littleness and finitude. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Keep us from all littleness; may we not be turned aside by things that are insignificant and unworthy. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Apart from this want felt in his works, there is a littleness in his aspect as a character. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z If it is an abode of pleasure, we live in the satiety and littleness of soul which such a life brings. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Many agreeable new books are lying about before me; but while my head is so full of Lamartine and the Holy Land, everything seems to produce on me the effect of platitude and littleness. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z But the distance, though short, steadied the girl's mind and enabled her to taste that infinity of the night, that immensity of nature, which, like a fathomless ocean, islands the littleness of our lighted homes. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z No. The wretched Doreen was crushed by an overwhelming sense of her own littleness and failure. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z It makes one feel his own littleness and insignificance. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z They loved to paint the sufferings of the lost, the worthlessness of human life, the littleness of mankind, and the beauties of an unknown world. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z I cannot understand the world—cannot comprehend the frivolities and littlenesses. Queen Victoria As I Knew Her 2012-01-22T03:00:23.263Z The thought both of the dignity and the littleness of our mortal state is ever present to the mind of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I felt the great wild pity, and a sense of terror, and a sense of horror, and a sense of awful littleness and loneliness among a great empty space. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z And yet not all the littleness of its present surroundings can wholly rob the old Cathedral of its majesty. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z It is frequently confused with servility or littleness. Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z Get at the littleness of it—get at the littleness of it. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z The power of these conceptions is also seen in the poet's deep sense of the littleness of human life. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This declaration filled my mind with a feeling of littleness and limitation that ended by humbling me. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z What lessons on the greatness and littleness of man have been read under the shadow of these giant columns. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z It did more than even this, for it caused them to feel their own littleness, and the might of the Majesty that made the world. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Get at the littleness of it—get at the littleness of it. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z I banished all idea of attacking D'Entrangues through his wife, wondering at the littleness of spirit which had ever conceived such a thought. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z The Pilgrim fathers founded the United States of America in order to publish the greatness of God and the littleness of man. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z "Not the cursed littlenesses," as he expressed himself; "no, only to have trust as the groundwork of everything--trust, and nothing but trust." The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z Largeness or littleness, or high or low, Has but to breathe, and straightway he is known. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z It was an hour when the littleness of life did not present itself; the mind being refreshed with rest, was prepared to be filled with enlarged ideas. The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z Hannibal had certainly, in his lifetime, shown proofs of greatness, though, in the manner of his death, he gave evidence of lamentable littleness. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Their descendants either ignore or condemn one of their number because he does not extol the greatness of man and the littleness of God. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Wishing to dazzle me, he laid bare his littleness, and I remember perfectly the glitter of three decorations that ornamented his morning coat. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z For once she keenly felt her own supreme littleness and stood in absolute awe of the mighty personality she had been so long and audaciously combating. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z It takes the personal littleness out of a boy to give his all to reach a goal. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z C. Fabricius was sent to the relief of Thurii with an army so small, that it began to shrink from the encounter, and thus increase, as it were, its own littleness. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z His correspondence displays so fine a diplomatic genius, that the historians have turned aside from the evil side of the man, his littlenesses, in order to give full weight to his services as minister. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z The marine monster who lived in this shell has been replaced by a miserable spider; a life full of littleness has succeeded the life of grandeur of past ages. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The girl saw, too; with the unconscious bluntness of a singularly direct nature, he had stripped her scruples bare, and their littleness horrified Olivia. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z It had caused a light-hearted girl to see herself suddenly in the pupils of many eyes, and to recoil in shame from her own littleness. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z Looking with visionary eyes into that congregation of stars, he realised, not the littleness of the human dream, but its divine impulsion. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z In imagination I narrowed myself to their ignorance, littleness and youth, and seemed for a moment to flit amid great uncomprehended beings and a dim wonderful city of palaces. The Hero in Man 2011-09-02T02:00:18.723Z As day by day I had sped across the wide, rolling plains and rivers, in the generous sunshine, I had seemed to feel my soul expand and be set free from the littlenesses of life. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Civilization, or what stands for it, does have a way of shrinking into littleness, not to say cheapness, when one can get the proper perspective. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z What can the littleness of man do against the greatness of the Eternal! My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Notwithstanding the littleness of these latter, they have successfully competed in maritime discovery with larger nations; and even now, own considerable and far distant colonial possessions. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z To such littleness did this once noble and generous nature descend. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z It was all he said, but once more Toye was regarding him as shrewdly as when the night was younger, and the littleness of the world had not yet made them confidant and boon companion. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z Care carried to such minute details falls into a sort of littleness very unbecoming a being destined for higher thoughts than mere physical self-preservation. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z He often shows us the littleness of the great; for many a prominent actor in the world's great drama wears a mask upon the public stage that conceals his real features. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z To the true philosopher these conquests over the material world will be but additional proofs of the greatness of God and man's littleness. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z He was worth rescuing from the conventionalities and littlenesses of his every day life and lifting into communion with God. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z Never was there a more unpleasant display of feminine littleness. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z He displayed through life all the infirmities and littlenesses of a man, and he died like one who had brought about his own death by his own acts. Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester 2011-07-22T02:00:20.277Z In the heart of mighty forests and by the shores of ever-rushing rivers, the littleness of man, contrasting with the grandeur of creation, speaks to his awakened soul of the omnipotence and goodness of God. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z He had bruised himself on Old World littleness; quite naturally he looked to the New World for bigger visions, ampler spaces, and a saner estimate of a man's worth. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z Greatness cannot enter littleness--the small must be absorbed by the great; but its power of possession lies in the very fact that it can do this and still retain its own nature. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Redeem us from the littleness of selfishness and lift us into the blessed communion of our fellow-men. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z He will feel his littleness, his insignificance, his utter lack of importance, more forcibly perhaps than ever before. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z She knew M. Paul Emmanuel, watching him day by day, seeing all his littlenesses and childishness, his vanity, his big warm heart, his clever brain, the manifold nature of the man. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z The mutual jealousy of the north and south is a decided evidence of littleness in both regions, and ample cause for shame to the educated gentlemen of all parties of this happy country. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z Doesn’t it seem—standing here in this stillness—as if the world lay far beneath one’s feet; that all the littlenesses and prosaic worries of every-day life could not enter such an enchanted realm? The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z A Philistine is a lazy, much-speaking, more-asking, nothing-daring man; such a one who makes the small great, and the great small, because in the great he feels his littleness and his insignificance. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z To recede to the very bottom of one's own littleness. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z She understands his selfish littleness of soul only too well when, years after, she talks to him during that wonderfully described interview in the chapter called "The Meeting on the Sands." Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Almost any motive that attracts attention, even apparently so small a thing as disgrace after death, makes these people realize the littleness and the cowardice of the act. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Not of the narrow, timid achievements of littleness on the oar-bank and the lolling-bank of the times are we speaking here. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z He did, to be sure, one thing more, the rascal, he drew a picture of my littleness. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z He had found so few things in humanity that seemed beautiful, and his pictures had been pictures of resentments—impish and wonderful exposures by a master of the littleness at the back of brave shows. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Cicero could infer the littleness of the Hebrew God from the smallness of the territory he had given his people. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z Thou knowest me in all my littleness, even as Thou knowest all things, and Thou seest my wounds and sorrows, and Thou wilt receive me after death and soothe and heal them all.' Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Without reverence there could be no contempt; without the feeling of disinterestedness, no perception of selfishness; without greatness, no littleness. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z In his successes and his failures, in his greatness and his littleness, he is ever clear, simple, true, and glitters with no lustre but his own. Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z And to think that this nothing, this amazing littleness—well, well; poor girl. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z I confess, he has long appreciated me and my doings; he sees clearly that all goes on in the finest biographical train,–the dog, my littleness, and the heroes of these dog-days. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Ruthless destruction, even of her own choicest works, is the badge of her inexhaustible omnipotence: add but a touch of pity, and you fall back to the littleness and feebleness of man. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z The huge white angora chaps, the scarlet kerchief about his neck and against the blue of his shirt, the immense spread of his hat, his drooping gray mustache, all emphasized his littleness. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z In compensation for these littlenesses there was a flood of gossip and "any amount of etiquette." Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Dimin�utive, in grammar, a word having a special affix which conveys the idea of littleness, and all other ideas connected with this, as tenderness, affection, or contempt. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The life at Hellfde was a very busy life, and had nothing of the usual littleness of convent rule. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z They tell you how little you are, but they give you a great patience with your own littleness. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z Man's schemes and dreams and petty littleness Lie open and revealed. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z The Count found in the Lector a spirit of littleness which was more revolting to him than any bad spirit. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z O ye invisible insects, whom the hand of the Creator hath deigned to produce in the abyss of infinite littleness! Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He contrasts the dignity of the imagination with the presumptuous littleness of certain modern philosophers. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z She gazed at the stars and into the illimitable spaces beyond them, and thought of life and its inconceivable littleness, as millions had done before in the presence of that same firmament. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z There is no other way.—I pardon thee Thy littleness, who art not wronged like me. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z It shows, however, that relative littleness is essential to that first kind of beauty. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z We are then animals absolutely imperceptible; yet we are liable to be crushed by all that surrounds us, though our infinite littleness, so closely bordering on nothing, might seem to secure us from all accidents. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z They are more numerous in plants, because we cannot so well understand them, and because of their microscopic littleness. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The difference between filial fear and repentance is seen in this, that the former falls back upon its own littleness, whereas the latter throws itself at the feet of God. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The manifestation of littleness and crowding selfishness often condoned in other quarters, and the over-reaching conduct so generally permitted in business circles, are unpardonable crimes in the true fisherman’s code. Fishing and Shooting Sketches 2011-02-23T03:00:33.463Z Their mobility is a necessary consequence, in the first place, of their littleness. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Man shrinks, feels his own littleness, and thinks of his God. Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z Limestone has been chiefly elaborated by the organs of animals, many of them of microscopic littleness. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z It seemed as if the least imaginative must be feeling the littleness of all earthly things. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z But I protest against the littleness of mourning for the passing of beauty. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z Every step through this repository of human ashes, over sunken graves and shattered marble, once reared by the hand of affection or ostentation, forcibly recalled the littleness and vanity of man. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Artificial manners are easily seen through; and the result of such observations, however accomplished and beautiful the object may be, is contempt for such littleness. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z Dear divine girl, my own exalted Isabel!" cried Pierre, catching the offered hand with ungovernable emotion, "how most unbeseeming, that this strange hardness, and this still stranger littleness should be united in any human hand. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z There was something appalling to her, too, in what has been somewhere called "the infinite littleness of social life." Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z You are thus lifted above yourselves;—above your passions, your littleness, your ambition;—above the world. Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College 2011-01-01T03:00:22.597Z And an humiliating littleness, as of atoms, overcame them, both of them, as they sat gazing into the spaciousness of the skies and the eternal stars. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Who so great that some such littleness is not the very leaven of his life? The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z We who had come down to the sea were seeing His wonders; and now we thought of the utter insignificance—the littleness—the helplessness of man in the grand strife of the elements. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z I should not wish to have children educated in the common schools in this country, where a littleness of soul is notorious. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Only Nature, old but unchanged,—Nature, still and grand,—is here to be seen, presenting features which teach us in eloquent language of our own littleness and her immeasurable grandeur. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands You idolized my littleness, my tears, my naughtinesses. Woman She was a ready, practical creature, by no means above what is called feminine littleness, not very young, but with her own beauty. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z His pride in the Bront� superiority had rested mainly on the thews and comeliness of the family, and he found it difficult to associate mental greatness with physical littleness. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 Of meanness, of envy, of littleness, of——, of——, of——, I have reason and right to complain, but I have too much contempt to use that right. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The littleness of my own previous viewpoint overwhelmed me, and what had seemed tragedies assumed at last their smaller proportions. The Bachelors A Novel As always, I feel both terrified and transported by this immense littleness, and consumed by a longing to put my lips to him.... Woman Only she knew that its pitiless routine, its littleness, its frantic struggle for the front place in the great pleasure-house, seemed suddenly to stand revealed in pitiful colours. The Missioner It was purgatory, it was the very tragedy of littleness. Life on the Stage The awful scene of Horeb burns and brands his littleness into man. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Faultiness and feebleness, folly and littleness, seemed restrained, corrected, transformed, when presented in solemn, noble, and pure melodies. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance We should be big in this big thing ... get above littleness of every sort. Shadows of Flames A Novel Pepys lives in literature because he was unblushingly, unboastingly, frank about his littleness—his jealousy of his wife, his petty conquests of other women, his eternal sensualities mixed with his eternal prayers. The Book of This and That How dost thou swell and strut, with human pride, To show thy littleness! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes What is the man’s judgment regarding Christ worth who is not conscious of his own littleness and humbled by his own guilt? The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I It is only produced in him by a feeling, and the peculiar and particular feeling of dignity, in antithesis to contempt, littleness, disrepute, or meanness. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Alas for the best and purest! what an alloy of meanness and littleness, what vanity and self-seeking mingle with their very noblest and highest efforts. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews considers that it betokens a littleness of soul to strengthen conscience by regulations as to various kinds of food. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews Further, I admit a littleness—in the shape of an anxiety to hear whether Beryl had added her quota to the general testimonial, and if so on what terms. A Veldt Vendetta A good man is so aggravatingly free from littlenesses. Lady Cassandra They quote great men to hide their littleness. About London "War is hideous; but it banishes littleness from daily life." Anne "Ah, sir, you must excuse me, these ignoble writers have little delicacy in alluding to the misfortunes of the great; they seem to revenge the littleness of their own station on every such occasion." A Day's Ride A Life's Romance He appears to us with an abject, uninteresting littleness. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Great thoughts stirred the hearts of men, but littleness, cunning, and mischief-making had not ceased either. Waldfried A Novel Narses said, 'All the great Justinian's littleness is exposed in these orders. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 But, in reality, it does nothing more than absorb man in man, in infinite littleness. Priests, Women, and Families Where——oh, Nelly! to you I must reveal all——every weakness, every littleness of my nature—where would be the homage of respect the poor Bursche was wont to show the nephew of a field-marshal? The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life How dark and dismal became the picture, how poverty-stricken each incident and event, what littleness in every detail, how insignificant the occupations that interested them! The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life An overwhelming sense of littleness and insignificance swept over him. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp After this avowal she felt that any reserve on this point would look like affectation, a littleness which would have been unworthy of her character. Coelebs In Search of a Wife In this dilemma we must then judge by results, for the truest expression of a man is his work; his greatness or his littleness is measured by his output. Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition But a raging storm, the sense of the absolute dominance of nature and the littleness of man, always exalted her. Ancestors A Novel What, stand with slackened hands and fallen heart before the littleness of your service! Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation Some of the old pathetic charm of her littleness was coming back to him. The "Genius" I was disgusted with littleness in some instances, and with inconsistency in others. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The littleness of daily routine; the care felt and despised, the minutiæ which grow against our will, come in time to be heavier than lead. The Hills and the Vale The habit of fixing their eyes on these glories made all the shining trifles, which compose the mass of things below, at last appear in their own diminutive littleness. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Scott speaks of the silence of noonday on the top of Minchmoor, and the acute sense of human littleness one always feels amidst the "mountain infinities." In the Border Country A health resort guaranteed to banish care, to stab apathy, to enlarge littleness, to slay listlessness, would pretty nearly put the thought-ologists out of commission. Through Our Unknown Southwest O sweet, how's he ever again to match himself to our littleness and sterility without shriveling down to it himself? John March, Southerner It is sufficient to say paradoxically, that in the magnitude of its littleness it cringed, it intrigued, and sought protection in corruption. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 We are but little used To aught but dragging through our daily round Of littleness. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature Thus Jewish pride and Samaritan littleness raised a terrible barrier between the two nations, which grew more hopeless every year. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World She felt small even to herself, for the touch of beauty saves us from our own personalities, makes Gods of us to our own littleness. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Such a conscious dignity of 409 character struck the petulant wits with a provoking sense of their own littleness. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors O there is blindness on us in this life, That seeth not the things which lie around, E'en in the circuit of our littleness! Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems Napoleon III. believed that in the unofficial, in littleness and dark gliding, lay the way to govern a state. The Missourian She had laughed about her prettiness and her littleness a score of times with Ada and Edith, and also with Frank himself. The Landleaguers That feeling of littleness had been one of his peculiarities as long as he could remember when there were others about older than himself, and supposed from that reason to be graver and wiser. The Bondboy After the family of David had, for centuries, resided and ruled at Jerusalem, the natural littleness of Bethlehem came very little into further consideration. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 The girl looked at him in silence for a long time, and into her brain came a new, swift, and revealing concept of his essential littleness and weakness. Money Magic A Novel Why, with the wonderful opportunities which you rich people have, how can you––oh, how can you toss them aside for the frivolities and littleness that you all seem to be striving for! Carmen Ariza Then this girl had come across him, and there had suddenly sprung up within him a love so strong that all these other things faded into littlenesses. Marion Fay From his height Northrup bent to Polly’s littleness, but she reached up to him with her frail tender arms and seemed to gather him into her denied motherhood. At the Crossroads The connection is seen also in the indication of Bethlehem's natural littleness, as contrasted with the greatness to be bestowed upon it by God. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Let us not afflict ourselves on account of our littleness and infirmities, since God so orders it, but become as little children. Letters of Madam Guyon The heroics and the follies, the greatness and the littleness, the wit and humour of famous or even infamous citizens are presented in a lively manner. Law and Laughter How could I go from the littleness of these chambers to walk through his halls without showing that I knew myself to be an intruder? Marion Fay The pitiful meanness and littleness of the greatest of modern scientific minds that have "come after the King" contrasted even with the grand simple sublimity of the knowledge of Ecclesiastes. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes But the reference to God is required by the contrast between human littleness and divine greatness. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 The pride, presumption and vanity, of the natural man, must give place to the littleness and simplicity of the child. Letters of Madam Guyon It is no poetical figure to look upon them as an eternal satire upon the great littleness of empire. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 There are few things so great as death; and there is perhaps nothing which banishes all littleness of thought and feeling in an equal degree with its contemplation. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) He looked down at her––marvelled at her very littleness as though it were a thing he had never known before. Once to Every Man It was Carlyle who said that some people are noted for "fussy littleness and an infinite deal of nothing." Rural Life and the Rural School O, when shall we learn that it is littleness, and not greatness, that God requires of his child! Letters of Madam Guyon This place is as good as another, if a man knows himself; if he doesn't, he is apt to be deceived by the littleness of things about him. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties But he who has not felt that there may be beauty without littleness, and that such beauty is a source of the sublime, is yet ignorant � 5. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) About him at all times, whether expressed or concealed, there floated an ironic derision of the littleness of the average man, whom at heart Bismarck despised. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck Let not your littleness hinder you for a moment. The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer Only those who are reduced to littleness and simplicity, have this power of communicating grace. Letters of Madam Guyon April 10.—Agitated as my existence has been, I never fell among so much littleness, meanness, servility as here. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Beauty is not so often felt to be sublime; because, in many kinds of purely material beauty there is some truth in Burke's assertion, that "littleness" is one of its elements. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Knows he not the littlenesses of our nature—its distresses? Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 During this marvelous exhibition the "littleness of man" had been made very painfully lucid. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 God wishes to reduce you to littleness, and poverty of spirit. Letters of Madam Guyon So shortsighted the train seemed, running to the distance, so terrifying in their littleness the villages, with such pettiness in their activity. The Rainbow He comes to hasten man's step along that pathway that leads from littleness unto largeness. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character With might unquestioned—power to save— Thine only gift hath been the grave To those that worshiped thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 There was no littleness of thought, or purpose, or ambition, in him—nothing little. The History of Dartmouth College It is an ideal nature, seven foot high, clad in impenetrable panoply, steeled against the weaknesses, as above the littlenesses of humanity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 They seem like the search-lights of God, showing up my human littlenesses of soul. The Prairie Child And the mission of Jesus Christ is to carry each up from littleness to full-orbed largeness. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Oh the meanness of our magnificence! the littleness of our greatness! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Here you will see Life in its most cultivated littleness. The Belovéd Vagabond Looking at that sea and sky makes one feel the littleness and unreality of all these worries. Not Like Other Girls Our own littleness and nothingness sometimes becomes bondage. Days of Heaven Upon Earth "No sadder proof," Carlisle has said, "can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century How has Irving emphasized the littleness of the minister described on p. English: Composition and Literature And words are poor to express the gratitude that shall be forever due to those women whose moral energy shall rebuke this littleness, and stir true manliness in man. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I We have thrown open the book of human life; we are to read there of this world and its littleness, of the springs of present action, of the relief of present restlessness. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 More than ever, in the enlarged and sweeter life which seemed opening up before her, she saw the littleness and enervating insipidity of it all. The New Tenant I have learned to despise and pity the littleness of your party, to recognize the shams of the time everywhere, the utter hypocrisy of those in power. The Art of Disappearing Of Description, as of the "fifth wheel" style, there is little to say about Dumas, though the littleness is in neither respect damaging. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The glory of its triumphs does not discourage me, because I also see its littleness; nor can its littleness extinguish in me the light of hope, because I also see the glory of its triumphs. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory On the contrary, it exercised a choking effect upon me, by reason of what I regarded as its intense littleness and narrowness. The Message I do not wish to say that there is more badness than goodness in the world, but there is certainly more littleness than greatness. The New Tenant Her presence, when first they came face to face, startled him; not the event, but the littleness of the great earth; that his hatred and her crime could not keep them farther apart. The Art of Disappearing The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere To the subtle, contriving head; Great qualities are trodden down, And littleness united Is become invincible. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold I scarcely know which amazes me the more, its littleness or its grandeur. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Loudly as the call must have been uttered, it came to her, as though from a great distance, thin and of an infinite littleness. The Doomsman Everything made me feel my littleness, my impotence. The Birthright "I die content," said Ledwith with a long restful sigh, coming back to earth, after a deep look into divine power and human littleness. The Art of Disappearing They, the mountains, were so big and generous that they made one ashamed of littleness. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Indeed, everything around us, and everything within us, brings home the conviction of the littleness of man. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory We could not but feel the littleness of the power that had tried to destroy Jesus, and we should not be afraid of it any more. The New Theology She was not faultless, not by any means, but her failings did not lie in the direction of littleness. The Sign of the Spider I realized as never before in my life, the utter littleness of man, and the almightiness of God. Doctor Jones' Picnic But our pride has been so hurt by the littleness of their conduct, that I would in that case be for leaving it at the gate of the palace, and quit the country. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII We find a ground of hope in the very littleness as well as in the greatness of the human powers. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory It was a case where the littleness of the knowledge was not a dangerous but a helpful thing. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Remembering our littleness as contrasted with the magnitude of the whole creation, we prefer to believe that there are rational creatures in other worlds besides this small-sized sphere in, it may be, a small-sized system. Moon Lore And to anyone who really knows them the littleness of man in comparison with these mighty mountains is not the impression made upon him. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The vastness of the city overpowered him; the stateliness of the buildings appeared to him the work of giants; and he almost shrank from entering it, through a feeling of his own littleness. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 And the turmoil of the world grown so distant, it is then that we feel at once the greatness of humanity and the littleness of what it strives for. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions There is none of this littleness in the speech of Des Grieux. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The effect was a combination of the solemnity and the littleness of man which defies every knack of human expression to depict. Where the Souls of Men are Calling We are not impressed by our littleness in comparison. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Great he certainly was not, and he never affected the royal dignity which partially concealed the littleness of his predecessor. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) He had thought scornfully of the people who had betrayed their littleness by ignoring him. Children of the Desert The littleness and the terrible significance of the individual destiny were gathered into that faintly quivering centre of space—so small a part of the universe, and yet containing the whole universe within itself! Virginia It was evident she was thinking of nothing else but the injustice and littleness of the act they had been contemplating. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall The literal meaning of this paragraph stamps the littleness of the man's mind. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 She is more sensible to his greatness than her own littleness: she is continually looking from herself up to him, not from him down to herself. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical In spite of that change, flogging is still an institution in the public school, in the military prison, on the training ship, and in that school of littleness called the home. Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness. Maxims for Revolutionists That is the only answer to return from my littleness. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England Byron admitted that these were mysteries because the littleness of man and the greatness of God were ever present to him. My Recollections of Lord Byron Captives, and exposed to the rage of the Roman populace, they owed their existence to the generous, admirable Octavia, in whose mind there entered no particle of littleness. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical For Tanqueray could be cruel in his contempt for all clevernesses and littlenesses, for all achievements that had the literary taint; but he was on his knees in a moment before the incorruptible divinities. The Creators A Comedy Finer natures often experience a keen depression and sense of littleness in the pause that follows a success. The House with the Green Shutters It is of course quite possible that such popularity might imply rather littleness in his contemporaries than greatness in him: but his books are the test to judge by. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Byron always wished to make man feel his littleness. My Recollections of Lord Byron A strange study for a student of human nature is this Earl of Oxford—a curious compound, like his late royal lady, of greatness and littleness. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot His greatness sheltered her from their dreadfulness, their cleverness, their littleness. The Creators A Comedy In some the floor-stones were freshly cleaned and loaded with flowers, memorials, and miniature gardens of a Chinese elegance in littleness. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 How do I know that I, a man, am to learn from insects—unless it is to learn how little my littlenesses are? The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete In fine, if he recognized littleness in man, he recognized greatness likewise. My Recollections of Lord Byron These gigantic truths retained in view, would put to shame the littleness of their dwarfish morality. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. But it wasn't her stylishness that impressed him; it was her littleness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel The littlenesses, the meannesses of the world, were left far behind. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras But now I was convinced of my littleness. The Boy Tar Lord Byron saw in many vices and littlenesses the work of man rather than of nature. My Recollections of Lord Byron Mephistopheles is perfectly conscious of his littleness as opposed to our better intellectual nature, and does evil for evil's sake. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Tabs entered instantly into the spirit of the game—the littleness and childishness of the attempt at quaintness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel And God, who does not scorn the littleness of a sincere man's faith, but rather tries to increase it, gave him, unasked and unexpected, another sign. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Each great and national distress Must chiefly mighty men oppress; While folks subordinate and poor Are by their littleness secure. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes Go, cunning flatterer; thou wilt only make me feel my own littleness. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom This very littleness of detail has made his Memoirs the most extraordinary picture we possess of the times. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 As though to emphasize the game of littleness, a toy-boat floated on the pond's surface. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Nor had he the capacity for using greater minds than his own by which some sovereigns have concealed their natural littleness. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 And the oftener we compare our borrowed perfections with those of God, the more deeply convinced of our littleness shall we become. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus "Well, doggone!" says Fat, in wonderment at the littleness of the world. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 We could wish that Mr. Martin would not ruin his greatness by his littlenesses. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 She had become a little child for the moment and her littleness was baffling. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel For all he knew, or cared, they might each of them be in control of a Government Department; that failed to alter their littleness. Mufti Man is awed, But triumphs in his littleness. Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics Now look at this mean house; its dirt floor, its bare stone walls, its littleness, its darkness! Viking Tales Can human nature contemplate a scene so grand that reaches so far beyond the grasp of mind, and not feel its own insignificance, and the littleness of selfish actions? Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch He was glad to be back in this friendly house with its narrow stairways and endearing littleness; it had been his American mother's before him. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel His was a great soul in which no bitterness or littleness could even find a lurking place. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization To look down from a height of more than two miles, on an endless panorama of suffering and horror, is to have the sense of one's littleness even more painfully quickened. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France That idea is the polar conception of the grandeur and the littleness of man — the vastness of his range in some respects and directions, and his powerlessness to take a single step in others. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But there was more than that: a sense of irrelevance, of littleness, of futile bravado, in sitting there puffing my cigarette-smoke into the face of such a past. Kerfol 1916 It was Wilf's youngness and littleness in the face of that immensity. The Privet Hedge The events which had preceded our departure appeared to have occurred years ago, and to be dwarfed into littleness by the lapse of time. Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants The dear little rose-tipped fingers! the small hands! velvet soft and satin smooth, diverse even in their littlenesses! The Development of Embroidery in America Those forty days that Moses spent on the mount brought out, among other things, both Moses' greatness and Aaron's littleness and weakness in a way that nothing else could have done. Mushrooms on the Moor If they did marry, they would take the very foolish advice of a contemporary, and go through life with an indignant protest at its littleness. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother The world, of whose littleness we boast when we think of steam and electricity, grows very sizable again when a man comes back to the elemental means of progress—his own two legs. Jewel Weed I know its freedom from selfishness, and all littleness. Old Valentines A Love Story But if she must be redeemed—granting this point to their littleness, let the redemption come by different ways than those of sacrifice: let it be an outcome from the capability of their united happiness. At Fault In every direction huge cliffs towered perpendicularly about you; bottomless abysses yawned at your feet; and every scarped pinnacle and beetling crag scowled menacingly at your littleness and scowled defiance at your approach. Mushrooms on the Moor Nevin's songs, whose only littleness is in their length, though treated with notable individuality, are founded in principle on the Lieder of Schumann and Franz. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The tragedy of littleness made her grit her teeth as she thought of the unconscious girl now going to bed in the next room. Jewel Weed Upon this spiritless blank Robert depicted, with a morbid genius and the stimulation of his unnatural surroundings, all that was reminiscent of his uncle’s littleness. The Flaw in the Sapphire Should it become confused or angered, it would be proof of its insufficiency and littleness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 For you will forget to make a collection of disagreeable things,731 which 296now inundate, as some hollow and low-lying ground, your littleness of mind and weakness, which fills itself with other people's bad points. Plutarch's Morals Daylight is friendly to man toiling under a sun which warms his heart; and cloudy soft nights are more kindly to our littleness. Chance A Tale in Two Parts On the other hand, Miss Huntress derived almost equal pleasure out of her acquaintance with Lena, whose littleness she measured, and whose small successes she looked upon with amusement, unflecked by317 envy. Jewel Weed I never entered the noble rotunda of that vast collection without an emotion of littleness and awe. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War I have been wondering at the littleness of the denier, and now this same denier is making the world wonder by his majestic boldness! My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year “Etiquette,” as Dr. Brown has said, “with all its littlenesses and niceties, is founded upon a central idea of right and wrong.” The Book of Business Etiquette In silence, rapt and pale, We hearkened to the aged Saturus, Whose speech, touched with a ghostly eloquence, Canvassed the fraud and littleness of life, God's goodness and the solemn joy of death. Alcyone But later, when Mary Warner rose to deliver the Valedictory, Phœbe felt her own efforts shrink into littleness. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Government works nobly to imitate the Palaces of the Cæsars, and the public edifices leave our municipal structures far beneath, but these marble and granite piles seem to mock the littleness of individual ambition. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Rembrandt, like Titian, Rubens, and others who were historical painters, seizes upon the great characteristics of nature without entering into the painful fidelity of topographical littleness; the same generalizing principles pervade every variety of subject. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. The cause which we all have at heart is vulgarized by any littleness or show of personal resentment in its representatives, and is of too serious import to admit of any childishness or trifling. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays But we must guard against an impatience which is our littleness. Men in the Making Self-consciousness at such a time is a mistake, if natural, and shows the actual littleness which one is trying by an upright bearing to conceal. The Etiquette of To-day With due reverence for my own ancestry, I think that they sometimes stooped from greatness to littleness. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War It constantly lifted him out of the littleness of self-consciousness, setting before his imagination the loftiest object. The Chief End of Man "How these things make one think," cried Bowring, as we sat on a stone and smoked, "of the miserable littleness of men like you and me, Bob!" George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore This creature so vain before now loves nothing but poverty, littleness and humiliation. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon At this supreme moment his littleness and lack of self-assertion jarred on her mood. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life My eyes went to the squab black outline of the boat, and the littleness of her sent a shudder through me. The Frozen Pirate Learn to feel through your own littleness that higher power out of which comes all the good in you. The Chief End of Man You trumpet our own littleness in our ear, and we know it so well that we do not care to hear much about it. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida The littleness of the national character, its self-conceit, and its formality, are further instances of an effete civilization. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity The soul once ennobled by participation in a great and glorious work, can never again be satisfied to come down to the heartlessness, the frivolities, the petty jealousies, and littlenesses of a life of fashion. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience With might unquestioned,—power to save,— Thine only gift hath been the grave To those that worshipped thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 I marvelled," she said, "how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for littleness. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People The breeze freshened and a tremendous storm of thunder, lightning, and rain came on, as if to mock the fury of man, and humble him under a sense of his relative littleness. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale There was a littleness in his conduct, and an indecision in his manner, quite at variance with my untutored notions of the gallant bearing of a British sailor. Rattlin the Reefer He was, therefore, certainly what the world calls a great man, though he had great faults, and many littlenesses and contemptibilities. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar His sincere admiration for the genius of Chateaubriand did not blind him to the monstrosities or the littlenesses by which it was disfigured. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Some men are great from the littleness of their surroundings; but he only is great who is great amid greatness. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings There are places where his littleness and his lameness would not be against him, as they must be on the land. Shenac's Work at Home We each can lift all the littlenesses of our lives into a lofty region, if only we will link them on to the throne of God by prayer. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. To have adhered to his ordinary course in the colonel’s case, when he had become convinced that he had been wronging that officer, would have been obstinacy and littleness.” Amos Huntingdon For Jack’s sake even more than his own it was better that he should be so deluded; and Margot was happily above the littleness of desiring to monopolise the credit for her ideas. Big Game A Story for Girls She shook her head and gazed solemnly into space, as if overpowered by the littleness of the reflection. More About Peggy Meanwhile we have our innate defects, the first of which arises from the vastness of geography and the littleness of politicians. The Masques of Ottawa With this affectation of superiority, the Duke combined the littleness of envy. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Here, has this little tarn pre-eminence, For 'mid such mighty works appearing less, It must attract us by its littleness. The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic Some men seem to think it beneath them, and a mark of littleness of mind, to wish or to try to please any body, and wrap themselves up in a cold superciliousness. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew There he lay awake for an hour, still troubled, oppressed by a vague feeling of the littleness and insecurity of human life. The Blood of the Conquerors She always reminds us of God and our duty; always teaches us our own littleness and frailty, and works upon all our passions a calming subduing influence. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. The Renascence But great as were the issues of Henry's policy, it shrinks into littleness if we turn from it to the weighty movements which were now stirring the minds of men. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 He, for his selfish pride to cause thee pain; He, for his littleness of mind to lay Thee low in sickness; God grant he may gain His due reward. The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic Everything about the book speaks of a person who had broken free from the narrow littleness of 'the peculiar people.' Short Studies on Great Subjects It's one of the peculiarities of the littleness of human nature. Watch Yourself Go By And when through later days they ate and ate again of the fragrant golden fruit, Love filled their veins and they became a new race, scorning the littleness of war. Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories But as I was saying, it is not well that idle men—those with leisure for their littlenesses, like schoolmasters and doctors and Predikants should have pretty wives, or they tend to waste themselves. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories "To pick holes in a man of that quality only seems to accentuate one's own littleness." The Great Amulet Even heroes have their littlenesses, and Comedy is truer to the details of littleness than Tragedy or Epic. Short Studies on Great Subjects Pleasant illusions are, as a rule, weapons against meanness and littleness. Watch Yourself Go By To one whose great suffering from disease is long continued, there must come a clearer vision of the infinite littleness of all transitory ambitions. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals I was watching, you may be sure, and again I saw the wintry red swell above the white whisker, and I clenched my hands in wrath and contempt at the creature's littleness. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories It is pitiful—this littleness of your knowledge. The Lion's Brood She felt herself raised above all contention, all spite, all littleness. Strife and Peace And when they turn their eyes from man himself to the place he occupies in the universe, how are they overwhelmed by a sense of his littleness and insignificance! The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Above all the littleness of a court cabal he could not but discern the great questions which impended, and with which he felt quite incompetent to deal. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. For, as natural philosophers, there is no bigness or littleness to you. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Yet such was the symmetry of the vision that the visionary felt his littleness rather than the colossal proportions of the apparition. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Then ensues an impression of man's littleness, emptiness, insignificance, utter, mechanical limitation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Small nails indicate littleness of mind, obstinacy, and conceit. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales She knowed you were going to work at home to-day, and she had the littleness to traipse over here to try to make you feel like you was missing something awful grand. Dixie Hart Mirandy was in reality very small for her age, and everybody called her "little;" but she got very few privileges on account of her youth and littleness. Young Lucretia and Other Stories Contrast′ good with bad, black with white, greatness with littleness. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Religious interest finally reveals our consciousness of man's littleness and weakness, and of God's providence. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart The schoolmaster and he alone felt their littleness. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky His reputation, moreover, made their own littleness especially conspicuous. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters And now at last I was placed in a position whereby I could feel and reflect upon my own littleness. Born Again Tragedy has this of comfort in it: its fateful lightnings burn out of the atmosphere of life all the noisome littlenesses which have seemed worthy of concern. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Take some quiet, sober moment of life, and add together the two ideas of Pride and Man; behold him, creature of a span, stalking through infinite space in all the grandeur of littleness! Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The very names by which Church History has recorded the memory of these strifes indicate the real littleness of many of the points in question. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology He was looking at It with that dreamy smile of his, which seems to laugh at the littleness of man and the futility of his policies. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 It is littleness and misery to make a private hoard of the good of the universe. The Friendships of Women The littleness of the Lilliputians and the greatness of the giants appeal strongly to children. A Mother's List of Books for Children I should want to curse the careless hand that wrenched my wound, but these soldiers of France and Belgium whom I carried had passed beyond littleness. Golden Lads It takes us out of the littleness of petty themes and selfish affairs, and makes it easier for us to believe in the vastest hopes mankind have ever known. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The poet's life is little because he has found out the littleness of earthly things; the peasant holds life little because his share of it has been so poor. Irish Plays and Playwrights What it proves is not the finiteness of God, but the littleness of man. A Candid Examination of Theism He was nearing that stage when physical appetite is forgotten, when our entire nature, faults, virtues, all littlenesses and greater qualities, are thrown into a heap to feed the bonfire of love. The Starbucks He let himself marvel aloud at her littleness. Then I'll Come Back to You Some shrank into littleness and utter insignificance, which formerly had large proportions and a towering importance; others, which before seemed puny and of little worth, grew grandly into magnitude, and power, and might. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But, in truth, can man, little as man always is, and accustomed to littleness, ever make himself equal to all that here surrounds him of the noble, the vast, and the refined? Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Since, however, pride implies a certain elation, it is more directly opposed to humility, even as pusillanimity, which denotes littleness of soul in tending towards great things, is more directly opposed to magnanimity. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Out of the petty persecutions, the countless meannesses, the littleness of those who oppose him the great soul builds its greatness. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals Is it not a part of the most fundamental of all antinomies—the greatness and the littleness of man? Gilbert Keith Chesterton Senators, judges, millionaires, popular preachers, all sunk to the dead level of a supporting chorus, an impressive illustration of the littleness of the locally great. The Mayor of Warwick Of the excellence and largeness of the disposition of the one, and the meanness and littleness of the other, it is not necessary that I should here say much. Thackeray For just as the magnanimous man tends to great things out of greatness of soul, so the pusillanimous man shrinks from great things out of littleness of soul. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Only those who realize their true greatness can ignore the littleness of man's petty dignities, can lose all sense of stooping, of condescension when they serve others, and so can be of service to mankind. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals The greatness and the littleness of Man obsessed Chesterton as it did Pascal; it is the eternal riddle: Gilbert Keith Chesterton So our apparent littleness, the weakness, feebleness of our lives, need not disturb the grandeur of our trust in this direction. Our Unitarian Gospel Each sat in mighty state, like some ancient walrus on his cake of ice, and made the new one feel his littleness. The President A novel On the contrary, Pusillanimity and magnanimity differ as greatness and littleness of soul, as their very names denote. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province O my companions in infinite littleness, born like me to suffer everything and to be ignorant of everything, are there enough madmen among you to believe that they know all these things? Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary I cannot explain it, but when I touch the babies, their littleness and helplessness make me weak and trembling before—well, before the strength comes in a mighty wave. The Place Beyond the Winds And the Lord brought down upon us the anger of His Spirit, and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth, where now my littleness may be seen amongst strangers. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings The majesty of the terror which was abroad drove back into their littleness those sticks and pieces of cloth which she had valued so long. Old Kaskaskia Few great men have ever been so free from littleness or weakness. The Arian Controversy I see a throne, a life with all the confining littleness of a prison, with none of the breadth of an empire. The Lighted Match Everything about the book speaks of a person who had broken free from the narrow littleness of "the peculiar people." Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc It ought to know its greatness and littleness, and the reason of both. Pascal's Pensées The sense of her own littleness aroused her to a power of comprehension of the grandeur of the mass of which she was a part. The Portion of Labor And then, as Mark, weary with the misery of human life, almost repined at the littleness of it all, he felt rebuked. Great Possessions There, you wrong me," she said generously, "I am incapable of such littleness. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland But these things savor of littleness and defect. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition They inspired feelings of pure littleness, and that is not man's state. Pascal's Pensées He was maddened at the sting and despite of his own littleness in the face of that greatness. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel It does not, as might be at first supposed, enhance the sublimity of surrounding scenery by its littleness, for it provokes no comparison; and there must be proportion between objects, or they cannot be compared. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character Rising high above our littleness, that watched, fascinated, the struggle of lights and shadows over the soul entangled in the wreck of a man's body, the rocks had a monumental indifference. Romance Therefore littleness of a person is a reason for being less angry with him. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Let him lose himself in wonders as amazing in their littleness as the others in their vastness. Pascal's Pensées She looked at the crescent of the moon, and the great depth of light of the star, and her own affairs seemed to quiet her with their very littleness. By the Light of the Soul A Novel She is too straightforward, too uncompromisingly intolerant of every-day littleness, to have a very peaceful life. Princess Now, staying at the seaside is so rarely done well, because of the littleness of man. Certain Personal Matters Consequently deficiency or littleness in the person with whom we are angry, tends to increase our anger, in so far as it adds to the unmeritedness of being despised. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite. Pascal's Pensées A struggle between greatness and littleness; intelligence and ignorance; light and darkness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 The suburb is her cloister, and she the dedicated bride of littleness. The Quest of the Simple Life I saw the littleness of hate and ambition. Certain Personal Matters If, however, the littleness or deficiency lessens the unmerited contempt, then it does not increase but lessens anger. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition In the littleness of his vanity did the Rajah imagine himself a very great man. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth Nothing that so drives out the littlenesses that poison his life and set up the toxaemia of selfishness. "Over There" with the Australians His nature will be redeemed visibly from its weakness and from its littleness—redeemed, not in dreams or in fancy, but in fact. Is Life Worth Living? I should have lived happily enough in that country, if my littleness had not exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome accidents, some of which I shall venture to relate. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World The littleness of his room and of his life stifled him. Destiny We want to get rid of the selfishness, and the littlenesses, and the petty ambitions and envyings, and the scandals that go on. Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.—Balzac. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age Possibly what you say is true, Kishimoto San, but hasn't it a flavor of littleness to label as a national habit the acts of a few exhilarated travelers? The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan As I was on the road, observing the littleness of the houses—the trees, the cattle, and the people, I began to think myself in Lilliput. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World Vauvenargues is thus confronted by two sinister pictures of humanity—the one of its moral meanness and littleness, the other of its intellectual poverty and impotency. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues Let us remain far from all that dazzles, loving our littleness, and content to have no joy. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.—Carlyle. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age His interest was in literature itself; and it was this which gave so rare a stamp to his character, which kept him so free from all taint of littleness. Matthew Arnold They would not allow me to be a dwarf, because my littleness was beyond all degrees of comparison; for the queen's favorite dwarf, the smallest ever known in that kingdom, was nearly thirty feet high. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World In the vortex of the riot, when the heavens and the ocean seemed united in the creation of chaos, they sensed the littleness of their own lives and the vanity of their affairs. Dan Merrithew Instead of being discouraged, I concluded that God would not inspire desires which could not be realised, and that I may aspire to sanctity in spite of my littleness. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse We see the apprehensions, the personal expectations, the littlenesses of political society. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Pride may disguise itself as it will in its own majesty, but in the presence of the High and Lofty One, it is but littleness after all. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series In that vast chamber, with its remote ceiling, its majestic pillars, its distances and sonorous echoes, her littleness was pathetically accentuated. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Jerusalem was then nearly what it is to-day, a city of pedantry, acrimony, disputes, hatreds, and littleness of mind. The Life of Jesus What does please Him is to find me love my littleness, my poverty: it is the blind trust which I have in His Mercy. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse Thus their littleness, rather than their greatness, was apt to impress a daily observer like Selwyn, and to give to his remarks an aspect of depreciation and of pessimism. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Unless she has the help of a well developed spiritual nature how the littlenesses, the routine, the difficulties, the jealousies and envyings, the gossiping and petty dishonesties of life dwarf her. The Girl and Her Religion It realises to us in a way which nothing else can, the littleness of human intelligence in the face of that which transcends human intelligence. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library But never has any one so much as he made the interests of humanity predominate in his life over the littlenesses of self-love. The Life of Jesus The yard looked deserted and desolated, giving him a sudden realisation of his own littleness and the immensity of the hour. The Voice of the People There is nothing in greatness or littleness, beauty or ugliness. Musicians of To-Day That was indeed true," answered Cuchulain; "because of my youth and my littleness did I so much for thee, but this is by no means my mood this day. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge In a word, the music is big: the breadth and sweep are enormous: the greatest Wagner has arrived, the Wagner who has gone far beyond the hesitations and littlenesses even of the Rhinegold. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Cato was accustomed to the grandeur of the mistress of the universe; and the Rabbin to the littleness of a provincial town. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 That he refused the Italian General Assembly, if it was to be based on the so-called Montanelli system instead of his own, might be conviction, or it might be littleness and vanity. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Won't you learn the lesson, young man; that it is prima facie evidence of littleness to hold public office under our form of government? The Art of Public Speaking "If I could but shut her glorious eyes to all the shabby littleness they will have to see, we might hazard the rest," he sighed to himself. Idolatry A Romance The same principle will also account for that feeling of littleness, vacuity, and perplexity, which a stranger feels on entering the streets of a populous city. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution He saw things invariably magnified beyond all proportion, or else dwarfed to a littleness that was beneath consideration. A Man's Woman There were lapses in tact, petulances, littlenesses; one's friend did not rightly use his beautiful mind; he was jealous, suspicious, trivial, petty; it ended in disillusionment. The Child of the Dawn Of course, I have not been admitted into that familiarity which would lead me to comprehend what at present appears to me even more disturbed by the littleness of life than a country village. Turns of Fortune And Other Tales This stoical apathy did not arise in Madame Racine from the grandeur, but the littleness, of her mind. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions An unblushing front, and the gift of non chalance, are therefore the best qualifications for a debtor to obtain credit, while poor modesty will be starved in her own littleness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 He received all they could give, and his littleness crept out in his desire for more. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest We are gorged with petit-maître-ism, and pretty littlenesses of all kinds. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 There is much that we are all bound to do to carry the tranquillising and soothing influences of Gospel principles and of Christ's example into the littlenesses of daily life. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII To the great much littleness may be forgiven. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London When the great objects below had changed to littleness the heights above seemed greater than ever. Among the Forces It takes a character, this déb�cle, and smashes out the littleness. Joy in the Morning "How could we endure this grandeur, or our own littleness?" Scenes in Switzerland “What do you mean?” he stammered; and, averting his eyes in shame, seeing now all the littleness, all the baseness of his position, “Has he—married her?” he continued. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France And as he looked again he was assailed by that strange sense of littleness, of shrunkenness, which had struck him so forcibly at the station. The Day of the Beast We felt the great when we were less, But we'll retort on littleness Now we are in the skies. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood All greatness and all littleness, all heroism and all crimes, seemed to combine themselves in this one strange being. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality With all the untold glory above and beneath me, I felt oppressed with the littleness, as well as the greatness of my nature. Scenes in Switzerland All this was mightily stirring and littleness any littleness was engaged in spilling. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories He could no more help it than the shame that surged over him at consciousness of his littleness. The Day of the Beast I knew that his courage could never stoop to littleness. Children of the Market Place It seems paradoxical to say that there are no small things; our littleness and our aspiration make things appear small. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends If the poor fellows knew what they were about, they would at least conceal the littlenesses that show they are destined never to do work of the first order. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians There he finds art, beauty, and poetry; there he finds human nature, with its nobility and its littleness, with its virtues and its vices. A History of English Prose Fiction All his life, as long as he could remember, he and Margaret had hated pretension, and the littleness of living beyond their means. The Day of the Beast We see it productive, where it is habitually resorted to, of a frivolous levity, of vanity and pride, and of a littleness of mind and character. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 There is infinite littleness in despising small things. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends There is always some fatal weakness about a great man that lures him into littleness, and this was an overwhelming tragedy in Nelson's career. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon Whether this is greatness or littleness of mind, I am not enquiring into. A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up They showered ineffable contempt upon him in every way consistent with their littleness and—refinement. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. They had believed that personal littleness had given way before the magnanimity of martyrdom. Out To Win The Story of America in France Robert Garrett, with the littleness born of a mean, cramped nature, clung to this coveted possession as the one thing to be held, though all else were taken. Idle Hour Stories But this littleness does not impeach their eloquence: their jealousy was the infirmity of human nature. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The forest was a great treadmill in which men toiled all day, only to be surrounded at night by the same grandeurs and littlenesses they had that morning left. The Silent Places There was something sad in being able to see the littleness of life which underlay the power and might of personality in a man like Vincent. The Brimming Cup Fancy the alliterative littleness of a “Stephens” and a “Selby,” as the tools from which the drama must receive its glorious resuscitation! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 By some strange anomaly, success and failure alike render the candidates admissible—no matter the littleness of the source from whence they sprung. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 The gilding on the statue of Joan of Arc had a pleasant littleness of Philistinism, the arcades of the Rue de Rivoli broke up the grey light pleasantly too. The Inheritors I hate and despise myself for my littleness and prudery; why, he’s a thousand times finer than I! The Man Thou Gavest It's the littleness of the vital spark in you. The Brimming Cup To impute a low motive to a simple action had always seemed to him the vulgarity of littleness, and littleness in a man he had come to look upon as a kind of passive vice. The Wheel of Life My goodness, how he hated deceits, how tired he was of the littleness of them! Christopher and Columbus A mere wrist gesture suggests littleness, flippancy, weak traits. 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