| 单词 | recondite |
| 例句 | A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent warty substance. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was committed to the most recondite 20th-century scores, but also willing to lead old favorites, with fireworks, in Central Park. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z This pattern of rather recondite substitution can be seen across the Folio. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z His books hum with the flavorful and recondite language of espionage. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Then, as now, the anecdotes shared among women cut through the recondite rhetoric of social theory. Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Even the most recondite texts surrendered to her chemically enhanced powers of concentration. Can Drugs Help Us Focus? Casey Schwartz, You Better Watch Your Speed 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The book unfolds in vignettes organized according not to chronology but to the recondite rhymes, repetitions and echoes that Dodge observes winding through his life. Is There Cosmic Meaning in Life’s Randomness? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z For more than five decades he has bought avant-garde 20th- and 21st-century art, comprising both iconic masterpieces and recondite curiosities. A Collector Follows His Nose Through the Maze of Modern Art 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Dense, challenging, aphoristic and swarming with recondite allusions and puns, these novels display an authoritative grasp of a breathtaking range of subjects. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z His poetry, too, was at once recondite and scholarly and deeply embedded in his home soil. A display of digging 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z McMahan has spent most of his career doing what moral philosophers do: thinking and writing about often recondite ethical questions. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z With the last line's heavier alliteration, the voice rises to a lament, but keeps its homely register: "loved one", "lonely", "lichen-covered" are hardly recondite terms. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z He may like to articulate recondite theories about “reverse perspective” — O.K., whatever. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats. Will Gustavo Dudamel Be New York’s New Bernstein? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z This mutability – labyrinthine enough for comparisons with Borges – is enhanced by different linguistic styles: here precise, there dreamy, always slightly recondite. Debut fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-27T21:55:04Z I knew in advance from his recondite Instagram account that a friend I challenged, the filmmaker Amos Poe, would produce surprises. Inside the Insta-Cover Games 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Whereas the earlier books were pure journalism, he is now showing academic scholars how to write accessibly about subtle and even recondite subject matter. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z For students drowning in recondite texts about feminism, media and Marxism, Kruger’s work cut through the theoretical verbiage with razor-sharp epigrams. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “The Noh is unquestionably one of the great arts of the world,” the poet Ezra Pound wrote in 1916, “and it is quite possibly one of the most recondite.” Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He has the reputation of being a cerebral, even recondite, composer, but this is a tuneful and accessible score. Theater Review: ‘Giant,’ With Brian D’Arcy James, at the Public Theater 2012-11-16T03:00:12Z Today, the reverse can seem true, with these stylized spectacles coming across as a bit remote, recondite and sturdy next to the naturalistic emotional urgency of the Italian operas. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z He’s good with silences, with letting the crowd noise fill space, except when his lust for recondite statistics gets the better of him. The England vs. Croatia World Cup Match Made for Some Awkward Television 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “It is the book where he turns the corner from being an entertainer to doing more recondite things,” Smith says. Perspective | Think you don’t understand art? This is the one book you’ll need. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The lure of a bit of recondite literary research in a shady corner has proved much harder to resist for this on-again-off-again celebrity. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z Saturday’s performance brought out the humor and charm in a work that can sometimes feel forbiddingly recondite or merely meditative. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z This is far from Smith’s strangest journey, or her most recondite quest. The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Hipgnosis specialized in bright and recondite covers involving totems and symbols, or living beings looking profoundly, even morbidly, out of context; the images would interact with your head. A Jazz Critic Inspired by a Book of Album Cover Designs 2013-07-31T15:59:01Z That said, “Inky Fingers” isn’t just erudite, it’s distinctly recondite, so readers new to Grafton might prefer to start with “The Footnote: A Curious History” or his biography of that goofy crackpot-genius Cardano. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Led by Ara Guzelimian with a steady hand, the festival is Southern California relaxed — T-shirts and shorts, maybe a hoodie at night — but the repertory tends rigorous and recondite. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z But there’s no evidence that he subscribed to any recondite program like Rosicrucianism or Masonry, or that he used his skills to communicate private messages. Astounding Feats in Pen, Ink and Magnifying Glass 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Her notion of atonement grows recondite, to say the least, as her saga undergoes Ouroboros twists that now might remind some of David Fincher, whose film “Seven” influenced Mr. Kurosawa’s “Cure.” Kurosawa’s ‘Penance,’ About the Legacy of a Girl’s Murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The recondite allusiveness and seeming opacity of his newer work frustrated or even annoyed some critics. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z These stories are chock-full of recondite facts like that one, and I, perhaps naively, never doubted they were true. Jim Shepard has new collection of short stories 2011-03-22T12:22:10Z There are no peacock displays of pointless erudition in her work; no recondite allusions are dragged in. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z And it is high culture — a particularly recondite form of it — that Mr. Wuorinen has long embodied. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite. Review | Four books remind us that a bookish life can be so fulfilling 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The five-foot deepening involved not some recondite engineering challenge; essentially it required moving muck. Opinion | Can America ‘do big things’ again? Ask the regulators and lawyers. 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z By all accounts, Mr. Wilson was erudite about the recondite, a prolific author of some 60 books on topics ranging from angels to pirate utopias and all manner of renegade religions. Peter Lamborn Wilson, Advocate of ‘Poetic Terrorism,’ Dies at 76 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The freezer shelves at Whole Foods tell the story of artisan ice cream’s success, with multiplying labels and their recondite flavors jostling for space. The Cutthroat World of $10 Ice Cream 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z A key work for this gifted and recondite Taiwanese filmmaker, it had never received a proper theatrical release in Los Angeles and thus had never been reviewed in The Times. Best 2020 double feature: Two favorite discoveries in film's toughest year 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z All the more reason to dig into this highly readable narrative, written with a surprisingly light touch, given the mountain of often recondite raw material it devours. Talking art, politics and ‘Wagnerism’ with New Yorker music critic Alex Ross 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z McDonald told committee members this was a “recondite bit of law”, and the interpretation of the law was “a bit illogical”. Harry Dunn death: diplomatic immunity for Anne Sacoolas 'illogical' 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z This is all a matter of recondite academic debate, until it isn’t. The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The learned and recondite disputes currently embroiling many conservatives, disputes about various doctrines of interpretive constitutional “originalism,” are often illuminating and sometimes conclusive in constitutional controversies. Opinion | To construe the Constitution, look to the Declaration 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z He travels the world to see recondite species. Jonathan Franzen: 'Climate change isn't only reason for bird decline' 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s a recondite work of evolutionary history charting the development of humankind through a scholarly examination of our ability to cooperate as a species. How the ‘brainy’ book became a publishing phenomenon 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z The first Lego game was the relatively recondite Lego: Fun to Build, which launched in 1995 on an obscure educational system called the Sega Pico, and challenged players to complete 2D models against the clock. Brick by brick: how Lego embraced video games 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z "Cloudbursts," the author's wonderful, essential new collection, largely showcases his later, recondite style, which he has perfected in his short stories, producing some three dozen since 2003. Superb storytelling is packed into Thomas McGuane's essential new collection, 'Cloudbursts' 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In the 1930s, his private archive of recondite and theological investigations muddied the picture further. Isaac Newton in the round, a migratory road trip and the downside of positive thinking: Books in brief 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z It operates by its own set of recondite laws, rituals and conventions. 'A tale of decay': the Houses of Parliament are falling down 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Their language veers from the erudite to the recondite, with lapses into academic desiccation. Perfectly normal Talk of theory and whether someone is named in a document might sound recondite. Xi Jinping’s thinking is ranked alongside Mao’s 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The word connotes spiritual awareness and understanding, and it’s fair advertising: This pianist is guided by Afro-Cuban folklore and a respect for the recondite. null 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Although Gray and the Concord Four were ardent abolitionists, only Gray was interested in the recondite biological details of Darwin’s theory. Opinion | Did Darwin’s theory of evolution encourage abolition of slavery? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z This legal skirmish about one aspect of this one tentacle of the administrative state may seem recondite and trivial. Congress insists on making itself irrelevant 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Photography’s slow shift from recondite magic to quotidian banality changed painting for ever. Appy medium: could Instagram start an artistic revolution? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Then again, it was impressive to witness the intense interest that this recondite author still arouses. The Terrifying Beauty of Mallarmé 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Frank’s subjects were recondite: a book signing for a writer who never turns up; a day in the life of a country letter carrier. The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “Apocalypse, girl” swerves from decipherable politics to recondite personal imagery. Jenny Hval’s Experimental, Feminist Folk Music 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Franzen recognized “Sunset” as too loopy and recondite to attract a large audience. Bricklayer, Bird-Watcher, Literary Sensation 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z There’s also several more recondite attributes, like being able to run an expansionary or deflationary monetary policy when required, how the system of transfers itself is financed and so on. To Be Better Than Money Bitcoin Must Be Better Than Money; It Ain't 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Self himself of course deploys a famously recondite idiolect. George Orwell 'mediocre'? Should we send Will Self to Room 101? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z There are no hidden bunkers, no recondite burns, no misleading or capricious terrain. British Open: Hunger Games 2013-07-11T04:00:00Z It gets used for transcription work, as in our example, as well as in database projects, surveys, image tagging, and more recondite activities. Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet [Excerpt, Part 3] 2013-06-20T17:15:00.177Z Their sources include all the canonical texts and work in the public domain available on sites like Project Gutenberg, as well as more recondite materials. Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet [Excerpt Part Two] 2013-06-19T16:15:00.180Z In any case the data are often expressed in so mathematically recondite a form that they are unintelligible to the majority of historical profession. Big Data News: A Revolution Indeed 2013-06-18T13:57:00Z Even the recondite Benedict XVI wrote about environmental degradation and its deleterious impacts on the lives of the poor. For Catholics, a new kind of pro-creation 2013-03-26T17:44:52Z Another Interesting Scenario So let’s have a look at what could be another potential big payday for an innovator, who like so many scientific types, lacks expertise in the recondite world of patent litigation. Lawsuit Victories Against Apple And Google Fuel Investor Interest In MGT 2012-11-11T14:01:01Z He posted them on his website, along with some recondite weather-buff discussion and analysis. Why Flight 447 Went Down 2012-07-05T19:10:00Z These, and many other folks in many fields, seem to have a secret, recondite knowledge attached to a public presence. Embrace Your Hidden Charisma 2012-05-31T11:12:08Z Its quality is more subtle, more recondite than the poetry of the Polish or the Russian pianist. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Anything like a résumé of such a work would be out of place here, but we can cordially recommend it as, with all its recondite erudition, a most readable book. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Even his common-sense admirers are probably held by something more recondite than this occasional charm. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z The profession necessitates a close knowledge of the hidden lives and recondite actions of scores of one's fellow-creatures. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z With this end in view, his treatment of the subject has been general rather than detailed, and popular rather than recondite. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z He had been proud of his knowledge of Norman descents, proud of the research which had won that knowledge, proud of his taste for following up recondite facts. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The most difficult problem of mathematical astronomy and the most recondite principles that underlie the theory of the celestial motions were to him but child’s play.” Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z If Booth would take the trouble to read Mr. Havelock Ellis’s book on Criminals, not to mention more recondite ^ works, he would see that the Sluggard and the Thief are first cousins. Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z He is never obscure, never recondite; but, like Browning, he sends a veritable multiplex of ideas along a single wire. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z As it was, however, Prescott saw the obvious rather than the recondite. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Bryant has endeavoured by the most recondite researches to give us the reasons why the Creator thought proper thus to visit his disobedient people. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In the case of the run of physical sciences this revision is less necessary; and for no very recondite reason. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z There is no very atrocious vice, no terrific wickedness in the piece, as far as I could understand its recondite philosophy; but its silliness surely possesses the silliness of a little child. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z But I believe that the attempt to describe them will throw light on many recondite problems in ethics. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Bell, who could not read German, did not dig up von Neumann's recondite proof. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival [Excerpt] 2012-01-30T18:15:00.243Z A well-known political blog, The Monkey Cage, raised the question of whether trying to deduce voters’ recondite opinions was really needed. Race and Religion at the Ballot Box: Building a Better Bias Detector 2012-01-26T18:15:00.227Z Nor can it be said of him that he neglects truths that are obvious, and occupies himself in discovering and bringing forward those that are recondite. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Already, even in those days, the young medical student was very deeply engaged in recondite speculations on the question of energy. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z “Yes, Dan,” Dr. Crow replied, “provided you understand that population genetics is a recondite field that will never be of great interest except to a small group of specialists.” James F. Crow, Population Genetics Pioneer, Dies at 95 2012-01-11T01:34:28Z With the example of many enchanted passages of allusion no less recondite occurring in the ballads of his own country-side, Lockhart might reasonably have been expected to have done much better than the last couplet. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z They go away, and none is seen returning, To teach that other world's recondite learning; 'Twill not be shown for dull mechanic prayers, For prayer is naught without true heartfelt yearning. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z These have undoubtedly247 been formed accidentally, and it appears wrong and unfair to attribute to them any more recondite significance. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z How the transfer was arranged I can not tell, not knowing the recondite formula in use upon these occasions. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Dr. Hartl remembered the exchange, he wrote, “because afterward I hurried to look up ‘recondite’ in the dictionary.” James F. Crow, Population Genetics Pioneer, Dies at 95 2012-01-11T01:34:28Z He has shaken off the rather recondite euphuism of some of the earlier passages, and has become more human and familiar. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z All the early Egyptian manuscripts extant have served in their day an ecclesiastical rather than a secular object, and all of them abound with mythological stories more or less recondite. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z Such five-dollar adverbs couldn’t be more appropriate for a man who fancies himself a a master of recondite subjects. Poli-Tics: 2012 Candidates' Favorite Linguistic Crutches 2011-02-21T06:50:00Z He has a first-class recondite and spiritual meaning for every one of them, which seems to be entirely satisfactory—to himself. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z This was banality posing as profundity, cloaked in a wreath of recondite academicism–an Algerian expert, no less! Joe Klein: Gingrich vs. Huntsman Is No Lincoln-Douglas Debate 2011-12-13T17:06:06Z Lord Acton would pour out to a sympathetic listener the most recondite history, or, on a different occasion, the spiciest gossip, if that were the commodity in demand. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z When such recondite subjects as Egyptian and Assyrian called for interpreters, Philadelphia was again on the spot with Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson and Dr. Morris Jastrow. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z And she was in a red-hot temper, so that in any case she was in no mood to appreciate her legal adviser's recondite allusions. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z We call such recondite knowledge telepathy, and leave it for psychologists to study its character and application. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z For this, or possibly for more recondite reasons, a few varieties do not succeed well on Paradise roots. Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada 2011-11-17T03:00:30.320Z "I suppose Mr Cavanagh is able to supply you with little interesting details on all sorts of recondite subjects?" Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z The knowledge required is neither recondite nor profound, yet I shudder to think what the result would be were we Curators to submit ourselves to the tender mercies of this Italian board. Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts 2011-10-27T02:00:27.377Z It is not strange that some of the followers of Hermes, especially the more mercurial and imaginative, should have evolved nebulous theories, no longer explainable, and involving recondite spiritual considerations. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The chief trouble was that his brilliancy was not on the plane of ordinary vision, but was recondite, ingenious, fanciful. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z There is no pompous announcement of something to be expected very new, and recondite, and far removed from the beaten track. The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 2011-10-03T02:00:25.363Z If it meant anything it meant that he had killed Robert Champion for some recondite reason of his own--one with which she had no sort of connection. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z It could not therefore be from ignorance that Johnson failed to propose this recondite sense, but from a conviction that it would not represent the true meaning of Shakspeare. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z This approaches necromancy, seemingly, and yet in my opinion, as I now see the matter, such unexplained and recondite occurrences appear unscientific, because of the shortcomings of students of science. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z It is all too argumentative, too curious and recondite. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Jack struck him as being an excellent fellow, although not a golfer, which was a pity, and even apparently disinclined to take up the game—which might signify some recondite flaw in his character. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z What idea can a child have of conception by the Holy Ghost and being born of the Virgin Mary, in both which recondite mysteries he avows his belief? My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z "You and my mother appear to find some recondite quality in Miss Jones which I'm unable to discover!" exclaimed Char, laughing a little. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z The mail brings manuscripts unprinted, and pamphlets recondite, with no word of introduction. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z If you hear him speak before you see him, you will recognise him by his exquisite taste in recondite epithets. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z But I must not wander from my point, which simply is that Arnold's dislike of anything recondite or remote was intense, genuine, and characteristic. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Thus such relations are by no means recondite or rare. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z As the more general definition cannot be made intelligible without the introduction of some rather recondite notions belonging to the theory of aggregates, we shall, in what follows, adhere to Riemann’s definition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z To realize this no very recondite instrument of research is required. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z The uninformed look on the recondite structure of logic, and they are repelled by the difficulty of comprehending it, and wrap themselves up in absolute and obstinate ignorance, which they believe to be their destiny. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Busied as he was with the recondite application of great principles, he had practical discernment of the possibilities of Co-operation, unthought of by those of us engaged in promoting co-partnership in the workshop. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z When we speak of the “external” world in this discussion, we must not mean “spatially external,” unless “space” is interpreted in a peculiar and recondite manner. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z But it is not because M. Anatole France has rare power to create original characters, or to reflect for us something of the more recondite literary life of Paris, that his charming story will live. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Two or three of the foregoing examples refer to matters of a recondite nature. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The right understanding of physical and moral facts greatly depends upon intellectual character—and there enters largely into the recondite and ultimate inquiries of intelligent men another class of facts, called mental facts. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z At the same time the exposition is not too recondite and is such as to stimulate the general reader who is interested in the study of the Heavens. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z It is not our design just now to talk about the nature of the atmosphere; to attempt any analysis of light, or even to mention its recondite mysteries. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Yet, independently of these its more recondite and dubious qualities, there are beauties in "Meister" which cannot but secure it some degree of favor at the hands of many. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z It is high time that all this profound research, this recondite learning, these laborious excavations, should be made known in their results, and brought home to the larger public. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z This is a quarto volume abounding with recondite researches and many fancies. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z And in the next place, we discover that not enumeration only, but a more recondite art, had a great share in the fabrication of these gigantic numbers of years. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z The punning correspondence with the viceroy was the forerunner of a habit that lasted through Swift's life, and gained him a reputation for wit which, fortunately for the dean, was supplemented by something more recondite. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z These are recondite, and in a sense absurd points; but they do, I think, help one to see how wrong the present system is. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Most of the ultimate consequences are too remote and recondite to be comprehended now. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z In this folio of near a thousand pages, Cudworth opens 716 the occult sources of remote antiquity; and all the knowledge which the most recondite records have transmitted are here largely dispersed. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z A friend ventured to ask him, not very long before his death, if he grudged the many hours he had devoted to these recondite investigations. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z He can talk extremely well on serious and recondite subjects, but the quick jest and easy repartee of the parlor and the dining-room are beyond him. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z It is evident, that the philosophic poet should pass over as lightly as may be, all dry and recondite doctrines, and enlarge on the topics most susceptible of poetical ornament. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He composed a curious treatise on the etymology of the names of things in heaven and earth, in which he discovered great knowledge, both of Roman antiquities, and the most recondite Grecian literature. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Bolingbroke might envy the learning which he could not rival, and borrow from those recondite stores the knowledge which otherwise might not have reached him. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The rudiments and the mysteries—the elementary axioms and most recondite problems—of his lofty vocation are unrolled before him in legible and intelligible characters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z It might be that Captain Scarthe was acquainted with this not very recondite truth. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z What exactly is NATO's interest in such a recondite tribal squabble? Will the Taliban Re-Take the Most Dangerous Place in Afghanistan? 2011-03-10T21:50:00Z Accordingly, Cicero appears to have been destitute of that speculative disposition which leads us to penetrate into the more recondite and original principles of knowledge, and to mark the internal operations of thought. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z But such a mode of speaking is too violent and recondite for common purposes. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z For the few known cases give us a glimpse of a recondite law of nature, which most likely pervades creation. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z In 1508 he had conceived a work on lines more to the taste of the learned world, full of apt and recondite learning, and now and again relieved by telling comments or lively anecdotes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Child, for thee there are more fitting things in store than the upper knowing—better than solitude; higher charms than study, and abstruse pondering over recondite lore, and subtle laws of Being and of Power. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z From this recondite investigation he excludes the Epicureans, who decline all care of the republic, and bids them retire to their gardens. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The authorities cited were often recondite and obscure,—yet it was evident that they had been sifted carefully and critically. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z They construct recondite legal justifications, destroy records of actual torture and paper the files with spurious claims of success. Wisconsin governor threatens layoffs unless bill passes 2011-02-22T21:25:00Z Miss Jane meditated for several seconds; and hopefully came to the conclusion that her brother had developed a satirical tendency, which he gratified in this recondite fashion. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z Mark Lemon gives us the result of his recondite searches and seizures in the regions of infinite jest. Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z But recondite learning always had a fascination for him, and the scholar in him grew with years. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z In September, 1850, an audience gathered at Stockton to hear a lecture upon so recondite a subject as the “State of Learning from the Fall of Rome to the Fall of Constantinople.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Her last work was a treatise On Molecular and Microscopic Science embodying the most recondite investigations on the subject. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z What French influence effected in Italy is a topic so recondite as to require separate discussion; for the results were not so immediate or so dramatic as they were in Germany. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z His mind was filled with a vast deal of knowledge of a recondite sort. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z This synthetic and transitive function of consciousness is a positive fact about it, to be discovered by study, like any other somewhat recondite fact. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Yet both China and Russia evince self-referential cultures, recondite non-roman scripts, regional defense strategies, and underdeveloped legal systems, denying them key instruments for global dominion. How America will collapse (by 2025) 2010-12-06T20:01:00Z Compared with the Cubist-period work of his near contemporary Picasso — one picture after another that can be like a cheese grater for the eyes — even the most recondite Matisse is pretty beguiling. Great Leap Forward: Matisse in Chicago 2010-04-02T18:30:00Z The value which the work derived from the author's access to these recondite sources of information is much enhanced by its independent spirit. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies More frequently however he does this by direct mention of some of the more familiar, and occasionally of some of the more recondite, tales which had supplied materials to earlier poets and painters. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The distinguished foreign scholar, however, considered Linacre as an enthusiast in recondite studies, but no mere pedant. Catholic Churchmen in Science It seems to us very like an English reader's "discovery" of the alphabet, or, at least, of the recondite art of spelling words of two syllables. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Next come in questions of criticism and taste, with their recondite and disputable premisses, and the usual deductions from them, so subtle and difficult to follow. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Linn�us gave to this lower grade of plants the name of Cryptogamia, thereby indicating that their organs answering to stamens and pistils, if they had any, were recondite and unknown. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools They, as well as their Roman followers, seem largely to have illustrated their own feelings and experience by recondite allusions to the innumerable heroines of ancient mythology. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The application of the principle that society should be organized upon the basis of functions, is not recondite, but simple and direct. The Acquisitive Society To the antiquarian and moralist, the archæologist and student of the sacred volume, these volumes must prove a treasury of most recondite erudition.”—Telegraph. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations It concerns nothing more recondite than that tragedy of natural human failure which you may constantly witness all about you, if not within you. The Sources Of Religious Insight They have been gathered from the most recondite sources, and skilfully massed in attractive array, forming a great collection, that is at once valuable and interesting. Ticknor and Company Book Catalog (1887) The poems of Propertius which celebrate his love for Cynthia could only be appreciated by the possessors of much recondite learning. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Together they became something of a touchstone for the finer, more recondite elements in the vortex of the larger London life. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece I smoked tobacco and read Milton at the same time, and for the same motive: to find out what was the recondite charm in them that gave my father so much pleasure. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses In Rosscher’s Ausführliches Lexikon of Greek and Roman mythology, the earlier method of the philologists is usually adopted, and the work, still in course of publication, is most useful for its recondite learning. Custom and Myth New Edition Judith, however, recalled him to less recondite speculation. Thirty In turning to the second question, discussed in connexion with this Eclogue, the great amount and recondite character of Virgil’s learning, especially of that derived from Alexandrine sources, must be kept in view. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He was not brilliant in his studies, the memorizing of abstruse questions and recondite problems was not to his liking. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Our familiar sights lead to interest in recondite knowledge. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Ewing had listened to his recondite discourse chiefly with a morbid expectancy of that recurrent break in the voice, straining until it came and relaxing until it quavered back to the hazardous masculine level. Ewing\\'s Lady The yellow lights in his glass seemed to wink with recondite confidences. Where the Pavement Ends In another place he speaks of those things, ‘what he had introduced from the most recondite learning of the Greeks226.’ The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil "But I must write," he said, and write he did, two elaborate letters, couched in that phraseology at once recondite and simple which made our ancestors the delightful correspondents that they were. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel The story is sustained with uncommon power; the characters in the plot are admirably individualized; showing a deep insight into human nature, and a rare talent for depicting the recondite workings of passion. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 He is repulsed by the intolerably harsh and crabbed versification, by the recondite choice of theme and expression, and by the oddity of the thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" I had forgotten that while he might establish his claim to the belated title of a gentleman, for some twenty-odd years of his life he had been acquiring the recondite arts of the Parisian apache! Where the Pavement Ends And again he says, ‘this story Virgil has dug out from the most recondite Greek literature227.’ The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Sumner was recondite in language and elaborate in style. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Unfortunately nowadays people like recondite arrangements, difficult scoring. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The mystery of verse is like other abstruse and recondite mysteries,—it strikes the ordinary fleshly man as absurd. The Future of English Poetry He had every encouragement to become a writer of religious poetry; yet much of his work is philosophic and recondite. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 It is hard to realize and hopeless to reproduce the musical force of classic metres so recondite and exquisite as the choral parts of a Greek play. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The observation of life, which Johnson thought as precocious as the learning, is not of the recondite kind, and belongs exclusively to Chaucer. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition It was clear that our knowledge of things in general was drawn in a vast degree from these recondite sources. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 To this succeeded a still more ingenious and recondite work, entitled "Hermes Britannicus," besides some less important writings of a similar kind. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 He was at home in recondite matters, and yet capable of shedding new light on threadbare themes. Eden An Episode Theology of a recondite character has always been the expression of reflection and leisure. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance It was as various as it was profound, and much of it bore on recondite matters which few men study to-day. Studies in Contemporary Biography They would feel, too, that they were surrounded by people who could recognize and appreciate conviction and science even though these were presented in forms too recondite for the mob. Pot-Boilers The philosophic jargon of the 18th. and 19th. centuries is now almost universally discarded, and with it preternaturally recondite and ineffectual modes of thought. The Philosophy of Spinoza There are tendencies in human nature, not of a very recondite order, on which the fact may easily be accounted for. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 No one is more unimpressible to a specious declamation: no one relishes a recondite beauty more. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature There remained to be tried Common Reason, carefully distinguished from recondite learning, and not based on metaphysical assumptions. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Erasmus has pointed out some of these sources, in the responses of oracles; the allegorical symbols of Pythagoras; the verses of the poets; allusions to historical incidents; mythology and apologue; and other recondite origins. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The other hitherto unused manuscripts are in no more recondite place than the Record Office in London, and I do not know how they managed to escape the notice of previous writers on the subject. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Perceiving recondite merits very hard to attain, making or swallowing artistic formul�, or perhaps falling in love with some particular proficiency of his own, many artists forget the end of all art: to please. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) His was thus an active life, and, to a man of the type of a rat, filled with recondite joys. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) He was full of a certain recondite, far-away humour that did not 146 quite make you laugh at the time, but was somehow laughable to recollect. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) He knew well, that for some books to be noised about, they should not be read: this was one of those recondite mysteries of his, which we may have occasion farther to 342 reveal. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 In some recondite way it seemed that would have been indecent, an exposure of my new treasure to the vulgar gaze. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Not content with that, you procure for our diversion Arab music and dancing of a—of a highly recondite character. The Brass Bottle This proud position I attained by no more recondite arts than telling the mere truth and unaffectedly displaying my indifference to the result. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) When, following the recondite brook, Sudden upon this scene I look, And light with unfamiliar face On chaste Diana’s bathing-place, Loud ring the hills about and all The shallows are abandoned.... The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) The reason why not, if something more recondite, does not want for weight. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) His sermons, preached at the Rolls Chapel, which contain the germ of his philosophy, are too closely packed with argument and too recondite in thought to fit them for pulpit discourses. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Truth indeed is rarely recondite or difficult to communicate. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Doctrine grows more pantheistic and more recondite, mysteries and symbols are multiplied, all to the increase of the influence of the priesthood, and to the infinite exercise of ingenuity in coming times. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems I'll swear it wasn't merely to get the tip for which he thanked me, but with the idea of showing me in some recondite, Oriental fashion that he was glad I'd come. The Million-Dollar Suitcase In the university that life is, she had acquired encyclopedias of recondite learning. The Paliser case He delighted in recondite thought as much as most young men delight in action, and as a philosopher he is said to have commenced his studies with Locke, whose famous Essay appeared in 1690. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Aylmer had converted those smoky, dingy, sombre rooms, where he had spent his brightest years in recondite pursuits, into a series of beautiful apartments, not unfit to be the secluded abode of a lovely woman. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories The motto of the members was 'Every man soap his own beard,' a rather recondite witticism which their founder declares equivalent to the reigning phrase of 'Every man in his humour.' James Boswell Famous Scots Series Hence he must beware of using any recondite allusions or illustrations which themselves need so much explanation that their bearing on the immediate problem in hand is obscured. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College The glow of the incandescent light Has banished the tallow candle; And the ox-cart is gone at steam's rapid flight, But Love is too subtle, is too recondite For Learning or Genius to handle. The Loom of Life But his gush about the recondite beauty of this pearl of melancholy, shall not be intended upon the gustatory nerves of the Reader. The Book of Khalid And one can easily conceive how, when the style Chora was no longer literally correct, men abandoned the sober ground of common-sense and history to invent recondite meanings inspired by imagination and sentiment. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture That is mystic or mystical which has associated with it some hidden or recondite meaning, especially of a religious kind; as, the mystic Babylon of the Apocalypse. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Before he was twenty he penned a remarkable treatise on logic, and he left behind him at his death a total of nearly a hundred works on all manner of recondite subjects. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters In metaphysics recondite, In realms of verse by royal right Of Genevieve and Christabel The first upon the mystic shell; And yet his greatest charm and might Were eyes divine! The Loom of Life THE literature of Japan is a somewhat recondite subject, while the Japanese drama is at present, like many other things in the country, to a great extent in a state of transition. The Empire of the East They are full of recondite information, overloaded indeed with learning; elegant, nervous, and elaborate, rather than easy-flowing, simple, and warm, like a genuine product of the muse. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Sagacious refers to a power of tracing the hidden or recondite by slight indications, as by instinct or intuition; it is not now applied to mere keenness of sense-perception. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The boy-king, too, unfortunately paid a visit to Tycho, and, venturing upon a decided opinion on some recondite subject, received a quiet setting down which he ill relished. Pioneers of Science Which recondite view of the subject she did not put into words. Say and Seal, Volume I The investigation of these marks is a recondite study assuredly full of interest, but, as I have said, prolific in pitfalls for the unwary or the too-credulous. The Empire of the East Yet proper cooking is not a recondite process, nor one beyond the simplest intelligence. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Learning is much higher than information, being preeminently wide and systematic knowledge, the result of long, assiduous study; erudition is recondite learning secured only by extraordinary industry, opportunity, and ability. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions This famous work, "De Revolutionibus Orbium Cœlestium," embodied all his painstaking calculations, applied his new system to each of the bodies in the solar system in succession, and treated besides of much other recondite matter. Pioneers of Science And He Himself is concealed, and hidden, and kept recondite by all things. Hebrew Literature The subject is more recondite than the foregoing; the facts are less accessible; and my statements must partake more of the inferential than did those embraced in the former branches of the subject. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Now the materials for her inductions are supplied by the chemist, the electrician, the inquirer into the most recondite mysteries of light and the molecular constitution of matter. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Such superstitions as these last must be the result of study; they are too recondite for natural or spontaneous growth. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Alas! that man should dare To say, with reckless air, That Holy Scripture's but a dream of night; That all we read therein Has truly never been, Is naught but sign of meaning recondite. Jewish Literature and Other Essays It was undoubtedly, a form of motor whose power was derived from some secret property of vibratory bodies, a recondite subject to which his books alluded but obscurely. The Doomsman All's English education had been secured in the laboratory of an English scientist in Sierra Leone, and long association with that learned man had endowed him with a vocabulary at once impressive and recondite. Bones in London A perfect method must be based on the operations of mere surveying, and ought not to involve recondite physical considerations. The Story of the Heavens That such a maxim as this should either be accounted a dangerous heresy, or mistaken for a great and recondite truth, speaks ill for the state of philosophical speculation on such subjects. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The congregations were poor; immigrant Poles filled the offices of rabbis and teachers, and occupied themselves solely with the discussion of recondite problems. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Having at heart to help you, I travelled the world over, visiting its most recondite corners, in search of such a substitute for Freia as might be found acceptable to the giants. The Wagnerian Romances A few—very few—are situations which he evoked from the more recondite places of his own turbulent soul. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations We have in this chapter to narrate a discovery of a recondite character, which illustrates in a forcible manner some of the fundamental truths of Astronomy. The Story of the Heavens His early proneness to dwell upon the more recondite departments of each science and branch of inquiry has been alluded to above. Spare Hours Before Phyl could answer this recondite question, she found herself enveloped in frills and a vague perfume of stephanotis. The Ghost Girl It is not so much the whole physical and psychical cosmos that the German critic studies as the past history of art in its most recondite phases and most subtle divergences. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 But for this very reason perhaps, they serve the great cause—the cause of humane and enlightened civilisation—better in our age of vulgar mob-rule than more recondite "logoi." Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations If he had recondite and "artistic" feelings, he indulged them also without shame. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Another characteristic is also well illustrated in this context, and a further translated extract will show the curious, if not very recondite, love-casuistry which plays so large a part. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Let me say, immediately, that my final appeal is to nothing more recondite than religious faith. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Most of such invocations are expressed in terms far more recondite and symbolic than the above. Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Only an abstruse theologian with a taste for the more recondite niceties of obscure heresies could possibly do justice to it. Marge Askinforit With clairvoyant ubiquity it floats and flows into the most recondite recesses, the most reluctant sanctuaries, of other men's souls. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions And yet its attractions cannot possibly be said to be of any recondite or artificial kind, and its defects are likely to be more, not less, recognised as the critical faculty acquires strength and practice. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The style is, in general, strong and effective, not without some of the beauty and dignity of the Old English, but relieved of the more obscure and recondite features of that style. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Somewhere, eager but for right, Court and counsel cease to cite Pointless cases recondite. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series Seaton bounded past his more recondite companion; and it was not long ere a fierce growl challenged him as he approached nearer to the dwelling. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 But it is certain that he was too illiterate امى to understand their recondite doctrines if they had condescended to teach him. Notes on Islam I do not know, however, that it is necessary to turn it wrong side out in the effort to find some hidden or recondite meaning. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Another, more recondite, but perhaps ironical, is “Put it on.” The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It is my own private opinion that these mystic words contain some prodigiously recondite meaning; or, perhaps, arise from one of those awful incidents, of which Hoffman encountered so many among the ghost-seeing, all-believing Germans. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 A rich and well-modulated vocabulary, finely turned phrases, amusing quips and conceits of fancy, acute observations, a rich store of recondite learning, these charm and hold us. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Quantities of recondite erudition are poured out on the slightest provocation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Would it not have been advisable if those who signed this document had made a few not very recondite researches into eastern Adriatic questions? The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 The condition is nothing recondite, nothing hard either to understand or to practise, but it is simply that commonplace, humdrum virtue of diligence. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John I do not doubt it," replied the priest; "the gait is another; but it is not all of us who can read so recondite a language. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert Let no one suppose that any thing recondite is essential to the idea of a University sermon. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Yet there occurred opportunities when this odd lumber of my brain, especially that which was connected with the recondite parts of history, did me, as Hamlet says, "yeoman's service." Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) He took a humorous delight in mystifying the public with recondite allusions, sending everyone to the dictionary to look out "Byzantine logothete," and to the Bible and cyclopedia to find Armageddon. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman A characterization of communities is one of the most common and at the same time most unsatisfactory of operations, as the data for its being done well are so wide, recondite, and difficult to grasp. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 There is a suggestion of torture, not brutal but exquisitely refined, of perfected pain, achieved by the stimulation of recondite nerves of very delicate sensibility. Gossamer 1915 The explanation is somewhat recondite, perhaps, but not discreditable. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) She possessed recondite, first-hand information, such as no outsider can know; as, for instance, the more white mats, spotless covers and antimacassars in April, the more stains and flies towards the end of August. The Privet Hedge By keeping these things in view, the reader will be better able to understand, in the writings of Binning, numerous allusions, more or less recondite, to the particular circumstances of the times. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning There is really nothing recondite or mysterious about nationalism, despite all the arguments that have raged concerning its exact meaning. The New World of Islam Which, cracking, lets the ropy, trickling drop Of sweetness touch your tongue, or potted nests Which my recondite recipe invests With cold conglomerate tidbits—ah, the bill! The Book of Humorous Verse The meaning of this missive is recondite; perhaps it is this: Mme. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Once I remember ‘My wife’s sailor-brother Captain Anthony’ being produced in connection with nothing less recondite than a sunset. Chance A Tale in Two Parts But many such phrases enjoyed proverbial currency, and others, which were more recondite, were borrowed from Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’ and secular works whence he drew his plots. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles But there certainly may be a more recondite origin of the name; and something may depend on the date at which he finds it first applied. Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. It paves the way for more repulsive, though more recondite and valuable works. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition But however remote and recondite thinking becomes, however Page 390 far removed from immediate practical concerns, it occurs essentially in a situation analogous to the "forked-road situation" described above. Human Traits and their Social Significance His imagination is at once quaint and far-reaching—at once peculiar and ambitious; and it is often guilty of what is recondite and remote. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation ‘Mastic’ is doubtless an adjective formed without recondite significance from the substantive ‘mastic,’ i.e. the gum commonly used at the time for stopping decayed teeth. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Moral energy must be brought to bear upon the task, whether the Negro be engaged in the production of wealth or in the more recondite pursuits which minister to the higher needs of man. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time This might seem to afford a cause sufficient in itself for the effect, yet it appears to have been aided by other causes more recondite and mysterious. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Why do you ask as if it were a thing very recondite and difficult? The Essentials of Spirituality The rustics and the convict, after one long stare of amazement at the distant hut, began to comment freely and with much recondite blasphemy upon the transaction recorded by Margery. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia But he had now reached a stage when, with leisure to think, he might penetrate into more recondite regions of the truth as it is in Jesus. The Life of St. Paul A more tedious thing, with its recondite and archaic allusions to Pulteney and other Georgian personages, could not be conceived. John Forster Of a universal practise, there must still be presumed a universal cause, which, however recondite and abstruse, may be perhaps reserved to make me illustrious by its discovery, and you by its promulgation. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II "And one must be good, at any rate, must not one?" she inquired, with a cadence apparently intended for an assurance that my answer would settle this recondite question for her. The Author Of Beltraffio Selden, after all his recondite researches, is satisfied with saying, that some trace of this distinction is to be found in our nation. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 As a general rule, a sound etymologist will not hastily desert an obvious and trite explanation to go in search of a more recondite import. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. His obstinate and tremendous spirit was now withdrawn somewhere, into some fastness more recondite than sleep; not far off; not detached, not dethroned; but undiscoverably hidden, and beyond any summons. Clayhanger He has left a little sheaf of random jottings which, without being subtle or recondite, show how he looked on this side of human things. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 However, by a careful study of early Christian martyrs, the girls had managed to unearth a list of recondite saints with fairly unusual and picturesque names. Just Patty Anyhow, there is a real though recondite sense in which William the Conqueror was William the Conquered. A Short History of England The stuffing, to be sure, was more prolonged and recondite, while dancers imported from Dizful swayed and snapped their fingers, singing for the pleasure of the Father of Swords. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story At intervals, with her ringed fingers she would lift the short skirt—a nothing, an imperceptibility, half an inch, with glance downcast; and the effect was profound, recondite, inexplicable. Clayhanger They are tormented by no false philosophy, led astray by no recondite opinions of controversialists, whether He is all in all, or shares a "divided throne." Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 In middle life he wrote a volume on "The Hebrew Accents of the Twenty-one Books of the Bible," which has become a classical authority on that somewhat recondite subject. Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 The variations due to the grosser factors I have mentioned—such as condition of attention, physical unrest, disturbing noises, sights, etc.—are of greater influence than any of these more recondite variations in the stimulus. The Story of the Mind Remorse overpowering and absorbing does not embody itself in these recondite and, one may almost say, over-ingenious fancies. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) What is here intended is something far more recondite than this superficial relation between Speech, Thought, and the World thought about. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The thing remains as secret, as recondite, as baffling as ever. White Ashes The stone coping invites; I lay myself against it, fold my arms, blow a smoke ring toward the sunset, and give up my soul to recondite and mellow meditation. Europe After 8:15 Polyphony comprehends the most recondite elements of musical theory, but its essence consists of one leading concept—that of canonic imitation. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present He tried smoking and Milton, he says, at the same time, in the hope of discovering the "recondite charm" in them which so pleased his father. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series Deeming this subject too recondite for his juvenile audience, he dropped it, and commenced a course of lectures upon physics. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The reason is less recondite than might be supposed. A History of American Christianity When the wine appeared, the bottles immersed to the neck in tubs filled with salted ice, the more recondite parts of the room echoed groans. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 Almost all human nature can, in some measure, understand and feel the most exquisite and recondite image which only the rarest genius could produce. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Where this recondite and cosmic problem is touched upon, there are often qualifications to be made. Modern American Prose Selections Had Curtis described his recent residence as "the Moon" it would have been regarded as only a degree more recondite. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York He looks deep down into the more recondite emotions of the human heart. The Simpkins Plot If the parallel lines ever belonged to the ancient symbol, they had some more recondite and more fruitful meaning. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He is not only easily understood, but it is difficult, even on the most recondite points, to misunderstand him. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities Most of the monograms of this class, like that of Correggio, given above, involve a pun, sometimes, indeed, not a very recondite one. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 Then, touching a knob, he established communication with the Central Concert Hall, whence our greatest maestros send out to subscribers their delightful successions of accords determined by recondite algebraic formulas. In the Year 2889 It is this concern with the profounder aspects of human nature, this bold grappling with the deeper and more recondite problems of his art, that gives him consideration as a first-rate artist. A Book of Prefaces He frequently compares the Discipline of the Secret with the heathen Mysteries, as to their internal and recondite wisdom. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Although verging on his eightieth year, he is still hale, hearty, and vigorous, and able to converse intelligently on the most abstruse and recondite subjects. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities But in fact there is no ground whatever to invest these debauches with any recondite meaning. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America And what profound Philosophy, what lessons deep, O Gino, In matters more sublime and recondite, This century of thine and mine will teach To those that follow! The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi The most difficult problems of mathematical astronomy and the most recondite principles that underlie the theory of the celestial motions were to him but child's play. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Toward the end of his days he became a close friend of Jináb-i-Múníb; the two exchanged many a recondite confidence, and each carried many a melody in his breast. Memorials of the Faithful Nothing in the antient Greek and Roman literature, however recondite, or wherever dispersed, could escape his sagacity and patient investigation. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. The minute and recondite records he throws together, in as much sequence as the chaotic state of European institutions and society in the Middle Ages will allow, are left to their own eloquence. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. It has been taken for granted that only some recondite theological consideration could explain this phenomenon. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Somewhat of all things sealed and recondite, Save the enigma of herself, she knows. Platform Monologues They are not recondite; we know them well and use them freely, but to use them is easier than to perceive their demands and their qualities. The Craft of Fiction It was true, her lovely, recondite personality seemed to flash it before him, she didn't fit easily into his theories of efficiency and self-development by effort. Franklin Kane No recondite research is needed to establish this general view of the situation. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Many other opinions, fanciful, absurd, or recondite, which they held, it is not necessary here to state. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Uneasy tenant, wayward partner as my recondite may be, he has had a relationship with my forensic which at times has touched cordiality. Lore of Proserpine The mystery of verse is like other abstruse and recondite mysteries—it strikes the ordinary fleshly man as absurd. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters But there were and had been various opinions on this difficult point, as the laws of hunting are complex, recondite, numerous, traditional, and not always perfectly understood. Phineas Redux Each summer vacation sees an increase in the number of French visitors to the British Museum reading-room, who are making recondite researches into English literary history. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays It has no recondite meaning drawn from arbitrary dogmas, but a plain meaning drawn from natural truths. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life If one have a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.” Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines I suspect some recondite classical allusion, which has been missed by the transcribers, has led to the corruption of the text. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator People wish to have their opinions accepted; the quibbling doctor wishes to eclipse the angelic doctor; the recondite doctor wishes to reign alone. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary Literally, philosophy means nothing more recondite than love of wisdom. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays These were recondite institutions, sometimes wielded by the state, sometimes by a priesthood, sometimes by a ramifying private society. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Fortunately, the considerations which are necessary are not recondite, and all the facts are of an extremely picturesque nature. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography It is the charm of his poetry that it is very rich and recondite—a mine of gold, which the farther it is worked, the more precious its yield becomes. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour I have occasionally myself had evidence of his exact knowledge of very recondite portions of the Old Testament; but, as already intimated, he was always cautious and sparing in scriptural allusions or quotations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 But the dramatist's exposition of the workings of virtue or vice has no recondite intention. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays We must therefore compare different passages with each other, carefully probe them all, and explain, so far as possible, those whose meaning is recondite by those whose meaning is obvious. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life And every night these bigwigs met, and strove with utmost pains To solve recondite problems that would baffle lesser brains. Marjorie at Seacote The Unknown.—I wish to guard you against the adoption of any hypothesis on this recondite and abstruse subject. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher In 1619 the style is lighter, the fancy gayer, more exquisite, more recondite. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton Her illustrations are not recondite, literary, or conventional; she finds them at her own door. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Moreover, hanging was a danger so recondite, and an eventuality so extravagant, as to make the whole thing ridiculous. Romance There is hardly a line, there is never a page, without an allusion to some recondite thing: Athenian customs, Greek names, the plays of Euripides, above all, the plays of Aristophanes. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Resolutely avoid all thoughts which are uncertain, recondite, obscure, immature, unimportant, shallow, weak, visionary, absurd, vague, extravagant, indefinite, or impractical. Talks on Talking Now I am not only incompetent to discuss with you the more recondite beauties of "Beowulf" but providentially forbidden the attempt by the conditions laid down for this Chair. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Our musician rapidly became known far and wide throughout the musical centres of Germany as a learned and recondite composer, as a brilliant improviser, and as an organist beyond rivalry. The Great German Composers It claims to fully reveal the most recondite mysteries of man upon every plane of his existence, both here and hereafter, in such plain, simple language that a child can almost understand it. Within the Temple of Isis A language which was at once native and recondite, far more recondite than the Latin of the ordinary scholar, could not but be impressive as a documentary medium. Anglo-Saxon Literature Fantastic, unpractical, they were gluttons for the romantic, the recondite, and the dainty. The Half-Hearted When, as in the instance above quoted, he borrows any171thing more recondite, he so exalts and transforms it that it passes from the original author to him like an angel the former has entertained unawares. Life of John Milton There is nothing mysterious or recondite about it. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe "However recondite his book, the author certainly presents a theory of first causes which is well fitted to challenge the thoughtful readers' attention and to excite much reflection." Within the Temple of Isis But it is otherwise with Sir Henry Spelman, whose studies were more recondite, and to whom Abraham Wheloc looked back as to “the hero of Anglo-Saxon literature.” Anglo-Saxon Literature Persons of minute significance in Parliament were not unknown to him, and he was ready with a theory or an explanation on the most recondite matters. The Half-Hearted Where did he gather all this recondite lore? The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution He is fresh and original without being recondite: plain-spoken without severity; and discusses some of the exciting topics of the day without provoking strife or lowering his tone as a Christian teacher. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series There is a price, again, for this resurrection: but how nobly, how blithely paid you may learn, without seeking recondite examples, from Cuthbert's famous letter describing the death of Bede. On The Art of Reading Few things can be drearier to the outsider than the conversation of cricketers, unless it be the recondite lore which whist-players p. 10bring forth from the depths of their extraordinary memories. Lost Leaders What is the secret principle of his method?—if one can call that a "method" which is, in effect, nothing if not airily unmethodical, and that principle "secret" which is neither recondite nor perplexing. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score The later peculiarities of the food—bread or some other commonplace material having the taste of more recondite dainties, and possessing curative properties—are not infrequently met with in folk-lore. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints It is often supposed to be a remote and recondite subject, intelligible only to the technical expert in knowledge, and apart from the everyday world of life. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope The conscientious young teacher is led to believe that it contains a recondite and portentous secret, by losing the true inwardness of which her whole career may be shattered. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals The laity looked up to them as the sole possessors of a recondite wisdom of the last importance to humanity. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. This new subject is not recondite nor are we unconquerably stupid. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 There are poems of Tennyson, of Wordsworth, even of the speciously recondite Browning, that have entered into the general consciousness. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 SINGER'S explanation, besides being somewhat too refined and recondite, is less applicable to the general sense and drift of the passage than that of Steevens, which Malone and Mr. Collier have adopted. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Von Bülow was a profound student of the works of Beethoven; his edition of the sonatas is noted for recondite learning, clearness and exactness in the smallest details. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers He was not a man to seek any recondite reasons for doing or not doing anything. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers I have purposely avoided recondite and inaccessible books and have named those easily obtainable from American or European publishers, or from Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, of Yokohama, Japan. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji The Vedas have truth for their recondite object. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 I said that the sense of fallacious seemed to be too refined and recondite. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 He was conceived, some Chinese writers say, because the philosophical explanations of the Cosmos were too recondite for the ordinary mind to grasp. Myths and Legends of China Certain of the reasons which might be invoked to uphold this opinion are too evident to be repeated here, though others more recondite might be quoted. The New Physics and Its Evolution As Thomassin observes, "we light a candle divided into three in honour of the Trinity, considering that enlightened by Christ we know that recondite mystery". The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome The subjugation of the senses hath charity for its recondite object. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 There were over thirty dishes on the emblazoned menu, and of course I had wanted something that was not on it: a peculiar rusk, a rusk recondite and unheard of by my fellow-diners. Your United States Impressions of a first visit Tommy goes to St. Mark's, a good Protestant place, or to the beach, where curious and recondite doctrines are weekly disputed. A Student in Arms Second Series To develop truths so recondite there would be needed a knowledge of nature much greater than that which we have. Treatise on Light Alone, she drew from some recondite fold of her many draperies a letter, an unsealed letter, which she opened, spread out, and proceeded to read. My Friend Prospero Truth hath the subjugation of the senses for its recondite object. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 And then I saw the Christopher Wren spire of Paul Revere's signal-church, closed now—but whether because the congregation had dwindled to six or for some more recondite reason I am not clear. Your United States Impressions of a first visit The Druids, like the priests of all religions, doubtless sought after such knowledge as was open to them, but this does not imply that they possessed a recondite philosophy or a secret theology. The Religion of the Ancient Celts But gently criticising the banality of the tunes the thing played and sending him forth in quest of records of recondite and "unrecorded" music, she succeeded in mitigating the terror. Jaffery Even in Blake's most recondite work there is always the moment when the clouds are parted and we recognise the austere and awful countenances of gods. Aspects of Literature And thirty years later he used the kindred but more recondite simile of a ring with its fortifying alloy, to symbolise the welded Wahrheit and Dichtung of his greatest poem. Robert Browning Before proceeding to discuss some of the more recondite phenomena of animal coloration, it will be well to consider for a moment the extent of the ground we have already covered. Darwinism (1889) They were not possessed of any recondite and esoteric wisdom. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Causality—i.e., the gift of tracing a recondite connection of cause and effect—is another faculty which many varieties of monkeys possess in a decidedly ultra-instinctive degree. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 The more stupid of them supply the matter for a good laugh; the more clever the stuff of a more recondite amazement. Aspects of Literature Henceforth his attitude, as a dramatist, to history is a curious blend of the historical specialist who explores the recondite byways of history, and the romantic poet who abandons actuality altogether. Robert Browning But Buddha's recondite doctrine was only for the wise. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Music resembles painting and poetry in the essential characteristic that her province is not Mind but Soul—the swaying sea of emotion which underlies the firm ground of attainable, if often recondite, fact. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Miss Ingate was aware of this, but she was not aware of other and more recondite interviews which Audrey had accomplished. The Lion's Share The creation of Karshish suited his humour and his quaint play with recondite knowledge. The Poetry Of Robert Browning A brief examination showed the boys to be well up in their studies;—indeed they furnished some recondite information about Baffin's Bay for which I should not myself have liked to be called on suddenly. Italian Journeys Indeed, There is no question too subtle, too delicate, too recondite, or too rash, for human eyes to ask or answer. Hints for Lovers It is characteristic of Mrs. Radcliffe's tendency to overlook the obvious in searching for the subtle, that the girl who feels these recondite emotions expresses slight embarrassment when unceremoniously flung on the protection of strangers. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Not often subtle in impulse or recondite in mood, his art has nothing of the impalpability, the drifting, iridescent vapours of Debussy, nothing of the impenetrable backgrounds of Brahms. Edward MacDowell Hints of this sort, the sense of which was not hard to read, in spite of their recondite phraseology, reached him from every quarter. The Liberation of Italy This important work equals that of Grotius in learning; but, from the partial and recondite nature of its subject, never equalled it in popularity. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Do we put our finger here upon some curious and recondite cosmic fact utterly transcending our mean comprehension? Hints for Lovers He is ousted in a scientific age by more recondite forms of terror. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance It is charged with emotion, yet it is not brooding or hectic, and it is seldom intricate or recondite in its psychology. Edward MacDowell The plan of the work before us necessarily excluded any great display of recondite learning or of profound speculation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 These, representing varying shades of British upper-class opinion and presenting articles presumably more profound than the newspaper editorials, frequently offered more recondite origins of the American crisis. Great Britain and the American Civil War She wondered what recondite force dissuaded her from doing so. Leonora He does not search with curious ingenuity for recondite terrors. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance It is most perfectly measured and described; one can follow the most recondite beauties of the construction, mouldings and joints, in these Plates, almost as well as in the original structure. Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 Terribly intelligent, somewhat unintelligible in their handling of our language, they always want something exceedingly difficult to find, something usually on military or political science, harbour construction or the most recondite form of philosophy. Walking-Stick Papers His earliest audiences were probably scholars, and this may have tempted Kalir to indulge in the recondite learning which vitiates his hymns. Chapters on Jewish Literature Mrs. Richardson has found a quantity of rather recondite ones, and most of the favorites are given too. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Here and there a newspaper allusion still too recondite was painstakingly clarified by an effeminate fellow-student, who, I fancy now, would have shown no reluctance had I begged him to adduce practical illustration. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion They may have been technical and recondite, but, as such, are excusable, and, in their sphere, just. Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes Antonyms: inobtrusive, retiring. obvious, a. plain, evident, palpable, manifest, patent, self-evident. occult, a. mystic, mystical, abstruse, recondite, secret, unrevealed. occupant, n. occupier, tenant, holder, incumbent, possessor, lessee. occupation, n. occupancy, tenure, incumbency; vocation, employment. Putnam's Word Book What, then, is the bearing of our endeavors even in the most recondite of the sciences? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Half artist and half anchorite, Part siren and part Socrates, Her face—alluring fair, yet recondite— Smiled through her salons and academies. The Art of the Moving Picture He is the recondite cult of wise and magnanimous spirits. One Hundred Best Books Soon she was launched in the epic recital of the birth and death of a grandchild; Rachel, being a married women like the rest, could properly listen to every interesting and recondite detail. The Price of Love Antonyms: See unprofitable. profound, a. abysmal, deep; abstruse, recondite. Putnam's Word Book The subjects treated are most varied, sometimes even trivial, but dealing usually with recondite questions of law and morals. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Nations cannot be governed upon principles so recondite and refined, that not one citizen in a hundred will so much as follow a mere statement of them. Famous Americans of Recent Times After Lamb and Pater, both of whom loved him well, Browne is the subtlest adept in the recondite mysteries of rhythmic prose who can be enjoyed in our language. One Hundred Best Books It was as if he was divining in them for the first time a recondite charm. The Price of Love Antonyms: estrange, disaffect, alienate. reconciliation, n. conciliation, pacification, appeasement, reunion. recondite, a. Putnam's Word Book This sour quality ricocheted its dour force on her inner harmony forcing cynical ruminations and recondite perspectives. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Tables are turned by recondite physical causes: not by muscular or spiritual actions. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Nevertheless her tone was rather matter-of-fact as she related these recondite and sinister things. The Roll-Call They were tragic to Rachel; they infected her with the most recondite horror of existence; they left tragedy floating behind them in the lane like an invisible but oppressive cloud. The Price of Love Associated words: secretive, secretory, confide, confidential. secret, a. hidden, concealed, unrevealed, mysterious, cryptic, recondite, occult, esoteric, cabalistic, abstruse, unknown, latent; secluded, privy, withdrawn, retired, covert, private, sequestered; stealthy, underhand, clandestine, sly, surreptitious, confidential, undetected. Putnam's Word Book Judged by these experiments, Mrs. Morgan's mystic philtre was composed of nothing more recondite than white arsenic. Trial of Mary Blandy Something more sophisticated and recondite must be sought for if we are to have an ornamental mode capable of expressing not only the simplicity but the complexity of present-day psychology. Architecture and Democracy This was the "secret of the king" which has been sought for in all kinds of recondite suppositions: this was the key to his apparently vacillating and inconsistent character. Cavour And both women felt their ignorant, puzzled inferiority in these recondite matters of travel, and the comfort of having an omniscient male in the house. The Price of Love And this idea, recondite though it was, touched and charmed her fancy—or would have done so but for the recollection of her deplorable flight.—Oh! what—what made her run away? Deadham Hard For the naturalist the most comprehensive description of things may be the conception of mass-points in motion; or it may be some more recondite conception to which physical analysis points. Recent Tendencies in Ethics "From the size of your note-book, and the industry with which you accumulate useful information, I should presume that you are a conscientious observer of all that is recondite and curious." In the Days of My Youth Association of ideas, a connection in the mind between two ideas, such that the consciousness of one tends to recall the other, a fact employed to explain certain recondite psychological phenomena. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The Latin eclogues of the renaissance are distinguished from all other forms of allegory by the obscure and recondite allusions that they affected. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England But this, also, to a changed mode and rhythm, having its source in causes more recondite and subtle than any matter of fair or foul weather. Deadham Hard His knowledge was of the recondite order and beyond the reach of ordinary persons. The Glories of Ireland Her topics were, for a wonder, practical, the young too generally beginning with abstract, academical or recondite subjects. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" Asphyx`ia, suspended respiration in the physical life; a term frequently employed by Carlyle to denote a much more recondite, but a no less real, corresponding phenomenon in the spiritual life. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge He was not without humour; but his jokes, carried off by a little laugh of his own, were apt to be recondite in their meaning and allusions. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 In the play of fancy, Wordsworth, to my feelings, is not always graceful, and is sometimes recondite. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Thus we may account for the references to recondite medical writers in No. 39, which so staggered Boswell and Malone in pronouncing on the genuineness of this paper. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler The earlier theme involves a yet more recondite signification. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts Pope from 999 to 1003, alleged, from his recondite knowledge as an alchemist, to have been in league with the devil; and S. III., The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge My explanation was recondite and rather obscure, but it seemed to satisfy him. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta It needs no research, no learning, and is only misguided by recondite information. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice These facts I derived from a source no more recondite than a pamphlet by M. Viollet-le-Duc—a very luminous description of the fortifications, which you may buy from the accomplished custodian. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 And now again it re-arose, inspiring him with the rather recondite reflections as to the immutability of things and impressions with which this domestic record opens. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Psychical Research, Society for, a society founded in 1882 to inquire into the phenomena of spiritualism and kindred subjects of a recondite kind, the subject of Telepathy having engaged recently a good deal of attention. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge They have only a little more experience, that's all; they have no recondite means of solving these social mysteries. Fenton's Quest Naturally, we expect something recondite, and are by no means satisfied with the trite "Cupid and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses," etc. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 If you really ask yourself why we laugh at a man sitting down suddenly in the street you will discover that the reason is not only recondite, but ultimately religious. All Things Considered The most recondite principles of practical science were his toys; the deepest intricacies of abstract science his diversions. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Of an universal practice, there must still be presumed an universal cause, which, however recondite and abstruse, may be perhaps reserved to make me illustrious by its discovery, and you by its promulgation. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II These were Parry's "King Saul"—a very recondite, musicianly composition—but too long; "The Swan and the Skylark," a fanciful little cantata by Goring Thomas; and a "Stabat Mater" by G. Henschel. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" In his studies he exhibits great fondness for recondite subjects; and will frequently spend days in minute investigations into languages, which, in the result, are of little moment. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 A roar of appreciation greeted this recondite climax, under cover of which Sylvia opened the front door and shut it behind her. The Bent Twig Another seemingly recondite law-phrase used by Shakespeare, which Lord Campbell passes entirely by, though Mr. Rushton quotes three instances of it, is "taken with the manner." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 More intimate relationship, I say,—at any rate, more subtile, recondite, difficult of apprehension and exposition, and perhaps, by reason of this, more central and suggestive. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Some of them may seem too recondite and fantastic to meet our present-day demand for reality, but on the whole the poem deals with vital issues of the human spirit. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. No one is more unimpressible to a specious declamation; no one relishes a recondite beauty more. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Mr. Dagonet was always pleasant to see and hear, but his sarcasms were growing faint and recondite: they had as little bearing on life as the humours of a Restoration comedy. The Custom of the Country But although this speech is remarkable for the number of law-terms used in it, only one of them seems to evince any recondite knowledge of the law. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Had he that deep-seated recondite complaint, and did any doctor find it out? Little Dorrit After all, he was an ordinary citizen, quite unfamiliar with the recondite methods familiar to the police. Within the Law He is, in fact, master of almost every known topic, whether of a passing or of a more recondite nature. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Knowledge of this kind passes for knowledge of the "unknowable", and it owes its serviceability for the sacerdotal purpose to its recondite character. Theory of the Leisure Class Captains save their ships engineers complete their bridges, generals conduct their battles, in a state of dancing excitement, foaming recondite technicalities at the lips. Tono Bungay In season and out of season now in manifest, now in recondite application, he presses it into the service of expression and illustration. What Is Man? and Other Essays It seemed from their intonation that the speaker voiced merely a statement concerning a recondite matter of truth, with which sentiment had nothing whatever to do. Within the Law His face is, however, fine, with an expression of placid temper and recondite thought. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits |
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