Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises.
He hears the commendation, not of himself, but, more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character, yea further in every fact and circumstance,--in the running river and the rustling corn.
The propriety of this appellate jurisdiction has been scarcely called in question in regard to matters of law; but the clamors have been loud against it as applied to matters of
fact. Some well-intentioned men in this State, deriving their notions from the language and forms which obtain in our courts, have been induced to consider it as an implied supersedure of the trial by jury, in favor of the civil-law mode of trial, which prevails in our courts of admiralty, probate, and chancery.
He was a natural aristocrat--and this in spite of the
fact that he was in the camp of the non-aristocrats.
(c) ASSOCIATION.--The broad
fact of association, on the mental side, is that when we experience something which we have experienced before, it tends to call up the context of the former experience.
To get around this difficulty I yielded to a temptation for which most people, I suppose, will condemn me; but since it is a
fact, I might as well state it.
Now, since Totski had, of late, been upon terms of great cordiality with Epanchin, which excellent relations were intensified by the
fact that they were, so to speak, partners in several financial enterprises, it so happened that the former now put in a friendly request to the general for counsel with regard to the important step he meditated.
So now the courtiers' pleasure was based as much on the
fact that the news had arrived on the Emperor's birthday as on the
fact of the victory itself.
At any rate I will permit myself the luxury of frankly saying that while I had a deep sense of the majesty and grandeur of Dante's design, many points of its execution bored me, and that I found the intermixture of small local
fact and neighborhood history in the fabric of his lofty creation no part of its noblest effect.
She was so capable, so cheerful in spite of the
fact that she was having a hard time.
The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard
facts stored inside.
I can here give only the general conclusions at which I have arrived, with a few
facts in illustration, but which, I hope, in most cases will suffice.