It is the reason why the life and activity of people who lived centuries ago and are
connected with me in time cannot seem to me as free as the life of a contemporary, the consequences of which are still unknown to me.
Although no graduated links of structure, fitted for gliding through the air, now
connect the Galeopithecus with the other Lemuridae, yet I can see no difficulty in supposing that such links formerly existed, and that each had been formed by the same steps as in the case of the less perfectly gliding squirrels; and that each grade of structure had been useful to its possessor.
But when I speak of "appearances," I do so only for brevity: I do not mean anything that must "appear" to somebody, but only that happening, whatever it may be, which is connected, at the place in question, with a given physical object--according to the old orthodox theory, it would be a transverse vibration in the aether.
(2) Cases where all, or almost all, the appearances of the object undergo a connected change.
Hutchinson's thoughts as he looked back upon the long vista of events with which this chair was so remarkably
connected."
At the funeral of George Morton Miss Henley was not to be seen, nor was it generally understood that the young people had been
connected in the closest ties of feeling.
Thinking of this on the river-bank, in connection with the distressing scene which I had just had with Alicia, I found that the mysterious obstacle at which she had hinted, the mysterious life led by her father, and the mysterious top of the house that had hitherto defied my curiosity, all three connected themselves in my mind as links of the same chain.
Cudgeling my brains for an answer to this question, I fell at last into reasoning upon it, by a process of natural logic, something after this fashion: The mysterious top of the house is connected with the doctor, and the doctor is connected with the obstacle which has made wretchedness between Alicia and me.
And there is nothing in the context to show that Hesiod's Amphidamas is to be identified with that Amphidamas whom Plutarch alone connects with the Lelantine War: the name may have been borne by an earlier Chalcidian, an ancestor, perhaps, of the person to whom Plutarch refers.
It certainly gave some account of the principal constellations, their dates of rising and setting, and the legends connected with them, and probably showed how these influenced human affairs or might be used as guides.
"I cannot pretend to offer a positive opinion until I know more of the particulars
connected with this extraordinary business than I find communicated either in your letter or in your maid's.
Are you - on your honour as a lady, now, madam - are you not
connected with some newspaper?"
