Rusty through long idleness, some little space was requisite before my intellectual machinery could be brought to work upon the tale with an
effect in any degree satisfactory.
There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in
effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and do nothing; who even postpone the question of freedom to the question of free trade, and quietly read the prices-current along with the latest advices from Mexico, after dinner, and, it may be, fall asleep over them both.
Another ill
effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation.
The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its
EFFECTS.
It alone is sufficient to mar a world of good
effect in the furniture subjected to its influence.
It would be quite necessary, in order to prevent the
effects of intercrossing, that only a single variety should be turned loose in its new home.
There are many who attack, even more acrimoniously than Kotzebue, both the missionaries, their system, and the
effects produced by it.
It is, of course, one of the main things to be desired in most narrative; though sometimes the
effect sought may be something different, as, for instance, in romance and poetry, an atmosphere of dreamy beauty.
Jones had naturally violent animal spirits: these being set on float and augmented by the spirit of wine, produced most extravagant
effects.
But they are not explained, unless with extreme artificiality, by any theory which regards the latent
effects of experience as psychical rather than physical.
I and all men have only one firm, incontestable, clear knowledge, and that knowledge cannot be explained by the reason--it is outside it, and has no causes and can have no
effects.
I showed myself a little concerned and uneasy at this account, and inquired of the old captain how it came to pass that the trustees should thus dispose of my
effects, when he knew that I had made my will, and had made him, the Portuguese captain, my universal heir,
