To hinder insurrection, by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably, by having no subjects, is an expedient that argues no great profundity of politicks.
We were told, that it is in some places a hundred and forty fathoms deep, a profundity scarcely credible, and which probably those that relate it have never sounded.
Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an unknownprofundity of water.
The latter are more beautiful, they are more ample, there is in them a poetry and a profundity that has rarely been excelled.
Its profundity resided in a revelation that everything human perishes except actions and the consequences that ensue.
In this movement, so far as it regards man, in this machinery for sifting and winnowing the merits of races, there is a system of marvellous means, which by its very simplicity masks and hides from us the wise profundity of its purpose.
They are afraid of losing in profundity and infinity what they might possibly gain in restraint and plastic power.
Heiberg is almost the only writer in whose works there is any sign of a philosophy based upon science, and acquiring ever more profundity from the experiences of life.
Is it not notorious that the profundity of one age is the shallowness of the next; that the profundity of one nation is the shallowness of a neighbouring nation?
The loneliness of his genius, in its profundity or its elevation, and the delicacy of its delineations, the mighty space his universal faculty extends before us, these they could never reach!
There is not much profundity of criticism, because the beauties are sentiments of nature, which the learned and the ignorant feel alike.
It was the keynote of his life: in his letters it speaks in words of fire, while other writings of the saint analyze this great human quality with profundity and truth.
It was in this manner that he was enabled to overwhelm with surprise his cotemporaries in Congress, by the profundity of his knowledge.
As a statesman, he was unsurpassed in critical acumen, in profundity of knowledge, in an understanding of constitutional Government, and its adaptation to the rights and interests of the people.
As a statesman, he was unrivalled in the profundity of his knowledge.
In spite of Wilson's literary gifts, there is probably no question that of the two his opponent was best qualified to teach the subject, owing to the greatness of his philosophical attainments and the profundity of his learning.
This was a blow indeed to those who had boasted of the profundity of Coleridge's views on art; but his poetry surely remained intact.
A low light warbling, an occasional skirr of wing, a haze-like drone of bee and fly--these were the only sounds that edged a quiet intensified in its profundity by the remote stirrings of the sea.
Oh, you barbarian of the world, how I scorn your profundity an' emotions!
I am not to be kept back, if profundity and erudition can substantiate a prospect.
Angels receive him, marvellously spiritual beings filled with a lovely simplicity and revealing ineffable profundity of soul, beings who partake of Fra Angelico almost as much as of Ellen Terry.
Moreover, there is in his works a trace of profundity and simple grandeur which stands alone in our own period.
The blending of realism with profundity of ideas, of uncompromising truth to nature in form with philosophic and poetic substance, is of the very essence of the pre-Raphaelites.
Triteness seems the profundity of truth--wildness the daring of a luxuriant imagination.
I recognised in him a congenial, though a superior spirit, and I bowed with a profundity of veneration, with which no other human being has ever inspired me.
If everyone knew to a nicety his or her seeming at the precise point of utterance of any speech, slight or weighty, nine-tenths of our wit or profundity would remain unspoken.
But he couldn't see his way, on human grounds, profundity apart.
Comm:" The doctor was perhaps feeling that masculine profundity had not shone, and that he ought to do something to redeem its credit.
And where the road leaps some deep ravine with a double or triple bridge of white stone, note well what delicious shapes spring up into sunshine from the black profundity on either hand!
Against such profundity of logic 'twere vain to contend, Mrs. Abington," he said.
The height A I B C is therefore the greatest profundity that the little Banks of water admit of.
