Sublime

Pullings pointed out the principal charms of the island: Holdfast Tom, Stone Top, and Old Joan Point – he had landed several times, and he did wish he could show the Doctor the bird that haunted Diana’s Peak, a cross between an owl and a poll-parrot, with a curious bill.

Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.

'although his mode of expressing his opinion is somewhat homely, and occasionally incomprehensible.'

soliloquizing

Perhaps the most accurate words spoken on this subject came from the mouth of a beaver. In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie is learning about Aslan, the great lion who rules Narnia. In hearing him described by Mr. Beaver as a King of the Beasts and the Great Lion, and that anyone approaching him will have her knees

Philistines. 7God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.

who undoubtedly knows a vast amount about his subject; who undoubtedly lives in great forests of facts concerning kinship and inheritance. But it is not, by any means, the same thing to have searched the forests and to have recognised the frontiers. Indeed, the two things generally belong to two very different types of mind.