"Perception" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... same point ensued when our victorious armies returned from Mexico and it devolved on Congress to provide for the territories acquired by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The great relations of the subject had now become distinct and clear to the perception of the public mind, which appreciated the evils of sectional controversy upon the question of the admission of new States. In that crisis intense solicitude pervaded the nation. But the patriotic ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... why God hides for a time, as it were, seeming to have forgotten us, suspending his grace, as they say in the schools. As in this temptation not only the spirit but also the flesh is afflicted, so afterward, when he again begins to remember us, the perception of grace which during the trial was evident only to the spirit and most faintly at that, is extended to ...
— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther
... he had developed a clean-cut masculinity that was strangely reassuring. She remembered how unconsciously, during these past weeks, she had turned to him for the steadiness which others had lacked; how instinctively she had counted on him for a perception of the little things, the smaller needs, which are so often the greater ones. After all, she reminded herself, in the day by day stresses of life, it was this gift of understanding, of sympathy with the innate needs, ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... were nearly obliterated. The expression upon his face resembled nothing so much as a sketch which has been done over so many times that its first design is altogether lost, and if there was any answer to the riddle, it was not the mental perception of Mrs. Lathrop that was about to seize ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner
... Daughters." Mr. Black has written some exceedingly clever conversations, which give us verbal pictures, so to speak, of some characteristic types of American womanhood. The chapters called "With a Gym Girl" and "With a Club Woman" are specially successful. There is a perception and a sense of humour about them which make them not only delightful to read, but worth thinking about afterwards. The illustrations, which are excellent, consist mainly of portraits which would be recognised ...
— A Cathedral Courtship • Kate Douglas Wiggin
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