Now he certainly believed that he had
nothing to fear for himself, but he wanted first to send somebody else in order to see how he stood with regard to his office.
What do you bring that is good?' 'I bring
nothing, I want to have something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a needle, Hans says: 'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'
'In this life, we want
nothing but Facts, sir;
nothing but Facts!'
He gave this opinion as the result of the conversation to his father; and recommended there being
nothing more said to her: no farther attempts to influence or persuade; but that everything should be left to Crawford's assiduities, and the natural workings of her own mind.
Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed
nothing really such as they presented to us; and because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters of geometry, I, convinced that I was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings I had hitherto taken for demonstrations; and finally, when I considered that the very same thoughts(presentations) which we experience when awake may also be experienced when we are asleep, while there is at that time not one of them true, I supposed that all the objects (presentations) that had ever entered into my mind when awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my dreams.
Nothing new was heard by them, for a day or two afterwards, of affairs in Harley Street, or Bartlett's Buildings.
On the contrary, we could see
nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another.
"'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -- Only this, and
nothing more."
"'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-- Only this and
nothing more."
He was free, he had
nothing but his aim to consider, and he reached it.
Though she had sent word the day before to her husband that it was
nothing to her whether his sister came or not, she had made everything ready for her arrival, and was expecting her sister-in-law with emotion.
But it led to
nothing. For my part, I don't know what would.