What had she thought of the outer world's tiny sun?
And if I could not, of what value was all this vast storehouse of potential civilization and progress to be to the world of my adoption?
The
world economy, the
world environment, the
world AIDS crisis, the
world arms race: they affect us all.
This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image--an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:--thus did the world once seem to me.
Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
Her navy was so small that it was the laughing stock of the
world; nor did she attempt to strengthen her navy.
"This inner
world must have cooled sufficiently to support animal life long ages after life appeared upon the outer crust, but that the same agencies were at work here is evident from the similar forms of both animal and vegetable creation which we have already seen.
On the other hand, in seeing or hearing it would be less misleading to say that you have object without content, since what you see or hear is actually part of the physical
world, though not matter in the sense of physics.
As the sun was to the outside dweller, this wall was to him the sun of his
world. It attracted him as a candle attracts a moth.
Anna had at first avoided as far as she could Princess Tverskaya's
world, because it necessitated an expenditure beyond her means, and besides in her heart she preferred the first circle.
We cannot say that they have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with the southern continents of the Old
World, we see countries closely corresponding in all their physical conditions, but with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.
He was too philosophic and simple to be vindictive, and he lived too much in the
world of mind to miss the creature comforts we were giving up.