What is "littleness"

Usage examples of "littleness".

And, my Baboon, I think I learned wisdom from that dead one, for of a truth it taught me of the littleness of life, and the length of Death, and how all things that are under the sun go down one path, and are for ever forgotten.

He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity.

They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains, And the thrilling heat and cold, And the ebon valleys by silver peaks, And Spica quadrillions of miles away, And the littleness of man.

The Fronde left behind it a sense of littleness, of poverty-stricken humanity, and this particular frondeur had seen the mask drop from the features of his fellow-men.

They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains, And the thrilling heat and cold, And the ebon valleys by silver peaks, And Spica quadrillions of miles away, And the littleness of man.

But the point of the cogitation was, that similarly were Clara to see her affianced shining, as shine he could when lighted up by admirers, there was the probability that the sensation of her littleness would animate her to take aim at him once more.

He dragged Ben Jonson grumbling from his long sleep and made him sing: Ale and Anacreon, Beer and Boethius, Sack and Sophocles, these Please my heart More than the farting littleness, Borborygmic brittleness, Jokes and japes Of the apes and jackanapes One sees Courting the great At court, on estate -- Fleas!

I own that I love that sight: 'tis a pleasure to the littleness of human nature to see great things abased by mimicry.

But no matter: the estimate put upon these things by the fifteen hundred and sixty millions is no proper measure of their value: the proper measure, the just measure, is that which is put upon them by Dreyfus, and is cipherable merely upon the littleness or the vastness of the disappointment which their loss cost him.

He who considereth how great are his own sins, how small his virtues, and how far he is removed from the perfection of the Saints, doeth far more acceptably in the sight of God, than he who disputeth about their greatness or littleness.

Those jealousies, and littlenesses, and envyings, which prey upon the spirits of many men, as the vulture on the heart that chained Prometheus--and whose fierce besetment they who WILL be magnanimous, have to fight off, as one drives away the eagles from their prey, with voice and gestures--seem never to assail him.

They would not allow me to be a dwarf, because my littleness was beyond all degrees of comparison.

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

The feel of her littleness moved him achingly, and the clinging of her hands was a painful sweetness, for he knew that what they embraced in him was still the frail image, the residue that Harry Talvace had left there, the print of years of love and brotherhood.