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And I wouldn't waste my time nor hisen by tellin' him that I hadn't made no remark, nor thought on't. I see it would hurt his feelin's, specilly as he would add in haste "That he didn't see how folks needed so much sleep; as for him, it wuz a real treat to keep awake all night, now and then." No, I would let it go, and ask him for burdock or beet, as the case might be.

I remember Mr Graham saying once something like this I did not understand it for months after: 'Every kind hearted person who thinks a great deal of being comfortable, and takes prosperity to consist in being well off must be tempted to doubt the existence of a God. And perhaps it is well they should be so tempted, he added." "Why did he add that?"

And so, on their way, she told him all the little details of her interview; and the old gentleman declared, in all earnest, that he did not know which to admire most, her presence of mind, or Mechinet's disinterestedness. "All the more reason," said the young girl, "why we should not add to the dangers which the good man is going to run for us.

This is the moment: the house is closed with the finger, or a pebble and, as Baglivi says, 'captatur tamen ista a rustico insidiatore, to which I will add, 'adjuvante Bombo. The object of these hunting methods was not exactly to obtain Tarantulae; I had not the least wish to rear the Spider in a bottle. I was interested in a different matter.

All this time he was pursuing his Patristic and other historical studies with unflagging vigour, always writing new lectures, always maintaining his love of abstract knowledge and his eager desire to add to his already vast stores of learning.

'When she was young, I began, and my voice failed me for a moment, and it was only with a great effort that I was able to add, 'was she like Olalla? 'Now God forbid! exclaimed the Padre. 'God forbid that any man should think so slightingly of my favourite penitent. I could not bear to have you think so; though, Heaven knows, it were, perhaps, better that you should.

I'm afraid, however, we shan't induce you to stay with us long, so it's as well perhaps to settle our business at once. You would, however, greatly oblige your mother, and I'm sure I need not add, myself, if you could make your arrangements so as to stay with us till after Easter. We could then return together." "Till after Easter, my lord!

The Hellenistic Jews were led later by the sympathetic attitude of Hecataeus to add to his history spurious chapters, in which he was made to deal more eulogistically with their beliefs and history, and they circulated oracles and poems in the names of fabled seers of prehistoric times Orpheus and the Sibyl which conveyed some of the religious and moral teachings of Judaism.

The Swiss reformer sought to train the mind to observe, reflect, and think; to assist the faculties in attaining their fullest and freest expression; and thus to add to the richness and variety of human thought.

The cherished dream of his grandfather, and of his own youth, to add the Pope's triple crown to the rest of the hereditary possessions of his family, he had indeed been obliged to resign.