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"Oh! then he was surrounded, I suppose, by those medalists and picture-sellers, and other impostors, who live upon such of our countrymen as think themselves blessed with a taste or afflicted with a genius," said Lady Erpingham; who, having lived with the wits and orators of the time, had caught mechanically their way of rounding a period. "Far from it!" returned the earl.
Some thought it was afflicted with a tympathy, and others, that it was the natural way for such-like ducks to cleck their young.
He closed his prayer by commending each member of the afflicted family to the divine blessing. Then all at once rose the clear sound of the girls' voices, in the sweet, sad melody of a funeral hymn, one of those which Elsie had marked, as if prophetically, among her own favorites.
She knew that he was good and yet weak, that he was afflicted by false pride and supported by true pride, that his intellect was still very bright, yet so dismally obscured on many sides as almost to justify people in saying that he was mad. She knew that he was almost a saint, and yet almost a castaway through vanity and hatred of those above him.
I'll give you and Diogenes first aid and then we will all go down to the lake shore. You can both sit on the dock and watch me swim." They both brightened up, and when we reached the hotel the landlady provided a soothing lotion for the bites and stings. By the time we had started for the lake, the afflicted two were in holiday spirit again.
Afflicted with injuries in consequence of the match at dice, the sons of Pandu, however, with all their counsellors quietly bore all those injuries, looking up, O best of men, to thy face alone. Hear from me fully, O king, of the slaughter that is about to take place in battle, of steeds and elephants and kings endued with immeasurable energy.
The record in automobile production would be more pleasing if it did not mean a shift from real social wealth to individual luxury. Case II. The over-rich, purposeless woman. This type is of course the direct opposite of the woman in Case I and represents the kind of woman usually held up as most commonly afflicted with "nervousness."
And only when the clear sky looketh again through ruined roofs, and down upon grass and red poppies on ruined walls will I again turn my heart to the seats of this God. They called God that which opposed and afflicted them: and verily, there was much hero-spirit in their worship! And they knew not how to love their God otherwise than by nailing men to the cross!
To which add also a handful of vervain, which is very good to strengthen both the womb and the head, which are commonly afflicted together by sympathy.
If thou hast been afflicted, I doubt not but that thy affliction will eventually turn out to thy benefit; I doubt not but that thou wilt be preserved, as an example of the great mercy of God. I will now kneel down and pray for thee, my son. "He knelt down, and prayed long and fervently. I remained standing for some time; at length I knelt down likewise.
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