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Philip Jocelyn was no cox-comb, but he knew all at once that he was beloved, and that very few words were needed.
Among the bulk of the Spanish people of the provinces in which he warred he was beloved as well as admired, and even to this day legends of the brilliant and indefatigable English general are still current among the people of Catalonia and Valencia. No man ever served the cause to which he devoted himself with greater zeal and sincerity.
He had even to confess that the sea itself contained a great many small fish, and that he had often had much poorer luck in his own beloved bay. The boat was a great acquisition; but when they were paddling ashore for the fourth time, "to turn her over and let the water out," Dabney remarked, "It's after dinner-time, boys. Could either of you fellows eat any thing?" "Eat?" said Frank.
Napoleon now issued a decree, appointing "his dearly beloved brother Joseph Napoleon, King of Naples and Sicily, to the crowns of Spain and the Indies."
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
One word and he throws off divinity Is flesh and blood, and dies, and is beloved! SEMELE. Would Zeus do that? ZEUS. Speak, Semele! What more? Apollo's self confesses that 'tis bliss To be a man 'mongst men a sign from thee, And I'm a man! Ask! but ask!
Yes, sir, clean disappeared over the horizon and was never seen again from that day to this, nor the party with him which included several very fine-looking young women! The natives took it like the loss of a father, which indeed it was, Mr. Clemm being a grand man and universally beloved kindly yet strict, and always the soul of justice.
She was greatly beloved from the highest to the humblest citizens. Queen Alexandra sent repeated inquiries and messages. King Edward once said that he regarded the Baroness, after his mother, as the most remarkable woman in England. Her life was a link with the past, as it began during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I, and witnessed the reigns of five British sovereigns.
He shook with rage at the thought of the extreme poverty of the poor, whom the world pretends are robbed only of luxury but who are denied such necessities as the right to watch beside the beloved sick. "But I've been reckless!" she boasted with a smile. "I've told them to put her in a private ward. She was so pleased!
It was a moment of the most poignant sorrow to me: my heart still lingered on the white cliffs of Albion; nor could I wean it from the sorrowful reflection that I was, perhaps, leaving that dear and beloved country for ever.
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