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There were no changes of weather in them, no rain clouds or fair-weather clouds, nothing but various shapes of the cumulus or cirrus, introduced for the sake of light on the deep blue sky.
"Sir, the melancholy account of the defeat of our forces gave me a sensible and real concern" on which he enlarges for a while; then suddenly changes style: "Dear Colonel, is there no method left to retrieve the dishonor done to the British arms? As you now command all the forces that remain, are you not able, after a proper refreshment of your men, to make a second attempt?
Is there any sensation equal to that produced by the first lover and the first proposal coming to a girl in a large family of girls? It is delightfully sentimental, comical, complimentary, affronting, rousing, tiresome all in one. It is a herald of lovers, proposals, and wonderful changes all round.
The King declared that he would no longer bear the expense of the changes that the courtiers introduced into their apartments. It had cost him more than sixty thousand francs since the Court left Fontainebleau. It is believed that Madame de Mailly was the cause of this determination of the King; for during the last two or three years she had made changes in her apartments every year.
This only can be the true one, for it is a law of nations and of faiths, no less than of individuals, that they cannot really return upon their years, and that all beneficial changes for them must be to new conditions of life, not to old ones to greater knowledge, not to less to freedom of thought, not to its enslavement.
"How chances mock, and changes fill the cup of alteration up with divers liquors." On the same hearth, and in a mingled flame, was consumed the very constitution of 1789, on which Mr. Burke's book was a censure, and which would now expose me to equal danger were it to be found in my possession. Mr. Burke's Gallic adversaries are now most of them proscribed and anathematized more than himself.
"Oh," he said, "if you really once experienced the power of faith how it changes the heart, enlightens the eyes, gives a new spiritual taste, a new sense to the soul; if you once knew what it was to be blind, and then to see, you would not ask for definitions. Strangers need verbal descriptions; the heirs of the kingdom enjoy.
I was going to make some remarks on the changes in the order of the peerage since the days of Louis XVI. going, in fact, to be very sensible and historical when there was a slight commotion among the people at the other end of the room. These footmen were standing solemnly opposite to a lady, beautiful, splendid as the dawn, but sound asleep in a magnificent settee.
At present I know not whether the fashion changes even us old men, or whether the young men are better than before, but I see less cause of scandal.
Happily the change was not left to be accomplished by physical force, as all such changes must be in purely despotic states; but the people fully believe that they chiefly owe the forced surrender to the alarm which their demonstrations excited lest they should bring the question ere long to that arbitrament.
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