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The rulers of Lagash declare themselves to have been chosen for the high office by Nin-girsu, and as if to compensate themselves for the degradation implied in being merely patesis, or governors, serving under some powerful chief, they call themselves the patesis of Nin-girsu, implying that the god was the master to whom they owed allegiance.

The stanzas in this poem swarm with life. From a certain point of view, poets are justified in calling attention to the sufferings of our animal brothers. For it is the sufferings of animals, even more than the sorrows of man, that check our faith either in the providence or in the love of God. But what can compensate the dumb animals for their physical anguish?

And next day he wrote: "I am very anxious that, in case of General Buell's moving toward Nashville, the enemy shall not be greatly reinforced, and I think there is danger he will be from Columbus. It seems to me that a real or feigned attack on Columbus from up-river at the same time would either prevent this, or compensate for it by throwing Columbus into our hands."

I have copied some inscriptions, as you will see when you come to peruse my journal, and will then judge, whether I have met with enough to compensate the fatigues and bad entertainment to which I have submitted.

And just then Artois felt that there was nothing, that there could never be anything, to compensate any human being for the loss of youth. He began to wonder about the people of the island. The Marchesino had spoken with a strange assurance. He had dared to say: "You love the Signorina. I know it; the Signora knows it; Gaspare he knows it. And now you you know it."

Jewdwine lived in the hope, natural to a distinguished critic, of some day lighting upon a genius. The glory of that find would go far to compensate him for his daily traffic with mediocrity. And here was Rickman manifestly in need of that introduction a man who unquestionably had about him some of the marks by which a genius is identified; and yet he left you terribly uncertain.

If, for such a bill, no more additional money was paid than what was sufficient to compensate the expense of the French coinage, the real exchange might be at par between the two countries; their debts and credits might mutually compensate one another, while the computed exchange was considerably in favour of France.

The rich complained continually of delays that affected their fame; the poor of delays that concerned their interest, and sometimes their very existence. I was cursed with a compassionate as well as with a procrastinating temper; and I frequently advanced money to my poor authors, to compensate for my neglect to settle their accounts, and to free myself from the torment of their reproaches.

And observe also that her influence is of a nature to compensate for all the witty pin-pricks of her gallant companion. Mademoiselle's affair, it appears, hung fire. Twice she went to Gondreville, and was not admitted. The journalist was busy, partly with his articles, and partly with certain commissions given to him by Monsieur de Trailles, under whose orders he was told to place himself.

You dreamers of dreams, you who while your companions play and sleep will toil upward in the night! You have read Mr. With a sigh to yourselves you turn aside from the alluring streets, from the bright, bewitching eyes, into the stuffy air of Birkbeck Institutions, Polytechnic Schools. May success compensate you for your youth devoid of pleasure!