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I can not possibly pay that debt. I have not for a long while expected to pay it." "Well," you then say, "give me back the goods." "Oh, no," says the world, "they are all gone. I can not give them back to you." And there you stand on the confines of eternity, your spiritual character gone, staggering under the consideration that "you have sold yourself for nought."
waking, according to Richard, Our peace, which in our country's cradle, Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep: bedrenching "with crimson tempest" The fresh green lap of fair king Richard's land: frighting "fair peace" from "our quiet confines," laying The summer's dust with showers of blood, Rained from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen: bruising
These are the great sources of news for a country daily. The reporter who confines his acquaintance to doctors, lawyers, merchants and preachers is always complaining of dull days. But there was never a dull day with the Young Prince.
Leaving the brook, he conducted her beneath hedges and by lonely woodland paths beyond the confines of her own property, to a secluded valley, so shut in by wooded hills that she had not been aware of its existence. Through an extensive orchard, she at length, when nearly spent with the walk, beheld the cluster of stone buildings, substantial as the erections of religious orders were wont to be.
To be able to speak of an existence in either realm is impossible for a philosophy which confines its attention solely to the mere picture-content of the waking consciousness. But man is not only a percipient being; he is also a being of will, and as such he comes into a relationship with the world which can be a source of rich experience.
Witness the number of adventures narrated in the present book a book entirely devoted to England. Why, there is not a chapter in the present book which is not full of adventures, with the exception of the present one, and this is not yet terminated. After traversing two or three counties, I reached the confines of Lincolnshire.
I rise from my knees, and lean over her. "Barbara!" I say, in a strangling agony of tears, "you are not afraid, are you?" Afraid! She has all but forgotten our speech she, who is hovering on the confines of that other world, where our speech is needed not, but she just repeats my word, "Afraid!"
Throughout the vast territory of the Abyssinian highlands his individual will is law to some millions of subjects; law also to hordes of savage Mohammedan and pagan tribesmen without the confines of his kingdom. His court includes no councillors. Alone throughout the long years of his reign Menelek has dealt with all domestic and foreign affairs of state.
They extended their work beyond the confines of Maryland. In 1760 two schools for the education of Negroes were maintained in Philadelphia by these benefactors. It was the aid obtained from the Dr. Bray fund that enabled the abolitionists to establish in that city a permanent school which continued for almost a hundred years. About the close of the French and Indian War, Rev. Mr.
How far the lacustrine strata of North America above mentioned may help to lessen this hiatus, and whether some individuals of the Mastodon giganteus may have come down to the confines of the historical period, is a question not so easily answered as might at first sight be supposed.
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