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"A thousand years afterward history speaks of the occurrence derisively, as an absurd superstition, and at the same time they believed in and lauded a more absurd and cruel religion. They worshipped an imaginary being who had created and possessed absolute control of everything. Some of the human family it had pleased him to make eminently good, while others he made eminently bad.
But the knowledge that the hopes which poppa was reducing to dust and ashes were fervently fixed on a floral hat and a yellow bun over which he had no control, on the other side of the ship, overcame me, and I looked at Bellagio to hide my emotions instead, in a way which they might interpret as obstinate, if they liked.
A group of privates will snap into "attention" at the word of command with splendid muscular control; the same number of officers would find great difficulty in doing this. Now as the man loses muscular control he loses poise and carriage.
He saw before him a young man, evidently a well-to-do farmer from his appearance, with a calm, kind face and clear and honest eyes; and he was asking for Dora Dora who was to be his wife and live at Earlescourt. He could hardly control his impatience; and it seemed to him that evening would never come. Dinner was over at last.
These priesthoods were: first the Augurs, with their traditional right to break up assemblies and to declare legislative action null and void; then the Pontiffs, with their general control of all vexed questions concerning the intersection of divine and human law; and lastly the XVviri, or the keepers of the Sibylline books, in charge also of the cults to which the oracles had given birth.
When they reached Chicago Mrs. Gerald went her way, and Jennie and Lester took up the customary thread of their existence. On his return from Europe Lester set to work in earnest to find a business opening. None of the big companies made him any overtures, principally because he was considered a strong man who was looking for a control in anything he touched.
By the working classes themselves and not through political activity, for "one of the first principles of the I.W.W. is that political power rests on economic power.... It must gain control of the shops, ships, railways, mines, mills." And how is it to gain this all-embracing control?
It is impossible for me to remember what letters I wrote yesterday. A single night digs a gulf between the self of yesterday and the self of to-day. My life is without unity of action, because my actions themselves are escaping from the control of memory.
As one of the largest Catholic publishing-houses of France, they would be governed by circumstances entirely outside of Holbein's history or control. But more than one circumstance presses the conclusion that the designs were made between 1523 and 1526.
'Laura, don't, for mercy's sake, recall my own hateful sophistries, exclaimed Philip, as if unable to control the pain it gave him; 'I have had enough of that from my sister; then softening instantly: 'it was self-deceit; a deception first of myself, then of you.
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