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Then it may be that I shall succeed, and if I return with my purpose fulfilled I will marry you according to the law, and take you to my own country, and we will spend the rest of our lives together in pleasure and good companionship. Help me, if you can, and give me your counsel.
In this he was, without doubt, influenced by the example and counsel of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his school-fellow and friend, for whom he entertained a high and most tender respect. The first books which he loved to read were volumes of poetry, and essays on serious and religious themes.
Thou hast still many things to renounce, which if thou resign not utterly to Me, thou shalt not gain what thou seekest. I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich, that is heavenly wisdom, which despiseth all base things. Put away from thee earthly wisdom, and all pleasure, whether common to men, or thine own.
"You have ever acted the part of a dutiful son towards me, Harry; and that is always a mother's best reward for her care and affection for her offspring. And I know not that I have aught now to say to you, by way of counsel for your future guidance, being willing to leave you to practise upon the principles I have endeavored to inculcate, and be to others what you have been to me.
To counsel this seems equivalent to advising that one abandon the helm and consent to float at the mercy of wind and tide. The difficulty is a very real one. It presents itself insistently to those who have attained to that degree of intellectual development at which one begins to ask oneself questions and to reflect upon the worth and meaning of life.
The defendants counsel asks for the recall of the witness the following day. He is brought to court and answers two questions. Then with a groan he turns on his side and dies in the presence of the crowded court and before the very eyes of his assassin. The trial is a travesty on justice. The jury is composed of men known to be in sympathy with the prisoners.
He went on to explain that as the right to the property in dispute, and indeed the immediate possession of that property, would be ruled by the decision of the jury, it was imperative that they should hear what the learned counsel for the so-called Countess and her daughter had to say, and what evidence they had to offer, as to the validity of her marriage.
The chiefs requested him to give them his counsel; but he made no reply, and was carried back to the dwelling house; but when near midnight ten o'clock, perhaps he was carried again to the place to eat; but, as before, he merely tasted of what was presented to him.
And he prayed our Lord, that all those that prayed to him in that place with good heart that he would hear their prayer and grant it them if they asked it rightfully: and our Lord granted it him, and therefore Solomon clept that temple the Temple of Counsel and of Help of God. And without the gate of that temple is an altar where Jews were in wont to offer doves and turtles.
'T were well if you dissembled even a slight preference for Yvonne she will not be misled by it, seeing how unmistakable at all other seasons must be your wooing of Genevieve." He was forced to avow the wisdom of my counsel, and to be guided by it. Nevertheless, I rode back to my hostelry in no pleasant frame of mind.
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