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Are they less courageous than their progenitors? Or are women less capable of love either love of children or love of the father who begets the children? It will be agreed that we are establishing a higher standard of love than ever before in history. We are beginning to realize for the first time in the history of many generations, what we owe to the future.
And what is not less important to notice the influence of Xenophon himself, after his unreserved and courageous remonstrance, seems to have been sensibly augmented certainly noway diminished. The circumstances which immediately followed were indeed well calculated to augment it.
The count's was a loyal attachment, doing nothing but honor to him who felt it, and to the queen who inspired it; and it was marked by a permanence which distinguishes no devotion but that which is pure and noble, as he showed ten years later by the well-planned and courageous, though unsuccessful, efforts which he made for the deliverance of the queen and all her family.
With the one desire to look after her son's great fortune, she had denied herself the happiness of being with him; and when she read the rigorous laws in virtue of which the Republic was daily confiscating the property of Emigrants at Carentan, she congratulated herself on the courageous course that she had taken. Was she not keeping watch over the wealth of her son at the risk of her life?
But she herself felt terribly changed and worn. To begin with, she was no longer below, her face raised to heaven, feeling content and courageous and aspiring to a handsome lodging. She was right up under the roof, among the most wretched, in the dirtiest hole, the part that never received a ray of sunshine. And that explained her tears; she could scarcely feel enchanted with her fate.
It is said that fortune favours the brave, and on that occasion the proverb was verified. There can be no question that our friend Jim Slagg was brave. All Irishmen are courageous, therefore it is equally certain that Flinn was brave, and the attenuated black could not have been otherwise than brave, else he would not have continued to enjoy himself in the dangerous neighbourhood of Slagg's gun.
"Do you want me to believe that he is liable to attack me?" demanded the girl, her naturally courageous spirit coming to her aid. "I do," said Furneaux, speaking with marked earnestness. "Yet you ask me to endure his company if he chooses to force himself on me?" "For a few days." "But it may be a few years?" "No. That is not to be thought of. Leave it to me to devise a way.
After conferences between Republican and Progressive leaders which failed to bring about unanimity, the Republican convention nominated Justice Charles E. Hughes of the Supreme Court, and the Progressives chose Roosevelt. Hughes was a reformer by nature, recognized as a man of high principles, courageous, able and remembered as a vigorous and popular governor of New York.
And that there are so many happy marriages in spite of all this makes one realize how extraordinarily loyal, fine and courageous, on the whole, human nature is. Only the other day I was speaking in a town in the north of England on this very subject, and I got a letter afterwards to say that the writer had very greatly enjoyed my address at the time.
And her offering was acceptable because it came from a willing heart. Willingness is a heart quality. It is the heart volunteering. "Our wills are ours to make them Thine." This was the first test. Thirty-two thousand out of four tribes stood this test. Gideon's army had one great qualification at the start. Courageous Volunteers. Now these men are put to a second test.
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