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This and other major improvements in the insurance system will bring substantial benefit increases and broaden the membership of the insurance system, thus diminishing the need for Federal grants-in-aid for such purposes. A new formula will therefore be proposed, permitting progressive reduction in such grants as the need for them declines.
Tell him exactly what I have told you, and then send me the answer if he declines to part with you bring it me if he consents to your going. Remember that in yielding what I see is your own inclination, to his natural anxiety, you will not fall in the very least from the high position in which you stand in my regard. In an hour I shall expect to hear from you.
Captain Weazel challenges Strap, who declines the Combat an Affair between the Captain and me the Usurer is fain to give Miss Jenny five Guineas for a Release we are in Danger of losing a Meal the Behaviour of Weazel, Jenny, and Joey, on that Occasion an Account of Captain Weazel and his Lady the Captain's Courage tried Isaac's mirth at the Captain's Expense
Moreover, she had an ample share of the Western farmer's pride, which firmly declines to believe that there is any land to compare with the one the plow is slowly wresting from the wide white levels of the prairie. "We make out well enough," she asserted with a snap in her eyes. Hawtrey made an expressive gesture. "Oh, yes," he admitted, "it's in you.
We come now to an era when the predominance of the Church declines, and the Papacy loses ground. Mingled with religion, there is diffused a more secular spirit. The nations grow to be more distinct from one another. Political relations come to be paramount. The national spirit grows strong, too strong for outside ecclesiastical control.
The right of succession, however, may be voluntarily surrendered by the rightful successor if he so desires; thus if the eldest son declines to succeed to the throne the second son takes his place. This is the rule of Europe.
And the ideal, as caught by the master's inspiration, is more beautiful than anything his pupils can find for themselves in nature. From its summit, the art therefore declines in one of two directions. It either becomes academic, forsakes the study of nature, and degenerates into empty convention, or else it becomes ignoble, forsakes beauty, and sinks into a tasteless and unimaginative technique.
If I fulfill those conditions, will the law deliver me from the misery of being married to a madman, whose madness is drink? 'No, says the lawyer. 'The law of England declines to consider an incurable drunkard as a fit object for restraint, the law of England leaves the husbands and wives of such people in a perfectly helpless situation, to deal with their own misery as they best can.
It was then her eyes became inhabited by regret. The past she tried to put from her, but remorse is physical; it declines to be dismissed. She would have killed herself, but she no longer dared. Besides, in the future there was light.
It declines to have a creed of any kind slammed into its face so many new ones have palpably failed, and so many old ones have proved themselves possessed of forgotten virtues. Good and evil have proved to be omnipresent, and to pervade everything, like iron and sulphur. Madame Gervaisais. By Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. New Edition. Paris. This is in many respects a remarkable book.
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