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Aloadin had certain youths from twelve to twenty years of age, chosen among such as seemed of a bold and dauntless character, who were initiated in all the pleasures and delights of this paradise, and whom he employed to entice others to join the select company of young enthusiasts, by representing the joys and pleasures of the paradise of Aloadin.
She has the anxieties that belong to power. Ah! men are fortunate in not having a house to keep. Women bear the burden of the innumerable details. THIRD EPOCH. Caroline, absorbed in the idea that you should eat merely to live, treats Adolphe to the delights of a cenobitic table.
A shadow of melancholy had descended upon her spirit during the last hour; that fear of "the last time" which at times makes cowards of us all, was strong upon her; the possibility of separation suddenly became a terror which gripped her breath and left her faint and weak. Mother Father Home! The dear delights of the sea. Could she could she bear to give them up?
The masterly analysis of the Diaz régime in Mexico coupled with the manner in which always pretending to be examining the conduct of the Mexican he stabs at Yuan Shih-kai, won the applause of a race that delights in oblique attacks and was ample proof that great trouble was brewing. The document was read in every part of China and everywhere approved.
Then, by the well-deserved results obtained, he became one of the extremely few really great commanders of all time. The "bookish theorick" who, with all the facts before him, revels in the fond delights of retrospective prophecy, will never understand how Lee succeeded in this enterprise, except by sheer good luck.
And what a blessed life that already is when all things that come to us joy and sorrow, good and evil, nature and grace, all thoughts, all passions, all delights are all but so many ministers to our soul's desire after God, after the Divine Likeness and for the Beatific Vision. 'Oh! Christ, He is the Fountain, The deep sweet Well of Love!
You have a difficult task; but the glory is in proportion to the labour; and those who value power properly, are paid by its acquisition, for all possible fatigue and hardships. With your knowledge of our modes, you will be at Petersburg the arbitress of delights. You have a charming taste and invention for fetes and spectacles. Teach these people to vary their pleasures.
He is one whom the world delights to honour; but among his pleasantest memories, I doubt not, is that of the barrel of flour he bought for his beloved mother. "Filial love will never go unrewarded." Mary and Eddie had retired to their little beds. Their mother had said "good night," and had given them both a kiss. She was just leaving the room, when Eddie said to his sister,
Let us leave them there, since no words, except those of paradise unknown to us, would describe their delightful agonies, and agonising delights. Meanwhile, the husband, so well cuckolded that all memory of marriage had been swept away by love, the said Avenelles found himself in a great fix.
If you cannot banish the love of foolish delights out the hearts of your sons and daughters, then do not quarrel with them over such things; a family quarrel in a Christian man's house is surely far worse than a feast or a dance.
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