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The opponents of the government began to despair of the destiny of their country; and many looked to the American wilderness as the only asylum in which they could enjoy civil and spiritual freedom.
He would not admit to himself that he was mortal; or make arrangements that seemed to admit the grim fact weakly accepted into the citadel of a still warm life. Yet the physical warnings of old age had not been absent. Some day he would feel, perhaps suddenly the thought of it sent through him a shiver of impotent revolt against the human destiny the clutch of the master whom none escapes.
It is far more blessed so to know and serve the Lord, that our present and future progeny, instead of sharing a destiny similar to many of these depicted between these pages, may, under any and all circumstances, enjoy the everlasting smile of His countenance, that peace and joy in their souls which this world can never give, neither take away.
And yet at moments oh! thrice blessed they whose celestial parentage has made such moments part of their appointed destiny at moments flashes on the human child the intuition of the unutterable secret.
Through the unifying forces of a common education, of commercial and economic development, and of gradual participation in local self-government we are endeavoring to evolve a homogeneous people fit to determine, when the time arrives, their own destiny. We are seeking to arouse a national spirit and not, as under the older colonial theory, to suppress such a spirit.
Here, to their fancy, in caves and ravines hostile spirits lurked; every mountain had its tutelary god; at every step the deities of good and evil seemed to be at strife for their destiny, and with all the perils of the way the gods were thought to have something to do. Thus on one day the god of the mountain came to Yamato in the form of a white deer, with purpose to work him evil.
Mr O'Brien, by a destiny there was no resisting, was forced into the fight in Cork City and emerged victoriously from the ordeal, as well as winning also in North-East Cork.
She paused as if weighing her next words, then said, deliberately: "And I believe you are the one to do it." But Emerson was not concerned about his destiny just then, nor for the dangerous enmity of Marsh. He was following another train of thought. "And so Balt knows this business from the inside out?" he said. "Thoroughly; every dip, angle, and spur of it, so to speak.
It is for you, who are a reasonable being, to guess why: or at least listen to me if I guess for you, and say, perhaps I can only say perhaps that chalk may be going to make layers of rich marl in the sea between England and France; and those marl-beds may be upheaved and grow into dry land, and be ploughed, and sowed, and reaped by a wiser race of men, in a better-ordered world than this: or the chalk may have even a nobler destiny before it.
Many a man less tempted would have thrown up all to realise his visions; but I was by nature unadventurous and uninitiative: to divert me from all former paths and send me cruising through the isles of paradise, some force external to myself must be exerted; Destiny herself must use the fitting wedge; and little as I deemed it, that tool was already in her hand of brass.
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