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He was highly esteemed both by Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, and by Henry IV, who loaded him with honours and distinctions in requital of his faithful and zealous services. He subsequently became governor of several provinces, and was created a marshal of France by Louis XIII, in 1615.
Secondly: by the message from W H , that most sedate and respectful of all respectful colored servants, the moralist may learn anew the truth that Death is a leveller of all distinctions.
The distinctions of bondage and of one's own self and other persons are fictitiously shaped by one's own avidya; for they are unreal like the distinctions seen by a dreaming person. Other bodies also have a Self through me only; for they are bodies like this my body.
For Yudhishthira, that foremost of all virtuous men, always kind unto his subjects, worked for the good of all without making any distinctions. Indeed, shaking off both anger and arrogance, Yudhishthira always said, Give unto each what is due to each, and the only sounds that he could hear were, Blessed be Dharma! Blessed be Dharma!
Notwithstanding distinctions of rank, all persons maintain themselves by their own exertions. Not only do the head men of the tribe, in common with the rest, build their own huts, make their own weapons, kill their own food; but the chief does the like. Moreover, such governmental organization as exists is inconstant.
There are in the heavens, as on earth, distinctions of dignity and eminence, with abundance of the richest treasures; for there are governments and forms of government, and consequently a variety of ranks and orders of power and authority.
It will be found that when our memory falsifies the date of an event, the error arises much in the same way as a visual miscalculation of distance. This threefold division of illusions of memory is plainly a rather superficial one, and not based on distinctions of psychological nature or origin.
"How you wait, wenches!" said the Queen, not able even then to forget frivolous distinctions. "Suffer ye the Lady Edith to do the duties of your attendance? Seest thou, Edith, they can do nothing; I shall never be attired in time. We will send for the Archbishop of Tyre, and employ him as a mediator." "Oh, no, no!" exclaimed Edith.
But, in addition to their structural distinctions, the species of animals and plants, or at least a great number of them, exhibit physiological characters what are known as distinct species, structurally, being for the most part either altogether incompetent to breed one with another; or if they breed, the resulting mule, or hybrid, is unable to perpetuate its race with another hybrid of the same kind.
I called Chopin a revolutioniser of fingering, and, I think, his full enfranchisement of the thumb, his breaking-down of all distinctions of rank between the other fingers, in short, the introduction of a liberty sometimes degenerating into licence, justifies the expression.
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