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There were nearly two hours of unbroken quiet before him; and the mere fact of his having stepped aside from the routine of his duty to procure it; marked it in his thoughts as a special occasion, which ought in the nature of things to yield more than the ordinary harvest of mental profit.
Besides, I am going to church to pray for those who do not pray for themselves." From twelve duty calls, subtract one duty call, and eleven remain. Hum! "Coachman, Rue St. Louis au Marais." "Papa, has Aunt Ursula needles in her chin?" Let us pass over the eleven duty calls, they are no more agreeable to write of than to make.
"It will be well to have a dozen copies made of the first five or six pages, and the maps, for the perusal of any officer sent out with a detachment on scouting duty, as a model of the sort of report that an officer should send in of his work, when on such duty."
Seeing a decorated person very proud of his broad stripe, he whispered in his ear, while he took hold of and drew attention to the cloth, 'This attire did not make its original wearer anything but a sheep. Once at the bath the water was at boiling point, and some one called him a coward for hesitating to get in. 'What, said he, 'is my country expecting me to do my duty?
I have a duty here: a duty to my God, to myself, and to Haddo: in His strength, I will perform it. Then he straitly discharged Francie to repeat the tale, and bade him in the future to avert his very eyes from the doings of the curate. 'You must go to his place of idolatry; look upon him there! says he, 'but nowhere else. Avert your eyes, close your ears, pass him by like a three days' corp.
As to the future, he said it would be his duty to see that I brought no further disgrace upon the family." "Yes, and he's been just as kind to me, Mother. As I told you when I wrote, he had ordered an enormous outfit, which will, I am sure, cost hundreds of pounds.
"Look here," said Lord Ramelton, "if I give you my word that there are no arms or ammunition in that case, if I write a statement to that effect and sign it, will it satisfy you?" "No, sir," said Willie. "Nothing will satisfy me except seeing for myself." Such is the devotion to duty of the young British officer. Against his spirit the rage of the empire's enemies breaks in vain.
Anthony, that the Catholics in England are of two kinds: those who seem to have as their motto the text I quoted to you in Lambeth prison; and who count their duty to Cæsar as scarcely less important than their direct duty to God.
The great principles for which the Federalists had striven were the right of the federal government to exercise adequate powers, and its duty to maintain the national dignity: those principles had been adopted by the Republicans. John Randolph was almost the only leader who continued to stand by the Republican doctrine enunciated by Jefferson when he became President.
Successors to the governor and other territorial officials were appointed, among whom there was not a single resident of Utah; and the military force was charged with the duty of installing the foreign appointees. With great dispatch and under cover of secrecy, so that the Utah rebels might be taken by surprise, the army set out on the march.
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