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"The ears of his highness, and of the Councils, have not been closed to these reports, but they have long attended to the rumors with the earnestness which becomes a paternal and careful government. If they have suffered thee to go at large, it hath only been that there might be no hazard of sullying the ermine of justice, by a premature and not sufficiently supported judgment."
"He told this with such earnestness, that I, who was no believer in signs and omens, laughed outright. "He looked serious almost offended. "'You forget, he said, 'that when man draws near his end, God often opens the eyes of the soul, and reveals not only what is, but what shall be.
As M. de Bragelonne was a well-disciplined officer, this disobedience to the orders of monseigneur very much surprised everybody, and M. de Beaufort redoubled his earnestness, crying, 'Stop, Bragelonne! Where are you going? Stop, repeated monseigneur, 'I command you! "We all, imitating the gesture of M. le duc, we all raised our hands.
She was kneeling to her God for a greater favor than I ask, and he heard her; and if you now say no to my prayers, do you think he will be deaf? My private feelings must not enter into Hear me, Marmaduke Temple, interrupted the old man, with melancholy earnestness, and hear reason.
It is to Hartmann's credit, though the fact has not been sufficiently appreciated by professional thinkers, that in a time averse to speculation he has devoted his energies to the highest problems of metaphysics, and in their elaboration has approached his task with scientific earnestness and a comprehensive and thorough consideration of previous results.
"Well, perhaps you ARE making faces," said the Duke seriously, considering the photograph with grave earnestness. "But they're not appalling faces not by any means. You shall be judge, Mademoiselle Sonia. The faces well, we won't talk about the faces but the outlines. Look at the movement of your scarf." And he handed the photograph to Sonia. "Jacques!" said Germaine impatiently.
The word rendered 'preach' is instructive. It means 'to cry' and suggests the manner befitting those who bear God's message. They should sound it out loudly, plainly, urgently, with earnestness and marks of emotion in their voice. Languid whispers will not wake sleepers. Unless the messenger is manifestly in earnest, the message will fall flat.
Somebody must earn by hard labor all that is produced. We are not earning. So" he was looking handsome now in his manly earnestness "Jen, it's up to us to do our share to stop stealing isn't it?" She was genuinely interested. "I hadn't thought of these things," said she. "Victor Dorn says we ought to go to work like laborers," pursued David. "But that's where he's a crank.
Luther is, as it strikes me, an excellent soldier of God, who with great earnestness has looked through the Scripture as no one has ever done in a thousand years on earth, and with manly, undaunted spirit, has attacked therewith the Pope of Rome, as no one has ever done like him, as long as the Papacy has endured, yet without receiving abuse from others.
If thus Europe, by its conversion, received from Rome an immense benefit, it repaid the obligation at length by infusing into Latin Christianity what was sadly needed a higher moral tone. Earnestness is the attribute of savage life. That divorce between morality and faith which the southern nations had experienced was not possible among these converts.
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