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After practising their attack several times, the Staffordshires found that they had more tasks to fulfill than they could accomplish. Accordingly they asked for help, and were allotted one Battalion from our Brigade, for which duty we, having suffered least at Hohenzollern, were chosen.
He had not yet, however, sunk to the depth of those who, having caught a glimpse of nobility, confess wretchedness, excuse it, and decline to allow that the noble they see they are bound to be; or, worse still, perhaps, admit the obligation, but move no inch to fulfill it. It seems to me that such must one day make acquaintance with essential misery a thing of which they have no conception.
But we have a higher duty and a greater responsibility than the attainment of our own national security. Our goal is collective security for all mankind. If we can work in a spirit of understanding and mutual respect, we can fulfill this solemn obligation which rests upon us. The spirit of the American people can set the course of world history.
Murat arrived at a most opportune moment, for we learned later that consternation had become general in the city; but such was the prestige attached to the Emperor's assurances that all took courage again on learning of his presence. After the King of Naples had gone to fulfill this mission, Colonel Gourgaud was called during the morning into the Emperor's tent, where I then was.
Let a man only understand his life as Christianity teaches him to understand it, let him understand, that is, that his life belongs not to him not to his own individuality, nor to his family, nor to the state but to him who has sent him into the world, and let him once understand that he must therefore fulfill not the law of his own individuality, nor his family, nor of the state, but the infinite law of him from whom he has come; and he will not only feel himself absolutely free from every human power, but will even cease to regard such power as at all able to hamper anyone.
I readily promise you my cooperation toward enabling you to fulfill the sacred trust which brought you to this city. I tender to each of you, gentlemen, my cordial salutations. WASHINGTON, June 29, 1841.
"I shall have the finest jewels in all Naples!" she laughed, delightedly. "How the women will envy me! But where are these treasures? May I see them now immediately?" "No, not quite immediately," I replied, with a gentle derision that escaped her observation. "To-morrow night our marriage night you shall have them. And I must also fulfill a promise I made to you.
Take food in your saddle bags and don't neglect your arms." He turned instantly to give orders to others and Harry and Dalton mounted and rode, proud of their trust, and resolved to fulfill it. Evening was coming as they left the army, and disappeared among the woods.
Truth to tell, she hardly dared venture to address her at all. The eyes had lost none of their keen flash, and the color seemed to be deepening, instead of subsiding on her pretty soft cheeks. Marion, as her eyes roved over the exercise book in her hand, felt her heart arrested by these words among the selections for dictation: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
It would then fulfill a far more Christian purpose than that of adding glitter to church pomp and ceremony. To witness the observance of Holy Week, commencing with Palm Sunday, in Havana, one would be impressed with a conviction that the people were at heart devout Roman Catholics. The occasion is solemnly observed.
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