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Naturally, such a system worked hardship for the younger brothers, but then as now it was easier for men to find a place for themselves in the world than for women, and the army or the Church rarely failed to furnish some sort of career for all those who were denied the rights and privileges of the firstborn.
This asylum is a marvel. It is, to-day, successful. Other asylums are the same, and we feel that we are working in the line of laws that are fixed, though obscure." The records of this institution furnish cases of reform of the most deeply interesting character. Here are a few of them: CASE No. 1. A Southern planter who had become a drunkard was brought to this asylum by his faithful colored man.
"That gave me a new flash on the creature. He was a slicker article than I imagined. I was not to get off with a tip. He was taking some pains to touch me for a greenback. I thought I saw his line. It would not account for his hitting the description of Mulehaus in the make-up of his straw man, but it would furnish the data for the dollar story. I had drawn the latter a little before he was ready.
We begin, then, with a typical baby, born of civilized parents, and living in the midst of the best civilization to be had. Savage or even partially civilized life could never furnish the type we desire.
"Where are they?" "I do not know. I only propose to furnish you the opening clues and let you follow them up and find the plates and all the evidence." "Your brother knows where the plates are concealed?" "He does." "Can you not secure the information from him?" "I cannot. I have tried to do so, but he tells me he is bound by terrible oaths not to reveal where the workshop is located."
The soul of a Diana, I declare, and the self-sacrifice of a no, I fear that the heroes of antiquity can furnish no suitable example. And now, adieu, I go to welcome the gentleman you both of you so eagerly expect."
This last is a pregnant question; for each generation will in all probability furnish its quota of the great books of the language, and, if so, a reform in the superstition we have exposed is no longer a matter of mere expedience, but of necessity.
Where the great interests of mankind are concerned through a long succession of generations, that succession ought to be admitted into some share in the councils which are so deeply to affect them. If justice requires this, the work itself requires the aid of more minds than one age can furnish.
If ever Mephistopheles revisit the earth, how he will laugh at Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot in an old country like France, as things to be admired by educated men, and adopted by friends of genuine freedom!" "I don't understand you," said Rameau. "In this respect at least, let me hope that I can furnish you with understanding.
And when hundreds of men jammed themselves into a cargo-boat which could not furnish them with air to breathe, and took off and went into overdrive before the air could fail.... Orede called for no less of worry. "I think," said Calhoun dourly, "that I'll have some coffee." "Coffee" was one of the words that Murgatroyd recognized immediately.
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