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Surely, when the Vienna note was accepted by Russia, the Turks should have been prevented from going to war, or should have been allowed to go to war at their own risk. I have said nothing of the wretched delusion that we are fighting for civilization in supporting the Turk against the Russian and against the subject Christian population of Turkey.
The peasant, to save his fields from the stags and does which broke into them in herds at sunset, tried to keep them out by means of clappers and bad odours. I have seen and smelled the so-called "Frenchman's oil" with which the posts were smeared, that its really diabolical odour I don't know from what horrors it was compounded might preserve the crops.
"Only that she guided me hither in search of Mademoiselle. On the way we conversed, and she let me know that she had dedicated her life to the service of these Indians, seeking to save their souls." "'T is like enough; she was ever half a nun, and most religious. Yet made she no mention of me, and of my crying out at the house? for I must indeed have seen her there!"
We are stuck in our profession up to our ears, it has gradually isolated us from the external world, and the upshot of it is that we have little free time, little money, few books, we read little and reluctantly, we hear little, we rarely go anywhere. Should we talk about literature? ... But we have talked about it already.
Gladstone effected what probably no other human agency could have contrived, and restored the prestige of the House of Lords.
Now this being the presupposition, it was a great thought of Schiller to bring his humane dreamer face to face with the somber despot, Philip the Second, Let it be granted that Posa's views of statesmanship, which belong to the Age of Enlightenment, could hardly have found lodgment in the brain of a chevalier of the 16th century.
I have found it necessary to inform the curious that we did not live in tepees or wigwams when in Nebraska or Colorado.
Of his own advertisements, and wasted endeavours to find her, he said nothing. "And this fellow whom she has jilted is pretty well off, I suppose?" Percival said thoughtfully. "He is an Australian merchant, and, I should imagine, in prosperous circumstances." "Foolish girl! And this Holbrook is no doubt an adventurer, or he would scarcely have married her in such a secret way.
As soon as they had gathered in a group before him, the nobleman exclaimed: "You have just bid this good-for-nothing farewell. What should you say, if I left him among you till Christmas? The Lord Abbot will keep him, and you, you. . . ." But he had no time to finish the sentence. The pupils rushed upon him, shouting: "Stay here, Philipp! Count Lips must stay!"
Gazing at Pearl, Hester Prynne often dropped her work upon her knees, and cried out with an agony which she would fain have hidden, but which made utterance for itself betwixt speech and a groan "O Father in Heaven if Thou art still my Father what is this being which I have brought into the world?"
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