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By an effort of the will I emptied myself of my life experience and knowledge or as much of it as possible and thought only of the generations of my dead imaginary progenitors, who had ranged these woods back to the dim forgotten years before Columbus; and if the pleasure I had in the fancy was childish, it made the day pass quickly enough.
If an enlightened government will give people some security for life and property, and make reasonable laws, and execute them, leaving men of business to find out for themselves how it suits them to employ their capital, it seems probable that the balance between articles of real value and articles of imaginary value will adjust itself, perhaps better than an enlightened government could do it.
"Ride for it down the valley." What happened then was like the confusion of a battle. The man with the silver bridle saw the little man go past him slashing furiously at imaginary cobwebs, saw him cannon into the horse of the gaunt man and hurl it and its rider to earth. His own horse went a dozen paces before he could rein it in.
He founded nothing, instituted nothing; Paul did all that Christ simply went about doing, and being, good admonishing the rich, whom he regarded as criminals, comforting the luckless and uttering wisdom with that Oriental indirection wherein our stupid ingenuity finds imaginary warrant for all desiderated pranks and fads.
How necessary, in an age of sensation morals and free-love theories, to have self-indulgence occasionally exhibited in all its hideous nastiness, and without any of its fleeting, deceptive, imaginary charms!
The nobles, who claimed their genuine or fabulous descent from the independent and victorious Franks, have asserted and abused the indefeasible right of conquest over a prostrate crowd of slaves and plebeians, to whom they imputed the imaginary disgrace of Gallic or Roman extraction.
Yet an impulse of rectitude impelled Miriam to give him what she still held to be a needless warning against an imaginary peril. "If you were wiser, Donatello, you would think me a dangerous person," said she, "If you follow my footsteps, they will lead you to no good. You ought to be afraid of me." "I would as soon think of fearing the air we breathe," he replied.
The last time she shook her head, with one of her rare attempts at explanation, made less rarely to him than to her other friends. "No, Mr. Farraday, I can't think about imaginary children just now. There's a spell over me all the world waits, and I'm holding my breath. Do you see?" He took her hand between both his.
A fine of three, or even five, pounds of gold, was imposed on the absent representatives; who seem to have declined this imaginary gift of a free constitution, as the last and most cruel insult of their oppressors. Arcadius Emperor Of The East. Administration And Disgrace Of Eutropius. Revolt Of Gainas. Persecution Of St. John Chrysostom. Theodosius II. Emperor Of The East. His Sister Pulcheria.
So he busied himself with concocting imaginary phrases and letters, by way of experiment as to the neatest way of breaking his bad news. Still he dreaded his friend's arrival more and more; and when at last a brisk footstep halted at the door, he started and turned pale like a guilty thing, and wished Jemima at the bottom of the sea! But the footstep was not Horace's.
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