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In the senate, many of the leading members of former sessions remained, having their places either by holding over or by re-election. Many of the old members of the house of representatives had also been re-chosen, and yet there were a great many changes in that body. The elements of party strife were active among them all, and it was evident to every man that a great struggle was impending.
The best ways of employing Sunday, he said, were Worship, Self-Examination, and Preparation for Death. The sermon ended with some words which indicate the sense of impending change: "I never take leave of any one, for any length of time, without a deep impression upon my mind of the uncertainty of human life, and the probability that we may meet no more in this world."
It is only when a man has time to understand and appreciate the impending catastrophe, and can do absolutely nothing to avert it, that he fully realises the possibility of death.
An examination of what Latin Christianity has done for modern civilization. A corresponding examination of what Science has done. The attitude of Roman Christianity in the impending conflict, as defined by the Vatican Council.
Nance yielded to Oonah's fears and entreaties, and with many a blessing and boundless thanks for the beggar-woman's kindness, Oonah led the way to the little potato garden at the back of the house, and there the women squatted themselves in one of the trenches and awaited the impending event. It was not long in arriving.
The nation's representative is less secure in his tenure of office than his own servant, to whom he must give warning of his impending dismissal. "A breath unmakes him as a breath has made." The chief magistrate's responsibility to duty, to the fellow-citizen at his mercy, to his countrymen, to mankind, is in proportion to his power.
It was this impending marriage, and the anxiety of Lady Marney to see Egremont's affairs settled before it took place, which about a year and a half ago had induced her to summon him so urgently from Mowedale, which the reader perhaps may have not forgotten. And now Egremont is paying one of his almost daily visits to his mother at Deloraine House.
The latter, quite unconscious of impending peril, continued to try to catch Sandyface, who looked down upon his foolish gyrations from a branch near the top of the tree. Perhaps she divined what was about to happen to the naughty Jock, for she did not even meow! Tess had presence of mind enough to holloa "Whoa!" and she kept right on saying it.
The dreams which might have peopled that beautiful sunset wood necessarily faded in an atmosphere like this filled with the solemn gloom of impending death. At last he paused in his hurried walk, quieted, perhaps, by what he might have read in my ever-following eyes. "I know you are as grieved as I am, Phineas. What can we do?
Until long past midnight they talked the details over, and when they separated in the small hours it was with a well-defined plan to save the State from its impending disgrace if the thing could be done. The first ballots for a United States senator taken by the legislature in joint session failed to disclose the alignment of some of the doubtful members.
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