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The Achaeans to whom Homer sang had none of this sanguinary Pharisaism. Others must decide on the exact value and import of Odyssean grammar as a test of lateness, and must estimate the probable amount of time required for the development of such linguistic differences as they find in the Odyssey and Iliad.
The facts are of greater import than the record; but an eyewitness has responsibility, and I feel moved to give my testimony. Perhaps so complete a reversal of spirit and administration was never before reached without an election by the people.
On the other hand, we ought to possess, and to have the power of communicating, more correct ideas of his mode of procedure, of his concealed or less obvious views, and of the meaning and import of his labors, than others whose acquaintance with him is more limited. Shakespeare is the pride of his nation. A late poet has, with propriety, called him "the genius of the British isles."
This meant the difference between a profitable and unprofitable enterprise. A few Nantucket seamen had even transferred to Nova Scotia in order to become British citizens again and thus receive exemption from whale-oil import duty. This trend alarmed the French in particular, who could visualize thousands of the United States' best sailors going over to their enemies the English.
He didn't for the moment realise what these things might import. Then he received a stinging handful of rice in the ear, and a great light shone. "Not yet, you young fool!" he heard Mr. Voules saying behind him, and then a second handful spoke against his hat. "Not yet," said Mr. Voules with increasing emphasis, and Mr.
You will suppose how I was affected by this speech, by repeating the substance of what he said upon it; as follows. But, by his soul, he knew not, so much was I upon the reserve, and so much latent meaning did my eye import, whether, when he most hoped to please me, he was not farthest from doing so. Would I vouchsafe to say, whether I approved of his compliment to Lord M. or not?
The hut answers a need that is primarily physical; the need in the other case is spiritual. But it is a matter of degree. In essence and import the achievement of the two men is the same. The originating impulse, a sense of need; the processes involved, the combination of material elements to a definite end; the result attained, shelter which answers the need, they are identical.
One feature of his visit returned insistently to his mind: the contrast between the semi-contemptuous carelessness exhibited by his father toward the processes of compounding the cure and the minute and insistent attention given to the methods of expounding it. Was the advertising really of so much more import than the medicine itself?
"They oughtn't to complain about that," said my client; "and besides, he wasn't drunk enough to amount to anything." "However that may be," said I, "you have the credit for leading him astray. But there is a split in your favor." "I'm glad to know that," he said, brightening; "then I won't have to import any more." "Any more what?" I asked. "People from the East to keep things moving, of course.
"But," cried Sandy, bewildered but hopeful, "I have to go back!" The doctor shook his head. "No, you don't. I've paid your passage." Sandy waited a moment until the full import of the words was taken in, then he grabbed the stout little doctor and almost lifted him off his feet. "Oh! But ain't you a brick!" he cried fervently, adding earnestly: "It ain't a present you're makin' me, though!
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