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"For so important a decision, I mean." "Yes; it is, I know." "For learning a man's character, shall I say?" "Some characters one learns more quickly than others. I know him, papa, better than I do you." "That may well be, youth does not easily understand age. And so my question remains: Do you know him well enough to marry him?" "I want to marry him," she said. "You know there are objections?"
But such as are lifted up in the lofty walk of some would-be sublimer learning, hear not Him, saying, Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls. Although they knew God, yet they glorify Him not as God, nor are thankful, but wax vain in their thoughts; and their foolish heart is darkened; professing that they were wise, they became fools.
"Say, Pete; this partnership of ours isn't on the level. You put in half the work and all the brains." "'Sall right," said Pete Johnson. "You furnish the luck and personal pulchritude. That ain't all, either. I'm pickin' up some considerable education from you, learning how to pronounce words like that pulchritude. I mispronounced dreadful, I reckon."
Goldsmith has himself, in his 'Inquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning, recorded some very striking impressions as to the value of academic success.
Doubtless, there too there was inconsistency enough. Elizabeth may have mixed up ambitious dynastic dreams with her intense belief that God had given her her wisdom, her learning, her mighty will, only to be the servant of His servants and defender of the faith.
We five, though instructed by an elder sister in the rudiments of learning, spent many more of our waking hours with Mammy; and whilst we drew knowledge from one source, we derived the greater part of our pleasure from the other that is, outside of our playmates.
How it happened, Alice never knew, but exactly as she came to the last peg, she was gone. Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through. 'It's something very like learning geography, thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able to see a little further. 'Principal rivers there ARE none.
I was at first indisposed to consider the proposition. Cambridge was to me the focus of the science and learning of our country. I feared that, so far as the world of learning was concerned, I should be burying myself by moving to Washington. The drudgery of night work at the observatory would also interfere with carrying on any regular investigation.
Arriving there, he learned that his son, while pursuing his studies in England, had obtained information of the will made in his father's favor, and learning facts which led him to believe that the will was still in existence and in the possession of his father's younger brother, had, with the advice of his London attorneys, gone to America, and was then in his uncle's employ for the purpose of securing proof regarding the will, and, if possible, possession of the will itself.
It was a white people who were before ye are, who shall be when ye are not, who shall eat you up and destroy you. Yea! yea! yea! "And what came they for, the White Ones, the Terrible Ones, the skilled in magic and all learning, the strong, the unswerving? What is that bright stone upon thy forehead, O king? Whose hands made the iron garments upon thy breast, O king? Ye know not, but I know.
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