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As the life of the race is larger, longer, and in all respects more to be considered than that of the individual, so is the life we live in others larger and more important than the one we live in ourselves.

"Here and hereafter remember this of Janees, King of Tat, that he who might have saved his life chose to die for love of you." Then they went and saw him no more.

But Thebes is still the centre of the nation's life, and now, when it is growing almost certain that there will be another war with those vile Hittites in the North of Syria, he has come up to the great city to take counsel with his brother-god, Amen, and to make arrangements for gathering his army.

I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing.

"That will be a pity from one point of view," remarked Theron, still with the ironical smile on his lips. "You seemed to enter upon the new life with such deliberation and fixity of purpose, too! I can imagine the regrets your withdrawal will cause, in certain quarters. I only hope that it will not discourage those who accompanied you to the altar, and shared your enthusiasm at the time."

With all their weirdness, with all their sometimes dangerous adventure most of them were made at night, and with hardly ever any regard being paid to the weather or to the state of the roads they stand out in the vast array of memorable trifles that constitute the story of my life as among the most memorable ones.

Ibn al Muqaffa stands in the first place belonging to him by right. He was a genuine encyclopaedic translator familiar with the Arab society with all its influence of spiritual Sasanian life of Persia finding expression in its literature. He translated scientific, epico-historical, and ethico-didactic books.

She found herself sitting down to face the mysteries of a meal whose type was different from any hitherto met in her brief experience of life. Her internal summing up was, "Of course I can't make any impression on Mr. Lenox. He likes the other kind of woman." She looked at Mrs.

How do you know the accuracy of the facts you state in a single line, for instance, about the private life and habits of the president of a certain trust company?" A cold smile played about Bivens's mouth for a moment. "You don't suppose I would make a statement like that unless I know it to be true?" "I found all your other facts correct. This I haven't been able to verify.

Even the great progress in sanitation, which has successfully suppressed smallpox, the bubonic plague, and Asiatic cholera, has found the cause of and a cure for beriberi, has segregated the lepers, has helped to make Manila the most healthful city in the Orient, and to free life throughout the whole archipelago from its former dread diseases, is nevertheless incomplete in many essentials of permanence in sanitary policy.