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But most advocates of the determinist position are, to do them justice, well aware of the existence of wrong and discord in human life; and their object is, by emphasising the influence of heredity and environment, to remove or at least materially to lighten, the crushing burden of the sense of sin.
At dinner Lucy did her best to lighten the atmosphere, being indeed most truly sorry for her poor friends and their dilemma. But her pleasant girlish talk seemed to float above an abyss of trouble and discomfort, which threatened constantly to swallow it up. Alice Manisty indeed responded.
It is a part of charity for each man to regard his neighbor as himself to feel for him, as it were, with his own heart to lighten his burdens, minister unto him in his sorrows, and to gladden his happiness. This the Christian denies the Jew.
"DEAR SIR WALTER, I pass over all those disastrous events that have arrived to us both since our last, as you justly call it, melancholy parting, to assure you how delighted I shall be if I can in the most inconsiderable degree assist in the illustrations of the great work, which we all hope may lighten or remove that load of troubles by which your noble spirit is at this time beset; considering it as only repaying a debt of obligation which you yourself have laid upon me when, with an unseen hand in the Antiquary, you took me up and claimed me, the humble painter of domestic sorrow, as your countryman."
To thee, O Sun, by whose aid man begetteth man, to thee I appeal to help me and lighten the darkness of my wit that I may be able to proceed with scrupulous exactitude in giving an account of the great Sancho Panza's government; for without thee I feel myself weak, feeble, and uncertain.
The façade is often decorated with slender colonnettes of painted wood, which bear no weight, and merely serve to lighten the somewhat severe aspect of the exterior. Of the internal arrangements, we know but little.
The Frenchmen, however, had more wind than we had, and gained on us fast. We threw our fourteen pop-guns overboard to lighten her, for even Cochrane felt that it was useless to think of fighting now.
He knew not, at first, how to receive her. What offices could she do for him what influence exercise how lighten the burden of his doom how release him from his chains? Nothing of this could she perform and what did she there? For sympathy, at such a moment, he cared little for such sympathy, at least, as he could command.
He was alive with all the delicate and sensible charities, was forever scheming and planning to lessen distress and lighten sorrows, and if he could have had his way there would never have been a sick man or a poor man within the walls of Florence.
The projectile in the satellite's cone of shadow was no longer under the action of the solar rays. In the interior darkness was, therefore, complete. The travellers could no longer see one another. Hence came the necessity to lighten this darkness.
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