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We may therefore profitably meditate, with God's blessing, though we are ever so weak spiritually; nay, the weaker we are, the more we need meditation for the strengthening of our inner man. There is thus far less to be feared from wandering of mind than if we give ourselves to prayer without having had previously time for meditation.
He being that furious creature, she thought of herself at her wildest, which was in her estimation her best; and consequently, she being by no means a furious creature, though very original, she could not meditate on him without softening the outlines given him by report; all because of the likeness between them; and, therefore, as she had knowingly been taken for furious by very foolish people, she settled it that Alvan was also a victim of the prejudices he scorned.
"Idiot!" said Achilles Tatius, "dost thou think that I, already possessed of one of the first dignities of the empire, could meditate anything contrary to the interests of Alexius Comnenus? or, what would be scarce more atrocious, that I, the chosen friend and ally of the reverend Patriarch Zosimus, should meddle with anything bearing a relation, however remote, to heresy or idolatry?"
The friar himself, however, growing very weary of the dulness of the Sanctuary, and covetous of the advantages enjoyed by Adam, began to meditate acquiescence in the fashion of the day, and a transfer of his allegiance to the party in power.
You are a man to meditate over each new torture as calmly as you have regulated every detail of our duel." Bergenheim, instead of replying, lighted a candle as if to put an end to this discussion. "Until to-morrow, Monsieur," said he, with a cold air.
All she wanted was rest and leisure leisure to meditate upon the body upstairs. All flesh is as grass. We are here today and gone tomorrow. But there, beyond the grave, is peace. "Your change?" she said. "Damn the change!" "You are forgetting your hat." "Damn my hat!" Geoffrey dashed from the room. He heaved his body through the door. He lumbered down the stairs.
And Aunt Hannah could only go up-stairs and meditate on the unreasonableness of lovers in general, and of Bertram in particular. Aunt Hannah had gone to bed, but she was still awake, when Billy came home, so she heard the automobile come to a stop before the door, and she called to Billy when the girl came upstairs. "Billy, dear, come in here. I'm awake! I want to hear about it. Was it good?"
Let us at any rate, when the suffragist is congratulating herself on her own progress, meditate also upon that dictum of Nietzsche, "Progress is writ large on all woman's banners and bannerets; but one can actually see her going back."
'Mourir c'est rien, mais souffrir! That is the hard part of it! Let us all pray for the Pope, my friends! he is an old man!" "When you are silent, Zouche," said Thord with a half smile; "We may perhaps meditate upon him in our thoughts, but not while you talk thus volubly! You take up time and Pequita is getting tired."
Study this for its beauty and variety of language. Meditate upon it as a model of what a speaker should be. Observe the power, nobility and courage manifest throughout. The closing sentence should be read in a deeply earnest tone and at a gradually slower rate. Read this for its purity and strength of style. Study this passage for its common sense and exalted thought. Extracts for Study
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