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Yet in two hours he had walked perhaps nine miles without being four miles nearer the Spittal. In that flood the glen milestones were three miles apart. For some time he had been following the dog doubtfully, for it seemed to be going too near the river. When they struck a cart- track, however, he concluded rightly that they were nearing a bridge.
Among those less known, perhaps, is his answer to General T , relative to some difference of opinion between them on the War in Spain: "Well, T , are you still on your high horse?" "If I was on a horse before, I am upon an elephant now." "No, T , you were upon an ass before, now you are upon a mule." Some mention having been made in his presence of a Tax upon Milestones.
Beside the great highways stood milestones in the shape of short pillars, and generally there were in existence charts or itineraries, sometimes pictured, giving all necessary directions as to the turnings, distances, stopping-places, and inns, and even as to the sights worth seeing on the way.
The Buddhist monasteries are here revealed as schools of practical psychology, the life of the monk a life of arduous and unceasing labor, but labor of a sort which seems but idleness. The successive "initiations" which are the milestones on the "Path of Perfection" upon which the devotee has set his feet represent successive emancipations of consciousness gained through work and knowledge.
Her journey back was rather a meander than a march. It had no sprightliness, no purpose; only a tendency. Along the tedious length of Benvill Lane she began to grow tired, and she leant upon gates and paused by milestones.
"I do not know the distance." Her brother told her that it was twenty-three miles. "Three and twenty!" cried Thorpe. "Five and twenty if it is an inch." Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance. "I know it must be five and twenty," said he, "by the time we have been doing it.
And now, dear pupils, we must close this series of lessons on the Yogi Philosophy. We must rest ere we so soon engage upon our new and great work. We must each take a little rest, ere we meet again on The Path of Attainment. Each of these temporary partings are milestones upon our Journey of Spiritual Life. Let each find us farther advanced. And now we send you our wishes of Peace.
Step by step, the events that had been the milestones of this man's life recurred to his mind as he tramped tirelessly through the scrub growth of the barrens toward a spot upon the shore of the lake the only grass plot within a radius of five hundred miles.
I once took an Englishman with me in a gig up Allibama country, and he says, `What's this great churchyard we are passing through? `And stranger, says I, `I calculate it's nothing but the milestones we are passing so slick. But I once had a horse, who, I expect, was a deal quicker than that.
Amans than of Spitzbergen. Again and again my young companion put her head out of the window and cried: 'Well, driver, how many kilometres now to St. Amans? And the reply would be: 'Three more' or 'Two more just two, mademoiselle. Whereas mademoiselle laughingly counted half a dozen by the milestones between each inquiry.
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