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Ask, reader, ask any of your friends to give an account of some striking occurrence of a year ago. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it will not tally with yours. You may be wrong or your friend may be wrong: in either case some one's memory has played a trick.
"Nine times one are nine," sobbed the poor little woman, "nine times two " "Goron," said Mr. Korner sternly. She went on steadily, in a low monotone, broken by stifled sobs. The dreary rhythm of the repetition may possibly have assisted. As she mentioned fearfully that nine times eleven were ninety-nine, Miss Greene pointed stealthily toward the table. Mrs.
"Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!" said Bois-Guilbert, striding up and down the apartment. "What they may believe, I know not," said Malvoisin, calmly; "but I know well, that in this our day, clergy and laymen, take ninety-nine to the hundred, will cry 'amen' to the Grand Master's sentence." "I have it," said Bois-Guilbert. "Albert, thou art my friend.
God frequently performs marvellous things with such humble instruments; for he hath said, `there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-nine just men." "Surely, this is raising the wicked man over the good," I cried. "Not at all," she replied.
Ninety-nine hundredths blown away; all the lies blown away, and some skeleton of a spiritual and practical Universe left standing for us which were true: O Heavens, is it forever impossible, then? By a generation that had no tongue it really might be done; but not so easily by one that had.
Chauncy was next to Hilbert. He immediately began to talk with Hilbert about the lottery. "Have you got a ticket in this lottery?" he asked. "Yes," said Hilbert; "mine is 267. What is yours?" "I don't know," said Mr. Chauncy; "I did not observe." As he said this, however, he took his ticket out of his pocket, and said, reading it, "Ninety-nine."
I think the guilty man is one of his deputies through whom ninety-nine per cent of the office routine is transacted, and the land-grabbers have him under their thumbs." "Then why not go direct to the surveyor-general with your troubles?" queried Dunstan. Bob shook his head. "No hope in that direction.
The ninety-nine cash idols of Ti Hung will not, for example, purify linen, but even the most contented and frozen-brained person cannot be happy until he possesses one. What is happiness? The exceedingly well-educated Philosopher defines it as the accomplishment of all our desires. Everyone desires one of the Ti Hung's ninety-nine cash idols, therefore get one; but be sure that it is Ti Hung's.
Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon, England, April Twenty-fifth, Fifteen Hundred Ninety-nine. His parents belonged to the landed gentry, but who yet were poor enough so they ever felt the necessity of work and economy. The mother of Cromwell was a widow when she wedded Richard, the happy father of Oliver.
Don't you feel the same way somehow?" You can try this on almost anybody. It will work in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred; for, of course, there is a great deal to be said in favor of the views of anybody who is not an absolute fool, and most reasoning is open to attack at least for being inconclusive.
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