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Be not deceived when men who are reckoning up their genealogy, wherever an illustrious name is wanting, foist in that of a god in its place. You need despise no one, even though he bears a commonplace name, and owes little to fortune.
Lawrence had fought her case in the courts when she sued old Tulkington for divorce, and a handsome settlement he got for her, too. They say his fee ran up into the hundred thousands contingent, you know. I don't know what his game was" here he lowered his voice to a whisper "but they say Close owes him a good deal of money. You can figure it out for yourself as you like.
"I don't know is Elkan's widow living now oder not," Abe said, "but Mosha told me Hillel's widow wants to get married again, and Alex comes to him and says he should give the old lady anyhow a thousand dollars. Mosha wants to know what for, and Alex tells him he owes from Hillel's estate yet a couple thousand dollars." "And did he?" Morris inquired. "Suppose he did?" Abe replied.
An additional contrivance was that of journalising his twenty-four hours, of which he has furnished us both with descriptions and specimens of the method; and he closes with a solemn assurance, that "It may be well my posterity should be informed, that to this little artifice their ancestor owes the constant felicity of his life."
Mehemet Ali is now on independent sovereign, and it is to the military genius of Europe that he owes this glory; while the once formidable empire of Mahomet is rapidly sinking under an accumulation of evils, the operation of which European diplomacy will in vain attempt to arrest.
I have made arrangements that you will be left in the literary charge of the 'Clarion. It is only a fitting recompense that the paper owes to you and your father, to whom I hope to see you presently reconciled. But we won't discuss that now!
What happened to him?" he demanded excitedly, without giving Tad a chance to answer between questions. "I think he is all right, Mr. Larue. He had a close call" "Was he shot?" "A bullet grazed the side of his head, and then his pony ran away. I guess that came nearer killing him than did the bullet." "He owes his life to you, and that's no joke," answered the foreman shortly.
'No! Oh, no! I could dance till this time to-morrow. 'We ought to be going, said Mrs. Edmonstone. 'O pray, Mrs. Edmonstone, this one more, cried Guy, eagerly. 'Laura owes me this one. 'Yes, this one more, mamma, said Laura, and they went off together, while Philip remained, in a reverie, till requested by his aunt to see if the carriage was ready.
The third section of this honored file of poets contains the names of Coleridge and Wordsworth; they are characteristically the poets of imagination, of reflection, and of a tone of sentiment that owes its attraction to its ideal elevation.
Many lessons might be drawn from this scripture, the first of which would be his power to uplift womanhood; but this is so well understood that it is unnecessary to take a moment of time to discuss it, except to say in passing that all that woman is today she owes to Jesus of Nazareth. She was as truly bound as this afflicted woman, and just as truly was she set free.
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