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"Well, I restored and refurnished it specially the rooms you now occupy, in accordance with what I imagined to be her taste. The whole proceeding was not a little feeble-minded, since the probability of her ever inhabiting those rooms was more than remote. But it amused, it pacified me, as prayer to their self-invented deities pacifies the devout. I never stay here for long together.
But the heart of the age clamors on unsatisfied, none of our "new" ideas content it nothing pacifies its restless yearning; it feels this great heart of human life that it is losing more than it gains, hence the incessant, restless aching of the time, and the perpetual longing for something Science cannot teach, something vague, beautiful, indefinable, yet satisfying to every pulse of the soul; and the nearest emotion to that divine solace is what we in our higher and better moments recognize as Love.
If any housekeeper within a particular circle happens to offend the sweeper of that range, none of his filth will be removed till he pacifies him, because no other sweeper will dare to touch it; and the people of a town are often more tyrannized over by these people than by any other." A footnote by Major Sleeman's editor, Mr.
It lit a fearful danger-signal and fastened it at the beloved's door, to prevent me coming to her!" "But the hand of the beloved extinguished the light," Isolde pacifies him; "What the handmaid refused, I feared not to do. At the command and under the protection of Great Love, I cried defiance to the Day!" "The Day!
There is indeed a pernicious destructive sort of flattery wherewith rookers and sharks work their several ends upon such as they can make a prey of, by decoying them into traps and snares beyond recovery: but that which is the effect of folly is of a much different nature; it proceeds from a softness of spirit, and a flexibleness of good humour, and comes far nearer to virtue than that other extreme of friendship, namely, a stiff, sour, dogged moroseness: it refreshes our minds when tired, enlivens them when melancholy, reinforces them when languishing, invigorates them when heavy, recovers them when sick, and pacifies them when rebellious: it puts us in a method how to procure friends, and how to keep them; it entices children to swallow the bitter rudiments of learning; it gives a new ferment to the almost stagnated souls of old men; it both reproves and instructs principles without offence under the mask of commendation: in short, it makes every man fond and indulgent of himself, which is indeed no small part of each man's happiness, and at the same time renders him obliging and complaisant in all company, where it is pleasant to see how the asses rub and scratch one another.
Ganga replies "who can close the door of Fate?" But Earth says, "has it been proper for the good Rama? He disregarded the hand he pressed when a boy. He disregarded me and Janaka. He disregarded the children she was about to bring forth." But Ganga pacifies her and they agree to make over the children to Valmiki, when they become a little old.
If any housekeeper within a particular circle happens to offend the sweeper of that range, none of his filth will be removed till he pacifies him, because no other sweeper will dare to touch it; and the people of a town are often more tyrannized over by these people than by any other." A footnote by Major Sleeman's editor, Mr.
General Bernadotte pacifies La vendee and suppresses a mutiny at Tours Bonaparte's injustice towards him A premeditated scene Advice given to Bernadotte, and Bonaparte disappointed The First Consul's residence at St. Cloud His rehearsals for the Empire His contempt of mankind Mr.
It is he who saves humanity from complete annihilation, and who pacifies the angered Bel. Marduk's name does not appear in the entire epic.
"You have probably heard," she said, "that my father turned me out of his house." "There was a rumour " he began hesitatingly. "Oh! it was no rumour," she interrupted. "He took care that every one knew that I had given Norris Vine some information about his doings in Canadian Pacifies. If I were back at home, which I never shall be, I would do the same thing again.
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