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Look to Christ for enlightened eyes, that he may get a more thorough discovery of the hazard and wretchedness of such a condition, that hereby being awakened and alarmed, he may more willingly use the means of recovery, and be more willing to be at some pains to be delivered.
But he changed his opinion when, two or three hours later, he woke up with acute pains in his hip and shoulder. After trying vainly, by changing his position, again to go off to sleep, he rose, rolled up the skin, and set to work to make the excavations recommended by the general.
Peterborough, knowing the value of the alliance and assistance of the priests, spared no pains to stand well with the Church, revenging himself for the outward deference he paid to it by the bitterest sarcasm and jeers in his letters to his friends at home.
He had translations made from original documents in the Carthaginian language; and a complete synopsis of Roman history, for reference during the progress of his work, was compiled for him by a Greek secretary. Such pains were seldom taken by a Latin historian. The last of the Ciceronians, Sallust is also in a sense the first of the imperial prose-writers.
My dear Friend, I should not have been half as idle about transcribing these translations if I had fancied you could care so much to have them as Arabel tells me you do. They are recommended to your mercy, O Greek Daniel! The last sounds in my ears most like English poetry; but I assure you I took the least pains with it. The first is yet more unequal to the Greek.
I think he ought to try to make up for his want of cleverness by being more docile, taking more pains, and listening to my advice. And then poor old Dumas would end with an exclamation of despair 'What will become of him! Dumas had another pupil who was much more to his taste.
In the afternoon to the "House in the Wood," where the "Final Act" was read. This is a statement of what has been done, summed up in the form of three conventions, with sundry declarations, voeux, etc. We had taken pains to see a number of the leading delegates, and all, in their anxiety to save the main features of the arbitration plan, agreed that they would not oppose our declaration.
"So 'tis, my lad, but that is no reason for being abroad at supper-time. Supper is not a burden." "'Wear my habits! "Said the poplar to the juniper bush." "'And thou, Andrea, mine amethyst ring; and me in both your hearts a month or two. "Why, Andrea?" "'For my body, ere this ye read, it will lie in Tiber. Trouble not to look for it. 'Tis not worth the pains.
Howard, who is to be Duke of Norfolk, and who by his wife is in possession of a great estate in my neighbourhood, takes so much pains to recommend himself to my Corporation that we are at a loss to know the source of his generosity. I have no personal acquaintance with him, but as a member of the Corporation have a permission to send for what venison we want.
Nevertheless, small as these figures were, Hankin found, when he came to add up his totals and strike off the balance of pains, that they were enough to turn the scale. He determined to leave Shott undisturbed, and went to bed with that feeling of perfect mental satisfaction which did duty with him for a conscience at peace.
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