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If friends can be useful in lifting off the little painful cares that throng in the house of death till its presence is banished, let them go and do their work quietly and cheerfully; but to make a call or write a note, to measure your sorrow and express theirs, seems to me on a par with pulling a wounded man's bandages off and probing his hurt, to hear him cry out and hear yourself say how bad it must be!
It simply proves that there are sensations and sensations, and that certain of these are better and more precise than others. The visual sensation of relation in space seems to be par excellence the scientific sensation which it is sought to substitute for all the rest. But, after all, it is but a sensation.
The fact stated by them that it was dangerous was well shown in one instance, where it suddenly wheeled and flew so close over us that I and Toolabar fell over each other in dodging it." Lieutenant Ruffner describes one of the great lava outflows in the West in a way that serves to set before the reader the magnitude of the eruptions which have made America par excellence the volcanic continent.
My observation is that the average man who works and gets a proper amount of exercise does not eat too much. If you want to get work done by the engine, you have got to stoke up the furnace. If a man wants to keep his vital energies up to par he has got to put in the fuel that is, the food.
He led the way to a section of the rail fence which, although rickety, was still standing. He seated himself upon the upper rail and Galusha clambered up and perched beside him. The banker's first question was concerning the six hundred and fifty shares of Development stock. "I know you gave the Phipps woman par for hers," he said. "You told me so and so did she.
She would take no advice. She was like a hungry warrior in an enemy's country asked to surrender arms in exchange for gold. Once the necessity was satisfied, he would become a prisoner, would be vilified and on a par with the miserable creatures who a few hours before were receiving his blows.
«Sur la cime même de la montagne, ces grès sont recouverts par une ardoise grise, luisante, qui s'exfolie
She laughed at him again and threw out her arms toward the moonlit sea. "What a night for the moralities for the ashes of repentance! I ask a man into the rose-garden to make love to me and he preaches to me instead preaches to me! of the world, the flesh and the devil, par exemple! Was ever a pretty woman in a more humiliating position!"
They stood silent; then there were last words, and sobs, and bitter weeping, such parting as those may make whose hope to meet again is as the spider's web, and the husband and wife were parted. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to "the house," as the negro par excellence designates his master's dwelling.
But I shall know no rest till I have placed our navy on a par for strength with our army." From that day to this he has gone steadily forward demanding of his people a strong army and a powerful fleet. He now has both. He has pulled Germany out of danger and beyond the reach, for the moment at least, of any repetition of the catastrophe and humiliation of a hundred years ago.
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