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"But they would not be at least oh, I do not know what to think or what to do," exclaimed poor Lena, breaking down under the weight of all her troubles and perplexities.
The State of France Remedies Proposed by the Emperor Napoleon's Self-Indulgence Perplexities of both Combatants in Poland Opening of the Campaign Heilsberg Friedland The Result Indecisive The Strategic Problem The Statesman's Point of View The Armistice Napoleon's Resolution The Czar's Obligations to Prussia His Attitude toward Napoleon.
Before he ascended the throne, he was pronounced to be one of the brightest scholars within the whole realm; and now, although a monarch, surrounded by a thousand cares and perplexities, he bestowed much thought on his own favorite studies; and one of his most prominent desires was the perpetuity and advancement of learning among his subjects.
And now for the first time it struck her that thus he was trying to prepare her to do without him the earthly parent who had been hitherto the confidant of all her childish griefs, perplexities, hopes, joys, and fears; and with the thought the conviction deepened that he was indeed passing away to that bourne whence no traveler returns.
For those who keep not the common conceptions must of necessity fall into such perplexities. It is moreover against sense to say that nothing touches another; nor is this less absurd, that bodies touch one another, but touch by nothing.
Whether, therefore, the Government was right in ordering the withdrawal, or Nelson in his condemnation of it, may be left to the decision of those fortunate persons who can be cocksure of the true solution of other people's perplexities.
This being so, it is hardly worth while to go minutely into the history of his plans and perplexities. 'The Knights of Malta' was to have been a poetic tragedy of heroic devotion, friendship and self-sacrifice. The exposition, as we have it in outline, shows, partly by means of a chorus of 'spiritual' knights, the desperate plight of the besieged Christians.
The old woman totters in to say her "Ave Maria," the young woman to pray away her perplexities. Even the business man sometimes finds it a resource from his struggles and temptations. The poor, with their crowded houses and narrow quarters, have so little privacy as to make quiet, and even an opportunity for self-communion, a luxury.
Or it might be that an ancient woman, a mother or a grandmother in Israel, came with her questions and her perplexities to her pastor; and it was pretty certain that just at that moment he was very deep in his next sermon, or had a pressing visit to make. But it would also happen occasionally that one of the tenderer ewe-lambs of the flock needed comfort from the presence of the shepherd.
John clenched his hands; he was racked with anxiety, and cast frenzied glances toward this inaccessible shore. In the midst of his perplexities, a shock was felt. The raft stood still. It had landed on a sand-bank, twenty-five fathoms from the coast. Glenarvan, Robert, Wilson, and Mulrady, jumped into the water. The raft was firmly moored to the nearest rocks.
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