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How long must I oppression bear and peril and distress! Ah, how I loathe this life of mine, that nought but these can show! May God not prosper them, these days, wherein I am oppressed of Fate, these cruel days that add abjection to my woe! My purposes are brought to nought, my loves are reft in twain By exile's rigour, and my hopes are one and all laid low.
But as soon as in the speeches of his friend he saw it all laid down in its weakness and its false conclusions when he saw the defenders of it wandering further and further from what he knew to be true, growing every moment, as if from a consciousness of the unsoundness of their standing ground, more violent, obstinate, and unreasonable, the scales fell more and more from his eyes he had seen the fact that the wicked might prosper, and in learning to depend upon his innocency he had felt that the good man's support was there, if it was anywhere; and at last, with all his heart, was reconciled to the truth.
The women particularly are described as having been quite frantic against the Queen, and to have hooted and cried after her in the streets with terrific vehemence. Such guilty unions seldom prosper.
This is the only course which we, your consuls, after much conversation on the subject, have been able to discover. Adopt it, then, and may the gods prosper the measure. If the state is preserved, she can easily secure the property of her individual members, but by betraying the public interests you would in vain preserve your own."
"Sometimes I think that to live and prosper is good fortune, and sometimes I think that to die and sleep is good fortune, for in sleep there is neither hunger nor thirst of body or of spirit. In sleep there come no cares; in sleep ambitions are at rest; nor do those who look no more upon the sun smart beneath the treacheries of false women or false friends.
It uttered one wail, and disappeared. On this cry, the alligators, hidden amongst the reeds, leaped joyfully into the water. There are mothers here who kill their children out of pity. Brothers, the good work will prosper in this country!"
"Do you want my advice?" he said, looking up from the perusal. "Buy the paper. It is worth what Anderson asks for it." "So I think, but there is a difficulty. Harry and I can only raise twelve hundred dollars or so between us." "Give a note for the balance. You'll be able to pay it off in two years, if you prosper." "I am afraid that won't do. Mr. Anderson wants cash.
Let it but stand, say they; let it but prosper by the number of its troops and be glorious by its victories; or, which is best of all, let it but enjoy security and peace, and what care we? Yes, what we care for above all is that every one may have the means to increase his wealth, to pay the expenses of his usual luxury, and that the powerful may still keep under the weak.
Nicholas, who, I have no doubt, will prosper him in his voyage, while we await his return at the great city of New Amsterdam. While thus the enterprising Peter was coasting, with flowing sail, up the shores of the lordly Hudson, and arousing all the phlegmatic little Dutch settlements upon its borders, a great and puissant concourse of warriors was assembling at the city of New Amsterdam.
Your letter told him exactly where to go. Ah, Prosper, that unfortunate letter gives more trouble than everything else together." These words seemed to throw a sudden light on Mme. Gypsy's mind. "I understand it now!" she exclaimed. "M. Fauvel knows everything."
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