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That prophetic One Hundred and Tenth Psalm mentions this as the great characteristic of those who shall rally about God's King in a coming day of power. God reckons our service not by our ability but by our willingness. Whatever is given out of a warm, willing heart is eagerly accepted by Him. The Hebrew tabernacle was constructed of free-will offerings.
I bake a little bread now and then, and natter myself it is uncommonly good; and one four- pound tin of Bloxland's preserved meat from Queensland has already lasted me twelve days, and there is about half of it remaining. He reckons each pound well soaked and cooked to be equal to three pounds, and I think he is right.
Influenced by a false idea of his grandeur and of his future, the measure of which he reckons on the noble success of one of his former comrades, one of the few great talents brought to light by the revolution of July, he allows himself, in order to get out of his embarrassments, certain laxities of principle with persons who are friendly to him, laxities which never come to the surface, but are buried in private life, where no one ever mentions or complains of them.
You see an infernal life before you; society is out of the question. To remain at home with this triumphant stupidity is equivalent to condemnation to the state's prison. Axiom. Moral tortures exceed physical sufferings by all the difference which exists between the soul and the body. Among the keenest pleasures of bachelor life, every man reckons the independence of his getting up.
Here is then an organization, sprung up but yesterday, and which reckons its members by hundreds of thousands; possesses ambulances, hospital trains, elaborates new processes for treating wounds, and so on, and is due to the spontaneous initiative of a few devoted men. Perhaps we shall be told that the State has something to do with this organization. Yes, States have laid hands on it to seize it.
"I frequent sees bad luck to other folks, as well as comin' to me personal, in the years I inhabits the grass country, but this was shorely the toughest. It even overplays anythin' Rainbow Sam ever is ag'inst; an' the hard luck of Rainbow Sam is a proverb of Arizona. "'Which I reckons I was foaled with a copper on me, says this Rainbow Sam to Enright one day.
'And if He coome, what kind o' a welcome would He ged, thinksto? I know thaa reckons to meet Him on a Sundo, and when thaa sits at "His table," as tha co's th' sacrament, and at th' deacons' meetings. But that's abaat as mich on Him as yo' want, I think. Mr. Penrose stood up to leave, but, recollecting himself, he said: 'Shall I pray with you, Mr. Fletcher?
He indeed ought not to have too much insulted over the Greeks that took part with the Persians, who, being by others thought a Thurian, reckons himself among the Halicarnassians, who, being Dorians by descent, went with their wives and children to the war against the Greeks.
They do not know what a league is. Each one reckons distance according to his own speed in traveling. The principal ones among them, including those of the capital, when they are in the country go barefooted and barelegged. The whites show no reluctance at being mixed up with the colored population. During these feast-days they occupy houses that look like hen-coops.
As the Chief advocates of Bentham he reckons Romilly, his parliamentary representative; Dumont, his literary interpreter; and James Mill, who, in his article upon 'jurisprudence, had popularised the essential principles of the doctrine. The Utilitarians had at last broken up the barriers of obstruction and set the stream flowing. Whigs and Tories were taking up their theories.
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