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The emphasis which is laid on religious persuasion and inspiration, on prayer and spiritual uplift practically excludes the use of baths and douches, of massage and electricity, of tonics and sedatives. And yet it is not caprice or sham when every well-schooled medical specialist applies such means in the treatment of these so-called functional diseases of the nervous system.
They are noble oak beams; we would not have any sham here, Aubrey, take off the roof, and auntie will see the shape." "Like the ribs of a ship," explained Aubrey, unconscious that the meaning was deeper than his sister could express, and he continued: "Such fine oak beams! I rode with Dr. Spencer one day last year to choose them. It is a two-aisled church, you see, that a third may be added."
It soon became thoroughly understood in England that the same bargaining was going on simultaneously in France. As it was evident that the Spanish children could not be disposed of in both markets at the same time, it was plain to the dullest comprehension that either the brokerage of Toledo or of Girono was a sham, and that a policy erected upon such flimsy foundations would soon be washed away.
We have entered into details in order to show how destitute of all strategetical combinations was the whole plan of campaign in Syria. Malte Brun estimates the population of the district of Sham at two millions, but we are inclined to question the accuracy of this calculation, since no two travellers are agreed as to the numbers of the Druses, some estimating them at 120,000, others at a million.
But, my dear, pray always think over everything a long time before you come to any determination. A judge's business is not that of a fireman; your papers are never in a blaze, you have plenty of time to think; so in your place blunders are inexcusable." "The whole strength of my position lies in identifying the sham Spanish priest with Jacques Collin," the judge said, after a long pause.
Williams of the mystery of his birth, all which concerns the pretended personage of Louis XVII., is from one end to the other a work of the imagination a fable woven wholesale a speculation upon the public credulity." These are but a few of the numerous sham dauphins who have at various times appeared.
He had sold his cart and donkey, and wanted to burden his red-haired wife with his possessions, but as she resolutely refused he had taken the bundle on his own lazy shoulders. Now he dragged himself and his new load onward, swearing vehemently, for Ratz had remained with the cart in Miltenberg, where the sham lunatic no longer found it safe to stay.
"Ah!" said the old man, "let's get out, Jack. This is the port; and, do you hear, and be cursed to you, let's have no swearing, d n you, nor bad language, you lazy swab." "Aye, aye," cried Jack; "I've not been ashore now a matter o' ten years, and not larnt a little shore-going politeness, admiral, I ain't been your walley de sham without larning a little about land reckonings.
'I wonder when I shall see Patrick! he said, quickened in spite of himself by the sham sounds of music to desire changes and surprises. Jane was wondering whether he could be a man still to brood tearfully over his old love. She echoed him. 'And I! Soon, I hope. The appearance of Mrs.
Bobbie strolled off, laughing. "Is it all a sham, then," said Diana, looking round her with a smile and a sigh: "St. Francis and the 'Fioretti' and the 'Hymn to the Sun'? Has it all ended in lazy monks and hypocrisy?" "Dante asked himself the same question eighty years after St. Francis's death. Yet here is this divine church!"
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