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She'll be glad!" "Don't you tell the folks at home?" queried Captain Atherton. "They don't care much," Gyp said with downcast eyes. Then, as if to excuse their lack of interest, he said: "I guess they don't understand why I'm bound to study." "I understand, my boy, just why you are working so hard, and I'm proud of you!
They should study this, and the Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh, for it is obvious that they do not—for the most part—fully visualize the greatness, the glory, the power and the protection which have been conferred on this Faith through the Institutions provided for in the Master’s Will.
Moreover, he had completed the study of law in the office of Judge W.T. Wallace, been admitted to the bar, and was now actively engaged in the practice of his profession.
It gropes among the loose records of the past, and the floating fables of the moment, to glean a few truths or falsehoods tending to prove, if they prove anything, that the persons who have passed their lives in the study of a branch of knowledge the very essence of which must always consist in long and accurate observation, are less competent to judge of new doctrines in their own department than the rest of the community.
When I reached my own study, I sat down by a blazing fire, and poured myself out a glass of wine; for I had to go out again to see some of my poor friends, and wanted some luncheon first. It is a great thing to have the greetings of the universe presented in fire and food.
His days were occupied by work, for he had to support himself and his mother, while his evenings were devoted to study. But he really desired to amuse his lovely visitor, and so, going to a book-case, he took down a large, square book and brought it to her. "Have you ever seen any agricultural drawings, Miss Huntington?" he inquired. "No," Violet said.
"In spite of all, I have never interrupted the study of music." Palestrina. An opera writer of Italy, named Giovanni Pacini, once said that to study the writings of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven "lightens the mind of a student, since the classics are a continuous development of the most beautiful and simple melodies," and we sometimes hear it said that great men are they who dare to be simple.
As he has often said since, it sounded far more powerfully than any title that kings could give him; he never afterward forgot it. In a small house in Aabeuraa the street where Holberg lets his poor poets dwell lived Albert Thorwaldsen with his parents, and divided his time between the study of art and assisting his father. The Academy's lesser gold was then the prize to be obtained for sculpture.
As soon as hereturnedhome, he gave what time was left to study. When this was over, he generally took a cold bath, then some light refreshment and a little nap. After this, as if it had been a new day, he studied till supper-time, when a book was again read to him, which he would take down running notes upon.
We can guess with tolerable certainty what was the Princess's child-world of books, though from the circumstance that in the light of the future she was made to learn more than was usual then for English girls of the highest rank, she had less time than her companions for reading books which were not study, but the most charming blending of instruction and amusement.
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