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Even setting aside the stipulations under which I had entered and continued in the Imperial service this was at least due to me from the unquestioned fact that to my twice rendered exertions first as naval Commander-in-Chief; and, secondly, as a pacificator the empire owed its unity and stability, even in the estimation of European governments, which, now that the provinces were tranquillized and the empire consolidated, exerted themselves to promote peace between Brazil and the mother country.

His own mind was for the time being tranquillized. It was as though he said to himself, "I know that trouble will come back I know that doubts and fears will pursue me again; but this hour this blessing is from God!"... The sun was high in a dewy world, already busy with its first labours of field and mine, when Meynell left the cottage. The church clock was on the stroke of eight.

His learned bishops consequently are as ready to prove to him his indisputable right to the crown of France, as he is to allow his conscience to be tranquillized by them. They prove that the Salic law is not, and never was, applicable to France; and the matter is treated in a more succinct and convincing manner than such subjects usually are in manifestoes.

The unhappy civil commotions that have prevailed there were undoubtedly the cause of the delay, but as the Government is now said to be tranquillized we may hope soon to receive the ratification of the treaty and an arrangement for the demarcation of the boundaries between us. In the mean time, an important trade has been opened with mutual benefit from St.

Alvina was tranquillized at once by the evident sincerity of the assurance. "You are alone now in the world," pursued the stranger "I strove to save your bridegroom, but he fell before I reached him." "I loved him not," answered Alvina, coldly; "I mourn him not."

For if he should summon the legions into the province, he was aware that on their march they would have to fight in his absence; he foresaw too, that if he himself should endeavour to reach the army, he would act injudiciously, in trusting his safety even to those who seemed to be tranquillized.

Slight as the mark of kindness was, it was unexpected, and, like the rod of Moses, opened the hidden fountains of waters. Eveline wept, a resource which had been that day denied to her she prayed and, finally, sobbed herself to sleep, like an infant, with a mind somewhat tranquillized by having given way to this tide of natural emotion.

I will not trouble you except for one verbal answer to this note. How is your brother? With affectionate respects to yourself and your sister, S. T. Coleridge. To Miss Cottle, Brunswick Square." "Friday, 27th May, 1814. My dear Cottle, Gladness be with you, for your convalescence, and equally so, at the hope which has sustained and tranquillized you through your imminent peril.

After this, having laid the keels of one hundred ships of war at Cassandrea, and collected a large number of ship carpenters for the completion of that business, and as both the departure of Attalus and the seasonable assistance he had brought to his allies had tranquillized affairs in Greece, he retired into his own dominions, in order to make war upon the Dardanians.

The numberless chains of gently swelling hills which encompass it on each side of the Vistula were in some parts checkered with corn fields, meadows, and green pastures covered with sheep, whose soft bleatings thrilled in my ears and transported my senses into new regions, so different was my charmed and tranquillized mind from the tossing anxieties attendant on the horrors I had recently witnessed.