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FRANKLYN. You are quite right: the poem is our real clue to biological science. The most scientific document we possess at present is, as your grandmother would have told you quite truly, the story of the Garden of Eden. If you can establish that, Barnabas, I am prepared to hear you out with my very best attention. I am listening. Go on.
"Hah!" said Edgar shortly. If he had said "Oh!" in tones of agony, it would have been more truly expressive of his feelings. The moment he got out of the office and felt the cool air of the street he repented of his decision and pronounced himself to be a consummate donkey! "There," thought he, "I've made a fool of myself.
She promised to ride with him next day, and as papa watched them, he said to me in great relief: 'She loves him, and they will be happy; and I could only say 'I hope so, truly, and pray that I might be forgiven for what I had done; for I knew she did not love him.
It was a pitiable sight, truly pitiable, yet so vast, so far beyond the possibility of relief, that many single sorrows of small dimensions have wrought upon my feelings more than the sight of this great caravan of maimed pilgrims.
Roman authorship and the study of grammar, however, were about coincident in their beginnings with the temporary cessation of war and the second closing of the temple of Janus. "Cato's encyclopædia... was little more than an embodiment of the old Roman household knowledge, and truly when compared with the Hellenic culture of the period, was scanty enough." MOMMSEN, bk.
His mother was always thinking of getting him married, and having children again to care for. You know women always will busy themselves about others. As for me, I thought of him working near my bench, and singing his new songs; for he has learnt music, and is one of the best singers at the Orpheon. A dream, sir, truly!
And this kind of health usually brings a physical and mental exaltation that is truly beyond description. It is my purpose in these pages to help the reader to solve the problems associated with the attainment of vitality and health at its best.
That is one of the reasons why it is so hard to be truly good. Dora was the only one who was pleased. She said "Yes, pirates are very wrong. And so are highwaymen and smugglers." "I don't know about highwaymen," the old man replied; "they went out afore my time, worse luck; but my father's great-uncle by the mother's side, he see one hanged once.
He was now at the zenith of his fame and the greatest man of his age, as Theopompus truly observes; yet he had more reason to be proud of his virtue than of his power.
If I am here asked whether I understood anything of what I had got by heart, I reply—‘Never mind, I understand it all now, and believe that no one ever yet got Lilly’s Latin grammar by heart when young, who repented of the feat at a mature age.’ And, when my father saw that I had accomplished my task, he opened his mouth, and said, ‘Truly, this is more than I expected.