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It was a coffin. Juve then shuddered at the thought of the horrible death he might have undergone. He might have been buried alive! But a further surprise was in store for him. Not far away stood another coffin, and in this second one lay a corpse. The dead man was about fifty, strongly built and robust.
He had been rocked in the early storms of the controversy, and had acquired a decision and a hardihood proportioned to the severity of the discipline which he had undergone. He not only loved the American cause devoutly, but had studied and understood it. It was all familiar to him.
In some chapters of the great stone book, whose leaves are the strata of the earth, we find it plainly written in the impressions made by fossils that all the lands beyond the equatorial belt have undergone changes which can only be explained by the supposition that the heat and moisture of the countries have been subjected to sudden and remarkable changes.
This was Dick Gilder, and, since her companionship with him, Mary had undergone a revulsion greater than ever before against the fate thrust on her, which now at last she had chosen to welcome and nourish by acquiescence as best she might. Of course, she could not waste tenderness on this man, for she had deliberately set out to make him the instrument of her vengeance against his father.
Though doubtless it was in the beginning a mere picture-writing, like that of the Mexicans, it had already, at the first moment we meet with it, undergone a twofold development ideographic and phonetic; the one expressing ideas, the other sounds.
He would not limit the negative movement to one act or to one point in time; the movement towards a higher world must be maintained the sustaining of the negative movement being a test of the reality of conversion. The process of conversion is not a process to be passively undergone, or to originate from without, but is a movement starting in the depths of one's own being.
At seventeen a good deal of pinching may be undergone without destroying the elastic vigour of youth. But the chief and most striking charm of the beautiful face was unquestionably imparted to it from the moral and intellectual nature within.
Jacopo Bellini! But even while thinking what to reply, he was conscious of having undergone a slight change of feeling lately. He was growing more tolerant and benign, even in trifles like this. Jacopo Bellini: why not? Meanwhile, he bethought himself of a way of escape. "Suppose you go alone? Or why not try the midnight expedition first? I might manage midnight." "I've tried it."
I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change. When a friend inclined to Cynic views asked Epictetus, what sort of person a true Cynic should be, requesting a general sketch of the system, he answered: "We will consider that at leisure.
But this last interrogation they were not obliged to answer, because it had reference to the second discipline he bad undergone, in which they, and they only, were concerned; and no person is bound to give testimony against himself.
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