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We had intended from the very first to get wrecked in one or all of these rapids. For this reason we had distributed forward, aft, and amidships, eight five-gallon cans, soldered air-tight. The frail craft would, we figured, be punctured. The cans would displace nearly three hundred and fifty pounds of water, and the boat and engine, submerged, would lose a certain weight.
Well, quite softly, one day following another, a spring on a winter, and an autumn after a summer, this wore away, piece by piece, crumb by crumb; it passed away, it is gone, I should say it has sunk; for something always remains at the bottom as one would say a weight here, at one's heart.
The surface of the river was soon on an average fifty feet below the edge of the banks, this depression being one result of the water's rapid motion and weight, which facilitated the carving of its channel. When they had followed up the river about sixty miles towards its source they came upon what at first had the appearance of an ocean.
How many goodly creatures are there here! ... O brave new world, That has such people in it!" The literary argument for enforced study of Greek and Latin in our day has not much weight. What I call the glossological argument has more.
And let not the weight of the writer be a stumbling-block to thee, whether he be of little or much learning, but let the love of the pure Truth draw thee to read. Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says. Men pass away, but the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Without respect of persons God speaketh to us in divers manners.
"A state begins to decline when it permits the immoderate aggrandizement of a rival, and a secondary power may become the arbiter of nations if it throw its weight into the balance at the proper time." In a military view, it seems plain that the sudden appearance of a new and large army as a third party in a well-contested war must be decisive.
The three droves consisted of one hundred and nine mules, each of which carried three hundred pounds' weight of silver. It was to little purpose that the soldiers, ordered to guard the treasure, attempted resistance. After a short combat, in which the French captain and one of the Symerons were wounded, it appeared with how much greater ardour men are animated by interest than fidelity.
"Starve and sweat none better," said Schulze. "Well, why do you come here to-day?" "This morning I lifted a rather heavy weight. I've felt a kind of tiredness ever since, and a pain in the lower part of my back pretty bad. I can't understand it." "But I can that's my business. Take off your clothes and stretch yourself on this chair. Call me when you're ready."
And the tears came into his eyes. "Poor devil," I said, "I should not have been so harsh with you. And you are an orphan, too, no doubt. But sit down on the floor here nothing else can stand your weight and besides, we cannot be sociable with you away up there above me; I want you down where I can perch on this high counting-house stool and gossip with you face to face."
In politics I am with the active minority on behalf of the inert but suffering majority. That is my rule. It leads, unless you have a despotism, to the conquering side. It is always the noblest. I won't say, listen to me; only do believe my words have some weight. This is a question of bread. 'It involves many other questions. 'And how clearly those leaders put their case!
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