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Specially striking in this connection is the poetry of the tragedian Aeschylus; and it will be well worth our while to pause for a moment and endeavour to realise his position.
He therefore made light of her engagement, saying, with a smile of self-approbation, "Mayhap she will change her mind; what signifies his being a lord? I think myself as good a man as e'er a lord in Christendom, and I'll see if a commoner worth three thousand a year won't serve her turn."
He is quite a find in such a stupid neighborhood as ours, where, during the ten years I have lived in it, I have never met one resident" with an emphasis upon the word, that it might not be supposed to include Edgar himself "one resident whose company I thought worth a brass farthing."
"Well, if you really think it worth telling, as I have always felt it a very remarkable incident, here goes."
Which of these two things do you think is really worth the most, the gift of the Golden Touch, or one cup of clear cold water?" "O blessed water!" exclaimed Midas. "It will never moisten my parched throat again!" "The Golden Touch," continued the stranger, "or a crust of bread?" "A piece of bread," answered Midas, "is worth all the gold on earth!"
Without all these perfections suppose even the circumstance of the horse being excited or alarmed, or becoming violent from any other cause; that he is sluggish or sullen; that he stiffens his neck or pokes his nose single-handed indications are worth nothing.
What limitations of the currency were worth may be judged from the fact that not only had the declaration made hardly a year before, limiting the amount in circulation to twelve hundred millions, been violated, but the declaration, made hardly a month previous, in which the Assembly had as solemnly limited the amount of circulation to fourteen hundred millions, had also been repudiated.
When a man is in a fair way to be hanged that is richly worth it, or has hanged himself, he puts in to be his heir and succeed him, and pretends as much merit as another, as no doubt he has great reason to do if all things were rightly considered.
"Of course I'll come," he exclaimed, heartily. "But you must do the bidding, Gaspare." The boy looked less sullen. "Va bene, signorino. I shall know best what the things are worth. And Salvatore" he glanced viciously at the fisherman "can go to the donkeys. I have seen them. They are poor donkeys this year."
"Then for heaven's sake, let us purchase with them something worth having!" Hadria cried. "Hear, hear!" assented Algitha. "Unpleasant facts being a foregone conclusion," Hadria added, "the point to aim at obviously is interesting facts and plenty of them." Ernest flicked a pebble off the parapet of the balustrade of the little temple, and watched it fall, with a silent splash, into the river.
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