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But your Junkers, your Imperial court, your foolish vicious Princes; what were such dreams to them?... With an envious satisfaction they hurled all the accomplishment of Germany into the fires of war.... Section 8 Your boy, as no doubt you know, dreamt constantly of such a world peace as this that I foreshadow; he was more generous than his country.
Ask of the Halictus, which, no longer capable of becoming a mother, makes herself guardian of a city, in order still to labour within the measure of her means. Ask of the Osmia, the Megachile, the Anthidium, which "with no maternal aim, for the sole joy of labour, strive to expend their forces in the accomplishment of their vain tasks, until the forces of life fail."
If one may judge from the experience of Bougainville, this kind of subornation would be somewhat difficult of accomplishment. To return. The night after falling in with these people, was passed on the banks of a pretty considerable river, on which the party made a fire, and erected a sort of tents with the sails of their boats, the weather being cold, though fine.
The critic must not only make clear the playwright's present actual accomplishment, but must also estimate his promise. An author's first or second play is important mainly to use Whitman's phrase as "an encloser of things to be." The question is not so much what the author has already done as what he is likely to do if he is given further hearings.
Fighting, or mock fighting and the imitation was not unlike the reality was at once the highest enjoyment and the noblest accomplishment of all ranks in the state; and over that most terrible of human occupations they had flung the enchanted halo of chivalry, decorating it with all the fairest graces, and consecrating it with the most heroic aspirations.
He was heard shouting rather than speaking, in furious language against the King, against Coeuvres, against Berny, and bitterly bewailing his misfortunes, as if his wife were already in Paris instead of Brussels. She was passionately fond of dancing. The adoring cardinal described her as marvellously graceful and perfect in that accomplishment.
For hours together I carried it about me before I unsealed it, for days together before I read it; it seemed so improbable that my brother would feel himself able to help me towards the accomplishment of the desire of my soul, and I feared to find in that letter the frustration of my life's endeavour.
Of what use was it that during so many years he had cultivated the art of conversation as a necessary accomplishment, if at his utmost need his wits were to abandon him, and leave him uncouth and taciturn as he had been in his childhood?
It is after the accomplishment of only these things that we shall without difficulty gain our object by the conclusion of a Defensive Alliance with China. For us to incite the Chinese revolutionists and malcontents to rise in China we consider the present to be the most opportune moment.
But this knowledge, after the first excitement of surprise had passed away, only strengthened the purpose which had gradually taken its settled hold upon his heart. It was to him a new and important link in the chain of events which would lead, he knew, finally to the accomplishment of his one great resolve.
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