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More boldly still, a pamphlet appeared in Charleston under the signature of "Achates," arguing with remarkable sagacity and force against the whole system of slave-labor in towns, and proposing that all slaves in Charleston should be sold or transferred to the plantations, and their places supplied by white labor.
The name of this youth, who will hereafter make some figure in this history, being the Achates of our AEneas, or rather the Hephaestion of our Alexander, was Fireblood.
"the Achates of the general's fight." He accompanied Wolfe in his expedition which resulted in the capture of Quebec. My relative, I will take it for granted, as I find him in Westminster Abbey. Blood is thicker than water, and warmer than marble, I said to myself, as I laid my hand on the cold stone image of the once famous Admiral. To the Tower, to see the lions, of all sorts.
The fact was, that Tom's heart had already smitten him for not asking his fidus Achates to the feast, although only an extempore affair; and though prudence and the desire to get Martin and Arthur together alone at first had overcome his scruples, he was now heartily glad to open the door, broach another bottle of beer, and hand over the old ham-knuckle to the searching of his old friend's pocket-knife.
On one side of me Archbishop Manning's fidus Achates, and the speaker took off his large straw hat and gracefully, waved it first to the right and then to the left. 'On the other, the Rector of the parish. "Cannon to right of me, cannon to left of me." I submit my courage is unimpeachable!
"He is old enough to govern himself," answered the Master. "Old enough, perhaps, but scarce wise enough, if he has chosen this fellow for his fidus Achates. Why, he lodged an information against him that is, such a consequence might have ensued from his examination, had we not looked rather at the character of the witness than the tenor of his evidence." "Mr.
"I know, sir, that human nature is weak, selfish, sinful that such treacherous monsters as Ezzolino and the Visconti have stained the annals of our race with blood-blotches, which the stream of time will never efface; but the law of compensation operates here as well as in other departments, and brings to light a 'fidus Achates' and Antoninus.
An attempt to muster her doughty buccaneers failed; the gunner too had fled, Gene Hollister; Ham Durrett and the Ewanses were nowhere to be seen, and a muster revealed only Tom, the fidus Achates, and Grits Jarvis. "Ah, s'y!" he exclaimed in the teeth of the menacing hordes. "Stand back, carn't yer? I'll bash yer face in, Johnny. Whose boat is this?"
'Charlotte is in a fit of impudence, for which she deserves chastisement, said Charles, unable to help laughing, as he read, 'Our last event was a call from the fidus Achates, who, it seems, can no longer wander up and down the Mediterranean without his pius Aeneas, and so has left the army, and got a diplomatic appointment somewhere in Germany.
As soon as we were fairly away from the Mars my fidus achates turned to me and said: "Well, Lascelles, this is all very well for you, old fellow, who are well up in your navigation; but I really don't know how in the world I shall get on.
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