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"But what can I do?" you ask. Oh, I hear that so many, many times, and I feel the deepest sympathy for the girl who asks it. Usually, when the question is put, there is no marked ability in the asker, I mean, no special power to do a particular work.
But surely GOD is a mighty GOD, and hath a wonderfull secret stroke in all matters, especially of weight and moment. Of what wealth this towne should be, I am not able to resolue the asker: for I confesse that for mine owne part, I had not so much good lucke, as to be partaker so much as of one pennie, or penny worth. Howbeit my ill fortune maketh that towne neuer a whit the poorer.
As the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, he loveth too an eager persevering asker. The door seems narrow, but its narrowness was not meant to keep us out; they please him best who press most heavily on its yielding sides. "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." The King of Glory feels well pleased the warriors' onset, gladly welcomes the conqueror in.
The British Consul-General tried to get him removed from Mourzuk, with the tyrant, Asker Ali, from Tripoli, but Belazee was the only man who could keep this province tranquil, and the trade with the coast uninterrupted. Mr.
"I don't think it matters," he replied. "If she prefers one of us, she will take him and refuse the other, whether he ask first or last." "But suppose she likes us equally. In that case, might not the first asker win, merely for his being first?" "I think it scarce possible but that in her heart she must favour one above all others, though she may not know it yet." "But it seems to me "
But he was undoubtedly born before 1158, since he speaks of the death of Bishop Asker, which took place in that year, as occurring "in our time". His life therefore covers and overlaps the last half of the twelfth century. His calling and station in life are debated.
Was it sleeping, then? Where was it? What was it doing?" "You see " "Oh, yes, I see. I saw, then, how joyfully you shelved us all. You were like a boy let out of school. And I'd worked so hard to keep home happy for you, but you just thought of it as a place of bills and worry and children, presided over by a perpetual asker.
The tyrant Asker Ali shed tears! on leaving the country, where he had exercised the most atrocious cruelties.
and then he whispers in her ear: "Hear thou, my Lady Inge, Of women thou art the flower; An' thou bearest to me a son so bold, Set on the church a tower." Should the child be a girl, he tells her to build only a spire, for "modesty beseemeth a woman." Well for Sir Asker that he did not live in our day of clamoring suffragists. He would have "views" without doubt.
In the year 1094, by mutual compact, brought about through the intercession of the Archbishop of Armagh and the great body of the clergy, north and south and still more perhaps by the pestilence and famine which raged at intervals during the last years of the eleventh century this ancient division of the midland asker, running east and west, was solemnly restored by consent of both parties, and Leath Mogha and Leath Conn became for the moment independent territories.
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