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Of all the exactions to which the country newly conquered by Rome was subjected, the census was the most unpopular. This measure, which always astonishes people unaccustomed to the requirements of great central administrations, was particularly odious to the Jews. We see that already, under David, a numbering of the people provoked violent recriminations, and the menaces of the prophets.
The servants at the mansion did not convey numerous letters with superscriptions in a bold, manly hand, sealed with the arms of a well-known house, and directed to Miss Helen Darley; nor, on the other hand, did Hiram, the man from the lean streak in New Hampshire, carry sweet-smelling, rose-hued, many-layered, criss-crossed, fine-stitch-lettered packages of note-paper directed to Dudley Venner, Esq., and all too scanty to hold that incredible expansion of the famous three words which a woman was born to say, that perpetual miracle which astonishes all the go-betweens who wear their shoes out in carrying a woman's infinite variations on the theme
"And where I am." "And do not be astonished if I join you some fine morning." "Nothing ever astonishes me," said the Russian. "Nothing!" And in that word nothing were expressed profound disgust with life and fierce contempt of death.
"Nothing astonishes me so much," said the Marquis, "as the way in which you fellows here think you may say whatever comes into your head about my wife, because she is an Italian, and you seem to be quite surprised if I object; yet you rage like wild beasts if the compliment is returned. Why am I to think better of your wife than you of mine?" "I have said nothing against your wife, Brotherton."
Only this is what astonishes me; they have studied all the sciences, they speak so fluently that your heart is melted, but they don't understand the actual business in hand; they don't even perceive what's their own interest; some bailiff, a bondservant, drives them just where he pleases, as though they were in a yoke.
Oh, Louisa, how exquisite is the pleasure I feel, to see him thus determined, thus incessant in his pursuit! A change so fortunate and so sudden astonishes while it delights! May it continue! May it increase! May? Vain unworthy wish! It must The mind having once seized on the clue of truth can neither quit its hold nor become stationary; it is obliged to advance.
So the merchant remembers prices, the politician other politicians' speeches and votes, with a copiousness which astonishes outsiders, but which the amount of thinking they bestow on these subjects easily explains.
The foot has now swung forward, and, tending to swing back again, the limb being straightened, and the body tipped forward, the heel strikes the ground. The angle which the sole of the foot forms with the ground increases with the length of the stride; and as this last surprised us, so the extent of this angle astonishes us in many of the figures, in this among the rest.
"Good heaven, sir!" said Adrienne, "what formidable association? Until now I never heard of it." "I believe you; and yet your ignorance on this subject greatly astonishes me, my dear young lady." "And why should it astonish you?" "Because you lived some time with your aunt, and must have often seen the Abbe d'Aigrigny."
Of course, with me there would have been pleasure mixed with it if he had but he didn't. "I suppose you consider yourself such a desirable young man that it astonishes you greatly that any person should have any possible objection to you?" "Oh, come now, Alma; don't hit a fellow when he's down, you know.
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