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One half the nation appears to act as Helots to the other half, and the misery that checks population falls chiefly, as it always must do, upon that part whose condition is lowest in the scale of society.
The experiment of offering to minds which had lost all sympathy with Protestantism, yet were unable to close with Rome, an imitation of the monastic life by way of shelter from the rude checks which their aspirations sustained in the world without, seems to have answered for a time, and possibly retarded for about three years that rush of conversion which made 1845 such an epoch in the history even of the Church.
We needed the money. The tears were trickling down her checks as she bent over him, and it seemed she had never loved him so much as now. "Here; you count," he said, abandoning the effort and handing the money to her. "... How much do you make it?" "Nineteen dollars and thirty-five cents." "That's right... the loser's end... twenty dollars.
Even the huge river-horse of Africa would be swept off his feet and tossed to the surface like one of its froth-flakes. Arriving on its edge, Hamersley sees this at a glance. As he checks up his horse, the exclamation that leaps from his lips more resembles the anguished cry of a man struggling in the torrent than one seated safely in a saddle on its bank.
Jefferson merely gave definite form to what had been a more or less vague conception by showing how the constitutional checks upon the Federal government could be made effective.
All the moist soil beneath is strewn with snowy flakes, for at night flying foxes blunder among the branches, destroying more blooms than they eat. But why grumble? Birds which nip off petals and musty foxes which brush down whole posies in their clumsiness are but positive checks to overproduction. Do they not avert the unthankful task of carting away dozens of barrow loads of superfluous fruit?
The theory of all legislation is founded in justice; and, if we could be certain that legislative assemblies could on all occasions act according to the principles of justice, there would be no occasion for those checks and guards which we have seen established under the best systems.
But against rumor there is little or no checks and the original story, true or invented, grows wings and horns, hoofs and beaks, as the artist in each gossip works upon it. The first narrator's account does not keep its shape and proportions. I, p. 81. Translated by Constance Long, in Analytical Psychology, Ch.
"Man! man!" he exclaimed, "have you gone daffy?" "Oh, no! Oh, no!" rejoined the other. "There are people in this world who know pretty nearly as much as you do understand?" For a moment they stood gazing at each other. Upon the Swede's deathly pale checks were two spots brightly crimson and sharply edged, as if they had been carefully painted.
It seemed to Susan that there could be but one reason why he should call the reason that would make a timid, soft-hearted man such as he put off a personal interview as long as he could find excuses. She flushed hot with rage and shame as she reflected on her position. Garvey pitying her! She straightway sat down and wrote: DEAR MR. GARVEY: Do not send me any more checks until Mr.
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