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Updated: May 12, 2025
He had an annoying way of finishing the sentences that other folk began. "True. When he is not campaigning Pertinax finds a woman irresistible." "And naturally, also, none resists a general in the field!" Norbanus added. "So our handsome Pertinax performs his vows to Aphrodite with a constancy that the goddess rewards by forever putting lovely women in his way!
I can now discover some merit, something to revere and to love, even in a man without religion. I find my whole soul penetrated with zeal for his welfare. There is no scheme which I muse upon with half the constancy or pleasure, as that of curing his errors; and I am confident of curing them. "Ah, Jane," says my mother; "rash and presumptuous girl, what a signal punishment hangs over thee!
Would be too few for me to shed for him. The poet proceeds to state his intimacy with the deceased, and the constancy of the young man's attendance on public worship, which was regular, and had such effect upon two or three other that were influenced by his example: So that my Muse 'gainst Priscian avers, He, only he, WERE my parishioners; Yea, and my only hearers.
Subsequent conversations with the leading councillors of state convinced Pecquius that these violent menaces were only used to shake the constancy of the Archduke, but that they almost all highly disapproved the policy of the King. "If this war goes on, we are all ruined," said the Duke d'Epernon to the Nuncius.
But, once originated, the conception of the constancy of the order of Nature has become the dominant idea of modern thought.
Notwithstanding the woollen socks in which at all seasons he enveloped his feet with the extreme care that ecclesiastics take of themselves, he was apt at such times to get them a little damp, and the next day gout was sure to give him certain infallible proofs of constancy.
All in all there are constant differences which are so great that it has been possible to distinguish and to describe large numbers of types. Many of them have been tested as to their constancy from seed.
These same purposes, this same constancy in the employment of means toward a final end, may be read still more clearly in the study of the fossils of the different creations. The species of all the creations are materially and genealogically as distinct from each other as those of the different points on the surface of the globe.
For this purpose the eyes of all the honorable leaders in Spain have been turned to thee, as a descendant of the royal line of Omeya, and an offset from the same stock as our holy prophet. They have heard of thy virtues, and of thy admirable constancy under misfortunes; and invite thee to accept the sovereignty of one of the noblest countries in the world.
Yet these women, brought up on the froth of an enervating, pleasure-seeking society, held out held out with a martyr's courage and constancy against the torture of inactivity, of an imagination which penetrated the sheltering walls out into the night where fifty men writhed in a death-struggle with hundreds saw every bleeding wound, heard every smothered moan of pain, felt already the cold iron pierce their own breasts.
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