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Appearing at this critical moment, and co-operating with the strong reaction of the public mind, already effected in the king's favor by his violent death, this book produced an impression absolutely unparalleled in any age.
As time went by evidence of his reverses insidiously crept into his personal appearance. He who had been the leader now clung to the tail-ends of style, and it was a novel sensation when one day he noticed a friend scrutinizing his garments much in the same critical manner that he had himself erstwhile affected.
When the disease comes on gradually, it seldom becomes dangerous, though until the end of the first week there is always considerable uncertainty on this point. There is, however, scarcely any disease from which even when most severe recovery so often takes place in childhood, and this not as persons so often imagine from some critical occurrence but by a process of gradual amendment.
Nevertheless my hands were clean of this murder, and allowing the surety of this fact to take a foremost place in my mind, I faced these men and with real feeling, but as little display of it as possible, I observed: "You have come to my aid in a critical moment. This is my betrothed wife the woman I was to marry and I find her lying here dead, in this closed and lonely house. What does it mean?
The critical years of William's conquest of England had been undisturbed by any dangers threatening his continental possessions.
How was this location defined? Among what stars was the Sun moving at that critical moment? The triumph of the Sungod was therefore, and quite naturally, ascribed to the influence of Aries. Let me enumerate a few points with regard to the Vernal Equinox. In the Bible the festival is called the Passover, and its supposed institution by Moses is related in Exodus, ch. xii.
Ossaroo was the man to make such a cord. He could spin it with as much evenness as a Manchester mill. There would be no danger that in a rope of Ossaroo's making the most critical eye could detect either fault or flaw. It was finally determined on that the rope should be spun Ossaroo acting as director, the others becoming his attendants rather than his assistants.
"Conclude, sir," M. de Tregars interrupted harshly. Still in the same placid tone, "To conclude is easy enough," replied the baron. "My wife has told me that you were about to marry the daughter of my old cashier, a very handsome girl, but without a sou. She ought to have a dowry." "Sir!" "Let us show our hands. I am in a critical position: you know it, and you are trying to take advantage of it.
It has been much disputed, whether Shakespeare owed his excellence to his own native force, or whether he had the common helps of scholastick education, the precepts of critical science, and the examples of ancient authours. There has always prevailed a tradition, that Shakespeare wanted learning, that he had no regular education, nor much skill in the dead languages.
When they were first published they were kindly commended by the "Critical Reviewers;" and poor Lyttelton, with humble gratitude, returned, in a note which I have read, acknowledgments which can never be proper, since they must be paid either for flattery or for justice.
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