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The danger then is to say, "My Lord delays His Coming," and with it drift into worldly ways. See "Exposition of Daniel," by A. C. G. See chapter on "The Conversion of the World." In Rev. vii a multitude is seen coming out of the great tribulation. This multitude is often identified with the church.
All excitement over the mere act of transit has passed; there is stolidity and acquiescence as to delays and speed, unless there are great interests at stake.
It was a city passionate and highly vitalized. George had soon begun to be familiar with its organic existence from the inside. The amazing delays in the construction of the town hall were characteristic of the city, originating as they did not from sloth or indecision but from the obduracy of the human will.
September 10th. After more delays than one, on land and sea, I was at last set ashore near the Tower, on the afternoon of yesterday. God help us, my worst anticipations have been realized! My beloved Felicia has urgent and serious need of me. It is not to be denied that I made my entry into my son-in-law's house in a disturbed and irritated frame of mind.
Amid these delays the winter expired, and scarcely had the ice begun to disappear when the construction of the bridge of boats was actively resumed by the besiegers.
And it was Levy's gift to play up to this assumption, to hang on his employer's words with breathless anxiety, to relax into a paternal smile when safe, and to support his omelets and his delays with oaths and circumlocutions stranger even than the dishes themselves.
Nor is there, my lords, in the circumstances of the person accused, any thing that can incite us to a hasty process; for, if what is alleged by the noble lords is not exaggerated beyond the truth, if he is universally detested by the whole nation, and loaded with execrations by the publick voice; if he is considered as the author of all our miseries, and the source of all our corruptions; if he has ruined our trade, and depressed our power, impoverished the people, and attempted to enslave them, there is, at least, no danger of an insurrection in his favour, or any probability that his party will grow stronger by delays.
Notwithstanding the delays, the President secured an early triumph in the matter which he had closest at heart, namely, a League of Nations and its incorporation in the Treaty. Clemenceau had taken issue publicly with Wilson.
The informal proposal of the Board that Longfellow should go to Europe to fit himself for his position was precisely in a line with his most cherished wishes. It was nearly a year from that time, however, before he was actually on his way, "winter and rough weather" and the infrequency of good ships causing many delays.
a = time filling a barrow with any material. b = time preparing to wheel. c = time wheeling full barrow 100 feet. d = time dumping and turning. e = time returning 100 feet with empty barrow. f = time dropping barrow and starting to shovel. p = time loosening one cubic yard with the pick. P = percentage of a day required to rest and necessary delays. L = load of a barrow in cubic feet.
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