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Updated: May 12, 2025


"I write sometimes," said Franklin, smiling in his sour way. "It distracts my mind from worries. I am writing a history of Florence during the age of the Renaissance." "A very interesting period," Giles assured him. "Yes; and my daughter Portia helps me a great deal. You have met her, Mr. Ware. She told me." "Yes; we met in the park.

It is with frantic tenderness I call upon his name, and ever will. Charles! Charles! dear Charles!" "This surpasses all belief," said Marchdale. "It is the frenzy of grief," added George; "but I did not expect it of her. Flora Flora, think again." "Think think the rush of thought distracts. Whence came these letters? where did you find these most disgraceful forgeries?"

Here begins Miss Sullivan's connected account in the report of 1891: During the past three years Helen has continued to make rapid progress in the acquisition of language. She has one advantage over ordinary children, that nothing from without distracts her attention from her studies. But this advantage involves a corresponding disadvantage, the danger of unduly severe mental application.

His portraits are seen in the Gallery of the Louvre, and have been likened to those of Holbein; but they lack the strength and spirit of that artist; in fact, the distinguishing feature of Clouet's work is the remarkable finish of draperies and accessories, while the profusion of jewels distracts attention from the heads of his subjects.

'Take a cup of wine, said the freedman. 'A thought too cold: but then how cold Glaucus must be! Shut up the house to-morrow not a slave shall stir forth none of my people shall honour that cursed arena No, no! 'Taste the Falernian your grief distracts you. By the gods it does a piece of that cheesecake.

I say, granted all this vast quantity of material is harmless in itself to moral life, yet here is the reason why it seems to me Christ would, as I am doing now, advise this church and the people of Milton to avoid reading the Sunday paper, because it forces upon the thought of the community the very same things which have been crowding in upon it all the week, and in doing this necessarily distracts the man, and makes the elevation of his spiritual nature exceedingly doubtful or difficult.

Who has a right to control me? Whose slave am I? I was born to rule, not to be ruled. My appetites are keen, my desires vast, and I would enjoy. Why else am I here? Delay to me is insufferable; suspense distracts me; and the possibility that another should be preferred to myself drives me mad! I too heartily despise the tame creatures, that crawl upon the earth, to suffer opposition from them.

Still, the very idea of owing our liberty to any foreign army distracts me for the consequences. "My reinstatement in my apartments at the Pavilion of Flora seemed not only to give universal satisfaction to every individual of the Royal Family, but it was hailed with much enthusiasm by many deputies of the constituent Assembly.

But if it is only a concession to the desire of beauty, if it distracts men from the purpose of Christ, if it is a mere bait for artistic souls, then I cannot believe that it is justified.

Schulembourg philosophically accounted for many appearances, but he was a magnetiser, and his explanations were more marvellous than the portents. 'And you, Mr. Walstein, said Madame de Schulembourg, 'what is your opinion? 'I am willing to yield to any faith that distracts my thoughts from the burthen of daily reality, replied Walstein. 'You would just suit Mr. Novalis, then, observed Mr.

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