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For my part I think this should depend on the nature and exigencies of the cause, yet with this reservation, that the discourse might not dwindle from the powerful into what is nugatory and frivolous. Let the young orator, for whose instruction I make these remarks, accustom himself as much as possible to copy nature and truth.
My house-deaths have generally been periodical, recurring after seven years; but this last is premature by half that time. Cut off in the flower of Colebrooke! The Middletonian stream and all its echoes mourn. Even minnows dwindle. A parvis fiunt minimi! I fear to invite Mrs. Hood to our new mansion, lest she should envy it, and hate us. But when we are fairly in, I hope she will come and try it.
If God is despised, governments will be trampled on; if God's law is hated, the laws of men will be violated; man will see only his own interest, his neighbor's property will only whet his appetite; his neighbor's life will be only a secondary consideration; he would, according to his creed, be a fool not to shed blood when his interest requires it; his fellow-men become imbued with his principles anarchy succeeds subordination vice takes the place of virtue what was sacred is profaned what was honorable becomes disgraceful might becomes right treatises are waste paper honor is an empty name the most sacred obligations dwindle down into mere optional practices youth despises age wisdom is folly subjection to authority is laughed at as a foolish dream the moral code itself soon becomes little more than the bugbear of the weak-minded crowns are trampled under foot thrones are overturned nations steeped in blood, and republics swept from the face of the earth.
"Thanks for your good will, master," replied Carver coldly. "What say you, friends? Shall we try it?" Murmurs and words of assent were heard on all sides, and Standish said, "My mind, if you will have it, is that this matter should be shrewdly pressed, and an end made of it as soon as may be. Our people dwindle daily; they who were well a se'nnight since are ill to-day, and may be dead to-morrow.
The disease attacks the throat, and turns the normal robust cry of a healthy infant into a feeble squawk. The belly may become enormously distended from enlargement of the internal organs, and the rest of the child dwindle to a skeleton.
After that the mighty antique civilisations are never noticed except so far as they affect the history of the Jews. The ages of the Patriarchs also dwindle down from nine centuries in the beginning to almost the normal longevity in the semi-historical period. Could anything more conclusively prove the mythical character of the narrative?
His head is unusually large, and his broad shoulders and deep chest admirably match his quite noble head; but below the waist he appears to dwindle away, his legs seeming to bend under the weight of his body, so that he waddles rather than walks, moving with a rolling gait which is rather like a seaman's. He is, indeed, a giant mounted on a dwarf's legs.
Without polygamy the Mormon membership would dwindle until Mormonism had utterly died out. The Mormon heads think so, and preserve polygamy as a means of preserving the Church.
It was scarcely credible that a man should be so regardless of his own family, but the echo of the mystic, sublime discourses of the Greek porches, the faint but sacred trace of the march of vast armies, and the fall of nations, caused Leslie to dwindle into a mere speck in the creation. Of course she would be provided for somehow: marry, or make her own livelihood.
So, I spoze that I shall have to dwindle down onto a silk scarf, or some plumes in my hat, mebby you never are willin' for me to soar out and spread myself, but you probable wouldn't break up a few feathers." I groaned aloud, and mentally groped round for aid, and instinctively ketched holt of religion.
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