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I am every day exposed to fatigues and calamities, and can scarcely get coarse barley bread for myself and my family, while happy Sindbad profusely expends immense riches, and leads a life of continual pleasure. What has he done to obtain from Thee a lot so agreeable? And what have I done to deserve one so wretched?"
Girls, everywhere, make progress slowly, grow in efficiency, and do not shoot up into it. Now, I want to talk a little to the girls who have leisure, so much of it, sometimes, that it all turns crazy on their hands, and expends itself in the last most fashionable excitement.
A boxer expends it in blows of the fist, the baker in kneading his bread, the poet in the enthusiasm which consumes and demands an enormous quantity of it; it passes to the feet of the dancer; in fact, every one diffuses it at will, and may I see the Minotaur tranquilly seated this very evening upon my bed, if you do not know as well as I do how he expends it.
The only further fact demanding notice, is, that we here see still more clearly the truth before pointed out, that in proportion as the area on which any force expends itself becomes heterogeneous, the results are in a yet higher degree multiplied in number and kind.
The currency of the country is nowhere; for the only coin that is legally current is the copper cash, of which it takes ten to make our cent. Large payments are made in silver by weight, and the housekeeper has to keep a pair of scales handy to ascertain the value of the silver she receives or expends.
But as the wildest storm expends its fury, so Uncle Nat at last grew calm, though on his dark face there were still traces of the fierce passion which had swept over it. Resuming his seat and looking across the table at Mr.
Her error is that of the general who expends his army upon some distant province, leaving his chief city to the assault and sack of the invader.
In fact, the rent received by the proprietor is not intended to defray the expense of maintaining and repairing the implement; this expense is charged to the borrower, and does not concern the proprietor except as he is interested in the preservation of the article. If he takes it upon himself to attend to the repairs, he takes care that the money which he expends for this purpose is repaid.
A ton of the fluid, such as may gather in an ordinary rain on a thousand square feet of ground in the highlands of a country say at an elevation of a thousand feet above the sea expends before it comes to rest in the great reservoir as much energy as would be required to lift that weight from the ocean's surface to the same height.
In 1790, the State expends seventy-five millions for maintaining the price of bread in Paris at eleven sous for four pounds. Ibid., 113. In 1786 the importations from the West Indies amounted to one hundred and seventy-four millions, of which St. Domingo furnished one hundred and thirty-one millions; the exports to the West Indies amounted to sixty-four millions, of which St.
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