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Naturally, it was simpler to assume that it was impossible to control oneself than to find out how to make it possible, but as we grow more civilized we cease to be perfectly content with this simple plan, and begin to perceive its extraordinary injustices and brutalities.
Wood to redeem his pledge; to bring forward facts and proofs fully to elucidate the subject; to reconcile, if he can, the extraordinary discrepancies which I have pointed out between his assertions and the actual facts, and especially between his account of Mary Prince's character and his own conduct in regard to her.
The bravery of the blacks was no less conspicuous than the wildness of their musketry. They evinced an extraordinary excitement firing their rifles without any attempt to sight or aim, and only anxious to pull the trigger, re-load, and pull it again. In vain the British officers strove to calm their impulsive soldiers.
'Technically, you are correct, sir. 'A bird didn't bring it, and you didn't find it in the belly of a fish. 'Neither of these prodigies. They have occurred in books I am bound to believe; they did not happen to me. 'You swear to me you don't know the man, woman, or committee, who gave you that sum? 'I do not know, Mr. Beltham. In an extraordinary history, extraordinary circumstances!
This did not seem to be difficult in a country so cut up and broken by rocks, and he moved away from the camp-fire with a sense of deep gratitude for the extraordinary good fortune that had followed him from the time Lone Wolf had withdrawn him from the main party. "Now, if I could only get a horse," he said to himself, "I would be set up in business.
I cried; when, to my horror and astonishment, the heat became greater than before. "No, no," said my uncle, "it is simply impossible, quite impossible." "And yet," said I, touching the side of the shaft with my naked hand, "this wall is literally burning." At this moment, feeling as I did that the sides of this extraordinary wall were red hot, I plunged my hands into the water to cool them.
In moving to that point, one of our men went raving mad, from excessive heat. The poor fellow cut a few extraordinary capers, and died in the course of a few minutes. While our battalion-reserve occupied the front of the wood, our skirmishers lined the side of the road, which was the Prussian line of communication.
For the first nine years the number was not one quarter so great; but towards the years 1590 to 1593, the number must have been more than four hundred. The case last cited was one of an extraordinary character.
All questions as to his object in spending his evenings with his books were turned aside with joking answers, but his comrades had accidentally discovered that he possessed extraordinary powers of calculation.
That is another beauty of the Zulu race: you cannot astonish them. No doubt they consider that extraordinary mixture of wisdom and insanity, the white man, to be capable du tout, as the agnostic French critic said in despair of the prophet Zerubbabel. John stood and watched the inspanning absently. In truth, he, too, was conscious of a sensation of regret.
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