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Russia has all along consistently furthered her influence and plans in the Balkans by planting suitable Bishops as political agents. Russia was now powerful in Montenegro. A Russian officer led the clans a-raiding into Turkey and returned with so many decapitated heads to adorn Cetinje, that the Tsar thought fit to protest. The tug between Austria and Russia continued.
Although he had never occupied any diplomatic post, he had rendered such important services to the Propaganda, by his methodical habits of work, that he had become president of one of the two commissions which furthered the interests of the Church in those vast countries of the west which are not yet Catholic.
MacCarthy, indeed, I remember, used the words 'the life of the spirit. But I could not well understand what he meant, except that he hoped to attain it by violence; and in that way what I would seek and value cannot be furthered. Coryat, again, and Harington spoke of the good life. But Coryat seemed to think that any and all life is good.
Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world. Indeed, it is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands.
When he, an old man, was ready to do so much to forward the views of a young man, could it be possible that the young man should oppose his wishes? And Peregrine was aware that his power of opposition was thus lessened. In the evening nothing remarkable occurred between them. Each had his or her own plans; but these plans could not be furthered by anything to be said in a general assembly.
So that the plot, by its own scope and progress, furthered and confirmed itself. He spoke of it to those who loved him with a gentle pleasantry, which made it the more touching. To Mr. Henry he used it as a cruel weapon of offence. I remember his laying his finger on the clean lozenge of the painted window one day when we three were alone together in the hall.
It would be impossible for this gentleman to disguise himself so. "For a moment Marmont seemed no less puzzled than we. Then he broke out laughing again. "'Ah! of course; that will have been Captain McNeill's servant the poor fellow who was killed, he added more gravely. 'I am told, sir, that this servant shared and furthered most of your adventures?
I don't mean because I got used to them, or because they did me good. I mean they furthered what I thought they would ruin." "Thank you, dear mother, you can always comfort me," rejoined Hester. "For myself I could not imagine anything more pleasant.
Amidst much that was visionary in his later policy he never wavered in his championship of the new peasant proprietors. He was ever the peasants' General, the peasants' Consul, the peasants' Emperor. The transition of the Revolution to an ordinary form of polity was also being furthered by its unparalleled series of military triumphs.
In whatever he did, provided that it furthered the welfare of his subjects, whether Turk, Armenian, or Arab, the whole Concert of Europe would have provided him with cash, with missionaries, with engineers, and all the resources of the arts and sciences of peace and of progress.
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