Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 9, 2025
He was gone for nearly two hours, and when he returned he explained his long absence by saying that, after all, the hoped-for purchaser had refused to purchase, and that he had to leave his wagon and horses at a stable in Portsmouth, and to retire to a restaurant and write a letter to Captain Pendleton, and enclose an order for him to receive the property on paying the livery.
The fineness of the following day induced us to set up the different instruments for examination and to try how nearly the observations made by each of them would agree; but a squall passed over just before noon, accompanied by heavy rain, and the hoped-for favourable opportunity was entirely lost.
Some of the enterprising miners had even brought large amounts of goods for sale at a hoped-for profit in California. At Salt Lake City, however, the information was industriously circulated that shiploads of similar, merchandise were on their way round the Horn, and consequently the would-be traders often sacrificed their own stock. This friendly condition could not, of course, long obtain.
For a few weeks the chimera buoyed up the Boers, but when nothing more than an occasional newspaper rumour was heard concerning it the rising in Ashanti was then looked upon as being the hoped-for boon.
Hand in hand they wandered about the enchanted garden, and gathered the golden apples from the trees, and when they were tired of this amusement the princess led her friend through all the wonderful rooms of the palace, until at last they came to the one in which were kept all the marvellous dresses and ornaments the gnome had given to his hoped-for bride.
Yet within three months afterwards both the new emperors were massacred in the streets of Rome, and the hoped-for era of happiness and prosperity vanished before the swelling tide of oppression, demoralization, and decline. In the century that followed the reign of Maximin great changes came upon the empire of Rome. The process of decline went steadily on.
Lit., 'accepts. In the original appears a phrase which signifies literally 'when at last, an abbreviation for 'when will there be rest, and which has become a kind of technical phrase to indicate, again, the hoped-for pacification of the deity. Zimmern, no. 4. I.e., be pacified. I.e., 'whoever he may be, as we would say. Among many nations fasting is resorted to as a means of atonement.
The natural propensity which terminates directly on the object, without knowledge or foresight of the pleasurable results, comes first, and egoistic reflection directed toward the hoped-for enjoyment can develop only after this has been satisfied. The case is the same with benevolence as with the love of fame.
To get the means of securing a hoped-for prize of getting a hundred or two hundred dollars for every single one risked, and so rising above want or meeting some desperate exigency virtue was sacrificed in an evil moment."
In making this proposal, I was fully aware of all that it involved. If Germany accepted the offer, and we in our consequent negotiations with the Entente did not secure any noteworthy alterations in the Pact of London, we could count on war only. In that case, we should have to satisfy not only Italy, Roumania, and Serbia, but would also lose the hoped-for compensation in the annexation of Poland.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking