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As we have already pointed out elsewhere, before the Revolution these efforts of the National Council and the Czech prisoners, who were always eager to fight for the Allies, were rendered immensely difficult by the obstacles inherent in the geographic conditions of Russia and by obstacles placed in their way by the old Russian regime.
The idea of coming before the world in this new character had long been in his mind. I think it would take immensely. What do you say?" Forster said then, and said consistently throughout, that he held the thing to be "infra dig.," and unworthy of Dickens' position; and in this I think one may venture to assert that Forster was wrong.
A very decided increase it was, from $9 to $50; evidently enough, to occasion this rise, he had put through some transaction which had added immensely to the profits of the road. What was it? Sinister rumors preceded what the evening of April 21, 1863, disclosed.
They were immensely proud of him and used to relate his sufferings in Dartmoor with a gusto which I thought rather heartless. Art was their great subject, and I am afraid they found me pretty heavy going. It was their fashion never to admire anything that was obviously beautiful, like a sunset or a pretty woman, but to find surprising loveliness in things which I thought hideous.
And it doesn't in the least matter, over there, whether one likes it or not that is to anyone but one's self. But I didn't like it," said Charlotte Stant. "That's not encouraging then to me, is it?" the Prince went on. "Do you mean because you're going?" "Oh yes, of course we're going. I've wanted immensely to go." She hesitated. "But now? immediately?"
"Thank you very much indeed, Pete. I shall value it immensely, and I only hope that some day I shall be able to do credit to it, as the poor woman said." There was nothing particular in the appearance of the rifle. It was a plainly-finished piece, with a small bore and heavy metal. "It don't look much," Jerry said, "but it is a daisy, you bet." "We will try a shot with it, Jerry.
He then proceeded to explain and illustrate how the silk was to be unwound a task which kept them both busy for several hours and when this was at length done he showed Dick how to spin the fine, tough filament into a thin but immensely strong cord.
A book that stands out among these memories, that stimulated me immensely so that I forced it upon my companions, half in the spirit of propaganda and half to test it by their comments, was Meredith's ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS. It is one of the books that have made me. In that I got a supplement and corrective of Kipling.
"I don't like persons who charge too much," said the countess, "but still less do I like those who sell their merchandise below the market price; I always suspect such persons of trying to dupe me by some clever and complicated trick. You know very well, monsieur, your own value, and your hypocritical humility displeases me immensely.
If he realized that he had learned only five per cent of his profession, that there remained ninety-five per cent to accomplish before he would be a good soldier, why, he had profited immensely. To start with five per cent handicap was a very great advantage; and if the man was really a good man, he could not be overtaken.
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