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Now, if there be any time in the world when a man's friends look upon him most coldly; when they speak of his capacities of rising the most despondingly; when they are most inclined, in short, to set him down as a silly sort of fellow, whom it is no use inconveniencing one's self to assist, it is at that moment when he has made what the said friends are pleased to term an imprudent marriage!
Dmitry advanced, and now Paul saw that he carried something in his hand. He bowed low with his usual courtly respect. Then he stammered a little as he began to speak. The substance of his sentence, Paul gathered, was that the Excellency would not be inconveniencing himself too much, he hoped, if he would consent to carry this pistol.
And so far from inconveniencing Socrates, the multiplicity and anthropomorphism of the gods seemed an advantage to him—the more they were like man in all but the essential qualification, the better. The Socratic ignorance has an ethical bearing. Its complement is his assertion that virtue is knowledge. Here again the gods are the necessary presupposition and determination.
I ought to apologise for looking in so late. I am always afraid of inconveniencing busy men, being an idle man. 'I should not have thought so, from your appearance. 'No? I take it as a compliment. In fact, I was bred in the Royal Navy, and was First Lieutenant when I quitted it.
"I am afraid," said the latter, with a glance at me and the dinner table, "that our visit for which I am alone responsible is a most unseasonable one. If we are really inconveniencing you, Dr. Thorndyke, pray tell us, and my business must wait." Thorndyke had cast a keen and curious glance at the young man, and he now replied in a much more genial tone
This was partly the fact, but the real reason, which he could not tell everyone, was that he shrank from inconveniencing anybody; he always paid more than was necessary when anything was done for him, and was not happy then unless he did some of the work himself. At 5.30 he got his evening meal, he called it his tea, and it was little more than a facsimile of breakfast.
It was probable, however, that in the case of the Christian slaves captured by the corsairs even this minimum was to seek, as the numbers swept off by them were so enormous that they could be used up and replaced without inconveniencing these rovers of the sea, to whom compassion for suffering was absolutely unknown. The Knights of St.
As I know that the Earl was in feeble health, when I left England; you may, by this time, have come into the title, in which case you will be able, without in any way inconveniencing yourself, to settle an annuity upon my wife, sufficient to keep her in comfort.
It was of the Vienna Congress that those words were written. In certain trivial details, too, the likeness between the two great peace assemblies is remarkable. For example, Lord Castlereagh, who represented England at Vienna, had to return to London to meet Parliament, thus inconveniencing the august assembly, as Mr. Wilson and Mr. George were obliged to quit Paris, with a like effect.
'T won't be inconveniencing you, because I know that there's precious few pickings to be got out of these Central India States even though you pretend to be correspondent of the 'Backwoodsman." "Have you ever tried that trick?" I asked. "Again and again, but the Residents find you out, and then you get escorted to the Border before you've time to get your knife into them.
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