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Indeed, we have the express testimony of Polybius that such statements as we read in Livy of Marcellus, Nero, and others gaining victories over Hannibal in Italy, must be all fabrications of Roman vanity. He rightly explains this by referring to the superiority of Hannibal's cavalry the arm which gained him all his victories.
He has been good to me so very good to me; you cannot think how good he has always been to me; I do not keep things from him indeed I don't, Mr. Brandon." Brandon felt more liking to poor Mrs. Phillips in her distress and in her tears than he had ever felt before.
Then she yawned, and as though by an afterthought asked if any news had been "called back" from Noie. Tamboosa answered, No; no system of intelligence had been organised in the direction in which she had gone, for that country was empty of enemies, and indeed of population. However, this would not distress the Inkosazana, who had only to consult her Spirit to see all that happened to her servant.
As to her rest for the night she had no plan, unless, indeed, she might find her rest in the hidden mill-pool of that dark, softly-gurgling stream. On that same day, between six and seven in the evening, the miller was told by Mr. Fenwick that his son was no longer accused of the murder.
Are you here?" cried the boy in the chair, extending his thin hand with the vivid smile Ted so well remembered. "Indeed I am! Young Turner and I were just speaking of you. I told him you were coming to see him some day." Laurie glanced toward Ted. "It is nice of you to let me come and visit you," he said, with easy friendliness. "What a pretty place you have and how gay the flowers are!
O sir, said I, how shall I support so much goodness! I am poor, indeed, in every thing, compared to you! and how far, very far, do you, in every generous way, leave me behind you!
If there is anywhere in the world a more satisfactory sight than the Pavian Certosa, certainly neither Hauptmann nor his chance acquaintance had ever seen it. And indeed is there anywhere else such spaciousness of cloisters, such profusion of minutely cut marble, such incrustation, for better or worse, of semiprecious stones. Surely nothing in a sightseeing way approaches it as a money's worth.
In its negative aspect this is termed aimlessness, and is identical with the Christian vice of idleness, so graphically described by Jeremy Taylor: Idleness is called the sin of Sodom and her daughters, and indeed is the burial of a living man, an idle person being so useless to any purposes of God and man, that he is like one that is dead, unconcerned in the changes and necessities of the world; and he only lives to spend his time, and eat the fruits of the earth: like a vermin or a wolf, when their time comes they die and perish, and in the meantime do no good; they neither plough nor carry burdens; all they do is either unprofitable or mischievous.
Newspapers have been published aboard transatlantic steamers with the latest news telegraphed while en route; indeed, a regular news service of this kind, at a very reasonable rate, has been established. These are facts; what wonders the future has in store we can only guess.
'My father, my father! He would have done him justice. If he had lived, this would never have been! 'That is over, you do him justice now, said Amy. 'You did, indeed you did, make him quite happy. He said so, again and again. I never saw him so happy as when you began to get better.
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