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And then, to have the footstool placed carefully by a too self-confident personage, not any self-confident personage, but one in particular, who suddenly looks humble and anxious, and lingers, bending still, to ask if there is not some draught in that position between the window and the fireplace, and if he may not be allowed to move the work-table for her, these things will summon a little of the too ready, traitorous tenderness into a woman's eyes, compelled as she is in her girlish time to learn her life-lessons in very trivial language.
And good old Aunt Hagar, who has been in this woful world many years years full of vicissitudes and sharp life-lessons is my counsellor and adviser. She aids me greatly with her shrewdness, and knowledge of the world and the folk in it. So we have discussed this point together and concluded that, in order to leave no loopholes open in our nice little net, we had better have the movements of Mr.
I have had my own sad lessons of life-lessons learned in bitterness and tears. I go out to your burning jungle land, with neither hope to allure, nor fear to repel. The whole world is the same to me. That I have a purpose, I admit; and even you may know me better by and bye! Till then, no professions, no promises, no pledges.
For it must be remembered that the teachings of former ages, and especially the life-lessons and character-influences of those generations of men, have less and less of significance to us the farther we throw them back into the dim and hazy realm of the prehistoric and legendary.
"You know this for certain? I will have your tongue if you lie to me! You are sure that they intend coming, that it is not their intention to play me false and return to Edmund?" His voice was stern, his gaze mercilessly direct. An hour before, the girl would have shrunk from them both. One can learn life-lessons in an hour. She faced the roughness now as one faces a rush of bracing north wind.
Grosteste was a man who had learned his life-lessons, not from priest or monk, from Fathers or Decretals, but direct from God.
It was in such vigils, since her great sorrows had come to her, that the desolate girl-queen had learned her life-lessons and she was no longer afraid of their solemnity, coming thus into closer friendship with her own soul and a more implicit faith. "Dear Father in Heaven!" she cried. "Thou knowest it is because I love them that I leave them, to do their life-work! and Thou wilt grant me wisdom!
This was the essence to our kind of Democracy. And Dr. Brownson undertook in these lectures to bring to bear in favor of our purpose the life-lessons of the providential men of human history.
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