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Are the ruins and impostures and miseries and superstitions which beset the traveller abroad so precious, that he should desire to imagine them at every step in his own hemisphere? Or have we then of our own no effective shapes of ignorance and want and incredibility, that we must forever seek an alien contrast to our native intelligence and comfort?
I suppose it has consoled you in many a trouble, and no doubt it has kept you from the miseries of falling in love." She laid her thin hand on the arm of her chair as she spoke. "Kept me from falling in love," gasped Philip, aware that his now-or-never had arrived, "how do you know that?" "I never heard that you were in love with anybody. Excuse me if I have trodden on forbidden ground."
He proceeded to mention some of the miseries that he had learnt through the Oxford House -dilating on them with much enthusiasm- till presently his uncle came in, and ere long a parlour-maid announced luncheon, just as there was a rush into the house.
AEneas properly comforts his companions, when, after the horrours of a storm, they have landed on an unknown and desolate country, with the hope that their miseries will be at some distant time recounted with delight.
Their case, like his, is that THIS world is damned. We do not find the belief that superposed upon the miseries of this world there are the still bitterer miseries of punishments after death, so nearly universal.
Contradict the calumnies which you have spread against me, and repair, if you can, and if you have a spark of honour left, the miseries which you have caused to the heart-broken What was this letter meant for but that I should answer it in person? My excellent ally told me where I should meet Lady Lyndon, and accordingly I followed, and found her at the Pantheon.
They do not yet wear the Queen's uniform; they are not yet accepted servants of the State; as they will be in some more perfectly organised and civilised land: but they are soldiers nevertheless, and good soldiers and chivalrous, fighting their nation's battle, often on even less pay than you, and with still less chance of promotion and of fame, against most real and fatal enemies against ignorance of the laws of this planet, and all the miseries which that ignorance begets.
Suppose that he finds in the court those who will argue for us. Do you think we will get justice?" "Let us try it before resorting to bloody measures," replied Elias. "It must seem strange to you that I, another unfortunate, young, robust that I should propose to you old and weak peaceful measures. But it is because I have seen so many miseries caused by us similar to those caused by tyrants.
I know of a surety that the Almighty hath made obedience to thee a duty in religion; but, Allah upon thee! press me not in this matter of marriage, nor fancy that I will ever marry my life long; for that I have read the books both of the ancients and the moderns, and have come to know all the mischiefs and miseries which have befallen them through women and their endless artifices.
Then a last, loud wail of horror arose from the farther bank, and despair or a loathing of life drove many to end their miseries in the river or in the flames. Such was the crossing of the Beresina. The ghastly tale was told once more with renewed horrors when the floods of winter abated and laid bare some 12,000 corpses along the course of that fatal stream.
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