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The situation suited him, as the houses of nearly all his friends were within a circle of a few hundred yards. For description see Life, vol. v. pp. 321, 333-4, etc. See below, March 12. Burns's Dedication to Gavin Hamilton "May ne'er misfortune's gowling bark Howl through the dwelling o' the Clerk." "O born to arms! O worth in youth approved, O soft humanity in age beloved!"
It has been with these birds as with human beings, bred in "misfortune's school," and subjected to keen competition.
Their wrath was so great, and vengeance so sacred a duty, that no one thought of the respect, the pity, the consideration, which are misfortune's due, and not a word was uttered to appeal to generosity or compassion or even to remind the people of the profit which might be derived from holding the rescued soldiers as prisoners of war. "Death to our mortal foes! Destruction to them! Down with them!
Thus, having foreseen that John Baines would have a "stroke" and need a faithful, tireless nurse, he had begun fifty years in advance by creating Aunt Maria, and had kept her carefully in misfortune's way, so that at the proper moment she would be ready to cope with the stroke.
They also inhabited one and the same country without dissensions, and in a happy condition, without any misfortune's falling upon them, until they died. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order.
"The Lord make us thankful for all our mercies, but a misfortune's a misfortune, and I don't know as we're called upon to look at it as any thing else. Won't you sit down, Mr. Halloway?" "Thank you, not this evening. It is nearly time for service. I only wanted to know that Miss Phebe was doing well." Mr. Hardcastle rose again to bow off the guest. "Sorry you can't stay, sir.
And she looked down into the well; and it was a happiness to see how the one became a blessing to the world, to see how much happiness and joy were felt everywhere. And she saw the other's life, and it was sorrow and distress, horror, and wretchedness. "Both of them are God's will!" said Death. "Which of them is Misfortune's flower and which is that of Happiness?" asked she.
Their wrath was so great, and vengeance so sacred a duty, that no one thought of the respect, the pity, the consideration, which are misfortune's due, and not a word was uttered to appeal to generosity or compassion or even to remind the people of the profit which might be derived from holding the rescued soldiers as prisoners of war. "Death to our mortal foes! Destruction to them! Down with them!
A strange and magnificent way of answering misfortune's challenge an Elizabethan way, the knack of which we believed we had lost! "Business as usual" was written across our doorways. It sounded callous and unheeding, but at night the lads who had written it there, tiptoed out and stole across the Channel, scarcely whispering for fear they should break our hearts by their going.
"He couldn't find the carriage where his things were he was running up and down without a hat. Perhaps he was left behind." What do man's misfortune's matter to the gods who live for ever? Through sections of the quayside sheds he caught sight of near funnels, businesslike with smoke, and a row of ports. It was then I had to tell him there was plenty of time.
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