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The reader may suppose Mrs Miller received this account with great thankfulness, and no less pleasure; but so uncommon was her friendship to Jones, that I am not certain whether the uneasiness she suffered for his sake did not overbalance her satisfaction at hearing a piece of news tending so much to the happiness of her own family; nor whether even this very news, as it reminded her of the obligations she had to Jones, did not hurt as well as please her; when her grateful heart said to her, "While my own family is happy, how miserable is the poor creature to whose generosity we owe the beginning of all this happiness!"
Under the stress of conflicting opinion and the attrition of acrid debate, the covenant of grace steadily hardened into a covenant of barren works, in which an air of sanctimony became an easy substitute for the sense of sanctification, and the tithe of mint and cummin was allowed to overbalance the weightier matters of the law.
"I am inclined, however, to think that the arguments in favor overbalance the objections; still, the serious objection is, that a faithful teacher wants little personal talks with her pupils, and will contrive to be personal in a way that she cannot do so well in a large class." "That is true," Marion said, as one yields a point that is new to her, and that strikes her as being sensible.
As she realised my intention she seemed to turn into a wild animal in my arms. She bit and tore at my wrists, and scratched my face with her long sharp nails. The ship was moving now and I was desperate. I walked with her to the window and put her feet over the ledge. We neither of us spoke a word. She clung to my neck so I thought she must overbalance me and drag me through with her.
This was so far away, however, that he could only touch it with his finger-tips, and in order to grasp it even with one hand he found that he would be obliged to overbalance himself so much that, if he missed, a fall must inevitably result. The risk had to be taken, however; and he took it, fortunately with success.
The great protuberance of the earth under the Equator serves to overbalance the impetus of all other masses of earth, and thus to preserve the axis of the earth, so far as we can observe, in its present position. If, however, we neglect this restriction of the idea to a purely regulative influence, reason is betrayed into numerous errors.
But one great disadvantage there was, amply to overbalance all other possible gain; the chances were lost or were removed to an incalculable distance for their conversion to Christianity, without which in these times there is no absolute advance possible on the path of true civilization. One word remains to be said upon the personal interests concerned in this great drama.
The certainty that his whole life hereafter must be one long act of treachery to Greif must overbalance everything else. That was the point of honour he had sought to explain. He thought he had been mistaken, and that his self-hatred and self-contempt had really but little to do with his decision.
The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can, at any time, yield. "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
One, who has drawn back in the attitude of striking, looks as if he could fell an ox with a single blow of his powerful arm. The other is a more lithe and agile figure, and there is a quick fire in his countenance which might overbalance the massive strength of his opponent. Another cabinet this is the far-famed Antinous.
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