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Updated: June 2, 2025
This conversation is paraphrased, but it is practically the substance of what the representative of the Ottawa government said to a representative of the Mikado. Brown Brother: "We don't care any more for our coolies than you do. We don't in fact, care a hoot what becomes of the spawn and dregs of no-goods in our population. We are not individualists, as you white men are!
They receive a good elementary education, and answered the questions addressed to them with correctness and alacrity. The Bible, of course, is not read, but the pupils learn a Scripture catechism, and paraphrased versions of Scripture incidents.
The sense of this passage may be paraphrased thus: When lofty thought lifts a young heart above its mundane environments, and when its earthly doom has to be determined by the conflicting influences of love, which would elevate it, and the meaner cares and interests of life, which would drag it downwards, then the illustrious dead live again in that heart for its higher emotions are nurtured by their noble thoughts and aspirations, and they move, like exhalations of light along dark and stormy air.
It might be paraphrased: "a maniac for archaic words, a rhetor indeed, he is as much and as little a Thucydides as he is a British prince, the bane of Attic style! It was a dose of archaic words and Celtic brogue, I fancy, that he concocted for his brother." There seem to be three points of attack.
'To be, or not to be, that is the question, is thus paraphrased by Johnson: 'Before I can form any rational scheme of action under this pressure of distress, it is necessary to decide whether, after our present state, we are to be or not to be. See post, March 30, April 14 and 15, 1778, and Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 25. O the depth of human understanding!
Leslie; and for a girl who has no one else in her head to talk of detesting a well-looking, well-dressed, clever young man, is a nonsense 'Chi lascia il poco per haver l'assai ne l'uno, ne l'altro avera mai' which may be thus paraphrased, The young lady who refuses a mortal in the hope of obtaining an angel, loses the one, and will never fall in with the other.
In plain words, would you take her unto yourself as your wife, to love and cherish and honour, mind you, HONOUR, to the end of your days on earth?" He stood up, facing her, his face white. "She has done nothing dishonourable," he said levelly. "'The sins of the mother," she paraphrased, without taking her eyes from his. "Was her mother any worse than my father?
The worldly old axiom, "Be virtuous and you will be happy," had been ironically paraphrased too often. "Please yourself and you will be much happier than if you were virtuous," was a practical reading. But for a certain secret which she alone knew and which no one would in the least have believed, if she had proclaimed it from the housetops, Feather would really have been entirely happy.
She looked as though she were ready to. And they say it's easier every time." "C'est le second mari qui coute," paraphrased Cuthbert, tossing his cigar over the balustrade. The strains of a waltz floated out of the windows, the groups at the tables broke up, and the cotillon began.
Colonel Hammond was killed." "Humph! And he was afraid to go with us to-night?" "Oh, he makes no secret of his cowardice." "Well, a mule is a mule, a coward is a coward, and a gambler is a son-of-a-gun," paraphrased the Chief. "If he hasn't any courage he can't force it into himself." "Do you think so?" "I know so. I've seen it tried. Some people are born cowards and can't help themselves.
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