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Yesterday afternoon we passed a great number of fresh tracks of natives apparently going to Hamilton Peak, which leads me to think there must be permanent water there.
They offered a handsome sum in commutation, increasing the sum first proposed from 70,000 to 200,000 florins, but they resolutely refused to be saddled with this permanent tax. Their stout resistance was destined to cost them dear.
Knowing this, and realizing what the child's presence in the house meant to his old age, I felt my heart turn sick with apprehension, when in the midst of the discussion as to the terms on which my wife would consent to a permanent separation, the little fellow came dancing into the room, his curls atoss and his whole face beaming with life and joy.
This case claims special notice, as it is the only one where the whole transaction of buying servants is detailed the preliminaries, the process, the mutual acquiescence, and the permanent relation resulting therefrom. In all other instances, the mere fact is stated without particulars. In this case, the whole process is laid open. 1.
Ever since Triffitt had made his lucky scoop in connection with the Herapath Mystery he had lived in a state of temporary glory, with strong hopes of making it a permanent one. As he was fond of remarking, he never got a chance.
The only way to have happiness as a permanent guest is to keep your door open to the helpless. Self shrinks the soul. It is much easier to get interested in art doilies for Hottentots than it is to be simply human to the washerwoman at home. Whoever helps us to think kindly of another aids the coming of the kingdom of heaven.
An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family. How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture. Mr.
To obtain a substance that will retain the power induced, we must make some other election; and hard steel is most serviceable for conversion into a permanent magnet.
Such a resolution was, in fact, the adoption of free-trade as the permanent ruling principle of all future commercial legislation. To the Queen his language was the same: "You should now hold out the olive-branch a little."
The substitute was given to understand that his situation was permanent, and the ill-used Tom was thus thrown out of his situation. After lying an hour or so on the ground he came to, and finding he was in a sad plight, he set up a series of yells, which soon brought assistance in the shape of a passing farmer, who lifted him into his wagon, carted him home, and played the good Samaritan.
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