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He fitted his instrument into its case and replaced it in his pocket. "Come," he said, "you mustn't call me hard names. I shall remind you of the man whose works you are making me read. You know what he says 'The aesthete is, after all, only a dallier. The world lives and progresses by reason of its utilitarians. This hill represents to me most of the things that are worth having in life."
He had heard the keeper say that, not content with his wild progresses through the park, the Squire had sworn to drive his stags one day into the market-town, and this he had doubtless actually accomplished; but, on his return, he had had the misfortune to be caught sight of by one of his own packs of hounds, which were now in full pursuit of him, like another Actaeon.
A revelation received in a dream having persuaded him that his fortunes were intimately connected with this shrine, he not only rebuilt it on a scale of much magnificence, but also persuaded Go-Shirakawa to make three solemn progresses thither. *See Murdoch's History of Japan.
As she will be brought prominently forward as our story progresses, we had better inform the reader at once, all we know of her antecedents. Mr.
Oh dear no! Ten times, twenty times, at every moment, for the least particle of mortar which she lays, she repeats her mensuration, never being quite certain that her trowel is going just where it should. Meanwhile, amid these frequent interruptions, the work progresses and the partition gains in width.
In them He outlined the course of the professing church on earth, and reveals in it what is to take place during the progress of this age. We shall cover the same seven things which we have mentioned in connection with the beginning of this age, and learn how they are affected as this age progresses and nears its end. +First+, as to the Lord Jesus Christ in glory.
Dear brethren, if I think of the lowness of our own religious characters, the small extent to which we influence the society in which we live, of the slow rate at which the Gospel progresses in our land, I can only ask the question, and pray you to lay it to heart, which the old prophet asked long ago: 'O Thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord straitened?
Yet it is so thoroughly an oak, that you have only to take out the bud carefully before it has expanded and fasten it into another one's place upon a tree of the same family, though of a different species, and it will produce an oak of the same sort as its old companions, and which will, as it progresses, look quite a stranger among the indigenous branches.
I passed through the shire once with Her Majesty on one of her progresses," remarked she. "My lad, know you that you are a pretty boy? But certes! of course you do. Nathless, hear it again from me." "I thank your ladyship," returned Francis with blushing cheeks. "'Tis only your kindness that bids you so to speak." "Hear the boy!" laughed the lady, shaking her finger archly.
Better that it should have been placed in jeopardy than that he should have remained there thus long." "We will talk of this when he is more decidedly convalescent," returned Maurice, perceiving that some generalship must be employed to protect his father. "I will let you know how he progresses, and we will make all the necessary arrangements for his change of abode in due season."
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