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Yet to Beatus the minster is only 'rather good, but modern', the Dominicans' house 'mediocre', the nuns' buildings 'unhealthy', the people 'simple and resourceless, as you would expect with vine-growers, and too fond of drinking'. 'There is nothing remarkable here', he says, 'but the fortifications; indeed we are a stronghold rather than a city.
This much is certain, that the Roman people, if once the blind reverence they bear to the sanctity of the Pope, which is their only bridle, should relax, are naturally turbulent, ferocious, and headlong, whilst the police is defective, and the government feeble and resourceless beyond all imagination. As to Spain, it is a nerveless country.
But I, who know enough about education to realise how little is or can be known about it, find that if I am to understand why so many schools turn out helpless and resourceless children, I must go back to the first principles of modern civilisation, or in other words to the cardinal axioms of the philosophy of the West.
Let them smite, for God hath bidden them. To this resourceless, unresisting submission to his enemies, sin had brought the daring soldier. It is not old age that has broken his courage and spirit, but the consciousness of his foul guilt, which weighs on him all the more heavily because he knows that it is pardoned.
Dawson's question made the reality of his position moneyless, resourceless, friendless burst over him like a waterspout. Dawson saw and understood; but it was not his cue to lessen that sense of helplessness.
She did need his friendship; and he had done what he had done without the shadow of a corrupt motive en tout bien, tout honneur. It was intolerable to him to think of her as poor and resourceless left to that disagreeable sister and her own melancholy thoughts.
Side by side they rode, companions to the eye, but wide apart in mood; within the turbulent young figure of Gaston dwelt a spirit that could not be more at ease, while revolt was steadily kindling beneath the schooled and placid mask of the Padre. Yet still the strangeness of his situation in such a remote, resourceless place came back as a marvel into the young man's lively mind.
They are poor; nor can their poverty be measured by the poverty of a resourceless savage, for he knows of nothing else than his poverty; that he should be cold, hungry, houseless, dirty, ignorant, all that is to him as natural as that he should have a skin.
Its active and adroit leaders were ready and able to relieve the resourceless and somewhat wooden hero of the trouble of political leadership, and yet much too insignificant to be able or even wishful to dispute with the celebrated general the first place and especially the supreme military control.
As to hard money we had not seen a dollar for years." In this resourceless condition a condition, which, it may be well to say in this place, continued throughout the war, they made their way with difficulty until they joined the Continental army.
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