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"It is perfectly amazing, the price they pay for such lies, that's what," she said, half-proudly, half-severely. All things considered, it was a relief when going-away time came. And it was very jolly to be back at Redmond, a wise, experienced Soph with hosts of friends to greet on the merry opening day.
It was a wise act on the part of Dr. Bruce, and many others besides myself must have been grateful to him for having thus made us participators in the emotion which in those stirring times thrilled the nation. It was before the Crimean War, however, that we in Newcastle passed through an experience the like of which I shall hardly encounter again.
He took a little staff from the piles of wood lying about, and went out on to the highroad, on his way to do heaven's will. He was not very sure what that divine will wished, but that was because he was only nine years old, and not very wise; but Findelkind that was in heaven had begged for the poor; so would he.
This was not his happiest hour. The eternal advantage of love was lost for the time in its present distress. Hateful thoughts were the results of this self-indulgence, yet he hated more anything that came as interruption. During these years the lover in him had not grown what the world calls wise.
At length he came to the wise decision of asking one of the Miss Brownings to take the trouble of preparing all that was immediately requisite in his house, for old friendship's sake; and resolved to leave all the more ornamental decorations that he proposed, to the taste of his future wife.
James was dissatisfied with the conduct of his commissioners; and was also of opinion that a wise policy required a consolidation of the colonies, and a permanent administration for New England.
We are not to be kept in the swaddling clothes of infancy. "It hath been a sorry hardship not to trade where we will when the country groweth steadily. It is a great and wonderful land and needeth only wise rulers to make it the garden of the world. But the taxes are grievous, and no one knows where this will end.
Oppressed by the fearful embarrassment which she experienced on being alone with me, she had invited my sister Clara to come on a visit from Chemnitz, and was now sharing the small room at her disposal with Her. Clara proved herself extraordinarily wise and sympathetic on this as on former occasions.
Before him upon a couch covered with a lion skin lay the great shape of Ithobal, while physicians washed his wounded scalp. "Greeting, son of Israel and Pharaoh," he said in a mocking voice; "truly you are wise thus to do homage to the king of the world." "A poor jest," answered Aziel, glancing at those who held him down; "true homage is of the heart, king Ithobal."
The tough and elastic wood Can be fitted with the silken string . The mild and respectful man Possesses the foundation of virtue. There is a wise man; I tell him good words, And he yields to them the practice of docile virtue. There is a stupid man; He says on the contrary that my words are not true: So different are people's minds.
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