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Dickens took off his hat with a flourish like a man calling a mob to rise. "I understand it now," he cried, "you will never die." XXXVIII. The Ballade of a Strange Town My friend and I, in fooling about Flanders, fell into a fixed affection for the town of Mechlin or Malines. Our rest there was so restful that we almost felt it as a home, and hardly strayed out of it.
American Anthropologist, XXI, 1-27, January-March, 1919. 9 pl. Sir Clements Markham: Mr. Bingham in Vilcapampa, Geographical Journal, XXXVIII, No. 6, 590-591, Dec. 1911, 1 pl. C. H. Mathewson: A Metallographic Description of Some Ancient Peruvian Bronzes from Machu Picchu. American Journal of Science, XL, No. 240, 525-602, December, 1915. Illus., plates.
Nevertheless, the women with their own money provided a second image of the goddess, which the Romans say, when it was placed in the temple was heard to say, "A pleasing gift have women placed me here." XXXVIII. The legend says that this voice was twice heard, which seems impossible and hard for us to believe.
Century of Inventions, xxxviii. What were the writings meant by the word "these" which Glamorgan might show to Ormond if he thought fitting? Probably the following warranty dated at Oxford on the same day. "Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Fayth &c. To our right trusty and right welbeloved Cosin Edward earle of Glamorgan Greeting.
In part, it is certainly due to reflected sunlight; in part, most likely, to the ignition of minute solid particles. Jour. of Sc., vol. xxxviii. Jour. of Sc., vol. xliii. St. Astr. Soc., vol. liii., p. 214; Abelmann, Astr. Roy. St. Astr. Pac. Imp. de St. Pétersbourg, t. xxviii. Roy. R. Soc., vol. xv., p. 5; Month. Roy.
SECTION XXXVIII. As must always be the case in early sculpture, the figures are much inferior to the leafage; yet so skilful in many respects, that it was a long time before I could persuade myself that they had indeed been wrought in the first half of the fourteenth century.
I have no friend now living but you and Mr. Such a companion Johnson found in Taylor. That, on the death of his wife, he at once sent for him, not even waiting for the light of morning to come, is a proof that he had a strong affection for the man. Ecclesiasticus, ch. xxxviii. verse 25.
And at the inauguration of a work, the cut through the Isthmus , he, with a loud voice, amidst the assembled multitude, uttered a prayer, that "the undertaking might prove fortunate for himself and the Roman people," without taking the smallest notice of the senate. XXXVIII. He spared, moreover, neither the people of Rome, nor the capital of his country. Somebody in conversation saying
XXXVII. Vengeance is the desire which, springing from mutual hatred, urges us to injure those who, from a similar emotion, have injured us. XXXVIII. Cruelty or ferocity is the desire by which a man is impelled to injure any one whom we love or pity. Explanation. To cruelty is opposed mercy, which is not a passion, but a power of the mind by which a man restrains anger and vengeance.
Malagrida, a Jesuit, was put to death at Lisbon in 1761, nominally on a charge of heresy, but in reality on a suspicion of his having sanctioned, as confessor to one of the conspirators, an attempt to assassinate King Joseph of Portugal. Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XV, ch. xxxviii.
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