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"I am glad to hear that," said the Doctor, more briskly, "very glad; it relieves me from a very painful responsibility. It may not impossibly induce me to take a more lenient view of your case." "Oh!" gasped Mr. Bultitude, feeling very uncomfortable all at once. "Yes; it is a serious step to ruin a boy's career at its outset by unnecessary harshness.
If he wrote to Carlyle or to Browning, he wrote like Carlyle and Browning, because, as he wrote, they were strongly in his mind. "With a painter or a musician it is different a lot of hand-work comes in which relieves the brain, so that they can work longer hours.
This also is frequently the practice of Homer, who from the midst of battles and horrors relieves and refreshes the mind of the reader by introducing some quiet rural image, or picture of familiar domestick life. Johnson's Shakespeare. In the original senses. Act i, sc. 6. Act i. sc. 5. Boswell forgets scoundrelism, ante, p. 106, which, I suppose, Johnson coined. See ante, ii. 154, note 3.
Every mother should keep lobelia at hand, as it has been known to give certain relief in many cases. A child of twelve months, may take of the tincture ten drops every fifteen or twenty minutes, till it acts as an emetic, or relieves by perspiration; one of two or three years may take twenty or thirty drops. The third preparation is of much greater strength than the tincture. Infants' Colic, &c.
Such a creation as Miss Vesta required a special sacrifice and success in the character of her husband. The annual life of this peninsula could not match you, and a monster had to be raised to carry you away." "You are not exactly a monster," Vesta remarked, with natural compassion, "and you compliment me so warmly that it relieves the strain of this encounter a little.
Thus time alone relieves a debtor nation, so long as its population increases faster than unpaid interest accumulates on its debt.
I do not shrink from an extermination that relieves humanity of idlers that it drags about without power to advance or to free itself, finally sinking under the load. Is it not better for the world to be rid of such people, who obstruct the advancement of others?" "At least the idea is bizarre coming from a doctor," interrupted Crozat, "since it would put an end to hospitals."
Her agony was a big, simple, uncontrollable emotion, like the fanaticism of a crusader alarming, it was, not to be reckoned with, and beautiful as a storm. Yet it was no more morbid than the little fits of rage with which a school-teacher relieves her cramped spirit. For the first time she had the excuse to exercise her full power of emotion.
It is often argued that maintenance of stocks of stores at a secondary base gives a fleet a free hand and at least relieves it from the obligation of defending the line of communications. We ought to examine both contentions. It is not easy to discover where the freedom comes in if you must always proceed to a certain place for supplies, whether convenient or not.
Well, having written myself down an ass, I will daub it no farther, but e'en trifle till the humour of work comes. Before the humour came I had two or three long visits. Drummond Hay, the antiquary and lyon-herald, came in. I do not know anything which relieves the mind so much from the sullens as trifling discussion about antiquarian old-womanries.
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