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Whole-hearted consecration is a joyous thing. I don't know how the delusion has become so popular that entire devotion to the service of God means melancholy and sadness, and irksome duties and burdens.
But no one then knew how the contest might end; and when I think of that morning sunlight, those emerald fields, those thronging numbers, the old women with their prayers, and the little boys with them: living burdens, I know that the day was worth all it cost, and more. The Baby of the Regiment We were in our winter camp on Port Royal Island.
The causes of the French revolution may be generalized under five heads: First, the influence of the writings of infidel philosophers; second, the diffusion of the ideas of popular rights; third, the burdens of the people, which made these abstract ideas of right a mockery; fourth, the absurd infatuation of the court and nobles; fifth, the derangement of the finances, which clogged the wheels of government, and led to the assembling of the States General.
"Halt!" Again that hoarse, strange voice sounded from somewhere near, and the seamen shuddered as they gently laid their burdens on the ground. "Bury your dead, sir, and have no fear," said Adams to the captain. Then he and Ford spoke to their followers, who silently drew back and permitted the seamen who carried shovels to advance.
As a cargador the man carries his burdens on the shoulder in three ways either double, the cargo on a pole between two men; or singly, with the cargo divided and tied to both ends of the pole; or singly, with the cargo laid directly on the shoulder. Women carry as large burdens as do the men.
There's that poor young creature up-stairs-somebody's victim she is: and nobody's to suffer but herself, the little fool! 'Yes, said Raikes. 'Ah! we regret these things in after life! and he looked as if he had many gentlemanly burdens of the kind on his conscience. 'It 's a wonder, to my mind, remarked the landlady, when she had placidly surveyed Mr.
This ferrule is often used, as the spear is always stuck in the earth close at hand when the warrior works any distance from home; and as he passes along the steep mountain trails or carries heavy burdens he commonly uses the spear shaft as a staff. The spear shafts are made by the owner of the weapon, it not being customary for anyone to produce them for sale.
Though I am very far from approving this assertion, I do not wonder at its prevalence among those who are enriched by every tax, and whose only claim to the preferments which they enjoy arises from their readiness to concur in every scheme for increasing the burdens of the publick; and, therefore, shall never expect their approbation of any proposal, by which a new tax may be retarded.
In this I do not disparage, on the other hand I exalt, the public spirit, the capacity for large undertakings, the will and the courage of the city and the citizens of Chicago in assuming burdens and responsibilities from which any other city on this continent would have shrunk.
"Henceforward," said he, "I have a right to carry your burdens." So with one arm round her waist and with the other carrying the water, they climbed the steep turfy slope. Near the top she wanted to take it again. "Mamma will not like it. Mamma will think if so strange." "Why, dearest, if I saw Nancy carrying it up this slope I would take it from her.
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