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So unusual was the condition, that he could not sleep; the first thing he did in the morning was to borrow right and left for fear another attack of insomnia might interfere with his training for the football eleven. Robertson Ray Rigby, immortalised as Bobby, had gone in for athletics, where he learned to think and act quickly.
She had already occupied an important position among them when Thutmosis III. died in the fifty-fifth year of his reign. Of his successors the most prosperous was the renowned Amenothes III., who is immortalised by the wonderful monumental relics of his long and peaceful reign.
The mere matter-models break down and are lost, for matter changes endlessly until it is immortalised, as our bodies must be through the refinement of spiritual union. "Our pioneers, by suffering and labour, even by fasting and prayer, have made themselves fine enough to contact some little part of that finished plan.
Muirhead, his aunt, was little aware that this was the first experiment in the way which afterwards immortalised her nephew. In 1775 Watt was sent to London to a mathematical instrument maker, but could not stay on account of his health, and soon afterwards came back to Glasgow.
It was found that without it, to use a phrase which Hobbes indeed has immortalised, but which can be easily paralleled from the writings of St. Ambrose or St. Augustine, "life was nasty, brutish, and short." To this idea of authority, there was quickly added the kindred ideas of private property and slavery. These two were found equally necessary for the well-being of human society.
Such had been, in the century before, the famous Dr. Faust Faustus, who was said to have made a compact with Satan actually one of the inventors of printing immortalised in Goethe's marvellous poem.
Some exquisites were said to have been able to detect the tea made by Luwuh from that of his disciples. One mandarin has his name immortalised by his failure to appreciate the tea of this great master. In the Sung dynasty the whipped tea came into fashion and created the second school of Tea.
"It's just great," declared Flamby, "and I can never hope to thank you for being so good to me. But I am wondering how I am going to afford it." "My dear Flamby, the rent of this retreat is astoundingly modest. You will use very little coal, electric and gas meters are of the penny-in-the-slot variety immortalised in song and story by Little Tich, and there you are."
Otherwise I'll have to tell the doctor, and he'll give you the blackest and nastiest physic you have ever tasted." "To cure me of a what-you-call-it problem?" "Yes," said I, emphatically. "Hou!" laughed Carlotta in a superior way, "physic can't cure that." "You are relying on an exploded fallacy immortalised in a hackneyed Shakespearian quotation," I remarked.
On April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, thus completing the eighth year of the war, Washington issued a general order to the army in these terms "The generous task for which we first flew to arms being accomplished, the liberties of our country being fully acknowledged and firmly secured, and the characters of those who have persevered through every extremity of hardship, suffering, and danger, being immortalised by the illustrious appellation of 'the patriot army, nothing now remains but for the actors of this mighty scene to preserve a perfect, unvarying consistency of character through the very last act, to close the drama with applause, and to retire from the military theatre with the same approbation of angels and men which has crowned all their former virtuous actions."
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