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What makes ordinary books of travels so uninteresting, and, in general, so shortlived, is the want of any idea of composition, or unity of effect, in the minds of their authors.
Then if you carry out your plan of colonization, and leave no shortlived countries in the world, what will you do with your undesirables? ZOO. Kill them. Our tertiaries are not at all squeamish about killing. THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. Gracious Powers! It is just sixteen o'clock; and you have to join your party at half-past in the temple in Galway.
Thus accompanied, we steamed over the bar in safety, had a peaceful ascent, passed the island of Jehossee, the fine estate of Governor Aiken, then left undisturbed by both sides, and fired our first shell into the camp at Wiltown Bluff at four o'clock in the morning. The battery whether fixed or movable we knew not met us with a promptness that proved very shortlived.
It was the increasing preponderance of the Guises, at court as well as in the country, which caused the two princes to take this sudden resolution. Since Henry III.'s coming to the throne, war had gone on between the Catholics and the Protestants, but languidly and with frequent suspensions through local and shortlived truces. The king and the queen-mother would have been very glad that the St.
Loth's father was a prosperous storekeeper on West Long Street and lived in a spacious and richly furnished apartment above the store. It was a home like that revealed to Keith through his shortlived friendship with Harald. The impression on Keith, however, was quite different because of his own growth since that first year at school.
Shortlived as a wreath of smoke men rise and fleet away, persuaded but of that alone which each has chanced to light upon, driven hither and thither, and vainly do they pray to find the whole. For this men may not see or hear or grasp with the hand of thought."
I wish you would change it. It is rather personal and in bad taste. Human nature is human nature, longlived or shortlived, and always will be. ZOO. Then you give up the idea of progress? You cry off the torch, and the brick, and the acorn, and all the rest of it? THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. I do nothing of the sort. I stand for progress and for freedom broadening down from precedent to precedent.
They remind me of that crown incorruptible, which is reserved in heaven for all who love the Lord and have submitted to His will upon the earth. Already I think I see it, surrounded with golden rays. Flowers of the earth, you are shortlived, as are its joys.
"But there is probably no necessity for us to torment ourselves with the discussion of such contingencies. I have never for a moment believed in any alteration of our arrangements for the journey." "That is to say you doubt the trustworthiness of the report of the victory?" "To speak frankly, I do. I did not wish to mortify the old gentleman and spoil his shortlived joy.
They that are of improper behaviour, they that transgress all restraints, they that are unscrupulous in respect of sexual congress, become shortlived here and have to go to Hell hereafter. Even those men live for a hundred years who, though destitute of all accomplishments, betake themselves to propriety and righteousness of conduct and become endued with faith and freed from malice.
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