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I remember, in 1789 and 1790, when this popular militia was first instituted, every one, either from policy or inclination, appeared eager to promote it; and nothing was discussed but military fetes, balls, exercise, and uniforms. These patriotic levities have now entirely vanished, and the business proceeds with languor and difficulty.
No no; believe me that love was not to be mingled with the ordinary objects of life it was too pure to be profaned by the levities and follies which are all of my nature that I have permitted myself to develope to the world.
Think no more of the past; but let us unite in not sinning for the future: "'Heaven knows how many sins I have to atone for, replied the Duchess, 'from the follies of youth; but now, at an age of discretion and in adversity, oh, how bitterly do I reproach myself for my past levities! But, continued she, 'has Your Majesty really forgiven me?
All these levities Tiberius readily connived at, in hopes that they might perhaps correct the roughness of his temper, which the sagacious old man so well understood, that he often said, "That Caius was destined to be the ruin of himself and all mankind; and that he was rearing a hydra for the people of Rome, and a Phaeton for all the world."
Think no more of the past; but let us unite in not sinning for the future: "'Heaven knows how many sins I have to atone for, replied the Duchess, 'from the follies of youth; but now, at an age of discretion and in adversity, oh, how bitterly do I reproach myself for my past levities! But, continued she, 'has Your Majesty really forgiven me?
Hence, with all Edward's abilities, the astonishing levities and indiscretions of his younger years.
"It may explain certain levities which have not been without their embarrassment. 'Tis five-and-twenty years, come August, Master Skimmer, and twelve of them have been under thy auspices. I will not say that the adventures might not have been better managed; as it is, they are tolerable.
M. Collot perfectly understood the cause of the unkind treatment he had experienced, and of which he gave me the following explanation: Some days before the Consulate that is to say, two or three days after our return from Egypt, Bonaparte, during his jealous fit, spoke to M. Collot about his wife, her levities, and their publicity.
But a joke may be exceedingly useful; it may contain the whole earthly sense, not to mention the whole heavenly sense, of a situation. And those who find in the Bible the commandment can find in the Bible any number of the jokes. In the same book in which God's name is fenced from being taken in vain, God himself overwhelms Job with a torrent of terrible levities.
Compare our longest life with eternity, and we shall be found almost as short-lived as those little animals. XL. Let us, then, despise all these follies for what softer name can I give to such levities? and let us lay the foundation of our happiness in the strength and greatness of our minds, in a contempt and disregard of all earthly things, and in the practice of every virtue.
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