thus when we say a weak man we mean one that has not so much strength or power to move as usually men have or usually those of his size have which is a comparing his strength to the idea we have of the usual strength of men or men of such a size

when the sons of the swan shall carry me captive to the hollow vale of eurotas till i sail across the seas a slave the handmaid of the pest of greece yet shall i be avenged

which were afterwards redeemed by the imperial government at a total cost of nearly a quarter of a million sterling there was no time and there were no means to change the militia into an army but many compensating advantages helped to make up for its deficiencies

davy would likely take to his heels and she could not pursue him today well be sure you behave yourselves she warned them don't walk in the dust don't stop in the porch to talk to the other children don't squirm or wriggle in your places

he knew that tom would have a clear case against him and he did not dare answer instead he shuffled over to where his wheel lay picked it up and rode slowly off good riddance murmured tom

how bright and glowing white they are and how finely their fading fringes are penciled on the sky see how solid white and opaque they are at the point of attachment and how filmy

how am i to know what the thing's called i ain't up in foreign languages

once to the right and once to the left and the tommy with the glass says they understand sir

also we shall have to reject all the terrible and appalling names which describe the world below cocytus and styx ghosts under the earth and sapless shades

why did they stick to that poor thin story about picking her up out of a steamboat explosion under this ceaseless persecution laura's morbid self communing was renewed

papa she said to him one day this is the cruellest thing of all why don't you tell him that he must go because he would take you with him

between it and the square was a marble paved court with gates of brass at which stood sentries in gorgeous uniforms and to which was affixed the following proclamation in letters of gold large enough for agnes to read

to make it interesting by leading one to realize the connection that exists is simply good sense to make it interesting by extraneous and artificial inducements deserves all the bad names which have been applied to the doctrine of interest in education

in regard to their multitude we see in fact that incorruptible bodies exceed corruptible bodies almost incomparably in magnitude for the entire sphere of things active and passive

would render pleasantries always odious but to indulge in pleasantry is not to resemble such mischievous persons thank heaven it is far otherwise for mild kind and harmless pleasantry should be taken in good part

i'm going to bournemouth to morrow with the lamb and there's that bazaar anthea went back to

it was with his wife and sometimes his children he would visit the local resorts or those near by in wisconsin and spend a few stiff polished days strolling about conventional places doing conventional things he knew the need of it

do but try thank you i am glad you are aware of my power if they forgive me for anything it shall be for my power that is not for you to determine happily to what extent they forgive is between god and themselves

were it not better otto of arkell that we join hands in marriage before the altar than that we spill the blood of faithful followers and vassals in a cruel fight it was a singular and perhaps to our modern ears a most unladylike proposal

many an interesting discussion is broken off and lost by the irrelevant interruption of some thoughtless person one reason why the art of conversation has so degenerated in these days

the surprise table had been an idea of belle's and was a rather agreeable change from the usual grab bag all kinds of little things toys novelties like those used as german favors small books and photographs

immediately after appeared a monster in headlong pursuit blood bedabbled

she had stood in it only the other day penned from outsiders view by the judge's outstretched arms then she had no mind for bygone horrors her own tragedy weighed too heavily upon her but to night

though i have seen others train the same breed of dogs to work a bird to perfection and that their most harsh treatment would be a tap or two with a little switch i will say that one who cannot understand the wag of a dog's tail

and the novelty of my expressed opinion carried much weight with them yet did not even brilliant scientists frequently exhibit the same lack of logic back in the twentieth century did not the historians the philosophers of ancient greece and rome

long beautiful jump that everybody exclaimed this way and that way he went in great leaps it was truly wonderful that long tail is what balances him explained old mother nature

shakespeare's julius caesar

just as we see that it happened of old in the case of the prophets and apostles and just as blind and impious pontiffs with their flatterers do now in my case and that of those who are like me upon whom

this whole region when the spaniards arrived was a populous and prosperous empire complete in its civil organization supported by an efficient system of industry and presenting a notable development of some of the more important arts of civilized life

all this sir launcelot saw and beheld for he slept not verily and he heard him say o sweet lord when shall this sorrow leave me and when shall the holy vessel come by me wherethrough i shall be blessed for i have endured thus long for little trespass

dickens's life at this time was so miserable that always afterward he dreaded to speak of it and never could bear even to walk in the street where the blacking warehouse of his boyhood had stood

and there he was in great peril for the giant was a wily fighter but at last sir marhaus smote off his right arm above the elbow then the giant fled and the knight after him

she is too jerky vienna june twenty seventh seventeen eighty one to his father beethoven found the same fault with mozart's playing that mozart here condemns

who has injured my honour in the tenderest point

his face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend he now sprang to his feet and going closer gazed upon the pastelike face the mouth was open and the teeth

the footpath along the silver brook and up the hawthorn hedge and the little village maid loitering along it leaning on his arm

towards just this place towards just this house and garden towards just this year this august this moment of existence wemyss dropped quite naturally into the place a near male relative would have been in

at the left side of which hung a large knife in a sheath and he bore on his right shoulder a heavy iron sledge hammer this man was the executioner he had moreover

and mine affairs prospered and my wealth increased and goods and farms became mine such as sufficed me and will suffice my heirs after me nor did i cease to abide with walid till he was slain the mercy of almighty allah be on him

until she attained some proficiency in the rudiments then most probably her education in the scholastic sense came to an end her brothers and boy schoolmates if their parents wished it could proceed from the primary school to the secondary

wrestling was largely indulged in by us all it may seem odd but wrestling was done by a great many boys at once from ten to any number on a side it was really a battle

but rostov was otherwise engaged he was shouting hurrah why don't you renew the acquaintance said dolokhov to rostov confound him he's a fool said rostov

half of them had disappeared in the rush to the city for it had leaked out in spite of the government's precautions that paul's house known once as saint paul's cathedral was to be the scene of felsenburgh's reception the others seemed demented