Since 1870, and the unification of Germany, the growth of her manufactures and her trade has been enormous; her commercial prosperity has gone up by leaps and bounds; and this extension of trade, especially of international trade, has ledas it had already so conspicuously done in Englandto the development of corresponding ideals and habits of life among the population.

But though I may not have it in my power to relieve thee, I hope it will not be unpleasant to thee to know that thou art still more dear and near to me than ever thou wast in the times of more apparent outward prosperity.

Instead of inducing a more prudent course, these disastrous results only served to feed the spirit of rivalry, and general insolvency seemed to threaten the permanent prosperity of the telegraph business, in consequence of the wild and reckless competition which appeared to be inherent in its nature.

The two Saints, Cyprianus, (the "Magico Prodigioso" of Calderon,) and Bishop Theophilus, (the hero of Conrad of Würzburg,) were both tempted by the Devil with worldly goods and worldly prosperity, and allured into the pool of sin perhaps deeper than Faustus; but repentance and penitence saved them, and secured to them finally a place among the saints of the Church.

If, indeed, when the war is over, they are fortunate enough to be compelled by the terms of settlement to abandon their Army and Navyor all but the merest residue of thesethe consequences undoubtedly will be that, freed from the frightful burdens which the upkeep of these entails, they will romp away over the world through an era of unexampled prosperity and influence.

The fluctuations of agricultural or commercial prosperity touch him not, or at worst but change his customers.

If Gibbon meant simply that this period was the happiest and most prosperous during the imperial reigns, he may not have been far from the truth, according to his standpoint of what human happiness consists in,that external prosperity which was the blessing of the Old Testament, and which Macaulay exalts as proudly as Gibbon before him.

The opportune arrival of the child inaugurated a season of comparative prosperity in the home of Timothy Harding.

But though I may not have it in my power to relieve thee, I hope it will not be unpleasant to thee to know that thou art still more dear and near to me than ever thou wast in the times of more apparent outward prosperity.

War had done its part, and the new Germany required all its energies to build up its internal prosperity and strength.

" He was devoted to the development of national resources and the removal of evils which militated against justice as well as domestic prosperity.

For it can not be denied that China has known little prosperity under the later rulers of the Manchu line, and when the revolutionary leaders declared that the reigning house had forfeited the T'ien-ming we must admit that they had ample justification for their belief that such was the case.

The colonies were separate units, each jealous of its own industrial prosperity.

Every man who has dispassionately endeavored to enlighten himself in the matter cannot but see, that, for the many, the course of things in slaveholding states is substantially what we have described, a downward one, more or less rapid, in civilization and in all those results of material prosperity which in a free country show themselves in the general advancement for the good of all and give a real meaning to the word Commonwealth.

The maritime prosperity acquired an equal increase by the carrying trade, both in imports and exports.

The efficiency and industry of its officers and the ability and energy of contractors justify an increased confidence in its continued prosperity.

All envy is buried in the unbounded prosperity of Joseph.

Perhaps all this wealth had somewhat diminished the spirit of enterprise before the War, and popular culture also suffered from this unprecedented prosperity.

The Jews were suffered to believe not merely that God rewards the just and punishes the wickedwhich is eternally truebut that He does so in this life, which is true only with qualification; and that He rewards them with temporal prosperity and adversitywhich is hardly true at all.

You will, brethren, accept my thanks for the acceptable manner in which you have communicated the vote of the Society to me, and assure the Society of my fervent prayer for their spiritual prosperity under their junior pastor.

I could have wished that in making my first communication to the assembled representatives of my country I had nothing to dwell upon but the history of her unalloyed prosperity.

The Hollanders, by inundating their fields and fighting literally to the "last ditch," preserved their liberties and secured ultimate prosperity.

In this age of boundless prosperity, where were the great poets, where the historians, where the writers on political economy, where the moralists?

The Panic of 1907.%For several years our country had enjoyed unusual prosperity.

The motives of Mr. Brush were thoroughly misconstrued by some, and, if grasped by others, they were disregarded, because they conflicted with their immediate temporary prosperity.