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Dr. Mann says: "One regiment on the frontier, at one time, counted 900 strong, but was reduced, by a total want of a good police, to less than 200 fit for duty."

He attacked a man of incomparably superior powers, for whom his utter want of humoursave in its comparatively childish formsmade him a ludicrously unequal match, and paid the penalty in being gibbeted in satires that will endure with the language.

Everybody knew that she was poor, and she knew that everybody knew it; yet so long as she was not in absolute want, and the poor-house, that bugbear of honest poverty, was yet far distant, she managed to keep a cheerful heart, and visited her neighbors on terms of entire equality.

"There can be undue influence without actual want of mental competence, I think.

I was pleased to find that he was in no immediate want of provisions, the fear of which had caused me a great deal of uneasiness on the way down the river, as it was arranged between us in Victoria that I was to take with me provisions for his party to do them until their return to the coast.

And in the body of the prayer are seven petitionsthree for the honour and glory of God, in and by ourselves, and four for our own wants, spiritual and temporal.

A little irresolutiona little want of moral couragea little want of self-confidencea little pride, and it is lost.

They took from the stranded boat as much of food and other useful articles as they could carry; but the provision did not last long, and before they reached any Indian encampment they were seduced to extreme want and suffering.

Nor has this been any sort of affectation, as some have thought it, but a mere want of desire or humour to make so small a remove; for when I am in this corner, I can truly say with Horace, Me quoties reficit, &c. "Me, when the cold Digentian stream revives, What does my friend believe I think or ask? Let me yet less possess, so I may live, Whate'er of life remains, unto myself.

In America "protection" affects manufacturers for the most part, and there is no such popular craving for cheap manufactures as to bring the protective principle into collision with the daily wants of the people.

"And my own," says she, tenderly, "which I fear hath grown a little wanting in love for ye since I have been mated.

All my property in his hands, my name a scorn, and my person subject to the law, Elisha Boone had no further fear of me, and thenceforth doled me out an income sufficient to supply my modest wants.

Such an apparent want of feeling might be expected to have been resented by the duke; but not so.

If we disregard the temporal wants of the Dahcotah, can we shut our ears against their cry, that rises up day after day, and year after year,Show us the path to ha

He can adapt himself to its requirements; can level himself to its social and spiritual necessities; does more good in it every day than a more polished, or brilliant, or namby- pamby parson would be able to accomplish in a year; has an excellent wife, who takes her share of the district's work; attends to the varied wants of the localityand there are many in a godless district like his, with its 5,000 soulsin a most praiseworthy manner.

I set to with an unconquerable propulsion to write, with a lamentable want of what to write.

But the executive and, still more, the judiciary departments are yet in a great measure confined to their primitive organization, and are now not adequate to the urgent wants of a still growing community.

His example need not be followed by every one; but it must be allowed thatat least as long as he was in his treehe was neither dawdling, grumbling, spending money, nor otherwise harming himself, and perhaps his fellow-creatures, from sheer want of employment.

It was dire want, not financial infamy, that made the Revolutionary paper money 'not worth a Continental.'

A drawing- book, at its very best, is only a partial and lame substitute for a teacher, giving instruction empirically; so that, be it ever so correct in principle, it must lack adaptation to the momentary and most pressing wants of the pupil and to his particular frame of mind; it is too Procrustean to be of any ultimate use to anybody, except in comparatively unimportant matters.

It is principally a clear and impressive view of that class of proofs of the Christian religion which have a direct relation to the intellectual and moral wants of mankind.

The artificial wants of mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and as Poor DICK says, For one poor person, there are a hundred indigent.

As to who I am and whatthe universal want am I, for I do stand for health, fleshly and spiritual.

My friend received my verdict with an expression which showed a sad want of respect for authority.

I thank you for giving me the opportunity of contributing my mite to the relief of such affliction, hoping sincerely that all their earthly wants may lead the sufferers to the inexhaustible fountain of true riches.

175 adjectives to describe  wanting