By this means, at least, the navy department would be greatly simplified, and cease to be eternally burdensome to the government.

The prohibitory system is, to a great extent, impracticable in the United States; and just so far as it should be found practicable, it would prove injurious, by creating fictitious and dependent interests, which, in the course of time, would become insupportably burdensome to the commonwealth, and eventually would have to be relinquished at the cost of a fearful amount of individual distress and national suffering.

Thousands of minutes of the seven hundred and ninety-eight daysand there were over one million of them, during which I had been borne down by intolerably burdensome delusionswere, I imagine, much like the last minutes of consciousness experienced by persons who drown.

Of the lands sold, a considerable part were conveyed under extended credits, which in the vicissitudes and fluctuations in the value of lands and of their produce became oppressively burdensome to the purchasers.

But this change had been presented to Florence in a manner more than ordinarily burdensome.

The barrenness of the soil in north-eastern Siberia, and the severity of the long winter, led man to domesticate the reindeer as the only means of obtaining a subsistence; the domestication of the reindeer necessitated a wandering life; a wandering life made sickness and infirmity unusually burdensome to both sufferers and supporters; and this finally led to the murder of the old and sick, as a measure both of policy and mercy.