The misfortune was, that prejudice, and not reason, was the enemy to be subdued.

Misfortunes, as is usual, produced discontent, the people murmured at the ministers, and the ministers censured the commanders.

Misfortune and disappointments are great destroyers of some barriers, prudent tact can overthrow others.

Ah! stop your coursetoo long I've felt your chain, Too long the feeble influence of its pow'r; The heir of grief may fall in love with pain, And worst-misfortune feel the tranquil hour.

Might one not rather say that the perpetual misfortunes of our friends are the chief plague of existence?

Poverty is a misfortune; misfortunes are often the result of blamable indiscretion, extravagance, etc.

Ruin and death run armed through every street; And yet that fate, I seek, I cannot meet: What guards misfortunes are and misery!

You are so easy of access, that Poplicola was not more, whose doors were opened on the outside to save the people even the common civility of asking entrance; where all were equally admittedwhere nothing that was reasonable was deniedwhere misfortune was a powerful recommendation, and where (I can scarce forbear saying) that want itself was a powerful mediator, and was next to merit.

He had attacked the Duke of Choiseul; the latter so far forgot himself, it is asserted, as to say to the prince, "Sir, I may have the misfortune to be your subject, but I will never be your servant."

" She considered it a great misfortune to be a woman.

" "Would they could have foretold that my caravan would have been cut up by the Shinwaris almost within shadow of the Pass!" grunted the Eusufzai agent of a Rajputana trading-house whose goods had been diverted into the hands of other robbers just across the Border, and whose misfortunes were the laughing-stock of the bazar.

But poor Villon had the misfortune to be a poet of the "langue d'oil," and the Montfaucon gibbet was the only monument of which he stood in daily expectation.

It was ever Sturt's misfortune to be the sport of the seasons; drought and its attendant desolation dogged his footsteps like an evil genius.

"Gentlemen," said he, "my own misfortunes are not so nigh my heart as yours.

The grandfather of this artist was Nicolas Frederick Knip, a flower painter; her father, Josephus Augustus Knip, a landscape painter, went blind, and after this misfortune was the teacher of his daughter; her aunt, for whom she was named, received medals in Paris and Amsterdam for her flower pictures.

my subjects have been deluded by the artful dissimulation and skill of Sikander; your next misfortune will be the captivity of your wives and children.

You have probably perceived, gentlemen, that the great misfortune of Europe is the spirit of centralization encroaching upon all municipal institutions and destroying self-government, not only by open despotism, but also under the disguise of liberty.

Often what seem man's greatest misfortunes are in reality the door that opens to the new and larger opportunities.

The great misfortune with women is, without doubt, the inability to find occupations worthy of their attention, and this is the reason why love with them is a more violent passion than with men, but they have a characteristic which, properly directed may serve as an antidote.

This misfortune was only the prelude to one far greater.

Sorrows are not endured, but fled from; and misfortune becomes the signal for dispersion to those who survive it.

Mr. SPECTATOR, After I have assured you I am in every respect one of the Handsomest young Girls about TownI need be particular in nothing but the make of my Face, which has the Misfortune to be exactly Oval.

We hear much of the unscrupulous opposition that his partisans made to the reforms of Gluck, but we should also take into consideration the unscrupulous opposition that the partisans of Gluck made to the prosperity and honest endeavours of Piccinni, a man of no mean talent, whose misfortune and not whose fault it was, that he was not a genius of the first order.

"The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, by depriving them of his assistance.

His serious indisposition had occasioned to Edith much anxiety and alarm; but now she was made to feel how often those events which we regard as misfortunes are really 'blessings in disguise'; and how frequently our merciful and all-seeing Father renders them the means of our preservation from far greater evils.