And this want of knowledge and of respect for knowledge was a serious deficiency.

The first great want of the country, that without answering which all attempts at bettering the present condition of things will prove fruitless, is a complete restoration of the credit and finances of the Federal Government.

There, where the laborer may not choose how he shall be employed!in what way his wants shall be supplied!with whom he shall associate!who shall have the fruit of his exertions!

The want of such a provision is the occasion of abuses in regard to existing works, exposing them to private encroachment without sufficient means of redress by law.

With such a company the want of speed was a consideration of no importance, and the memory of this journey was in after years among Beethoven's brightest.

The natural wants of her heart and mind, and what she was pleased to call the natural gratifications of physical wants, were her mentors, and to them she listened, never dreaming of holding them at a pecuniary value.

Yet never an age, when God has need of him, Shall want its Man, predestined by that need, To pour his life in fiery word or deed, The strong Archangel of the Elohim! Earth's hollow want is prophet of his coming:

The want of these national text-books and readers is a great gulf between Russia and her Allies; it is a greater gulf than the profoundest political misunderstanding could be.

Archie's want of moral courage had been his ruin.

It may have been owing to the circumstance that so much of the town was under the hill at the beginning of the century, and that strangers had few opportunities of seeing it to advantage; but I rather think its want of the Anglo-Saxon origin was the principal reason it was so little in favour.

But this want of a propensity to turn a penny in his own way was not the only distinguishing characteristic between the commander of the little craft and the being he occasionally used as a mask to his true purposes.

The weather was mild and beautiful, his wants were simple, a cup of coffee and a roll, a couple of sausages, and the day passed in a sort of morose and passionless contemplation.

My want of wealth is author of my grief; Your father says, my state is too-too low: I am no hobby bred; I may not soar so high As Lelia's love, The lofty eagle will not catch at flies.

We hold that every man behaves with awkwardness when he is in love, and the want of the one is a presumption of the absence of the other.

Having come a long distance, their first and most pressing want was food.

The want of access in their addresses to God, is another heart-discouraging thing.

And shall not the want of reason and speech be a sign to us of different real constitutions and species between a changeling and a reasonable man?

Besides these names which stand for ideas, there be other words which men make use of, not to signify any idea, but the want or absence of some ideas, simple or complex, or all ideas together; such as are NIHIL in Latin, and in English, IGNORANCE and BARRENNESS.

The want of means was for a time a serious check to my anticipations; but I could not content myself to wait until I had slowly accumulated so large a sum as tourists usually spend on their travels.

The especial want of all Greek and Roman buildings with which we are acquainted is the absencesave in a few and unimportant casesof the pyramidal form.

The greatest want of our people, if I understand our wants aright, is not simply wealth, nor genius, nor mere intelligence, but live men, and earnest, lovely women, whose lives shall represent not a "stagnant mass, but a living force.

This want of curiosity is a very singular and I believe an almost distinctive feature in the character of the native Australian.

"All the striving, anxious fore-thought That should only come with age Weighed upon his baby spirit, Showed him soon life's sternest page; Grim Want was his nurse, and Sorrow Was his only heritage.

Though Thomson's first want on his arrival in London from the North was a pair of shoes, and he lived for a time in great indigence, he was comfortable enough at last.

Every want is a benefit, soon satisfied, soon growing again.