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Have you not, besides, had dreams of an all-Fatherfrom whom, in some mysterious way, all things and beings must derive their source, and that Sonif my theory be trueamong the rest, and above all the rest?' 'Who has not?

My love soars far above all that.

He never varied in rating intellectual enjoyments above all others, even in value as pleasures, independently of their ulterior benefits.

Can you tell me if there are any grounds for my apprehension?" Ida was silent for a moment as she recalled her father's manner of late, his habit of shutting himself up in the library, of keeping his letters from her, of secreting papers, and, above all, the furtive glances which she had now and again seen him cast at her.

Lastly, History, that is to be considered as a continual illustration of the arts of fortification and tactics; but above all of politics, with its various appendages, commerce, manufacture, finances?

The doctrine has in itself a rude barbaric simplicity: what is utterly revolting in the neo-Germanic presentment is its moral veneerthe talk of war as the fruit of 'political idealism' and the expression of the 'social organism': the talk of 'historical development' as invalidating supposed 'rights' like the neutrality of Belgium; above all, the talk of power as 'the vehicle of the highest culture'.

Wretched would be the pair, above all names of wretchedness, who should be doomed to adjust by reason, every morning, all the minute detail of a domestick day.

"For what did I say in the train this morning, Bettina, and only a little while ago in the carriage?" "My sister said to me, M. le Curé," said Miss Percival, "that she desired, above all things, that the abbé should not be young, nor melancholy, nor severe, but that he should be white-haired and gentle and good.

He smiles at them in his heart; for has he not, over and above all the pretty things which he can say and do ten times as well as they, a talismana dozen talismans which are beyond their reach?in the strength of which he will go home and laugh over with her, amid sacred caresses, all which makes mean men mad?

" To her those words meant the obligation she was under to her heavenly Father, for the goodness and mercy that had surrounded her life, for the patience that had borne with her errors and sins, and above all for the gift of his dear Son, the ever blessed Christ.

But above all, it is incumbent upon us to hold erect the principles of morality and law, constantly executing our own contracts in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, and thus serving as a rallying point by which our whole country may be brought back to that safe and honored standard.

Above all, all the frontier peoples were now militarily well equipped, continually receiving new war material from the Chinese who from time to time were co-operating with them.

I complain of their forgetting that Shakespeare was a man; that he had moods, that he made mistakes, and, above all, that he knew his art was an art and not an attribute of deity.

This above all. SEE Knight, Eric.

Besides being a bold warrior, he is above all an astute and able ally.

May they, above all, make France happy!

And then our own generals, not to go furtherEspartero at Luchana, O'Donnel in Africa, and, above all, Prim, that almost legendary leader, directing the battalion at Castillejos with his sword.

Vigée studied under Briard, Doyen, and Greuze, but Joseph Vernet advised her to study the works of Italian and Flemish masters, and, above all, to study Nature for herselfto follow no school or system.

He continued to serve him faithfully, to look after his interests in and around Acol Court to the best of his ability; above all he continued to be whole-heartedly grateful.

But what a dear yet sad privilege man possesses above all created beings, while thus enabled by memory and thought to follow those whom he loved to the tomb and there shut up the living with the dead.

Above all, in its literature does witchcraft exhibit the conclusive proof of its age, its hydra-headed forms, and its influence in the intellectual and spiritual development of the races of men.

One thing above all things in this world I wish to know, and only one person of your acquaintance can solve me that, or guess my meaning.

The conception, to begin with, is characteristic of himthe pensive charm, the feeling of reserve, the touch of fanciful imagination in the decorative accessories, but, above all, the extreme refinement.

Only a month ago there would have been no party at which Nina was present where her voice would not have risen above all others.

Above all, leave the sick room quickly and come into it quickly, not suddenly, not with a rush.

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