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"Riches and honor are what men desire; but if they arrive at them by improper ways, they should not continue to hold them.

Presently they arrive at Lizy-sur-Ourcq, through which thousands of German troops are now passing, bound not for Paris, but for Soissons and the Aisne, and in the blackest of tempers.

"At last we arrive at our destinationSomme-Py.

A forbud is sent on with printed notices filled up with the time at which the traveller expects to arrive at each station.

After passing through a small door in the centre of a large one, leading to the shipyard, then turning to the right, then mounting 18 steep awkward steps, and then turning again to the right, you arrive at the place.

The messengers of death arrive at his cell, and find him on his knees.

The return of Carleton from England, where he had gone to receive the more positive promises of support from King James, was only wanting, to decide Maurice to take the final step; and no sooner did the ambassador arrive at The Hague than Barneveldt and his most able friends, Grotius, Hoogerbeets, and Ledenberg, were arrested in the name of the states-general.

No doubt we shall arrive at a rather impoverished synthesis, for many constituent elements, some good, some bad, will be destroyed in the process, the one being too delicate to resist the hostile environment, the other injurious and impossible to assimilate.

It took some time to arrive at this point, and meanwhile rate of exchange had had a serious relapse.

Natives. Arrive at Goulburn Island.

Of a truth, he who imagines to arrive at any excellence without following this system (which is the source of a true theory in the arts), shoots very wide indeed of his mark.

That I might know of a certainty, that infants grow in stature, and arrive at maturity as they grow in intelligence, I was permitted to speak with some while they were infants, and afterwards when they were grown up; and they appeared as full-grown youths, in a stature, like that of young men full grown in the world.

An attempt has been made lately to obtain data more satisfactory than conjecture, and circulars have been addressed to the clerks of most of the counties, in order to arrive at as correct an estimate as possible of the actual number of homicides during the three years last past.

We now arrive at Messrs. Maginot & Pinette's system, the description of which will be greatly facilitated by the diagram that accompanies this article.

I left town for the inn where I slept last night at half-past nine, and did not arrive at my room in town until one o'clock this afternoon.

; this and the absorption must vary with the geological conditions, and therefore to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion regarding the amount of rainfall actually available for storage, careful gaugings have to be made of the stream affected, and these should extend over a lengthened period, and be compounded with the rainfall.

Arrive at MariondivorceswoodlandsColumbusland officespopulation, &c. Shaking Quakerskidnapping free NegrosCincinnatithe farmers of Ohioa corn-husking frolicqualifications necessary to Senators, Legislators, and Electorsa camp-meetingmilitia officers' musterPresbyterian parsonsprice of land, cattle, &c.fever and ague CHAPTER IV.

This system is soon to be tried practically at Antwerp in Belgium, and then it will be possible to arrive at the actual cost of traction.

* Children should be kept from all kinds of instruction that may make errors possible until their sixteenth year, that is to say, from philosophy, religion, and general views of every description; because it is the errors that are acquired in early days that remain, as a rule, ineradicable, and because the faculty of judgment is the last to arrive at maturity.

By repeating your outer name in a certain way until it disappears in the mind, I can arrive at the real name within.

I know not whether by naming those Disabilities I do not enhance his Merit, since he has left behind him a Reputation in his Country which would be worth the Pains of the wisest Man's whole Life to arrive at.

The tricks and flimsinesses of a bad argument provoked him as much as the imposture and "flash" of insincere sentiment and fine talking; he might be conscious of "flash" in himself and his friends, and he would admit it unequivocally; but it was as unbearable to him to pretend not to see a fallacy as soon as it was detected, as it would have been to him to arrive at the right answer of a sum or a problem by tampering with the processes.

Adding together, then, these several items of cotton goods introduced from France and England into Spain by contraband, we arrive at the following startling result: FRANCE.

They snatch your passport the moment you arrive at a hotel, and register you, and if you change your hotel every day, every day your passport is taken, and you are requested to fill out a blank with your name, age, religion, nationality, and the name and hotel of the town where you were last.

" He turned and left her, and she strolled along, thinking of his words, wondering how long it would take her to arrive at his indifference.

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'I regard it as a particular blessing that your Lordship's dispatch did not arrive in due time.'

Help from Germany did not arrive in time.

" "There's too much of it coming," was Ham's response; and there was no help for it after that, not even when the mail brought word from "Aunt Maria" that both of her dear boys would arrive in a day or two.

We find them also settled or made to live under the unnatural government of the whites; and, what is more extraordinary, we find their present number, as compared with that of the whites in the same colony, nearly as one hundred and fifty to one; notwithstanding which superiority fresh emancipations are constantly taking place, as fresh cargoes of the captured arrive in port.

This naturally took time, and the convoy did not arrive in England until after the middle of May.

In your opinion, is the laborer the perfect state at which man may arrive in his development?

No sooner do they arrive in a place than they are anxious to know what amusements it affords; just as though they were beggars asking where they could receive a dole!

When they arrive in their mandarinates they usually find interpreters, who, being permanent officieals and interested in the affairs of the place, know how to make their services indispensable; and these in reality are the absolute rulers of the district.

He saw Paris marching with quick steps towards the re-establishment of its business, and the resumption of its usual aspect; the emigrants and foreigners would arrive in crowds, their pockets overflowing with gold to make purchases and put the industry of Paris under contributions the French and foreign bankers will rival each other to pay the indemnity of five milliards.

Whilst these are the sentiments on which I have acted through life, it is not, in my opinion, expedient to proclaim to all the nations of the earth that whoever shall arrive in this country from a foreign shore and declare his intention to become a citizen shall receive a farm of 160 acres at a cost of 25 or 20 cents per acre if he will only reside on it and cultivate it.

The animals constituting it may consequently, under the instructions from the Secretary of State, be expected soon to arrive in the United States, when the authority of Congress as to the disposition to be made of them will be necessary.

They were due to arrive in half an hour, and while Senator Barnes awaited their coming Barbara came to him.

'From those,' replied the stranger, 'who shall arrive in quest of me before the morning cock shall crow, and for the full space of a year and a day from this period.'

" "Am I then authorized to state, Madame, that you will shortly arrive in Paris?" demanded the envoy.

But the womenNelly and my wifesomehow, believed in her, andwith the baby due to arrive in a month and any kind of help hard to getthey carried the day.

Towards the end of 1823 European 'Philhellenes' began to arrive in Greece.

"The godless hosts of pagans swarming o'er the Northern Sea," continued to arrive in fresh and fresh numbers from their inexhaustible Scandinavian breeding groundsfrom Norway, from Sweden, from Denmark, even, it is said, from Iceland.

Zoller relates (III., 68) that when Europeans arrive in Africa they find the women so ugly they can hardly look at them without a feeling of repulsion.

If you arrive in the middle of any discussion, do not ask what it is about; for that is too bold and savours of one in authority.

The adjoining tent was occupied by two gentlemen, passengers of the Berenice; their servant, a European, brought to some of our people the alarming intelligence that the steamers would leave Suez in the course of a few hours, and that our utmost speed would scarcely permit us to arrive in time.

In the latter part of December many refugees from the Southwest began to arrive in St. Louis.

Giocauvaghama, a cemi, is said to have revealed to Cazziva that whoever survived him would soon be subdued by a clothed people who were to arrive in the island and would rule over and kill them.

The Hunter gently lifted the wounded girl into it, and thus, late at night, she reached the sheltering roof of her old friend, who was, to be sure, greatly astonished to see his expected guest arrive in such a condition.

He expected to arrive in the part of the world underneath us just near the Golden Chersonese, which is situated to the east of Persia.

These orders did not arrive in time to prevent the party intended for the survey of the boundary from setting out.

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