This was the general opinion of those who were well acquainted with French affairs, and of those who visited Paris, which was then exceedingly prosperous.

In spite of the predictions and hostile criticisms of famous statesmen, it was, to all appearance at least, stable, and the nation was prosperous.

The end he proposed in general was to remove such as were oppressive on the middle and lower classes, and to develop the industrial resources of the nation,to make it richer and more prosperous, while it felt the burden of supplying needful moneys for the government less onerous.

And yet he was not a failure, for he had the respect of some of the finest minds in Edinburgh, and at once gained as an advocate enough to support himself respectably among aristocratic people,aided no doubt by his father who, as a prosperous Writer to the Signet, threw business into his hands.

He was a thriving rather than a prosperous lawyer; that is to say, he earned his living.

The most timid ruler does not hesitate to dictate a law that produces misery and lingering death for thousands and thousands of prosperous and industrious subjects, happy perchance, merely to satisfy a caprice, a whim, his pride, and yet you shudder because in one night are to be ended forever the mental tortures of many helots, because a vitiated and paralytic people has to die to give place to another, young, active, full of energy!

Gan. Tutt, a prosperous synne is nowe a vertuous acte; Let not that starte you.

"] [Footnote 136: The first beginning of the insurrection was at Prosperous, County Kildare, May 24.

An industrious, intelligent, and prosperous population of 5,000,000 of people live within her borders.

Although they had wandering bands of robbers for their nearest neighbors, they were able to defend themselves against all comers, and were content and prosperous.

The elder, the prosperous doctor-banker, was jubilantly called Averardo"Blessed with good means," and the younger was christened Chiarissimo III., to mark quite sententiously that, whilst his bank-balance was considerable, it had been accumulated by honest dealing!

He made also a prosperous marriage with Donna Benricevuta de' Sizi.

The same year, the two Cornelii, Publius and Cneius, as affairs were now in a prosperous state in Spain, and they had recovered many ancient allies, and attached fresh ones to them, extended their views even to Africa.

His wife was simply a shadow and echo of himself; one of those clinging, tender, unselfish, will-less women, who make pleasant, and affectionate, and sunny wives enough for rich, prosperous, unsentimental husbands, but who are millstones about the necks of sensitive, impressionable, unsuccessful men.

His father, Michael Johnson, was a bookseller, highly respected by the cathedral clergy, and for a time sufficiently prosperous to be a magistrate of the town, and, in the year of his son's birth, sheriff of the county.

And in support of stagnation are always ranged the immense forces of Society, the prosperous, the well-to-do, the people who are content if to-morrow is exactly like to-day.

There lie poor, sallow, work-worn weavers, and complain no more now; women themselves are slashed and sabred; howling terror fills the air; and ye ride prosperous, very victoriousye unspeakable: give us sabres too, and then come on a little!'

Some men of Crotona, when they were rich in all kinds of resources, and when they were considered among the most prosperous people in Italy, were desirous to enrich the temple of Juno, which they regarded with the most religious veneration, with splendid pictures.

Moreover, argumentation often arises from fortune; when we consider whether a man is a slave or a free man, rich or poor, noble or ignoble, prosperous or unfortunate; whether he now is, or has been, or is likely to be a private individual or a magistrate; or, in fact, when any one of those circumstances is sought to be ascertained which are attributable to fortune.

He will pray night and morning that your life may be blessed, long and prosperous.

XVIII THE HAUNTED RESTAURANT Were one to tell the proprietors of the very prosperous and flamboyant restaurant of which I am thinking that it is hauntedyea, that ghosts sit at its well appointed tables, and lost voices laugh and wail and sing low to themselves through its hallsthey would probably take one for a lunatica servant of the moon.

Christmas too is pre-eminently the Feast of the Absent, the Festival of the Far-Away, for the most prosperous ingathering of beloved faces about the Christmas fire can but include a small number of those we would fain have there; and have you ever realized that the absent are ghosts?

This brings a Commission of Bankruptcy upon him; and he that might have gone on to his Lifes End in a prosperous Way, by aiming at more than he should, is no longer Proprietor of what he really had before, but his Pretensions fare as all Things do which are torn instead of being divided.

He knows there is in such a Place an uninterrupted Walk; he can meet in such a Company an agreeable Conversation: He has no Emulation, he is no Man's Rival, but every Man's Well-wisher; can look at a prosperous Man, with a Pleasure in reflecting that he hopes he is as happy as himself; and has his Mind and his Fortune (as far as Prudence will allow) open to the Unhappy and to the Stranger.

"In case the whole civilised world waged war on the United States, I dare say you could still remain a tolerably prosperous people.