On this Occasion the Philosopher rises into the celebrated Sentiment, That there is not on Earth a Spectator more worthy the Regard of a Creator intent on his Works than a brave Man superior to his Sufferings; to which he adds, That it must be a Pleasure to Jupiter himself to look down from Heaven, and see Cato amidst the Ruins of his Country preserving his Integrity.

If the Licentious had not utterly forgot what it is to be modest, they would know that offended Modesty labours under one of the greatest Sufferings to which human Life can be exposed.

Now is the Season of Solitude, and of moving Complaints upon trivial Sufferings:

There are none therefore who stir up Pity so much as those who indite their own Sufferings.

"What of the sufferings of the man to whom you gave this?" he asked.

" The story, though it has no precise prototype in Crabbe's own history, is clearly the fruit of his experience of life at Belvoir Castle, combined with the sad recollection of his sufferings when only a few years before he, a young man with the consciousness of talent, was rolling butter-tubs on Slaughden Quay.

As Lady Byron maintained a lifelong silence about the sufferings of her married life, little is known of that miserable year beyond what all the world saw: executions in the house; increasing gloom and recklessness in the husband; a bright patience and resoluteness in the wife; and an immense pity felt by the poet's adorers for his trials by a persecuting Fate.

The latter was the source of most of his sufferings; for, being so exceedingly sensitive, even the most scentless things made him sick.

The sufferings of the Baptists and Quakers, for example, make a sad chapter of New England history.

There were the famine-stricken and the perishing, almost as wasted and helpless as those whose sufferings had ceased.

But she suffered little from the change, was contented to win and accept the flattery of inferior people, and, instead of spending her faculties in soothing the "radically wretched life" of Johnson, used them, perhaps not less happily, in lightening the sufferings of Piozzi during his last years.

"Then I should enjoy her sufferings; but instead" "Don't drive away a good inspiration!"

Can a people be said to be civilized when they enjoy bloodshed and are not moved by the sufferings of others?

" A tyro interrogating a classical wag on the labours and sufferings of Homer, was shown the Iliad, and told that it was composed under great deprivation.

Perhaps the keenest of all Grace's sufferings proceeded from the consciousness of the total want of merit in the man she had so effectually enshrined in her heart, that he could only be ejected by breaking in pieces and utterly destroying the tenement that had so long contained him.

Men are seldom wronged without being calumniated, and the body of men of which I was then one, did not escape that sort of reparation for all the grievances they endured, which is dependent on demonstrating that the injured deserve their sufferings.

Instead of kind admonition, I was to endure the frowns of one, whose sympathies could neither be reached by the prayers and cries of his slaves, nor by the entreaties and sufferings of a sister's son.

I could spend months in detailing the sufferings, degradation and cruelty inflicted upon slaves.

" The sufferings to which slaves are subjected by separations of various kinds, cannot be imagined by those unacquainted with the working out of the system behind the curtain.

"The sufferings of the slave not unfrequently drive him to despair and suicide.

And animated and sustained by a declaration, so inspiring and sublime, they rushed to arms, and as the result of agonizing efforts and dreadful sufferings, achieved under God the independence of their country.

But he had reached the stint of his sufferings, and that morning lay awake, hardly annoyed at all by the black-birds' whistling, contentedly going over the mistakes he had madea little surprised, however, that the remembrance of them did not cause him more pain.

"You only aggravate your sufferings.

The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

But if we kill them, others, who have no experience, will be set to slaughter us, and will by their bungling inflict great sufferings upon us.