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It is the place of the school of theology, not to ignore the New Learning, but to group, upon the basis of a thorough college training, certain great interests and pursuits of mankind, in such a way as to afford, by means of them, a leverage for spiritual work.
The influences of pure nature seem to be so little known as yet, that it is generally supposed that complete pleasure of this kind, permeating one's very flesh and bones, unfits the student for scientific pursuits in which cool judgment and observation are required.
In a very few minutes the redoubt was gained, the garrison driven up the hill, and the voltigeurs, Ninth, and Fifteenth were in hot pursuit after them.
Sealing was at one time chiefly monopolized by adventurous New Englanders, who combined the pursuit with whaling, but at present the sealers of Salt Lake bear off the palm from all competitors, both as regards numbers and hardihood.
A French Indian fired at them from ambush, but missed his mark, and to escape pursuit by his tribesmen, they walked steadily forward for a day and a night, until they reached the Allegheny.
" They were forced to retrace their painful way through the bushes to reach a place as distant from the point of pursuit as possible.
Suddenly ChangedDirection of Advance Swings to the Southeast When Close to the French CapitalSuccessful Resistance by the AlliesThe Prolonged Encounter at the MarneGermans Retreat With Allies in Hot Pursuit for Many Miles.
Circumstances were to prevent his interrogating Mr. Mussey, and he could only assume thatsince Popinot could hardly have been in the motor car wrecked on the road from Parishe must have left that pursuit to trusted confrères, and, anticipating their possible failure, have hurried on to Cherbourg by another route to make precautionary arrangements with Mr. Mussey.
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Even Colonel Gansevoort seemed to lose sight of the fact that if this man came among us once more it would be necessary to treat him as a deserter; but to check, if possible, pursuit from the British and Tory soldiers, he lined the walls with men under command to fire without waiting for the word, upon any of the enemy who might approach within range.
It may bein the final outcome of thingsthat will be found an even finer pursuit than the old one of producing Presidents.
The pursuit on the hill above broke into the open.
His heart is with the army, and his pursuits at home offer the boy no pleasure.
Venice admitted not of pursuit like another city; for there was no passage along the canal taken by the gondola, but by water.
" Mile after mile they kept up the pursuit without further exchange of conversation.
The pursuits into which most of them drift or are driven, do indeed result in the production of a vast amount of manufactured goods, food, clothing, house and personal furnishings of all sorts, and of machinery with which may be manufactured yet more goods.
Then they returned for more, keeping up the sport till a bird in flight or some other fascinating moving creature lured them away in a spirited pursuit through thick willows and across green marsh-lands.
He, however, followed them along Cheapside, and would have continued the pursuit along the Old Jewry, if Leonard had not come to a halt, and awaited his approach.
Barely taking time to breathe his troops, Smith followed in pursuit toward the city.
It must not, however, be supposed, that these, and similar pursuits during the ages of which we treat, as well as those which succeeded, were solely or chiefly followed by mere adventurers and fanatics.
I had no friends who were interested in the pursuits towards which my nature inclined; and I saw crowds of arrogant people about me, to whom I could not prove that I was their equal in spite of their money.
Certainly the government of that time little understood the advantages which a country derived from commerce when it forbade the higher classes from engaging in mercantile pursuits under penalty of having their privileges of nobility withdrawn from them.
Elzevir and I had often talked over what was to be done when my leg should be sound again, and resolved to take passage to St. Malo in the Bonaventure, and there lie hid till the pursuit against us should have ceased.
"To-day the German Crown Prince's army has continued the pursuit beyond Longwy.
Her dress was not rigorously correct; she seemed to have motives and pursuits unlike theirs.