Another jolly thing about Aylmer is that he has none of that awful old-fashioned modernness, thank goodness!' 'Ah, I noticed that.

"I never have forgotten your goodness in sending honest Peter such a distance from home, on the object of his visit.

So will it be with the disputes between good men of the present day; and if you have no other reason to doubt your opponent's goodness than the point in dispute, think of Baxter and Hammond, of Milton and Taylor, and let it be no reason at all.

" I thanked the doctor for having so speedily enabled me to serve as his deputy; and by way of acknowledging his goodness, promised to follow his system to the end of my career, with a magnanimous indifference about the aphorisms of Hippocrates.

I have, I confess, the greatest reason to adore the goodness of Almighty God, who has in so remarkable a manner protected me and my small army through the many dangers to which we were at first exposed, and who has led me in the way to victory, and to the capital of this ancient kingdom, amidst the acclamations of the King my father's subjects.

He had sent a courier to give their friends in Constantinople the assurance of their personal safety; "which," adds the lady, "is held by all this court as an act of great courtesy,gran gentilezza; and there is no one here who does not admire the goodness and magnanimity of your Highness."

Your loyal subjects will love the goodness of your heart the more, and serve you the better, while all Africa, of which the immense dominions of your Majesty form so large a part, will catch new life and vigour, under the blessing of the Almighty, and grow happy and prosperous in the ages to come.

we know not half God's goodness to us!

" "Thy goodness of heart did not mislead thee.

From childhood he had never ceased to praise the goodness and the grace that made the happy English child.

I killed her who had shown me only goodness, and will be the death of others if I do not confess my dreadful, my unsuspected secret.

The passionthe sinful passionthat stirred me so mightily just now, is gone; and I feel the goodness of my God in holding me back from the rash act I contemplated, and from rushing upon dangers that I might indeed defy, but could not hope to conquer.

But now we come to the hardest of all problems: How is it that, while the will, as the thing-in-itself, is identical, and from a metaphysical point of view one and the same in all its manifestations, there is nevertheless such an enormous difference between one character and another?the malicious, diabolical wickedness of the one, and set off against it, the goodness of the other, showing all the more conspicuously.

I wish it were a hundred times as much; indeed, no money could repay your goodness and kindness to me, the wonder of which I shall never cease to feel.

" Many years afterwards she wrote: "It was this day sixteen years that the text in Bogatsky was given to me from Joshua 1. 9, and truly I have found the goodness of the Lord with me, and everything temporal that I committed to Him He has indeed kept.

Now I saw plainly the goodness of his observations about the middle station of life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to tempests at sea, or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.

In the country, however, high prices are paid for them by the rich mestizos, who understand the real goodness of their qualities.

When Bessie learned of their serious experience, she appreciated more than ever the Lord's goodness in leading her to stay at home.

After this our Lord commanded Moses to send men into the land of Canaan that he should give them charge for to see and consider the goodness thereof, and that of every tribe he should send some.

As men seek wealth, as men seek knowledge, as men seek power, so must we seek goodness.

He looked at them, criticized them, even discussed their "goodness" or drawing power on recruits with complete detachment and without the vaguest idea that they were addressed to him.

Economists say that a few grains of carbonate of soda, added before the boiling water is poured on the tea, assist to draw out the goodness: if the water is very hard, perhaps it is a good plan, as the soda softens it; but care must be taken to use this ingredient sparingly, as it is liable to give the tea a soapy taste if added in too large a quantity.

A mother represents goodness, providence, law, nay, divinity itself, under the only form in which childhood can meet with these high things.

"In this overwhelming shock the patriarch stood confident, reciting the promises and attesting the Divine goodness.

There are many evils 'tis true, but there is also so much good to counter-balance the evil, that we should raise our hearts with thankfulness, and open our lips with praises to sing the goodness of our God.