" Again, "If a man refrain from making preparations against his being imposed upon, and from counting upon others' want of good faith towards him, while he is foremost to perceive what is passingsurely that is a wise and good man.

That, in brief outline, was the gist of General Chetwode's report, and with its full acceptance began the preparations for the advance.

Unfairly charged with conspiracy, after rendering great services to his country, he was beheaded just as he was completing preparations to explore the "South Sea," as he named the ocean which he had discovered.

This was no sooner said than it was corroborated by acts, for the young man immediately commenced his preparations for the journey.

Hence he did not remain, but hoping to succeed to Antony's leadership because a number of men had come to him from Sicily and still others had rallied around him, some drawn by the glamour of his father's renown and some who were seeking a livelihood, he resumed the outfit of a general and continued his preparations to occupy the opposite shore.

On seeing these preparations the besieged remembered the ill-fortune of Alesia, and feared a similar fate.

To the Boy's surprise, while he and Muckluck were getting the food and presents together, the lively Ol' Chiefso lately dyingmade off, in a fine new parki, on all fours, curious, no doubt, to watch the preparations without.

To exhibit the educator's work as a vocation requiring the best possible preparation is the spirit in which these volumes have been written.

Púladwund was proud of the honor conferred upon him, and readily complied; hastening the preparation of his own army to cooperate with that of Afrásiyáb.

She meant to superintend these preparations herself and to have it all fixed as daintily as possible.

To converse with God is a work of sublime importance which needs preparation, so that it may be done attentively.

So Mrs. Moffat had to prepare for flight, but ere she had finished her preparations the good news came that the tribe had gone off in another direction.

Moreover, they are generally to be had for the trouble of collecting them, after they have once covered the cost of their production in the form of clothing materials; when, through being frayed by repeated washings, they undergo a preparation which particularly adapts them to the purpose of paper-making.

Having made this irrevocable decision, he now pushed ahead his final preparations with some show of haste.

Perhaps I shall enter ere long, in a new study, upon the important subject which I confine myself to indicating here, and which pre-occupies the government at Washington to such a degree that it seems inclined to order defensive preparations in view of an unnatural conflict between liberal America and ourselves.

For the cure we are again indebted to that excellent Hun bacteriologist Ehrlich, who gave us .606a strong arsenical preparation that we dissolve in a pint of salt solution, and inject into the veins at the height of the paroxysm of fever.

Mandy Meacham regarded Johnnie's preparation for the function with some disfavour.

This will be found a most excellent preparation, greatly superior to much that is sold under the name of the best white wine vinegar.

I know a preparation that will turn the sauerkraut and sausages, that Oswald eats so much of, into degluted fire and brimstone, warranted to keep him on the broad of his back for ten days or a fortnight.

As a rule, it may be stated, that the housekeeper, in those establishments where there is no house steward or man cook, undertakes the preparation of the confectionary, attends to the preserving and pickling of fruits and vegetables; and, in a general way, to the more difficult branches of the art of cookery.

The old Norman chroniclers describe the preparations of William on his landing with a graphic vigor, which would be wholly lost by transfusing their racy Norman couplets and terse Latin prose into the current style of modern history.

Though ordinary prudence would have suggested ample preparation, British ministers allowed their country to remain unprepared.

After various discouragements in seeking a special preparation for life's work, she finally concluded that she should devote her time to the moral and intellectual improvement of Negroes.

Both Jacobins and Girondins felt that the departure of Dumouriez from Paris had removed a formidable obstacle from their path, and they at once began to hurry forward the preparations for their meditated insurrection.

I confess, when I witnessed these showy and costly preparations, and pictured to myself the magnificent scene for which they were intendedthose formidable animals contending in mortal conflictthe thousands of gaily dressed spectators, gazing in breathless anxiety,I repined at my lot, and regretted I had not been born in a condition which, though of less dignity, would not have cut me off from some of the most exquisite pleasures of life.