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good and fortune
Here, this happy, roving son of good fortune proved that he could accept the disciplines of a new social-economic order fighting for its very existence and ideals in a truculent world.
Perhaps it was his misfortune, or good fortune, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the former group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build up pressure in a world which demanded none, which was positively antagonistic to it.
There was good fortune and there was bad and Philip Spencer, in handcuffs and ankle irons, knew it to be a truth.
She was a beautiful and reputable woman and according to Pliny the Elder, she had a double canine in her upper right jaw, a sign of good fortune.
" Louis XIV was more forgiving to his old friend – " At our age, Marshal, we must no longer expect good fortune.
He had the good fortune to attract the attention of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and subsequently became one of Luther's most
In a thanksgiving recitation the writer thanks God for health, a safe journey, deliverance from danger, or good fortune.
I accept your hand to enhance our joint good fortune.
May you be benevolent, the harbinger of good fortune and health and live in great dignity and indeed illuminate your husband's home.
To celebrate its good fortune, Geelong buried a toy bomber in the Kardinia Park turf.
The years he spent in Southsea had been the most miserable of his life to that point, but his good fortune at securing a position at Midhurst Grammar School meant that Wells could continue his self-education in earnest.
Melville retired in 1886, after several of his wife's relatives died and left the couple legacies that Mrs. Melville administered with skill and good fortune.
By 1914, Hoover stood eventually to obtain what he later described as " a large fortune from these Russian industries, probably more than is good for anybody ".
The Sampo, described in the Kalevala saga, was a magical artifact constructed by Ilmarinen, the blacksmith god, that brought good fortune to its holder ; nobody knows exactly what it was supposed to be.
He was represented in doorways, possibly as an amulet of good fortune, or as a symbol of purification.
One line of argument in favor of externalism begins with the observation that if what justified our beliefs failed to eliminate significantly the risk of error, then it does not seem that knowledge would be attainable as it would appear that when our beliefs did happen to be correct, this would really be a matter of good fortune.
He later wrote of how he " rejoiced at my good fortune in stumbling upon an object so interesting in the natural history of the earth, and which I had been long looking for in vain.
Mojo reaches as far back as West African culture, where it is said to drive away evil spirits, keep good luck in the household, manipulate a fortune, and lure and persuade lovers.
Weber also writes that " the affluent embrace good fortune theodicies, which emphasise that prosperity is a blessing of God ... theodices of misfortune emphasise that affluence is a sign of evil and that suffering in this world will be rewarded in the next.
Among the loudest of those who insist the magazine is no longer funny are supporters of Harvey Kurtzman, who had the good critical fortune to leave Mad after just 28 issues, before his own formulaic tendencies might have become obtrusive.
If comrade Molotov can manage to postpone the war for two or three months that will be our good fortune, but you yourselves must go off and take measures to raise the combat readiness of our forces ".
John Nolland comments that it shares the notions of " good fortune and demanding action in attaining the kingdom of heaven " with that parable, but adds the notion of " diligent seeking.
His good fortune increased during the pontificate of Pope Clement XI ( 1700 – 21 ), who employed his talents as a courtier and rewarded him with a cardinal's hat, on 17 May 1706, retaining his services as papal treasurer.
Mr Darcy, shocked, ultimately responds with a letter giving a good account of ( most of ) his actions: Wickham had exchanged his legacies for a cash payment, only to return after gambling away the money to reclaim the forfeited inheritance ; he then attempted to elope with Darcy's young sister, thereby to capture her fortune.
He for whom Zeus the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune ; but he to whom Zeus sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.

good and letters
A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.
It was professedly worth three thousand dollars in stock and good will, and the name was written in gold in foot-high letters across each of the two display windows.
It was Annie who later suggested that these letters might make good children ’ s books.
The red herring only works because there is another puzzle that does use these letters ( even though that puzzle has no good answer ).
I thought about writing some letters, but it wouldn't have done any good.
Before 1780 there was no good method for making copies of letters or drawings.
Philby's Russian was never good and he soon took a job at a monthly magazine, the World Review of Reviews, for which he wrote articles and letters ( sometimes under pseudonyms ) and occasionally served as acting editor.
" The spelling discrepancy of the added ' y ' was later explained as a deus ex machina on the part of " The White " ( a force of good throughout King's Tower series ) to bring the total number of letters in her name to nineteen, a number prominent in King's series.
Padmore, a Trinidadian living in London, believed Wright to be a good friend, as his many letters in the Wright papers at Yale's Beinecke Library attest, and their correspondence continued.
Leo's letters and sermons reflect the many aspects of his career and personality, including his great personal influence for good, and are invaluable historical sources.
He spends a good deal of his time writing complaint letters.
At Thebes she wrote of being " called to God " while a week later near Cairo she wrote in her diary ( as distinct from her far longer letters that her elder sister Parthenope was to print after her return ): " God called me in the morning and asked me would I do good for him alone without reputation.
The commissioners included Hugh Price, who had petitioned the queen to found a college at Oxford " that he might bestow his estate of the maintenance of certain scholars of Wales to be trained up in good letters.
Its Portuguese origins can be detected in the remarks in letters to Lord Lisle, from William Grett, 12 May 1534, " I have sent to your lordship a box of marmaladoo, and another unto my good lady your wife " and from Richard Lee, 14 December 1536, " He most heartily thanketh her Ladyship for her marmalado ".
They also close formal letters with ‘ Your good brother / sister ’ for sovereigns, but with ‘ Your good friend ’ for other leaders.
His indefatigable exertions as a traveller, his skill and good fortune as a collector, his brilliance as a teacher and expositor, and his keenness as a controversialist no doubt aid largely in accounting for Spallanzani's exceptional fame among his contemporaries ; his letters account for his close relationships with many famed scholars and philosophers, like Buffon, Lavoisier, and Voltaire.
It is worth noting, also, that in the extant letters of Pelagius and his followers, they claim to believe that all good works are done only with the grace of God ( which he saw as enabling, but not forcing, good works ), that infants must be baptized for salvation, and that the saints were not always sinless, but that some at least have been able to stop sinning.
It implies that Hephaestion received a good education, and shows that Aristotle was impressed enough by his pupil to send letters throughout Alexander's expanding empire to converse with him.
Anxious to re-establish good relations with the Pope and perhaps gain recognition for Portuguese independence, she sent Richard Bellings, later her principal secretary, to Rome with letters for the pope and several cardinals.
And these pentacles do consist either of Characters of the good spirits of the superiour order, or of sacred pictures of holy letters or revelations, with apt and fit versicles, which are composed either of Geometrical figures and holy names of God, according to the course and maner of many of them ; or they are compounded of all of them, or very many of them mixt.
The sentencing judge was swayed by a flood of letters from residents of Greenwich Village and Little Italy attesting to Gigante's good character and his work on behalf of juveniles.
Another social custom is to begin or end all letters written during the month of Elul with wishes that the recipient have a good year.

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