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::: Of old age, even good looks alter to unsightliness
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::: Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor ; and seeing what the sailors did there ; and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent their wages in that place also, poor Queequeg gave it up for lost.
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::: It is not rare to see a person boasting and wishing to stand out even though his merits are few and his qualities inadequate.
::: Reprehends a person who criticizes others for defects which are also his own, maybe even more acutely so.
::: But for me that saying of Pittacus doesn ’ t ring true either ( even if he was a smart man ): he says “ being good is hard .” For me, a man's good enough as long as he's not lawless, and if he has the common sense of right and wrong that does a city good — a decent guy.
::: and good
::: In this Spanish proverb “ good ” is represented by Sunday, a festive day in Christian culture, whereas Tuesday, a week-day of less joyous character, stands for “ bad ”.
::: For a man it ’ s certainly hard to be truly good — perfect in hands, feet, and mind, built without a single flaw ; only a god could have that prize ; but a mere man, there ’ s just no way he can help being bad when some overwhelming disaster knocks him down.
::: Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands of the one part and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers:
::: and looks
old and age
It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.
It still stands as a monument to the engineering skills of the last century and still serves in the gasoline age to carry heavy traffic on U.S. Route 250 -- the old Beverly and Fairmont Turnpike.
He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.
The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.
Hypothesizing a series of developmental stages that begin in the individual's infancy and end in his old age, Erikson has indicated that the adolescent is faced with a series of identity crises.
All Charlie could look forward to was a yellow pill at noon, a salami sandwich for lunch, and a lonely old age -- if he lived that long.
Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).
While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, teaches that the first death, or death brought about by living on a planet with sinful conditions ( sickness, old age, accident, etc.
The First Liberal government also established the basis of the later welfare state, with old age pensions, developed a system for settling industrial disputes, which was accepted by both employers and trade unions.
The main reason students head to Mexico is the 18 year old drinking age ( versus 21 for the United States ), something that has been marketed by tour operators along with the sun and ocean.
Though the only accounts of his lectures seem to show a sort of eccentric style and approach, he was said to have been good friends with many other masters at the school in Paris, and taught there, as well as some time in southern France, into his old age.
As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".
Although Andronikos was at that time fifty-six years old, age had not diminished his charms, and Theodora became the next victim of his artful seduction.
Even in his old age he displayed the same restless energy, and is said to have been contemplating a fresh attack on Carthage at the time of his death.
In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".
The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.
In his old age Salieri hinted that these works were either purposely destroyed, or had been lost with the exception of a few works for the church.
* the strengthening, peace, and courage to endure, in a Christian manner, the sufferings of illness or old age ;
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