Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".

On the afternoon of ' Ashura ( 3 June 1963 ), Khomeini delivered a speech at the Feyziyeh madrasah drawing parallels between the infamous tyrant Yazid and the Shah, denouncing the Shah as a " wretched, miserable man ," and warning him that if he did not change his ways the day would come when the people would offer up thanks for his departure from the country.

Saladin promptly impressed the inhabitants of the town by publishing a decree that ordered a number of taxes to be canceled and erased all mention of them from treasury records, stating " the most miserable rulers are those whose purses are fat and their people thin.

* The other half-circle ( usually dark ) shows people in a miserable state being led downwards to lower states, possibly to the lower realms.

Writer Howard, an agent selling a distressed cargo of slaves from a shipwreck in Tortola in 1803 wrote that " Tortola is well nigh the most miserable, worst-inhabited spot in all the British possessions ... this unhealthy part of the globe appears overstocked with each description of people except honest ones.

" I can complain that by the way we could scarce see a dog, crow, kite, raven or any other bird, or anything to anatomize, only some few miserable people, the relics of the war and the plague where famine had made anatomies before I came.

Socrates adds a big bifurcation to this speech, saying that there are only two kinds of lives to be lived: a divinely happy one, lived by righteous philosophers or a godless, miserable one, such as most people live ( 176-177 ).

He joined the Parian colony on Thasos and battled the indigenous Thracians, expressing himself in his poems as a cynical, hard-bitten soldier fighting for a country he doesn't love (" Thasos, thrice miserable city ") on behalf of a people he scorns (" The woes of all the Greeks have come together in Thasos "), yet he values his closest comrades and their stalwart, unglamorous commander.

Then, returning to their families at Milwaukee and Racine, they immediately prepared to move onto their farms, coming over in covered emigrant wagons — " prairie schooners " — and by the middle of October they were all on their places, housed in what people nowadays would call " miserable shanties ,"

Yet she also asserted her work as distinct from the work of fellow Harlem Renaissance writers she described as the “ sobbing school of Negrohood ” that portrayed the lives of black people as constantly miserable, downtrodden and deprived.

They who are already fallen into all that is odious, and shameful and miserable, cannot justify fear ... Let the dangers never be so great, there is the possibility of safety while men have life, hands, arms and courage to use them but that people must surely perish who tamely suffer themselves to be oppressed.

As a World War II aficionado, he has stated that the found characters like Captain America “ borderline offensive, because to me the reality of World War II was very human people, ordinary flesh-and-blood guys who slogged it out in miserable, flooded foxholes.

In his opinion it is the priesthood which is keeping Celtic Ireland “ poor, miserable, depressed, unprogressive .” Mr. Frank Hugh O ' Donnell, himself a Roman Catholic and an Irish Nationalist, declares that notwithstanding the appalling poverty of masses of the Irish people, large sums are obtained by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland.

:: To conclude, they which are most miserable of all, those climb a degree higher, that their fall might be more grievous: for they are raised so high by some gift of grace, that they are little moved with some taste of the heavenly gift: so that for the time they seem to have received the seed ... But this is plain, that the spirit of adoption, which we have said to be only proper unto them which are never cast forth, but are written in the secret of God's people, is never communicated to them, for were they of the elect they should remain still with the elect.

Livia Soprano, the family matriarch, seemingly derives little pleasure from life other than making the people around her miserable, especially her three children, Tony, Barbara and Janice.

I see her as tolerant of her unavoidable reality — eager to put the whole miserable experience behind her, so she could get out into the world and surround herself with people she actually admired and respected, or not.

Sheppard had considered boxing to be a " barbaric and degrading " spectacle, stating " I sat there watching people punch each other in the head, wondering why they were doing it ..... I was sprayed with blood, getting more and more miserable.

An army led by Mark Antony ( Sid James ), slogging through wet and miserable weather, attacks a village ( where the inhabitants still wear skins and live in caves ) and capture some people as slaves.

Carstenszoon described them as " poor and miserable looking people " who had " no knowledge of precious metals or spices ".

In front of them is blank ruin … If only the English people would try to exercise a little imagination – picture the whole miserable scene.

During his stay Guevara complains about the miserable way the people and sick of that region have to live.

The miserable sight of maimed and famished-looking refugee children, working in a carpet factory, gave me the final impulse to snatch the incomprehensible destiny of the Armenian people from the Hell of all that had taken place.

* A work of magic realism, the story begins and takes place partly in " a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad it had forgotten its name ", which is located beside " a mournful sea full of glumfish, which were so miserable to eat that they made people belch with melancholy ".

No stately fabric remains as compensating for that religious fanaticism to which ample witness is borne by the devastated ruins of those lovely structures which the piety of generations had strewn broadcast over the country Their bequest to the Dutch was a colony of half-castes, a failing agriculture, a depopulated country, and a miserable and ill-conditioned people They had in Ceylon an opportunity almost unique in the experience of European nations in the East, but their moral fibre had proved unequal to the occasion ".

Mulan originally began as a short, straight-to-video film titled " China Doll " about an oppressed and miserable Chinese girl who is whisked away by a British Prince Charming to happiness in the West.

Despite miserable weather ( cold & rainy ), the gate narrowly missed becoming the largest take for an outdoor wrestling show at that time.

* " Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me ": Another popular sketch usually performed by four male cast members ( originally and usually Roy Clark ; Gordie Tapp ; Grandpa Jones and Archie Campbell ) sitting around in hillbilly garb surrounded by moonshine jugs and looking overtly miserable.

The club have a miserable recent record in the FA Cup with no magic seeming to have been cast over The Old Spotted Dog Ground since 1957 when Shefford Town, St Albans City, Enfield FC, Ware and Bury Town were brushed aside to reach the first round proper.

The cast and crew ostensibly endured many weeks of miserable weather to give the film its very realistic look.

Dijkstra described Mathematics Inc. as " the most exciting and most miserable business ever conceived ".

Some, therefore, of the miserable remnant, being taken in the mountains, were murdered in great numbers ; others, constrained by famine, came and yielded themselves to be slaves for ever to their foes, running the risk of being instantly slain, which truly was the greatest favour that could be offered them: some others passed beyond the seas with loud lamentations instead of the voice of exhortation ... Others, committing the safeguard of their lives, which were in continual jeopardy, to the mountains, precipices, thickly wooded forests, and to the rocks of the seas ( albeit with trembling hearts ), remained still in their country.

We have no greater justification for being cruel to the miserable object, than for being cruel to a WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE or an ISAAC NEWTON ; but he passes away before an immeasurably better and higher power that of Christianity than ever ran wild in any earthly woods, and the world will be all the better when this place knows him no more.

Despite his newfound popularity and fame, Dumbo hates this job and is now more miserable than ever.

The ship finally left on 27 December and Darwin later wrote that those two months were " The most miserable which I ever spent ".

They can make your life very very miserable or even dangerous-they do what ever it takes to drive you away, even arrange accidents that will harm or even kill you.

She tells Tenna how she was always used to horrible things happening to her, but ever since she took on her new freelance job things have been getting ridiculous and now she is miserable.

: Another Sorority aspirant and Mariko's rival ever since junior high, she tries to make life miserable for Nanako and Mariko when she fails to gain entry.

I look at Dubya and just see a sad fuck with scared eyes ; a grotesquely under-qualified-for-practically-anything daddy's boy who's had to be greased into every squalid position he's ever held in his miserable existence who might finally be starting to wake up to the idea that if the most powerful nation on Earth-like, ever, dude-can put somebody like him in power, all may not be well with the world.

The writers also thought that " it would be fun if while the kids are gone Homer and Marge find that as the kids are miserable their marriage is better than ever.

Though she has come back from defeat and starvation to become one of the wealthiest women in the south and is even far richer and more spoiled than she ever expected to be, she feels miserable and empty.

As Attorney General, incensed by those " mercenary corporate executives who are making life so miserable for millions of Californians " without ever having to face " the ugly reality of a prison cell ", Lockyer, during the Enron scandal of 2001 which led to the then-largest corporate bankruptcy in American history, achieved some notoriety for his public quip, " I would love to personally escort Ken Lay < nowiki > CEO Kenneth Lay < nowiki ></ nowiki > to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, ' Hi, my name is Spike, honey '".