The king asked his daughter what were the three misfortunes that the marriage should ease.

There were conflicting reports about the sale in the New York Times ; one account suggested that the young McLean couple had agreed to purchase the diamond, but after having learned about its unfortunate supposed history, the couple had wanted to back out of the deal since they knew nothing of the " history of misfortunes that have beset its various owners.

I accepted this honorary office because I hoped that I would be able to do some good and prevent worse misfortunes, if from now onwards German musical life were going to be, as it was said, " reorganized " by amateurs and ignorant place-seekers.

He also reveals that the accidents and misfortunes that fell on the pursuers were because of a number of safeguards that he had placed on the way.

In the political and social turmoil of the Late Republic, Rome's misfortunes were taken as signs of divine anger against the personal ambition, religious negligence and outright impiety of her leading politicians.

Victory, as far as wit was concerned, remained with Marot, but his biographers suggest that a certain amount of ill-will was created against him by the squabble, and that, as in Dolet's case, his subsequent misfortunes were partly the result of his own rashness.

The Iks, a people he used as example, were not longer able to hunt and pursue their forest lifestyle, and when forced to become farmers were reduced to playing cruel practical jokes on each other, revelling in each others ' errors and misfortunes, and squabbling in ways that reminded Thomas of the United Nations, i. e. not very united at all, and not reflective of a real ' society '.

Men and women in Salem believed that all the misfortunes were attributed to the work of the devil ; when things like infant death, crop failures or friction among the congregation occurred, the supernatural was blamed.

Set in Parma's Regio Theatre during a production of Verdi's Macbeth, the production was beset by real-life misfortunes that Argento suspected were caused by the supposed traditional " curse " on the Shakespearean play.

Epicurus maintained that the unhappiness and degradation of humankind arose largely from the dread which they entertained of the power of the gods, from terror of their wrath, which was supposed to be displayed by the misfortunes inflicted in this life, and by the everlasting tortures which were the lot of the guilty in a future state, or where these feelings were not strongly developed, from a vague dread of gloom and misery after death.

Abel's Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, 1818, gives a detailed account of the collection's misfortunes .< Fortunately, he had left some specimens with sir George Staunton at Canton, who was kind enough to return them to him ; living specimens of the Chinese Abelia that we know today were introduced by Robert Fortune in 1844.

If they were treated badly, they retaliated with a series of misfortunes or by taking humans ’ lives.

From this time Porpora's career was a series of misfortunes: his florid style was becoming old-fashioned, his last opera, Camilla, failed, his pension from Dresden stopped, and he became so poor that the expenses of his funeral were paid by a subscription concert.

Mongolians traditionally were afraid of misfortunes and believe in a variety of good and bad omens.

* Brian Cowen had his personal gaffes, misfortunes and bad luck mentioned in Biffo's Briefs, which were a variety of memos, letters and emails from beleaguered government ministers, his predecessor Bertie Ahern ( whose letters were often demands for money or snide remarks about Cowen's handling of the government since he took office, composed often in Fagan's pub in Drumcondra ) or enquiries from foreign politicians.

* Having virtue but being inactive, even suffering evils and misfortunes, which Aristotle says no one would consider unless they were defending a hypothesis.

These were Romans not under imperial control ; some of their reasons for rebellion may be indicated by the remarks of a Roman captive under Attila who was happy in his lot, giving a lively account of the vices of a declining empire, of which he had so long been the victim ; the cruel absurdity of the Roman princes, unable to protect their subjects against the public enemy, unwilling to trust them with arms for their own defence ; the intolerable weight of taxes, rendered still more oppressive by the intricate or arbitrary modes of collection ; the obscurity of numerous and contradictory laws ; the tedious and expensive forms of judicial proceedings ; the partial administration of justice ; and the universal corruption, which increased the influence of the rich, and aggravated the misfortunes of the poor.

" The mountain was said to have been located in the swamp to its south but relocated because of the evil ways of those who lived there, in addition to which, the people of the swamp were made to suffer numerous misfortunes.

As a result of successive misfortunes, on February 8, 1878, the constitutional organs of the Cuban government were dissolved and negotiations for peace were started in Zanjón, Puerto Príncipe.

The incumbent seemed to have been cursed with many political misfortunes during his Presidential term ; these crippling situations included internal matters that he could have controlled ( and chose to ignore ), and external forces that were beyond the incumbent ’ s control.

Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the " misfortunes " of Edmund Blackadder ( played by Atkinson ), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history.

Meldrew, cursed with misfortune and always complaining, is married to long-suffering wife Margaret, who is often left exasperated by his many misfortunes.

The suffering of another person is felt as a threat to our own happiness and sense of safety, because it reveals our own vulnerability to misfortunes, and thus, by relieving it, one could also ameliorate those personal sentiments.

William remained in the kingdom and continued to write up until 1184, but by then Jerusalem was internally divided by political factions and externally surrounded by the forces of Saladin, and " the only subjects that present themselves are the disasters of a sorrowing country and its manifold misfortunes, themes which can serve only to draw forth lamentations and tears.

Below this income level, respondents reported decreasing happiness and increasing sadness and stress, implying the pain of life ’ s misfortunes, including disease, divorce, and being alone, is exacerbated by poverty.

These repeated misfortunes, clearly effected by some malevolent entity, make the hero identify with the Biblical Job.

As the historian John Nicholls stated, " Fotheringhay has been distinguished beyond any other place in Britain, except the Capital, by the aggravated misfortunes of Royalty.

These misfortunes caused widespread dissatisfaction, exacerbated by the devaluation of the currency, which gave the emperor his nickname Parapinakēs, " minus a quarter ".

Notwithstanding the divinely ordained nature of his marriage and his kingdom, Cadmus lived to regret both: his family was overtaken by grievous misfortunes, and his city by civil unrest.

* In Survivor: China, Denise Martin was selected by the show's producers to receive a prize of $ 50, 000, due to misfortunes she experienced after her return home following taping.

This can create the sense of unity in a sports bar as all cheers and boos will appear to be synchronized due to similar feelings and reactions by nearly all fans at the fortunes and misfortunes of the favored team or athlete.

When he reached Tudela, Lannes received him by lamenting his misfortunes and praise for his courage.

Proving it, the theme of the first Portuguese sound film, directed by Leitão de Barros in 1931, was the misfortunes of the mythical Severa.

Each episode begins with a death – anything from drowning or heart attack to sudden infant death syndrome – and that death usually sets the tone for each episode, allowing the characters to reflect on their current fortunes and misfortunes in a way that is illuminated by the death and its aftermath.

* HR ( radio series ), a comedy drama written by Nigel Williams and directed by Peter Kavanagh about the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague ; it starred Nicholas le Prevost and Jonathan Pryce, and was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 Feb 2009

The term may be used in a moral sense — condemning taking advantage of others ' misfortunes — or in a legal sense where interest rates may be regulated by law.

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

* The Pokrovsky Gate-starring Oleg Menshikov as a young student who comes to Moscow and finds himself involved in the misfortunes of his fellow apartment tenants.

All the men who owned it have either lost their throne or had other misfortunes befall them.

The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the diamond dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the diamond in 1306: " He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes.

Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.

In early episodes, her character acts more as a comic foil to Victor's misfortunes, for example asking if a cat found frozen in their freezer is definitely dead and mentioning a friend who died of a terminal illness.

He was sent into the military abroad to be away from her, and while gone, the girl suffered numerous misfortunes partly as a consequence of her unhappy marriage, finally dying penniless and disgraced, and with a natural ( i. e., illegitimate ) daughter, who becomes the ward of the Colonel.

I pardon those who are the cause of my misfortunes ....” He declared himself willing to die and prayed that the people of France would be spared a similar fate.

An impoverished and plain-looking princess who had followed her father's misfortunes, she was nonetheless said to be virtuous.

Such are my principles such has been my conduct ; if in consequence of the measures in which I have been engaged misfortunes have been brought upon this country, I heartily lament it, but let it be remembered that it is now nearly four years since I have quit Ireland and consequently I have been personally concerned in none of them ; if I am rightly informed very great atrocities have been committed on both sides, but that does not at all diminish my regret ; for a fair and open war I was prepared ; if that has degenerated into a system of assassination, massacre, and plunder I do again most sincerely lament it, band those few who know me personally will give me I am sure credit for the assertion.

He dealt harshly with his enemies, especially those who had betrayed his family in the past, or had profited from the misfortunes of Wallachia.

* A person afflicted with a similar curse, who, while not directly subject to a series of misfortunes, seems to attract them to anyone in his vicinity.

Driberg described Lango people as " brave and venturesome warriors who have won fear and respect of their neighbors ... not being idle witnesses to watching of the misfortunes of their neighbors ... treating facts of life with no sense of false modesty ..." ( pg. 68 ).

Though always a keen sympathizer with the Irish people in their misfortunes and aspirations and he had criticized severely the methods by which the Act of Union was passed, Lecky, who grew up as a moderate Liberal, was from the first strenuously opposed to William Ewart Gladstone's policy of Home Rule and, in 1895, he was returned to parliament as Unionist member for Dublin University in a by-election.

Clarendon described him as " a wise man, and of too great and plentiful a fortune to wish the subversion of the government ," and again referring to his death, said that " many who knew him well thought his death not unseasonable as well to his fame as his fortune, and that it rescued him as well from some possible guilt as from those visible misfortunes which men of all conditions have since undergone.

Meanwhile, a number of misfortunes are incurred by the group: Cosimo, who had since been released from jail, dies in a botched robbery ; Mario, another of the group, bails on the plan in favor of a legitimate life for the sake of a beautiful girl, while another of the group is partially crippled after being attacked by the man whose camera he stole earlier for the purpose of daytime reconnaissance of the pawnshop.

Soon after its foundation, Macondo becomes a town frequented by unusual and extraordinary events that involve the generations of the Buendía family, who are unable or unwilling to escape their periodic ( mostly ) self-inflicted misfortunes.

After the tournament, Pearce joined fellow England penalty missers Chris Waddle and Gareth Southgate ( who missed in Euro 96 ) in a light-hearted commercial for Pizza Hut in which they poked fun at their own misfortunes.

Many Hindus consider Karna as a man who fought against his misfortunes throughout his life without a single pause.

The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers on " the doctor's wife ," her husband, several of his patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance.