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For the President had dealt with the matter humbly, in what he conceived as the democratic way.

Pullen James humbly lowered his head, pushed aside the hardtack-box door of the hut, and was gone from sight.

In conclusion, he wished me well -- and as kindly and humbly as this humane gentleman could express himself, he asked to be remembered to my wife and children.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

The gift was a beautiful young slave girl, but Abd al-Rahman humbly returned her to her previous master.

He wrote that " whether a Christian may not employ this Medicine ( let the matter of it be what it will ) and humbly give Thanks to God ’ s good Providence in discovering of it to a miserable World ; and humbly look up to His Good Providence ( as we do in the use of any other Medicine ) It may seem strange, that any wise Christian cannot answer it.

Serving them humbly became an opportunity for spiritual growth.

On February 17, 1835, after the committee had selected the book's contents, the committee wrote that the resulting work represents " our belief, and when we say this, humbly trust, the faith and principles of this society as a body.

His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems ( 1827 ), credited only to " a Bostonian ".

" There are four things, which I humbly conceive, are essential to the well being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an independent power:

" She does not, because of this, evade the duty imposed on her of proclaiming humbly but firmly the entire moral law, both natural and evangelical.

In other versions of the legend, it was Midas ' father Gordias who arrived humbly in the cart and made the Gordian Knot.

The Patriarch of Moscow, representing Christ, rode on a " donkey " ( actually a horse draped in white cloth ); the Tsar of Russia humbly led the procession on foot.

The first indication of this change in approach comes from the 1706 pamphlet by John How, a stationer, titled Reasons humbly Offer'd for a Bill for the Encouragement of Learning and the Improvement of Printing.

The Ordinance of Humility is meant to symbolize Christ's washing of his disciples ' feet at the Last Supper and remind participants of the need to humbly serve one another.

In 1136, while the count was in Normandy, Robert III of Sablé put himself at the head of the movement, to which Geoffrey responded by destroying Briollay and occupying La Suze, and Robert of Sable himself was forced to beg humbly for pardon through the intercession of the bishop of Angers.

Desiring good weather for his advance, which would permit close ground support by USAAF tactical aircraft, Patton ordered the Third Army chaplain, Colonel James O ' Neill, to compose a suitable prayer: " Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend.

To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Yet I liked not to pray to a jealous God there where the frail affectionate gods whom the heathen love were being humbly invoked ; so I bethought me, instead, of Sheol Nugganoth, whom the men of the jungle have long since deserted, who is now unworshipped and alone ; and to him I prayed.

He would never return to the New World, and In a letter to Richard Hakluyt he wrote that he must hand over the fate of the colonists and his family " to the merciful help of the Almighty, whom I most humbly beseech to helpe and comfort them ".

Claiming that " hubristic, pompous displays of group pride might actually be a sign of group insecurity as opposed to a sign of strength ," she believes that those that express pride by humbly focusing on members ' efforts and hard work tend to have high social standing.

In contrast, those groups that expressed pride by humbly focusing on members ' efforts and hard work tended to have high social standing in both the public and personal eyes.

' (), and receives a response, ' It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.

Their show began humbly, but immediately established its own niche as a spoof on other types of shows.