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...s, he was in a position to offer him an infinitely superior post— first on probation, and later, in the natural course of things, on confirmation. “An...
..., and the perception of his numerous faults made him grateful for a longer probation; but still he had a sense of having been at the borders of the gl...
...eld me to be. Even with me she had not behaved precipitately. My course of probation was se- vere and long before she allowed her heart to speak. Pale... ...an Baths for the squire’s gout, and evidently amused her with his specific probations for English persons design- ing to travel in company, that they ...
...ang. Men pass through such superhuman loves and outlive them: they are the probation subduing the heart to human joys. How gladly Gerty would have wel... ...m loathing myself?” Gerty stood cold and passive. She knew the hour of her probation had come, and her poor heart beat wildly against its destiny. As ... ...o Gerty and Mrs. Fisher she was only passing through a temporary period of probation, since they believed that the apprenticeship she was serving at M...
...d admiring each article as it was taken out, in spite of her former disap- probation of Harriet’s style of dress. Helen stood lingering by the door, w...
...on, together with the prayers by which it is accompa- nied, constitute the probationary act according to some views; but, according to the general the... ...the presentee, he was next summoned by the presbytery to what really was a probationary act at their bar; viz. an examination of his theo- logical suf... ...h. Once dismissed with credit from this bar, he was now beyond all further probation whatsoever; in tech- nical phrase, he was entitled to ‘admission....
... shew both letters to her daughters, that she might be secure of their ap- probation before her answer were sent. Elinor had always thought it would b... ...come. They were brought together by mutual affection, with the warmest ap- probation of their real friends; their intimate knowledge of each other see...
...ticism, her con- science must have restrained her from venturing at disap- probation. She believed herself to feel too much of it in the aggregate for... ... she was now most earnestly longing to return, and hoped to obtain his ap- probation of her doing. She gave the history of her recent visit, and now h...
...atest princes do no more. “This proposal was received with the utmost disap probation by the whole board. Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve h...
...Dickens wealth, ‘which,’ as he had been wont, during his last half- year’s probation, to communicate to Mr Feeder every evening as a new discovery, ‘t... ... do to-night. Even the picture I have carried in my mind during this cruel probation, and which I have contem- plated night and day , is exceeded by t...
...s are a blessing, when they’re only the evils that belong to this state o’ probation, which it’s lawful for a man to keep as clear of as he can in thi...
...nd some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of time, Abel Sampson, probationer of divin- ity, was admitted to the privileges of a preacher. Bu... ...r- ing the peaceful reign of her predecessor, fly at full speed before the probationary inroads of the new mercenary. Even so the Laird of Ellangowan ... ...ould make a dog sick? Listen, ye stickit stibbler, [A broken-down clerical probationer.] to what 342 Guy Mannering I tell ye, or ye sall rue it while... ...e.” “And what will do so?” said the Colonel. “Why, we must have a distinct probation. There are these gipsies,—but then, alas! they are almost infamou...
...y tossing his hair from his forehead. “After all, it may be only a kind of probation till our suit is—I forgot though. I am not to 231 Bleak House – ...
...through which other nations have passed; and so had all the light of their probation, and none of its darkness. The other, that we have a vast territo...
..., and wrote the following lines, which he immediately submitted to the ap- probation of his friends. “My dear cousin.” “Ah, ah!” said Athos. “This cle...
...n’d upon the act of fornication To lose his head; condemn’d by Angelo: I, in probation of a sisterhood, Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio As then t... ...ure Act V, scene i 71 Is true and false; and what he with his oath And all probation will make up full clear, Whensoever he’s convented. First, for ...
...led Taste, is only another name for Fact.’ Thomas Gradgrind nodded his ap probation. ‘This is a new principle, a discovery, a great discovery,’ said ... ...adgrind, and was not with out strong impulses, in the first months of her probation, to run away. It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life... ...ou, Jupe,’ said Mr. Gradgrind, knitting his brow, ‘that the result of your probation there has disappointed me; has greatly disappointed me. You have ...
...e mentioned before, but Plato’s The Republic 183 there is another kind of probation which we did not men tion—he must be exercised also in many kin...
...nacles, who had not as yet got anything snug, and were going through their probation to prove their worthiness. These Barnacles perched upon staircase...
...came down to earth and told us that this life is but for a moment and is a probation; yet we cling to it and think to find happiness in it. “How is it...
... had previously laid before the four Roman Catholic electors for their ap- probation. In the preamble, he claimed the pre- rogative, in right of his i...
...nner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disap- probation. On the contrary it seemed to Dorothea that Will had a happier wa... ... by any other name?” “And a clergyman too,” observed Lady Chettam with ap- probation. “Elinor cannot be said to have descended below her rank. It is d...
...turally follow the freedom of the negro, but that there would be a time of probation, in which the ex- slaves could prepare themselves for the privile...