The Dutch are not a musical nation, and for convincing proof it is only necessary to attend Divine service in any of their churches.
He lived a very quiet life, and the brunt of the work fell to the lot of the ever-willing and conscientious clerk, which arrangement allowed the Landdrost sufficient leisure to attend to a somewhat large garden.
The Boer journeys to town once every three months with his family in order to attend Divine Service.
For instance, should he be on bad terms with any of his friends or relations, he will not attend Divine Service.
On the day of the funeral, it being the immemorial custom of Dodge to attend such ceremonies in a body, the house of Mr. McBride was full.
Sergeant King was aware of these courtesies of the gun and what public resentment would attendtheir violation.
With a strange liberality of sentiment, they say that at a certain time of the year Waka leaves them and goes to attend to the wants of their enemies the Somali, whom also he has created.
On his return he entered Rome with an ovation (a minor form of triumph), temples were built, statues erected in his honour, and a special priesthood instituted to attend to his worship.
On the 2nd of July, while on his way to attend the commencement exercises at Williams College, the new president was shot in a Washington railway station by a disappointed office-seeker named Charles J.
On his way to Yorktown, Washington paid a flying visit to his home at Mount Vernon, which he had not seen since he left it to attend the Continental Congress six years before.
He added that all his subjects would have to attend the services of that church, and pay a tax to him for its support, just as they had done to the pope.
Please come down out of the wagon, Mr. Colter, and go attend to the last things on the ranch.
And he promised me he would notattend to any business while we were on the ranch.
In the morning he had gone from Rainbow Ranch to attend to other business.
I cried whilst I was among you; I spake with a loud voice: attend to the bishop, and to the presbytery, and to the deacons.
To which he answered, Prosperity from the Lord attend all the people.
And as she was going forth, she said, From henceforth, all the days of my life, I will attend upon and be a servant of this infant.
And when all the Jews heard these things, they went out to meet him, and cried out, saying, Peace attend thy coming hither, father Joseph.
We have learned how to deal with the Zepp, and now we are going to attend to the Gotha.
Parliament has devoted many hours of talk to the discussion of Mr. Henderson's visit to Paris in company with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to attend a Conference of French and Russian Socialists.
The little maid who attended to the house had got a holiday with the children, and Dora was left to attend to herself that day.
She murmured something about being very much occupied, and having little time to attend to visitors; then led the way across the hall to their sitting-room, and brought him into the presence of his aunt.
When they came there, she provided a supper for them; and you see what care is taken, that the woman only is permitted to bring that supper to the door, and the husband must set it on the table; nobody is permitted to attend there but he.
The wife rose early to attend to her household duties, leaving her husband asleep.
Those who are reluctant to attend the meeting are beaten with iron scourges.
This man Woods was a good fellar, got people to sign notes by the wholesale, but never did anything so low as to collect them, just turned them over to a lawyer and let him attend to that.
I never had prayed or went to church much, 'cause a cowman don't have any chance to attend to these, as there is always either some calves to brand Sundays, or else some of the neighbors coming visiting.
When Jamie donned a "dickey" once to attend a funeral and came home with it in his pocket, no comment was made; but if Anna made poor broth it was the talk of the entry for a week.
I did not wonder, I did not ask why they did not make a supreme effort to attend the lecture--I knew.
It will not affect in any way the feelings of those who attend for amusement or instruction, except to prompt a religious feeling which we all wish to have some time or other in our lives.
Then there are Church Extension and Missionary Meetings--a great many do not like to attend them.
Some people may wonder why I so persistently attend the Licensed Victuallers' Association meetings--for I do attend regularly.
Those works paid also, and when he had money enough Sir William Morgan removed them away, restored the green fields, and left other people to attend to the works.
For instance, race meetings--many people think them wrong and never attend them.
One has only to attend some of their theatrical performances to be assured of it.
In spite of the doctor she says she is not ill, and must attend at Vauxhall, too.
If you'll excuse me, Mr. Paret, I have something important to attend to.
Miss Lucretia Penniman was in town, and would attend the mass meeting.
Sadly the family sat down to supper without her, and after supper Mr. Merrill sent a message to his club that he could not attend a committee meeting there that evening.
There were days when things went wrong, when there were delays, complications, more matters to attend to than usual.
And she deplored the state our people of fashion were coming to, that they allowed young girls without family to attend their balls.
In marked contrast to the earnestness of young Mr. Vane, who then rested, Mr. Billings treated the affair from the standpoint of a man of large practice who usually has more weighty matters to attend to.
I, for one, gentlemen, do not, propose to have a socialist for the rector of the church which I attend and support.
Well, you have more important affairs to attend to, I won't bother you any more," he added.
I have a few other matters to attend to this evening, so I must say good-night, gentlemen.
We nearly always have guests at Silverdale, and then there are so many things one has to attend to.
Five minutes will complete my happiness, and then you can attend to your metamorphosis.
She was in the dressing-room, where she had had time to attend to her toilet, and as soon as she heard me she came to me dressed with the greatest elegance.
Laura having informed me that there was to be on a certain day a ball in the large parlour of the convent, I made up my mind to attendit in such a disguise that my two friends could not recognize me.
You may be aware that I shall not shew myself again at your church; but let me assure you that it is not a sacrifice on my part, and that I can attend mass anywhere else.
I have resolved not to attend your church any more.
That reigning party no longer touches on its favourite subject, the display of those horrors, that must attend the existence of a power, with such dispositions and principles, seated in the heart of Europe.
They have perverted in themselves, and in those thatattend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.
This enterprising disposition in the gentry was very general, because they had little occupation or pleasure but in war; and the greatest rewards did then attend personal valour and prowess.
All the horrors, and all the crimes of the anarchy which led to their revolution, which attend its progress, and which may virtually attend it in its establishment, pass for nothing with the lovers of revolutions.
When my parents asked me the reason of my nonattendance, I refused to answer them; and at length they became enraged at what they termed my obstinacy, and insisted that I should not fail to attend church on the following Sabbath.
Where was the Alderman of this ward, that he didn't attend to it?
Before commencing operations upon you, I must attend professionally to those ladies.
He would sit up all night, if necessary, after riding thirty or forty leagues, to attend to correspondence, dispatches and details.
Officers usually known as selectmen or supervisors, attend to the general business of the town.
If you would adopt Vanderbilt's method, know your business, attend to it, and keep down expenses until your fortune is safe from business perils.
But will you allow me to attend you, so that the people will not withdraw their confidence?
A surveyor of highways must be provided, in order that the streets and highways belonging to the town may be kept in proper condition; and an assessor and collector of taxes, to attend to the raising of supplies.
A young man was invited by a friend to attend an entertainment which he thought was objectionable.
The caudal vertebrae apparently differ by two or three, but I did not attend to them, and they are difficult to count with certainty.
In a future chapter on Selection I shall show that even barbarians attend closely to the qualities of their dogs.
The captain coming on deck to satisfy himself that all was going on properly, the mate stepped forward to attend to some duty.
Mrs Podgers declared that it was very indelicate in her to do so, but Kitty replied that if women were on board ship, it was their duty to attend to the wounded.
Mr Falconer had intended that Dick should go, but the first mate had directed him to do some work, which kept him occupied, and had told me to attend on him.
Having seen my friends lodged at a comfortable hotel, I had to return on board to attend to my duties connected with the ship.
While the ship stood off the land, I went down to the cabin to attend to my passengers.
He had a stable and four splendid horses of the Arabian breed, and two orderlies to attend to them!
Not unfrequently it may be an artifice of the devil to keep us so occupied with past deeds that we may not attend to the dangers of the future.
Some persons say they would not be members of the Catholic Church because so many poor people attend it.
Such a person would attend Mass and receive the Sacraments if he knew the Catholic Church to be the only true Church.
Moreover, we may attend our churches freely and without the least danger to our lives; while the Christians of the early ages were constantly in dread and danger of being seized and put to death.
Even those who attend the same church and profess the same religion do not all believe the same.
Some communities devote their time to prayer; others attend the sick; others teach, etc.
I could attendto the correspondence, too, for my head and hands are all right.
Your trunk shall be sent up as soon as the men find time to attend to it.
He continued to attend Friends' Meeting, but grew more and more liberal as the years went by.
So, on the 1st of June next, I shall cease to be the sole proprietor of The Revolution, and shall be free to attend public meetings where ever so plain and matter of fact an old worker as I am can secure a hearing.
Mrs. Stanton and Lucretia Mott refused to attend the celebration, so indignant were they over the snubs women had received from the Centennial Commission, and they held a women's meeting at the First Unitarian Church.
Women, if they were "ladies" did not attend public gatherings where politics or social reforms were discussed, because such subjects were regarded as definitely out of their sphere.
Difficult to understand and most disappointing was Lucy Stone's failure to attend the convention or come to their defense.
Frail and ill, she was unable to attend all the sessions, as in the past, but she was present at the highlight of this very successful convention, the College Evening arranged by M.
Wendell Phillips did not sign the call or attend the convention for "reasons that are good to him," wrote Lucy Stone to Garrison, Sept.
Woodhull] Convinced that she and her colleagues mustattend that hearing, Susan consulted with her friends in Congress and overrode Mrs. Hooker's hesitancy about associating their organization with so questionable a woman as Victoria Woodhull.
Lucy Stone, who would have found it hard even to step into the Revolution office, did not attend the reception at the Women's Bureau or take part in the formation of the new woman suffrage organization.
