When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowingon me the most delightful sensations.
After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.
Iulians, bestowing many shot amongst vs, but did no harme at all, sauing that they strooke off a gentlemans legend, and killed the Sergeant majors moile vnder him.
Where should I gain what you have insisted in bestowing upon me?
But the time never came when his manner altered, when he was less candid and gentle, or less grateful for the favor she was bestowing upon him.
But critics generally agree in bestowing this distinction on Molière.
Wantley consoled himself by bestowing on the aunt the time and the attention he would fain have bestowed on the niece.
And Indra sent on his warder to the city of the Asura Vidyuddhvaja, and took possession of it in addition to his own city, with the intention of bestowing it on Muktaphalaketu, when a fitting time presented itself.
Then Indra and Dharma abandoned the form of hawk and dove, and being highly pleased restored the body of king Sivi whole as before, and, after bestowing on him many other blessings, they both disappeared.
Having said this, the spiritual guide, after bestowing the sciences on them, ascended to heaven.
Bhaga is an Aditya regarded in the Vedas as bestowing wealth, and presiding over marriage, his Nakshatra is the Uttara Phalguni.
May that elephant-faced god protect you, who, with his trunk bent at the end, uplifted in sport, appears to be bestowing successes!
Yet I do not approve of him for so doing: for he did as much harm to Sparta by bestowing that money upon it as Sulla did harm to Rome by the money which he took from it: but I mention it as proving how little he cared for money.
Astonished and interested at this picture of patient, grateful, and high-minded resignation, Morton could not help bestowing an execration upon the poor-spirited rascal who had taken such a dastardly course of vengeance.
A triumphant note boomed in his big gloating voice, but some influence that it is given a woman to exhale in a desperate self-defense kept him from bestowing anything more than an ordinary pressure on the cold hand laid in his.
Painting, likewise, was honoured and rewarded by the ancient Greeks and Romans, seeing that to those who made it appear marvellous they showed favour by bestowing on them citizenship and the highest dignities.
The young officer looked the red-haired beauty up and down, bestowing on her but a cursory glance.
Whilst Nichoune began her song, hands on hips, she scrutinised her audience, bestowing little smiles on her particular admirers.
There was another circumstance which sullied the glory of knighthood;--I mean the bestowing of its title upon persons who were not of the military class.
Every city assumed the power of bestowing it; and after a great battle it was showered with indiscriminate profusion upon those who had displayed their courage, whether they were armed burghers or condottieri.
Frobisher, gruffly, and scarce bestowing even a passing glance at the well-arched instep.
He had the queerest way of bestowing favors I almost ever saw.
The immediate consequence of these principles is that God could not create man without bestowing upon him the Holy Ghost and all the other gifts which faith manifests to us in our first parents.
In particular, there is among this august crowd of Mandarins one Wang Yu, who has departed on three previous occasions without bestowing the reward of a single cash.
In the worthy Cerimon, who restored Thaisa to life, we are instructed how goodness directed by knowledge, in bestowing benefits upon mankind, approaches to the nature of the gods.
Hence the preface wants those last corrections, which, I suspect, Dryden contented himself with bestowing upon the proof sheets, as they came from press.
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