It became necessary for Mrs. Shuler and the organizers, in addition to the detailed work of the campaign, to assume the financial burden as well.
This was the burden of Channing's once famous article on "A National Literature" in 1823: it was a plea for an independent American school of writers, but these writers should know the best that Europe had to teach.
It has been the burden of a thousand prophets in all religions.
That horrid burdenand impediment of the soul which the churches call sin," to use John Morley's words, occupied his attention but little.
The gospel or burden of "Leaves of Grass" is no more difficult of comprehension than the general drift of Emerson's essays, which helped to inspire it.
It was as if the traveller settled his burden afresh on his shoulders, and, with fresh, vigorous resolution, stepped on into the long expanse of road that went stretching away to the horizon.
I pity from the bottom of my heart the good woman who is not to know the whispers of love of a good husband or the caresses of little children, but I am not prepared to see life become a burden for her sake.
The burden of life from seven in the morning till seven in the evening rests on his shoulders alone.
Its future seems either gloomy or meaningless, and meanwhile, whether under the burden of knowledge or of doubt, it grows old in idleness.
All this time Panshine was supporting the burden of the conversation.
I am tortured by remorse; I have become a burden to myself; I can bear my position no longer.
Ah, my dear, your burden is heavy to bear, I know that.
For ten whole years it had been fastened to a heavy chain, purchased by order of Glafira Petrovna, a burden under which it was now scarcely able to move.
I have great difficulty," said Miss Hinckley to me to-day, "to persuade the people who have taken children to care for that our society can be trusted to take charge of what will surely be a burden to them.
His trip to South Fork Dam on Wednesday has convinced him that the burden of this great disaster rests on the shoulders of the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club of Pittsburgh.
He instinctively catches at anything whereby he may be relieved from the intolerable burden of such a thought; and here the imperfection of language comes to his aid.
A fore-wind is the substance of his creed, and fresh water the burden of his prayers.
Lastly, which is great pity, he never comes to his full growth, with bearing on his shoulder the sinful burden of his master at several courts in Westminster.
That divine part goes ever uprightly and freely, not stooping under the burden of a willing sin, not fettered with the gyves of unjust scruples.
A hawk he esteems the true burden of nobility,[37] and is exceeding ambitious to seem delighted in the sport, and have his fist gloved with his jesses.
He is a confident alchemist, and braggeth that the womb of his furnace hath conceived a burden that will do all the world good; which yet he desires secretly borne, for fear of his own bondage.
His other beast, Imperiousness, is yet more proudly laden; it carrieth a burden that no cords of authority, spiritual nor temporal, should bind if it might have the full swing.
And all this is the burden of his Ignorance, saving that sometimes idleness will put in also to bear a part of the baggage.
The chief burden of his brain is the carriage of his body and the setting of his face in a good frame; which he performs the better, because he is not disjointed with other meditations.
In this field he has fought his mightiest battles, gained continual new life, made death glorious, and, far from evading troubles, has willingly and continually taken up the burden of fresh trouble.
When the want is satisfied, utility becomes a burden if it still persists.
And that is the reason why it overspreads the sky like a thought taking shape in a poem, and never has to break into pieces with the burden of its own accumulating weight.
I do not intend to fasten upon my back a burden like this, of which I never can rid myself, nor do I, nimble and lightly equipped as I am, mean to hinder my progress by plunging into the deep morass of business transactions.
This is not to disown benefits, but is an encouragement to us neither to fear to receive benefits, nor to faint under the too great burdenof them.
You do not bestow a benefit upon a man by ceasing to wrong him, nor can it ever be a piece of good service to anyone to remove from him a burden which you yourself imposed on him.
Do you think it lightens the burdenfor my horse that you keep your knapsacks on your shoulders?
If you lay them off you will see that he can trot just as well; and if there were a dozen boys he would not consider them a burden but would keep on trotting.
If one such vessel could carry thirty thousand hundredweight, how many horses would it take to draw that burdenif two horses could draw fifty hundredweight, and how many wagons and drivers if each driver had two horses?
But theburden you describe has weighed me down since morning.
The passage was a toilsome one, and the stalwart bearers halted several times to shift their light burden before they laid it down upon the mound of mixed snow and red clay at the mouth of the grave.
St. Bernard gives us the answer, an answer by no means original with him, however, but which has been the burden of the spiritual masters of every age of the Church.
Our spoken prayers may have prayed {83} themselves away; the mind and body may be so wearied that formal acts of prayer are a burden to the flesh, and well-nigh impossible.
Life then easily comes to be regarded as full of trouble and of work, and becomes a burden from which one wishes to be delivered.
The burdenis the better borne as we stoop under the full weight of it.
When our precious earthly fellowship has been put to its last high uses in the hour of sorrow or shame, the heart has still a burden for which this world finds no relief.
Surely few are so lonely that they cannot find any one ready to offer the gift of the listening ear, any one willing to share with them all of pain and burden that can be shared.
In this world we need personal and social guidance, and there must be many times when both shall be wanting unless we have learned to carry the burden of our ignorance to the feet of the Eternal Wisdom.
How often the most we can do is to walk by our brother's side whilst he bears a burden we cannot share!
But they had arranged it for themselves, which to Aurore would naturally seem, as indeed it was, an improvement on the usual mode of procedure, according to which the burden of choice would have rested with her guardians.
To luxury she was indifferent, but the necessity of strict economy was a burden she was impatient of; she liked to have plenty to give away, and was always excessively liberal to the poor.
Miriam felt it to be as hard to carry alone the burden of a great joy as the burden of a great sorrow.
In nothing is Hinduism becoming more manifestly a burden to the educated community than in this restriction about inter-dining; and in nothing are they more ready, as we shall see later, to violate caste customs than in this matter.
Is it a wonder that life is a weariness, and existence itself an unspeakableburden to such a man?
In a thousand similar ways, the Hindu people are controlled and handicapped by silly superstitions which make life a burden to them and which rob them of efficiency and sanity.
Nevertheless, in the seclusion of her own home, and inheriting the burden of this deep reproach heaped upon her from time immemorial by men, woman has created for herself a place of power in the Hindu home.
I had not permitted myself to feel the full weight of the burden Clementine was heaping upon my shoulders until now it seemed on the point of slipping from them, and never were congratulations more sincere than mine.
The one decent thing Burden did was to die and rid the world of him before Mrs. Burden had presented him and society with more than one child, a boy.
I cannot remember now where Mrs. Burden came from, or why, when I had seen her once, I ever consented to see her again.
She was successful chiefly in leaving things dirtier than she found them, and Augustine, whose ideal is high in these matters, insisted that Mrs. Burden spent the morning making the dirt she had to spend the afternoon cleaning up.
Mrs. Burden did not keep her promise to come, she gave me no opportunity to know whether her hand was open in need or shut on plenty.
I was not at all anxious to burden myself with Clementine's destitution in addition to her hunger, and to get it out of my mind, I tried, with my usual generosity, to hand over the difficulty to J.
There were times when they almost came to blows, for the temper of both was hot, and more than once I heard Mrs. Burden threaten to call in the police.
But a time came when it seemed as if we must give up either Mrs. Burden or our chambers, and to give our chambers up when we had not the least desire to, would have been a desperate remedy.
Do not think harshly of me, father, and I will try to forgive you for the burden I now know you have laid upon the aching shoulders of this sad, old world.
The heavy knapsack on his shoulders seemed no burden to that rugged strength, as he stood, poised and eager, every sense centered in keen attention.
You forget in a moment the years which you have misspent under the intolerableburden of a monarch.
They remain Irish, or German, or Italian, with a difference, though they bear the burden of another State, and assume the privileges of another citizenship.
And, while they lay upon the rich man the guilty burden of his wealth, they charge the community with the full responsibility for the convict's misfortune.
The grave-digger sang something so old that his adversary had forgotten it, or perhaps had never known it; but instantly the good woman took up the burden of the song with a shrill voice, and helped their friend through his trouble.
I might scratch along here for a few years, but I was not born to the work and the time would come when I'd be a burdenon some one, and it would make me unhappy.
Then Eli made an announcement that again laid the burden of suspicion more strongly than ever upon Indian Jake.
It was to have given them a degree of independence, and above all else the little hoard that its sale would have brought them was to have lightened Lem's burden of labour during his declining years.
Doctor Joe and Eli lifted the remains to the komatik, attaching the toboggan to trail behind, and with their ghastly burden they turned in at The Jug.
She marveled that here was a lady walking on foot and carrying a dangerous burden on her back.
I see what a burden you all carry on your shoulders.
All girls must get husbands; all women must bear children, and all children become a burden to their parents!
In the same playfully pretentious language, he told the workingmen the story of how in various foreign countries the people strove to lighten the burden of their lives.
You are taking a dangerous burden upon your shoulders.
