To him who lives a spiritual life entirely, life here becomes so uninteresting and burdensome that he can part with it easily.
The fact that we find sickness burdensome shows only that we do not live as we ought to: both a temporary and at the same time an eternal life--but we live only a temporary life.
Mrs. Vansuythen has never told the Major; and since be insists upon keeping up a burdensome geniality, she has been compelled to break her vow of not speaking to Kurrell.
How they may be made more burdensome to the people than beneficial to the sovereign, ib.
In order to prevent exportation, the whole inland commerce of wool is laid under veryburdensome and oppressive restrictions.
And though the tax, which that institution imposes upon the whole body of the people, may be very burdensome to those who pay it, it is of very little advantage to those who receive it.
When they have been allowed to act according to their natural genius, they have always, in order to confine the competition to as small a number of persons as possible, endeavoured to subject the trade to many burdensome regulations.
In the mean time, the people might be relieved from some of the most burdensome taxes; from those which are imposed either upon the necessaries of life, or upon the materials of manufacture.
It is in some one or other of these four different ways, that taxes are frequently so much more burdensome to the people than they are beneficial to the sovereign.
Then he gave the rein to revengeful passion, and laid upon the people burdensome taxes.
On the foundation of Buddha's teaching, there grew up a vast system of monasticism, with ascetic usages not lessburdensome than the yoke of caste.
Equality, education, deliverance from poverty and from burdensome toil, have been the blessings sought.
The indolence of company is burdensome because it is forced.
The State was very poor, and regarded the western settlements as mere burdensome sources of expense.
At this moment his title, his power, the burdensome problems of state, all seemed to him mean, insignificant in comparison with that moonlight and those calls of a heart which is enamored.
But the lord shrugged his shoulders, and was silent, fulfilling always his burdensome duties.
But let us suppose that Thou art right, that some Chaldean priest had power to bring the council to sign a burdensome treaty with Assyria.
Strange that, in his times of folly, he had not sold these as burdensome rubbish; he was very glad now, when love and reverence for things gone by began to take hold upon him.
With something like a laugh, he thought of the people who implored Mary Abbott to relieve them of their burdensome youngsters.
But he found it difficult to escape from his kingdom, the government of which he found to be burdensome and vexatious.
How burdensome this service of gendarme must be, can be judged by the number of riots.
How burdensome that of elector must be, the list of elections will show.
The greatest mass of legislation is, of course, that upon mechanic's liens, which are burdensome to a degree that is vexatious, besides being subject to amendment almost every year.
The prisoners were more burdensome to the escort than even the cavalry saddles or Junot's baggage.
Narrow and burdensome and useless to anyone as his life now seemed to him, Prince Andrew on the eve of battle felt agitated and irritable as he had done seven years before at Austerlitz.
Now a man who is without mirth, not only is lacking in playful speech, but is also burdensome to others, since he is deaf to the moderate mirth of others.
Now it is against reason for a man to be burdensome to others, by offering no pleasure to others, and by hindering their enjoyment.
Among the Todas of Southern India the holy milkman, who acts as priest of the sacred dairy, is subject to a variety of irksome and burdensome restrictions during the whole time of his incumbency, which may last many years.
To discharge this important, though burdensome office, an annual list of ancient and respectable citizens was formed by the prætor.
On the other hand, as the sale of slaves was forbidden in that state, an owner was no longer able to get rid of his slaves (who thus became a burdensome possession) otherwise than by transporting him to the south.
If the Union were dissolved, all theseburdensome measures might ere long be required.
In Spain the war hath been yet more unequal, and burdensome to your Majesty, than in any other branch of it; for being commenced without any treaty whatsoever, the allies have almost wholly declined taking any part of it upon themselves.
Not only did he not fight against pessimism, but, as the years went by, he even built it into a truly burdensome system.
This condition of constant dread and struggle was very burdensome to her.
He was also conscious that his duty was burdensome to him.
