I was now shocked to think of the degree in which his burthensome sense of dependence would be aggravated, if he should totally lose the power of sight.
But in Kant's burthensome state of existence, it could not be a question of much importance whether his illness were to commence in an October or a November.
And in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.
For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you?
Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you.
And where the young men are still struggling for a foothold in the world, the work ought not to be made burthensome to them, but reproductive.
The patriot's library has not been burthensome in latter times.
The heavy exactions of the government are too burthensome to admit of any successful application of capital, and to invest it under the impression of security would be an error that might bring on very fatal results.
To most nations, nothing is more burthensome and ruinous than the worship of their gods.
If he be not quite maimed, he and his trull, and litter of brats (if he hath any) may get half their support by doing some kind of work in their power, and thereby be less burthensome to the people.
Well, but if I am excluded and barred out, every man would be so far from being able to bear with others, that he would be burthensome to himself, and consequently incapable of any ease or satisfaction.
The country gentlemen were compelled to take up knighthood or to compound for exemption from the burthensome honour, and forced contributions of cattle and corn were demanded from the counties.
Notwithstanding this, one finds not less luxury than in the town; this is rendered less burthensome by the custom I mentioned of receiving guests only during a short period of the year, and on invitation.
This piece of economy belongs to the class of those, one of which costs more than four pieces of extravagance; besides which, one hangs a load round one's neck which is burthensome in various ways.
As it happened, too, whether the navigation were burthensome to the proprietors or not, they took the fullest advantage they could out of their monopoly, at the expense of the traders.
He adds: "It has been an expensive concern, and has, at times, been more burthensome to its proprietors than useful to the public.
Mr. Pinckney considered the fisheries, and the western frontier, as more burthensome to the United States than the slaves.
England was extremely corrupted with errors and superstition; and the light of the gospel of Christ was greatly eclipsed and darkened with human inventions, burthensome ceremonies, and gross idolatry.
Will not the king think these deserving of his love, as good subjects and faithful; but, on the contrary, those as evil subjects, burthensome as well for their misdeeds as for their frequent petitions?
I had observed, during my residence in this country, that there were vast numbers of horses running wild in the woods, and hence rather burthensome than useful to the inhabitants.
Therefore generation is quite as useful and desirable in this country as on the earth it is burthensome and dangerous: below ground never was such a thing imagined as a small-pox-tax.
And I try to persuade myself, that since his life was useful to nobody, and had long been, from intemperance, burthensome to himself, I should not suffer his death to dwell so heavily upon me.
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