Far better, far more closely, can I embrace some dear departed one in the mound which rises over his bed, than in a monumental writing which only tells us that once he was.
I myself, in my own circle, am far better pleased to endure faults and mistakes, till I know what the opposite virtue is that I am to enjoin, than to be rid of the faults and to have nothing good to put in their place.
I think, after all, it would be better, far better, to enclose your letter to me to our friend Becke.
If you write to me from pity, do so soon from Augsburg city, so that I may get your letter, which to me would be far better.
It will be far better to marry on your pay--and you will surely get your captaincy in a few months--than to be stranded without even that, in case you do not find the work you hope for.
I did not do that with any intention of finding out the difference in prices; it just occurred accidentally, and I only give it as an instance, to prove that if we could get money for our hosiery goods it would be far better for us.
But speaking with regard to salted fish only, what you have suggested would be a far better way, because I would then have a chance of seeing my fish weighed out.
Those who were most familiar with the stage, pronounced his playing to be excellent--far better in the footman than in the Roman Senator.
It would be far better to send this Onondago, if he will agree to go.
Well, far better than my feeble pencilling can picture, will they fill up this slight sketch.
It is better to love earthly excellence than earthly folly; it is far better in itself, and it is, by many degrees, nearer to the kingdom of God.
The discipline of the ship will be kept up far better by strict justice.
I laughed at Hanks' old story, though it was a hit against my countrymen; for I have always found it far better to laugh off anything said against one's self, than to put on the dignities and to look grand.
In the event of war it would be far better to have no ships at all than to have ships of a poor and ineffective type, or ships which, however good, were yet manned by untrained and unskillful crews.
It is far better, where possible, to invoke such a permanent tribunal than to create special arbitrators for a given purpose.
If there is no intention of providing and of keeping the force necessary to back up a strong attitude, then it is far better not to assume such an attitude.
It is far better to pay these bonds in that coin than to seem to take advantage of the unforeseen fall in silver bullion to pay in a new issue of silver coin thus made so much less valuable.
Far better had it been to exalt the mind By solitary study, to uphold 305 Intense desire through meditative peace; And yet, for chastisement of these regrets, The memory of one particular hour Doth here rise up against me.
It must be remembered that a married man can practice the most absolute continence and enjoy a far better state of health than the licentious man.
And, conscious that it would be far better to meet her casually in some open place than to risk a call, he sat down on a bench whence he could watch the entrance.
Far better that it should come to an end, if they don't hit it off!
To depart and be with Christ which is far better" must mean in an immortal existence.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ which is far better; nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
The apostle therefore draws a comparison between his present condition of conscious existence with his brethren, and his future condition of conscious existence with Christ which was far better.
To depart and be with Christ must, I conceive, mean in the resurrection world, for in no other sense could he be with Christ so as to render his condition "far better.
Far better in the sod to lie, With pasturing pig above, Than broil beneath a copper sky-- In sight of all I love!
But rather of a rougher clay Unmixed with overmuch romance, Far better at the wildwood fray Than spinning in a ballroom dance.
Far better to be turned to grass To feed the poley cow, Than be the half boiled bream, alas, That I am really now!
For bodily health and enjoyment the alternation of cold and heat is far better, as in the moral world prosperity and adversity are required for the maturing of character.
For some kilometres out of Raab the road presents a far better surface, and I ride quite a lively race with a small Danube passenger steamer that is starting down-stream.
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