However, little as she ate, she could not escape an infirmity to which, luckily or unluckily, we are all more or less subject.
At 90 degrees the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmityof purpose; to bend downwards, weakness of organization.
But urged by the last infirmity (except gout) of noble minds, our parsons never do know the proper time to stop.
So large a mind had long outlived the little itch for fame, quite untruly called “the last infirmity of noble minds.
Sometimes it has been said that we had not enough to eat, and that surely such and such an infirmity of body we had brought on us, because we had not the necessaries of life.
I was immediately restored from a bodily infirmityunder which I had been labouring for a long time, and which has never returned since.
And then our Lord relieves the blind man of the infirmity itself.
I am not called upon to raise fruits out of the soil of my own will, out of my own infirmity of aspiration or desire.
An infirmity becomes doubly burdensome when we give it a false interpretation.
Even if we cannot live without sin, we may yet die without sin, whilst the sin committed in ignorance or infirmity is blotted out in merciful forgiveness.
This infallible foreknowledge is based not alone on the scientia media, but also on the infirmity of human nature.
The most brilliant genius should beware of the infirmity of the fireside and admiring few, whose friendship applauds his poorest sayings, and, at the utmost, shrugs its shoulders where praise is out of the question.
The other showed something of the infirmity of advanced age in the prolixity of his speech, as well as in its matter.
I have known this infirmityto cast a cloud over the whole course of many persons who were otherwise fitted to adorn and bless society.
But it is the infirmity of many, who intend thereby no injury, that they delight in circulating news concerning their neighbours, and have not a little of the true gossipping spirit.
All beyond this, I care not by whom countenanced, is infirmity of mind, and would be baseness if it were not excused by imbecility.
With this infirmity Anne Boleyn was plagued in excess.
He has an infirmityof the convulsive kind, that attacks him sometimes, so as to make him a sad Spectacle.
It was equally unfitting to cast in his teeth the infirmity of his blindness: for it was common for a loss of this kind to accompany such a time of life as his, and it seemed a calamity fitter for sympathy than for taunts.
These are only indirectly the consequences of original sin, the direct punishment, from which they follow, being the infirmity and corruption of nature produced by original sin.
Its regulatory act is in the intellect, and consists in the knowledge and acknowledgment of one's infirmity and inferiority, not only in comparison with God, but also in comparison with men.
Gift supports even the weakness of the flesh, for the Spirit helpeth our infirmity (Rom.
In the case of Clough, as in that of Sidney Herbert, she sometimes attributed to infirmity of will what was in fact due to infirmity of body.
Tis a natural infirmity of men to imagine that their prayers have a direct influence; and this infirmity must be extremely fostered and encouraged by the constant use of prayer.
In most men this is the case; and a natural infirmity can never be a crime.
What you have just depicted is a beautiful sight, especially when, as you often see, the age or infirmity is not in the least selfish or exacting.
Talking of companionship, do not you think there is often a peculiar feeling of home where age or infirmity is?
Many are so unfortunate as to be inclined to each of the three in turn: it is necessary therefore to watch the bent of our nature, and to apply the remedies proper for the infirmity to which we are most liable.
In Arthur Dimmesdale, thought and imagination were so active, and sensibility so intense, that the bodilyinfirmity would be likely to have its groundwork there.
It was introduced to Violetta as the reward of virtue for having controlled her fretfulness, and the repair of its infirmity was the first consideration that occupied all the three.
When any one grows old, he despairs of himself by reason of his infirmity and poverty, and expects nothing but the last day of his life.
Palladius waited with some impatience, thinking in his heart that John was not free from the commoninfirmity of respect of persons.
Then is it meant that he had no infirmity of will or soul, that in him for once humanity stood absolutely free from defect?
We are not to understand here that Job confesses great transgressions, nor, contrariwise, that he denies infirmity and error in himself.
Job cannot be free from the common infirmity of mortals.
Felix Plater affirmed that he had known persons who, although they excelled in certain arts, were yet mad, and betrayed their infirmity by a curious seeking for praise, and by strange and indecent acts.
His health was always poor, on account of a strange infirmity which he calls “a thorn in the flesh,” and which was probably a serious neurosis.
