We buy knowledge with illusions, and pay a high price for it, for the acquirement of quite a small degree of wisdom will deprive us of a large number of pleasant fancies.
My friends thought it too little; but as it has been on my hands a long time now, and pictures don't rise in price in the keeping of the painter, I shouldn't mind taking two for it.
He had asked her what I thought a very low price for it; and I judge that Lady Bernard thought the same, but, after what had passed between them, would not venture to expostulate.
At a dollar and a quarter a week for board,(the price allowed for mill-girls by the corporations) great care in expenditure was necessary.
I had learned that its price was two cents; and one morning as I passed around the counter with my tin pail I made up my mind to possess myself of that amount.
Suppose we say seventy dollars as the lowest possible price that we can consider.
If you're guilty of assaulting Mr. Leigh, you should be also brave and manly enough to walk back to jail, ready to pay theprice of your act like a man.
So hurry up and vote as to the lowest price that I'm to accept under any circumstances.
It was just a question of settling theprice of the canoe.
The price at which she was valued was her board, her lodging, the attendance of a manservant, and two hundred pounds a year.
They had never received, they had never given, the price of infamy.
The great minister seemed to think it beneath him to calculate theprice of victory.
And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse for a sound price is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.
The Protestants had a majority in the Assembly of the States, and demanded from the duke concessions in favor of their religion, as the price of their subsidies.
For, though that reform was, in some respects, carried too far, it was a blessing well worth even the fearful price which has been paid for it.
The harvest had been bad; the price of food was high; and he thought it necessary to take on himself the responsibility of laying an embargo on the exportation of grain.
Rigby and Sandwich wanted public money, and thought that they should fetch a higher price jointly than singly.
Something may be guest at on this Head, from the sudden Rise of the Price of Tiles; which rise from 21 s.
LAND, price of, two centuries ago, and comparison of the profit of purchasing, or lending on interest in a nation increasing in wealth, 130.
Le Bel, on the contrary, says the English army was suffering severely from want of food, and that provisions were at a famine price (toudis avions nous paour de plus grand famine, pp.
As wes King Robert off Scotland, That hardy wes off hart and hand; And gud Schyr James off Douglas, That in his tyme sa worthy was, 30 That off hys price and hys bounte, In fer landis renownyt wes he.
He thocht weill he wes worth na seyle, That mycht of nane anoyis feyle; And als for till escheve gret thingis, 305 And hard travalyis, and barganyngis, That suld ger his price dowblyt be.
Men sais, Schir Thomas Randale than, Chassand, the Kyngis baner wan; 88 Quhar-throu in Ingland wyth the Kyng He had rycht gret price and lovyng.
The ship Argo is built after the pattern of the long ship in which Danaus came into Greece: and this was the first long ship built by the Greeks.
For reconciling such repugnancies, Chronologers have sometimes doubled the persons of men.
Hence the price of fish: quotations very high; business nil, or next door to it.
The herring be come again, in bodies, and the price be up.
Hurry always pays the highest price for everything, and, usually the goods are not delivered.
It requires only greater effort, closer attention, deeper consecration; but the impossible does not exist for the man who is self-confident and is willing to pay the price in time and struggle for his success or development.
Let us care for nothing so much that we would pay honor and self-respect as the price of hurrying it.
Emulate the process by which it became his, depend on your self- reliance, pay the price for it, and equal power may be yours.
On shelves were confusedly disposed dusty bits of bronze, plaster, coarse pottery and rare glass; things valueless and things beyond price standing in careless fellowship.
The price of growth is always to outgrow," replied Helen.
How, it may be asked, could Virginia and Maryland produce the vast crops now required by the foreign trade, if the pricewas still so low?
If the market was good and the price high, the planters flourished; if sales fell off and the price was low, they suffered accordingly.
At the time the price of tobacco was declining rapidly and many planters were losing money.
They came nearer the real cause when they added that the low price paid by the merchants for tobacco obliged many to leave.
The price of tobacco was now so low that it was not possible for a man, by his unassisted efforts, to make a profit by its cultivation.
The low price of tobacco requires it should be made as cheap as possible.
Even at the end of the Seventeenth century the average price for land in the older counties was about thirty pounds of tobacco an acre.
In fact, it appears that for some years the priceof tobacco had been declining rapidly.
It must, therefore, sell for the same price, a price so low that it did not suffice to feed and clothe him and his family.
The low price of tobacco staggers the imagination," Lord Culpeper wrote to Secretary Coventry, "and the continuance of it will be the speedy and fatal ruin of this noble Colony.
Before he could grasp the riches of the New World, he must pay the price of his passage, must work out through arduous years the indenture to which he had affixed his signature.
A New Edition, to be completed in Six Monthly Volumes, price 5s.
It cost him agonies to debate such a matter; but, as he knew very well, the price was excessive for unfurnished lodgings, and need constrained him.
He told Sands he couldn't get his price for it and what was the sense of selling at a loss, especially when he could come out there and get a breath of country air when he was scorched up with the city heat?
However, he had his flask full of sparkling golden water, the flask itself now, of course, golden, and he felt that the top joint of his little finger was a small price to pay for all this.
We don't care what price we might have to pay for a fox's liver; pray, buy one for us at any expense.
You were very deceitful; you bought melons full of precious stones from us poor people, who did not know what they were worth, and you only paid for them the price of common melons; give me some of them back, I pray you.
Oh, Heaven, what a terrible price I must pay for my revenge!
So the golden fruit, bought at the price of her soul's peace, turned to bitter ashes on her loathing lips.
I am, why regret the price of such a splendid triumph?
The price of my acquiescence in this matter is one million roubles.
Still, year by year their use is increasing, and as their price becomes less their employment will yet further extend.
When we pray for more holiness, we do not know what we are asking for; at least we do not know the price we must pay to get that which we ask.
A noble life, bearing God's image, even at the priceof much pain and self-denial, is better than years of freedom from care and sacrifice with a life unblessed and lost at the end.
Its price in a home is always the losing of self on the part of those who make up the household.
In ten years he'd be asking ten times the price he'd paid.
The home was sold--by fine print--hit was bid in by Romine fer about the price of his bill and the costs.
There was something horribly humiliating in the terms (however veiled in plausible language) which Henry was evidently prescribing to me as the price of his protection.
At the price of my conscience I have done this; and now listen to me, Ellen,--I will tell you how.
