This sacrifice on the part of England would only benefit those countries which would take up the cultivation of opium in order to supply the Chinese markets from which the Indian drug had been withdrawn.
They saw the execution of Ralegh, the sacrifice of the Palatinate, the exaction of benevolences, the multiplication of monopolies, the supremacy of Buckingham.
It was he above all who gave dignity to the slow and patient processes of investigation, of experiment, of comparison, to the sacrifice of hypothesis to fact, to the single aim after truth, which was to be the law of modern science.
It was to enforce the demand of this that he availed himself of Buckingham's sacrifice of the Treasurer, Cranfield, to the resentment of the Commons.
There stands his image, not indignant, But mild and soft as sunset ray, Upon this shrine of god benignant, My heart a sacrifice I lay.
Tis the sacrifice of thine Own vengeance, and thy heart's untamed and bitter hate.
The people sacrifice unto the gods; the steed Bedecked with gold and purple is an offering made.
Then the sacrifice had dimly shaped itself in her mind, and while actually engaged in fighting against it she hesitated to send any message whatever.
From this Maha Purusha who thus sprang from a sacrifice (bali), the Balijas derived their origin and name.
He appeared as a Paraiyan (Pariah) with beef on his back, and followed by the four Vedas in the form of dogs, and took his part in the sacrifice thus accoutred and attended.
Being unable to cross the river, they invoked their deity to make a passage for them, for which it demanded the sacrifice of a first-born child.
From that universal sacrifice sprang the hymns called Rik and Saman, the Metres, and the Yajus.
It is said that, in olden times, the Balijas used to worship the dagger, and sacrifice sheep or goats at marriages.
These must be duly worshipped and washed with water, and the water drunk as tirtha, and sacrifice of boiled rice and other food must be daily performed.
For instance, pursued she, you are not permitted by the laws of the land to take away the life of any person whatever; yet the laws of honour oblige you to hunt your enemy through the world, in order to sacrifice him to your vengeance.
This extensive authority could not fail of making him many enemies: he fell at last a sacrifice to the plots they were continually forming against him; and was not only removed from all his employments, but banished the court for ever.
There was an old goose, which they kept as the guardian of their humble cottage; and they bethought them to make this a sacrifice in honor of their guests.
Calchas the soothsayer thereupon announced that the wrath of the virgin goddess could only be appeased by the sacrifice of a virgin on her altar, and that none other but the daughter of the offender would be acceptable.
Near by stood an ancient altar, black with the smoke of sacrifice and almost buried among the reeds.
While the tower moves along numbers of the devout worshippers throw themselves on the ground, in order to be crushed by the wheels, and the multitude shout in approbation of the act, as a pleasing sacrifice to the idol.
I am no goddess," said the Sibyl; "I have no claim to sacrifice or offering.
Wishing to offer a sacrifice to Jupiter, he sent his servants to seek pure water for a libation.
Accordingly Orestes and Pylades went to Tauris, where the barbarous people were accustomed to sacrifice to the goddess all strangers who fell into their hands.
How do I know that some day you might not be tempted to sacrifice me?
He could not forget that she had saved the life of the sheriff, even though he did not know what sacrifice she had made so to do.
Much as she detested this man, revolting as she found the thought of being linked to him, the impulse to sacrifice herself was the stronger feeling of the two.
It must have marked a renunciation of one kind or another, the sacrifice of some hope.
The place of sacrifice was ready, everything arranged--for whom?
He said that for her he would sacrifice everything, even life; that he could not survive separation; that he would drown, shoot, or poison himself.
Though ready to sacrifice much for the happiness of their child, still even that only child cannot ask them to sacrifice their human dignity.
But the sacrifice was useless, and next day the gloomy eyes were gazing at Antea about midday.
The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire.
Much as Washington desired peace, he was unwilling to obtain it by a sacrifice of national dignity.
The purpose of Washington was, that such visitors should accomplish their objects without a sacrifice of time, which he considered indispensable to the performance of his public duties.
Go, and make a grateful people happy; a people who will be doubly grateful when they contemplate this new sacrifice for their interests.
And when, in September, the office was formally tendered to Hamilton, he accepted it, although it was at the sacrifice of the emoluments of a lucrative profession.
The mouth of a woman," it says in one place, "the breasts of a maiden, the prayer of a child and the smoke of sacrifice are always pure.
Sacrifice for sin, and in its most obnoxious and barbarous form: sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty!
Nothing works a more complete and penetrating disaster than every "impersonal" duty, every sacrifice before the Moloch of abstraction.
I would do anything in the world for John, but I can’t sacrifice what is and must be dearer to me even than he.
I sacrifice now all that was precious to me in the world, my love and my hope of happiness in this life, and I sacrifice it with a cheerful heart, and I pray that God may accept it.
To have thus violated the truth of history[78] might have been excusable, but to sacrifice the truth of nature and dramatic propriety, to produce a mere stage effect, was unpardonable.
Once more I went forward to sacrifice her, but she again lowed aloud upon which in ruth I refrained and commanded the herdsman to slay her and flay her.
I understood what her looks implied and answered her with an eye-glance, "I will sacrifice my soul for thee.
Shuhadá"; highly respected by Moslems as by other religionists; although their principal if not only merit seems as a rule to have been intense obstinacy and devotion to one idea for which they were ready to sacrifice even life.
I therefore declare myself ready to sacrifice the crown, and my personal interests, to the preservation of the sacred person of their king, as I can see no other method of releasing him from the place where he now is.
Having made this declaration (which is here given in his own words), he prepared to set out for Turkey, in hopes of being able to soften the inflexible temper of his benefactor, by the sacrifice he had made for him.
Sacrifice is one of the earliest and most widely spread of all human institutions.
Christ died, not that we should be excused from offering, but that we might be enabled to offer the one acceptable sacrifice to God, that is, the sacrifice of ourselves in that service of God which is the service of our fellow-men.
Essentially our sacrifice is what essentially Christ's sacrifice was, the joyous dedication of the will to God, the Source and Light of all our being.
These earliest notions ofsacrifice really underlay the sacrifices of the Old Testament, especially in the case of the peace offerings.
King of Moab, and it marks the lowest depth into which the pagan idea of sacrifice had sunk.
Behind the laws regulating sacrifice in the Old Testament there lies the long history of Shemitic ritual and religion.
And, above all, He is that revelation in the supreme act of love and sacrifice upon the Cross.
So the totem feast and the old Jewish rites, were not truly and genuinely sacrifices, though both pointed forward to and implied the realisation of sacrifice in the Death of Christ.
It is rather the onesacrifice which alone realises the ideas of which all other so-called sacrifices were but the faint adumbrations.
As the one true sacrificeit stands at the end of an age-long spiritual evolution.
It follows that it is hopeless to attempt to understand the sacrificial teaching of the Old Testament without some grasp of the meaning of sacrifice in the ancient world.
Nothing else could call for the sacrifice of a life in expiation.
If the Son of God had to sacrifice his life to absolve mankind from original sin, then, according to the law of retaliation, the return of like for like, this sin must have been an act of killing, a murder.
He would sacrifice himself, he does sacrifice himself, for undisciplined and ungrateful minds, with whom, I own, my egotism could not bear so patiently.
But she tried to fancy that the withering up of the secret romance of her life would have been less hard to bear, had the sacrifice been made in favour of a higher, nobler woman than simple, shallow, slight-hearted Rhoda Maxfield.
Rupert is old enough to know what is for your good, and not sacrifice all to a jest,' returned his mother.
Solivet realised a little better what the sacrifice was to me, or rather how cruel the parting was to my poor people, when we set forth on our journey.
Twenty years ago I told him that he should knock old Bacon off; I don't mean give him up, but wind him up at far less sacrifice of Time and Labour; and edit Shakespeare.
But a greater sacrifice than that he had known was here, and his generous heart was stilled forever.
In fact, the repast over, a chillness radiated from the two lady passengers that no pine boughs brought in by Yuba Bill and cast as a sacrifice upon the hearth could wholly overcome.
The sacrifice that this concession to the sex cost these men, who were fiercely skeptical in regard to its general virtue and usefulness, can only be accounted for by their affection for Tommy.
You have seen with your own eyes, heard with your ears, how I stand alone between factions which are willing to sacrifice the State in order to win for their own interests.
I came here resolved to tell Thelismer, face to face, that I could not sacrifice the last strength of my life in the way he has asked.
And I can't see where the reputation of being a saint who cut off his own fingers for a sacrifice would help me get endorsers at the bank or find friends I could borrow money from.
At this shrine he was ready--as most officials are--to sacrifice his personal independence of thought, with every principle of morality and honour.
His vanity appeared to have had some sacrifice made to it--at least by his own statement; and his listeners, or most of them, agreed to concede to him the happiness of a bonne fortune.
