I remember well that at the age of six years, if I faltered in the public reading of the Psalter, a gentle rap on the side of my head from my father's knuckles reminded me of my duty.
Catherine was bewildered by the preamble of the treaty which met her eye, but she did not lose her head.
Nearly all the first Medici had natural children, whose careers were invariably brilliant.
Catherine confidently believed she could get possession of the regal power, was a moment of cruel disappointment, after the twenty-six years of misery she had lived through at the court of France.
The treatment which they experienced during a six years' confinement, was partly such as they could hope from a careful guardian, and partly such as they might dread from a suspicious tyrant.
He died at length after a reign of fifty-six years, and the fortune of the Armenian monarchy expired with Tiridates.
The attention of the prince and people was attracted by this theological dispute; and the decision, at the end of six years, was referred to the supreme authority of the general council of Nice.
The Christian fable of Eusebius, which, in the space of twenty-six years, might arise from the original dream, is cast in a much more correct and elegant mould.
No money-lender would think of advancing twenty thousand francs to a woman sixty-six years of age, on an annuity of about four thousand, at a period when ten per cent could easily be got for an investment.
This, though it might bring the age of those venerable men within the recent term of life, introduced, however, another insuperable difficulty, since it made them have children when only five or six years old.
Porphyry bewails his own unworthiness, saying that he had been united to God in ecstasy but once in eighty-six years, whereas his master Plotinus had been so united six times in sixty years.
But don't talk of it--seven or six years--where may we all be by that time?
If you, sir, know that, and I can yet give you happiness by a mere promise to marry at the end of six years, if my husband should not come back, it is a great honour to me.
Six years were a long time, but how much shorter than never, the idea he had for so long been obliged to endure!
Not greatly enlightened by this official activity, I returned to my private studies, and at the end of six years I published my impressions and conclusions in the first edition of this work.
Containing The Interval Of Four Hundred And Seventy-Six Years.
And when he had offered these indignities to God, he died, having lived thirty-six years, and of them reigned sixteen; and he left his son Hezekiah for his successor.
And this was the end of king Jehoiakim, when he had lived thirty-six years, and of them reigned eleven.
In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres.
Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point of death.
The final extinction of that vast people which had been in eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream.
He had lived in his native village twenty-six years, or about that.
He lived five or six years--till 1616--in the joy of these elevated pursuits.
A total of six years spent at the sources of knowledge; knowledge both of books and of men.
They had only one fact, yet the distinguished citizen had spent twenty-six years in that little town--just half his lifetime.
I shall have a colleague who has been there five or six years already, and who understands their language.
It may well be doubted whether he, who had been in Holy Orders twenty-six years, quite knew now what he believed.
Twenty-six years ago--before he was a parson, or married or anything!
At six years of age, therefore, I was an orphan, without a sole to my foot except the pavements of Paris.
In 1783, being then twenty-six years old, she conceived a child; her pregnancy was to the pair a solemn joy.
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