However, I managed to surmount difficulties of every description, and the day of my first representation arrived.
But I have already said I am obstinate and persevering in all I undertake, and the greater the difficulty seems, the more I feel myself pledged to surmount it.
Sire," I replied, boldly, "I have every reason for believing that my son will surmount them.
I had a good deal of pain to surmount myself, as to the last.
Indeed the changeableness of my sister was so excessive, that, without great grace, it was hard to suit one's self to it; yet she appeared to me to surmount herself in many things.
Although in themselves they still subsist, yet they seem annihilated to us, in proportion as charity fills and inflames; it becomes so strong, as by degrees to surmount all the activities of the will of man, subjecting it to that of God.
Father La Combe confessed to me that he had some reluctance to do it, and only obedience, and the danger to which I should have been exposed, made him surmount it.
May they seize every opportunity that presents itself, surmount every obstacle that may confront them in the future, and pave the way for a befitting inauguration of the subsequent phase of their historic and rapidly unfolding mission.
Even in the frozen regions of the north, as in Scandinavia, man, by the intensity of his nature, was enabled tosurmount the difficulties of climate and attain a fierce, rude cultivation.
Hippocrates, Hygeia, King Bladud, and a wreath of serpents surmount the cup to this day; which was executed in their finest manner by Messrs.
But my affection was so great that I felt I could surmount all these; that we both could: and she has consented to unite her lot with mine, and to accept my heart and my fortune.
I still flatter myself, that some expedients may be devised to surmount the present difficulties, and that the harvest of laurels now ripening for his Majesty in America will not be permitted to wither for want of watering.
The pride of youth is still upon thee; late hast thou become young: but he who would become a child must surmount even his youth.
His arm across his head: thus should the hero repose; thus should he also surmount his repose.
But in his case ignorance in one field was joined to knowledge in many another field, and there he found weapons wherewith to surmount an old difficulty at a quarter never assaulted before.
But by what human power can they ever surmount the above obstacles?
Before the Catholics can aid the Pope to extend his temporal or spiritual power over you Protestants, they will have to surmount all the above obstacles.
There is strong evidence in the construction of the present tower that it was the original intention to surmount it by some other erection, probably a spire.
The reason it is hard to surmount is because the person is not willing to try.
We build up walls between ourselves and usefulness, and then lament because we can not surmount them.
Do not now this great Turk and his pashas in all these advancements of fortune surmount very far above a Christian estate, and any lords living under him?
And their own conscience can show it to them, and can fill their hearts so full with spiritual joy that the pleasure may far surmount the heaviness and grief of all their temporal trouble.
Even the Nicene Symbol did not completely surmountevery trace of subordinationism.
On all dogmatic questions he strongly favoured the realism of the North African school, while in exegesis he did not surmount the allegorical method of the Alexandrians.
Strength and security was their chief aim here, though the small turrets, terminating in pyramidal octagons, which surmount the angles of the tower, are the forerunners of that exuberant ornamentation.
It would not do to sketch in a figure in a casual way, and then surmount it with lead lines; it should be carefully considered as a piece of bold and massive outline design.
The obstacles he had to surmount were indeed numerous; for the island is surrounded by a wall close to the water's edge, encircling a gloomy tower now overgrown with ivy.
The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, impervious to my touch or sight; but I now found that I could wander on at liberty, with no obstacles which I could not either surmount or avoid.
No, it has not merited that glory; nor dare I presume to hope, you should so much as wish my passion for Sylvia, should surmount my friendship to Philander.
Before I could make a light it sprang again, again failed to surmount the cot, and dropped back.
That is why, this morning, I felt the assurance within me that I could surmount old Baldy's peak, and feel no bad results.
Something irresistible urged me to surmount the peak, and I bent to the climb.
The Franks were already at the gates of Cairo; but the suburbs, the old city, were burnt on their approach; they were deceived by an insidious negotiation, and their vessels were unable to surmount the barriers of the Nile.
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