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Truly happy can those men be called, who are inclined by nature to those arts that can bring to them not only honour and very great profit, but also, what is more, fame and a name wellnigh eternal, and happier still are they who have from their cradles, besides such inclination, courtesy and honest ways, which render them very dear to all men.

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“I had wellnigh met you at the palace,” said Hereward; while his heart throbbed almost as high as if he had actually had such a dangerous encounter.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

If Heaven has allotted them a degree of bravery, which to other nations seems wellnigh preternatural, the Divine will has given to the

Count Robert of Paris 2008

It was considered as a state secret of the greatest importance; and for wellnigh four centuries it was unknown to the Mahomedans.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Both the unfortunate chiefs remained dead on the field, and Hereward and his brother had wellnigh shared their fate; but some Saxon inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who adventured on the field of battle, which the victors had left bare of every thing save the booty of the kites and the ravens, found the bodies of the youths still retaining life.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Believe me, I was wellnigh thinking that we had done ill to take the cross — God forgive such an impious doubt!

Count Robert of Paris 2008

“I will do my best,” said Douban; “but your Majesty must consider, that we work upon a frail and exhausted subject, whose health seems already wellnigh gone, and may perhaps vanish in an instant — like this pale and trembling light, whose precarious condition the life-breath of this unfortunate patient seems closely to resemble.”

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