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  1. Comedy:" Virtue is like an enemy avoided by all, as is a serpent, through, misfortune , of place, or through bad habit that impels them, on which account they have so
  2. The Duke welcomed the French commander –" I am very sorry that such a cruel, misfortune ,should have fallen upon a soldier for whom I have the highest regard. " With
  3. The 2001 AL Champion Yankees, as of 2011. From 2004 through 2007,the Yankee's, misfortune ,in the postseason continued, with the team losing the ALCS to the Boston Red
  4. In America with the Davis Group Ltd. Alan Kay said," I had the fortune or, misfortune ,to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe
  5. Superstition and" the Scottish play" While many today would say that any, misfortune ,surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and other theater people
  6. The art of Delacroix, and in the writing of Lord Byron and Victor Hugo. Further, misfortune ,struck the island in 1881,when an earthquake, estimated as 6.5 on the moment
  7. Possession rests on opinion. What is to cry and to weep? An opinion. What is, misfortune , or a quarrel, or a complaint? All these things are opinions; opinions founded
  8. Was flash tight. The British remained unaware of the weakness, to their great, misfortune ,at the Battle of Jutland. Apart from the cordite handling, the battle was
  9. Afterwards, Thompson returned to a life as a landowner, but soon financial, misfortune ,would ruin him. By 1831 he was so deeply in debt he was forced to take up a
  10. A 2-2 draw much to the delight of Charlton fans, who revealed in Palace's, misfortune , after the match there was also an altercation between the two chairman's
  11. Bases and squadrons, and was planning a full-scale invasion were it not for the, misfortune ,of the Thomas' arrival. The extragalactic Thomas drove a wedge between the
  12. Did much to promote this form of racism. He coined the term" the Jews are our, misfortune ," which would later be widely used by Nazis. In Treitschke's writings Semitic
  13. Three of his four children were carried off; and he himself, worn out by, misfortune , expired in solitude and obscurity at Lavrov in Moravia, about the end of
  14. Of al-Muqtadir, ascended to the position of Clip but saw only a succession of, misfortune , Praised for his piety, he became the mere tool of the de facto ruling Minister
  15. There he explains how the sins of the crusaders were the cause of their, misfortune ,and failures. When his attempt to call a new crusade failed, he tried to
  16. Character is certainly not as unflattering as it once was:" Æthelred's, misfortune ,as a ruler was owed not so much to any supposed defects of his imagined
  17. Writer of many good tragedies; and he ended his life well without suffering any, misfortune , " According to some accounts however his own sons tried to have him declared
  18. To invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean" in a single day and night of, misfortune ,". Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired
  19. The rest of the United Kingdom but also suffered the particularly humiliating, misfortune ,of having grave-diggers going on strike, leaving the dead unburied.
  20. Philistines took the Ark to several places in their country, and at each place, misfortune ,befell them (1 Sam. 5:1-6). At Ashdod, it was placed in the temple of Dagon.
  21. Itself. In his jail cell, Jake pounds the walls, sorrowfully questioning his, misfortune ,and crying in despair. Upon returning to New York City in 1958,he happens upon
  22. Of southeast England from the Netherlands. A combination of miscalculation, misfortune , and an attack of English fire ships on 29 July off Grave lines which dispersed
  23. Placed upon Plops, son of Tantalus, by Myrtles, whom he had murdered. Thus, misfortune ,hounded successive generations of the House of Atreus, until atoned by Orestes
  24. Was establishing his naval career, the family would suffer serious financial, misfortune , but his early childhood years were spent in comfort. In accordance with the
  25. Defeating William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1930 federal election, he had the, misfortune ,of taking office during the Great Depression. Bennett tried to combat the
  26. In unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping misfortune upon, misfortune , I judge it more suitable to shun and avoid the account of these things, as I
  27. Representing youth's passing. In Celtic mythology, green was associated with, misfortune ,and death, and therefore avoided in clothing. Green Knight Scholars have
  28. Was transported to the Mutant X universe, he found Robert Drake the victim of, misfortune , The Asgardian god Loki amplified Bobby's powers to a dangerous level, leaving
  29. And curved lines ". Matagatsubi, the curved spirit, causes " evil deeds and any, misfortune ,or disasters" by creating imbalance, distorting the" straight and clear ".
  30. Tradition, green was avoided in clothing for its superstitious association with, misfortune ,and death. Green is thought to be an unlucky color in British and
  31. And his many guises. Eventually, Grímnir turns to Garrote and promises him, misfortune , revealing his true identity. Garrote then realized the magnitude of his
  32. Became smitten with the woman and allowed her to escape justice.:" It is the, misfortune ,of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women. Poirot
  33. The punishment. Midas was mortified at this mishap. He attempted to hide his, misfortune ,under an ample turban or headdress, but his barber of course knew the secret
  34. About their fates. " No one is given an unrealistic string of luck, however; so, misfortune , injury, and death (and even false death) can befall any character, major or
  35. Suffered partisan attacks about his performance at Gettysburg, but he had the, misfortune ,of experiencing them in person. Supporters of his predecessor, Maj. Gen. Joseph
  36. Respectively. An" annoying" death is typically one that was the fault of, misfortune ,more than the player (such as falling into a spiked, poisoned pit trap early
  37. The prior personal antipathies, were therefore inevitable. It was an additional, misfortune ,for Alexei that his father should have been too busy to attend to him just as
  38. Future. In the original time-line, Nobita experienced nothing but misery and, misfortune ,manifested in the form of poor marks and grades, physical disasters, and
  39. And forced them in unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping, misfortune , upon misfortune . I judge it more suitable to shun and avoid the account of
  40. But if his mercy toward a foe was a sin, it was his only one; and it was his, misfortune ,that it was reckoned against him, while David, although he had committed much
  41. Idealist, as opposed to the view that he was ruthless and responsible for the, misfortune ,of Native Americans. *Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, is a 1992
  42. To the dead to ease their conditions. If they did not, the ghosts could inflict, misfortune ,and illness on the living. Traditional healing practices ascribed a variety of
  43. Finds himself at war with the world and everything in it. Mel drew, cursed with, misfortune ,and always complaining, is married to long-suffering wife Margaret, who is
  44. Diva-like behavior and stoically battle through an array of tragedy and, misfortune , Such characters include Angie Watts, Kathy Mitchell, Sharon Hickman and Pat
  45. Acknowledging his errors, but ascribing his expedition's fate primarily to, misfortune , Early life Family background Scott was born on 6 June 1868,the third child
  46. This term from Daniel Hack Take and noted," Psycho-therapy ... had the, misfortune ,to be taken in tow by hypnotism. " The psychiatrist Jerome Frank defined
  47. Please tell Stalin I was against this war, and that I know it will bring great, misfortune ,to Germany. " In the spring of 1941,upon hearing of the coup in Baghdad that
  48. Be used to manipulate them. For example, people tend to believe that people's, misfortune ,(e.g., poverty ) is a result of the person and downplay external factors (e.
  49. Has done bad things over his many lifetimes, and for people this results in, misfortune , or for cultivators it's karmic obstacles, so there's birth, aging,sickness
  50. Of adulation; its object was either to implore protection against disease and, misfortune , or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered. It was in this way

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