The
vicissitude of mutations in the superior globe, are no fit matter for this present argument.
As all is activity and
vicissitude to the new mind of a child, so might it be, likewise, to a mind that had undergone a kind of new creation, after its long-suspended life.
Up mounted David, and bowled away merrily towards Boston, without so much as a parting glance at that fountain of dreamlike
vicissitude. He knew not that a phantom of Wealth had thrown a golden hue upon its waters--nor that one of Love had sighed softly to their murmur--nor that one of Death had threatened to crimson them with his blood--all, in the brief hour since he lay down to sleep.
Being therefore sold at auction,--alas I what a
vicissitude for a chair that had figured in such high company!--our venerable friend was knocked down to a certain Captain John Hull.
"If that is called imprudence, I wonder what would be called a thoughtful provision against the
vicissitudes of fortune."
And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous
vicissitudes of the fishery.
Only the
vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life." These words are all the more remarkable because, in spite of his great physical sufferings, Joseph Alexeevich is never weary of life though he loves death, for which- in spite of the purity and loftiness of his inner man- he does not yet feel himself sufficiently prepared.
"While noting these things with an interest and attention which it now astonishes me to recall I felt myself thrust aside, and Judge Veigh, whom in the intensity and
vicissitudes of my feelings I had altogether forgotten, pushed by me into the room.
For during the violence of the gale, he had only steered according to its
vicissitudes. But as he was now bringing the ship as near her course as possible, watching the compass meanwhile, lo!
ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general Confederacy, would be subject to those
vicissitudes of peace and war, of friendship and enmity, with each other, which have fallen to the lot of all neighboring nations not united under one government, let us enter into a concise detail of some of the consequences that would attend such a situation.
It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the
vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity.
His favorite, the Chevalier de Lorraine, leaning over the back of the prince's chair, was listening, with secret envy, to the Comte de Guiche, another of Philip's favorites, who was relating in choice terms the various
vicissitudes of fortune of the royal adventurer Charles II.