For should the enemystrengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should hestrengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should hestrengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should hestrengthen his right, he will weaken his left.

The fact that Speranski was the son of a village priest, and that stupid people might meanly despise him on account of his humble origin (as in fact many did), caused Prince Andrew to cherish his sentiment for him the more, and unconsciously tostrengthen it.

Every little caution that Marian and I practised towards her--every little remedy we tried, tostrengthen and steady slowly the weakened, shaken faculties, was a fresh protest in itself against the risk of turning her mind back on the troubled and the terrible past.

I strongly urge you to use your influence, on every occasion when you can fairly exert it, tostrengthen that growing attachment, and to place it beyond the reach of any coming disasters, while you have the opportunity of doing so.

Tostrengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.

"Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind, but we must pray that God in His mercy willstrengthen us.

But they minister to him with such extraordinary interest, their anxiety is so keen, their vigilance is so great, their excited joy grows so intense as the signs of lifestrengthen, that how can she resist it, poor thing!

All of these enterprises prospered with him, and so much the more to his credit, inasmuch as he did everything tostrengthen the Church and not any private person.

You are going out, Micawber, to this distant clime, tostrengthen, not to weaken, the connexion between yourself and Albion.'

But in little domestic difficulties, where the penalty of consumption, or death, is out of the question, this theory of Configuration sometimes comes in awkwardly; and I must confess that occasionally when one of my own Hexagonal Grandsons pleads as an excuse for his disobedience that a sudden change of the temperature has been too much for his Perimeter, and that I ought to lay the blame not on him but on his Configuration, which can only bestrengthened by abundance of the choicest sweetmeats, I neither see my way logically to reject, nor practically to accept, his conclusions.

Deprived by an ill-starred fortune of that self-confidence whichstrengthens the hands of an armed host, impaired in skill but not in courage, it may safely be said that our adversaries managed yet to make a better fight of it in 1797 than they did in 1793.

The post being thus relieved andstrengthened, with an American at its head, and a ship of war about to sail for its protection, the prospect for the future seemed full of encouragement, and Mr.