This caused the Frenchman to bethink him of playing the coward.
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But before I could bethink me of words, he was speaking again.
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Bethink thee of all the bounty these hands have lavished on thee.
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But bethink you of them, and you will unriddle them for yourself, perhaps.
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Yet bethink you of the other good men who have done evil deeds?
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Bethink you how unmeet you are to be the choosers of your own condition.
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Bethink thee thou art working against thyself, plotting thine own dishonour, devising thine own ruin.
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Yet that course seemed no less futile than any other of which I could bethink me.
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At length Will, seeming to bethink himself, took up his hat, yet stood some moments irresolute.
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Old Manx Sailor I wonder whether those jolly lads bethink them of what they are dancing over.
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Now, bethink you how you answer me, or there will be a fool the less in the world.
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Might he not bethink himself, and come again, and say he was sorry he had so left her?
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I began to bethink me of Paris Septembers, Thought I could fancy the look of that old 'Ninety-two.
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Besides, bethink you how low is our purse, with bailiff and reeve ever croaking of empty farms and wasting lands.
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Bethink ye how sad a thing it would be that the blood of the Redeemer should be spilled to no purpose.
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Bethink you, have there not been days, aye and months, in your own life when you would have rejoiced to sleep in mindlessness?
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Bethink thee, my lord, the unsurpassable affection I bear thee may compensate for the beauty and noble birth for which thou wouldst desert me.
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Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all imaginations?
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And every man that standeth here would well bethink him what he hath done and bedriven in his days, he should the better have patience and pity on Reynart.
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It were good in my poor opinion that an end of his expectations were urged. The summer is half done, time is precious, opportunity may be lost; I am and will be as I have promised. I expect but direction, for I am wholly his that you are. Let us not lose the start that we have gotten, but bethink of some means either to be winners or savers.
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Durandus explains with skill the Augustinian texts, chiefly in the De doctrinâ christianâ and the Letter to Boniface, misused by Berengarius; but in the last analysis he appeals to the argument of authority already used by Guitmond:Patrologia Latina, CXLIX, 1415. "The saintly Doctor of Hippo, wearied by the labours of composition, fails at times to clearly bring out his thought. Hence he may appear obscure to the unlearned and even become a source of error. If perchance he should have erred in so great a mystery, we should then bethink ourselves of the Apostolic saying: 'But though an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides that which you have received, let him be anathema'".
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When Roger L'Estrange compiled his Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692), those of Abstemius and other authors in the Dorpius collection were translated under their own names and kept apart from those ascribed to Aesop in the main body of the book in a rare acknowledgement of his authorship. L'Estrange's version is slightly more condensed even than his: "A Bear was so enrag'd once at the Stinging of a Bee, that he ran like mad into the Bee-Garden, and over- turn'd all the Hives in revenge. This Outrage brought them out in whole Troops upon him; and he came afterwards to bethink himself, how much more advisable it had been to pass over one Injury, than by an unprofitable Passion to provoke a Thousand."Fable 290, p.
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The poem includes a strong anti- slavery statement: 157: And thou bethink thee, Albion, ere too late, 158: Queen of the isles and mart of distant worlds, 159: That thou like Tyre (with hands as deep in blood, 160: Warm from the veins of Africa, and wealth 161: By arts more vile and darker guilt acquir'd) 162: Shalt meet an equal doom. The day will rise... Other Wrangham, prize-winning poems well-known at the time, include 'The Holy Land', 'Sufferings of the Primitive Martyrs', 'Joseph Made Known to his Brethren', and 'The Destruction of Babylon.' Wrangham's first book of poems is noteworthy because it contained a translation of one of Wrangham's Latin poems by Coleridge, and one of Wrangham's French poems by Wordsworth. His books of poetry include The Raising of Jaïrus' Daughter (1804); A Poem on the Restoration of Learning in the East (1805); Death of Saul and Jonathan (1813); Poetical Sketches of Scarborough (1813); Poems (1814); and The Quadrupeds' Feast (1830).
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