The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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He was quite aware that he was teasing the poor little girl; but then she deserved punishment for flirting with that ass Rogers all last evening.

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"I knew it was no good," Edred said crossly; "and I've made an ass of myself for nothing."

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Nieuwhoff, in one of his prints, taken from drawings supposed to be made in China, yokes, if I mistake not, a woman to the same plough with an ass.

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Should this be the fact, the Chinese are not singular, if we may credit the Natural Historian of Antiquity[6], who observes that, to open the fertile fields of _Byzacium_ in Africa, it was necessary to wait until the rains had soaked into the ground; "after which a little weakly ass, and an old woman, attached to the same yoke, were sufficient to drag the plough through the soil," _post imbres vili asello, et a parte altera jugi anu vomerem trahente vidimus scindi_.

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The Earth _tee_ The Air _kee_ Fire _ho_ Water _swee_ The Sea _hai_ A River _ho_ A Lake _tang_ A Mountain _shan_ A Wilderness _ye-tee_ The Sun _jee-to_ The Moon _yué_ The Stars _sing_ The Clouds _yun_ Rain _yeu_ Hail _swee-tan_ Snow _swé_ Ice _ping_ Thunder _luie_ Lightning _shan-tien_ The Wind _fung_ The Day _jee_ or _tien_ The Night _ye_ or _van shang_ The Sky or Heaven _tien_ The East _tung_ The West _see_ The North _pee_ The South _nan_ Man _jin_ Woman _foo-jin_ A Quadruped _shoo_ A Bird _kin_ A Fish _eu_ An Insect _tchong_ A Plant _tsau_ A Tree _shoo_ A Fruit _ko-ste_ A Flower _wha_ A Stone _shee_ Gold _tchin_ Silver _in tse_ Copper _tung_ Lead _yuen_ Iron _tié_ The Head _too_ The Hand _shoo_ The Heart _sin_ The Leg _koo_ The Foot _tchiau_ The Face _mien_ The Eyes _yen-shing_ The Ears _cul-to_ The Hair _too fa_ An ox _nieu_ A Camel _loo-too_ A Horse _ma_ An Ass _loo-tse_ A Dog _kioon_ A Frog _tchoo_ A Sheep _yang_ A Goat, or mountain Sheep _shan-yang_ A Cat _miau_ A Stag _shan loo_ A Pidgeon _koo-tse_ Poultry _kee_ An Egg _kee-tan_ A Goose _goo_ Oil _yeo_ Rice _mee_ Milk _nai_ Vinegar _tsoo_ Tobacco _yen_ Salt _yen_ Silk _tsoo_ Cotton _mien-wha_ Flax Plant _ma_ Hemp _ma_ Wool (Sheep's Hair) _yangmau_ Coals _tan_ Sugar _tang_ Cheese, they have none but thick Milk _nai-ping_, or iced milk A House _shia_ A Temple _miau_ A Bed _tchuang_ A Door _men_ A Table _tai_ A Chair _ye-tzé_ A Knife _tau_ A Pitcher _ping_ A Plough _lee_ An Anchor _mau_ A Ship _tchuan_ Money _tsien_ I must observe, however, for the information of these philologists, that scarcely two provinces in China have the same oral language.

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"Under that of an ass."

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She was as red as usual, but it saved Noël from making a young ass of himself.

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Affected young ass!

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M oras S A ffra Y G iganti C N evad A O verwhel M L ass O I nsula R A cced E Magnolia, Sycamore.

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With the common ass, as we now know that the legs of the wild progenitor are striped, we may feel assured that the occasional appearance of such stripes in the domestic animal is a case of simple reversion.

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But now let us turn to the result of crossing the horse and ass.

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Many years ago I saw in the Zoological Gardens a curious triple hybrid, from a bay mare, by a hybrid from a male ass and female zebra.

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As the zebra has such conspicuously striped legs, it might have been expected that the hybrids from this animal and the common ass would have had their legs in some degree striped; but it appears from the figures given in Dr. Gray's 'Knowsley Gleanings,' and still more plainly from that given by Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, [98] that the legs are much more conspicuously striped than the rest of the body; and this fact is intelligible only on the belief that the ass aids in giving, through the power of reversion, this character to its hybrid offspring.

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The Asinus Indicus [100] is characterised by a spinal stripe, without shoulder {43} or leg stripes; but traces of these latter stripes may occasionally be seen even in the adult; [101] and Colonel S. Poole, who has had ample opportunities for observation, informs me that in the foal, when first born, the head and legs are often striped, but the shoulder-stripe is not so distinct as in the domestic ass; all these stripes, excepting that along the spine, soon disappear.

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Now a hybrid, raised at Knowsley [102] from a female of this species by a male domestic ass, had all four legs transversely and conspicuously striped, had three short stripes on each shoulder, and had even some zebra-like stripes on its face!

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On the other hand, mules from the horse and ass are certainly not in the least wild, yet they are notorious for obstinacy and vice.

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-When purely-bred animals or plants reassume long-lost characters,-when the common ass, for instance, is born with striped legs, when a pure race of black or white pigeons throws a slaty-blue bird, or when a cultivated heartsease with large and rounded flowers produces a seedling with small and elongated flowers,-we are quite unable to assign any proximate cause.

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If every horse or ass had striped legs whilst young, the stripes which occasionally appear on these animals when adult would have to be considered as due to the anomalous retention of an early character, and not as due to reversion.

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I cannot doubt, from the observations of Colin and others, that the ass is prepotent over the horse; the prepotency in this instance running more strongly through the male than through the female ass; so that the mule resembles the ass more closely than does the hinny.

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It was ordered, according to Moses, that "Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind;" but mules were purchased, [473] so that at this early period other nations must have crossed the horse and ass.

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According to Varro, the wild ass was formerly caught and crossed with the tame animal to improve the breed, in the same manner as at the present day the natives of Java sometimes drive their cattle into the forests to cross with the wild Banteng ( Bos sondaicus ).

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Near Cordova, as I am informed (Feb. 1860) by Mr. W. E. Webb, C.E., they are carefully bred, as much as 200 l. having been paid for a stallion ass, {237} and they have been immensely improved.

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Now that we know that the wild parent of the ass has striped legs, we may feel confident that the occasional appearance of stripes on the legs of the domestic ass is due to direct reversion; but this will not account for the lower end of the shoulder-stripe being sometimes angularly bent or slightly forked.

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Still less {406} could man have foreseen whether his animals and plants would vary in succeeding generations and thus give birth to new races; and the small capacity of variability in the goose and ass has not prevented their domestication from the remotest epoch.

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55; in the horse and ass, i.

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41 ; the original of the domestic ass, i.

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Ass , early domestication of the, i.

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67 - 68 ; crossed with wild ass, ii.

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30 ; hybrids of the horse and ass, ii.

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13 ; hybrid of ass and zebra, ii.

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67 ; hybrids of the horse and ass, ii.

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33 , 41 ; hybrids of, with ass and zebra, ii.

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36 , 48 - 50 ; from mare, ass, and zebra, ii.

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55; in the horse and ass, i.

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33 ; crossing of the wild and domestic ass, ii.

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[101] Another species of wild ass, the true A. hemionus or Kiang , which ordinarily has no shoulder-stripes, is said occasionally to have them; and these, as with the horse and ass, are sometimes double: see Mr. Blyth, in the paper just quoted, and in 'Indian Sporting Review,' 1856, p. 320; and Col. Hamilton Smith, in 'Nat.

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The tail of the hinny is much more like that of the horse than is the tail of the mule, and this is generally accounted for by the males of both species transmitting with greater power this part of their structure; but a compound hybrid which I saw in the Zoological Gardens, from a mare by a hybrid ass-zebra, closely resembled its mother in its tail.

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Their bearer lowered them menacingly, and charged down upon Grôm's party with a sound that was something between the grunting of a hog and the braying of an ass.

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Ass.

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Ass.

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Even the Jewish expectation of the Messiah, he had never shared, he said--that the _Messhiach_ would come riding upon a white ass.

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As for the _Messhiach_ on the white ass, they do not really believe it, but they won't let another believe otherwise.

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"Carol, see and get an ass to put these kishes on," said Ussher.

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In spite of his madness I think he will be a little astonished by the request that I counsel you to make of him; it is that he should give you the skin of that ass he loves so dearly, and which supplies him so profusely with the means of paying all his expenses.

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Although the King was astonished by this whim, he did not hesitate to satisfy it; the poor ass was sacrificed and the skin brought, with due ceremony, to the Princess, who, seeing no other way of avoiding her ill-fortune, was desperate.

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"There's Brown just behind, on his second-hand brute, He thinks it can move, silly ass!"

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The _beata_ Clara was paraded through the streets of Madrid, _honeyed and feathered_, and mounted on a jack-ass, and then sent to be imprisoned in a house of penance for the remainder of her life.

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He--De Launay--was reckless enough, gambler enough, ass enough, to do the thing necessary to aid her, but no one else was.

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He--De Launay--was reckless enough, gambler enough, ass enough, to do the thing necessary to aid her, but no one else was.

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I always maintain there is no interest about insane people, except to the man of science; and even he very soon gets to that "ass's bridge," on the other side of which Nature, as the genius of occult things, stands with a satirical smile on her face, as she sees the proud savans toppling over into the Lethe of sheer ignorance, and getting drowned for their insane curiosity.

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She was the widow of a William Willison, who earned a livelihood by the humble means of serving the inhabitants of Edinburgh with water, which he conveyed to their doors by the means of an ass; and was, in consequence, called Water Willie--a good, simple, honest creature; much liked by his customers, from whom he never wanted a good diet; and had no fault, but that of disliking the element in which he dealt.

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Not that he'd hurt you--it would be--would be something else--" "You talk like an ass," Franklin said.

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The wandering Gypsey in Hungary and Transylvania, endeavours to procure a horse; in Turkey, an ass serves to carry his wife and a couple of children, with his tent.

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Parnee Water Jewcal Dog Maurau Bread Kil-maurau Bread & butter Lavenar Beer Shill-deues Cold day Taldu Hot day Moila Ass Gur Horse In the conversation a clergyman had with the Bosswell gang, as published in the Christian Guardian for 1812 and 1813, they told him _Chum_, was the sun; _Chuu_, the moon; _Kalmàro_, bread and butter; and _Livina_, drink.

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She was well known in the counties of Bedford and Herts, and having been a long time blind, she always rode upon an ass, attended by two or three of the tribe.

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"Don't be a funny ass," said Alfred, as I lifted myself out of the waste-paper basket.

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In the background, to left, the angel appearing to the shepherds; to right, the magi beholding the star shining over the manger in which lies the Holy Child, while an ox and an ass feed in it.

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73 To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it.

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TO A YOUNG ASS[74:2] ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT Poor little Foal of an oppresséd race!

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Poor Ass!

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LINENOTES: Title] Monologue to a Young Jack Ass in Jesus Piece.

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Its mother near it chained to a log MS. Oct. 24, 1794: Address to a Young Jack-Ass and its Tether'd mother MS. Dec. 17, 1794: Address, &c. In familiar verse Morning Chronicle, Dec. 30, 1794: Effusion xxxiii.

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To a Young Ass, &c. 1796.

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The atmosphere, too, can do no less Than ventilate her emptiness, 45 Bilks turn-pike gates, for no one cares, And gives herself a thousand airs-- While streams and shopkeepers, we see, Will have their run toward the sea-- And if, meantime, like old King Log, 50 Or ass with tether and a clog, Must graze at home!

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Now hang that ***** for an ass, Thus to thrust in his idiot face, Which spite of oaths, if e'er I spy, I'll write an Epigram--or die.

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But folks say, Mævius is no ass!

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But Mævius makes it clear That he's a monster of an ass, An ass without an ear.

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A fellow, that must needs Have been decreed an Ass by acclamation, Had he not looked so very like an Owl.

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L.'] 57 Effusion 14 59 Effusion 15 60 Effusion 16, to an Old Man 61 Effusion 17, to Genevieve 62 Effusion 18, to the Autumnal Moon 63 Effusion 19, to my own heart 64 Effusion 20, to Schiller 65 Effusion 21, on Brockley Coomb 66 [Effusion 22,] To a Friend with an unfinished Poem 68 Effusion 23, to the Nightingale 71 Effusion 24, in the manner of Spencer 73 Effusion 25, to Domestic Peace 77 Effusion 26, on a Kiss 78 Effusion 27 80 Effusion 28 82 Effusion 29, Imitated from Ossian 84 Effusion 30, Complaint of Ninathoma 86 Effusion 31, from the Welsh 88 Effusion 32, The Sigh 89 Effusion 33, to a Young Ass 91 Effusion 34, to an Infant 94 Effusion 35, written at Clevedon 96 Effusion 36, written in Early Youth 101 Epistle 1, written at Shurton Bars 111 Epistle 2, to a Friend in answer to a Melancholy Letter 119 Epistle 3, written after a Walk 122 Epistle 4, to the Author of Poems published in Bristol 125 Epistle 5, from a Young Lady 129 Religious Musings 139 III [A SHEET OF SONNETS.]

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PAGE _Dedication_ vii Preface to the First Edition xiii Preface to the Second Edition xvii _Ode to the New Year_ 1 Monody on Chatterton 17 Songs of the Pixies 29 The Rose 41 The Kiss 43 To a young Ass 45 Domestic Peace 48 The Sigh 49 Epitaph on an Infant 51 Lines on the Man of Ross 52 ---- to a beautiful Spring 54 ---- on the Death of a Friend 57 To a Young Lady 61 To a Friend, with an unfinished Poem 65 SONNETS.

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A Farewell Ode 28 Lines on an Autumnal Evening 30 The Rose 35 The Kiss 37 To a Young Ass 39 Domestic Peace 41 The Sigh 42 Epitaph on an Infant ['Ere Sin could blight'] 43 Lines written at the King's-Arms, Ross 44 Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 46 On a Friend who died of a Frenzy-fever induced by calumnious reports 48 To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution 51 Sonnet I.

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On hearing that his Sister's Death was inevitable_ 33 20 _On Seeing a Youth affectionately welcomed by a Sister_ 34 21 _The same_ 35 78 _Pain_ 35 17 _Life_ 36 11 Lines on an Autumnal Evening 36 51 The Rose 40 45 The Kiss 41 63 To a Young Ass 43 74 _Happiness_ 44 30 Domestic Peace 48 71 The Sigh 48 62 Epitaph on an Infant 49 68 _On Imitation_ 50 26 _Honor_ 50 24 _Progress of Vice_ 53 12 Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross 54 57 _Destruction of the Bastile_ 55 10 Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 57 58 On a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever induced by calumnious reports 58 76 To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 60 64 Sonnet I.

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476-477; Appendix C. To a Young Ass [from MS.], pp.

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Jan. 29, 1795 To Lord Stanhope Jan. 31, 1795 Address to a Young Jack Ass and its tethered Mother, In Familiar Verse Dec. 30, 1794 _The Watchman._ No.

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To a Young Ass 21 To a Spring in a beautiful Village 119 The Sigh 167 The Kiss 201 9.

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73 To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it.

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TO A YOUNG ASS[74:2] ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT Poor little Foal of an oppresséd race!

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Poor Ass!

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LINENOTES: Title] Monologue to a Young Jack Ass in Jesus Piece.

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To a Young Ass, &c. 1796.

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Now hang that ***** for an ass, Thus to thrust in his idiot face, Which spite of oaths, if e'er I spy, I'll write an Epigram--or die.

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But folks say, Mævius is no ass!

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But Mævius makes it clear That he's a monster of an ass, An ass without an ear.

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A fellow, that must needs Have been decreed an Ass by acclamation, Had he not looked so very like an Owl.

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476-477; Appendix C. To a Young Ass [from MS.], pp.

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Jan. 29, 1795 To Lord Stanhope Jan. 31, 1795 Address to a Young Jack Ass and its tethered Mother, In Familiar Verse Dec. 30, 1794 _The Watchman._ No.

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To a Young Ass 21 To a Spring in a beautiful Village 119 The Sigh 167 The Kiss 201 9.

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"What an ass you are, Béla!" came as a parting shot from Klara, who had succeeded in opening her parasol, and now stood out in the open, her face and shoulders in shadow, looking the picture of coolness and of good-temper.

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He was no ass, notwithstanding his peculiarities, and made good use of his opportunity.

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He always was a self-sufficient ass.

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And for the rest,--by the labour of his hands, by his fasting from the things of the flesh, by his lofty faith--however erring or forgotten or betrayed, in individual cases,--by every impressive lesson of a hard life lived unto others and a hard death died unto himself, century after century it was the monk who taught and helped the barbarian of every land to turn the desolate freedom of the wild ass into a smiling homestead and the savage Africa of his own heart into at least a better place.

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