...there seems to have been a charm which made all those who came in contact with her steadfast friends. There was nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, by friendship with her, and bluff King Hal was not a pleasant person to offend ; but in spite of all difficulties...

...experience, it requires some assurance to declare that they have even now accepted the inevitable. That remains the problem of the future; but in 1860...the injured feeling of a nation can ever display. 284 CHAPTER XX. THE TAEPING REBELLION. WE left the Taepings supreme at Nankin, but maintaining themselves...

...AI-MaDmun, who had hoped to effect something by political alliance with the cAlyites , found in time that there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by such an alliance and gave it up, though still friendly to the cAlyite party and favorable to many of...

...that they have even now accepted the inevitable. That remains the problem of the future ; but in 1 860 Prince Kung came to the sensible conclusion that for...of the West. Whatever could be retained by tact and f1nesse were to form part of the natural rights of China ; but the privileges only to be asserted in...

...may be supposed, but believing then that her future was to be indissolubly linked with this man's, there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by opposing him. He had apparently made up his mind to the course he would pursue, and to attempt to divert...

...talked among his friends of returning at no distant time with a more efficient army. But for the moment there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by prolonging his residence in Palestine. On October 9 he set sail from Acre, which he was never destined...

...talked among his friends of returning at no distant time with a more efficient army. But for the moment there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by prolonging his residence in Palestine. On October 9 he set sail from Acre, which he was never destined...

...the trial came upon him. on Tiger if possible. It could not hurt him after he had left Hartland ; but there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by involving herself in differences with Philip. Tiger must give warning ; and he must let nothing shake...

...unkind. Either that, or it meant giving up all idea of marrying Bernard — which was absurd. Decidedly there was nothing to be gained, and much to be lost by revealing her secret to the world ; it must be locked in her own heart until such time as Bernard was...

...side, however, it is not used. Every time we have considered it we have come to the conclusion that there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by any adoption of the metric system. That is, it seems to me, particularly significant, because of the...