She sought service at a weavers', calling herself Misfortune. Her evil fortune followed her, and as a woman, went about the shop, cutting all the threads. They blamed Misfortune and threw her out. She found service at a shopkeeper's, but when her Fortune spilled all the wine, the shopkeeper blamed Misfortune and threw her out.
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The honour of her exalted race; illustrious by character and by her splendid alliances. She was first married to that eminent man, her kinsman Lord Cathbar O’Donnell, Chief of Tirconnell. Subsequently she married, His Excellency Lord Eugene O’Neill, Commander-in-Chief of the Catholic Army in Ulster. She experienced good and evil fortune, And strove through her beneficience to become worth of Heaven.
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A knight in the service of the King of Spain deems himself ill requited. Wherefore the King, by most cogent proof, shows him that the blame rests not with him, but with the knight's own evil fortune; after which, he bestows upon him a noble gift. Neifile's story is one of the most widely diffused ones in the entire collection. Its origins come from two different stories.
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He felt unable to write to their friend Thomas Fowler because of his evil fortune. Douglas sent Aston's letters to Walsingham. It was expected that Aston and Sir William Keith of Delny would lose their places at court because they had been supporters of the Master of Gray, who was out of favour. The Earl of Huntly's followers called Aston, Keith, and the Lord Privy Seal "Queen Elizabeth's pensioners".
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Confederate General William B. Bate in his report stated, "General T. B. Smith, commanding Tyler's brigade, and Finley's, bore themselves with heroic courage both through good and evil fortune, always executing orders with zeal and alacrity, and bearing themselves in the face of the enemy as became reputations which each had heretofore bravely won."Official Records, Vol. 45, Part 1, p. 750. Held at Johnson's Island in Ohio and later at Fort Warren in Massachusetts, Smith was not released until July 24, 1865.
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L' indole severa dell'Ariente interdisse al suo pennello quelle grazie od eleganze che potessero dargli apparenza di leziosita, e il mantenne sempre entro i confini d'un'arte seria e grandiosa. Obituary, CF Biscarra > a firm will and with a dignified independence of character he was able to > meet and tame the evil fortune that nearly truncated his young career. his > youth carrera. The severe nature of Ariente guides his brush with an > elegance that could give the appearance of affectedness, however which he > always kept within the confines of a serious and grandiose art.
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There were alternative accounts of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon humanity in Greek myth, of which a very early account is related in Homer's Iliad: > On the floor of Jove's palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil > gifts, and the other with good ones. He for whom Jove the lord of thunder > mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; > but he to whom Jove sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the > finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the > world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither > by gods nor men.Iliad, 24:527ff In a major departure from Hesiod, the 6th-century BC Greek elegiac poet Theognis of Megara states that > Hope is the only good god remaining among mankind; the others have left and > gone to Olympus. Trust, a mighty god has gone, Restraint has gone from men, > and the Graces, my friend, have abandoned the earth.
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