"I know very well that there was no idea of offering a reward yesterday afternoon.
"I do not know whether the reward will help you very much," the Home Secretary continued.
Two Politicians were exchanging ideas regarding the
rewards for public service.
this is my sorrow: into the basis of things have
reward and punishment been insinuated--and now even into the basis of your souls, ye virtuous ones!
Setting aside their
rewards and results, I want to know what they are in themselves, and how they inwardly work in the soul.
The thief would not suspect that there was a trap, and he would bring or send the knife, and say he bought it for a song, or found it in the road, or something like that, and try to collect the
reward, and be arrested--wouldn't he?"
To have the white giant sleeping peacefully in one of his own huts would greatly facilitate the matter of earning the
reward, and so the chief was urgent in his suggestions that Tarzan, doubtless being very much fatigued after his travels, should retire early to the comforts of the anything but inviting palace.
Zat Arras knew better than to interfere with such a sentiment as was expressed that day in the Temple of
Reward, and so for two hours I talked with the people of Helium.
Then the beautiful girl said to him, 'If you succeed in bringing the mare back safely the third day, ask the Mother Dragon to give you a foal of the mare as a
reward.'
Will she say plainly what this perfectly easy thing is, the doing of which will meet with such a magnificent
reward?
Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their
rewardsThere is a wide distinction between voluntary favours and
rewards. The duty I have done in his family, and the care I have taken in the education of his two boys, are services for which some men might have expected a greater return.