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The freedom we cherish and defend in Europe and in the Americas is no different from the freedom that is imperiled in Asia. Our policy, dedicated to making the free world secure, will envision all peaceful methods and devices except breaking faith with our friends. We shall never acquiesce in the enslavement of any people in order to purchase fancied gain for ourselves.
Nevertheless the quiet men of Sidon might perhaps have prevailed on themselves to acquiesce in this result.
'George and I are satisfied that things are really very promising here. Of course, much old heathen ignorance, and much that is very wrong, will long survive. 'It is not that one should acquiesce in what is wrong here, but one ought not to be surprised at it.
She seemed temporarily to get better, but she had no strength left to resist the disease, and gradually sank. "The teacher is long in coming, and the new missionaries are long in coming," she murmured in a moment of relief from her delirium. "I must die alone, and leave my little one; but as it is the will of God I acquiesce in His will.
After several consultations it was resolved to combine a solemn renunciation of the royal authority on the part of Richard with an act of deposition on the part of the two houses of parliament, in the hope that those whose scruples should not be satisfied with the one, might acquiesce in the other. To obtain the first, the royal captive was assailed with promises and threats.
"You acquiesce in the arrangement, then, Mr. Manning?" "I cannot do otherwise, can I?" "There is nothing to prevent your settling the property, or any part of it, on the natural heir, Mr. Manning. You must pardon me for saying that it would have been wiser had your wife so stipulated by will." "I cannot consent to reverse, or in any way annul, the last wishes of my dear wife," said Mr.
Bending his haughty head, he asked: "Will you be reasonable?" A heavy sigh broke over her compressed mouth, and she answered in a low, but almost defiant tone: "It seems I cannot help myself." "Then yield gracefully to the inevitable, and you will learn that when struggles end, peace quickly follows." She chose neither to argue, nor acquiesce, and slowly shook her head. "Regina."
The mind is brought far more easily to acquiesce in the proceedings of one man, or a few, who act under a general procuration for the state, than in the vote of a victorious majority in councils, in which every man has his share in the deliberation. For there the beaten party are exasperated and soured by the previous contention, and mortified by the conclusive defeat.
They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Cæsar; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon. Thus in modern times it has been demonstrated ad nauseam that princes are generally unhappy on their thrones; in consideration of which the possession of a throne is tolerated, and men acquiesce in the fact that not themselves but the personages in question are its occupants.
He would, he believed, have taught himself to acquiesce, had he seen any chance of happiness before her; but the picture he drew of her prospects justified his misery, at being only able to goad her on, instead of drawing her back. He was absolutely amazed at himself.
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