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"Yes, yes; I know; he'd be here, only you wouldn't let him stay away from his work." She smiled assent, and he smiled in return. "'Business is business," he said. She turned a quick, sparkling glance of affirmation, as if she had lately had some trouble to maintain that ancient truism.
Of them assuredly is true, and without the limitation he appends, Horace's affirmation, Dulce est desipere, which Mr. Theodore Martin translates, "'Tis pleasing at times to be slightly insane."
Under the vitalising touch of the Beautiful, our consciousness seems filled with the affirmation of what life is, what is worth being, what among our many thoughts and acts and feelings are real and organic and important, what among the many possible moods is the real, eternal ourself.
She was very careful to conceal this new feeling from Kate, for at least, she would not lay one obstacle in her path, and after a few moments' desultory conversation, they went on as before. "The next affirmation is about the will, what can you find for that?" asked Grace, as they had resumed their study again. "I have found it already," replied Kate, with her finger on the passage.
We say, for instance, that the vibration of this string is the cause of this particular sound. But what do we mean by that affirmation?
It sounded to Maria like a flock of ducks, but she perceived that it was given for affirmation. She followed Ruth's glance to where the backs of the young men's heads were visible, bending over some coins they were apparently matching. .
But besides affirmation or negation, without which there is in words no truth or falsehood, the mind does, in declaring its sentiments to others, connect not only the parts of propositions, but whole sentences one to another, with their several relations and dependencies, to make a coherent discourse. In right use of Particles consists the Art of Well-speaking
To that charge he replied: "Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keepeth the law." The interrogative form of his statement is rhetorically the strongest possible affirmation. Once more, in the twenty-third verse of the same chapter, Christ refers to the fact that their children received circumcision on the Sabbath day, that "the law of Moses be not broken."
In vain he told lie upon lie about a legacy of some old uncle in the clouds; in vain he stuck to the foolish and transparent falsehood, with a dogged pertinacity that appealed, not to reason, but to blows; in vain he made affirmation weaker by his oath, and oaths quite unconvincing by his cudgel: no one believed him: and the mystery was rendered more inexplicable from his evidently nervous state and uneasy terror of discovery.
The commons of Ireland passed an act for accepting the affirmation of the quakers instead of an oath; and voted three hundred and forty thousand pounds towards discharging the debt of the nation, which amounted to about double that sum.
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