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No, he should not have permitted the stern, pitiless young man to pledge his honor for the fulfullment of what he had undertaken. He had already asked his son Osman to seek his friend and entreat him to desist from his stern purpose. Osman was now pleading with his friend in soft, persuasive tones. "Will he succeed?" This is now the question that agitates the tschorbadji.
Roman Catholic devotion gives a perfect idea of ecstasy, and shows that religious enthusiasm, carried to the utmost extreme, agitates the nervous system, and produces effects very similar to those of mental abstraction; and, in truth, in those asylums provided for the insane, we find many of their inmates to be persons who have fallen into that deplorable state through religious enthusiasm.
"... I have lately laughed at those Italian poets who bewail the isolation of their Lauras, yet, recalling my Lady Buckingham's repeated rescues, I begin to recognize a reason for the existence of that poetic fervor which agitates the artistic heart when either its safety or its vanity is at stake."...
Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight. A thrill passes through all men at the reception of new truth, or at the performance of a great action, which comes out of the heart of nature.
Then I heard escape from his lips, in a low, musing voice, a refrain which I had never heard him sing before "Soon with angels I'll be marching!" I know not why, but that low sound made me shiver. Yellow Tavern! At the mention of that name, a sort of tremor agitates me even to-day, when nearly four years have passed. In my eyes, the locality is cursed. A gloomy cloud seems ever hanging over it.
The particular contention which agitates France to-day, inaugurated by the late Minister Waldeck-Rousseau, and continued by his successor, M. Combes, had its origin in an act called the "Law of Associations," the purpose of which was to restrict the political power of the Church by means of the suppression of religious orders of men and women upon the soil of France.
She sat down slowly, put the precious paper back into its envelope, looked round upon them all, and knew that she was crimson to the roots of her hair, blushing like a guilty thing. "Lucy, my dear," said Lady Fawn, and Lucy at once turned her face full upon her old friend, "you have got a letter that agitates you." "Yes, I have," she said. "Go into the book-room.
'That's the Anti-Game-Law agitator. 'You do not imagine, sir, that Nevil subscribes to every thing the horrid man agitates for? 'You don't like the man, ma'am? 'I detest him. 'Ha! So you have seen Shrapnel? 'Only for a moment; a moment or two. I cannot endure him. I am sure I have reason. Rosamund flushed exceedingly red. The visit to Dr.
Elizabeth observed my agitation for some time in timid and fearful silence, but there was something in my glance which communicated terror to her, and trembling, she asked, "What is it that agitates you, my dear Victor? What is it you fear?" "Oh! Peace, peace, my love," replied I; "this night, and all will be safe; but this night is dreadful, very dreadful."
Camp at Cambridge, 6 September, 1775. Gentlemen: In the great conflict, which agitates this continent, I cannot doubt but the assertors of freedom and the rights of the constitution are possessed of your most favorable regards and wishes for success.
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