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The case of the Thebans seemed desperate, as no one offered to help them; but Pelopidas, who with Gorgidas was Bœotarch, contrived to alienate the Athenians from Sparta by the following plot.
And in the minds of the common people, and of Knox as one sprung from them, there was lying, unexpressed, the feeling which in modern times has been expressed so loudly, that the claim of the individual, whether superior or sovereign, to alienate for unworthy uses huge tracts of territory which carry along with them the lives and labours of masses of men and of men who have never consented to it is a claim doubtful in its origin and pernicious in its results.
But the great Unhappiness of this Passion is, that it naturally tends to alienate the Affection which it is so solicitous to engross; and that for these two Reasons, because it lays too great a Constraint on the Words and Actions of the suspected Person, and at the same time shews you have no honourable Opinion of her; both of which are strong Motives to Aversion.
He did not think that he could bring himself to take instructions from a dying man, from the Squire of Bragton on his death-bed, for an instrument which should alienate the property from the proper heir. He too had his strong feelings, perhaps his prejudices, about Bragton. "I would wish that the task were in other hands, Mrs. Morton." "Why so?" "It is hard to measure the capacity of an invalid."
The fourth clause of the same article provides, among other things, that citizens of Switzerland may, within the United States, acquire, possess, and alienate personal and real estate, and the fifth article grants them the power of disposing of their real estate, which, perhaps, would be no otherwise objectionable, if it stood by itself, than as it would seem to imply a power to hold that of which they are permitted to dispose.
And every such citizen will also deprecate useless irritation among the several members of the Union and all reproach and crimination tending to alienate one portion of the country from another.
Yea, are they not hurtful in the day of grace? do they not tend to surfeit the heart, and to alienate a man and his mind from the things that are better? Why, then, wilt thou set thy heart upon that which is not? yea, then what will become of them that are so far off of minding of their souls, that they, for whole months, and years together, scarce consider whether they have souls to save?
As their pride did not quit them with their prosperity, so now, driven by necessity, they trafficked with the sole capital which they could not alienate their nobility and the political influence of their names; and brought into circulation a coin which only in such a period could have found currency their protection.
Omer, and there, with my chancellor and my council, I will determine the apportionment and we will speak also of other matters touching my province of Flanders." It was this vehement oratory and this vehemence was repeated on many occasions that did more to alienate Charles from his hereditary subjects than his actual demands.
A friend whom they take an age to conciliate, it were wrong all at once to alienate: In a series of years a stone changes into a ruby; take heed, and destroy it not at once by dashing it against another stone. Reason is in like manner enthralled by passion, as an uxorious man is in the hands of an artful woman.
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