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She insists that public sentiment favors the cause and that parliament will take a step further soon and amend the law by making it broader and more general.
As they are often learned from novels, it will be well for the reader to remember that even in the best of such works dialogues are seldom sustained in a tone which would not appear affected in ordinary life. This fault in conversation is the most difficult of all to amend, and it is unfortunately the one to which those who strive to express themselves correctly are peculiarly liable.
It is therefore as clear as any point of constitutional law can be that James the Second was not competent to appoint a Commission with power to visit and govern the Church of England. But, if this were so, it was to little purpose that the Act of Supremacy, in high sounding words, empowered him to amend what was amiss in that Church.
"Hum! yes, sir; there is a certain amount of irrationality in any body desiring such a thing not in you especially." "Oh, Mr. Roundjacket, you advised me only a few weeks ago to be always courting somebody courting was the word; I recollect it." "Hum!" repeated Roundjacket; "did I?" "Yes, sir." "Well, sir, I suppose a man has a right to amend." "Anan, sir?"
In addition, my Administration worked very closely with Congress to amend the Older Americans Act in a way that has already improved administration of its housing, social services, food delivery, and employment programs. This year, I will be submitting to Congress a budget which again demonstrates my commitment to programs for the elderly.
And indeed, unto those who were despoiled and robbed by the Turk's overrunning of the country, and all their substance movable and unmovable bereft and lost already, their persons only fled and safe, I think that these considerations considering also that, as you lately said, their sorrow could not amend their chance might unto them be good occasion of comfort, and cause them, as you said, to make a virtue of necessity.
"I like Boileau," replied the prince, "as a necessary scourge, which one can pit against the bad taste of second-rate authors. His satires, of too personal, a nature, and consequently iniquitous, do not please me. He knows it, and, despite himself, he will amend this. He is at work upon an 'Ars Poetica, after the manner of Horace.
Then when Sir Palomides saw that, he made countenance to amend his horse, but he did it for this cause, for he abode Sir Gaheris that came after him. And when he was come he rode toward Sir Tristram.
Kent, "that is most interesting. I had noticed his modification of the customary dress. In what other ways, Mr. Carter, would you amend the ritual?" The unfortunate curate was caught. "Er hum well that is, the Bishop and I both think that the service is too long," he faltered. "I am in favour of omitting the sermon." "Hear, hear!" cried Mr. Kent.
In this way the reader who may most resent these unfamiliar methods of exposition, alternately by abstract diagram or concrete illustration which may seem to him too remote from ordinary life and experience, perhaps too trivial may now test the present theory of the city, or amend it, by means of the ample illustrations of the processes and results of social life which are provided by his daily newspaper, and these on well-nigh all its fields and levels.
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