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Why was France, which at the end of the session of Parliament was so heartily with England, and so approving the policy of the noble lord with respect to Denmark and Germany that she voluntarily offered to act with us in endeavouring to settle the question why was France two or three months afterwards so entirely changed?
It was upon these considerations that at the close of your last session I gave my sanction to the principle of the Missouri compromise line by approving and signing the bill to establish "the Territorial government of Oregon."
Honor, as here used, means a state of approving and admiring emotion, followed on occasion by corresponding outward acts. “Worthy of honor” connotes all this, together with our approval of the act of showing honor. All these are phenomena; states of internal consciousness, accompanied or followed by physical facts.
Although the fiat of the people has gone forth proclaiming me the Chief Magistrate of this glorious Union, nothing upon their part remaining to be done, it may be thought that a motive may exist to keep up the delusion under which they may be supposed to have acted in relation to my principles and opinions; and perhaps there may be some in this assembly who have come here either prepared to condemn those I shall now deliver, or, approving them, to doubt the sincerity with which they are now uttered.
Had not the chances of a Restoration seemed as small in 1657 as they could seem to any judicious man in 1691? In spite of invectives and sarcasms, however, there was Overall's treatise; there were the approving votes of the two Convocations; and it was much easier to rail at Sherlock than to explain away either the treatise or the votes.
The house submerged him in tides of approving applause; friends swarmed to him and shook him by the hand and congratulated him, and Billson was shouted down and not allowed to say a word. The Chair hammered and hammered with its gavel, and kept shouting: "But let us proceed, gentlemen, let us proceed!"
He regarded her with large gray eyes that were frankly approving in their expression, for she was more than commonly agreeable to look upon. "I am Mrs. Ferris, and I am very pleased to make your acquaintance." "The same here," murmured Yancy with winning civility. Mrs. Ferris' companion leaned forward, her face averted, and stroked her horse's neck with gloved hand.
Frank made inquiry with quite a professional air. "Just what I did say; and let them be equal to Jove's nectar." Pleased at this familiarity, the boy went briskly to his work of mixing the tempting compound, while Hammond looked on with an approving smile. "There," said the latter, as Frank passed the glasses across the counter, "if you don't call that first-rate, you're no judge."
Kate understood the indistinct gurgle she heard to be approving, so she added: "He came after me early so I could go to Hartley and help get their new house ready for them to live in after the ceremony." "Did your father give them the house?" asked Mrs. Holt eagerly. "No. Dr. Gray bought his home," said Kate. "How nice! What did your father give them?" Kate's patience was exhausted.
"My constituents began to look at both sides; and finally, at the end of two years, approving of my course, they sent me back to Congress a circumstance which was truly gratifying to me. "Gentlemen, I opposed Andrew Jackson in his famous Indian bill, where five hundred thousand dollars were voted for expenses, no part of which has yet been accounted for, as I have seen.
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