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Undoubtedly, it contains the best arguments that could then be urged in favour of Wood and the patent, and undoubtedly, also, it would have had the desired effect had it been allowed to do its work uncriticised. But Swift's opposition was fatal to Walpole's intentions.
"Why, Anna, I never heard you talk like this before; of course I should have felt the same; if a commandment is broke, it's broke; nothing can alter that, can it?" "But, Squire, is there no mercy, no chance held out to the woman who has been unfortunate?" "Anna, these arguments don't sound well from a proper behaving young woman like you.
With this view, after laying before his neighbours all the horrors of a situation, which armed them all one against another, which rendered their possessions as burdensome as their wants were intolerable, and in which no one could expect any safety either in poverty or riches, he easily invented specious arguments to bring them over to his purpose.
We should have had no fear as to our communications, and might have wandered a hundred yards outside our sentries without the risk of having our throats cut. However, it is of no use going over these arguments again. The thing has been done and cannot be undone, and we have but to accept the consequences, and make the best of them.
The arguments, therefore, which might appear sufficient unto the heathens, to justify killing themselves to avoid what they thought greater evils, if they had any force then must have totally lost it now.
I confess that I felt somewhat chagrined in having what I considered my unanswerable arguments so summarily disposed of, and the serious impression I had made on the audience so speedily dissipated. The good man intended no disrespect, as he told me afterward. He simply put the whole argument in a nutshell: "Let a woman do whatever she can."
Certainly this last is the best course; for should you not convince him with regard to poverty, you must allow him to grieve; but if you remove grief by particular arguments, such as I used yesterday, the evil of poverty is in some manner removed.
All the arguments which I have heard adduced against the doctrine here laid down would also go to prove that a horse cannot fall which has a bearing-rein and a crupper, that is, whose head is tied to his tail. Sir Francis Head’s observations on bearing-reins, in the “Bubbles of the Brunnen,” are quite philosophical.
I only want to show you there is no use trying to show the self-satisfied Pharisees of the popular sect why, in spite of all their curses, men still go back to Rome. Lancelot read this, and re-read it; and smiled, but sadly and the more he read, the stronger its arguments seemed to him, and he rejoiced thereat.
C. P. By arguments, which are derived from topics either existing in the subject itself, or assumed. C. F. What do you mean by topics? C. P. Things in which arguments are concealed. C. F. What is an argument? C. P. Something discovered which has a probable influence in producing belief. C. F. How, then, do you divide these two heads?
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