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Both these choosers choose the best men in the colony, and put them into the second assembly. But thus the popular assembly was left without those best men. The popular assembly was denuded of those guides and those leaders who would have led and guided it best.
The only doubt was whether he should take it without asking the owner's leave, or try to obtain the loan of it: but then we had absolutely nothing to offer in return; and the natives might not only refuse to give it us, but might make us prisoners and perhaps carry us back to the Arabs from whom we were escaping, or sell us to some other tribe. "Beggars must not be choosers," said Ben.
She was thick-headed and that was why she took so long. But, in the evening, a hare jumped over the hedge: "Hide me! Save me!" he cried. "Farmer's Trust is after me." "Creep round behind the hedge," said the burdock; "then I'll hide you." "You don't look to me as if you were cut out for that job," said the hare; "but beggars can't be choosers." And then he hid behind the hedge.
And that pretty, pretty woman!" cried Polly, and drove her thoughts backwards: she had seen no hint of tragedy in her caller's lovely face. However, she did not wait to ponder, but asked, a little anxiously: "But you'll go, dear, won't you?" "Go? Of course I shall! Beggars can't be choosers." "Besides, you know, you MIGHT be able to do something where other people have failed."
We were aware that we were starting for India two or three months too late, and would have to encounter the heat and fatal season to accomplish it; but as Richard said, "Consuls, like beggars, can't be choosers," and we were only too glad to be able to go at all. Everybody was most kind to us, and a lot of friends came to a parting midday dinner, and accompanied us to our ship to see us off.
"Beggars cannot be choosers," and while personally we would all rather go on some other night, yet it is perhaps best that we do not refuse the Cromwells' generous offer. Then, too, Wednesday is really the only evening that my husband and I are free to go, for the children take so much of our time on other nights.
I think I should be very much taken by him if I were a girl. 'Well, you surprise me. I am told he is old enough to be her father. 'Oh, good gracious, no; a man of about forty, I should think; just the right age of man for a girl to marry; and really there are so few marrying men in these days that even girls with rich fathers can't always be choosers, don't you know?
Well, we were not forgotten, after all." "You don't seem disappointed, mother." "I might have wished for a little money besides, Herbert; but beggars cannot be choosers." "But sometimes they get what they wish for. Uncle Herbert left you a legacy of a hundred dollars." "A hundred dollars!" said Mrs. Carter, brightly. "Why, that will be quite a help for us. Was it left to me?" "Yes, to you."
I know not the origin of the House of Commons, but am very sure that it did not create itself; the electors wore prior to the elected; whose rights originated either from the people at large, or from some other form of legislature, which never could intend for the chosen a power of superseding the choosers.
"My dear Sophie," said the Graefin sweetly, "that isn't in the least bit clever; but you do try so hard that I suppose I oughtn't to discourage you. Tell me something: has it ever occurred to you that Elsa would do very well for Wratislav? It's time he married somebody, and why not Elsa?" "Elsa marry that dreadful boy!" gasped the Baroness. "Beggars can't be choosers," observed the Graefin.
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