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Of course it has to be conceded, even by those who most insistently urge the existence of formal legislation in the matter, that in spite of these decrees and intolerance and opposition, Jews continued to practise medicine and to be the chosen physicians of kings and even of high ecclesiastical dignitaries, as well indeed of the Popes themselves.
So, beauty, fashion, and wealth having been tried and found wanting, the committee discussed the claims of talent, and it transpired that to the awestricken Rebecca fell the chief plum in the pudding. It was a tribute to her gifts that there was no jealousy or envy among the other girls; they readily conceded her special fitness for the role.
It was generally conceded that, while the above arrangement made no concession to local pride, it was by all odds the wisest arrangement to follow in an exposition of international scope.
And then, though he felt himself bound to give up the acres, though he did regard this as an imperative duty, he nevertheless felt also that something was due to him for his readiness to perform such a duty, that some reward should be conceded to him; what this reward was to be, or rather what he wished it to be, we all know.
We start with assuming for, as we have seen already, so much is conceded by those who attack interest to-day that the owners of capital, however their rights may be restricted, still have rights to it of some kind.
In doing this, they take up and decompose carbonic acid, retain the carbon, and give off oxygen a vital process not known to occur in the case of animal life. Nihil ex nihilo is conceded to be as conclusive an induction as omne vivum ex vivo.
Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger, Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an intention of making his offers of compensation more definite, when the white man, motioning with his hand, as if he conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying in a sort of soliloquy, and in the English tongue: "Uncas is right! it would not be the act of men to leave such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks up the harboring place forever.
Our Commissioners had very justly maintained that the admission of Canadian fish and fish-oil free of duty into the United States would be more than an equivalent for the fishery rights to be conceded by the British Government. They had also maintained that for a concession of those rights in perpetuity the Government of the United States would not be willing to pay more than $1,000,000.
Who can tell how much this notion of mystery in the sex stands in the way of its free advancement all along the line? Suppose the proposal were made to women to exchange being mysterious for the ballot? Would they do it? Or have they a sense of power in the possession of this conceded incomprehensibility that they would not lay down for any visible insignia of that power?
And that a custom is developing for a Kin who leads a regular group of Donors to be responsible for taking care of them that way." Thompson raised an eyebrow. "The Kin is responsible for feeding on @'s people?" "Yes, sir. If you'd Donated, you wouldn't be questioning it, either." "Maybe not," Thompson conceded. It did seem to make an odd sort of sense . . . but he didn't care to find out.
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