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Bulstrode has promised to come and imitate their good example. Now you have had time to reflect on the plays you have seen, do you still feel the same interest in such representations as at first?" "I only wish there was not so much to condemn. I think Mr.
I had not preached long before some began to be touched at the apprehension of their need of Jesus Christ, and to bless God for me as God's instrument that showed the way of salvation. In my preaching I took special notice of this one thing, that the Lord did lead me to begin where His Word begins with sinners that is, to condemn all flesh, because of sin.
I wish it was, but books of any kind come now, Cornal, you can hardly expect me to condemn them in the hands of youth," He fondled the little Horace in his pocket as a man in company may squeeze his wife's hand. "They made my bread and butter, did the books, for fifty years, and Gilian will get no harm there.
Grant was entitled to respect, which could never have belonged to her; and that, had she received even the greatest, she could never have been easy in joining a scheme which, considering only her uncle, she must condemn altogether. Fanny's heart was not absolutely the only saddened one amongst them, as she soon began to acknowledge to herself.
Our ghosts are more civilized than to condemn a lady to a purgatory severer even, than their own, be it what it may. Mademoiselle Bearn replied only by a laugh; and, the Count now entering the room, supper was served, during which he spoke little, frequently appeared to be abstracted from the company, and more than once remarked, that the place was greatly altered, since he had last seen it.
Before you condemn that curious style of his-so easy to parody, so hard to imitate ask whether such refinement of thought as his could be much more simply expressed. Sometimes he could have been simpler, undoubtedly; it was his fault that he did not care to be; but that "plain American" would usually have served his purpose, is certainly false.
Yet when we condemn Russia for her pogroms and her Jew-baitings, we must not forget two facts: first, that these occurrences are the work, not of the real Russian people, the peasantry which has been described above, but of the dregs of the population which are to be found at the base of the social structure in the towns of Russia as in towns nearer home; second, that Russia is not the only country in the world that has these racial problems to face.
"You will think worse of him when you know him, I suspect," replied the general. "Suspect! But since you only suspect," said Beauclerc, "we English do not condemn on suspicion, unheard, unseen." "Not unheard," said the general, "I have heard enough of him." "From the reports of his enemies," said Beauclerc.
If we were to follow the course of many in our day who condemn appeals to fear, we should be ignoring a large part of Scripture, including many of our Lord's utterances, and at the same time ignoring that fear of hurtful consequences which the Author of our nature has implanted in us as a great means of self-preservation.
Isn't that what we are trying to do? We are not determinists or fatalists, and to condemn us to such a philosophy would be to destroy us. We live on hope. In spite of our apparent materialism, we are idealists. And is it not possible to regard nature as governed by laws remorseless, if you like the word and yet believe, with Kant and Goethe, that there is an inner realm?
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