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Next summer I'll make a much longer trip see the mountains oh, glorious mountains and funny half-Russian towns, and have some fishing Wandering. The really big thing. Even finer than your superb plucky trip through " "Wasn't plucky! I'm a cry baby," she said, like a bad, contradictory little girl. He didn't argue it.
He felt in his soul a strange confusion of contradictory ideas, a sort of interior burning; that mocking, impertinent laugh kept ringing in his ears and seemed to say: "Why; you are just the same as the others, you fool!"
It is difficult to believe that Richard had so much command over his feelings as to behave with that cheerfulness which is repeatedly noticed in the record; and the assertion that he had promised to resign the crown when he saw Northumberland in the castle of Conway, is not only contradictory to the statement of the two eye-witnesses, but also in itself highly improbable.
For at these times no shadow of a man carrying sticks, no mark at all, shows on her opalescent surface. Even so never a stain was visible on the wheel of light. And the holy man Giovanni heard a voice which said to him: "Behold that same white Truth you were fain to contemplate. And know it is built up of the divers contradictory truths, in the same fashion as all colours go to make up white.
Somehow or other rumors, vague, fantastic, contradictory, perplexing, irritating, bewildering, had blown hither and thither as it were along the eaves and through chinks of windows and under doorways, as an autumn wind carries the dried dead leaves.
By degrees one comes to understand how it was possible for contemporaries to hold contradictory views of him and for each to believe frantically that his views were proved by facts. For anyone who thinks he can hit off in a few neat generalities this complex, extraordinary personality, a single warning may suffice.
Vandewaters Heavens, what a name! and that other person? And what is the other person's name?" "The other person carries the contradictory name of Stephen Pride." "Why does he continually finger his face, and show his emotions so? He assents to everything said to him by an appreciative exercise of his features." "My dear, you ask a great and solemn question.
He was a general of great merit, bold to temerity, brave to heroism, and a tactician of the first order. But his career had felt the vicissitudes of politics, and like so many of his contemporaries, more, perhaps, than any of them, he had played the most contradictory parts.
It was scandalous, he declared in a paper upon it, that the Emperor and the princes should issue 'contradictory orders. They were going to deal with him according to the Edict of Worms, and proclaim him a condemned man, and persecute him, and at the same moment wait to decide what was good or bad in his doctrines.
His talents were too pre-eminent not to receive from all the tribute of profound respect; and his integrity and honour as a man, not less than his official rectitude, though slandered at a distance, were admitted to be superior to reproach, by those enemies who knew him. But with respect to his political principles and designs, the most contradictory opinions were entertained.
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