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Above all, they did not want for their ruler a foreigner, backed by a foreign potentate. The only raison d'être for Maximilian's government in any Mexican's mind was not that it would bring order and peace into the country, but that it might bring money from the coffers of the new emperor's ally.
Its raison d'être, its special and only function, is to subserve the private wishes of its owner.
The Eternal Right Thing is what is called in Sanskrit SAT, the True; it opposite is the Lie, in one fashion or another, always; and what we have to do, our mission and raison d'etre as students of Theosophy, is to put down the Lie at every turn, and chase it, as far as we may, out of the field of life. For example, there is the Superior-Race Lie: I do not know where it shall not be found.
For my part, I can introduce nothing here; my maniere d'etre is really insupportable; my talents are lost; I, who am accustomed to shine in society, see nobody; I might, as Josephine every day observes, as well be buried alive. Retirement and love are charming; but then it must be perfect love not the equivocating sort that L feels for me, which keeps the word of promise only to the ear.
A boy with an ink-smeared face was setting type and a pallid gentleman with glasses was languidly working a hand-press. A pile of fresh-smelling papers lay on a table, and after a question or two he picked up one. Two of its four pages were covered with announcements of suits and sales to satisfy judgments the printing of which was the raison d'etre of the noble sheet.
Thus we even find individual Carbonarists with pronounced Anarchist views and tendencies. Malegari, for instance, in 1835, described the raison d'être of the organisation in these words : "We form a union of brothers in all parts of the earth; we all strive for the freedom of mankind; we wish to break every kind of yoke." J. A. M. Brühle: Die Geheimbunde gegen Rom. Zur Genesis der italien.
"Un second caractère très-essentiel de notre classification, c'est d'être nécessairement conforme
Messieurs, ce jour pour ma Muse est bien doux; Mais maintenant, d'etre quitte j'ai perdu l'esperance: Car je viens, plus fier que jamais, Vous payer ma reconnaissance, Et je m'endette que plus!"
«Un peu au-dela de Nux, la vallée cesse d'être large et plane, comme elle étoit dans le environs de la cité; elle devient étroite et très variée; l
Again, A Mr. Le Duc de Richelieu. 'Je comte sur votre Amitie, Monsieur, je vous prie d'etre persuade de la mienne et de ma reconnaissance. 'All these are deponed, not to be given till farther orders. What use the Princesse de Talmond was to make of these documents, on what occasion, is not at all obvious. That the Prince actually went to London, we know from a memorandum in his own hand.
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