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In this country, while naval and military people use this method in their comparatively minor problems, the country at large does not use it in deciding the major problem that is, in deciding how much navy they want, and of what composition.
About him stood his familiar furniture, the grand piano a pool of glimmering dark wood in the background, the tall curtained windows suggestive of shelter and warmth and protection. Yet, if he had but known it, he was making an enormous choice. The letter was from the man he had met at midday, and he was deciding how to answer it.
For it was a dangerous thing to do what he did and facing her father. Yet she will have to marry Stan because her father bids it. "I don't mean to offend you," the boatman spoke again, "but you are very slow in deciding whether you accept my bargain or not. Night is closing upon us." Marcu did not answer immediately. The boat was carried downstream very rapidly.
The slow progress of eighteen centuries has brought the Christian nations again to the necessity of deciding the question they have evaded the question of the acceptance or non-acceptance of Christ's teaching, and the question following upon it in social life of resistance or non-resistance to evil by force.
I stayed there with Mr. Yoshikawa, and whether any geisha had gone there early in the evening or not, that's none of my business." "Shut up!" Porcupine wallopped him one. Red Shirt tottered. "This is outrageous! It is rough to resort to force before deciding the right or wrong of it!" "Outrageous indeed!" Another clout. "Nothing but wallopping will be effective on you scheming guys."
The magnitude of the distances and the nature of the country to be traversed, the resources it offers, the obstacles to be encountered, the attacks to be apprehended, either in rear or in flank, superiority or inferiority in cavalry, the spirit of the troops, are circumstances which have a great effect in deciding the fate of retreats, leaving out of consideration the skillful arrangements which the generals may make for their execution.
It is no more the duty of the moral law to set about codifying laws than it is of the conscience to practise casuistry. Conscience is not a theoretical instructor, but a practical commander. The intelligence, the reason in man it is to which is allotted the function of formulating laws and of deciding what is and what is not in conformity with right.
The results of a man like this, so extensively known as one of the most philosophical and candid, as well as brilliant of instructors, and whose admirable abilities and signal liberality are generally conceded, ought to be of great weight in deciding the question.
But she could not but agree with Levin that to fix it for after Lent would be putting it off too late, as an old aunt of Prince Shtcherbatsky's was seriously ill and might die, and then the mourning would delay the wedding still longer. And therefore, deciding to divide the trousseau into two parts a larger and smaller trousseau the princess consented to have the wedding before Lent.
To-morrow Helen would pour out his coffee. It seemed an almost unbelievably happy thought. How came such rapture to be connected with coffee? He spent a minute or two in deciding at which of the many little marble tables he would sit. He never remembered being offered so large or so varied a choice at Liverpool Street Station before.
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