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In their dilemma they seem indisposed to heed the counsel of the venerable Dutchman who, on a certain critical occasion, asserted that it was not wise to "swap horses while crossing a stream." It so happens that in this present year the Democratic party throughout the country is crossing a stream, a deep and muddy one which divides its former prestige from its future hopes and prospects.
"Explain to me, Miss Emily," he said, "you love to keep my mother there." "I did not mean to say it, Louis, but it is true." "Why true?" "I am so sorry " My dilemma was a queer one; I had to explain, and the tears that gathered when his mother sang, came back as I described our plain home.
The story of Spartacus’ escape from his terrible dilemma is told in the history of Florus, and repeated with further details by Plutarch in his Life of Crassus.
In this dilemma, Edith once more wrapped him in her warm cloak, and causing Chimo to lie at his feet, hastened over the ice towards the igloo. On arriving she lighted the lamp and heated the tea which she had made in the morning. This took at least a quarter of an hour to do, and during the interval she endeavoured to allay her impatience by packing up a few mouthfuls of pemmican and biscuit.
It was a state of weather which fully accounted for the visitor's impatient ringing. St. Cleeve was in a minor kind of dilemma. The rain reminded him that his hat and great-coat had been left downstairs, in the front part of the house; and though he might have gone home without either in ordinary weather it was not a pleasant feat in the pelting winter rain.
After eating for a few minutes in silence, Horace suddenly said: "Charlie, what do you think of this war?" "My opinion is, that the South has got in a pretty bad dilemma," replied that gentleman. "That is identically my impression, but for heaven's sake do not let any one hear you say so.
In the operation just cited the loss of speed was comparatively of little account; but the question of fighting force upon arrival was serious. An escape from this dilemma is sought by the advocates of very high speed for battleships by increasing the size of the individual ship.
But I will address myself to my mother, for you are not a good person for judging of prejudices you really don't understand them, my dear Caroline; one might as well talk to Socrates. You go to work with logic, and get one between the horns of a wicked dilemma directly I will talk to my mother; she understands prejudices." "Your mother thanks you," said Mrs.
But the more he pondered on the course to be taken should Dodd live, the plainer did this dilemma stare him in the fade: either he must refund or fly the country with another man's money, and leave behind him the name of a thief. Parental love and the remains of self-respect writhed at this thought; and with these combined a sentiment less genuine, but by no means feeble: the love of reputation.
Had the constitutional convention been a sectional and not a national organization; had its members been governed by a sectional and not a national spirit, they would doubtless have taken one or the other of the horns of this dilemma, but in that "spirit of amity, mutual deference and concession," which governed their lofty patriotism, they took neither of the extremes.
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