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'I have declared that you are perfectly unknown to me, that I have not yet read your books and therefore neither approve nor disapprove anything. 'I reserve myself, so far as I may, to be of use to the reviving studies. Discreet moderation seems likely to bring better progress than impetuosity. It was by this that Christ subjugated the world.
Moffat, apparently unaffected by this result of his daring move, pursued his course, with the quiet determination of one who sees his goal and is working deliberately towards it. "Do you mind particularising? Of what did she especially disapprove in your conduct or way of spending money?" "She disapproved of my fondness for drink.
I am uneasy to think I approve of one object, and disapprove of another; call one thing beautiful, and another deformed; decide concerning truth and falshood, reason and folly, without knowing upon what principles I proceed. I am concerned for the condition of the learned world, which lies under such t deplorable ignorance in all these particulars.
She did not say that she had not seen Choulette since autumn, and that he neglected her with the capriciousness of a man not in society. "He has wit," she said, "fantasy, and an original temperament. He pleases me." And as he reproached her for having an odd taste, she replied: "I haven't a taste, I have tastes. You do not disapprove of them all, I suppose."
The aged Bishop of Rochester complained to the lords that in the lower house the cry was nothing but "Down with the church." Yet, so frightful were the abuses that called for radical reform, that even persons who most disapprove of the reformation will not at the present time wonder at their enactment, or disapprove of their severity.
Believe it or not as you like, I could see Welstoke's thin lips saying, "Though your nose and your eyes is very refined, it's your manner of speech as discloses you, my poor dear," and I was silent as a stone, for I thought him a fine gentleman. "Do you disapprove of me?" says he. I smiled, I suppose, but my lips only moved. And a look of pain came into his face.
The soldiers turned out the majority; and the minority, not a sixth part of the whole House, passed those votes of which my honourable friend speaks, votes of which the middle classes disapproved then, and of which they disapprove still.
"Christians are bound to obey the laws of this world for conscience' sake, even though, in the abstract, they may disapprove of them, and deny their authority. Then, by parity of reasoning, it must be lawful for them to take the advantage which those same laws offer them, when by so doing the glory of God may be advanced."
He kept a keen eye on current events, and sometimes expressed his views with great sagacity. One day he stopped me on the street, saying: "I have just read the report of the political sermon of Dr. I disapprove political-preaching. What do you think?" I expressed my cordial concurrence. "I will put a stop to it.
To a friend he wrote: 'I do not in the abstract disapprove of coalitions, where public exigencies, or an equal balance of parties, create a necessity for them, but hold that, when formed, the members should act in good faith, and treat each other like gentlemen should form a party, in fact, and take the field against all other parties without.
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