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In actual life the victors win in spite of brutal blunders and repeated checks. The Grimness and Harshness of Frontier Life. Watched nearby, while the fight stamps to and fro, the doers and the deeds stand out naked and ugly. We see all too clearly the blood and sweat, the craft and dunning and blind luck, the raw cruelty and stupidity, the shortcomings of heart and hand, the mad abuse of victory.
And generally all actions which men doe in Common-wealths, for Feare of the law, or actions, which the doers had Liberty to omit. Liberty And Necessity Consistent So that to him that could see the connexion of those causes, the Necessity of all mens voluntary actions, would appeare manifest.
We will not be so illiberal as to say that Art lies only on one side of this line; to do so were to shut out works which have given us exceeding delight; so neither could we exclude Epicurus and his philosophy from the company of doers of good; but the distinction is as inexorable as the line Christ drew between his and those not his; it lies not in the product, which may be mixed good and evil, but in the motive, which is indivisible.
They are indeed dangerous days, when the sympathy of government is always with the evil doers, and the religion of the state is deserted by the crown." "Why, God bless me! Mr O'Joscelyn! the queen hasn't turned Papist, and the Repealers are all in prison, or soon will be there." "I don't mean the queen. I believe she is very good.
They are not to be found in the house of the good and godly man, for he, as his God, abhors them; but they are to be found in the house of evil doers, such as Mr. Badman's is. Are they there yet, notwithstanding God's forbidding, notwithstanding God's tokens of anger against those that do such things! O how loth is a wicked man to let go a sweet, a gainful sin, when he hath hold of it!
When one saith unto them, Act not corruptly in the earth, they reply, Verily, we are men of integrity. Are not they themselves corrupt doers? but they are not sensible thereof. And when one saith unto them, Believe ye as others believe; they answer, Shall we believe as fools believe? Are not they themselves fools? but they know it not.
And again there are the doers and thinkers of the world, the fortunate, whose lives are associated with successful purposes, whose ambitions grow and grow until they reach the power of which they dreamed.
They came unarmed, but when the mob began to thrown stones again and refused to respect the soldiers, they pounced upon the evil doers and there was a rough and tumble fight. Several were bruised considerably and a number of limbs were broken, but after this conflict the persecution ceased.
Certain actions are forbidden, and the doers of them are subjected to some painful infliction; which is increased in severity if they are persisted in. Now, what would be the natural consequence of such a system, under the known laws of feeling, will, and intellect? Would not an action that always brings down punishment be associated with the pain and the dread of punishment?
Pushing this before them, the end began presently to run freely, and then stopped; it had adjusted itself by the side of the shorter ladder which Richard had brought down with him. "He could not have fallen, then," observed a miner, answering his comrade's remark as is the custom with this class of great doers and small talkers at a considerable interval.