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That could only be decided by the force of circumstances, and the control of parliament over the national purse was the decisive factor in the situation. The Stuarts, indeed, were held in a cleft stick.
Austria also received back her former territory of Milan, and became, by reason of her control of northern Italy, a powerful factor in determining the policy of the whole Italian peninsula. As to Germany, no one desired to undo the great work of 1803 and restore the old anarchy.
Mr. Murch was also interested in a chain of blue-front restaurants, and a line of South American freighters, and last but not least, he was the heaviest stockholder and most potent factor in the management of the Salamander Fire Insurance Company. The Salamander was as exactly the antithesis of the Guardian as it was possible to conceive.
To what extent is the environment in which children live responsible for their achievements in school studies? What may be expected in the way of achievement from two children of widely different heredity but of equal training? For what factor in education is the environment most responsible? Why?
The don was absolutely candid; so candid that he spoke upon a delicate subject, and one that carried a sting of which he little dreamed. "One factor I cannot help recognizing," he said slowly. "I am not blind, nor is the señora blind, to the the friendship that is growing between Señor Jack and our daughter.
England could not stand by and see a little nation whom she had promised to protect, crushed: But above all, they were Englishmen. Love of country was a tremendous factor. The homeland was dearer than their own lives. They could not stand by and see it filched from them. Of course there were a lot of patriotic songs in which the whole audience joined.
However, the general factor thought that he could not have come to a better place to get all that he wanted out of everybody. He put away his saddle, and the saddlebags and sword, in a rough old sea-chest with a padlock to it, and having a sprinkle of chaff at the bottom.
The weather being now somewhat better, Mr James M'Donald, factor to Sir Alexander M'Donald in Slate, insisted that all the company at Ostig should go to the house at Armidale, which Sir Alexander had left having gone with his lady to Edinburgh, and be his guests, till we had an opportunity of sailing to Mull.
On his deathbed he sent for Selkirk, and begged him to care for his daughter, who would be left quite alone in the world. The old rascal persuaded the father that the girl could not do better than go out to the Canadas and marry the factor of Fort Royal he had received Hawke's application for a wife at about this time.
That would be condemning an innocent woman to a childless life because she had been so unfortunate as to become bound to a dissipated man. Another underlying but often unknown factor in many of the divorce cases is sterility. In some states the law says this is a just cause for divorce, because the future of the nation depends on the production of children.
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