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Newspapers, magazines, and public speeches were full of her glory, and he who found favor in her eyes found favor in the eyes of man Nodelman scarcely ever left my place during the first three days. He would show visitors over the four floors with a charming pride, like that of a mother.
This led us to ask if the Welsh language were in common use among the people. We were told that while the older people can speak it, it does not find much favor among the younger generation, some of whom are almost ashamed to admit knowledge of the old tongue. English was spoken everywhere among the people at the gathering, and the only Welsh heard was in some of the songs by the girls.
A blow had been struck in favor of the rights and liberties, not of England alone, but of descendants and kinsmen of England all over the world. Great political truths had been established. The champions of liberty had been successful in a fearful and perilous conflict. Somers, and Cavendish, and Jekyl, and Howard, had triumphed in one of the most noble causes ever undertaken by men.
The adjutant started, on, and I followed him. I used to know the adjutant when he taught a district school, before the war, and I asked him as a special favor to let me be the corporal. He said the detail would be from my company, and if I could fix it with the orderly sergeant of my company it was all right.
They can, at least, generalize so far as this, that, when they find a number of sophistries in an argument, they conclude that the cause which requires their support must be a weak one. In support of what he says on this subject, he quotes from a speech of Archbishop Whately a passage in favor of Expediency.
And I knowed to once that it wuz our Teddy, so dear to the heart of them that set store by manliness, fearlessness, bravery, bright badges from Heaven's mint shinin' on the breast of a man faithful to wife, children and country. He didn't look exactly like his pictures, but I knowed pictures didn't always favor their originals, specially in newspapers.
But here is a paragraph on the Mineral Riches of the Earth, which, many years later, found favor in the eyes of the surly Cheetham, and may still be read with some interest:
Blucher covered his face with his hands, that the old man might not see his smile. "It is just as Amelia told me it would be," he said to himself. He then added aloud: "Well, tell me the story, that I may see whether it was really you who took me prisoner." "It is a long story," said the old man, sighing, "and if I am to tell it, I must ask a favor of your excellency." "Well, what is it?
The practice of our office in the construction of the law was controlled by a few leading principles. First: to levy a tax in those cases only which were clearly provided for by the statute and, consequently, whenever a reasonable doubt existed, the decision was against the Government and in favor of the contestant.
"I'm going to see Miss Christabel Cricket home after the music is over tonight," Chirpy said, "and I've been wondering if you'd be willing to do me a favor." "Why, certainly!" Freddie Firefly told him. "Will you loan me your light?" Chirpy asked him. "You know there'll be no moon when it's time to go home.
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