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If in any other State a movement on the congressional plan was initiated, that might do well; but for any hard-and-fast, all-round plan the time was not ripe. The radicals, led by Wade and Henry Winter Davis, chafed bitterly, but Lincoln was not an easy man to fix a quarrel on.
You set out every time upon a new adventure. I liked to schottische with her; she had so much spring and variety, and was always putting in new steps and slides. She taught me to dance against and around the hard-and-fast beat of the music. If, instead of going to the end of the railroad, old Mr.
One of these, as stated by a writer who confessed himself otherwise in entire agreement with me, was this: "It is impossible, as Mr. Mallock attempts to do, to draw a hard-and-fast line between mental effort and muscular." No such attempt is made. Further, I pointed out that, in a technical sense, the same effort may be either an effort of labour or ability, according to its application.
Jan turned extremely red and walked rather faster. "Do not misunderstand me, Miss Ross," Mr. Withells continued, looking with real admiration at her downcast, rosy face she must be quite healthy he thought, to look so clean and fresh always "I lay down no hard-and-fast rules. I do not say should my wife desire to kiss me sometimes, that I should ... repulse her." Jan gasped.
The Speaker stands patiently wrestling with the problem of procedure and often failing since practice is still in process of being formed. Years must elapse before absolutely hard-and-fast rules are established. Still the progress already made since August, 1916, is remarkable, and something is being learned every day.
"In Italy they always kiss hands it's rather rude not to. Let's pretend it's Italy." She was not offended; might have been pleased, in fact for Gwen was no precisian, no drawer of hard-and-fast lines in flirtation if it had not been for the black cloud that in the last few minutes had been stifling her heart.
There was undoubtedly something pathetic in this son of a line of gondoliers, reaching back farther than many a titled family, this man with an innate love for the craft, a genuine passion for the lagoons, placed in the artificial environment of modern society, constrained to deal with the hard-and-fast exactions of modern science.
He can express a certain amount through his handwriting, if he write in a properly elastic way. But his writing is not printed in facsimile. It is printed in cold, mechanical, monotonous type. For his every effect he must rely wholly on the words that he chooses, and on the order in which he ranges them, and on his choice among the few hard-and-fast symbols of punctuation.
'We are at the scene, he said, 'of one of the most treacherous acts of all criminal drama. I mean the "doing in," as our criminals call it, of the unprofessional accomplice. It's a regulation piece of business with the hard-and-fast criminal organizations of the Continent, like the Nervi of Marseilles, or the Lecca of Paris.
We have met sceptics hitherto by adhering to the opinions as to the necessity of accuracy which prevailed among our forefathers, and instead of saying, "You are right we do NOT know all that we thought we did nevertheless we know enough we know the fact, though the manner of the fact be hidden," we have preferred to say, "You are mistaken, our severe outline, our hard-and-fast lines are all perfectly accurate, there is not a detail of our theories which we are not prepared to stand by."
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