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Unscientific, illogical, brutal, are such desires, as you need not tell me. And yet, madam, they are manly. I hate slow justice; I like it quick quick, or none at all, I say, so long as it is justice. Creeping justice is, to my mind, little better than slow revenge. My opinions are not orthodox, but I hope they do not frighten you."

As it was she came near, at this time, to being the reverse of lovable, or so it struck me when, upon my endeavour to talk calmly and rationally to her after hearing all that Jack Osborne had just told us, and striving to induce her to listen to reason, she remained prejudiced, illogical.

Anyone who knows the West of Ireland knows there would have been an outburst of hurrahs, hearty and spontaneous. The Irish are delightfully illogical. A respectable old Fenian had a poor opinion of the present Home Rule agitation. He said: "I am of the school of Stephens and Mitchel. When a people or nation is radically discontented with its rulers it should throw them off by force.

The mute eloquence of those tattered banners seemed a not illogical reply to the diplomatic Paul's rhetoric in regard to the hopelessness of a contest with Spanish armies. Next, Van der Werken pensionary of Leyden, and a classical scholar waited upon the envoy with a Latin reply to his harangue, together with a courteous letter for Sigismund.

Yet into this entirely illogical position the Commonwealth was steadily drifting. The cause was simple enough. The States of Holland, as already observed, were Remonstrant by a large majority. The States-General were Contra-Remonstrant by a still greater majority.

Should I censure, a majority of my readers nearly all of the masculine portion would pick holes in my unpractical philosophy, scout my reasoning as illogical, brand my conclusions as pernicious winding up their protest with the sigh of the mazed disciples, when stunned by the great Teacher's deliverance upon the subject of divorce, "If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry!"

"From grave to gay, from lively to severe" he flew without delay or difficulty. His wit gave point to the most irrelevant personalities, and cogency to the most illogical syllogisms. The most daring perversions of truth and justice were driven home by appeals to the emotions which the coldest natures could scarcely withstand; "the passions of his audience were playthings in his hand."

Unfortunately, there is no more illogical sequence of human emotion than the exasperation produced by the bland manner of the unfortunate object who has excited it, although that very unconcern may be the convincing proof of innocence of intention. Judge Peyton, already influenced, was furious at the comfortable obliviousness of his careless henchman, and rode angrily towards him.

"As soon as he began to get better Brandon remembered that we were the cause of his misfortunes. You can see how this complicated things." "But we had nothing to do with them," Clare said sharply. "What made him think we had?" "It's not an illogical conclusion when he imagines that he lost his papers in our house." Clare got up with a red flush in her face and her eyes sparkling.

It is the very extravagance of illogical temper to call on me to furnish an explanation because I say 'we know far too little of the thing itself to guess at its causes; but of the current guesses, imposture seems inconsistent with the evidence, and 'spiritual agency' with the character of the phenomena." "That," replied Colonel A , "sounds common sense, and sounds even more commonplace.