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And Foma, intoxicated, but sad and calm, spoke to them with heavy voice: "That's the way I understand it: some people are worms, others sparrows. The sparrows are the merchants. They peck the worms. Such is their destined lot. They are necessary But I and you all of you are to no purpose. We live so that we cannot be compared to anything without justification, merely at random.
It was, therefore, on the day after the baptism of young Connor, for so had the child been called after his paternal grandfather, that, as a justification for his own conduct in the matter of the christening, he disclosed to his wife, with much reluctance and embarrassment, this undivulged source of his fears for the future, alleging it as a just argument for his declining to be guided by her opinion.
Sometimes I begin with the Stamp Act, and I go over all our grievances, one by one, and say ain't they a sufficient justification? Well, it makes a long list, and I get kinder satisfied, and it appears as clear as anything.
The farmer spoke sense, and the boy, after his late interview with Austin, had become capable of perceiving vaguely that a towering passion is hardly the justification for a wrong course of conduct. "Come," continued the farmer, not unkindly, "what else have you to say?" Here was the same bitter cup he had already once drained brimming at Richard's lips again!
There was probably no earthly reason why the "Poco Mas o Menos" Club of San Francisco should have ever existed, or why its five harmless, indistinctive members should not have met and dined together as ordinary individuals. Still less was there any justification for the gratuitous opinion which obtained, that it was bold, bad, and brilliant.
Andreyev, in writing it, has come very near to solving the question of the meaning of life, and its justification.
I came to see my son before I die that is all I want." Mrs. Lawson attempted a further justification of herself, but the words died on her lips. The stern looks of the old man silenced her.
"Oh! if I had but been pretty, what adventures I would have had!" cried Lisbeth. "That is your justification." "But you would have acted only at the dictates of your heart," said Madame Marneffe, with a sigh. "Pooh! Marneffe is a dead man they have forgotten to bury," replied Lisbeth.
This new religion of the Bible the people may receive; the version now current of the religion of the Bible they will not receive." He sets out on this enterprise by repeating what he had said in St. Paul and Protestantism about the misunderstandings which had arisen from affixing to certain phrases such as grace, new birth, and justification, a fixed, rigid, and quasi-scientific meaning.
"Answer me, my friend," he said to his confidant, Count Prokesch-Osten, "answer me this question, which is one of great importance to me just now: What do people think of me? Do they see in me any justification for the caricatures which are forever presenting me as a creature of the feeblest intelligence?" Count Prokesch answered him: "Don't worry. Don't you appear in public every day?
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