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Might it not, then, be urged with great force that the way to do good, in presence of this operation for uprooting the Church establishment in Ireland by the power of the Nonconformists' antipathy to publicly establishing or endowing religious worship, is not by lending a hand straight away to the operation, and Hebraising, that is, in this case, taking an uncritical interpretation of certain Bible words as our absolute rule of conduct, with the Nonconformists.
But neither Melissa nor the other women could succeed in really lending her any help, for she herself put forth all her cleverness and power of head and hand, forgetting nothing that might be useful or agreeable in the nursing of the sick.
I have been accused of being ambitious; I have been charged with aspiring to the office of prime minister of this great country and of lending all my energies to the attainment of that end; but I only wish I could make my opponents understand how infinitely surpassing all this, how utterly petty and contemptible in my thoughts have been all such considerations, in comparison with the one longing desire to discharge those debts of honour and vindicate those Scottish principles that have been instilled into me since my youth.
But although Henry VIII. did not buy books extensively, he sometimes borrowed them, and several entries chronicle the lending of books to him by monastic and other libraries, when he was pestering Christendom for arguments in favour of his divorce from Katharine of Arragon.
Reader desires a thing have it she will; you may just as well talk of avoiding her as of avoiding gout, bills, or grey hairs and that, you know, is impossible. I, for my part, have had all three ay, and a wife too. And some hidden power was working in the case of Mrs. Hayes, and, for its own awful purposes, lending her its aid. Who has not felt how he works the dreadful conquering Spirit of Ill?
But these uncertain conditions accustomed him to look for his subsistence now here, then there; now to accept a position with small advantage to himself in the house of a cardinal, in the Vatican or elsewhere; then, when he saw some other prospect, magnanimously to give up his place, while looking about for something else and lending an ear to many a proposition.
But now, Clara, my love, we must lose no time in seeing Doctor Williams, lest your guardian should pursue you here and give you fresh trouble." Clara assented to this, and they immediately arose from the table, cleared away the service, put the room in order and went up-stairs to put on their bonnets, Mrs. Rocke lending Clara her own best bonnet and shawl.
On the contrary, we think his explanation true or at least, true in part; and we heartily thank him for lending us his assistance to demolish the essay of his follower. His wit and his sarcasm are sport to us; but they are death to his unhappy disciple. Mr Bentham seems to imagine that we have said something implying an opinion favourable to despotism.
Even when a farmer has a tidy sum of money on deposit with the bank at one per cent., if he wants to employ a sum for a short time, say for the purchase of cattle, he prefers to raise the money on a bill at six per cent. That is to say, the bank is lending him his own money at five per cent. a truly Hibernian trait, which it would be difficult to beat anywhere.
She laughed a little as she added, "I believe I am just a bit more anxious to prove to our friend Miss Carpenter that in lending us the capital for our venture she has not done a reckless and unwise thing." "But, Norah " "I know what you are going to say. She is not worrying about the money and could well afford to take the risk, but with you and me it is a matter of principle.
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