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At the same time, it may be advisable for your Majesty, to give the proper orders, that Mr. Wood shall not coin, import into Ireland, utter or dispose of any more copper halfpence or farthings, than to the amount of 40,000l. according to his own proposal, without your Majesty's special licence or authority, to be had for that purpose; and if your Majesty shall be pleased to order, that Mr.
So when the second night of "The Perplexed Lovers" arrived, and a special licence from the Lord Chamberlain had been secured, the actress came valiantly forward and spoke the epilogue with success. Perhaps Eugene of Savoy thanked Mrs. Oldfield let us hope that he did and it is at least certain that after the withdrawal of the play his Highness sent Mrs. And who was the gratified Centlivre?
His talk of women still suggested the hawk with the downy feathers of the last little plucked bird sticking to his beak; but his appreciation of Janet and some kindness for me made him a vehement opponent of her resolve. He took licence of his friendship to lay every incident before her, to complete his persuasions.
'How can I see what I have seen, and hold my peace! returned the locksmith. 'Who was that man, and why has his coming made this change in you? She was silent, but held to the chair as though to save herself from falling on the ground. 'I take the licence of an old acquaintance, Mary, said the locksmith, 'who has ever had a warm regard for you, and maybe has tried to prove it when he could.
I went on from bad to worse, and at length, believing that if I could get out to the Pacific of which I had read I could enjoy unfettered liberty and licence, I shipped on board a vessel bound out, round Cape Horn.
In writing a history of this kind, a certain licence must be claimed. It will be understood that I am filling certain gaps in the narrative with imagined detail. But the facts are true. My added detail is only intended to give an appearance of life and reality to my history. Let me, therefore, insist upon one vital point. I have not been dependent on hearsay for one single fact in this story.
"The Nazarene will seize it all!" cried Elias; "I see it already in his grasp!" "Nay, thinkest thou so? and wherefore?" asked Ximen, startled into sincere, because selfish anxiety. "Mark me! Under licence of the truce, I went, last night, to the Christian camp: I had an interview with the Christian king; and when he heard my name and faith, his very beard curled with ire.
It was thought that publicity was the best cure for intrigue. For a while the liberty of the Press seemed justified. It is justified no longer. The licence which it assumes has led to far worse evils than those which it was designed to prevent. In other words, the slave has become a tyrant, and where is the statesman who shall rid us of this tyranny?
When he read of the Phillips inquest, and what I'd said then, he thought of those registers and turned them up, out of a chest where they'd lain for thirty years anyway; and he at once found the entry of the marriage of one Michael Carstairs with a Mary Smeaton, which was by licence, and performed by the last vicar of Walholm it was, as a matter of fact, the very last marriage which ever took place in the old church.
"Social subjects seem to be forcing themselves on the attention of every thoughtful and right-minded person just now, and it would be culpable cowardice to shun them while there is the shadow of a hope that some means may be devised to put right what is so very wrong. Ignoring an evil is tantamount to giving it full licence to spread.
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