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"I see it is no use arguing with you," said the Archbishop, forcing a smile, with a vexation the smile could not altogether conceal, "You are determined to take these sayings absolutely, and to fret your spirit over the non-performance of imaginary duties which do not exist. This Church is a system, founded on our Lord's teaching, but applied to the needs of modern civilization.
Thus they made the Divinity appear improvident, by continually employing him to destroy the work of his own hands: they, in fact, taxed him with impotence, by the perpetual non-performance of those projects of which their own imbecillity, their own erring judgment, had vainly supposed him to be the contriver.
As this natural necessity, then, trenches not upon the interior sphere of the will, so it merely excuses for the performance or non-performance of external actions. It leaves the great question with respect to man’s accountability for the acts of the will itself, from which his external actions proceed, wholly untouched and undetermined. Far different is the case with respect to moral necessity.
He has endeavoured to define poetry to explain the philosophy of metre to settle the boundaries of poetic diction and to show, finally, "What it is probable Mr. Wordsworth meant to say in his dissertation prefixed to his Lyrical Ballads." As Mr. One instance there is of magnificent promise, and laughable non-performance, unequalled in the annals of literary History. Mr.
To those who have studied the author's life of opium-eating; of constant wandering from place to place; of impecuniousness so utter that, after all the painstaking of the modern biographer, and after full allowance for the ravens who seem always to have been ready to feed him, it is a mystery how he escaped the workhouse; of endless schemes and endless non-performance it is only a wonder that anything of Coleridge's ever reached the public except in newspaper columns.
A single Night to have to hold possess and so forth, at discretion. Sir Cau. A Night I shall have her safe and sound i'th' Morning. Sir Feeb. Safe, no doubt on't but how sound. Gay. And for Non-performance, you shall pay me three hundred Pounds, I'll forfeit as much if I tell Sir Cau. Tell? why, make your three hundred pounds six hundred, and let it be put into the Gazet, if you will, Man.
There was, undoubtedly, much generosity in this conduct, for by the indulgence of the crown, all prizes taken in war become the property of the captors; and Captain Carney, rather than enrich himself at the expence of his friends, chose to run the hazard of having his own conduct called in question for the non-performance of his official duty.
Dr Field saith, that the question should not be proposed, whether human laws do bind the conscience, but “whether binding the outward man to the performance of outward things by force and fear of outward punishment to be inflicted by men, the non-performance of such things, or the non-performance of them with such affections as were fit, be not a sin against God, of which the conscience will accuse us,” &c.
The Postmaster-General, in June, annulled the contract held by certain Mormons for the transportation of the monthly mall to Utah, ostensibly on account of non-performance of the service within the stipulated time, but really because he was satisfied that the mails were violated, either en route or after arrival at Salt Lake City.
The experiment did not materially improve the condition of the negro, save in the matter of physical treatment. As a slave the black man received no compensation for his labor. As a free man, he received none. He was well fed, and, generally, well clothed. He received no severe punishment for non-performance of duty, as had been the case before the war.
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