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Instances occurred in which the powerful Tartar soldier rushed within the bayonet guard of his opponent, and grappled with him for life or death. A full description of the numerous actions which took place from the commencement to the termination of the war, extending over so many months, would at the present day be far from interesting. We shall, therefore, but briefly allude to some of them.
It seemed, indeed, as though the Council of Northampton had brought nothing but failure and disaster. The king's whole scheme of reform depended on the ruin or the submission of the Primate, who was its open and formidable opponent. But Thomas was free and was now more dangerous than ever. The Church was alarmed, suspicious, perplexed.
Now this mode of reasoning in the school-boy, whom his fellows termed 'Lucky, what, in its last analysis, is it?" "It is merely," I said, "an identification of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent."
His present opponent was not horrible to him as had been John Crumb, as men in clubs do not now often knock each others' heads or draw swords one upon another. 'Don't let's have a quarrel here, said Mr Lupton. 'I shall leave the room if you do. 'If we must break up, let us break up in peace and quietness, said Nidderdale.
"Good night and thank you," said I. So I went my way, not elated but utterly depressed, more depressed than when I won the first case in which I knew my client's opponent was in the right and had lost only because I outgeneraled his stupid lawyer.
'Boy! said his father sternly, at the same instant dealing his encumbered opponent a blow on the head-piece which tumbled him also from his horse, 'is the sacred hour of victory a time to sully with profane and foolish jests? I little thought to hear such words at my side not to say from the mouth of my own son! 'Pardon me, father; I praised my horse, said Richard.
In such wordy warfare charity has no part; but pride and combativeness hold entire dominion over the soul. He who comes off conqueror may exult in his own power; but he has overcome, not because reason was on his side, but because his combativeness was stronger than that of his opponent; and he exults in that which is in reality his shame.
The would-be murderess, who was long, and absurdly short in the leg, too, just like her opponent, only with a more graceful and not such a thick-set body, turned on herself in a snaky fashion, and her neck, that the fangs had aimed at, was not there when the polecat arrived, but her teeth were, and they closed on the polecat's cheek.
He was a very fine backer up, possessing first-rate dribbling powers, and although a little shy in meeting his opponent when he saw a charge inevitable, rather preferring to use stratagem, was by no means afraid to go into the heart of a scrimmage and face up to much heavier men than himself. This was Mr.
And then came the disaster to his army at Shiloh the first day's fight a bloody and overwhelming defeat the second the recovery of the ground lost and the death of Albert Sydney Johnston, his brilliant Confederate opponent. As a matter of fact, in its results, the battle had been a crushing disaster to the South.
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