United States or Timor-Leste ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Nevertheless, there is that within which ever pleads for the right and the just. In conclusion, I have taken a sober view of the present anti-slavery movement. I am sober, but not hopeless. There is no denying, for it is everywhere admitted, that the anti-slavery question is the great moral and social question now before the American people.
Officers have repeatedly told me that our new volunteers, eagerly do more work in a week and learn more of the art of war in a few days than the men learned in six months in time of peace. In England we have no need for conscription, because the best manhood of our nation pleads to be allowed to fight for the country." "And yet the English hate war?" Again there was a sneer in the voice.
The first offender says "I did it because I find fishing very amusing," and the magistrate bids him depart in peace; nay, probably wishes him good sport. The second pleads, "I wanted to impress a scientific truth, with a distinctness attainable in no other way, on the minds of my scholars," and the magistrate fines him five pounds.
The tramp recognizes the priest at once, and the sight of that familiar face brings back the old, happy days of his innocent boyhood. The priest commences to speak; he pleads, he reasons with the boss of the stone-crusher.
He tries to raise the groveling victim of his unbridled lust, but she beats him back; he pleads for mercy, but she calls him ungrateful slave, base Hebrew dog and prays all Egypt's gods to curse her conqueror.
"'Put them in the pail by you, answered Harriet. ""They are my last earthly comfort," said I. 'What next? "She continued to dictate, ""You must take them away. It may be -perhaps it must be that I shall soon follow, but the breaking heart of a wife still pleads, 'a little longer, a little longer." "'How much longer must the gingerbread stay in? inquired Mina.
Mayhap when Woman in her loveliness and power thus pleads for Woman in her misery and poverty, the chord may be struck which will proclaim the sin, and produce its abolishment. If the mansion of the wealthy be guided or blessed by thy residence, proclaim the fearful fact, and whispering ask, "For what does God give wealth?"
Yea, and the higher and more honourable the person is that pleads for such, the more he humbles himself.
Marie's trembling hand draws the paper from her bosom. She knows that address by heart. "Give it to me, Marie," he pleads, "for safety." A FRENCHWOMAN can deny her lover nothing. "Now, listen, 'ma cherie," Jules murmurs. "You get the one treasure. To-morrow I go to the bank, the telegraph, you understand, but not till you have the other money safe." Her eyes sparkle. A double fortune!
"The plea of the accused is not a mere formality with us, as with you. It is usually the end of the case." "You don't mean that the man who pleads not guilty is thereupon discharged?" "No, I do not mean that. He is not accused on light grounds, and if he denies his guilt, must still be tried. But trials are few, for in most cases the guilty man pleads guilty.
Word Of The Day