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He was driven before him amidst broken hopes, and broken promises his challenge, a boast unfulfilled, his prestige withered. What the issue might have been if the decision were different, it would be rash to conjecture. It might have been carnage; it might have been a triumph. The historian has nothing to do with conjecture.
The law university enjoyed the same patrician prestige and éclat that now belong to the more aristocratic houses of the old universities. Noblemen sent their sons to it in order that they might acquire the style and learning and accomplishments of polite society.
Sherman was keen enough to understand what must have passed in Washington, and was able to appreciate the loyal consideration shown by General Grant in the successful effort to protect the honour and the prestige of his old comrade. The surrender was carried out on the 26th of April, eleven days after the death of Lincoln. Johnston's troops, like those of Lee, were distributed to their homes.
The proof of a faith is not in its prestige, but in its present power. Things divine are not defended by dodging. It is the heart that gives ease to any work. The door of truth never opens to the key of prejudice. Love never knows how much it gives nor what it costs. The scribe and the Pharisee are still with us.
The Papacy had always proved to be a broken reed for Welsh princes; but Owen's alliance with Peter de Luna, the anti-Pope Benedict XIII., gave a certain amount of prestige to his title.
Consequently since we rebuilt and enlarged our house according to our needs, I have always been a man of peace, nor have I shrunk from small sacrifices. The strong man can afford to yield at times. Neither the Caroline Islands nor Samoa were worth a war, however much stress I have always laid on our colonial development. We did not stand in need of glory won in battles, nor of prestige.
From his boyhood from the time of his father's death he had moved among rough men men who held their lives cheaply, but whose adventurous natures were akin to his own; men "who never had 'listed," but who traded and sailed, and fought and died from bullet, or club, or deadly fever in the murderous Solomons or New Hebrides; men whose pioneering instinct and unrecorded daring has done so much for their country's flag and their country's prestige, but whose very names are forgotten by the time the quick-growing creeper and vine of the hot tropic jungle has hidden their graves from even the keen eye of the savage aboriginal.
They had once possessed a great property in the county; but gambling losses and speculation had greatly reduced their wealth, and even in the time of Wyvis Brand's grandfather the prestige of the family had sunk very low. In the days of Mark Brand, the father of Wyvis, it sank lower still. Mark Brand was not only "wild," but weak: not only weak, but wicked.
New faces showed up in his office now from time to time among them that of Van Nostrand and one Terrence Relihan, a representative of some other political forces at Harrisburg. He was introduced to the governor one day at lunch. His name was mentioned in the papers, and his prestige grew rapidly. Immediately he began working on plans with young Ellsworth for his new house.
He said, "American prestige would suffer irretrievably if we gave up an inch; we must stand firm!" The message from General Shafter flew through the United States, and caused great anxiety.
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