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Cleek? Why not call in person and see?" she asked. "It will be more satisfactory than writing; and you will be welcome always." "I thank your ladyship," he said gravely though all the soul of him rioted and laughed and longed to shout out for sheer joy. "It is a privilege I shall be happy to enjoy."
Enough for me that I stand on the privilege of a free Scotchman, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited." "It is well, then," said Sir Piercie Shafton; "we will dispute this matter to-morrow morning with our swords. Let the time be daybreak, and do thou assign the place. We will go forth as if to strike a deer."
This is the sine qua num. Every primary law goes through heaven and earth. Go with it. This is the business and privilege of intellect. When one comes to writing, let his discourse have a beginning and an end. Do not let the end of his essay be merely the end of his sheet, or the place where he took a notion to stop writing, but let it be necessary.
Twenty years passed, and nothing in particular happened. National wealth increased, all established institutions seemed secure, and people began to forget that they had passed through a revolution. Then arose John Bright, reminding the working-men of the Midlands that their fathers "had shaken the citadel of Privilege to its base," and inciting them to give the tottering structure another push.
"Or forbids the interchange of true sympathy that priceless privilege," answered Selma, her liking for a sententious speech rising paramount even to the pleasure caused her by the allusion to her personal appearance. Nevertheless it was agreeable to be preferred to his female cousins on the score of comeliness.
For a very long moment Mr. Ronald sat silent. So long a moment, indeed, that Claire, waiting in growing suspense for his answer, suddenly remembered all those things she had forgotten, and her earlier embarrassment returned with a wave of bitter self-reproach. She accused herself of having been too free. She had overstepped her privilege.
Climb the dark stair, and hear for yourself these melting stories, which will fill your heart with pity, and not leave you wondering what will interest next. What a privilege, yea, high honour, it is to be allowed to take messages for Jesus!
I assure you I esteem it an inestimable privilege." "You love flowers, then?" "O yes, passionately. I have almost an idolatrous love for them." "And does it not make you sad to see them wither away, in spite of your passionate love?" "Yes, but others bloom in their stead. 'T is but a change from blossom to blossom."
They proposed that the prizes in the Government, the Army, and the Church should be given to merit among the active and necessary portion of the people, and that no privilege injurious to them should be reserved for the unprofitable minority.
The legislature and the courts of law held their sessions here, and, what was not known then elsewhere in the world, the General Court was public, that is, the people were admitted to hear the debates, while in England the public was excluded; it was an offence to report the debates in Parliament, and a breach of privilege for a member to print even his own speech.
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