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We denied that sufficient proof had been obtained in the case now before the court. The judges consulted, and decided that the trial should go on. We took our next objection when the confessions were produced in evidence.
"And why did you leave?" "Because Mr. Goodnow missed some articles from his stock, and I was charged with taking them." Rodney was fearful of the effect of his frank confession upon Mr. Sargent, but the latter soon reassured him. "Your honesty in restoring my sister's jewelry is sufficient proof that the charge was unfounded. I shall not let it influence me." "Thank you, sir."
The witnesses, in telling their story, although their minds are wholly occupied with the proof or disproof of certain propositions, describe ways of living, standards of right and wrong, traits of manners, codes of propriety, religious and social ideas, which, taken together, form social pictures of great interest and value.
'I swear upon my honour that his name is Peter Brock: he was for two years my corporal, and deserted, running away with a thousand pounds of my moneys. Look at the fellow! What is the matter with his eye? why did he wear a patch over it? But stop! says he. 'I have more proof. Hand me my pocket-book. And from it, sure enough, he produced the infernal proclamation announcing my desertion!
That human life must be a kind of mistake is sufficiently clear from the fact that man is a compound of needs, which are difficult to satisfy; moreover, if they are satisfied, all he is granted is a state of painlessness, in which he can only give himself up to boredom. This is a precise proof that existence in itself has no value, since boredom is merely the feeling of the emptiness of life.
At every other period they rather toiled to procure something which they might share with the Chief, as a proof of their attachment, than expected other assistance from him save what was afforded by the rude hospitality of his castle, and the general division and subdivision of his estate among them.
Abraham Lincoln did not object to being kissed: he had, at least, grown to accept the process as one of the unaccountable mysteries of life. But something happened to him one afternoon, on the occasion of his giving proof of an intellect which may eventually bring him, in the footsteps of his great namesake, to the White House.
A. Nay, you must make two questions of this one; that is, what is it for faith to come, and in what manner doth it come? Q. Well then, what is it for faith to come? Q. That I was once without it, you intimated before, but must I take it without proof for granted? Q. Why, how is it with men, before faith comes?
It will, in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand, be found, I think, that the dress, which before came together without the slightest difficulty, will no longer meet. There is necessary no other proof that an unnatural pressure has been habitually used, although, from the very fact that it has been so long habitual, the girls are entirely unconscious of it.
Her Ladyship, at one moment, would overlook me, I being present, as if no such person had been in existence: or as if he were not half so worthy of attention as her lap-dog; for, as a proof, on the lap-dog it was lavished: yet, at another, I was absolutely the most charming man on earth. I had positively the most refined taste, good breeding, and all that that she had ever known.
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