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Ruskin's eminence and fame in the world of letters. But Mr. Ruskin was a bold and earnest man, as well as a genius; and he had too much to tell his heedless, laissez-faire age to keep silent on themes, remote as they were from those he had hitherto taught, and of which he desired to deliver his soul, whatever ridicule it might provoke and however adverse the criticism levelled against him.
You've got no right to show that you ever was in the army, or so much as seen a regiment. You salooted the General jest now. Don't you ever let me see you do it to him agin, or to no other officer. You musn't do nothin' but take off your hat and bow. You hear me?" Shorty was rubbing it in on his old tormentor in hopes to provoke him to a fight.
"Lord, I don't wish anything about it! I only say so to provoke him." "And what strange pleasure can that give you?" "O the greatest in the world! I take much delight in seeing anybody in a passion. It makes them look so excessively ugly!" "And is that the way you like every body should look, Lady Honoria?"
He, too, acted in a blundering and dangerous way; he was only just past boyhood, eighteen years of age, and saw that the succession to the inheritance and the family was sure to provoke jealousy and censure: yet he started in pursuit of objects that had led to Caesar's murder, and no punishment befell him, and he feared neither the assassins nor Lepidus and Antony.
Gillespie exerted himself to the utmost of his power to avert the coming calamities which he anticipated, by striving to prevent the commission of crimes which provoke judgment. His influence was sufficient to restrain the Church from consenting to countenance the weak and wicked movements of politicians. But his health continued to sink under these incessant toils and anxieties.
In London Cavour met with a friendly reception from Lord Malmesbury, who was then Foreign Minister, and who assured him that the English Government would be glad to see him back in office. With characteristic presence of mind he framed his answer to provoke a more definite pronouncement. He could not, he said, return to office alone or abandon the party he had been at so much pains to create.
'You try to provoke me; you take liberties. You may call the woman Aminta, I've told you; you insult me when you call the woman by my family name. 'Pardon me, my lady: I have no right to call Lady Ormont Aminta. 'You've never done so, eh? Say! She had him at the edge of the precipice. He escaped by saying, 'Her Christian name was asked the other day, and I mentioned it.
Stuart did not relish this kind of joking, but it would not do to provoke a quarrel; so he joined the chief in his laugh with the best grace he could affect, and to pacify the savage for his failure to procure the horse, gave him some powder, and they parted professedly the best of friends.
But when I thought of the innumerable dangers which surrounded us and the comparatively small amount of ammunition that I had with me, I hesitated to provoke a battle with Buckingham and his warriors when, by flight, I could avoid them and preserve my cartridges against emergencies which could not be escaped. "Would they follow us there?"
He sent for me to repay me the millions I had lent him without interest; and I took occasion there to speak of my thriving manufactures and my great commercial schemes. "And you asked for a baron's title!" "I did. The emperor opened his large eyes, and looked knowingly at me. He had guessed my thoughts. 'So, said he, 'you would like to provoke the aristocracy to little, would you?
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