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It was generally understood, on the day before the trial, that the idea of a rescue was abandoned; and the trial commenced amidst gloomy presentiments and blighted hopes. After hours of quibbling and legal fencing, a jury was selected, by the crown, to convict. From the moment they went through the blasphemous process of swearing to give a true verdict, John Mitchel's fate was sealed.
If you become another creature I can't promise to love you." "You do not love, you do not love! What is the use of all this quibbling? You love or you do not love. If you love me you ought to love me just as I am, whatever I do, always." "That would be to love you like an animal." "I want to be loved like that." "Then you have made a mistake," said he jokingly. "I am not the sort of man you want.
Who would project a serial novel, after Thackeray and Dickens had each fallen in mid-course? Who would find heart enough to begin to live, if he dallied with the consideration of death? And, after all, what sorry and pitiful quibbling all this is!
Gerhardt listened to this, and it quieted him for a few moments, but his religion was something which he could not see put in the background by any such difficulty. How would the Lord look upon quibbling like this? It was not Christian, and it was his duty to attend to the matter.
"I didn't get as far as that," replied Bruix, laughing. "And why not?" inquired Bonaparte. "Because this is the first word you have told me about your intentions, Citizen General." "True," said Bonaparte, biting his lips. "Am I to repair the omission?" asked Bruix. "No, no," exclaimed Bonaparte hastily; "they might think I needed them. I won't have any quibbling.
When she arose from her knees the gates were closed; the way was dark; she was alone alone in a little quibbling, carping village, where tired folks worked and gossiped, ate, drank, slept. Her home was pleasant, to be sure, but man is a citizen of the world, not of a house. Jane Austen began to write to write about these village people.
Velasquez held the balance true by an artistic courage and an audacity of private thought that might not have been his in a freer atmosphere. He did not wear his art upon his sleeve: he outwardly conformed, but inwardly his soul towered over every petty annoyance, and all the vain power of the fearing and quibbling little princes touched him not.
'Confound your quibbling, said the second ruffian, 'shall we let them go or not? If we stay here much longer, they will take the hint, and march off without our leave. Let them be who they will, they are rich, or why all those servants?
Paul did not stop to confer with flesh and blood. He did not stop to reckon what it would cost him, but on he went, and never stops, until he reaches the block. That is walking in the light obeying not standing, quibbling with the Lord about it; not saying, "Oh! but," but doing it.
I do not easily fathom this, I say, for the said opponents are above mere verbal quibbling; yet all that I can catch in their talk is the substitution of what is true of certain words for what is true of what they signify. They stay with the words, not returning to the stream of life whence all the meaning of them came, and which is always ready to reabsorb them.
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