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That great awakening of a new popular interest in philosophy, which is so striking a phenomenon at the present day in all countries, is undoubtedly due in part to religious demands. As the authority of past tradition tends more and more to crumble, men naturally turn a wistful ear to the authority of reason or to the evidence of present fact.
The Catholic noblemen of Ireland, whether Irish or Anglo-Irish, had good reason to complain. They had seen the Catholics driven out of the good lands of Ulster to make way for English and Scottish planters, and they well knew that the danger of similar transactions in Connaught, Munster, and Leinster had not passed away with the death of Strafford.
What do I want with money? I ain't a-goin' to live no more!" Jimmie Higgins was wandering down the street, when he ran into "Wild Bill", who was, of course, greatly surprised to see his friend in a drunken condition. When he heard the reason, he revealed an unexpected side of his nature.
But the facts are not always the truth, and in her heart, which did not reason but only felt, Molly Culpepper, knowing that Brownwell and John Barclay were in some kind of an affair together, feared the truth.
'Yes, I was snubbed, said Flaxman, unperturbed; 'that, however, is no reason why she shouldn't find it attractive to go to-morrow night. 'And you will let her see that, just because you couldn't get hold of her, you have given up your Easter party and left your sister in the lurch? 'I never had excessive notions of dignity, he replied composedly. 'You may make up any story you please.
The Hégers had no suspicion that she had been so unhappy with them as these letters indicate, and she had assigned a totally different reason for her sudden return to England. She had been introduced to Madame Héger by Mrs.
Among the latter the reason or reasons which induced Hamlet to defer the fulfilment of his revenge may perhaps continue to hold a prominent situation, although the solution of that special mystery does not seem to be attended with difficulties equal to those surrounding other cognate inquiries which arise in the study of the tragedy.
Betty's disappointment showed in her eyes; she had suspected that Calumet had had another reason. She had hoped "I reckon, though, that that wasn't his real reason," continued Dade; "he wasn't showin' all of his hand there." "What makes you think that?" asked Betty, trying not to blush.
'There is every reason why we shouldn't stay here. Every arrangement has been made for our leaving everything fully talked over. What has made you change your mind? 'I haven't really changed my mind.
Even a chance rumor might bring them their first intimation of a matter of such great import to them. Therefore the commandant attached much significance to this account of an alarm at Blue Lick Station, because of a menace from the nearest French at Fort Toulouse, often called in that day, by reason of this propinquity, "the dangerous Alabama garrison."
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