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But in his flight from famine and scarcity, as I have already observed, he was compelled to seek the hazard of a battle. Besides, he was alarmed for Hortensius, a skilful general and a man ambitious of distinction, who was conducting a force from Thessaly to Sulla, and had to pass through the straits where the enemy was waiting for him. For all these reasons Sulla moved into Bœotia.
I seek in vain for any possible reason why you should accept my love, and I can find none." "Only the best of all reasons," said Gwenda, almost in a whisper. "Gwenda! what is that?" said Will, rising to his feet, an action which the girl followed before she answered. "Only because I love you too." "Gwenda!" said Will again.
Whatever the cause of the President's attitude toward the opinions which I expressed on the subjects concerning which our views were at variance and I prefer to assume that the cause was a misapprehension of my reasons for giving them the result was that he was disposed to give them little weight.
But there is really nothing in this beyond the now familiar appeal to human impotence. "We do not know," "We cannot see," are quite excellent reasons for saying nothing at all, but the very worst ground on which to make positive statements, or on which to base positive beliefs.
Unless the insect by its presence betrayed its secret, the shrewdest observer at close quarters would have been misled. There are reasons for the belief that green tree-ants understand and respect the laws of neutrality. There are several communities in the mango-trees, and since some of the trees overhang the fence, the top wire is used as a highway. When a gate is opened traffic is suspended.
Not peculiar to savagery, ignorance, the Dark Ages, or periods of Religious crisis. Nature of the Evidence. It is not without hesitation that this book is offered to the reader. Very many people, for very various reasons, would taboo the subjects here discoursed of altogether.
This bold plan of proceeding for many reasons appeared inexpedient to Dwyer, and he determined not to consent to its adoption without a struggle. 'I commend your prudence, said he, 'in determining to remove yourself from the fascinating influence which has so long bound you here; but beware of offending your father.
Louis, who, for several reasons disliked England and English ideas, was at first inclined to coincide in this feeling as a development of anti-English principles: he was far from suspecting that its source was rather a revolutionary and republican sentiment.
"He has good reasons!" replied Nayland Smith grimly; "if that man really possesses information inimical to the safety of Fu-Manchu, he can only escape doom by means of a miracle similar to that which has hitherto protected you and me."
Out of all which reasons the Doctor perfectly understands the ground of his distemper; and in the absence of his wife, reveals it unto him.
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