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To be sure, he was a particularly ugly animal, rough, grisly, short-legged, long-backed, and with an apology for a tail but he had a redeeming pair of eyes, and he and Jem lived on terms of such close friendship, that he would have been miserable in leaving him to the mercy of Nanny Brooks. So, after their meal, Jem and Toby were bidden to wait for Dr.
But this old man's enthusiasm had the redeeming quality of being felt in sympathy with the only creature to whom he was linked by ties of long association, and by his present helplessness.
There were three classes of subjects on which his genius pre-eminently shone, questions of finance, the development of American industries, and the defence of the Constitution. As early as 1815, Mr. Webster acquired a national reputation by his speech on the proposition to establish a national bank, which he opposed, since it was to be relieved from the necessity of redeeming its notes in specie.
Thus the pursuit of beauty was confounded with extravagance. "Among the most significant illustrations of the fallacy of such ideas are the comeliness and the incidental recreation value which attach to many of the commercial water fronts of European river ports, and it is along such lines that Pittsburgh still has opportunity for redeeming the sordid aspect of its business centre.
From his throne at the foot of the Alps he pointed the finger of scorn at every hypocrite in Europe. He was the pioneer of his century. In 1771, in Scotland, David Hume was born. Scotch Presbyterianism is the worst form of religion that has ever been produced. The Scotch Kirk had all the faults of the Church of Rome, without a redeeming feature.
After we had made all Snug, we stood to the Westward with our Prize to Teneriffe, to have her ransomed, that is to say, her Hull; for her Cargo was not worth redeeming, being extremely shabby, one or two Butts of Wine, a Hogshead of Brandy, and other small matters, which we determined to keep for our own use.
It is, perhaps, one of my failings to push justice and impartiality to their utmost limits. I am no Pharisee; and where Vice has its redeeming point, I say, let Vice have its due yes, yes, by all manner of means, let Vice have its due. "What's the matter now, Jack?" says Mr. Jay. "Can't you see it in my face?" says Jack. "My dear fellow, delays are dangerous.
Put that to my account and praise me, ingrate! for having protected you from the nobles, and for only having regard to merit." "That is certainly a redeeming feature." Just then a man appeared in the doorway with his cap in his hand. "Who is there?" cried the King. "Is it a murderer?" "No, it is only the gardener," the man answered. "Ha! ha! gardener! your cow has calved, hasn't she?"
That he would do, even though his mother's hopes must fall and his own dreams of redeeming the place of his birth, to which he was attached by a sentiment almost poetic, must dissolve like vapor in the sun. It was mid-afternoon when Joe finished his mowing and stood casting his eyes up to the sky for signs of rain.
If men, they said, were to he united in one grand evangelical Church, it would be, not by a common creed, but by a common threefold experience a common experience of their own misery and sin; a common experience of the redeeming grace of Christ; and a common experience of the religious value of the Bible. To them this personal experience was the one essential. They had no rigid doctrine to impose.
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