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Well am I aware that we have in this ancient city innumerable worthy gentlemen, the knights-errant of modern days, who go about redressing wrongs and defending the defenceless, not for the love of filthy lucre, nor the selfish cravings of renown, but merely for the pleasure of doing good.
'Twas to no purpose for a man, lame as my uncle Toby was, to think of redressing these evils by himself, he rung his bell for his man Trim; Trim, quoth my uncle Toby, prithee see what confusion I have here been making I must have some better contrivance, Trim. Can'st not thou take my rule, and measure the length and breadth of this table, and then go and bespeak me one as big again?
The following was, however, my view of the question: In striking him I had placed myself on his level; if I did so in order to insult him, I had a right also to do it in order to give him the only atonement in my power: had the insult come solely from him, I might then, with some justice, have intrenched myself in my superiority of rank contempt would have been as optional as revenge: but I had left myself no alternative in being the aggressor, for if my birth was to preserve me from redressing an injury, it was also to preserve me from committing one.
I took every opportunity of inquiring into the nature of their laws and mode of government, and I found that, in general, their method of redressing wrongs was very summary, and that their ideas of what was strictly just were, for the most part, simple and equitable. For any theft, or offence of that sort, committed by one tribe on another, the parties are called to instant account.
It is our delaying it that encourages her to hope for conquest, and our backwardness tends only to prolong the war. As we have, without any good effect therefrom, withheld our trade to obtain a redress of our grievances, let us now try the alternative, by independantly redressing them ourselves, and then offering to open the trade.
Warkworth entered into it, but already invested with the passionless and sexless beauty of a world where whether it be to us poetry or reality "they neither marry nor are given in marriage." Her warm and living thoughts spent themselves on one theme only the redressing of a spiritual balance. She was no longer a beggar to her husband; she had the wherewithal to give.
They improved the occasion for redressing their grievances, and agreed that the public wants should be relieved; but went into an examination of the causes of them.
There should be henceforth three votes for the Bohemian nation, and only one for the three others. Such a shifting of the weight certainly appears as a redressing of one inequality by creating another.
The next step taken by the Ministry was to undertake war with Afghanistan, in hopes of checking the advances of Russia in that direction and of redressing grievances. England accomplished her purpose in part, but greatly suffered for her exploit. Mr. Gladstone could not remain quiet under the "adventurous policy" of the Premier.
Arbitration's great opportunity has come in the advancing moral standards of states, whereby the disposition to deliberate wrong-doing has diminished, and consequently the occasions for redressing wrong by force the less frequent to arise.
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