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It is rather absurd, therefore, to imagine that in any of those cases in which the slip of papyrus has been found in the mouth after death, the cause of death has been the slavish imitativeness of the suicidal mania, for this, as I say, is never slavish.
What's to prevent us from hopping to another platform? There is no other Mercutian in sight." "No, but there were plenty of Earthmen who saw us." "They won't tell." "Oh, won't they?" Grim shook his head quietly. "You don't realize what has happened. Their spirit has been crushed until they are actually slavish in soul as well as in body. They fought bravely enough on the first invasion.
Objectively, she was a slim, hoopless little woman, with a tendency to be always at the street-door when we opened it. She had a narrow, narrow face, with eyes of terrible slyness, an applausive smile, and a demeanor of slavish patronage.
But Rodolph, who feared nothing so much as remaining in this slavish dependence on the Estates, waited not for a warlike issue, but hastened to effect a reconciliation with his brother by more peaceable means.
But to think of the living God not as our father, but as one who has condescended greatly, being nowise, in his own willed grandeur of righteous nature, bound to do as he has done, is killing to all but a slavish devotion. It is to think of him as nothing like the God we see in Jesus Christ. It will be answered that we have fallen, and God is thereby freed from any obligation, if any ever were.
In reply to this I would say, that it must be a base spirit which does not prize "independence" for its own sake, whatever privation and suffering may attend it; and much more base must be that spirit, which can exchange that "independence" for a state of slavish subjection even though that state abound in all sensual gratifications.
They compensated him for the slavish abasement of his whole neighbourhood under the hectoring of the grand new manufacture of wit in London: the inimitable Metropolitan PUN, which came down to the country by four-in-hand, and stopped all other conversation wherever it was reported, and would have the roar there was no resisting it.
"Anyway, we're keen to speed up the better understanding move on the principle that Art unites and politics divide." "Very pithy and approximately true! May I be allowed to proffer a sound working maxim for youth on the war-path? 'Freedom and courage in thought obedience in act. When I say obedience, I don't mean slavish conformity. When I say freedom, I don't mean licence.
It would be both painful and disagreeable to dwell upon the hellish iniquity of this merciless and moral murder; it is enough to say that, having reduced the young man to the precise condition which was necessary for his purpose, this slavish and unprincipled ruffian, as Delahunt did with his innocent victim, deliberately put his hand to his throat, or, rather, to the left side of his neck, and there found beyond all doubt a large welt, or cicatrice, precisely as had been described by Sir Thomas.
A scurril or obscene jest, an impudent carriage, a laced cloak, a handful of gold, and the readiness to wager it on a card, or a die, will better advance you at the Court of Charles, than your father's ancient name, and slavish devotion of blood and fortune to the cause of his father." "That is, indeed, but too probable," said Peveril; "but the Court shall be no element of mine.
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