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Wilberforce set forth the injustice of this attempt; and proved, that out of eighty-one days, which had been given up to the hearing of evidence, the witnesses against the abolition had occupied no less than fifty-seven. He was strenuously supported by Mr. Burke, Mr. Martin, and other respectable members.
Nevertheless, the country which exerts itself so strenuously to promote its welfare is generally more wealthy and more prosperous than that which appears to be so contented with its lot; and when we compare them together, we can scarcely conceive how so many new wants are daily felt in the former, while so few seem to occur in the latter.
Wilding, who knew the value of this Scottish soldier of fortune who had seen so much service, strenuously urged his enlargement. It was not a time to let the fortunes of a cause suffer through such an act as this, deplorable though it might be.
"A hundred years ago, by the mere fact of being a Cardinal's nephew, I should have been somebody." "That's true," exclaimed Preciozi. "And as I should have no scruples, and neither would you two, we would have plunged into life strenuously, and sacked Rome, and the whole world would be ours." "You talk like a Caesar Borgia," said Preciozi, aroused. "You are a true Spaniard."
He persisted most strenuously in freeing himself from the servile formulas of conventional style, while he earnestly repudiated the charlatanism which sought to replace the old abuses only by the introduction of new ones.
In that city of four million inhabitants, each man was strenuously pursuing his own affairs, or was harnessed into an iron yoke of duties, which deafened and blinded him to everything beside the path he had to tread. Frederick looked at his watch. It was twelve minutes past ten. His uneasiness increased. He was unable to sit still.
The more pathetically he pleaded for her compliance, the more strenuously did she resist his remonstrances.
Why then so strenuously oppose their reading such works? Florry, the trite adage, 'Truth is the hardest of all to bear, is applicable to these prelates of papacy; who, knowing their danger, are fully resolved to guard the avenues of light and knowledge.
Certainly if the Provinces were dependent upon the British king in regard to such a matter, it was the merest imbecility for them to affect independence. Barneveld had carried his point and served his country strenuously and well in this apparently small matter which human folly had dilated into a great one. But deep was the wrath treasured against him in consequence in clerical and royal minds.
The tire he was trying to change had done good service it was, in fact, the very first tire that wheel had ever carried. Perhaps it cherished fond hopes of remaining in service as long as the wheel to which it clung at least it resisted most strenuously all efforts to detach it.
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