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His faith in democracy as a form of government was unbounded, as was his loyalty to that beneficent political creed summed up in the motto "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." "As a president," writes the lecturer, Dr. John Lord, "he is not to be compared with Washington for dignity, for wisdom, for consistency, or executive ability.

Resolving, therefore, to confine the operation to the simplest terms at first, Cerizet summed them up in the manoeuvre of the poppy-heads, already mentioned, and he was making his way back to Toupillier's abode, armed with that single weapon of war, intending to give Madame Cardinal further instructions, when he met her, bearing on her arm the basket she had just bought; and in that basket was the sick man's panacea.

Lincoln, their Northern President," in a tone implying confidence that I shared her feeling for him. As we went back to the drawing-room for coffee, she summed up herself to me, though she thought to sum up more than herself. "They swept us with the besom of war, Mr. Blake, and they overwhelmed but they could not subjugate us."

The story of the Lowell cotton factories, for twenty years, more or less, until the American girls operating the machines came to be supplanted by French Canadians and Irish, is appropriately summed up in the title of a book which describes the factory life in Lowell during those years.

Then did Nicolaus begin to prosecute what the king had begun, and that with great bitterness; and summed up all the evidence which arose from the tortures, or from the testimonies.

There is nothing in Fielding's life that is more to his honour than the brief words in which so competent an observer as Lady Bute summed up his marriage with Charlotte Cradock, "he loved her passionately and she returned his affection."

Bart smiled as he looked, but he had no thoughts, and all that he felt was summed up in a word that he uttered gently: "Ann!" She knelt down at once. "What is it, Bart?" and again: "What were you trying to say?" It is probable that her words did not reach him at all. He was only half-way back from the region of his vision; but he opened his eyes and looked at her again.

Thomas briefly notes it: "The other office which is man's concerning exterior things is the use of them; and with regard to this a man ought not to hold exterior things as his own, but as common to all, that he may portion them out readily to others in time of need." In this sentence is summed up the whole mediaeval concept of the law of almsdeeds.

He was going to marry the farmer's granddaughter, though he might, undoubtedly, marry better.... Ian listened, questioned, summed up: "I have always been the worldly-wise one! Is there any use in my talking now of worldly wisdom?" "No use at all." "Then I won't!... Old Alexander the Great, are you happy?" "If she gives me her love." Ian dismissed that with a wave of his hand.

Benjamin C. Truman, an agent of President Johnson, thus summed up the situation: "There is a prevalent disposition not to associate too freely with Northern men or to receive them into the circles of society; but it is far from unsurmountable.