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If it should prove true, it must withdraw him altogether from the affairs of government; and this was what Macrinus aimed at when, before summoning the legates, he observed with a show of reluctance that Caesar would be wroth with him if, for the sake of a council of war, he were to defer a report which had just reached his ears. "Business first!" cried Caracalla, with decisive prohibition.
In a word, am I your friend or not? and, if I am, why may I not be duke, peer, or even constable, as well as Monsieur de Luynes, whom you loved so much because he trained falcons for you? Why am I not admitted to the council? I could speak as well as any of the old ruffs there; I have new ideas, and a better arm to serve you. It is your Cardinal who has prevented you from summoning me there.
I do not disguise from you that a tendency existed to criticise my action in summoning you, to dub your business methods antiquated, and question your ability to march with the times. But these objections proved, I am happy to think, unfounded. The faith I reposed in you has been justified.
Later on in the evening, summoning Bourrienne, the victor said to him: "Mr. Secretary, I have a new autograph. If Ptolemy can spell his name with a 'p, why shouldn't I? I'm not going to have history say that a dead mummy could do things I couldn't. Pnapoleon would look well on a state paper." "No doubt," said Bourrienne; "but every one now says that you copy Caesar.
The immediate outcome of this incident was the summoning of a council to discuss the financial situation, and after much thought the suggestion of Hagiwara Shigehide, chief of the Treasury, was accepted, namely, wholesale debasement of the gold, silver, and copper coins.
But they were unaccustomed to Indian warfare, and the consequence was that of some ten or twelve men all were killed but two or three." Clark's Counter-Stroke. At last the news of repeated disaster roused Clark into his old-time energy. He sent out runners through the settlements, summoning all the able-bodied men to make ready for a blow at the Indians.
I would die to save you this grief except indeed that I hope much from it." "Forget all about me," said Christina, summoning pride to her aid. "I will not forget you. It is impossible, nor would I if I could." "You forgive me then, and will not think ill of me?" "How forgive trust? Is that an offence?" "I have lost your good opinion! How could I degrade myself so!"
And all night long he lay sleepless, pondering on the perils and the adventures which awaited him. The Assembly; The Voyage of Telemachus At the first peep of dawn Telemachus was afoot, and summoning the heralds he ordered them to make proclamation of an assembly to be held in a public place in the town of Ithaca.
Summoning my manful resolution, I made the attempt to step across the children swaddled in matting and straw and old gowns or petticoats. The necessity for doing it with a rush seized me after the first step. I pitched over one little bundle, right on to the figure of a sleeping woman.
There we shall see how refractory circumstances, Stanton's waywardness among them, forced Lincoln to go beyond the limits of civil control. Here we need only note McClellan's personal relations with the President. Instead of summoning him to the White House Lincoln often called at McClellan's for discussion.
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