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In Russia the Government reckons not on the possible opposition of the Trades Unions, but on their help for realizing its most difficult measures, and for undermining and overwhelming any opposition which those measures may encounter.
That is to say that sexual relationships were, by the ecclesiastical traditions, placed on a pecuniary basis, on the same level as prostitution. By its well-meant intentions to support the theological morality which had developed on an ascetic basis, the Church was thus really undermining even that form of sexual relationship which it sanctified.
It is not possible to regard the conduct of these high officials in undermining and destroying the ancient national legislature of their own country, in the same light as that of Lord Cornwallis, or Mr. Pitt, or Lord Grenville.
"Good men build up Form and Forms keep the Arts each after its kind raise up the dikes so that we shan't all be swept away by night and nothingness and these rats come nosing and burrowing and undermining it all!... Et tu, Brute!" "Well, when you've finished rubbing it in " I grunted.
Notwithstanding of all this he fawned upon the admiral, using every demonstration of kindness in his presence, yet acting treacherously in undermining his character and authority; and this lasted all the time we remained at St Domingo.
The outpouring of repeated streams of lava the showering down upon land and sea of volcanic ashes the sweeping seaward of loose sand and cinders, or of rocks ground down to pebbles and sand, by rivers and torrents descending steeply inclined channels the undermining and eating away of long lines of sea-cliff exposed to the swell of a deep and open ocean these operations combine to produce a considerable volume of superimposed matter, without there being time for any extensive change of species.
"The Federalists," she says, "stood upright, and their feet firmly planted on the rock of aristocracy but that rock was bedded in the sands, or rather was a boulder from the Old World, and the tide of democracy was surely and swiftly undermining it."
"The cheating, undermining rip." mephisto. "And here is another to the same tune." brutus. "Didn't I tell you so. The hypocritical, humbugging rascal " mephisto. "Stop a bit. Here is a little one: 'Memoirs of a Gentleman's Housekeeper." brutus. "Oh! is there? I did not see that." mephisto. "You are so hasty. The case mayn't be so black as it looks.
No, long before her capture, a deep undermining of regret had set in. She had been without realisation of it, perhaps. But it had been there. In yielding to the demands of those she served, in her self-confidence she had forgotten the woman in her. She had forgotten everything but the crazy ambition which had blinded her to all consequences.
"The right of a sane man to save the woman he loves from destroying her own peace forever, and undermining the confidence of the friend dearest to them both. I know this is not the world's way in such matters; but I care not; because I believe one human creature has a right to speak to another in times like these as if they two stood alone.
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