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The only thing which he would be hard on would be unreasonableness in any form. I am very fond of reasonableness myself; I think it a very fine and beautiful quality, and I think that it wins probably the best victories of the world. But I desire in the world a certain driving force, whereas to me Meyrick only represents an immensely strong regulating force.
Lorraine; and here it seemed to Ingram she was trying at once to put her husband's conduct in the most favorable light, and to blame herself for her unreasonableness. Mrs. Lorraine was a pleasant companion to him, she could talk cleverly and brightly, she was pretty, and she knew a large number of his friends.
Spencer that this necessary watch conception would be completely false, and the illustration is made use of to show "the presumption of theologians" the absurdity and unreasonableness of those men who figure the incomprehensible cause of all phenomena as a Being in some way comparable with man.
"But as far your invasion of England," stoutly observed the Earl of Derby, "ye shall find it hot coming thither. England was never so ready in any former age, neither by sea nor by land; but we would show your unreasonableness in proposing a cessation of arms by which ye would bind her Majesty to forbear touching all the Low Countries, and yet leave yourselves at liberty to invade England."
No, she was not wearing black in honour of the dead, but to humour the living. And why should her father be humoured? George privately admitted the unreasonableness, the unsoundness, of these considerations obviously mourning wear was imperative for Marguerite nevertheless they were present in his mind. "That frock's a bit tight, but it suits you," he said, advancing with her into the studio.
Christ's question asks the reason for this all but universal dishonesty of having two weights and measures for faults. He would have us ponder on the cause, that we may discover the remedy. He would have us reflect, that we may get a vivid conviction of the unreasonableness of the practice.
Again and again had he preached and proclaimed the folly and wickedness of attempting to change the religious opinions of men by the application of force the utter unreasonableness of persecuting orderly people in this world about things which belong to the next the gross injustice of sacrificing any one's liberty or property on account of creed if not found breaking the laws relating to natural and civil things.
No one ever came down to us from any of them to tell us they were inhabited." "And do you think," asked Thorwald, "that the myriads of stars were also made simply to delight the eye of man?" "How do I know that they were not?" the doctor asked in reply. "Because of the absolute unreasonableness of the thought, if for no other reason," answered Thorwald.
Peyssonel, who evidently was a person of savage and untameable disposition, so far from appreciating the kindness of the Academicians in giving him time to reflect upon the unreasonableness, not to say rudeness, of making public statements in opposition to the views of some of the most distinguished of their body, seems bitterly to have resented the treatment he met with.
In the same mood of kindly serenity she regarded the lives of her friends, always hoping for the best, and finding it hard to understand that anyone could deliberately act with unkindness, unreasonableness, or any other quality opposed to the common good. Rolfe had no desire of talking further about his private affairs.
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