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Rising, he passed out by her side, and I saw no more of him during the evening. Soon after I had finished my supper, a neighbour came in, and it was not long before he and the man of the house were involved in a warm political discussion, in which were many more assertions than reasons. My host was not a very clear-headed man; while his antagonist was wordy and specious.
He found a thin garrison, a pompous bailiff, wordy and precise, headboroughs without heads, and a panic-stricken horde of shopkeepers with things to lose, who spent the day in crying "Danger," and the night in drinking beer. Outside, somewhere, was an enemy who might be a rascal, but was certainly a man. Professional honour was touched on a raw. Since he was in, in God's name let him do something.
The time of the House was frittered away by empty discussions and wordy addresses upon the gaol tax, previously mentioned, which the king did not disallow as required by the mercantile community. Indeed the administrator of the government in his prorogation speech remonstrated with the Assembly for the non-completion of the necessary business.
We had abundant evidence of this when our occupation became a fixed fact. It was generally the wealthy who adhered to the Rebel cause. As a file of soldiers moved into the city, the people stood at a respectful distance, occasionally giving forth wordy expression of their anger.
It is only in books, wordy and unreal, that lovers misunderstand each other in that way. "I know," said Ralph, needing no word of permission to proceed, "it is with touching your cheek when you sleep." "Then I must sleep a very long time!" said Winsome merrily, making light of his words.
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
Paul's Galatian letter supplies these items: wrangling; wordy disputes; passionate outbursts of anger; wire-pulling or electioneering, that is, using the world's methods to attain one's ends by those in God's service. These are some of the cross-currents that are surely drawing the power out of many a life to-day. But how may one know surely about the wrong thing?
Men bask in the sunlight of the glory that was revealed to humanity; they receive help and strength from what had been. The greatness, as the interval grows, becomes something to be known, something which is believed to fall upon us in an external, miraculous manner; and finally it often becomes an object of wordy dispute and strife.
The delegates greeting one another, shaking one another by the hand, making their alliances and friendships for the session, arranging meals together, kindly, good-humoured, and polite, the best of friends in private for all their bitter and wordy squabbles in public.
Nature herself, where no one can deny the finger of God, has imperfections. The meaning of this latter vague and wordy sentence seems to be, that the inspiration of the Bible is such as to make it a powerful means of producing spiritual life, real religion; but not such as to preserve it from little ordinary human errors and imperfections. This writer represents Dr.
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