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In fact, here at this very spot and at their first meeting she had announced herself as a critic and an enemy. He could smile over that now; she herself probably did smile at the recollection. Yet she was calmly discussing his situation without animus or even unfriendliness. How could that be possible if she actually loved the man whom she expected to marry, Ed Sorenson?
The spirit which keeps the Republicans together is enmity to slavery, and that spirit will never be satisfied until the system is extinct." "Finally, yes; gradually and quietly and safely, that is possible. I suppose that the secret and generally unconscious animus of the party is one which will abolitionize it after a long while." "When will it begin to act in an abolition sense, do you think?"
He comes from Glasgow, and his name's Letchworth. He's done more harm in his life than all the criminals he's kept out of prison, belongs to one of the old families down there, too." I had, indeed, remarked Letchworth's face, which seemed to me peculiarly evil, its lividity enhanced by a shock of grey hair. His method was withering sarcasm, and he was clearly unable to control his animus....
And old Thaddeus Stevens the clear-sighted and courageous "Old Commoner" followed up Spalding, and struck very close to the root and animus of the Democratic opposition, when he exclaimed: "All this struggle by calm and dignified and moderate 'Patriots; all this clamor against 'Radicals; all this cry of 'the Union as it Was, and the Constitution as it Is; is but a persistent effort to reestablish Slavery, and to rivet anew and forever the chains of Bondage on the limbs of Immortal beings.
In culpa est animus, qui se non effugit usquam . Please yourself with your wife and children, and studies, and practice. 'I have sent a petition from Lucy Porter, with which I leave it to your discretion whether it is proper to comply. Return me her letter, which I have sent, that you may know the whole case, and not be seduced to any thing that you may afterwards repent.
We are apt to magnify our misfortunes;" and a mocking smile told wherein lay the animus that was her undoing. Then she drew her graceful figure to its full height, and with the contempt of an outraged wife and mother, her words came in tones of concentrated vehemence: "So! Robert Garrett, this is your vaunted Christianity!
Even at that moment he would gladly have helped him had he been able. Possibly, probably he had a wife or sweetheart somewhere, probably too he was a quiet, inoffensive fellow who had no desire to harm any one. In spite of the war fever which raged, the English had no personal animus against the Germans.
When Cavour said in the Chamber that the two months during which he sat side by side with the Austrian plenipotentiaries had left in his mind no personal animus against them, as he was glad to admit their generally courteous conduct, but the most intimate conviction that any understanding between the two countries was unattainable, he was certainly aware of the grave significance of his words.
The intent to appropriate or deal with a thing as owner can hardly exist without an intent to exclude others, and something more; but the latter may very well be where there is no intent to hold as owner. A tenant for years intends to exclude all persons, including the owner, until the end of his term; yet he has not the animus domini in the sense explained.
How many so-called statesmen are there to-day who have the courage of their convictions, and who would not be carried away by the impulses and emotions of the moment? Such were the weighty words of the European statesman. They were uttered without animus and without passion. They were uttered with the serene detachment of the philosopher and of the experienced man of the world.
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