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This moat surrounded the Abbey, and was in immediate contact with the walls on every side but the south. The north-eastern tower was appropriated to the domestics, whom Mr Glowry always chose by one of two criterions, a long face, or a dismal name. His butler was Raven; his steward was Crow; his valet was Skellet.
He gave me new criterions, new principles, which, after all, were those that are taught us in our earliest childhood, before we have come to the evil wisdom of the world.
'It distinguishes the criterions of right and wrong; teaches us to establish the one and prevent punish or redress the other; employs in its theory the noblest faculties of the soul, and exerts in its practice the cardinal virtues of the heart: it is universal in its use and extent, is accommodated to each individual, and yet comprehends the whole community.
Adams, avowed and invariably pursued, to make integrity and qualification the only criterions of appointment to office, to remove no incumbent on account of political hostility, and to appoint no one from the sole consideration of political adherence, diminished the power of the administration.
"Mary Louise is always on the wrong side. Other schools are not criterions for this ramshackle establishment, anyhow. We have twelve boarders and four day scholars, and how Miss Stearne ever supports the place and herself on her income is an occult problem that the geometries can't solve.
To cool the water which they contain; they are made of pewter. The masnad and its large back pillow are criterions of Asiatic etiquette.
Criterions may change, and hereafter people may look at the whole affair so differently that a literature which went to the making of a people will not be accounted a minor literature, but will take its place with the great literary movements.
The multitude, we are told, after a few seasons, rose upon Hopkins, and resolved to subject him to one of his own criterions. They dragged him to a pond, and threw him into the water for a witch. It seems he floated on the surface, as a witch ought to do. They then pursued him with hootings and revilings, and drove him for ever into that obscurity and ignominy which he had amply merited.
At this point the note, in considering questions of justice and of mere utility, becomes distinctly ironical. Having decided to bring to life new States, especially Poland and Czeko-Slovakia, why not give them safe frontiers even if some Germans or Magyars have to be sacrificed? One of Clemenceau's fixed ideas is that criterions of justice must not be applied to Germans.
He gave me new criterions, new principles, which, after all, were those that are taught us in our earliest childhood, before we have come to the evil wisdom of the world.
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