United States or Saudi Arabia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Shirking responsibility, not living up to what one believes is right, is immoral just as truly as stealing from one's neighbor. The fourth essential in moral conduct is that it be for the social good. It is the governing of impulses, the inhibition of desires that violate the good of the group, and the choice of conduct that forwards its interests.
They sent out secret agents to Europe, they had their secret allies in the Free States, their conventions transacted all important business in secret session; there was but one exception to the shrinking delicacy becoming a maiden government, and that was the openness of the stealing.
Along comes Black Jack. He needed a man. He picks me up and takes me along with him. I tried to talk Bible talk. He showed me where I was a fool. "'All you got to do, he says to me, 'is to make sure that you ain't stealing from an honest man. And they's about one gent in three with money that's come by it honest, in this part of the world.
They ride in their carriages, and live in their grand houses, and when we are starving, and freezing with cold, if we take a mouthful to eat, or a rag to put on, they call it stealing, and hunt us up to put us in jail, and treat us worse than brutes. I tell you I hate them. I should like to see them homeless as we are, with the cold winds blowing through them.
He so evidently expected me to scold that I took especial pleasure in exaggerating the calmness of my attitude. "The worst that can be brought up against Schultz," I began, folding my arms and speaking dispassionately, "is an awkward habit of stealing the stores of every ship he has ever been in. He will do it. That's really all that's wrong.
Then, too, this same force had to furnish for the field small movable columns, that were always on the go, so it will be rightly inferred that every available man was kept busy from the middle of August till November; especially as during this period the hostiles attacked over forty widely dispersed places, in nearly all cases stealing horses, burning houses, and killing settlers.
Chowles and Judith, it has been mentioned, were descried by Leonard, just before the outbreak of the fire, stealing into Saint Faith's, and carrying a heavy chest between them. This chest contained some of the altar-plate, which they had pillaged from the Convocation House.
Eleseus ventures forward; the pride of the family, he ventures up a little. Not walking up, but stealing up; he comes on Sivert in the stable. "'Tis only me," he says. "What you too?" says Sivert, all astonished again. The two brothers begin talking quietly; about Sivert getting his mother to find some money; a last resource, the money for a journey.
"Now let us go for their baggage," said the constable, and this was done, but nothing more was found. It was soon buzzing around the battalion, which stood at parade rest, that something was wrong, and then somebody whispered that the Rovers were accused of breaking into a shop and stealing some jewelry. "It can't be true," said Fred Garrison. "I shall never believe it."
"Now judge by your own heart!" murmured the Spirits, as smiling they disappeared. And Theodore did so. Going up to Reuben, he put his arms around him, and wept over him tears of love and gratitude for the blessing which he felt stealing into his own mind. "Reuben," cried he, "my child Reuben!
Word Of The Day