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In the next epoch, say the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, Indian thought clearly hankers after theism in the western sense and yet never completely acquiesces in it.
If a man says seventeen and three make twenty-two, I presently tell him seventeen and three make but twenty; and he is immediately convinced by his own light, and acquiesces in my correction. The same Master who speaks within me to correct him speaks at the same time within him to bid him acquiesce. These are not two masters that have agreed to make us agree.
"Very well you may," acquiesces Florence, laughing. "Good-night, Parkins. Mrs. Talbot has won you your release." Parkins having gladly withdrawn, Dora takes up the ivory-handled brush and gently begins to brush her cousin's hair. After some preliminary conversation leading up to the subject she has in hand, she says carelessly
I borrow from Canon Ainger an interesting note on Walter Plumer, written in the eighteen-eighties, showing that Lamb was mistaken on other matters too: The present Mr. Plumer, of Allerton, Totness, a grandson of Richard Plumer of the South-Sea House, by no means acquiesces in the tradition here recorded as to his grandfather's origin.
He buys patent hammers by the quarter dozen, as well as nails, tacks, screws, bolts, casters, brackets, and curtain poles. He brings home Japanese vases from the auction rooms. One day he acquired a step-ladder; it came by wagon because they refused to let him take it into the Subway. And Jack's wife acquiesces in his self-imposed servitude.
"I told her so, my dear, and she acquiesces she submits she is ready to obey if nothing better offers." "If Ay, there it is! All the time I know you are looking to the Clays; and if they fail, somebody else will start up, whom you will think a better match than Petcalf, and all these people are to be feted, and so you will go on, wasting my money and your own time.
He knew quite well that if she were not his enemy at that moment she would be very shortly. "Lucille," she continued, "will blame me too. I cannot help it. I want to tell you that for the present your separation from her is a certain thing. She acquiesces. You heard her. She is quite happy. She is at the ball to-night, and she has friends there who will make it pleasant for her.
The President said he was; that Mr. Stanton required some little time to remove his writings, his papers; I said, perhaps, or I asked, "Mr. Stanton, then, acquiesces?" He said he did, as he considered it. * Question: Now, sir, one moment to a matter which you spoke of incidentally. You were there the next morning about noon? Answer: I was. Question: Did you then see the appointment of Mr. Ewing?
'They don't show, you see, the old uns don't, Mister Jarsper! 'It would be a more confused world than it is, if they could. 'Well, it WOULD lead towards a mixing of things, Durdles acquiesces: pausing on the remark, as if the idea of ghosts had not previously presented itself to him in a merely inconvenient light, domestically or chronologically.
Here he describes the passive office of faith, which submits to, and acquiesces in, every divine dispensation and operation. 'Therefore work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, and, of consequence, with haste, diligence, ardour, and faithfulness.... Would ye then wait aright for Christian perfection? Impartially admit the two Gospel axioms, and faithfully reduce them to practice.
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