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Midwinter's language, cruelly unjust as it was, had nevertheless convinced him that no necessity whatever could excuse any proceeding so essentially base in itself as the employment of a spy, and on that conviction he was now determined to act.
In fact, it was necessary throughout the struggle that the Churches, under the lead of the clergy, should act the part of Aaron and Hur, in sustaining the Government. The Report adopted by the Conference on the state of the country gave no uncertain expression of sentiment.
His lips quivered, his knees smote against each other, and he stood wringing his hands, apparently in the most abject terror. "I didn't mean to do it, Mr. Pelham," chattered the miserable hoseman. "Mr. Pelham, in my opinion this act was deliberately contrived and carried out," said Mr. Hamblin, severely, though he was evidently somewhat moved by the misery of the culprit.
Amity! repeated Marmaduke; there was no malice in the act that injured thee, young man; there should be none in the feelings which it may engender. Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, observed Mr. Grant, is the language used by our Divine Master himself, and it should be the golden rule with us, his humble followers.
And Claudia, who had been brought up in entire removal from the spirit which made Ayre and Eugene treat Stafford's vow as one of the picturesque indiscretions of devotion, was unable to look upon the breaking of it in any other light than that of a falsehood and an act of treachery.
They act as they do, if we may believe them, simply to indemnify themselves and wholly against their inclination: they follow necessity; theirs is a case of legitimate defence.
And shall we not act wisely, if we recur to them again and again, during this momentous contest?
Now when the artist has found something, word or deed, exactly proper to a favourite character in play or novel, he will neither suppress nor diminish it, though the remark be silly or the act mean. The hesitation of Hamlet, the credulity of Othello, the baseness of Emma Bovary, or the irregularities of Mr. Swiveller, caused neither disappointment nor disgust to their creators.
That no single tribe had the right to sell, that the power to sell was not vested in their chiefs, but must be the act of the warriors in council assembled of all the tribes, as the land belonged to all no portion of it to any single tribe."
Ivan III. was anxious to accomplish this result without violating any treaty, without committing any arbitrary or violent act which could rouse opposition. That he might triumph over the princes, it was necessary for him to secure the affections of the people. The palace was consequently rendered easy of access to them all.
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