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Updated: June 12, 2025
Indeed, it is not too much to say that we have no really profound knowledge upon any subject no knowledge on the strength of which we are ready to act at moments unhesitatingly without either preparation or after-thought till we have left off feeling conscious of the possession of such knowledge, and of the grounds on which it rests.
And this is tantamount to an acknowledgment that the great principle which the Cross illustrates, and on which the salvation of the race is made to rest, is the crowning glory of all ethics and must be therefore the germinal principle of all true religion. Christianity with its doctrine of voluntary Divine Sacrifice was no after-thought.
"He's hame again." The women-folk gave him time to say to whom he was referring, which he occasionally did as an after-thought. But he began to sup his porridge, making eyes as it went steaming down his throat. "I dinna ken wha ye mean," Jess said; while Leeby, who was on her knees rubbing the hearthstone a bright blue, paused to catch her father's answer.
"Now suppose that M. Rodin, putting things in their worst light, had some after-thought that he hopes to be liberally rewarded, for instance; hitherto, at least, he has shown complete disinterestedness." "That also is true, madame," said poor Mother Bunch, obliged, like Adrienne, to admit the evidence of fixed facts. "Now let us look to the possibility of treachery.
'Let it be so, says Richard; 'have at you. I sing of the calm day, of the sweets of true love. 'Accorded, says the other. 'And I sing of the sours of false love. Do you set the mode, prince of blood royal as you are. Richard took the viol without after-thought and struck a few chords.
Her heart rose kindly at the thought. She half turned her little boat, tempted back by that longing wish for reconciliation, which was always uppermost in her warm nature. But then came the wholesome after-thought which had so often checked these genial impulses.
"Luncheon might have followed as an after-thought," he replied. "My real mission was to suggest that you should marry me." Lady Anne's fingers paused for a moment in the air. She sat quite still. Her eyes were half closed. There was a curious little quiver at her heart, a little throb in her ears. On the whole, however, she kept her self-control marvelously.
"Later in the evening perhaps when you could come for a walk with me." Suzee looked up. There was surprise in those wonderful eyes, but I thought I saw pleasure too. "At six," she said. "I close the restaurant for a short time, but I don't walk, I smoke and go to sleep. But I will come with you if it is not too far," she added as an after-thought.
"And our flag," added Horace, as an after-thought. "And our flag," repeated the boys, looking at the little banner of stars and stripes, which was fastened to the stump of a tree, and faintly fluttered in the breeze. "Long may it wave!" cried Horace, growing enthusiastic, and pointing backward to the flag with a sweep of his thumb.
We cannot accept the Resurrection as though it were an after-thought to a bitterly felt death.
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