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Updated: May 17, 2025
You must not be vexed because I could not give you the kind of love you wanted; the heart, you know, is not amenable to reason." "There is only one thing I should like to ask." "What is it?" "I mention it for your good more than for my own. If you want to be happy, don't let this handsome quill-driver get you entirely into his hands.
Peter, who was generally so good and amenable, spoke in an angry, vexed tone when the conversation touched upon social conditions; it was as though he was at the end of his patience.
Not only are chance and divination welcomed into the world but they are reverenced all the more, like the wind and fire of idolaters, precisely for not being amenable to the petty rules of human reason.
At the head of each department and district a chief factor or chief trader generally presides, to whom all the officers within their respective jurisdictions are amenable. Those in charge of posts, whatever may be their rank, are subject to the authority of the person at the head of the district; and that person receives his instructions from the superintendent of the department.
This conduct did not please Champlain, who would have preferred to find a people more amenable to natural laws, which are in themselves a defence against murder. The Montagnais who had been sent to the Iroquois returned to Quebec in July, 1624. They had been courteously received, and as a result of their negotiations, a general meeting of the Indians was held at Three Rivers.
" `From the standpoint of order, says he, `it's amenable to answer for its sins to the properly appointed authorities from Bildad to Jerusalem. " `Amen, says I. `But let's turn our trick sudden, and ride. I don't like the looks of this place. " `Think of Pedro Johnson, says Luke, `a friend of mine and yours shot down by one of these gilded abolitionists at his very door!
He would do almost anything to secure anybody's favorable opinion, and neither his judgment nor his conscience if he had either one or the other stood in the way of this amiable weakness. He was more amenable to flattery than a child, and was moved by it as easily to good as to evil.
George E. Pugh and others as his counsel, and then adopted the course of protesting against the jurisdiction of the court and against the authority for his arrest. His grounds were that he was not amenable to any military jurisdiction, and that his public speech did not constitute an offence known to the Constitution and laws.
Professor Cairnes, in opposition to the Southern doctrine proclaimed at home and abroad, views the present rebellion as unconstitutional, and as therefore amenable to the usual tests by which a revolutionary movement is justified or condemned.
But whatever may be its natural gentleness and docility, the temper of an elephant is seldom to be implicitly relied on in a state of captivity and coercion. The most amenable are subject to occasional fits of stubbornness; and even after years of submission, irritability and resentment will unaccountably manifest themselves.
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