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But am I to sacrifice a principle to popularity? Would you advise me to do so? Even if you could, I hope you will try a little to be patient with me, and to forgive, at least, what you find it impossible to approve. My dear cousin, if you had not reminded me of Wordsworth's exclamation I would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn
A very satisfactory settlement has been made of the long-pending question of the manufacture of armor plate. A reasonable price has been secured and the necessity for a Government armor plant avoided. I approve of the recommendations of the Secretary for new vessels and for additional officers and men which the required increase of the Navy makes necessary.
He had listened attentively to the report, interrupting it but once, and had carefully followed the speaker as he pointed out his movements on the diagram. "I approved your conduct, Captain Scott, when I had only a partial knowledge of what you had done," said he. "I can now approve it with a full knowledge of the whole affair even more heartily and decidedly than before.
Ridiculous as these topics are to us, the works themselves were formed on what modern philosophers affect to term the principle of utility; a principle which, with them indeed, includes everything they approve of, and nothing they dislike. "De præstigiis Dæmonum et incantationibus et Veneficiis," &c., 1568.
And Père Armand has church records that date back to the middle of the eighteenth century. And " "So that's where you were from four until almost six," Val laughed. "I don't know that I approve of this riotous living. Will Jeems take me to pick the lilies too?" "Maybe. He wanted to know why you always moved so carefully. And I told him about the accident.
In both Houses, the loyal Border-State Representatives spoke and voted against its passage. It was high time, he thought, that the idea of a gradual, compensated Emancipation, should begin to occupy the minds of those interested, "so that," to use his own words, "they may begin to consider whether to accept or reject it," should Congress approve the suggestion.
They welcomed her timely assistance, and thanked her for offering it, and then the young folk laughed and joked together, the Bertrams secretly finding Beatrice all the more interesting and fascinating because they knew that their mother would not quite approve of their being found in her society.
Pity Sir John Wetherbourne ain't isn't here, it u'd never have happened I'm sure if he had been, seeing the way he has with him, though I can't say as 'ow I approve of him so young and good-looking and all these Eastern hussies around wandering about so much by himself.
We find also everywhere another class of men, sanguine in hope, bold in speculation, always pressing forward, quick to discern the imperfections of whatever exists, disposed to think lightly of the risks and inconveniences which attend improvements and disposed to give every change credit for being an improvement. In the sentiments of both classes there is something to approve.
What beautiful colours! said they, pointing to the empty frames, for they thought the others really could see the stuff. "'What's the meaning of this? said the Emperor to himself, 'I see nothing! Am I a simpleton! I not fit to be Emperor? Oh, he cried aloud, 'charming! The stuff is really charming! I approve of it highly; and he smiled graciously, and examined the empty looms minutely.
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