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One person, who, if all the rest of the world were to calumniate or forsake you, would never wrong you by a harsh thought or an unjust word, who would cling to you the closer in sickness, in poverty, in care, who would sacrifice all things to you, and for whom you would sacrifice all from whom, except by death, night or day, you must be never divided whose smile is ever at your hearth who has no tears while you are well and happy, and your love the same.
It was proposed to interdict all denunciations unaccompanied by proofs. "Reflect on what is proposed to you," said Robespierre: "the majority here belongs to a faction, which desires by this means to calumniate us freely, and stifle our accusations by silence.
Believe me, my child, those who calumniate the soul would have few scruples about killing the body; and you know that the Duchesse de Maine has said, 'that the very day when she is quite sure that there is really nothing to be made out of her bastard of a husband, she will demand an audience of you, and drive her dagger into your heart."
To single out a man's personal ugliness, to calumniate his ancestry in the vilest terms, these were little more than traditional practices, oratorical devices, which the rhetorical education of the day encouraged, and which no one took very seriously. But we are concerned in this chapter mainly with private life; and there we find almost universal consideration and courtesy.
As far as party abuse went, this was quite satisfactory; even facts, or what are told as facts, are so altered by the manner of seeing them by an opposite party, that, without meaning to traduce, they calumniate. Ormond entrenched himself in total disbelief, and cool assertion of his disbelief, of a variety of anecdotes he continually heard discreditable to Sir Ulick.
He had set himself to found the strangest thing in our society: one of those periodical sheets from which men suppose themselves to learn opinions; in which young gentlemen from the universities are encouraged, at so much a line, to garble facts, insult foreign nations and calumniate private individuals; and which are now the source of glory, so that if a man's name be often enough printed there, he becomes a kind of demigod; and people will pardon him when he talks back and forth, as they do for Mr.
To the progress of science alone science, which teaches how to distinguish between the letter and the spirit science, which the coward only fears, which he, who knows her not, only can calumniate. But how very far in the rear was such science in Zwingli's age!
Hearing him talk in this ribald way, he could no longer doubt the accusation brought against him; for there was no surer proof of a man or woman having dealings with Satan, than to defame and calumniate God's chosen people. As Mr. Noyes took his seat, the magistrates said they had heard sufficient, and ordered the committal of the accused to Boston prison to await trial.
They say that truth comes sooner or later; but it seldom comes before the soul, passing from agony to contempt, has grown callous to men's judgments. Calumniate a human being in youth adulate that being in age; what has been the interval? Will the adulation atone either for the torture, or the hardness which the torture leaves at last?
We have never been among these people but to enrich ourselves and to calumniate them. Really we have forgotten a very essential thing in this little article on the Brahmins; it is that their sacred books are filled with contradictions.
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