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"The first is a sin of omission, the second one of commission, and the latter is the more to be deprecated in that you made it with your eyes open, after full discussion, while the other came about as a matter of course. "I believe I am right in saying that the membership of this society is exclusively male, and also that no absolute veto has been placed on female candidature.
After all, it was his house she had been a guest in. Such were the wheels within wheels. And thus it came about that, when the question rose of paving the way for John Turnham's candidature, Mahony drew the line at approaching Henry Ocock. John drove from Melbourne in a drag and four, accompanied by numerous friends and well-wishers.
The brave officer was sneered at in sharp language by Metellus Marius was told that he might wait with his candidature till Metellus' son, a beardless boy, could be his colleague and he was with the worst grace suffered to leave almost at the last moment, that he might appear in the capital as a candidate for the consulship of 647.
His cousin the Duke urged him to announce his candidature for the county, and purchase back, at least, the old Stamm- schloss. But Graham obstinately refused to entertain either proposal, continued to live as economically as before in his old apartments, and bore with an astonishing meekness of resignation the unsolicited load of fashion heaped upon his shoulders.
The legions assembled to deliberate about Numerian's death and to choose his successor. Aper was brought before the assembly under a guard of soldiers. Through the exertions of zealous friends the candidature of Diocletian found great favor. At the first words pronounced by him from a raised platform in the presence of the troops, cries of "Diocletian Augustus "were raised in every quarter.
"It really seems almost a providential arrangement," said Mrs Herapath. "I am sure it will be a great thing for Arthur," said Daisy. "It makes one believe there's some truth in the saying that every man has his niche waiting for him somewhere in life," moralised Mr Herapath. That evening a letter came from Arthur to Daisy. The boy, of course, knew nothing of Railsford's candidature.
"Oh! but impossible! Does that mean that you ever read my poor little speeches?" He pointed to the local newspaper, freshly cut, which lay on a table at Marcella's elbow. "Sometimes " said Marcella, embarrassed. "There is so little time." In truth she had hardly given his candidature a thought since the day Aldous proposed to her.
If the effect of this ostensibly unpremeditated candidature was thus calculated, it was perfectly successful.
Appius Claudius, who had already been consul and censor , one of the most respected men in the senate, censured the Scipionic circle for having so soon abandoned the scheme of distributing the domain-lands with all the passionate vehemence which was the hereditary characteristic of the Claudian house; and with the greater bitterness, apparently because he had come into personal conflict with Scipio Aemilianus in his candidature for the censorship.
Pusey's influence, which encountered the opposition of the old Tractarianism, or rather Church-of-Englandism of Dr. Hook. They ended in some important conversions, but, as affecting Mr. Hope, seem scarcely to require to be dwelt on. In May 1847 I find him exerting himself in favour of Mr. Gladstone's candidature for the University of Oxford.
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