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They prided themselves upon their nominal, external, hereditary connection with a system of revelation, they trusted in mere ritualisms, they had ossified religion into theology, and degraded morality into casuistry.
His intellect, unexhausted by speculation or casuistry, was wholly at the service of hand and eye, and whatever he pleased he did with an unheard of ease and simplicity, and if style and vocabulary were at times monotonous, he could not have made them otherwise without ceasing to be himself.
Action, then, be mine; and into the deep sea with all this paralysing casuistry. I am happy to-day for the first time. Somewhere about two in the morning a squall had burst upon the castle, a clap of screaming wind that made the towers rock, and a copious drift of rain that streamed from the windows.
It is only when the latter, tired of the shams of life, would pursue the realities, that we become alive to the fact hitherto, I suppose, studiously concealed from us how frail and feeble a creature she is. Lastly, it must not be forgotten that we are discussing a question of casuistry, one which is 'stuff o' the conscience, and where consequently words are all important.
Silent on other subjects, on one he would talk till a pink spot glowed on either cheek-bone and his blue eyes shone like a hot noon sky; casuistry. He would debate the right and wrong of any thing, every thing, and the rights and wrongs of men in every relation of life. Blessed was it for him then that the tactful curé was his father and mother in one, and the surgeon and physician of his mind.
"I feel sure he will be back by to-morrow evening. Don't let your daughters fail to be here to meet him." After reading this, and without pausing to indulge in casuistry, Professor Valeyon betook himself straight to Sophie's chamber. "You've heard something!" said she, in a low, assured tone the moment he entered. "A letter? give it me I would rather read it myself."
In each case Browning's casuistry is not argumentative; it lies in an appeal to some passion or some intuition that is above our common levels of passion or of insight, and his power of uplifting his reader for even a moment into this higher mood is his special gift as a poet. We can return safely enough to the common ground, but we return with a possession which instructs the heart.
With that sudden softening that comes to the face of an angry woman who has hit on a good argument, she turned to him and asked "How if I hadn't saved your life just now? Much you thought about your guest when you were going to dive and die!" "I did not forget him," answered the Duke, smiling at her casuistry. "Nor had I any scruple in disappointing him. Death cancels all engagements."
The meaning latent under this specious phrase was that the Prince's throat was to be cut as he went in his coach from Richmond to Kensington. It may seem strange that such fallacies, the dregs of the Jesuitical casuistry, should have had power to seduce men of heroic spirit, both Whigs and Tories, into a crime on which divine and human laws have justly set a peculiar note of infamy.
"Mortality, by her false guardians drawn, Chicane in furs, and Casuistry in lawn, Gasps, as they straighten at each end the cord, And dies, when Dulness gives her the Sword." Powerless to feign insensibility to the blow, Sir Francis openly fitted this black cap to his dishonored head by sending his clerk to expostulate with the poet.
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