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Tempering the heats of both sides, re-nationalizing all spirit of section, combating our propensity to lawlessness at home and aggression abroad, spreading constantly on each question of the day a mass of sound information, the venerable editors have been, all the while, a power and a safety in the land, no matter who were the rulers.
Large flotillas of small but swift patrol boats, squadrons of destroyers, guns mounted forward and aft on merchantmen, dragnets, mine fields, and last but not least aeroplanes, all contributed their share toward the combating of submarine warfare. Just how many submarines have been sunk or captured is not even approximately known.
Let us return to Saint-Mande, monseigneur." "Gourville, I will not stir from this place, where the crime is to be carried out, where my disgrace is to be accomplished; I will not stir, I say, till I have found some means of combating my enemies." "Monseigneur," replied Gourville, "you would excite my pity, if I did not know you for one of the great spirits of this world.
It was we, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Spaniards, Hollanders, who imposed on them this institution which we take delight in combating this inheritance which we anathematize! Before attacking slavery, we would do well to turn our attention to our own crimes to the oppression of the weak in our manufactories, for instance! But these retaliatory arguments have the fault of proving nothing at all.
"You saw the emperor?" "And after combating the unjust prepossessions against me, I stated that so far from my cousin having any fair cause of resentment against me, when all was duly explained to him, I did not doubt that he would willingly give me the hand of his child." "You did!" cried the marchesa, amazed.
He has erected the most illustrious of his trophies by confronting danger, by combating like a simple soldier, and throwing himself bareheaded into the thickest of the foe. But there are others," continues the accomplished lady, "which he gained an opportunity of erecting by assuming the appearance of terror, and even of retreat.
She was so weary of the eternal strife of things, she was so glad to lay down the burden under which her back was bending to the point of breaking. And yet, there was the primitive instinct of self-preservation combating her inclination, urging her on to make one more final effort. Back and forth, through the snow about the lake she wandered; without being able to decide.
In 1896 he was deeply distressed at the country having to choose for President between the arch-protectionist McKinley and the free-silver advocate Bryan, for he had spent a good part of his life combating a protective tariff and advocating sound money.
But when you are fortunate enough to possess virtue, it is, to my thinking, a very noble ambition to lift up this same virtue in the bosom of corruption, to make it succeed, to place it above all, to indulge and control the passions without reproach, to overthrow the obstacles to them, and to surrender yourself to the inclinations of an upright and magnanimous heart, instead of combating or concealing them in retreat, without either satisfying or vanquishing them.
Mme. de Rambouillet felt most keenly the degradation of woman and resolved to act against it by combating everything that could offend taste or delicacy. As in the beginning of every great age, all things tended to greatness.
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