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Freedom and facility of readjustment, that is to say capacity for growth in social structure, therefore depends in great measure on the degree of freedom with which the situation at any given time acts on the individual members of the community-the degree of exposure of the individual members to the constraining forces of the environment.
And as one has beautifully said, 'What God takes it is always gain to lose. Heaven is nearer now our little Robbie is there; Jesus is dearer, and has quickened us all by His constraining love. "My object in going now to Canada without children is twofold.
Impeding, inconvenient accident at that, too often blocking the passage across or through, and constraining you to steer a foolishly, really quite inordinately divergent course. Under this obstructive head the two Americas offend direfully, sprawling their united strength wellnigh from pole to pole.
Isabel tossed her hair from the hands of Marvel, rose up and confronted the countess, constraining her voice to calmness. "I do not flirt!" she said; "I have never flirted. I leave that" and she could not wholly suppress in tone the scorn she felt "to married women; though it seems to me that it is a fault less venial in them than in single ones.
Julian is sure to catch them up, and you see yourself that that would be a pity." "I am to govern my tongue then for Julian's sake?" "Yes, and for your own." "Do you care whether I govern it or not, Janetta?" How oddly soft and tender his voice had grown! "Yes, I do care," she answered, not very willingly, but compelled to truthfulness by her own conscience and his constraining gaze.
Le Tellier had been chancellor since 1677; peace still reigned; the all-powerful minister occupied himself in building Trianon, bringing the River Eure to Versailles, and establishing unity of religion in France. "The counsel of constraining the Huguenots by violent means to become Catholics was given and carried out by the Marquis of Louvois," says an anonymous letter of the time.
That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant.
Afar down the gorge one might catch glimpses of a glossy lustre where the evergreen laurel, white with frost, moved in the autumn wind. He lifted his head to mark its melancholy cadence, and while he listened, the moonlight was suddenly crowded from the door as three men rushed in, half helping and half constraining a fourth man forward.
"Nay, dear Grace, you are dealing too severely with yourself." "No, I think not. At any rate, I am sadly aware that not the love of Christ, but the love of human applause, has been the constraining motive in my acts of self-denial.
Again she tried to burst from him and fly, but her arm was caught, and Marmaduke Dugdale's grave look the look he fixed upon his own children when they erred, constraining them always into repentance and goodness was reading her inmost soul. "Go home, poor child! I'll not tell of you or him. Go home with your husband."
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