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The committee examined witnesses and reported, the Democrats asserting that Tilden had been elected and the Republicans that Hayes had been. The Republican Senate, meanwhile, had prepared a counterblast. By legal proceedings a committee had obtained from the Western Union Telegraph Company over thirty thousand of the telegrams sent by both parties during the campaign.
The picture of his loved one seated in the well-known drawing-room, an object of attention to the ladies, hobnobbing with the Father of Ice his Emîr, whom he had come to regard as the very counterblast of that house and all it stood for gave him a sense of being upside down. The Frank laughed at his dismay, inquiring: "Why so surprised? I must return the poor man's call in mere politeness."
It is an open secret, that the memorial is put forth as a counterblast to a manifestation of opinion of a contrary character, on the part of certain members of the same ecclesiastical body, who therefore have, as I suppose, an equal right to declare themselves "stewards of the Lord and recipients of the Holy Ghost."
The original structure may be due to the same pious stimulus as that which placed the crosses on Monte Vulture and other peaks throughout the country a counterblast to the rationalistic congress at Rome in 1904, when Giordano Bruno became, for a while, the hero of the country. This statue does not lack dignity.
My arrest was a move in the game intended as a counterblast to the victory which M. de Rambouillet had gained when he persuaded the king to move to Tours; a city in the neighbourhood of the Huguenots, and a place of arms whence union with them would be easy. The Provost-Marshal could, no doubt, make a shrewd guess at these things.
"By all means," was the prompt reply. "Shall I send it to your rooms or here?" "Send it direct to Stephen Dartrey at the House of Commons." "I see," Greening murmured thoughtfully, "and then a council of war, eh? Don't forget our promise, Tallente. We'll publish your counterblast, whatever the consequences." Tallente sighed.
He had read the much-vaunted Phœdon which Lutheran Germany hailed as a counterblast to the notorious "Berlin religion," restoring faith to a despondent world mocked out of its Christian hopes by the fashionable French wits and materialists under the baneful inspiration of Voltaire, whom Germany's own Frederick had set on high in his Court.
Come along, or it will be dark before we get to Stourcastle, and there's no place we can sleep at nearer than that; besides, we must get through another chapter of A Counterblast to Agnosticism before we turn in, now I have taken the trouble to bring the book." "All right I'll overtake you and Cuthbert in five minutes; don't stop; I give my word that I will, Felix."
He proceeded therefore to compose a counterblast which he named Il Verato after a well-known comic actor of the time, who, it may be remarked, had had the management of Argenti's Sfortunato in 1567.
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