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In his death, the Imperial army and that of the League sustained an irreparable loss; the Roman Catholic religion was deprived of its most zealous defender, and Maximilian of Bavaria of the most faithful of his servants, who sealed his fidelity by his death, and even in his dying moments fulfilled the duties of a general.

He was the greatest accepter and defender of facts as he found them that I have ever known. It was written that before this voyage ended we should have another phase of language without speech presented for our wonderment. It came about near the end of the trip. We were standing apart in a group, greatly interested and excited by the discovery, which had just been made, of land ahead.

On the Continent the peculiar English view has scarcely a single educated defender. Even in England the laity keep their judgment in suspense, or remain warily silent. 'Of what religion are you, Mr. Rogers? said a lady once. 'What religion, madam? I am of the religion of all sensible men. 'And what is that? she asked. 'All sensible men, madam, keep that to themselves. If Mr.

Among this people there arose many faithful ones, and by them, from time to time, God added to his message, acting as the personal guide and defender of his people, and leading them by every path until they finally knew him, in every fiber of their being, to be the only God.

I'd be awfully glad, if you wouldn't mind, of course." Robert surreptitiously wiped the blood from his nose on to his sleeve. As usual he had no handkerchief. A warm, delicious solace flowed over his battered spirit. His heart swelled till it hurt him. It opened wide to the little red-haired boy. If only Francey could see him now the defender of the oppressed. But he did not dare to think of that.

It is for him to seek an evident principle such as may give rise to some objection; and the more obscure the subject, the more trouble he will have in finding such a principle. Thus the defender has no need to incommode himself when it is a question of answering an adversary who claims that he is offering us an invincible proof.

'To the Prefect of the Corn market how many wheat-ships have you ordered to be unladen? 'Two, your Excellency. 'Well, that will be largess enough for the time being. To the Defender of the Plebs the devil break his neck! 'He may be trusted, most noble; he is bitterly jealous of Cyril's influence. And moreover, he owes my insignificance much money. 'Good!

It was in this way that it came to pass that his only defender in the Press in those dark and troublous days was a little-known journalist in Yorkshire. For my part, I look back with pride and deep satisfaction to the line which I then took, and from which I never swerved. It was not a successful line. Mr.

It would have been perhaps too much to expect that even those moderate and manly petitioners should have taken into consideration the complicated circumstances by which she was surrounded, or the difficulties of her position, with the "State Ecclesiastical" so strong and wealthy, arbiters for the moment of her faith, and France and her kindred expectant of impossible things from her, and Rome itself regarding with a watchful eye what a Princess of so Catholic a family defender of the faith in a distant but at this moment exceedingly important field should do.

Kegan Paul, Mary's able defender of modern times, denies the whole story. He writes in his Prefatory Memoir to her "Letters to Imlay:" "... Godwin knew extremely little of his wife's earlier life, nor was this a subject on which he had sought enlightenment from herself.