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Yes, sir; mark the disingenuousness of many of our modern philosophers; they quarrel with the Christian religion, because it has not yet penetrated the deserts of Africa, or arrested the wandering hordes of Tartary; yet they ridicule it for the meanness of its origin, and because it is the Gospel of the poor: that is to say, because it is expressly calculated to inform the judgments, and alleviate the miseries of that vast promiscuous body which constitutes the majestic species of man.
What if the dogs start to worry the sheep? I accuse Councillor Garnett in this matter of abusing his position as a councillor. I accuse him of disingenuousness that borders on fraud." "Oh, come, come," said an elderly councillor, who was constantly scandalised by Denis Quirk's want of municipal decorum. "Fraud is an unpleasant word." "Undoubtedly," Denis continued. "But it amounts to that.
But disingenuousness is a charge that never could have occurred to Boswell, whose veracity is the prime quality that has made him immortal.
"Supper is served, Cal," she drawled in her gentle, almost lisping voice. Caleb received the statement as if it were an astounding bit of hitherto undreamed-of news. "Comin', Sarah!" he chirped briskly. "Comin' this blessed minute!" And then, with an attempt at disingenuousness: "I I've a friend here, Sarah, whom I'd like to er present to you!
The royal measures were, after all, only carried by ten votes; and even that majority would not have been secured had the King not declared, with his usual disingenuousness, that he had no intention of restoring the bishops as a spiritual order, but only as representatives of the Church in Parliament.
Let us select for consideration one group of these vices, the important group which fall under the general head of untruthfulness. Insincerity, disingenuousness, shiftiness, trickery, duplicity, chicanery, evasion, intrigue, suppressio veri, suggestio falsi, fraud, mendacity, treachery, hypocrisy, cant, their name is Legion.
As a result of these events, and of the palpable disingenuousness of the Turks in continuing the negotiations in London, the Balkan delegates on January 29 broke them off, and on February 3, 1913, hostilities were resumed.
The discomfort from her own disingenuousness in maintaining this coerced smile was as reprehensible as the sound; and yet it was nothing to her who had seen a decapitation in early girlhood and spoke of it like an inquisitive little scholar. The bombardment of senseless noise was the stuff migraines were made of; although fortunately for her none ensued.
I tried to smile; but as I am an incompetent actor my grimace was a proclamation of disingenuousness. "Why shouldn't I read it?" she asked, quickly. "Because I say you mustn't, Carlotta." She continued to look at me. She had suddenly grown pale. I stirred my tea and made a pretence of sipping it. "Go on with your breakfast, my child," I repeated.
He told me it was right he should no longer conceal from me that he sided with the constitutional party; that the King had in fact commanded it, having himself accepted the constitution; that he would proceed firmly in that course, because in this case disingenuousness would be fatal, and that he took that side of the question because he had had it proved to him that the foreign powers would not serve the King's cause without advancing pretensions prompted by long-standing interests, which always would influence their councils; that he saw no salvation for the King and Queen but from within France, and that he would serve the constitutional King as he served him before the Revolution.
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