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In religion, the province was divided between the Anglican Church, with government support and popular dislike, and numerous dissenting sects, chiefly Lutherans, Independents, Presbyterians, and members of the Dutch Reformed Church. The little city of New York, like its great successor, was the most cosmopolitan place on the continent, and probably the gayest.
But suppose a minority objects, and demands two-thirds, three-fourths, or four-fifths, and votes against the majority rule, which is carried only by a simple plurality of votes, will the proceedings of the convention bind the dissenting minority? What gives to the majority the right to govern the minority who dissent from its action?
Wishing to shine in the pulpit, he now preached high sermons, as he called them, interspersed with scraps of learning. His sermons did not, however, procure him much popularity; on the contrary, his church soon became nearly deserted, the greater part of his flock going over to certain dissenting preachers, who had shortly before made their appearance in the neighbourhood. Mr.
"I have looked upon you in that light, but somehow it was not convincing. Why, I do not know. There was so much I found to like in you, so much " He tried to stop her with a dissenting gesture, but she went on. "So much to admire. There was all the warmth of friendship, and closer friendship, a growing camaraderie, in fact; but nothing more.
Imagine such human muck as this; conceive of this folly! Yes, it was now "Death to the Republic!" everywhere not a dissenting voice. All England was marching against us! Truly, this was more than I had bargained for.
They met but few passengers on their path through the fields, a respectable, staid, elderly couple, who had the air of a Dissenting minister and his wife; a girl of fourteen leading a little boy seven years younger by the hand; a pair of lovers, evidently lovers at least to the eye of Tom Bowles; for, on regarding them as they passed unheeding him, he winced, and his face changed.
I was breathing fast with sympathy, and whatever his cause, I was on his side. The next day both giants were lying on the old, disused trail; the revolt against absolute democracy was over; ten thousand ants passed to and fro without a dissenting thought, or any thought, and the Spirit of the Attas was content.
Blake and her friend saw this preparation, they withdrew their dissenting heads from the arcades in order not to countenance what might go on below. Minute followed minute, and the little bell struck the four quarters. Then the great bell boomed out ten; the bell which had given signal for lighting the funeral piles of many a martyr, on Smithfield, directly opposite the church.
So it comes about, as might indeed have been foreseen from the first, that one finds himself, if not actually violating the criminal anarchy statute, at least branded as a Bolshevik if he speaks slightingly of the New York Times or recalls the dissenting opinion of two judges of the Supreme Court.
The justice of this disposition of the money was so evident that not a single dissenting voice was raised among those who had found it, for they all knew that an effort to trace it to its rightful owners would not only be fruitless, but would cost more than the entire amount.
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