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The occasion had nothing to do with slavery. It concerned Free Trade, a very respectable issue, but so clearly a minor issue that to break up a great country upon it would have gone beyond the limit of solemn frivolity, and Calhoun must be taken to have been forging an implement with which his own section of the States could claim and extort concessions from the Union.
On the reverse, such a temper extracts unhappiness from causes which would fail to extort even a sigh from dispositions of less susceptibility. Ideas of sensibility and sympathy are pretty toys for a novice to play with; but change those wooden swords into weapons of real metal, and you will find the points through your heart before you are aware of the danger at least, I find it so. Mr.
His mouth was filled with chewing-gum which he rolled aside in his cheek when he talked. "Is it far?" Adams enquired in a hopeless effort to extort information however meagre. The boy looked important, almost mysterious. "Yep," he responded, adding immediately, "She's the other side of the ferry." "Do you mean the lady?"
"Ah, you are angry!" cried Morris, who wished immensely that he could extort some flash of passion from her mildness. In that case he might hope. "No, I am not angry. Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong. But I can't talk." Morris stood stroking his beard, with a clouded eye.
No class of men mentioned in history has ever adhered to a principle with more inflexible pertinacity than was found among the Scotch Puritans. Fine and imprisonment, the sheers and the branding iron, the boot, the thumbscrew, and the gallows could not extort from the stubborn Covenanter one evasive word on which it was possible to put a sense inconsistent with his theological system.
'I do not come here, sir, interrupted Lord Colambre, 'to listen to any explanations of your conduct, which I perfectly understand; I come to witness a bond for my friend Mr. Berryl, if you think proper to extort from him such a bond. 'I extort nothing, my lord. Mr.
Had he by his gunboats, or by his intrigues or threats, been enabled to extort a second edition of the Peace of Amiens, after a warfare of some few months, all mouths would have been ready to exclaim, "Oh, the illustrious warrior! Oh, the profound politician!"
After taking from me the last farthing I possessed of my own, and the last farthing I could extort for him from my old mistress, he turned on me as we stood by the margin of the sea, and asked if I could reconcile it to my conscience to let him be wearing such a coat as he then had on his back, and earning his miserable living as a chorus-singer at the opera!
Great as was the intellectual ability of its author so great as to extort our profoundest, though it may be reluctant admiration there are nevertheless moments in which it appears that his movement is becoming wavering and unsteady that he is failing to handle his ponderous weapon with self-balanced power.
What concessions we shall in this war extort from the Spaniards, what security will be procured for our merchants, what recompense will be yielded for our losses, or what extent will be added to our commerce, it cannot yet be expected that any man should be able to declare; nor will his majesty's counsellors be required to give an account of futurity.
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