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Yet the treaty seemed to be made under his auspices. In reading the great quantity of diaries and correspondence which relate to the transactions, many a passage indicates the sense of respect with which he was looked up to. The high opinion entertained of his ability, integrity, and fair-mindedness influenced very powerfully the minds of the English ministry and their envoys.
The fair-mindedness of the judge was conspicuous from first to last, and was worthy of the high traditions of the Irish Bench. After deliberating for a couple of hours the jury brought in a verdict which had a certain humour in it. They awarded to Miss Travers a farthing damages and intimated that the farthing should carry costs.
His chief and only virtues were truthfulness and fair-mindedness toward his friends rare and incongruous virtues for a professional burglar; nevertheless, he possessed them in a marked degree.
Shefford, long schooled now in his fair-mindedness, fought down the feelings of other years, and waited with patience. Who was he to judge Waggoner or any other Mormon? But whenever his glance strayed back to the quiet, slender form in white, when he realized again and again the appalling nature of this court, his heart beat heavy and labored within his breast.
His patriotism had not root in any revolutionary element in his temper, but was the inevitable outcome of his fair-mindedness.
We much need to encourage and elaborate opportunities for profitable discussion to-day. We should revert to the dialectic of the Athenian agora and make it a chosen instrument for clarifying, co-ordinating and directing our co-operative thinking. Plato's indecision and urbane fair-mindedness is called irony. Now irony is seriousness without solemnity.
I want to tell her how happy I am that she has found you again;" and then she was gone. The dominant impulse was to rush after her, grasp her and carry her back to the waves from which he had unwittingly saved her. Then the strong influence that she had exerted over him, together with the spark of fair-mindedness that remained, forced him to obey the dictates of honor.
But he soon saw that the man had a certain rugged strength, and there was no doubt he had suffered from the depredations of Mexico's casual visitors, and was ready to protect not only his own interests but those of any newcomers. He seemed to have the spirit of fair-mindedness; and he believed firmly in the possibilities of this magic land, particularly for young men.
But no case could well be less in point; for, besides that he was a man of such fair-mindedness as is always the raw material of wisdom, he had in his profession a training precisely the opposite of that to which a partisan is subjected.
Patiently Ruth gave this thought her consideration and in fair-mindedness turned her scrutiny upon past days to evoke some sign that should contradict her own conclusions. "She's got something it's something different from the rest of us but it would take more than that to do for Johnny Byrd." Definitely, Ruth shook her head. "You don't suppose she's beginning to think ?" hazarded Mrs. Blair.
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