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And there happened to me in this conjuncture, what has in my later life been often seen, that the modification of religious views imposed on us by the superior force of another mind a persuasion of what seems to be truth as it is only seen by others' vision could not hold its own against the early convictions, and that a revulsion to the old faith was sooner or later inevitable and generally healthy.
The letter was in these terms: "Profoundly touched by the disorders that afflict the French nation, and by the duty imposed on me by the constitution of watching over the maintenance of order and public tranquillity, I have not ceased to employ every means that it places at my disposal to execute the laws.
The attempt to conciliate both parties, had rendered it obnoxious to both. The Protestants complained of the restraints imposed upon them; the Roman Catholics thought that these hated sectaries had been favoured at the expense of the true church.
Our best man was Ned Carrigan, Corporal of Company I, from Chicago who was so confessedly the best man in the whole prison that he was never called upon to demonstrate it. He was a big-hearted, genial Irish boy, who was never known to get into trouble on his own account, but only used his fists when some of his comrades were imposed upon.
But if she imposed this constraint upon herself, would her love still remain the same? "No, no, and again no!" cried the refractory spirit within.
For such peoples also the 'Empire' of Western civilisation, even when it is imposed and maintained by force, may bring advantages which will far outweigh its defects. In these cases the word 'Empire' can be used without violence to its original significance, and yet without apology; and these cases cover by far the greater part of the world.
The sculptor, too, was firmly resolved to keep the oath imposed upon him. As soon as he, Bias, had performed the commission intrusted to him, he and Myrtilus would be released from their vow, and Hermon would learn his friend's residence. No morning brightened Hermon's night of darkness. When the returned slave had finished his report, the sun was already shining into his master's room.
As has been said before, the disabilities in question had originally been imposed on the Roman Catholics on political rather than on religious grounds. And the political reasons for them had been greatly weakened, if not wholly swept away, by the extinction of the Stuart line of princes.
He rescued a poor slave girl in order to be faithful to a trust imposed in him, and taught her the truths of Allah. The silver leaf was his reward. He found it in the heathen fetish which she gave him in her gratitude. It had been her god. "I am not sure about the golden leaf, but I think it was the reward of living a wise and honorable life.
"I think Dick wants to tell us something about the fellow Jordan, and some of the other cadets," Belle hinted. Between them the chums told the story of how the "silence" had come to be imposed. Prescott did not, however, tell his feminine visitors how he had happened to catch Jordan outside the guard line. "How did that happen?" asked Laura innocently.
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