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No similar process is possible with Moslems: one course therefore remains open for those who wish to see the Ottoman Empire upheld; a strenuous insistance on the Porte treating the Rayah population with justice and moderation. The interests of humanity, and the real and true interests of the Ottoman Empire, are in this case identical.
Bence Jones for nearly forty years the people have dubbed him "tyrant" and "domineering Saxon," epithets certain to be applied to any Englishman who tries to do his own work in his own way in Ireland. Any insistance on anything being done in the master's way instead of the man's is "tyranny." Any curt command is "domineering."
The harassed burghers appealed to the Alsatian Décapole, and again to the free Swiss cantons for protection, and sometimes obtained more than they wanted. Mulhouse was seriously affected by these lawless depredations. To her, Berne promised aid in a twenty-five years' alliance signed in 1466, and at Berne's insistance the cowardly nobles restrained their license.
Now maturing her plans for getting her boy back, she stood by the bare black mantel-piece, her head leaning on her hand. She uttered an exclamation when Mr Hare entered. "What," she said, "you haven't changed your things, and I told you you would find a suit of John's clothes. I must insist " "My dear Lizzie, no amount of insistance would get me into a pair of John's trousers.
He must contend against spiritual wickedness, oppose internal lust, and resist external temptation. He must brave alike caresses and sneers; the importunity of the timid, and the insistance of the powerful; so, however reproached by men, he will be honoured by God. The officers of the king, at length, resolved to inform his favourite of this determined omission to pay him reverence.
Art is surely but a series of conventions which enable us to express our special sense of beauty for beauty is everywhere, and abounds in subtle manifestations. Things ugly in themselves become beautiful by association; or perhaps I should say that they become picturesque. The slightest insistance in a line will redeem and make artistically interesting the ugliest face.
On the contrary, she is annoyed at his insistance, but sees that it is a phase of insanity and hopes to cure it before long." "I see. What is he like? I suppose he is an Israelite." "From Moravia yes. The wreck of a handsome boy," said Keyork carelessly. "This insanity is an enemy of good looks.
He demanded, at first politely and calmly, and later when denied with arrogant insistance, that Gian Maria should provide the Duke of Valentinois with a hundred lances equivalent to five hundred men as some contribution on his part towards the stand which Caesar Borgia meant to make against the impending French invasion.
Uncle Matt found some of his breath, though not enough to steady his voice. But his strenuousness was almost passionate. "Doctah Williams Atkinson," he said, "I ain't beggin', Doctah Atkinson, sah; on'y axin' if I might speak a few words to you, sah!" His shrewd insistance on the name was effective. The elderly gentleman turned and looked at him in surprised questioning.
"Whatever cometh," he said to his wife, as they rose at last from the brilliant tables and passed out upon the terraces at the invitation of the Queen; "whatever cometh, leave her not alone with him, though she should urge thee; use thy sweet insistance as thou knowest how to keep others about them for this first evening."
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