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But with respect to the Gentile nations, the dim traces of this monism or henotheism which Professor Flint seems to accord to Adam and to Noah, is all that we are contending for, and all that is necessary to the argument of this lecture. We may even admit that heathen deities may sometimes have been called by different names while the one source of power was intended.
In Rome the prime defender of Ultramontanism had been the Abbe Perrone, an eloquent professor, whom the pressure of the traditional theologians obliged to read, before giving a lecture, a chapter of Saint Thomas on the point in question. Perrone, after offering, with gnashing of teeth, this tribute to tradition, used to say proudly: "And now, let us forget these old saws and get along."
She did hold out for an hour and a half, and then sank back exhausted, and was obliged to leave the lecture unfinished. This was the beginning of an illness which lasted, with its subsequent convalescence, through the remainder of the year.
"I grant you the name is good in itself, and Lord Edmund or Sir Edmund sound delightfully; but sink it under the chill, the annihilation of a Mr., and Mr. Edmund is no more than Mr. John or Mr. Thomas. Well, shall we join and disappoint them of half their lecture upon sitting down out of doors at this time of year, by being up before they can begin?" Edmund met them with particular pleasure.
It meant that the "lecture" of this great female philosopher had produced its effect, that Miss Redbud had waked to a consciousness of the fact, that she was a "young lady," and that her demeanor toward Verty was improper. Before, she had thought that there was no great impropriety in running to meet the forest boy, with whom she had played for years, and whom she knew so very well.
The shoemaker and his dame from Nuremberg paused in the sensible lecture they were alternately addressing to their apprentices. The Frankfort messenger put down the needle with which he was mending the badgerskin in his knapsack.
In vain, therefore, did Father M'Cabe denounce and prophesy in vain did he launch all the dogmas of the church in vain did he warn, lecture, and threaten Darby's private hint had gone abroad precisely a day or two before their encounter, and the consequence was what might be expected.
'Ah, you wag, now I understand why you gave me a lecture this morning. While waiting for the train to arrive, they went on chatting. Sandoz explained his ideas on marriage, which, in middle-class fashion, he considered an indispensable condition for good work, substantial orderly labour, among great modern producers.
Yet in spite of his forbearance he never gave up the "larger things" that he felt were of real importance; and when he learned at one time that an effort was being made to force a member of the cabinet to resign, he called them together, and read them the following impressive little lecture: "I must myself be the judge how long to retain in, and when to remove any of you from his position.
"You're No. 43, I guess, and it's lucky old Boyle ain't here to read you a lecture or to turn you out. He won't stand for unmarried lady guests bein' out till this hour, an' you may as well know it first as last." "He's quite right," was Josie's calm reply. "I'll not do it again. My key, please!" He rose reluctantly and gave her the key. "Do you sit up all night?" she asked sweetly.
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