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'Well in his place so should I, said the Doctor, with the perverseness of not satisfying expectations of amazement. 'You would, said Ethel; 'but Tom! would you have thought it of Tom? 'Tom has more in him than shows through his spectacles, answered Dr. May. 'So! That's the key to his restless fit. Poor fellow! How did it go with him? They have not been carrying it on all this time, surely!
He was provoked by the perverseness of his allies; he was provoked by the imperious language of the enemy. It was not without a hard struggle and a sharp pang that he made up his mind to consent to what France now proposed.
"It is but too true," he said in a passage worth remembering, "that the love, and even the very idea, of genuine liberty is extremely rare. It is but too true that there are many whose whole scheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverseness, and insolence.
To send with so little ceremony a message so contemptuous and so peremptory! but perhaps it is better, for had he, too, like Mrs Delvile, joined kindness with rejection, I might still more keenly have felt the perverseness of my destiny."
But his most withering denunciation of the Manicheans was directed against their pride of reason, against their darkened understanding, which led them not only to believe a lie, but to glory in it, the utter perverseness of the mind when in rebellion to divine authority, in view of which it is almost vain to argue, since truth will neither be admitted nor accepted.
I was glancing through it only a night or two ago, and really I cannot conceive how a sane man could have written such nonsense." "You have a copy, then?" I asked eagerly, remembering Thorndyke's parting instructions. "Yes. Would you like to see it? I know my father has told you about it, and it is worth reading as a curiosity of perverseness."
To apply for protection, where authority is defied, is bold. Your sister, who would not in your circumstances have been guilty of your perverseness, may allowably be angry at you for it. However, we have told her to moderate her zeal for our insulted authority.
The declaration, that my heart was free, afforded them an argument to prove obstinacy and perverseness upon me; since it could be nothing else that governed me in my opposition to their wills, if I had no particular esteem for another man. And in order to this, they sent for this good woman, for whom they know I have even a filial regard.
He would not say that he should not have been much pleased by her success, but he said failure that taught her to do her best without perverseness was really a benefit; and as arithmetic and mathematics had been her weakest points, he would work at them with her and Mysie for an hour every morning.
That I accustom them to bear disappointments and control. That I suffer them not to be too much indulged in their infancy. Nor at school. Nor spoil them when they come home. For that children generally extend their perverseness from the nurse to the schoolmaster: from the schoolmaster to the parents: 14. And, in their next step, as a proper punishment for all, make their ownselves unhappy.
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