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We have often philosophised on the question of punishment, and, locally speaking, we have come to this conclusion, that agony would be sufficiently piled in any case of crime, if the delinquent were just hoisted to the top of St. Walburge's spire and left there.

In the act of error its enormity escapes detection. I had momentary intervals, in which I philosophised on the scene before me; but not deeply. I was a partaker of the vice, and my astonishment at it was by no means so great then as it is now. But there was another circumstance at which it was even extreme, and mingled with high indignation.

Bowen to him the first night at Palazzo Pinti led a life of active questions as to what was the supreme attraction to Colville there, and she referred her doubt to every friend with whom she drank tea. She philosophised the situation very scientifically, and if not very conclusively, how few are the absolute conclusions of science upon any point!

The earth was all about it where to choose; its masters, falsely identifying patriotism with the Protectionism then dominant, struck at both, and the Free Trade movement philosophised itself into cosmopolitanism. Labour, like capital, showed a rapid tendency to become international or rather supernational. "The workers," proclaimed Marx, "have no fatherland."

For so we confess ourselves bound by links of gratitude to the Apostles, and the successors of the Apostles, and to all which has been best, purest, and truest in the ages since. So we confess that we worship the same God-man of whom Apostles preached, of whom fathers philosophised, and for whom martyrs died.

Then I remembered the follet, and ran upstairs as hard as I could put my feet to the ground: never was I in such a fright! "The sick lad died on the following night." Here Carden the elder stopped, and Jerome, his son, philosophised on the subject. Miss Dendy, on the authority of Mr. Elijah Cope, an itinerant preacher, gives this anecdote of similar familiarity with a follet in Staffordshire.

Swift philosophised on the satiric touch of building a madhouse, as the most appropriate charity to Ireland; but what would he have said had he heard that the greatest favour its rulers could bestow the most flattering compliment to national feeling was to open the gaols, to let loose robbers and housebreakers, highwaymen and cutthroats to return burglars to their afflicted homes, and bring back felons to their weeping families.

Mr Sudberry said this heartily, and went off to the baker's by dead reckoning discomfited but chuckling. The butcher pondered and philosophised over the subject the remainder of the afternoon with much curiosity, but with no success.

The hell of it is, to stop it, after you've got it started," philosophised "The Colonel".... "Just what is it that you propose starting?" asked practical, pop-eyed Tom Jenkins. "Oh, anything that will cause excitement!" waved Travers, serenely.

Merton Densher had repeatedly said to himself and from far back that he should be a fool not to marry a woman whose value would be in her differences; and Kate Croy, though without having quite so philosophised, had quickly recognised in the young man a precious unlikeness.