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It was not only his youth and courage that supported him under these successive disappointments, but the continual affluence of new disciples. The man had the tenacity of a Bruce or a Columbus, with a pliability that was all his own. He did not fight for what the world would call success; but for "the wages of going on."
He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple jack yielding, but although; though he bent, he never broke and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet the moment it was away, jerk! he was as erect and carried his head as high as ever.
He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.
There is no more unsafe politician than a conscientiously rigid doctrinaire, nothing more sure to end in disaster than a theoretic volume of policy that admits of no pliability for contingencies. It is often assumed that a change in the form of Government in Germany would completely alter the attitude and conduct of the nation, and secure permanent peace, but that alone would not be sufficient.
Yet her wonderful pliability, her joyful boyishness, had behind all a delicate anxiety which only showed in flashes now and then, fully understood by no one except Carnac's mother and old Denzil. These two having suffered strangely in life had realized that the girl was always waiting for a curtain to rise which did not rise, for a voice to speak which gave no sound.
We accepted you; the pliability of your features, your studied orations, your premeditated axioms all those productions of art that nature disavows, seemed suspicious to the more clear-sighted patriots. The boldest of them followed you, tore the mask from your visage, and cried Citizens, this hero is but a courtier, this sage but an impostor.
I'd much rather wait and go with you and Nan, later on." "Well, I haven't finished thinking it out yet," said Mr. Fairfield, who, in spite of his apparent pliability, had a strong will of his own. "I may send you across in charge of a reliable guardian, and put you into a French convent."
"But you introduced some original specialties in politics that took me off my feet, young man!" he added, with a sickly smile. Harlan was still a little stiff. It was not easy for him to get into the state of political pliability that he saw others assume so readily. "I'm a countryman, and pretty awkward in most everything I undertake," he said.
In time, he found that he was out of place. At a crucial moment he came over to Lincoln. But not until he had done yeoman service with Lincoln's bitterest enemies. The clue to his earlier course was an honest conviction that Lincoln, though well-intentioned, was weak. Was this the nemesis of Lincoln's pliability in action during the first stage of his Presidency? It may be.
W , I regret to say, was not a good Oriental. He lacked the Semite's pliability. He was graceful, but not gracious. A consequence, doubtless, of having inhaled for some time past the rarefied atmosphere of the Chief, and swallowed a few pokers during the process, his manner towards me was freezingly non-committal worthy of the best Anglo-Saxon traditions.
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