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I say, it is the everlasting privilege of the foolish to be governed by the wise; to be guided in the right path by those who know it better than they. This is the first "right of man;" compared with which all other rights are as nothing, mere superfluities, corollaries which will follow of their own accord out of this; if they be not contradictions to this, and less than nothing!
As Jack could give no more testimony than his companions, and as generally it was considered an important and responsible privilege to appear as witness, Mr. Dodgson omitted Jack's name from the list.
Every act of a citizen was subject to the judgment of the censors; the first who used the privilege of divorce assigned, at their command, the motives of his conduct; and a senator was expelled for dismissing his virgin spouse without the knowledge or advice of his friends.
Can you imagine, dear people at home, you who have hundreds of newspapers, how we are straining every nerve to know the real truth of things as they are, to pierce through this thick wall, with which an arrogant despotism has cut us off from the whole world? But we cannot. It is wadded on both sides with deceptions and our only privilege is to surmise.
I am no statesman, but I know this if he would restore all our liberties, he will never grant the one thing, without which life is valueless." "What is that, Herr Peter?" "The privilege of believing according to the dictates of our hearts. You mean fairly, noble sir; but you trust the Spaniard, we do not; if we did, we should be deceived children.
More the privilege which he hath just exercised is his by royal grant; for we have ordained that the chiefs of his line shall have and hold the right to sit in the presence of the Majesty of England henceforth, age after age, so long as the crown shall endure. Molest him not."
"Privilege thinks it has a great interest in the American contest," he began in his massive, deliberate tones; "and every morning with blatant voice, it comes into our streets and curses the American Republic. Privilege has beheld an afflicting spectacle for many years past.
"The first time the governess chanced to have a candle, but this privilege is confined, under pain of excommunication, to relations." "Then she will have a light to-day?" "I expect not, as the portress will have sent up word that there was a stranger with me." "But how could you see your sweetheart, as you are not related to her?"
The favorites of Valens obtained, by the privilege of rapine and confiscation, the wealth which his economy would have refused.
White never asked anything much save the privilege of working, and was always about the place, alert, earnest at his particular duties, not haughty, but calm and absolutely efficient in every way.
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