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They provide the principles for training and for increasing the probability of success in battle. In the interpretation of the regulations, the spirit must be sought. Quibbling over the minutiæ of form is indicative of failure to grasp the spirit. The principles of combat are considered in Part II of these regulations.
We cherish feelings of profound contempt for the quibbling spirit of criticism which is endeavoring to explain away the meaning of language, the design of which as a matter of practice, and the adoption of which as a matter of bargain, were intelligently and clearly understood by the contracting parties.
Oh, Miss Lucretia, who pride yourself on your plain speaking, that you should be caught quibbling! Miss Lucretia blushed for the first time in many, years, and into her face came the light of battle. "I am a coward, my dear. I deserve your rebuke.
It needs an immense amount of brains to make your way, and a still greater amount of luck. And here are you quibbling over your good fortune! If we had not met to-day, you see, at Flicoteaux's, you might have danced attendance on the booksellers for another three years, or starved like d'Arthez in a garret.
He was the presumptive successor to all his crowns, had not approved of the movements of Matthias in the lifetime of his brother, and hated the Vienna Protestant baker's son, Cardinal Clesel, by whom all those movements had been directed. Professor Taubmann, of Wittenberg, ponderously quibbling on the name of that prelate, had said that he was of "one hundred and fifty ass power."
"Arjuna, hearing this, replied, 'I have heard, even from thee, that quibbling is not permitted in the discharge of duty. I cannot waver from truth. Truth is my weapon. "Vaisampayana continued, 'Obtaining then the king's permission, Arjuna prepared himself for a forest-life; and he went to the forest to live there for twelve years."
"What difference does that make?" "A great deal," said Cynthia, not caring to define it. "Cynthia," said Mr. Worthington, sitting down on the beach and facing her, "do you think you've treated me just right?" "Of course I do," she said, "or I should have treated you differently." Bob ignored such quibbling. "Why did you run away from that baseball game in Brampton?
Great-grandfather Jabez Howe quibbled with Great-grandfather Abiatha Webster for a lifetime, and both went down into the tomb still quibbling over the enigma. Afterward Grandfather Nathan Howe and Grandfather Ebenezer Webster took up the dispute, and they, too, were gathered into the Beyond without ever reaching a conclusion.
The state built upon the rock of Honor and fortified by the same shall we call it the Ehrenstaat or, after the manner of Carlyle, the Heroarchy? is fast falling into the hands of quibbling lawyers and gibbering politicians armed with logic-chopping engines of war.
"An answer that begins by quibbling is not propitious. She opposes it." "For this reason: you have not forgotten the bronze butterfly?" "I see more clearly," said Laura, with a start. "There appears to be no cure for the brute's mad suspicion of her," Carlo pursued: "and he is powerful among the Milanese.
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