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Surely this verges on quibbling, and is not even then borne out by the context. Besides, even if such judicial duties were "the rule," what of the exceptions? We cannot here omit to notice the command of God in Exodus xxii. 29, 30: "The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give to me. Likewise thou shalt do with thine oxen and with thy sheep," etc.
Wiggling, jiggling, piggling individuals with quibbling proclivities, and an incapacity for distinguishing between fact and truth, may maintain that there was no Rhode Island in the year Ten Hundred Seven. Emerson has written, "Nothing is of less importance on account of its being small."
Whenever the native of that State does an act or holds an opinion, it is his nature to confess it and avow the motives thereof, without quibbling or hesitation. It is a persuaded, self-poised community, strikingly like its negative pole on the Slavery Question, Massachusetts.
Thou seest that it hath penetrated deeper than thine." "I see naught of the kind," answered Francis with passion. "It was mine that did it." "Good master," said the boy appealing to the tutor, "didst mark that the stag fell not until he received my shot?" "Ay! I noted it, lad, and 'tis a point well taken," quoth Master Hugh. "But a truce to thy quibbling. Here are the huntsmen."
Our long stay in the country; the isolation which the position of Sainte-Severe and the bad state of the roads had left us since the beginning of winter; the monotony of our daily life all tended to foster our wearisome quibbling.
I thus avoided the technical form of question sane or insane, and obtained a verdict of guilty, but that the woman at the time was not answerable for her conduct, together with a strong recommendation to mercy. This verdict, if not according to the strictest legal quibbling, was according to justice.
Chase at once replied briefly to the fiery attack, and on February 3d delivered an elaborate speech against the bill, which Douglas recognized as the strongest of the session. As a legal argument it was a complete and crushing answer to the quibbling sophistry of the advocates of implied repeal. But it was not merely the argument of a great lawyer.
She had been built at Liverpool in the face of an English law which no quibbling could disguise to anybody except to Lord John Russell and to those who, like him, leaned to the South. Ten years later, this leaning cost England fifteen million dollars in damages. Let us now listen to what our British friends were saying in those years before Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation.
The plundering business was warmly discussed between himself and the Admiral, and there was much quibbling and special pleading in defence of the practices which had created so much irritation and pecuniary loss in Holland.
There is no one else you would rather have?" He was smiling straight into her eyes, and she guessed what he meant. She smiled back at him, and the spirit of daring never more awake in her, replied, as she caught his eye: "There is no one else I would rather have." Corthell caught her hand of a sudden. "Laura," he cried, "let us end this fencing and quibbling once and for all.
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