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We have the Word of God as you have, and we use the same creeds. What more can the rankest Papist ask? Tell me that, Mr. Norris; for I am a-weary of your folk." The Queen turned and faced him again a moment, and her eyes were peevish and resentful. Presently she went on again. "Mr. Campion told me it was the oath that troubled him. He could not take it, he said.
As soon as the portrait is found disfigured, the beautiful order of things is overthrown relatively to himself; melancholy grapples him pusillanimity benumbs his faculties by degrees plunges, him into the rankest depths of gloomy superstition; he then degenerates into all those irregularities which are the dismal harvest of fanatic ignorance ploughed with credulity.
And while they entertain some respect for a Protestant opponent, they are irreconcilable with Unionist Catholics, just as the English Gladstonians have a far more virulent dislike for the Liberal Unionists than for the rankest Tories.
Why multiply illustrations of a truism? Theory, you perceive, calls for other and higher gifts than application. The man who can formulate the eternal laws of social evolution can safely leave it to others to put his laws into practice." Sharlee gazed at him in silence, and he returned her gaze, his face wearing a look of the rankest complacence that she had ever seen upon a human countenance.
If the majesty of vegetation is called in question, and intertropical plants brought forward in contrast, even the woods and trackless forests of Guiana, where the rankest of luxuriance prevails, will not do more than compete with the glory of the primeval woods of Canada.
Inwardly he cursed himself for the worst kind of a fool; the fool who underestimates the caliber of his opponent. "Would you say," continued the smooth voice of the other, "that these might be mistaken for your work?" "Nobody would know the difference. It's robbery of the rankest kind. But it's infernally clever." "I'm not going to quarrel with you over a definition, Mr. Banneker," said Marrineal.
"So said I to Cicely," Sir Humphrey cried, eagerly, too interested in his own cause to heed my slighting words for his sister. "'Tis the rankest folly, I told her. Here is Harry Wingfield, old enough almost to be Mary's father, and beside, beside oh, confound it, Harry," the generous lad burst out.
The cry of all Protestants was that it mattered not what evidence they produced before him; that, when their titles were to be set aside, the rankest forgeries, the most infamous witnesses, were sure to have his countenance. To his court his countrymen came in multitudes with writs of ejectment and writs of trespass.
It's the rankest robbery that any man ever tried to pull off, an' if he's a friend of yourn you ought to cut him off your visitin' list!" "How do you know that? Who told you?" asked the girl, her face whitening, for the man's vehemence and evident earnestness were convincing. "'Brand' Trevison told me. It hits him mighty damned hard. He had a deed to his land.
I have tried to say that it is none the less a work of art for that reason, and I can praise the art of another novel, in which the same sort of psychologism prevails, though I must confess it a fiction of the rankest tendenciousness.
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