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On the other hand, a compulsory system of insurance, which did not add to the contribution of the worker a substantial contribution from outside, would almost certainly break down, because of the refusal of the higher class of worker to assume, unsupported, a share of the burden of the weaker members of the community.
The famous Megarian decree of Pericles, which closed the market of Athens to Megarians, gave rise to angry controversy, and the refusal to rescind that decree led to open war. The subtle influence of Corinth was potent.
Fraser had been watching the fellow, and now remarked to his companion: "Say, what ails that ginney?" The assumption of good-nature fell away from Boyd Emerson as he replied: "I never knew anybody to refuse shelter to freezing men before. There's something back of this he's got some reason for his refusal. I don't want any trouble, but " The inner door opened, and the watchman reappeared.
Upon their repeated refusal, seven thousand Persian troops, it was said, were ordered to Soak Boulak, under the command of the vice-consul, Mr. Patton.
"We shall get nothing," she said, "by descending to personalities with each other." "I meant none, Laura." "I suppose it is always hard," said Lady Laura, "for any one person to judge altogether of the mind of another. If I have said anything severe of your refusal of my brother, I retract it. I only wish that it could have been otherwise."
You may be sure that a lover was often compelled to part with a nice little heap of crowns in order to pass the night with her, and was reduced to desperation by a refusal.
He would know that his refusal to tell his whereabouts would be extremely suspicious. No, to my mind it's Hall's refusal to tell that stamps him as innocent." "Then, in that case, it's the cleverest kind of an alibi he could invent, for it stamps him innocent at once."
For the wrath of God against the heathens dates from their refusal to accept the Torah offered them. Before God gave Israel the Torah, He approached every tribe and nation, and offered them the Torah, that hereafter they might have no excuse to say, "Had the Holy one, blessed be He, desired to give us the Torah, we should have accepted it."
The young man asked him for a light, and entered into conversation with him, and even pushed against him, to make him feel that he was not a thing, but a person. But Vronsky gazed at him exactly as he did at the lamp, and the young man made a wry face, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the oppression of this refusal to recognize him as a person. Vronsky saw nothing and no one.
The good creature has not the heart to mortify the painter at the expense of an honest refusal. In like manner his goodly shelves are one by one stript of his favourite old authors, to give place to a collection of presentation copies the flower and bran of modern poetry.
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