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It was all so amiable that one did not like to contradict him. At the same meal another was giving a sketch of the youth of Martin Luther; he left the church on se demande encore pourquoi. In the innocence of his heart this abbe regarded the rebellion of Luther less as an unpermissible than as an inexplicable act. The society of the Italian friends of my first visit gave me much pleasure.
She was very properly refused a feudal grant, by reason, say "Les Coustumes de Normandie," of her unfitness for war or policy: C'est l'homme ki se bast et ki conseille.
The "Kammarakya," or Buddhist Ritual, a work for the priesthood only, and therefore, like others of the Vinnaya, little known, contains the vital elements of the Buddhist Moral Code, and, per se, is perfect; on this point all writers, whether partial or captious, are of one mind.
You well understand," said I, "that I am not arguing in favor of slavery per se, nor for the slave-trade, nor for the extension of slavery; but I contend that where slavery now exists, no one has yet proposed a scheme which is better than the continuance of ownership, the blacks remaining on the same soil with their present masters.
The last years of his reign were distinguished by the number of plots which were pretended to be discovered, and proved the truth of a remark of Mary de Medicis, "That a false report believed during three days, tended to secure the crown on the head of an usurper." But neither his guards, nor his police, could insure him a moment of repose. "Volvilur Ixion, et se sequiturque fugitque."
For eloquence per se considered merely as an art of pleasing I entertain something of the respect evoked by success; for it always pleases at least the speaker. It is to speech what an ornate style is to writing good and pleasant enough in its time and place and, like pie-crust and the evening girl, destitute of any basis in common sense.
At the very moment that Chia Se felt unable, along with a company of actresses, to bear the ordeal of waiting on the ground floor of the two-storied building, he caught sight of a eunuch come running at a flying pace.
His sunt arbores pro cubilibus; ad eas sese applicant, atque ita, paulum modo reclinatæ, quietem capiunt, quarum ex vestigiis cum est animadversum a venatoribus, quo se recipere consueverint, omnes eo loco, aut a radicibus subruunt aut accidunt arbores tantum, ut summa species earum stantium relinquatur.
Just as though Miss Georgiana were a fairy god-mother who struck her crutch upon the platform and cried: "Se sesame! change!" the young pirates often came through Miss Georgiana's hands and entered high school with the reputation of being very decent fellows after all. Nor was Miss Georgiana a "softie"; far from it. Ask the boys themselves about it?
Of things coming within the scope of government, I judge there are two classes; whereof, the one class may be said to consist of things mala in se that is, of those which, by an inner quality or essence, are evil; and the other, of such as are mala ab extero, or what may be connected with them and made evil only by a positive law of the State, in which is vested the duty of watching over the common good.
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