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If any of his guests had seen him then they would have said: "How distinctly American!" and Wilton did not care for that tone. He had schooled himself to an English walk, and, so long as he did not raise it, an English voice. He did not gesticulate with his hands; he sat down on most of his enthusiasms, but he could not rid himself of The Shibboleth.
Isabel blushed. "You must be descended from Jephthah! O! dear, I didn't mean that!" "Never mind," said Lawrence, unable to help laughing. "My feelings are not sensitive. But do finish you fill me with curiosity. What shibboleth do I fail in?" Faithful are the wounds of a friend. "Englishmen don't wear jewellery," murmured Isabel apologetic. "Sac a papier!" said Lawrence. "My rings?"
If madame was only lacquer, and not clear gold all through, Leam had not the grace of even the thinnest layer of varnish, and might well take lessons in the religion of appearances and that thing which we call "manner." Madame did know at least how to bear herself with the seeming of a lady, and could say her shibboleth as it ought to be said.
The shibboleth of the Anglo-Saxon race is the courage of man and the virtue of woman: and when, by violence, a member of a despised race assails a defenseless woman; robs her of her virtue, her crown of glory; and sends her back to society broken and crushed in spirit, longing, sighing, praying for the oblivion of the grave, it is not to be wondered at that hell is scoured by the Southern white man in search of plans to vent his rage.
And there is even now professed a belief that the will of God can be ascertained by counting ballots. "Vox Populi Vox Dei" is still a shibboleth. But the doctrine that justice is heaven born, superior to and controlling the opinions and wills of men, did not escape challenge even in ancient times.
In many a man the effect of this teaching is to fix him for life in a hard, narrow, and exclusive school of religious thought and feeling, in which he lives and dies profoundly satisfied with himself and his co-religionists, and quite hopeless of salvation for any beyond the immediate pale in which his own Shibboleth is pronounced with the exactest nicety of articulation. But Dr.
A man of fortune and culture who devoted his leisure and his wealth to helping every movement for the betterment of Ireland. An English politician who sat in the British Parliament for English, Irish, and Scotch constituencies as Tory and later as Radical. Chief author of the Radical shibboleth, "Peace, Retrenchment and Reform."
Try to write an essay without using that vowel which some men think the very shibboleth of egotism, and the remembrance of yourself will be in the background of your mind all the time you are writing. It will be always intruding and pushing in its face, and you will be able to give only half your mind to your subject. But frankly and naturally use the I, and the remembrance of yourself vanishes.
But I little thought that the Dean, in his zeal for Ireland, would vouchsafe to adopt the shibboleth of it. The Preface-writer, in the choice MS which he found, could discover the Dean's name subscribed at the end of the original; but blotted out by some other hand.
He liked that sentence. It sounded like the shibboleth of a great leader in a crisis. "I shall assault again to-morrow night." "Then your losses were not heavy?" "No, not relatively. To-morrow night we press home the advantage we gained to-night." "But you have been so confident each time. You still think that " "That I mean to win! There is no stopping half-way."
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