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Hobhouse is an active member of the Honourable House, but he dares not quit the leading-strings of the worthy Baronet; and let me ask the honest part of mankind to point out any one great political question which he has brought before the House? What has he done for the people, or for the cause of Liberty, since he has been elected? I am not speaking personally; for I personally feel that Mr.
"It was not of my life that I was thinking while Captain Anthony was was speaking to me," said Flora de Barral with an effort. I told her that she was wrong then. She ought to have been thinking of her life, and not only of her life but of the life of the man who was speaking to her too. She let me finish, then shook her head impatiently. "I mean death."
"You don't mean that for irony?" said Babie. "It is only so much time subtracted from tobacco." "Will you let me say something to you, Infanta?" returned Fordham, with all his gentleness. "It seems to me that you are not always quite kind in your way of speaking of Allen." "If you knew how provoking he is!"
The brother assured me that he was giving George all the encouragement he could. Not long after the events of which I have been speaking, I had a dream in which I thought my brother told me that this minister was holding him back and at the same time whipping him and finding fault with him for not moving out.
"Papum," she called, speaking clear and distinct, as though to the deaf, "there's your coffee there at your elbow; be careful, you'll tip it over. Victorine, push his cup further on the table. Is it strong enough for you, Papum?" "Eh?
Hoole's, where there was a large company both of ladies and gentlemen; Sir James Johnston happened to say, that he paid no regard to the arguments of counsel at the bar of the House of Commons, because they were paid for speaking. 'JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, argument is argument. You cannot help paying regard to their arguments, if they are good.
Her sentence will be proclaimed in the presence of all the school, and she will be watched walking out of the schoolroom and out of the big gates, which will close behind her for ever, and all her chance goes all her golden prospects. Nevertheless, grandfather, speaking to me from your own heart, ought the girl to betray her companions?"
I say, 'Look here, I'm a gentleman: feelings of a gentleman' You're not a gentleman, eh?" "Not a bit like one," the plumber agreed cheerfully. "Tha's what I thought. Allow me to say so, I respect you for it for speaking out, I mean. Now what I say is, wench kicks over the traces serve her right wharrever happens: but there's family to consider " Here Mr. Wright interrupted firmly.
But the intellect is a noble faculty and has an important office in religion. It is, properly speaking, antecedent to both feeling and will; and what is put into it determines both what feeling and choice will be.
The governments of Massachusetts and New Haven "never absolutely merged church and state." The franchise depended on church-membership, but the voter, exercising his right in directing the affairs of the colony, was speaking, "not as the church but as the civil Court of Legislation and adjudication." W. Walker, History of the Congregational Churches, p. 123.
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