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All qualities, without that belief, were not to be despised as useless, but to be abhorred as pernicious. There would be no virtue, no merit, divorced from religion. In proportion to the speciousness of his qualities was he to be dreaded.
Appeal to the past; why, that is your crime! Make all clear, convince the reason; alas! speciousness is but a proof against you. "If you can abuse me now, the more likely that you have abused me from the first."
Pantheism goes about under a variety of aliases to-day, and therein lies an additional danger; for whatever its assumed name or disguise, its essence is always the same, and its very speciousness calls for all our vigilance and determination to fight it.
"Indeed, yes," sighed the listener, both ways again. "We know how absolutely you believe the city's our best base, else we'd have asked you to go with us." The ever genuine Constance felt a mortifying speciousness in her words and so piled them on. "We know the city is best unless it should fall, and it won't oh, it won't, God's not going to let so many prayers go unanswered, Flora!
She had been puzzled when Parsifal, trying to free himself from the enchantment of the witch-woman's embrace, had suddenly been confronted by her exultant: "And so then, with my kiss, The world's heart have I shewn thee? In my soft arms enfolded Like to a god thou'llt deem thee." "Yes, that's it," she cried. "Oh, you old sun, listen to the speciousness of it all!
I claim no more than this recognition; for, as you pointed out, the position carried its advantages, if it entailed arduous responsibility too. It was my hope that heirs of my body would live to perpetuate this pride this work of mine. It was not to be. Sir Adrian halted a pace, a little moved by the speciousness of the pleading.
The latter, however, is not improbable; for proud, and haughty, and dignified, as the colonel NOW is, such was not THEN the character of the ensign; who seemed thrown out of one of Nature's supplest moulds, to fawn, and cringe, and worm his way to favour by the wily speciousness of his manners.
But he tried it again on the next, and found that Larkin had been over the ground before him, and said so much about "the imposition of the thing," that he could do little or nothing. There was a speciousness about Larkin's manner of alluding to the subject, that carried people away with him; particularly as what he said favoured their inclination to keep a tight hold on their purse-strings.
He could not obtain at Philadelphia all he wished for, but now that Washington has given him both reins, he laughs in our faces. I regret that I ever offered him my hand." "Then our party in Congress will fight him on political grounds?" asked Mrs. Croix. "You may put it that way if you choose. It certainly will not be blinded by his speciousness and aid him in his subtle monarchism.
As to my personal distress on the point, I think it had gone by February 21st in that year, for I wrote then to Mr. The great speciousness of his argument is one of the things which have made me despond so much," that is, as anticipating its effect upon others. But, secondly, the great stumbling-block lay in the 39 Articles.
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