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Half-hearted at best in their support of the struggle, yet by their wealth and position able at first to obtain a commanding part in the conduct of the war, they used it to temporize with the foe and to dull the edge of the popular feeling. Josephus unfortunately does not enlighten us as to the inner movements in Judea at this crisis.
You might as well reason with a rattlesnake, striking at you might as well seek to temporize and argue with a dog drooling hydrophobic foam, as to tell the human heart what it ought to do. Reason is a business matter and it can make matches, but it cannot make love. Long I sat there, gripping the desk, gazing at the rafters overhead, groaning in the lover's conscious luxury of despair.
"Then, Madame, if such be unfortunately your decision," said her listener, "at least let me urge you to do it in gentler terms." "I am in no humour to temporize." Sully made no reply. "Do not wrap yourself up in silence, Monsieur," exclaimed the Queen after waiting in vain for his reply.
The introduction of corridor carriages on many of our railways has done much to stamp out one particular form of blackmailing, but public urinals are still a source of danger. It is the worst possible policy to temporize with a blackmailer. If you give him a single penny, you are his for life.
The nobles indeed sought to temporize, and to prevail by patience and address; sometimes calling out the army, sometimes opposing another tribune to the one who was promoting the law, and sometimes coming to a compromise by sending a colony into the lands which were to be divided; as was done in the case of the territory of Antium, whither, on a dispute concerning the law having arisen, settlers were sent from Rome, and the land made over to them.
Well, rather than compromise, rather than temporize, he would stand out alone rather than yield an iota of what he held to be the true Progressive Aims for People and Land. Only and this was a flaw, and no small one either he often wrote his religious opinions so openly as to pain his readers.
The point of the school at last he yielded, though sullenly; and the parson thought it better to temporize as to the more unpalatable demand. Unluckily, Lenny's apprehensions of the mockery that awaited him in the merciless world of his village were realized. Though Stirn at first kept his own counsel the tinker blabbed the whole affair.
We can readily picture him coming in raging after a conflict at the theatre with official imbecility, and Minna, instead of sympathizing, counselling him to be wise and temporize.
And I wonder if you really understand the terrible, bitter feeling you have aroused, the powerful enemies you have made by speaking so so unreservedly?" "I was prepared for it," he answered. "Surely, Mrs. Constable, once I have arrived at what I believe to be the truth, you would not have me temporize?" She gave him a wan smile. "In one respect, at least, you have not changed," she told him.
The wretched Hutchinson tried to temporize: he denied that he had power to move the soldiers; then he consented to send one regiment away, letting the other remain; the people would accept no compromise; Dalrymple said that he would do as the governor directed. Samuel Adams and Hutchinson finally faced each other in Faneuil Hall.
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