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There, however, we are at the pitch of burlesque beyond her illustrious lord's capacity to stand. Peremptory orders from England arrive, commanding her return. She temporizes, postpones, and supplicates to have the period extended up to the close of the Eisteddfod. My lord's orders are imperatively repeated, and very blunt.
Following a preliminary conference, I'll let you know whether you're going to get that franchise without difficulty or whether somebody's itchy palm will have to be crossed with silver first. Honest men never temporize. You know where they stand, but a grafter temporizes and plays a waiting game, hoping to wear your patience down to the point where you'll ask him bluntly to name his figure.
He wore the habit of authority equally with the irascibility of one who temporizes with his liver.
"Thus you see," she continued, "it comes to this Rome can only be freed by the Romans. He looks upon the secret societies of his own country as he does upon universal suffrage a wild beast, and dangerous, but which may be watched and tamed and managed by the police. He listens, but he plays with them. He temporizes. At the bottom of his heart, his Italian blood despises the Gauls.
There, however, we are at the pitch of burlesque beyond her illustrious lord's capacity to stand. Peremptory orders from England arrive, commanding her return. She temporizes, postpones, and supplicates to have the period extended up to the close of the Eisteddfod. My lord's orders are imperatively repeated, and very blunt.
"Would you and your family keep such knowledge secret until we consented to its publicity?" Here Sir Donald judiciously temporizes. "No light consideration would prompt any of us to oppose your wishes. However, to save an innocent person from suspicion of murder or to promote the happiness of some loved one, I would tell all." The stranger here looks puzzled. "I cannot grasp your meaning.
Yet how rarely do they divide the attention! the young are rash, and the aged are mercenary; their deliberations are never in concert, their views are scarce ever blended; one vanquishes, and the other submits; neither party temporizes, and commonly each is unhappy."
In the meanwhile the government of the Union reasons, it appeals to the interests, to the good sense, to the glory of the nation; it temporizes, it negotiates, and does not consent to act until it is reduced to the last extremity.
Petersburg Internal Politics of Russia Alexander's Perplexities War between Great Britain and Russia New Orders in Council The Milan Decree Position of the United States The Regeneration of Prussia Napoleon's Repressive Measures Austria's New Army Diplomatic Tension between Russia and France Designs of Napoleon as to Egypt He Temporizes with Alexander Caulaincourt and Tolstoi The Czar's Demands Napoleon's Visit to Italy Limitations of his Ambition Visions of Oriental Empire Control of the Mediterranean His Proposition to Russia His Complete Program.
Jean de Luz Comments by Lawrence on the shameful behaviour of certain sergeants of his regiment Marches and countermarches in the mountain passes Lawrence temporizes as cook in behalf of his officers, and is rewarded with an extra allowance of rum A wet night Fall of San Sebastian Lawrence acts as medical adviser to his captain and gets more rum Battle of the Nivelle and the French driven well into their own country.
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