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Hence it is to be remarked that, in seizing a state, the usurper ought to examine closely into all those injuries which it is necessary for him to inflict, and to do them all at one stroke so as not to have to repeat them daily; and thus by not unsettling men he will be able to reassure them, and win them to himself by benefits.
Indeed, had the actual course of events been less auspiciously regular, Madame de Malrive's confidence would have gone far toward unsettling his own; but with the process of law going on unimpeded, and the other side making no sign of open or covert resistance, the fresh air of good faith gradually swept through the inmost recesses of his distrust.
But he got hold of some unsettling works, the New Testament among others, and this loosened his views of life and led him into many perplexities.
It had never occurred to her that the life of anyone about her might have been different from what it was. What else was there for people to do but what everybody else did? It was all very unsettling and, in this heat and loneliness, daunting. Through this vague discomfort there presently pierced a positive apprehension of definite unpleasantness.
It is these transition stages which have proved the most difficult epochs in the world's history." "I hate transition stages and revolutions, they are so unsettling. It seems to me they are just like the day when your room is cleaned; and that is the most uncomfortable day in the whole week. Don't you know it?
She has the art of disturbing my happiness and unsettling my opinions. She hurts me through the feelings and people dearest to me." "What does she say, Paulina? Give me some idea. There may be counteraction of the damage done." "The people I have longest and most esteemed are degraded by her. She does not spare Mrs. Bretton she does not spare.... Graham."
Read the book at your leisure, and study it." I listened to this recital with astonishment; and doubted at first, whether the Brahmin's late severe attack had not had the effect of unsettling his brain: but on looking in his face, the calm self-possession and intelligence which it exhibited, dispelled the momentary impression.
The curate, who had opened to him the first door of hope and comfort, had in these weeks begun to see that the apparent fitfulness of his kindness had been unsettling. Then came the brief dream of felicity excited by Gillian and the darkness of its extinction, just as Frank Stebbing's failure and the near approach of Mr.
We ought to forbear inflicting the discomfort of our peculiarities on our friends, or of requiring too much love for what we give, too much intelligence to meet our mental acquirements. We should forbear asking for a change of opinion, or an unsettling of conviction, and certainly should refrain from making a bad use of our intimacy with one another.
'If you told mamma, perhaps she would let you stay, returned Gillian. 'I know I should hate it, worse than I do going to Rockstone and without you. 'That would be unkind to poor Fly, said Mysie. 'Besides, mamma said she could not have settling and unsettling for ever. And I shall see Primrose sometimes; besides, I do love Fly. It's marching orders, you know.
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