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"Master Clarke might have won his liberty with the rest, but he refused to take any part in the spectacle today at Carfax." "Yet he never circulated the books," broke out Garret. "He ofttimes cautioned me against importing too many of the treatises written in Germany. He would not approve all that they contained. He could have cast such books upon the flames without violating his conscience.
Then, too, every state or nation carries a large list of laws that men have so long violated and ignored, that they virtually are dead. To violate these brings no feeling of wrong, but only serves to make men doubt the evil of violating any law. It is never easy to get a Legislature to repeal a law.
The proctor, after a pause, replied, "You place me in circumstances of great difficulty, sir; I am indeed anxious to oblige you, but I know not whether I can do so with honor, without violating my good faith to another party." "I don't understand you," said Turbot.
All men will naturally commit fornication, as all men will naturally steal. And, Sir, it is very absurd to argue, as has been often done, that prostitutes are necessary to prevent the violent effects of appetite from violating the decent order of life; nay, should be permitted, in order to preserve the chastity of our wives and daughters.
And if I had been such a fool that I could not confess ignorance, or such another fool as to have distrusted the people I met with, I should never have had the pleasure of my discovery. Now I must not go into any more such stories as this, because you will say I am violating the sixth great rule of talk, which is Be Short. I do not believe a word of that, but I obey. I know one Saint.
Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith was the man was the man that was used up. Method is the soul of business. I AM a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all. But there are no people I more heartily despise than your eccentric fools who prate about method without understanding it; attending strictly to its letter, and violating its spirit.
An order had just been issued by the English Government that none of its subjects should engage in the naval service of any foreign power. Admiral Monson, an especial partisan of Spain, was indefatigable in exercising the right he claimed of visiting foreign vessels off the English coast, in search of English sailors violating the proclamation of neutrality.
I could not help smiling. "Your husband ought to know, my dear," I said. I saw her compress her lips. "What is the tip for?" "I suppose it is to keep out of trouble with him." "But why can't we keep out of trouble by obeying the law?" "My dear, sometimes the law is inconvenient, and sometimes it is complicated and obscure. It might be that you are violating it without knowing the fact.
He showed that the application of his popular sovereignty doctrine in Kansas would solve the problem of slavery in the Territories, and that the Administration was violating the platform on which it held office in espousing the cause of the pro-slavery men. It was a remarkable situation.
But sentiment, a tender regard for the supposed wishes of the dead poet, and a natural dread of the consequences of violating a dying wish, coupled with the execration of its contemner, are too powerful for the arguments of science and the pleadings of art.
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