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If they are comparing Oxford simply with some ideal and better Oxford, in some ideal and better world, in that case all they have said waiving its falsehoods of fact is no more than a flourish of rhetoric, and the whole discussion may be referred to the shadowy combats of scholastic declamation-mongers those mock gladiators, and umbratiles doctores.
Herbert Spencer deals with this "jiner" propensity in man, and describes it as a manifestation of the herding instinct in animals. It is a combination for mutual protection a social contract, each one waiving a part of his personality in order to secure a supposed benefit. A herd of cattle can stand against a pack of wolves, but a cow alone is doomed. Few men indeed can stand against the pack.
But his eyes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright pointed weapons with little surface to betray them. They had no depth or change; they glittered, and they opened and shut. So far, and waiving their use to himself, a clockmaker could have made a better pair.
Waiving the claims which the treaty of San Ildefonso may have given to the boundary of the Rio Grande, he rested the whole case upon "an immutable principle" the Republic of Texas held the country on the left bank of that river by virtue of a successful revolution. The United States had received Texas as a State with all her territory, and had no right to surrender any portion of it.
It was stated in Congress that, of those which went to sea under permission, comparatively few were interrupted by British cruisers. Napoleon's condemnations went on apace, and in the matter of loss, waiving questions of principle, were at this moment a more serious grievance than the British Orders.
Come in, if you want to, and tell your errand. Is it me or the minister you're after?" "Miss Redwood, it's Matilda Laval. And I'm so glad to see you!" said Matilda, waiving further recognition and throwing her arms round the housekeeper's neck. "O I'm so glad to see you! Is Mr. Richmond at home?" "Tilly Englefield!" exclaimed the housekeeper in her turn. "Wherever did the child come from? Mr.
But the motive for waiving that attractive acquisition altogether was different.
S. in a louder voice than she would have used had she known I was so near. "But there might be some nicer gentleman just as wealthy, might there not?" suggested the weak sister. "There is David Todd, with thirty thousand a year: I wonder if he would suit the dainty Eva?" said Mrs. Jane, sneering. "I think she would like Mr. Highrank to be invited," observed pink Mrs. Fluffy, waiving the question.
Her religious scruples, and the spotless purity of her character, aroused the most lively emotions of repugnance in view of her son's connection with one who had not even the modesty to conceal her vices. State considerations, however, finally prevailed, and Jeanne, waiving her objections, consented to the marriage.
She rose without speaking and motioned me to hand him a chair; but waiving the offered civility, he went up to the side of the bed and laid his fingers quietly on the pulse of his patient. He stood gravely counting the ticking of life's great chronometer, while my mother leaned forward with pale, parted lips, and I gazed upon him as if the issues of life and death were in his hands.
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