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So furious was the popular outcry against Grant, so dogged and persistent was the demand for his removal he was compelled to place General Halleck in nominal command of the district in which his army was operating until the popular furor should subside.
Can you look round on the follies and mistakes of men, which you have the power to detect, expose, and in part reform, and be in want of motive? You demand that I should communicate to you the desire of life. Can you have a perception of the essential duties that you are fitted to perform, and dare you think of dying?
He did not speak, and his silence made her consciously demand his acquiescence in her admiration. "Did you ever see anything more beautiful and more characteristic of Africa?" she asked. "Madame," he said in a slow, stern voice, "I did not look at her." Domini felt piqued. "Why not?" she retorted. Androvsky's face was cloudy and almost cruel. "These native women do not interest me," he said.
But it shall be from their own mouths, if I do not from yours, nor you Betty's And say another word to me, in this manner, and be the consequence what it may, I will force myself into their presence; and demand what I have done to be used thus! Come along, Child!
Then I demand why they were sold when the legal day for such sales had passed, and why they were sold for such a trifle." Then he gives us a picture of Chrysogonus flaunting down the streets.
In most instances, my Lords, no returns were made on account of those goods, and even when returns were made, they were of the most unsatisfactory description. The noble Lord has not adverted to the fact, that these returns, when any were received, came home in the shape of interest, and did not, of course, require any demand or export from this country.
If the Irish Legislature had continued, it would have been found impossible to resist the demand for reform; and every reform, by diminishing the overgrown power of a few Protestant landholders, would have increased that of the Roman Catholics.
So we treat our traditions, so we hail the demand of Ireland for what I call a blessed oblivion of the past. She asks also a boon for the future; and that boon for the future, unless we are much mistaken, will be a boon to us in respect of honor, no less than a boon to her in respect of happiness, prosperity, and peace. Such, sir, is her prayer.
The demand had clearly been anticipated by the president of the Council. “Xenagoras the Cerycid is present. He is the oldest seer. Let us hearken to his opinion.” The head of the greatest priestly family in Athens arose. He was a venerable man, wearing his ribbon-decked robes of office. The president passed him the myrtle crown, as token that he had the Bema.
We are helpless to form just judgment of what the little volume meant to the generation in which it appeared, simply because the growth of the critical faculty has developed to an abnormal degree, and we demand in the lightest work, qualities that would have made an earlier poet immortal. This is an age of versification.
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