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So great was the attention bestowed during the delivery of this speech that the dropping of a pin might have been heard. From these people many assurances were received of their anxiety and willingness to cooperate with us in our laudable undertaking; and one and all were alike urgent that the government of their river should be transferred to the English.
The admission of slaves into the representation, when fairly explained, comes to this, that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina, who goes to the coast of Africa, and, in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity, tears away his fellow-creatures from their dearest connections, and damns them to the most cruel bondage, shall have more votes in a government instituted for protection of the rights of mankind, than the citizen of Pennsylvania or New-Jersey, who views with a laudable horror so nefarious a practice.
I cannot present the facts I have to relate in a proper manner till I know just how the case stands." "It is not curiosity that troubles Miss Butterworth Madam, I said it was not curiosity but a laudable desire to have the whole matter arranged with precision," dropped now in his dryest tones from the detective's lips. "Mr.
A Kshatriya should, in battle, fight one of his order who is equipped with mail and cars and horse and infantry, who is ready for exertion and who occupies a position of equality. Death at the hands of one that is equal or of a superior is laudable, but not that at the hands of one that is low, or of one that is a coward, or of one that is a wretch. This is well-known.
Jac Hallen, you wish, I suppose, to go out with our forces?" "Oh yes," I said. He smiled. "The eagerness of youth for danger! And yet is very necessary very laudable " He passed a hand across his forehead with a weary gesture a gesture which seemed to me despondent. Could this be our vaunted leader? My heart sank. He added abruptly: "We shall conquer this Tarrano but at what cost!"
The graves which are in the immediate vicinity of their houses exhibit very considerable taste and a laudable care.
Considerable discharge of laudable pus, but not so much as before the use of the liquid vasaline. There is one point near the left hand side of the large sinus on the back, where the walls are adherent. I wash them out with a five per cent. solution of carbolic acid in water, and again inject the liquid vasaline.
Besides, to murder one's own reputation is a kind of suicide, a detestable and odious vice. Things may be fitting to be done, which are not fitting to be boasted of; for by the perverse judgment of the world, that often becomes the subject of censure, which is, in truth, not only innocent but laudable."
Nations, it has been well observed, are never generous in their conduct towards each other. We must follow the common custom of nations where we have no law to guide our proceedings. We must therefore carefully continue the laudable practice of ridiculing the blunders, whether real or imaginary, of Irishmen.
I knew the duty of my station, and assumed no other control than that which resulted from the avoiding of deceit, and the open expression of my sentiments. The youth was of a noble spirit, but his firmness was wavering. He yielded to temptations which a censor less rigorous than I would have regarded as venial, or, perhaps, laudable.
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