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But policy is as necessary to our plans as boldness. I did not wish to startle Caesar to lose his co-operation perhaps to send him off with an information against us to Cicero and Catulus. He was so indignant at your suggestion that all my dissimulation was scarcely sufficient to prevent a total rupture." "Indignant! The Gods confound him! He prated about humanity, and generosity, and moderation.
But his idealisation of earlier ages was that of the romantic student rather than the reactionary politician. He is always on the side of order, moderation, conciliation; there was nothing politically dangerous to the imperial government in his mild republicanism.
Whether this good feeling was in process of being produced by the twelve or twenty glasses of beer which it is not unusual for a German to drink of an evening, I do not know. "I do not drink much beer now," said a German acquaintance, "not more than four or five glasses in an evening." This is indeed moderation, when we remember that sixteen glasses of beer is only two gallons.
"I hope you will see the reasonableness and moderation of my conditions, and remain, yours faithfully, "JOHN CASTELLAN."
Yet such was the moderation which he still preserved, or affected, that, as he moved with his army along the Flaminian way, he successively despatched the bishops of the towns of Italy to reiterate his offers of peace and to conjure the Emperor that he would save the city and its inhabitants from hostile fire and the sword of the Barbarians.
For, between ourselves be it said, my child you see, I am a man of moderation I knew the world in my youth, and I do not approve of these violent resolves, which are more often dictated by pride than piety. For instance, I have consented to temper the austerity of our rules; my friars look well-fed, and they wear shirts.
"Nearly a month, to my knowledge. That is, if you don't object to strong green tea, consumed in large quantities." "One should practise moderation in everything. Everything!" "It has struck me," said Edgar thoughtfully, "that moderation is now and then desirable in temperance reform." Mrs. Nelson fixed her eyes on him with a severe expression. "Are you a scoffer?"
Owing to this change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment we will not say all powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of "moderation" but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantes.
"The law expressly declares that in cases like this every one shall be considered free till proved a slave. The maiden, therefore, should legally be left with her friends till the day of trial. Put not her fair fame in peril by giving up a free-born maiden into the hands of a man whom she knows not." To this reasonable appeal Appius, with a show of judicial moderation, replied,
Among the essential principles of government which he enumerated, appeared "absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." The studied moderation of this address shows clearly the policy which Jefferson had in his mind.
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