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I say they had no right to put a blockade on, and England should see that her subjects are duly protected." This eloquent pronouncement of patriotism, with comic gesture added, excited the fiery dissent of the critical Levantine. "Yes!" he retorted; "you tink everyting foreign should be for English.
His immobile face, with its heavy, good features and slow-kindling comprehension, was at all times expressive of loud self-assertion, insatiable curiosity, facile confidence; from his clean shaven lips fell always satisfied comment, pronouncement, impatient opinion. If Hollidew was the richest man in Greenstream Valentine Simmons was a close second.
When a majority of the judges went on to discuss the status of slavery in the territories, as it might have come up if they had gone on to try the case on its merits they were uttering a mere obiter dictum, a personal opinion carrying no judicial authority. The attempt to make these side-remarks a decisive pronouncement on the supreme political question of the time is beyond law or reason.
The following memorandum the one referred to in the above letter was prepared by well-known Uitlanders whom the Government, owing to the refusal of the capitalists to deal with the franchise, had been obliged to select in order to get some pronouncement upon that question. The little ironies of life have two properties: the humour for the winner, and the hurt for the worsted.
Alexander III definitely laid it down that appeals could be made to the Pope in the smallest no less than in the greatest matters, and at every possible stage, before and after trial, at the pronouncement of the sentence and after it has been awarded; and this, he points out, is not the case in civil law, where an appeal is only admitted after judgment.
It is illogical, of course, with that gloriously pig-headed illogicalness not infrequently to be found in the supposedly logical sex, and it would be laughable were it not that it so often ends in tragedy. So that Roger was quite genuinely dumbfounded at Nan's heterodox pronouncement on the relative values of music and babies. A baby was not in the least an object of absorbing interest to her.
Officially there were game seasons to be observed. But the close season for deer sat lightly on men in a region three days' journey from a butcher shop. They shot deer when they needed meat. The law of necessity overrode the legal pronouncement in this matter of food, as it often did in other ways.
Not even at Captain Hardy's pronouncement of her name had he yielded a sign. And yet "Miss Nancy McDonald?" Bat's tone had lost its usual roughness. His mind had leapt back over many years to a time when he had been concerned for that name in a way that had stirred him to great warmth. He smiled. It was a baffling, somewhat derisive smile. "You're the lady representing the Skandinavia?" he added.
The Papal pronouncement in an opposite sense in Mary's case would have made nugatory any attempt on the part of a Catholic to question her rights; but that difficulty did not apply in the case of Elizabeth.
Many scholars believe that the Poems did not exist as a written book till the public copy was made by Pisistratus; see Cauer, Grundfragen der Homerkritik , , pp. 113-45; R. G. E., pp. 304-16; Leaf, Iliad, vol. i, p. xvi. This view is tempting, though the evidence seems to be insufficient to justify a pronouncement either way. See R. G. E., pp. 40 ff. On the Zeus of Aeschylus cf.
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