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He could not more clearly repudiate the title German. The others were moved by enthusiasm for an idea, he by loyalty to an existing State. Nothing was sound, he said, in Germany, except the old Prussian institutions. "What has preserved us is that which is specifically Prussian.
Moreover, not being eccentric from vanity, but simply to accommodate what had once been her tastes, and were now her necessities, she avoided slang, and all the insignia of eccentricity. You are aware that men's faith in a woman whom her sisters discountenance, and partially repudiate, is uneasy, however deeply they may be charmed.
We must go back to the spirit and purposes of the founders of our Government. We must accept the grand logic of the mighty revolution from which we are now emerging. We must repudiate, now and forever, these assaults upon the masses of the people and upon the fundamental principles of popular rights.
"And if he did utter such taunt, why acknowledge it as such," calmly rejoined Colonel D'Egville, "are you ashamed of the name? I too am a Canadian, but so far from endeavoring to repudiate my country, I feel pride in having received my being in a land where every thing attests the sublimity and magnificence of nature.
Did you think so ill of me as to suppose that I would wish to grasp at more than my husband saw fit to leave me or to take money at your hands?" It was her instinct of pride which had caused her to use the words "my husband," which another instinct at the same moment urged her to repudiate.
A large portion of this address is devoted to the proposition that it is just and reasonable to pay our debts rather than to repudiate them, and that the nation is as much bound to be honest as is the individual. "It is an awful thing," he says, "that this should be a question at all," but it was one of the points on which the election turned, for all that.
And the writer read, perhaps more easily than he could understand, the strange words: "This child, born of my wife, and yet neither of my blood nor my lineage, I repudiate, and, unable to push it back into the dark world of nothing from which it came, I leave it with a scowl to the mercy which countervaileth the terrible decree whereby the sins of the parent shall be visited on the child.
What we cannot at once resist, we can always repudiate. To ignore these things is the worst form of imprudence an imprudence which we, for our part at least, take the occasion here heartily to disclaim. There is so much ill-considered use of the word revolutionist, we should bear in mind it is a strictly relative term.
He will not repudiate a promise to pay while he has money in bank or securities to hypothecate. He is absolutely responsible financially.
The first was originally for two dollars, the second for five dollars. These figures were altered into two thousand and five thousand. You will see, if you take them to the light, that the ink is different " "But what does all this signify?" asked the rector, fingering the checks idly. "Herresford doesn't repudiate his own paper! The man must be mad." "He repudiates these checks, sir.
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