Nor will you, I feel confident, permit any abatement of the principal of the legacy to be made should it turn out that the stocks in which the investments have been made have undergone a depreciation.
Efforts for the abatement of these exactions have thus far proved unsuccessful.
During the two days and nights that followed there was no abatement in the wind.
We are strictly entitled under the Armistice Terms to these 36 milliards; and if prudence recommends an abatement below that figure, such abatement can properly be made, on terms, by those and those only who are entitled to the claims.
In so far as such cancelation or abatement involves concessions by Great Britain, an Englishman can write without embarrassment and with some knowledge of the tendency of popular opinion in his own country.
In the Distinct variety the fever continues without abatement until the eruption appears, when it entirely subsides, and that quite suddenly.
Knowing that there was little hope for the abatementof the pestilence, and none of its extinction, until after a severe frost, the exiled citizens were never before so anxious for the frosty foretaste of winter.
I complimented 'em in a newspaper, with an abatement for those puns you laud so.
But Aspatia must not be compared at all points with Helena; she does not so absolutely predominate over her situation but she suffers some diminution, some abatement of the full lustre of the female character, which Helena never does.
Policy now demanded, he said, that there should be no voluntary abatement of the lofty pretensions to which France laid claim.
When the young adventurers awoke the next morning, there was no abatement in the storm.
But after the abatement of that wonderful first fervor which within a lifetime carried "its line into all the earth, and its words to the ends of the world," it was impossible to hold it to this pitch.
About six o'clock this brilliant fete of illuminations underwent a sensibleabatement of splendour, then almost ceased.
Such an account would indeed suppose a population of near two millions; but whatever abatement may be required in the numbers of the Greeks, the belief of those numbers will equally exalt the fearless spirit of their assailants.
As these days came around there was no abatement of interest in them and of cheerful outward observance.
My words were, "I don't limit you on the amount of abatement you give, or as to the number of tenants you may choose so to treat.
But there was a priest at Kilballyowen, Father Ryan, who wrought upon the tenants until they demanded a general abatement of 40 per cent.
One of his earliest acts was to advise Mr. Brooke to grant an abatement of 25 per cent.
They offered to accept a generalabatement of 17-1/2 per cent.
While the Act of 1881 was impending, an abatement was granted of more than twenty per cent.
The dispute continued for many months, but as the charges on the estate had to be met, the agent was obliged to give way, and allow an abatement of four shillings in the pound on these judicial rents.
In spite of all these considerations Lord Lansdowne instructed Mr. Trench to grant to these tenants under judicial leases an abatement of 20 per cent.
He was a cattle dealer as well as a farmer, and having spent a couple of hours in idly eloquent attempts to bring about a general abatement of the rents, he lost his patience.
But after every abatement the real indifference to their duties of most peers is a great defect, and the apparent indifference is a dangerous defect.
I have not room to discuss with how much or how little abatement this decisive censure should be accepted.
Thus as our author's abatement of celerity in the case of 2 a moved by 1 f is imaginary, so must be his additional resistance.
The abatement of sixpence in the price of admission to the pit, and the dismissal of an unfortunate servant, whose only fault was too much zeal in the service of his employers, -- such were the grand victories of the O.
A slight abatement of the evil was the consequence, and in the course of a few years one duel was not fought where twelve had been fought previously.
Hence appeals were made to Boulton on all sides for anabatement of the engine dues.
The middle Sort of People will make some Abatement in their usual Provision; and though the Rich do make it an Occasion of living deliciously, they ought to impute that to their Gluttony, and not blame the Constitution of the Church.
And moreover, he that receives, is in some Degree in the Power of him from whom he receives, and suffers some Kind of Abatement in his Authority.
She began to smell unpleasantly, once or twice she coughed slightly, but there was no abatement of her strength or speed.
After three days an abatementof my disease relieved me from anxiety.
It is just this (the limit to their growth) which the abatement of the animal nature causes.
Thus, for example, the body of the most debilitated profligate attains to its greatest harmony at the moment of excess; but it is only momentarily, and a so much deeper abatementshows sufficiently that overstraining was not health.
The friendship of Matthieu de Montmorency, the most intimate and devoted of all her friends, is enough to prove her exalted worth, making every abatement for her acknowledged foibles.
When we have allowed properabatement for the thousands of instances in which this precious result is not reached, the general statement now made opens to us a large class of beautiful friendships.
