IT may be inquired of me why I seek to agitate the subject of Slavery in New England, where we all acknowledge it to be an evil.
The passions which agitate the Americans most deeply are not their political but their commercial passions; or, to speak more correctly, they introduce the habits they contract in business into their political life.
The passions which agitate or distract the mind, never alter its expression, nor do the highest ecstacies of which their nature is susceptible, ever relax its rigidity.
He was alive to the anguish which he knew would agitate the bosom of his mother, and he thought over the means of allaying it so intensely, that sleep was banished from his eyes.
Williams had often stated the possibility of his regaining his rights; but she, dreading every proposal that might agitate his mind, solemnly urged that that topic should be avoided.
I find it is impossible to agitate that tranquil bosom with so impetuous a guest as love.
James, who regarded all this as due merely to the opposition of enemies, went on his way without bestowing further consideration on the depth, strength, and inward significance of this spirit which was destined once more to agitate the world.
Even the uncertain rumour of this scheme, which was instantly propagated, sufficed to agitate the Protestant party in Europe and in England itself.
The court of Avignon might not choose to agitate this delicate question.
After the decease of Andronicus, while the Greeks were distracted by intestine war, they could not presume to agitate a general union of the Christians.
Miss Adaliza Daniels first began her work as early as 1902, to agitate for a Carnegie library.
Then he began to agitate the question of a free bridge.
As early as 1837 many citizens of Iowa and others began to agitate for a transcontinental line of railroad to run from the Atlantic states to the Pacific, and for a grant of land by congress for this purpose.
In conservative times questions concerning life do not agitate men's minds to any great extent.
I was afraid to agitate her by saying more; I left all other questions to be asked at a fitter and a quieter time.
Be careful, ma'am, not to depress his spirits, nor to agitate him in any way.
Why should youagitate yourself to no purpose by reading them?
Don't agitate your feelings by going to look for him," said Lord Steyne sardonically.
The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm.
At the Bastille, long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng.
These questions imply that those who ask them consider the slavery question a very insignificant matter they think that it amounts to little or nothing and that those who agitate it are extremely foolish.
Not deriving their charters from the national authorities, they would never have those inducements to meddle in general elections which have led the Bank of the United States to agitate and convulse the country for upward of two years.
A strict adherence to this policy has kept us aloof from the perplexing questions that now agitate the European world and have more than once deluged those countries with blood.
His one conviction was that in a properly--managed world nothing ought to occur to disturb or agitate the perfect tranquillity of his existing.
The flux and reflux, the winds, and all other causes which agitate the waters, produce currents, more or less perceptible, in different parts.
These two causes have concurred, ever since the formation of the globe, to produce a motion in the waters from east to west, and to agitate them more in that part of the globe than in all the rest.
Let me quote the words of Lord Erskine: "The religious and moral sense of the people of Great Britain is the sheet-anchor which alone can hold the vessel of State amidst the storms that agitate the world.
I say, at that period, upon the recommendation of friends of high standing, I began toagitate for the restitution of my rights.
Julia had only to lisp, 'my husband,' to startle and agitateme beyond expression.
At the aspect of this frail treasure, opposite feelings agitate her heart; she seems to recognise in him a nature superior to her own, but subjected to a low condition, and she honors a future greatness in the object of extreme compassion.
The passions that sometimes agitate these maidens of his verso are the surprises of noble hearts unprepared for evil; and even their mistakes cannot cost bitter tears to their attendant angels.
Yes, if you are sure of yourself and are certain that it won't agitate him.
I do not doubt that a similar adjustment of the questions which nowagitate the public mind would produce the same happy results.
But she was not less prepared at the one date to agitate for the total abolition of patronage, than at the other to throw open the parish schools on the basis of a statutory security for the teaching of religion.
As the residents of Fern Vale early bestirred themselves on this eventful morning their astonishment was great at the continued altercations which seemed to agitate the black's camp.
