You do not know what it is, at one blow, to be deserted by a lovely and fascinating creature, and to fall a victim to the artifices of a villain, who hid the grin of cunning beneath the mask of friendship.
Keep these artifices for some trembling devotee, some bedridden or palsied worshipper of saintly relics and holy legerdemain; I 'm not the stuff for such deceptions!
Rochester was firmly resolved not to abjure his religion; but he had no scruple about employing in selfdefence artificesas discreditable as those which had been used against him.
The revengeful judge was now not ashamed to resort to artifices which even in an advocate would have been culpable.
The answer is, that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs--that politics are not made up of artifices only, but of truths, and that truths have to be told.
But to shorten the long recital of my woes, I will pass over in silence all the artifices employed by Don Fernando for declaring his passion for me.
Although he chooses to omit this essential point, he expresses the most anxious solicitude to clear himself of the charges that might be made against him, of the artifices of ostentation, and of corrupt influence.
If she resolved upon the former, what wiles was she to adopt--what artifices to employ?
Mr. Greenwood contemplated the arrangements of his writing-table with calm satisfaction; and a smile of triumph curled his lip as he thought of the position to which such little artifices as those had helped to raise him.
Disgusted at the odious artifices made use of by the Judge.
Disgusted at the odiousartifices employed by the judge.
These were some of the many artifices used to reconcile the people to the great change which was made in the persons who composed the ministry, and the still greater which was made and avowed in its constitution.
Not satisfied with removing him from power, they endeavored by various artifices to ruin his character.
There was a very remarkable disposition in this extraordinary man, as I have elsewhere noticed, of practising petty artifices in the affairs of life.
The adversaries of the Jesuits referred to Busenbaum, a favourite author with the order, to inform the world that among the artifices of the political brotherhood was inculcated the doctrine of systematic calumny.
Satires on manners, descriptive of the lighter follies and the more involvedartifices of social life, could hitherto have had no scope.
They were long the artifices of malignant factions, who found it mutually convenient to destroy each other by the condemnation of crimes which could never be either proved or disproved.
To both these noblemen our poets owe their emancipation from rhyme; but the rhythmicalartifices of blank verse were not discovered in the monotonous, uncadenced lines of its inventors.
This, however, left an irreconcilable enmity, which theartifices of Marlborough and his wife were employed to aggravate.
They have, however, been gradually extended along with the public burthens, and as the severity of these has prompted fresh artifices of evasion.
It is impossible to conceive the artifices to which these men resort to gain the confidence of those whom they wish to betray.
When war was actually commenced, the same artifices were used, and the Scots beheld, with the utmost impatience, a scene of action of which they could not deem themselves indifferent spectators.
Of hisartifices of study, or particular hours of composition, we have little account, and there was perhaps little to be told.
I am sensible", he added, "that no artifices will be left unessayed to engage them against us.
All his artifices were unavailing to entrap Marion, and he was recalled to go in pursuit of Sumter, who had encamped at Fishdam Ford, not far from the British headquarters.
This, with the little artifices used in trade, and the total want of that address and seeming kindness practiced with such success by the French, must always hurt the colonists.
Nevertheless, Rico y Sinobas points out (Del vidrio y de sus artifices en Espana) that Philip the Fifth and Ferdinand the Sixth, on founding the royal glass factory of San Ildefonso, did not dare to ennoble the Castilian workmen.
But even when out of hearing of the dogs, he knows that they will soon come up with him; and, instead of giving himself up to false security, he avails himself of this respite to invent new artifices to throw them out.
Without having any immediate cause for his uneasiness, he employs the same artifices which he would have employed to throw out the dogs, if he were pursued by them.
Her parents knew who my father was, and encouraged me, with all sorts of coarse artifices and scoundrel flatteries, which I see now, about their house.
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