He now possessed a secret that gave a secret pleasure by which the true nature of human sympathy could assert itself.
To none would I so readily give the protection of my daughter as Lady Douglas, who is, in every sense, a true mother and a dignified woman; yet there are moments when Lady Rosamond can assert her right to control her own impulses and feelings.
He is brushing out the waves of chestnut brown hair which, though short, shows a tendency to assert its nature despite the stern orders of military rule.
But as he lay awake brooding over the situation the possibility presented itself that the girl might go to Forbes with the story andassert her loyalty by offering to marry him then and there.
So, for this reason, he drank but seldom since he always regretted the things he did under the promptings of that other self which only couldassert its ego when reason was threatened with submersion.
I felt that she needed a brief interval in which to collect her thoughts and calm a growing nervousness that in spite of her efforts at pleasantry would assert itself in various little ways, evident enough to my observation.
Lucenay is obstinately determined to assertthat M.
And, however you may smile at the idea, I can with truthassert that the loss of that child has poisoned all my subsequent days.
Do you really mean to assertthat you have not a 'nice little secret' about some love-affair?
But when he chose to believe and assert complex and sometimes contradictory doctrines, the affair is different, and we may give or withhold our intellectual sympathy as we will.
To say that he succeeded in representing this pictorially would be to assert that an impossibility had been achieved, but he got nearer to the goal than any other artist before or since, not even excepting D.
I assert for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action.
It is all a scene of fine natural acting--the eagerness with which they assert the value of their wares, and the withering looks of disgust when the buyer sees fit to reject the proffered article.
Some critics of Stanley have expressed wonder at his failure to assert his usual heroism when made to witness these Arab barbarities while ascending the Congo.
For my part, I desire no man to take anything I write or speak upon trust without canvassing, and would be thought rather to propound than to assert what I have here or elsewhere written or spoken.
But now the tones of the improvisatrice are low and quiet, and her motions assert the dignity of a life nobly lived.
They assert that he departed thence unexpectedly, while Ridolfi concludes his life, by saying, that notwithstanding his worth, he died in poverty.
Venetian poet, is somewhat ambiguous, and he perhaps only meant to assert that these two young women pursued the same career.
This I do not nowassert positively, but only propose as a thesis.
Some assert that calves are infected in this manner by suckling infected mothers, the germs being present in the milk, or the teats having been contaminated by coming in contact with infective discharges.
Now, we deny this conclusion, and assert the infinite holiness of God.
Let us see, then, if it be wise thus to assert the doctrine of a necessitated agency, in order to abase the pride of man, and teach him a lesson of humility.
It is a wonderful inconsistency in Luther, that he should so often and so dogmatically assert that the doctrine of free-will falls prostrate before the prescience of God, and at the same time maintain the freedom of the divine will.
The word of God, we admit, says that holiness consists in love; but does it assert that it consists in the feeling of love merely?
If any man has ever undertaken to assert its freedom, by denying the necessary connexion between two or more ideas, propositions, or truths, this argument may be applied to him; we have nothing to do with it.
Is it not evident, then, that those who assert the impossibility of a divine influence, on the ground that it would destroy the free-agency of man, have proceeded on a wonderful confusion of the phenomena of the human mind?
If this be the case, then those who so confidently assert that God might have preserved the world in holiness, without impairing the free-agency of man, as easily as he keeps the angels from falling, are very much mistaken.
Having thus explained what I mean by cause,” says he, “I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
Thus Mr. Lincoln's friends assertthat all his efforts tend to conciliate parties and even individuals.
During this whole war I hear every body, but above all the West Point wiseacres and strategians, assert that charges with the bayonet and hand-to-hand fighting are exceedingly rare occurrences in the course of any campaign.
This is the more painful for me to record, as most of the foreign officers in our service, and who are experienced and good judges, most positively assert the superior fighting qualities of the Union volunteers over the rebels.
Further, generals from the campaign in Mexico assert that three of the won battles were fought against orders, which signifies that in Mexico youth had the best of cautious senility.
His enemies assert that if Seward's plan had succeeded, virtually the Democrats would have had the power.
So Fremont, and other bungling martinets, assert that nobody has the right to criticise the actions of his commander.
The admirers of McClellan assert that one parallel digged by him was sufficient to frighten the rebels and force them to evacuate.
McClellan's supporters, and such strategians as Blair and Seward, assert that McClellan's plan was ruined by not sending McDowell to Gloucester; that then the whole rebel army would have been caught in a trap.
I've said this night, I wouldassert any wisdom of my own.
Towards the close of his reign Abdallah was able to assert his supremacy, though Omar and his followers still held out.
The latter went so far as to assert that the opposite sex have no souls, and that their brains are in a rudimental and inchoate state of development.
Wyttenbach vainly endeavours to elude the force of the passages cited by himself, and to make out that the witnesses did not mean to assert that Panaetius had declared the Phaedon to be spurious.
Do you then assert (asked Aristippus) that the same things are beautiful and ugly?
Stating the case broadly, we may assert that the same atmospheric changes with which we are familiar at the level of the earth are to be found also at all accessible heights, equally extensive and equally sudden.
It has been common to assert that a balloon poised in space is the most delicate balance conceivable.
After a touching expression of gratitude to the lawyers who had pleaded his cause, he said: "Hitherto, when we have been wronged, we went to war to assert our rights and avenge our wrongs.
They hold and assert in themselves the title by which it was acquired.
We assert under the fullest authority that all the sentiments expressed in relation to the disposition and determination of the nation never to cede another foot of land, are positively the production and voice of the nation.
In the report of this commission are such paragraphs as the following: "To assert that 'the Indian will not work' is as true as it would be to say that the white man will not work.
Nor did the animal world assert the feeblest sway.
But do you not think that the party of Spaniards now resident with me may at some future time assert a prior right to the proprietorship?
Having ascertained every possible particular about his comet, he was now devoting himself with equal ardor to the analysis of all the properties of the satellite Nerina, to which he appeared to assert the same claim of proprietorship.
We will not assert that this mode of explanation will suffice in all cases; our object is rather to point out the road by which the all-comprehensive formula, the very key of the enigma, may be at last discovered.
It will be more intelligible to assert that a dormant light resides in the eye, and that it may be excited by the slightest cause from within or from without.
Whoever is acquainted with the prismatic origin of red, will not think it paradoxical if we assert that this colour partly actu, partly potentiâ, includes all the other colours.
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