Without this precaution the expenditures are but too apt to inure to the benefit of individuals, without reference to the only consideration which can render them constitutional--the public interests and the general good.
That interest consists in the augmentation of profits in the form of dividends, and a large surplus revenue intrusted to their custody is but too apt to lead to excessive loans and to extravagantly large issues of paper.
That the American flag is grossly abused by the abandoned and profligate of other nations is but too probable.
The third plea was the stinger, but too long to cite verbatim; it went to this tune, that the plaintiff at and before the time &c.
Mrs. Dodd had sat aghast, casting Edward deprecating looks at the close of each ponderous sentence, but too polite to interrupt a soul, even a son talking nonsense.
This note seemed to make Saint Lambert reflect with himself and to regret his having been so violent; but too haughty in his turn to make open advances, he seized and perhaps prepared, the opportunity of palliating what he had done.
We found their prediction, in the first instance, but too true.
The governor's army amounted to five hundred men two hundred of them soldiers in uniform, and the remainder half-bred stragglers, fond of pillage, but too cowardly to fight for it.
I must pass over many details interesting in themselves; but too long to insert in this work.
Ah, my friend, I feel what you say is but too true; my entire felicity.
The popular mind, easily affected, is but too ready to count the absence of a vice as an additional virtue, and, under the pressure of existing evil, to give excess of praise for past benefits.
Therefore, this will, inclined to good, but too feeble, does not fail to attain by this route to good actions, which might not have happened if a stronger impulsion had drawn it in a contrary sense.
That the pernicious influences of slavery in this respect are felt more or less, in every part of this guilty nation, isbut too true.
I fear she will yield it but too easily, as hoping to avail herself of your agency to maintain correspondence with her friends, as those falsely call themselves, who would make her name the watchword for civil war.
And I heard the oath of deadly resentment and revenge which she muttered in the ear of one, who by his answer will, I judge, be but too ready an executioner of her will.
Mrs Delvile insisted upon keeping her to dinner, and Cecilia, but too happy in her earnestness, readily agreed to send Mrs Harrel an excuse.
Mr Delvile, thought Cecilia, would be but too proud to hear it!
But I fear when it is lost it is not to be regained--I feel that it is so, but too bitterly, at this moment.
Of course we visited the Borromean Islands, which are fine, but too artificial.
But admiration is a sort of impost from which most minds are but too willing to relieve themselves.
It is not my fault altogether, and I shall be but too happy to drop the subject when others will allow me.
It is but too great an honor to squire the Queen of Bideford," said Cary, offering his hand.
And I received your letter, my darling, but too late.
Yes, she must face unknown dangers, but only in order to escape from dangers which she knew but too well.
As it happens strangely enough, but too frequently, in such cases, all hesitated.
As I sat solitary, purposing to adjourn to the garden and leave the coast clear, but too listless to fulfil my own intent, I heard the workmen coming.
It was, however, but too true: one little plump arm hung powerless.
Not having been taught its God-given and natural duties in the world, it isbut too likely to betake itself, from the mere craving for action, to self-invented and unnatural duties out of the world.
The immortal spirit, finding no healthy satisfaction for its highest aspirations, is but too likely to betake itself to an unhealthy and exciting superstition.
Ashamed of its own long self-indulgence, it is but too likely to flee from itself into a morbid asceticism.
After much discussion and hesitation, it was resolved that both Russell and Monmouth should go down to the coast, [668] They set out, but too late.
Those who heard him talk owned that he talked like an angel: but too often, when he had exhausted all that could be said, and came to act, the time for action was over.
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