He wished for the Concordat, understanding its lofty aim and practical utility; he had conceded more in appearance than he intended to grant in reality.
Napoleon had conceded Hanover to Prussia as the price of peace; he was ready to retrocede it to England, free to indemnify Prussia at the expense of Germany.
Besides, there can be no doubt that, as the alien population increases, as it undoubtedly will, their demands will increase with their discontent, and ultimately a great deal more will have to be conceded than will now satisfy them.
The Cape Artillery 15-pounders, reluctantlyconceded at the last moment by Mr. Schreiner, had not come.
The freedom he had demanded for the serfs was granted, the law-courts he had so long denounced were remodelled, trial by jury was established, liberty was to a great extent conceded to the press.
According to the idea prevailing throughout Europe, President Krüger had conceded everything from the franchise point of view, when all was ruined by Mr. Chamberlain raising the Suzerainty Question at the last moment.
Besides, there can be no doubt that as the alien population increases, as it undoubtedly will, their demands will increase with their discontent, and ultimately a great deal more will have to be conceded than will now satisfy them.
From which it may be gathered that Richard's demands were conceded at all points.
His head and face were surprisingly handsome seen thus from below--though it must be conceded the expression of the latter was very far from angelic.
It is now generally conceded that some remedy must be provided for their grievances and hardships.
At about half past three in the afternoon the papers come out with bulletins and says the ward was "conceded to Wright.
I conceded it, anyways, as soon as I knowed he wanted to run.
At Vienna he gathered a council, and settled the Templars; conceded indulgences for the Holy Land, and collected an immense amount of money, but in no way benefited the Holy Land.
He concededtithes to Kings, and despoiled the churches of the poor.
And after much consultation and discussion of pros and cons, the clergy conceded to him the said moiety of a tenth which had been before conceded to him, under conditions, in another Parliament.
You can put it civilly," conceded he; but on this occasion he sent no message, and did not ask to see the letter.
But it has some disadvantages which, while not conceded by its inventor, it is yet well enough to know.
All who knew him conceded him a distinguished future; and yet he was hardly well out of college when he took away his life.
If her very first impression was that he was both affected and well aware of his attractiveness, her second conceded that here was a man who could make any affectation charming, and not the less attractive because he knew his value.
Certainly, and a most successful one, too," Ella conceded relievedly.
And I really believe Peter Coleman is one," she conceded smilingly.
He was the obstinate one; the younger men would have conceded something, if not everything, long ago.
They therefore, by voting for the death of the King, conceded to the Mountain the chief point at issue between the two parties.
But something was concededto the party which called for severity.
He then conceded to the impetuous penitent the kiss of peace, in a slight embrace which was like the accolade given by a monarch to new knights.
But a divinity who has conceded no right of petition is still further away from our lives than the divinities of more popular creeds.
It must be conceded that this trait is wanting in some miracles recorded in scripture, but not in those which are wrought to attest a revelation, those which we use in proof of a special message from the unseen world.
Yet in the branch of doctrinal theology, it must be feared that they have either conceded some of the mysteries of Christianity as obsolete, or at least have improperly concealed them as likely to repel doubters.
Every town or city is conceded the right to retain, for its own public works, a certain proportion of the quota of labor its citizens contribute to the nation.
But even setting that consideration aside, I do not see why it so surprises you that those who cannot work are conceded the full right to live on the produce of those who can.
It must also be conceded that occasionally hyperplastic processes in the lymph-glands undergo the cheesy metamorphosis independent of tubercular development.
It is really quite superfluous to cite further opinions or examples in illustration of a fact which is so universally conceded as to be exaggerated in its general significance.
The woollen industry flourished in the county before the reign of John, when an exclusive privilege of dyeing cloth was conceded to the burgesses of Derby.
At the first of these assemblies held at Nyborg, Midsummer Day 1314, the bishops and councillors solemnly promised that the commonalty should enjoy all the ancient rights and privileges conceded to them by Valdemar II.
Imbeciles and the insane were, throughout the Middle Ages, especially conceded to be the abode of avenging and frenzied demons.
The liberty of abstaining from the official national rites, though more precarious, was fully conceded to the Jews, whose jealousy of idolatry was in no degree inferior to that of the Christians.
Why should Englishmen submit uncomplainingly when Milwaukee and Duluth arrogate to themselves the privilege of sneering at them which was conceded originally and willingly enough to Cannes?
Christians speak what they think useful, and the same privilege ought to be conceded to me.
Conceded that this professional point of view has been rightly emphasized, yet before the acted drama can rank as literature, or even hope to hold possession of the stage itself for more than a season, it must stand a further test.
Mr. Phillips’s experience as an actor has given him a practical knowledge of technic; and it may be conceded that his plays are nearer the requirements of the stage than Browning’s or Tennyson’s.
