It was now that, for the first time, he experienced the inconstancy of fortune.
There was something in the temper of these celebrated men which secured them against the proverbial inconstancy both of the Court and of the multitude.
As she thought less of his inebriety, she thought more of his inconstancy and presumption; and with fewer struggles for politeness, replied, "It is impossible for me to doubt any longer.
Could you have believed there had been such inconstancyand fickleness, and everything that is bad in the world?
He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin.
Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion.
Placed as she was, one would have thought she had been secure from all the temptations, hurries, and dangers of the world, and that nothing but the death or inconstancy of monsieur du Plessis could have again involved her in them.
It is impossible, Mr. Speaker, not to pause here for a moment, to reflect on the inconstancy of human greatness, and the stupendous revolutions that have happened in our age of wonders.
They must at length have a retreat from the malice of rivals, from the perfidy of political friends, and the inconstancy of the people.
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which causes our heart to attach itself to all the qualities of the person we love in succession, sometimes giving the preference to one, sometimes to another.
One sort of inconstancy springs from levity or weakness of mind, and makes us accept everyone's opinion, and another more excusable comes from a surfeit of matter.
This constancy is merely inconstancy fixed, and limited to the same person.
As one is never at liberty to love or to cease from loving, the lover cannot with justice complain of the inconstancy of his mistress, nor she of the fickleness of her lover.
The administration of Valerian was distinguished by a levity and inconstancy ill suited to the gravity of the Roman Censor.
Sometimes, in moments of doubt or despondency, he had thought it possible that poverty, the advice of friends, caprice or inconstancy on the part of Charlotte herself, should sever them.
She wondered at her own inconstancy on perceiving how completely the dream had flown.
The history of Athens abounds with instances of the levity and inconstancy of that unsteady people.
Jealousy and inconstancy were the characteristicks of the Athenian people.
He warned the English king to have no trust in allies like the Flemings, who had shamefully driven away their natural lords and whose faithlessness and inconstancy were by-words.
But if a lion in pride and fierceness, he was a panther in inconstancy and mutability, changing his word and promise, cloaking himself by pleasant speech.
He was steadfast in his prejudices and hatreds, and the ordainers found in him a leader who could at least save them from the reproach of inconstancy and the lack of fixed purpose shown at the parliament of Stamford.
He adds a stanza to this effect, on the inconstancy of women.
Inconstancy is forced upon her by the overwhelming might of hard circumstance.
The inconstancy of the two men in A Midsummer Night's Dream is a variation and parody of Proteus's fickleness in this play.
That one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins: Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
There is no music in a voice That is but one, and still the same; Inconstancy is but a name To fright poor lovers from a better choice.
The fourth Cause, which indeed affects every Body, but more particularly the Labourer, is, the Inconstancy of the Weather.
Such inconstancy in a sovereign is usually negatived, or at least held in bounds, by the apparatus of government.
With respect to moral delinquency, the only blemish in the character of Festus is a certain inconstancy in love.
Nay, this inconstancy in love is manifested on the last occasion much to the annoyance of Lucifer, who is driven, by the superior attractions of his pupil, from the affections of Elissa.
In the portion of the letter here omitted Petrarch laments Rienzo's inconstancyand want of insight, and dwells upon the fact that he is accused not of having deserted a noble cause but of having dared to contemplate a free republic.
And last of all, this line I add, the last and yet the best: 'Thou ne'er shalt findinconstancy in this unchanging breast.
This inconstancy will cost us dear sooner or later.
Lefort was an example of the inconstancy of fortune; he was then in disgrace on account of a lottery which he had held at Moscow to celebrate the coronation of the empress, who had furnished him with the necessary funds.
The inconstancy of the human mind must serve as my excuse.
