Strong as the language of the Resolutions may have been, it was not Jefferson's intention to promote a rebellion of certain States against the Federal Government and to provoke a secession.
This, as Jefferson noticed at once, was a last effort to postpone the patching-up of difficulties and also a last effort to provoke the French, since they had already given such an assurance to Murray.
There must of course have been a certain amount of redundancy in the original to provoke such aggravations of it, and of obscurity or tortuousness of style to cause them to be deemed necessary.
There are, however, three passages which provoke further examination—two of them because of the signs they bear of an earlier date, and one because of the alteration it has suffered in the interests of a later day in Israel’s history.
Purely financial, it does not provoke much jealousy, because every one hopes one day to form part of it.
The Revolution was therefore certain to provoke the violence and intolerance the triumphant deities demand from their adepts.
We shall then see how readily the leader can provoke the most violent popular movements.
But their influence, thanks principally to the faults of Governments, was sufficient to provoke several revolutions.
The election having returned moderate deputies, he was able to continue to govern with the same principles, understanding very well that any attempt to govern the French by the ancien regime would be enough to provoke a general rebellion.
It now appears that this famous work is a general moral satire in an allegorical form, with little that could excite attention, and less that could give such offence as to provoke the author’s death.
Those who made a claim to such light from heaven as could irradiate what the church had left dark seldom failed to provoke her jealousy.
Men provoke these, sometimes in the gaiety of their hearts with little design, sometimes with more deliberate intention, but without calculation of the entire consequences, or of their own courage to encounter them.
The Numancia is printed with stage directions, almost sufficient to provoke a smile in the midst of its withering horrors.
Men who injure and oppress the people under their administration provoke them to cry out and complain, and then make that very complaint the foundation for new oppressions and prosecutions.
Thou hast to do, I grant thee, with great patience; but that also must have an end: therefore provoke not that God that made thee, to reject thee.
There was an endless variety gathered into this limited space, it was a scene which should provoke a regretful tear, for memory's sake, from the patriotic oblong eye of any exiled Japanese.
The smiles of the world are too transient and uncertain to repay one for such a compromising tribute, especially when we can provoke them in a worthier and more respectful manner.
This trivial circumstance is, I am fully conscious, quite enough to provoke the blandest of smiles from masculine lips.
I might as well add, since it cannot but provoke a bland and suggestive smile from masculine erudition, that I had actually taken up moral philosophy, and aspired to distinguish myself later as a metaphysician of some repute.
I was disturbed once by my considerate cavalier, who brought me a shawl, saying the night air was likely to provoke rheumatism or neuralgia, or such other inconveniences to which our flesh is heir.
Nothing seemed so dreadful as to provoke a sneer from my unworthy rivals.
This preference was quite sufficient to provokethe envy and enmity of Le Genre.
They came into the garrison with small supplies of grain and fish, enough to provoke appetite rather than to satisfy it.
It is a question which may well provoke the diligence of the local antiquary.
Small supplies of food, enough to provoke expectation, without satisfying demand, were brought daily to their visitors.
We gathered up the cocoa-nuts, and from time to time threw stones to provoke the apes; so that by this stratagem we filled our bags with cocoa-nuts, which it had been impossible otherwise to have done.
You are a lying knave," replied the prince, "and in the plot to vex and provoke me.
You, Ichabod, and the Tuscarora, would be too likely toprovoke an unfortunate termination of the matter, by the anger your presence would excite.
This he would not do; and he could only hope that he might find some means so to provokehis guard that in his anger the latter might, by some hasty blow, dispatch him.
This eloquent tribute to the legal profession, seemed to provoke a variety of opinion.
The first feeling is a hard one; it swells up the heart, and is apt to provoke rebellious and unnatural thoughts; but it comes round all right in the end.
I beseech you, weigh your words, provoke me not too much!
He had sent Colonel Goldacker with his regiment to Mecklenburg to draw out the Swedes, and to provoke them to advance upon the Mark.
But such were not William's real intentions, nor did the cautious tactics of his able opponent allow him to provoke such a risk.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Why should fathers notprovoke their children to anger?
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Putiatine says that he will follow me, if I pass without any resistance being offered, but that he must not go first, as his Government forbids him to provoke hostilities.
Besides imploring that his sheep might be restored to him, it does not appear that the native did anything at all to provoke this proceeding.
She dare not provoke England just at present; she has no allies, monsieur, for I can assure you that Prussia is out of the game.
Because the heat of the sun doth dissolve, but not consume, and therefore the vapour dissolved is expelled by sneezing; but the heat of the fire doth dissolve and consume, and therefore doth rather hinder sneezing than provoke it.
This water is an admirable remedy to provoke the terms.
Let her also anoint the bottom of her belly with things proper to provoke the terms.
Why does the heat of the sun provoke sneezing, and not the heat of the fire?
If it be from corrupt milk, provoke a vomit; to do which, hold down the tongue, and put a quill dipped in sweet almonds, down the throat.
Because sharp choler issuing out, and pricking the bladder of the urine, doth provoke and stir up the whole body to ease the part offended, and to expel the humour moderately.
To prevent this, let no virgin blood in the arm before her courses come down well; for that will bring the blood downwards, and by that means provoke the menstrua to come down.
Refrain from all things that may provoke either urine or menstruation, also salt, sour, and windy food, and keep to a moderate diet.
Or use pessaries to provoke the birth; take galbanum dissolved in vinegar, an ounce; myrrh, two drachms, with oil of oat make a pessary.
They were numerous and well organized; and Constantine, who was more of a diplomatist than a general, found it better to preserve peace with them for forty years, by presents and payments, than to provoke them to war.
Then Frederick William endeavored to create a "holy alliance" of Prussia, Austria, Russia and Sweden against France, but only succeeded far enough to provoke a bitter feeling of hostility to Germany in the French National Assembly.
How often I heard it said that if I wrote against such and such eminent people I would provoke their displeasure, which would prove too severe for me and the whole German nation.
Even before leaving England, and after betraying Elizabeth and Drake to Burleigh, who wished to curry favor with the Spanish traders rather than provoke the Spanish power, Doughty was busy tampering with the men.
His nature is to cry and sob like a Christian to provoke his prey to come to him; and thereupon came this proverb, that is applied unto women when they weep, lachrymoe crocodili.
In a word, let the disappointments that do, and shall most surely befall the fruitless professors, provoke thee to look with all diligence to thy standing.
There is no man then perisheth for want of sufficient reason in the tenders of the gospel, nor any for want of persuasions to faith; nor yet because there wanteth arguments to provoke to continue therein.
Doth not God by these things ofttimes call our sins to remembrance, and provokeus to amendment of life?
With what shame, will that man stand before the judgment-seat of Christ who must have all things he hath done against God, to provoke the eyes of his glory to jealousy, laid open before the whole host of the heavenly train!
It is a peculiarly solemn legacythe author's ardent desire is thus expressed; 'Before I die [as the greatest of all the duties he had to perform] let me provoke you to faith and holiness.
As who should say, If God be so kind to us, to forgive us our sins, to save our souls, and to give us the kingdom of heaven; let these be motives beyond all other to provoke us to love again.
Again, touching its persuasions to provoke to faith: With how many signs and wonders, miracles and mighty deeds, hath it been once and again confirmed, and that to this very end?
The meaning is, that the way to provoke others to good works, is constantlyin the evidence and demonstration of the spiritto show them the certainty of their [these believers] being by grace made heirs of eternal life.
Canada, perhaps, can defend herself, but we most certainly cannot defend her; we provokemuch more than we assist.
