The plan came near being completely successful, through the remissness of the Pennsylvania militia, who had left their post of observation.
She is as fast anchored as a cathedral, mon lieutenant," he quietly observed to the very officer through whoseremissness the accident had occurred; "I see no use in these sails.
Edward was convinced that the real cause of his failure was the remissness of the home government, and resolved to wreak his vengeance on his ministers.
His enemies took advantage of his remissness to hatch an audacious plot which soon enabled them to renew the struggle under more favourable conditions.
Your value is too justly estimated by our fellow-citizens at large, as well as their functionaries, to admit any remissness in their support of you.
During this period, time and place have been minutely cited, in order that those who think there was any remissness in the movements of the Governor, may lay their finger on the point, and say, when and where it was.
Washington also complained, at this time, of the remissness of the secretary of war in giving him full information.
No otherwise than thus, at least, can the remissness of some surgeons in remonstrating against cruelty be accounted for.
The kirk indeed put Dunbar to the account of its own remissness in not purging their army more thoroughly, but, as Cromwell wrote on the 4th of September, the kirk had "done its do.
This proceeding conveyed so direct a censure on the remissness of his countrymen, as to give great disgust to the admiral, Veniero.
The principal one of these may probably be found in the remissness of the council of war, several of whose members regarded the marquis with an evil eye, and were not sorry to see his embarrassments.
But it is the extreme negligence and remissness of our clergy here which was first the cause of the general desertion and apostasy, and is now again the impediment of reformation.
By some unaccountable remissness of patrols or videttes, the British cavalry, under Coffin, surprised the latter post.
The surprise of Benson was complete, and he paid for his remissness or indifference with his life.
He reflected that they had undoubtedly been to the Porter house since the alarm had been sounded, and he wondered whether his own remissness in this regard had been remarked at the Hill.
When I say 'relieved her mind,' I do not imply that there is anything in Nathan's conduct or any remissness in his mode of living which burdens Betty's thoughts.
No, it was no remissnessnor lack of bravery on the part of the enemy.
I did think that up to this, his remissness in doing his duty as a father had fallen rather on my shoulders than on yours.
It was not to him that Mr. Bertram should have complained of Sir Lionel's remissness in money matters.
Remissness leaves a wound half cured: and a suitable penance often exasperates and makes it wider.
If we ask our own hearts, if we examine our lives by this test, whether we have yet begun to love God, we shall have reason to be confounded, and to tremble at our remissness and sloth.
The liberality and hospitality of Fulgentius to the poor, out of the small pittance he received for his particular subsistence, made Eulalius condemn himself of remissness in those virtues, and for the future imitate so laudable an example.
In these quarters we must leave him, to acquaint the reader with the state of things in the insurgent army, and with the cause of its strange remissness in guarding the passes of the Apurimac.
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