The invalid lassitude possessed him again, and he stood over his brother's grave for a few minutes, without feeling any recurrence of the resentments that had so recently blazed within him.
I have great temptations, on this occasion,' says the prim Gothamite, 'to express my own resentments upon your present state.
How my heart is wrung-- But as matters now stand betwixt you, I am very unseasonable in expressing my resentments against him.
What must that merit and excellence be which can extort this from us, freelivers, like yourself, and all of your just resentments against the rest of her family, and offered our assistance to execute your vengeance on them?
Now my resentments are warm, I will see, and perhaps will punish, this proud, this double-armed beauty.
He was, I knew, a deep, thinly-covered tank of resentments and quite irrational moral rages.
It is not to be doubted that, in many instances, these were improperly used, and that private resentments were often covered under the specious veil of patriotism.
It is not to be doubted that in many instances these were improperly used, and that private resentments were often covered under the specious veil of patriotism.
Presence, he observes, even of a disliked person, takes off the edge of resentments which absence whets, and makes keen.
It seems a very easy virtue when we look upon an exhibition of it like this, where we feel no special resentments ourselves against the person thus nobly forgiven.
By observing how hard it is to change our own resentments to feelings of forgiveness and good will, we can the better appreciate Alfred's treatment of Guthrum.
Their resentments were revived with additional bitterness; new affronts were offered to the Archbishop, which brought on new excommunications and interdicts.
Willis, however, was more considerate and far more intelligent than others, giving Poe no new ground for the "resentments against society and mankind" which he cherished against all too many with whom he had differed.
Even the common feelings and resentments of humanity have not aroused them, but rather with a malignant pleasure they have beheld the destruction of their fellow-citizens and relations.
It was impossible to reflect on a treaty which had wrested from her so fair a part of North America, without feeling resentments which would seek the first occasion of gratification.
Of all the discontent, resentments and ambitions the now despised Santa Anna became naturally the target.
In which case, would not (on his acquittal, or pardon) resentments have been reciprocally heightened?
No means in the power of the United States promised so certainly to effect this desirable object, as the removal of neighbours whose hostility could be diminished only by terror, and whose resentments were to be assuaged only by fear.
These insinuations wounded the feelings of the French officers, and added, in no small degree, to the resentments of the moment.
I shall be only too happy, if seconding my pacific views, you do me the honor to come and forget in the pleasure of an assembly of men of letters all of whom honor you, small resentments which exist perhaps only through misunderstanding.
The barbarians were easily provoked; they knew not how to forgive an injury, much less an insult; their resentments were bloody and implacable.
They relieve the revolting picture of military barbarity--soften the resentments of nations--and redeem a people from the offence of individuals.
It wantonly attacks whole classes of the people, for the purpose of turning against them the prejudices and resentments of other classes.
The Federal party took its course also in momentary forgetfulness of the characters of those whose opinions it was about to violate, whose feelings were to be offended, and whose resentments it must incur.
My story is too long, and my stay here will be but short; or I could convince you that my resentments against him are but too well founded.
Doubtless she must be as much concerned that she has carried her resentments so very far, as I have reason to be that I made such poor use of the opportunity I had on Wednesday night.
Personal resentments never slept with him; they lived while he lived, nor were they even weakened by sickness and approaching death.
The law of France is no longer administered, but the personal resentments of Richelieu.
A generous Mind, however enrag'd against an Enemy, feels its Resentments sink and vanish away, when the Object of its Wrath falls into its Power.
Yet he was impertinently sollicitous to know what her Majesty said of him in private, and what Resentments she had towards him.
One sees in it the Expostulations of a slighted Lover, the Resentments of an injured Woman, and the Sorrows of an imprisoned Queen.
In New York the contest had been personal and acrimonious to the last degree, and ordinary human nature could hardly be expected the bury at once the grievances and resentmentsof a generation.
A part of the hostility was due to a sincere though mistaken impatience with Mr. Lincoln's slow and conservative methods, and a part was due to political resentments and ambitions.
He was tender and benevolent, although he loved money; and his resentments against those who willfully offended him were lasting.
A passionate person, if his resentments are not complicated with malice, divides his time between sinning and sorrowing; and, as the irascible passions cannot constantly be at work, his heart may sometimes get a holiday.
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