His supporters declare positively that the dispute was of importance only in so far as it gave him reason for the long desired severance of the link that bound him to the Spanish service.
After his severance from the Illustrated London News, in 1859, Mackay started two unsuccessful periodicals, and acted as special correspondent for The Times in America during the Civil War.
Yet some such isolation of the subject matter of this science was demanded at the moment of its birth, just as political economy, when first started, had to make a rigid severance of wealth from other units.
But now uprooting severance I will fain console my heart, * And wring my fingers clean of you for evermore to part!
Nothing, indeed, is more pitiable than the gradual drifting apart of people who have been dear to each other--a severance produced by change of views and of principle, and the substitution of indifference for sympathy.
Was this little note a severance of her present from her old life?
He must also take into account severance or damages.
Thus even a flight to the virgin continents of another planet will not give the future traveller the delicious sense of freedom that comes from the knowledge of complete isolation or of entire severance from the cares of civilised life.
It was only with extreme reluctance that she faced the fact that with the fumes of the drug dispelled and all signs of nervous exhaustion gone, he still pressed quietly but resolutely toward a severance from the church.
It may seem strange to the reader that this bishop who had been doubting and criticizing the church and his system of beliefs for four long years had never before faced the possibility of a severance from his ecclesiastical dignity.
These things, these Victorias and Edwards and so on, are temporary accidents--just as the severance of an Anglican from a Roman communion and a Greek orthodox communion are temporary accidents.
But it was only by a rigid severance of the cause of reform from what seemed to him the cause of revolution that More could hope for a successful issue to the projects of reform which the council laid before Parliament.
The Catholic instinct of his mind, the dread of a rent Christendom and of the wars and bigotry that must come of its rending, united with More's theological convictions to resist any spiritual severance of England from the Papacy.
The severance from Rome had already brought Henry to this principle; and the Act of Supremacy was its emphatic assertion.
The supremacy of the warrior in a world of war, the severance of privileged from unprivileged classes, no longer seemed the one natural structure of society.
His own residence in the East-end was the most effective of protests against that severance of class from class in which so many of its evils take their rise.
The common love of his boy is one of the bonds that link Dido with Æneas, and a yet more exquisite touch of poetic tenderness makes his affection for Ascanius the one final motive for his severance from the Queen.
Primate and scholar were finally separated at last by the settlement of Erasmus at Basel, but the severance brought no interruption to their friendship.
The election of Lincoln was both a legal and moralseverance of the bonds of Union.
Its object undoubtedly was the capture of Amiens and the severance of the British and French forces.
Many Anglo-Saxons were prepared to fix their gaze upon a life to come and to let their fancies fill with visions of the great last severance unto heaven and hell.
Not only severance from the world, but the seclusion of the brethren from each other, in solitary labour and contemplation, was their ideal.
Democracy was something rude and coarse, and independence to them meant a severance of those connections of which a colonist ought to be proudest.
No one who studies the history of the American Revolution can fail to be convinced that the persecution of the Loyalists had for its final result the severance of the North American continent into two nations.
The principle of the severance always being, to get rid of some difficulty, encountered by the human apprehension in embracing the integral tradition.
Partly I draw the inference from the want of clear severance in the ideals, on which the characters of the Cyclops and the Læstrygones are severally founded.
The trueseverance of the ideas probably was effected before the time of Homer; and they were lodged in separate impersonations.
It could only be, I think, in consequence of some broad line of demarcation between them: some severance which determines their characters and positions as radically and fundamentally, and not by mere accident, divided.
Severance and Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, pioneer suffragists now living in California.
News of the severance of diplomatic relations elicited a deep and reverberating response from the millions of suffragists over the country.
Of yet greater importance than this change, which was in effect but the completion of a process of severance that had long been going on, was the establishment of an equitable jurisdiction side by side with that of the common law.
Sidenote: Its Worldliness] But what weakened the clergy most was their severance from the general sympathies of the nation, their selfishness, and the worldliness of their temper.
It marks the temper of the time and the growing severance between the Church and the nation that, bold as the defiance was, it won the support of the people as of the Crown.
The judges thus severed from the Council retained the name and the ordinary jurisdiction of "the King's Court," but the mere fact of their severance changed in an essential way the character of the justice they dispensed.
The whole machinery of confession, indulgences, and penances bore witness as well to the completeness of the severance as to the hopelessness of any reunion.
Was there not every reason to believe that thousands of people keep up an ignoble formalism, because they feared the social results of declaring their severance from the religion of the churches?
He himself had warned her that marriage would mean severance from all her kindred.
But he had heard such unexpected things, that it was not easy for him to remember how complete had seemed the severance between him and Sidwell.
Severance sat silent for a while after that announcement, but there was a meaning smile on his lips, and Colby paled a shade whiter.
So ex-Private Severance came over to the deserter's house with a scheme conceived in envy and born of greed.
I can testify of my own knowledge only that he was Private Severance and that he and Grant were of the same platoon--Lieutenant Spurrier's.
Possibly if you could trace Severance you might learn something.
Then Private Severance was called and came into the room, where he stood smartly at attention until instructed to take the witness chair.
Severance looked blankly at his questioner and blankly shook his head.
It was sunset when, quite unsuspecting of danger, at least for the moment, Severance turned his mule into the gorge.
He knew thatSeverance would have to ride through the same gorge in which Sim had waylaid Spurrier, and he meant to get there first, rifle-armed.
But when Severance mounted his mule and rode away, Sim Colby gave him only a short start and then hurried on foot through the hill tangles by a short cut that would intercept his visitor's course.
But when Joe left and the pipes were lighted Severance settled himself in a back-tilted chair and gazed reflectively at the crest of the timber line.
But Severance had greeted him without rancor and with the disarming guise of candid friendliness.
At the door of the place where Grant was under guard, he had paused for a word with Private Severance who stood there on sentry duty.
Not until she came to bid him good-night, with a lingering handclasp, her palm cleaving to his like the reluctant severance of lips, did she tell him that she was going away almost immediately.
Severance spoke with marked deliberation and delicacy, but with a faint stammer.
Severance raised his fine eyebrows, but contented himself with saying: "Isn't it?
He longed to be relieved of it; to scratch the irritant Severance clean off the skin of The Patriot.
Despite his growing distaste for the Severance cult, Banneker was honest enough to admit that the original stimulus dated from the day when he himself had injected his personality and ideas into the various departments of the daily.
