It was not without difficulty that Buonaparte could bring the Directory to understand and relish these temporizing measures.
He had gained nothing by his temporizing with evil, his policy of compromise and mildness.
Showeth a carnal, proud, or temporizing mind, that will displease God himself to humour men, and avoid their contempt and disesteem.
A dissembling, temporizing ear, which can complyingly hear one side speak for holiness, and the other speak against it, and suit itself to the company and discourse it meets with.
And his sixth principle is, That yet he will not torment himself, or blot his name, with confessing himself a temporizing worldling, resolved to turn any way to save himself.
The American Board itself was inclined to be non-committal andtemporizing [Garrison, op.
The favor of his uncle, Clement III, had made him cardinal before he was thirty, but under Celestine III he kept in the background, disliked by the Pope, and himself suspicious of the timid and temporizing old man.
Geoffrey is outlawed, mother mine, and may not appear in Sherwood," answered Robin, temporizing with her.
He was sounding Carfax in the matter, and the wily go-between was temporizing in his usual way--trying to make some gain to himself out of one or the other of them.
American subjects; and now the wrath of Congress was thoroughly kindled, and the party which advised further temporizing was thrown into helpless minority.
He accustomed the king to half measures, and pursued a temporizing policy, ill adapted to revolutionary times.
He also had to bear the consequences of Walpole's temporizing policy which could no longer be averted.
They therefore seek for a refuge from their fears in the fears themselves, and consider a temporizing meanness as the only source of safety.
It appears as if dignity were the prerogative of crime, and a temporizing humiliation the proper part for venerable authority.
This, Edith, is no time for temporizing with our duty.
He proposed to adopt no temporizing expedients, but to have the defects of the Confederation thoroughly examined and displayed, and a radical cure provided, whether it were accepted or not.
The nation was on the eve of rebellion and had urgent need of remedial acts, not of temporizing theories, least of all theories which at the late Presidential election had been rejected as errors and dangers.
It was a desperate expedient to shield himself as well as he might from the damaging recoil of his own temporizing statesmanship.
Neither the temporizing concession of the President nor the conciliatory and half-apologetic resolution of the Committee of Thirty-three for one instant changed or affected the determination to destroy the Government and dissolve the Union.
Believing that a State has the right to secede, and that the only remedy for present evils is secession, he would not hold out any delusive hope or sanction any temporizing policy.
The solution seems to lie in the temporizing feebleness of Buchanan and in the superior finesse and daring conspiracy of Cobb, Thompson, and Floyd.
To these it may be answered that it is the only method which has ever proved successful, and that in the end it is much more economical than temporizing measures.
Rash in grasping authority, he was feeble and temporizing in the exercise of it: he could not look beyond the present exigency.
While a sort of necessity for this temporizing continues, we shall go on very tranquilly, and it is become a mode to say the Convention is "adorable.
Temporizing would, in his opinion, involve the bank and all concerned in eventual ruin.
Footnote 27: As respects France, the result has shown the impolicy of the temporizing system.
But when doubt and fear, plans and policy, compromise and temporizing entered into her councils, her gold became dim and her sword pewter.
The Church refused to be guided by human wisdom or temporizing methods, either to win numbers or gain favor, depending for success upon the wisdom that cometh from above.
In such cases there must be no temporizing or reassurance, but a careful determination of the actual condition must be made and immediate operation done if it seems necessary.
Diversion of mind and temporizing with symptoms are the basis of therapy at the menstrual period.
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