Custom has laid the foundation of wrong, the law protects it, and a free government tolerates a law that shields iniquities blackening earth.
The monster which the southerner sees by day, tolerates in his silence, protects as part and parcel of a legal trade, only clothes him with the disgrace that menials who make themselves mere fiends are guilty of, Maxwell thought to himself.
If such facts exist, and appear indestructible, it tolerates them; but without affording them the sanction of its participation or approval.
Mr. Carlile: The law in question allows me to proceed in this course, for it tolerates Deism.
The whole universe is a terrible place that barely tolerates living organisms.
Larsen that seemed to have been uttered so long ago that they were scarcely within memory: "The universe is a terrible place that barely tolerates living organisms.
It is not to be denied, that the Constitution tolerates a limited measure of slavery: but it tolerates this measure only as the exception to its rule of impartial and universal liberty.
Resolved, That, as the Representatives of the people of Vermont, we do solemnly protest against the admission, into this Union, of any state whose constitution toleratesdomestic slavery.
We would inquire, If the gospel tolerates war, how will its universal diffusion put a stop to war?
But no maxim is more corrupt, more false in its nature, or more ruinous in its results than that which tolerates doing evil that good may come.
Often, admiring how cheerfully he tolerates them, I have wondered what it would feel like to compose a novel under the eyes of half a dozen reviewers.
The majority in vain expresses its indignation at this "gang of hired ruffians," who beset and oppress it, while at the very time that it utters its complaints, it endures and tolerates it.
At this same session the syndic-attorney of the department reports that the mob is ready, that 900 armed men had just entered Paris, that the tocsin would be rung at midnight, and that the municipality tolerates or favors the insurrection.
It only tolerates mixed marriages on a precisely contrary condition: the parties to be married must pledge themselves that their offspring shall be brought up in the Catholic religion.
It tolerates all and any customs that do not strike at morality; it can adapt itself to any nation, and make itself all things to all men.
But God the Supreme Omnipotence nevertheless just calmlytolerates all this struggle, this suffering and this imperfection.
The commercial alliance covers the entire world course, and tolerates war only as a secondary aid.
One tolerates him better at home than in Europe, but I must accord the bird great sapiency in having selected the autumn of 1918 to give the European people the opportunity to judge of the quality and quantity of his vocal production.
And yet they baptize, and both Paul tolerates them in the same communion of baptism, and Cyprian acknowledges them.
And yet Cyprian, while he finds fault with them in the Catholic Church, yet tolerates them.
If this is destroyed, it is replaced by another, until he gets used to it and tolerates its presence.
His tether prevents his reaching it, and so in time he tolerates the chair.
Certain hope and peace,' she said, 'that peace which is understanding, and that understanding which explains all creeds and therefore tolerates them.
Any one who maintains that there actually and consciously prevails such a basely materialistic meaning of "practical" is but a poor cynic maligning the world which tolerates him.
But where the patient tolerates it--and usually he tolerates it extremely well--the prolonged use of arsenic seems really to root out the anginoid tendency, or at least to confine it to the more trivial and manageable manifestations.
If she tolerates you, as you say, it can't be because you look like the man who jilted her.
What makes you think she tolerates you for that reason or no-reason?
I've the perfect certainty that she doesn't and can't care anything for me in myself; and it grinds me into the dust to realise on what terms she tolerates me.
Certain hope and peace," she said, "that peace which is understanding, and that understanding which explains all creeds and therefore tolerates them.
No state tolerates any religion hostile to its own established religion, and the most intolerant and cruel persecutors in the world are precisely those who clamor loudest for religious liberty.
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