The recorder, though much annoyed by this transaction at first, was induced to lend Rush the money, on mortgage, to complete the purchase.
Meetings have been held almost every fortnight for the transaction of public business, which has been largely increased.
The elopement alluded to in it (if the little transaction deserves so high-sounding a name) was, in every sense of the words, strictly necessary.
As I said, that was about the time when they began to ignore the whole transaction at Washington, and when Nolan's imprisonment began to carry itself on because there was nobody to stop it without any new orders from home.
This transaction every body knows, afforded, in all its circumstances, a proof to the world, of the singular honour and uprightness of those ancestors of the Quakers who were concerned in it.
The comprador was always consulted, and if the employer ventured to omit this formality the resulting transaction would almost certainly come to grief through inexplicable causes.
The incident which closed this transaction having an important bearing upon future events, it merits particular attention.
Thus no transactionstood on its own merits or received the unbiassed attention of the merchants.
That such and such a concession "would have a good effect at Jeho" was inducement enough to the foreign representatives to waive one point after another in the transaction of public business.
Any transaction with the Turkish Government involving money was open to suspicion of improper methods and bribery.
This, of course, I knew; but since the transaction would have given us the opportunity to add a new ship to replace the other, I thought such legislation might readily have been obtained.
This amounted to an expression of lack of confidence in the ministry, whereupon the Grand Vizier stated that unless the transaction was confirmed, he and his colleagues would resign.
Shortly thereafter, however, there arose in the Bagdad vilayet such opposition to this transaction that the deputies from that province threatened to withdraw from Parliament.
The lawyer who conducted thetransaction smiled skeptically as he inserted this clause, and asked the purchaser if he ever expected to pay the notes at all.
When he began business, he did so with the firm resolve that he would conduct his most insignificant transaction as a Christian man of honor.
As a first and leading principle, let every transaction be of that pure and honest character that you would not be ashamed to have appear before the whole world as clearly as to yourself.
He was true to the spirit as well as to the letter of a contract, and never, during the whole course of his long life, was he guilty of a transaction in which the most rigid moralist could find a taint of sharp practice.
They would engage in no transaction which should cause a doubt of their integrity in the breast of the good mother who had sent them forth with her blessing.
Such a transaction was infamous, but would have enabled those engaged in it to realize immense sums by the difference in the price of the stock.
The transaction is terminated; the lands pass into other hands, who hold them, as the former proprietors did, under the laws of the individual States.
The papers which explain this transaction I now lay before Congress.
Under the power to establish post-offices and post-roads houses are also requisite for the reception of the mails and the transaction of the business of the several offices.
Of the authenticity of the transaction a report from the Secretary of War, with the documents accompanying it, furnishes the most unquestionable proof.
In calling your attention to the internal concerns of our country the view which they exhibit is peculiarly gratifying.
Now the amount of money involved in this transaction is the slightest feature: it is the chronic laxity and carelessness of the American business man that gets on the Frenchman's nerve.
A bank agreed to take care of the shipments and the whole transaction was quickly concluded.
The whole transaction had to be called off and a new one instituted at considerable expense of time and money.
It was argued by the managers of the scheme that the stock would be above par in order to induce the members of the Legislature to go into the measure, but nothing in the transaction had the least semblance of a corrupt influence.
Even Erastus Root, then just entering his first term in Congress, saw nothing in the transaction to shock society's sense of propriety or to break the loftiest code of morality.
Still was ostentatiously offered by Leech as a witness to prove everything, but was objected to on the ground that the other party to the transaction was dead, and was necessarily held incompetent.
Still gave the account of them which he had already given to Leech, and produced some corroborative evidence in the shape of letters relating to the transaction of buying and stocking the sugar plantation.
I happen to know this man personally—slightly—that is, I once had a transaction with him as an officer which resulted unpleasantly.
But without the concurrence of each individual the transaction cannot be the deed of the whole.
If an engagement that concerns a few years' enjoyment is often found to engross all the feelings of the mind, how absorbent of all the best exercises of the heart should be a transaction for communion with God to eternity!
By a prophet of the Lord Israel are exhibited as recognising themselves to have been represented in the covenant transaction of Bethel.
In the latter case, which is the most common, there is most manifestly made a covenant transaction between the witness and those in authority; but in the former, there is constituted an engagement not less really of a covenant character.
And as every vow is addressed to God--who is necessarily a witness and judge of the transaction and the offerer--every command enjoining it includes a mandate to use the oath.
A full account is given of the practice in the record of the Covenant transaction at Sinai.
This act is a solemn federal transaction among the members of the Covenanting community.
If a transaction that concerns only a limited part of this world's good is often important, how much more that which concerns the enjoyment of God as a portion!
Whatever reason the transaction affords for binding the former, it supplies for holding the latter bound.
He understood now that, at the moment of selling the letters, he had viewed the transaction solely as it affected himself: as an unfortunate blemish on an otherwise presentable record.
It turned out, however, that thetransaction was of a purely commercial character.
His record of the transaction goes on as follows:-- "Mary Warren continued a good space in a fit, that she did neither see nor hear nor speak.
Her husband, referring to the transaction nearly twenty years afterwards, justly expressed what all must feel, that it was "a hellish molestation.
Mather's account of the transaction filled the whole country; and it is probable that the children in Mr. Parris's family undertook to re-enact it.
The transaction has often been called by those who advocated repudiation, "An old Territorial fraud," but there was nothing in it but a bad bargain, made under the extraordinary pressure of financial difficulties.
It holds annual meetings in St. Paul for the transaction of its business.
This adjustment ended a transaction that was conceived and executed in folly, and was only prevented from eventuating in crime by the persistent efforts of our most honorable and thoughtful citizens throughout the state.
A copy, however, was produced, and as it was the first real estate transaction ever had in Minnesota, I will set it out in full.
The whole transaction was in perfect good faith, but it was attacked in congress, and an investigation ordered, which resulted in suspending its consummation, and Mr. Steele did not pay the balance due.
My memory enables me to state the transaction in substance correctly, but not to be answerable for the precise words which were used upon the occasion.
On this order I first went into the office to see Brooks, the under secretary, whom I knew [you may recollect the transaction in July, which must have fixed me in his memory].
I need hardly point out that a very small transaction in teak would cover the cost of many coolies.
Will you forgive me, if I won that I first wrote an account of this transaction to Miss Mirvan?
Almost instantly the whole truth of the transaction seemed to rush upon her mind, and her wrath was inconceivably violent.
Du Bois and me, while our astonishment at the whole transaction was too great for speech.
It is necessary to be observed, concerning this transaction that Captain Mighells, who commanded one of the ships belonging to this squadron, was among those who voted for fighting.
The conduct of Sir John Ashby in this memorable transaction is so far from being liable to the censure of Bishop Burnet, that it is capable of being vindicated and applauded for its wisdom and prudence.
The only thing would be to avoid a party on the night of delivery--afterwards, the more the better, and the whole transaction inevitably tends to a good deal of discussion.
I have drawn up an account of my transaction with that marvellous young man; you shall see it one day or other, but I do not intend to print it.
He was brought to trial with the more evident agents in the fraud, and the whole history of the French Parliaments scarcely records any transaction more disgraceful than his acquittal.
