Now it seems to me that nothing could better suit the careless, open-handed freedom of your habits than the vacillations of high play.
Hanse traders were favoured above many others in the capricious vacillations of our mercantile policy.
Their vacillations as to how and when they would play these cards are easily explained.
Let us now inquire into the relation between the small cyclonic vacillations of the weather and the types of climatic changes known as historic pulsations and glacial fluctuations.
Such vacillationsproduce whimsical and scattered movements; but they are fruitless in results; they literally "get nowhere.
The removal of the old symbols was naturally followed by the dismissal of a commander who had of late been little more than a living symbol of the vacillations and political incompetence of his party.
But who could record the vacillationsof a poetic temper, its early hope and its late despair, its wild gaiety and its settled frenzy, but the poet himself?
What then was this irresolution but the vacillations of a mind broken and confounded?
There can be no more damning condemnation of the vacillations and fluctuations of Christian men's affections than the steadfastness of Christ's love to them.
Jesus Christ brings to us, in the gift of life in Him, stability which will check the vacillations of our own hearts.
The vacillationsat Paris tended alike to weaken Anglo-French action and to encourage the Arabi party and the Sultan.
Amidst all his seeming vacillations of policy, Abdur Rahman was governed by the thought of keeping England, and still more Russia, from his land.
The vacillations of Bazaine, whose strategy was far more faulty than that of Napoleon III.
Light was thus thrown on the dissensions in the Cabinet, and the vacillations in British policy.
It need hardly be said that the result of these vacillations was deplorable, unsteadying the defenders, and giving the assailants time to bring up troops and cannon, and thereby strengthen their grip on every important point.
We can find no parallel to this reading of the letter and the vacillations it produces among the cringing senators, save in Antony's speech over the body of Cæsar and the consequent revulsion in the attitude and temper of the Roman mob.
Indeed, on reviewing the situation on June 4th, the German publicist, Gentz, came to the conclusion that the Emperor Francis would probably end his vacillations by some inglorious compromise.
Freycinet, and to the English partisans who, while rejoicing in the ultimate result, curse the vacillationsof the cabinet of Mr. Gladstone, in wisely striving to unravel a knot instead of at all risks cutting it.
Circumstances like these might teach moderation both to the French partisans who curse the vacillations of M.
How could his colleagues order back a large part of the British force, thereby justifying the vacillations of Prussia and ensuring a parliamentary triumph to Fox and Grenville?
Charles IV had gone to war for the restoration of royalty; but, thanks to the perfidy of Prussia and the vacillations of Austria, that ideal had vanished; and in its place there appeared the spectres of want and bankruptcy.
Thwarted on the Lower Rhine by the vacillations of the German Powers and the torpor of the Dutch, he hoped for success among the Royalists of Brittany and la Vendée.
On 11th June, in his first interview with Bute, he said he had no faith in Russia; the vacillations of Austria were notorious; and Pitt was said to be about to send Eden to Paris to sue for peace.
He carried to his pallet in the roof-room no vacillations and no problems.
His religious experiences thenceforth, his vacillations of hope and despair, had been often elaborated amongst the brethren.
The vacillations and upheavals in the position of the Jews were conditioned by the shifting of forces in the direction of the one or the other above-mentioned factors in the course of history.
Do its vacillations not stir us to the very depths of our soul?
Despite all blunders and vacillations our expedition was not unworthy of the emergency.
The fog has added to our starting vagaries and postponed a happy understanding, but we shall do better later on when we have gauged and discovered--and pitied--the tiresome vacillations of the other ships!
On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillations of soul.
At the same time he met the vacillations of Erasmus with absolute decision.
The vacillationsand inconsistency of Erasmus disgusted Luther.
There are the same vacillations of good and bad luck; the same tides of hope and fear; the almost certain prospect of success dashed and darkened by failure; the grief and disappointment of failure dispelled by glimpses of bright hope.
He wished to examine himself and collect himself, and he was praying Heaven to forgive him his mental vacillations when M.
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