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I defy any Person to say I ever Refused an Offer of that Sort: On the contrary, I readily Consented to the only Proposal of Marriage that ever was made me, which was when I was a Virgin ; but too easily confiding in the Person ’ s Sincerity that made it, I unhappily lost my own Honour, by trusting to his ; for he got me with Child, and then forsook me: That very Person you all know ; he is now become a Magistrate of this County ; and I had hopes he would have appeared this Day on the Bench, and have endeavoured to moderate the Court in my Favour ; then I should have scorn ’ d to have mention ’ d it ; but I must Complain of it as unjust and unequal, that my Betrayer and Undoer, the first Cause of all my Faults and Miscarriages ( if they must be deemed such ) should be advanced to Honour and Power, in the same Government that punishes my Misfortunes with Stripes and Infamy.
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I think it must be said that, contrary to metaphysical insistence, these are questions so framed as to defy either empirical exploration or rational solutions.
" Tyndale responded: " I defy the Pope, and all his laws ; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!
The conference at Calais was something of a political triumph, but even though the French government gave implicit support for Henry's re-marriage and Francis I himself held private conference with Anne, the French King maintained alliances with the Pope which he could not explicitly defy.
On his return to Scotland, John held a meeting with his council and after a few days of heated debate, plans were made to defy the orders of Edward I.
General Wayne surveyed the land and declared to General Scott, " I defy the English, Indians, and all the devils of hell to take it.
Champion of the papacy and in secret league with the Lombard cities he was able to defy the common enemy, Frederick I Barbarossa.
Now I defy the ablest Englishman to go to Switzerland and either gain that income or spend it there.
:* Upon seeing a lone magpie one should repeat the words " I defy thee " seven times.
" I defy Dr Duignan ", he pleaded, addressing a meeting of clergy in 1823, " in the full vigour of his incapacity, in the strongest access of that Protestant epilepsy with which he was so often convulsed, to have added a single security to the security of that oath ".
In fact, I defy anyone to suggest otherwise.
I felt like I could defy the world.
" Black argued that the Tinkers ' behavior was indeed disruptive and declared, " I repeat that if the time has come when pupils of state-supported schools, kindergartens, grammar schools, or high schools, can defy and flout orders of school officials to keep their minds on their own schoolwork, it is the beginning of a new revolutionary era of permissiveness in this country fostered by the judiciary.
Of the makeup, Hoffman was quoted in Life as saying, " I defy you to put on that makeup and not feel old ".
His aims were simple but ambitious ( as expressed to an educated man ): " I defy the Pope and all his laws: and if God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou dost.
Brazile stated, " We need to send a message that you can't defy the rules ," adding, " I have pissed off just about every state in my career.
This may have been agreeable to the Laws ; I do not dispute it: But since Laws are sometimes unreasonable in themselves, and therefore repealed ; and others bear too hard on the Subject in particular Circumstances ; and therefore there is left a Power somewhere to dispense with the Execution of them ; I take the Liberty to say, that I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe with regard to me, who have always lived an inoffensive Life in the Neighbourhood where I was born, and defy my Enemies ( if I have any ) to say I ever wrong ’ d Man, Woman, or Child.
I and any
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.
I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.
`` Seems to me I don't remember altering any law about that ''.
`` I don't believe I'll play any more neither ''.
If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
In any case I do not intend to let the present occasion pass without dealing more directly with the problem of implementing good intentions.
I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.
`` I should, of course '', he said, `` like any other man, be honored and gratified should the Democrats see fit to nominate me.
I and Person
's No Lark ," and another composition, " Re: Person I Knew " is a tribute to his producer, Orrin Keepnews.
I could exceedingly plainly perceive it to be all perforated and porous, much like a Honey-comb, but that the pores of it were not regular these pores, or cells, were indeed the first microscopical pores I ever saw, and perhaps, that were ever seen, for I had not met with any Writer or Person, that had made any mention of them before this.
Person A jumps up and down, Person B says “ I can ’ t believe your mother gave you those skittles ”.
* Gaynesford, M. de I: The Meaning of the First Person Term, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.
* Novella Maioriani 11, De episcopali iudicio et ne quis invitus clericus ordinetur vel de ceteris negotiis, " Episcopal Courts ; No Person Shall Be Ordained A Cleric Against His Will ; Various Matters ", ( given in Arelate, on March 28, 460, to Ricimer, also in the name of Leo I );
I believe there is a Holy Person on the mountain who can help us.
: Person: Is at least one of them narrower than the one which I told you to pick up?
Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person.
: Person 2: " I define X such that all things that you claim are not X are included in X.
* I Married a Strange Person!
: Mr Thrale's Person is manly, his Countenance agreeable, his Eyes steady and of the deepest Blue: his Look neither soft nor severe, neither sprightly nor gloomy, but thoughtful and Intelligent: his Address is neither caressive nor repulsive, but unaffectedly civil and decorous ; and his Manner more completely free from every kind of Trick or Particularity than I ever saw any person's-he is a Man wholly as I think out of the Power of Mimickry.
: Mr Thrale's Sobriety, & the Decency of his Conversation being wholly free from all Oaths Ribaldry and Profaneness make him a Man exceedingly comfortable to live with, while the easiness of his Temper and slowness to take Offence add greatly to his Value as a domestic Man: Yet I think his Servants do not much love him, and I am not sure that his Children feel much Affection for him: low People almost all indeed agree to abhorr him, as he has none of that officious & cordial Manner which is universally required by them-nor any Skill to dissemble his dislike of their Coarseness-with Regard to his Wife, tho ' little tender of her Person, he is very partial to her Understanding ,-but he is obliging to nobody ; & confers a Favour less pleasingly than many a Man refuses to confer one.
* Selected poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb-Biography & 15 poems ( Aquarius, as I was walking down the street, A Catful of Buttermilk, Death's Head, A Discourse, A Double Vision, First Person Demonstrative, Hospitality, Latitude, Ordinary, Moving, Red Black White, Seventh Seal, So Long It's Been, Thirty-Six Ways of Looking at Toronto Ontario, What I Know ( Making Free with Villon's Smalltalk ))
" I met Christ as a Person at a moment when I needed him in order to live, and at a moment when I was not in search of him.
* The validity of aren't as a negative First Person Singular conjunction for to be in interrogative uses-" Aren't I the one about which you were talking?
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