In this posture of affairs the duty of the Government seems to be plain.It inculcates a recognition of that State as a member of the Union and subject to its authority, a vindication of the just power of the Constitution, the preservation of the integrity of the Union, and the execution of the laws by all constitutional means....
Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.Her son's death in 534 made but little change in the posture of affairs.Amalasuntha, now queen, with a view of strengthening her position, made her cousin Theodahad partner of her throne (not, as sometimes stated, her husband, for his wife was still living)....
The morning sunbeams still slanted down on the small pile of furniture, and old Neddy went on munching the blades off which they were drying the dew, and Mad Bell continued to sit upon the wall, as if placidly waiting for events.Such was the posture of affairs until towards noon, when an outside-car came trotting quickly down the lane.On one side of it sat a black-whiskered man in his best clothes, with each hand tightly grasping a small, fat, wrigglesome child....
The people and the posture of affairs would still be there even if one thought that Shakespeare's moral attitude was wrong.Just as one could imagine all the other sides of Rembrandt's beggar, so, with the mind's eye (Horatio), one can see all four sides of the castle of Elsinore....
I dined with Lord Treasurer to-day at five: he dined by himself after his family, and drinks no claret yet, for fear of his rheumatism, of which he is almost well.He was very pleasant, as he is always: yet I fancied he was a little touched with the present posture of affairs.The Elector of Hanover's Minister here has given in a violent memorial against the peace, and caused it to be printed....
And at Rome he had friends who took measures for him secretly, as well as some women and some members of the senate also, who worked underhand to assist him.And into Spain he dispatched one of his friends, named Gellianus, to view the posture of affairs....
How was it that the woman was ready to accept the altered posture of affairs in his house -- if she had received a hint of them?He forgot that he had prepared her in self-defence....
La Salle's new establishment of St. Louis was in the path of the invaders; and, if he could be crushed, there was wherewith to console his enemies for all else that might ensue.Bad as was the posture of affairs, it was made far worse by an incident that took place soon after the invasion of the Illinois.A Seneca chief engaged in it, who had left the main body of his countrymen, was captured by a party of Winnebagoes to serve as a hostage for some of their tribe whom the Senecas had lately seized....
This was the posture of affairs when another sudden alteration was made upon the young Caesar's coming to Rome.He was son to the niece of Caesar, who adopted him, and left him his heir by his will....
The posture of affairs in the small world of Gylingden, except in the matter of the alliance just referred to, was not much changed.Since the voluminous despatch from Marseilles, promising his return so soon, not a line had been received from Mark Wylder....
What she had predicted had nearly happened: the people began to murmur against the government, and their murmurs had certainly been followed by a general revolt, had not the queen had the address to prevent it.That princess being acquainted with the ill posture of affairs, informed the sultan, who at last suffered himself to be prevailed upon.He committed the government to discreet aged men, who knew how to keep the people within the bounds of duty....
They had been carefully collected and sent to Cumberland by Madame Fosco.Such was the posture of affairs when Miss Halcombe reached Limmeridge in the early part of September.Shortly afterwards she was confined to her room by a relapse, her weakened physical energies giving way under the severe mental affliction from which she was now suffering....
Although he really believed himself to be raised far above all the laws of fear and decorum, still in this point, however, his confident arrogance misled him, and he erred no less against policy than he shined against propriety.In the existing posture of affairs the government could hardly have adopted a worse measure than that of throwing disrespect on the nobility.It had it in its power to flatter the prejudices and feelings of the aristocracy, and thus artfully and imperceptibly win them over to its plans, and through them subvert the edifice of national liberty....
The present posture of affairs is, that benevolence is popular.God is working out in the human heart his great idea, and all nations shall see his glory....
Gold, which had become more common, made soldiers proportionately dearer; the growing charm of effeminacy enhanced the price of the opposite virtues.Wholly different was the posture of affairs with the rebels....
