In a defensive war waged for liberty and to secure basic rights, the Americans invaded Canada in an effort to win by force of arms what could not be won by negotiation and blandishment — a 14th colony.
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That Pence himself was so willing to endorse a particular candidate in such an embarrassing way in front of the nation is troubling, and I hope that those who invited him to speak at the Southern Baptist Convention this year feel duly chastened by the sensible people in their midst who reject this sort of blandishment.
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Working from a list supplied by her imperious subject, whose name is Harriet Lauler, she reaches out to all of the contacts, visits many of them in person, including Harriet's ex-husband, and fails to elicit a single compliment, blandishment or fond remembrance about a woman who was a prominent citizen for decades in her Southern California town.
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Sulpicius had changed allegiance from the optimates to the populares to qualify for the magistracy. As blandishment, Marius promised the relief of Sulpicius’ ruinous debt. Declaring a preventative cessation of business, the two consuls were attacked by Sulpicius’ men in assembly. Rufus escaped somehow.
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Lloyd George however gave the Ulster leader Carson a written guarantee that Ulster would not be forced in.Maume, Patrick: The long Gestation, Irish Nationalist Life 1891–1918, Ch. 7 ‘The Price of War’ pp. 182–83, Gill & Macmillan (1999) A supreme master of political blandishment, he was able to keep the rival parties in play week after week in the hope that a settlement was at last possible.Lyons, F. S. L.: p.
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The position was quite important as it extended the influence of the colonial state right into the villages.The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab, Rajit K. Mazumder, Permanent Black It also reinforced the already dominant social status of the Zaildar with the official government sanction. The Zaildar exercised tremendous authority among the villagers, many of whom looked to him for patronage and assistance, and he alone possessed the power of threats and blandishment within his Zail.
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Worthington's four nephews, who were captured at Great Sankey, 12 February 1584, were Thomas aged 16, Robert aged 15, Richard aged 13, and John aged 11. Their conflict is recorded in Bridgewater's "Concertatio" (1594), translated in Foley's Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, Vol. II (1875). Blandishment, promises, threats, stripes, brutality, and cunning were in turn applied in order to obtain information from them of the whereabouts of their uncle, and the names and practices of their Catholic friends, and to induce them to be present at the heretical worship.
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51–52 :The peaceful virtues :And every blandishment of private life, :The father's cares, the mother's fond endearment, :All sacrificed to liberty's wild riot. The third act, originally written by Lovell, was rewritten by Southey. Within the act, the opponents of Robespierre compare themselves to the assassins of Julius Caesar who are restoring the republic. In the final speech, Bertrand Barère discusses the history French Revolution and lists the various would-be despots who have attempted to usurp liberty for Louis XVI to Robespierre himself, concluding that France will be a beacon of liberation to the world.
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At the same time, More maintains the need for the "broad fence which should ever separate two very different sorts of society." Moral reformers were concerned with the possibility that gambling created for the inappropriate and "unnatural" mixing of classes. Speaking specifically of women playing at private Faro tables, Patrick Colquhoun identified a similar problem with upper-class influence in A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis writes: “Evil example, when thus sanctioned by apparent respectability, and by the dazzling blandishment of rank and fashion, is so intoxicating to those who have either suddenly acquired riches, or who are young and inexperienced, that it almost ceases to be a matter of wonder that the fatal propensity to Gaming should become universal; extending itself over all ranks in Society in a degree scarcely to be credited, but by those who will attentively investigate the subject.”Colquhoun, Patrick.
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On this matter, gives evidence that Machiavelli may have seen himself as having learned something from Democritus, Epicurus and classical materialism, which was however not associated with political realism, or even any interest in politics. On the topic of rhetoric Machiavelli, in his introduction, stated that "I have not embellished or crammed this book with rounded periods or big, impressive words, or with any blandishment or superfluous decoration of the kind which many are in the habit of using to describe or adorn what they have produced". This has been interpreted as showing a distancing from traditional rhetoric styles, but there are echoes of classical rhetoric in several areas. In Chapter 18, for example, he uses a metaphor of a lion and a fox, examples of force and cunning; according to , "the Roman author from whom Machiavelli in all likelihood drew the simile of the lion and the fox" was Cicero.
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