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... what you mean by sanctioning it. I can't help it. I suppose losing one's daughter is a necessary evil. Still,'—seeing the disappointed expression on Roger's face—'it is but fair to you to say I'd rather give my child,—my only child, remember!—to you, than to any man in ...

— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... contend with from deficiency in the supply of food, and aware that it would require pecuniary means, on my part, to put into activity the plans which I then formed, and now lay before you, I submitted to His Majesty's Secretary of State the importance of sanctioning a small grant from the funds at the disposal of the Crown, to meet the liberality and public spirit with which I am persuaded, elsewhere and every where, the great object now under our consideration will be supported. I have great satisfaction in showing how readily this has been ...

— First History of New Brunswick • Peter Fisher

... comes to an end with the declaration of his purpose in creating mankind or in sanctioning their survival of the Deluge; and the following three lines appear to relate his establishment of the divine laws in accordance with which his intention was carried out. The passage includes a refrain, which is repeated in ...

— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King

... or by the Hegelians, when people are not yet acquainted, or not yet disgusted, with worldliness; the Absolute then seems to lend a mystical sanction to whatever existences or tendencies happen to be afoot. Morality is reduced to sanctioning reigning conventions, or reigning passions, on the authority of the universe. Thus the Moslems, by way of serving Allah, could extend their conquests and cultivate the arts and pleasures congenial to a self-sufficing ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... next achievement was to overcome her scruples against sanctioning him with the commission he was bent on communicating to Thaddeus. But from the continual recurrence of her apprehensions, that the warm affection of her cousin had too highly colored the first part of his representation, this ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

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