If such men will make a firm and solemn pause, and meditate
dispassionately on the importance of this interesting idea; if they will contemplate it in all its attitudes, and trace it to all its consequences, they will not hesitate to part with trivial objections to a Constitution, the rejection of which would in all probability put a final period to the Union.
It was impossible to make the confession more
dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed.
Tyrell looked at it
dispassionately. With a mechanical gesture he took out his watch.
Honest as these men's intentions may have been, they were full of partialities and prejudices, they entered the country with their verdicts already prepared, and they could no more write
dispassionately and impartially about it than they could about their own wives and children.
For, though Tarzan of the Apes was a killer of men and of beasts, he killed as the hunter kills,
dispassionately, except on those rare occasions when he had killed for hate--though not the brooding, malevolent hate which marks the features of its own with hideous lines.
"We've got six dogs," the other reiterated
dispassionately. "I took out six fish.
'I rather fancy, m'lady,' said Wrench,
dispassionately, 'that the animal is about to hurl a plate.'
Successful, at last, in awakening an interest in his favour, and an inclination to inquire more
dispassionately into his case, they had had an interview with the minister, in his bed, so late as eight o'clock that morning.
seeing the old man?" said the auctioneer, playing with his seals
dispassionately. "Ah, you see he has relied on me considerably." Here he pressed his lips together, and frowned meditatively.
Now let me hear,
dispassionately and calmly, what are this young lady's qualifications for the office.'
Regarding himself as the prophet of a supremely important new gospel, he never admitted the possibility of error in his own point of view and was never able to stand aside from his poetry and criticise it
dispassionately. This somewhat irritating egotism, however, was perhaps a necessary element in his success; without it he might not have been able to live serenely through the years of misunderstanding and ridicule which would have silenced or embittered a more diffident spirit.
Receive, coldly and
dispassionately, every attention, till you have ascertained and duly considered the worth of the aspirant; and let your affections be consequent upon approbation alone.
