You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the
feeblest claim: I can tell you this--if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to the new."
At the first dawn of the morning we closed all the messy shutters of our old building; lighting a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and
feeblest of rays.
As for the even more staggering news of as many as 13 instances of Chinese warships entering Philippine waters without permission, with their Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) pointedly turned off, despite demands by the Philippine Navy to establish contact with Philippine authorities, Panelo - and lamentably even Lorenzana - could only manage the
feeblest description of that inflammatory behavior, as an 'irritant.' Mosquitoes, flies and idiotic public officials, one would think, are irritants; the flagrant, repeated and unacknowledged trespassing into one's waters by a hulking neighbor is way more than that.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Aug 15 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday expressed confidence that abrogation of Article 370 and reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories would immensely benefit the region as he noted that India's history and destiny was linked to coexistence and that the country will never lose capacity to listen to
feeblest voice.
"I say this with the confidence and belief that India will never lose its capacity to listen to the
feeblest voice; that it will never lose sight of its ancient ideals; that it will forget neither its sense of fairness nor its sense of adventure.
READ: James 4:6-10 The prayer of the
feeblest saint .
And yet, even the
feeblest nature lovers feel the sap rising, which is surely to the good.
DAVID Taylor-Gooby (Journal Letters, January 1) claims that the excuse of civil unrest should Parliament go against the will of the people is the
feeblest excuse for not having a so-called people's vote, although quite who voted last time if not the people, is beyond me.
The dialectical logic also dictates this, and it is endorsed by the history of South Asia that even the
feeblest and un-armed people have been challenging the strongest regimes of their times through protest actions.
In reality, I spent a good minute scrabbling around for the back door key, then, finally, armed with a 99p plant sprayer containing an inch of tepid water, went out and ejected the
feeblest of streams, which landed damply, a good three metres from his departing rump.
A system of Atlantic Ocean currents that regulates global weather is at its
feeblest in 1,600 years, weakened partly by climate change, said researchers Wednesday, warning of trouble ahead.
Sabine starkly states that "of all his characters the one with whom Bodin perhaps had least sympathy, and who is at all events the
feeblest intellectually, is the Catholic Coronaeus" because the interlocutor is "a confirmed authoritarian and traditionalist." (16) Coronaeus, in Sabine's view, is the character that Bodin intends the reader to reject.
I'm now convinced that some people need the
feeblest of excuses to trigger their berserk-ness and use social media to proudly manifest it.
Nature, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child, The
feeblest or the waywardest,-- Her admonition mild In forest and the hill By traveler is heard, Restraining rampant squirrel Or too impetuous bird.
