expediences
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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?
From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013
Thus it makes the individual the center of his own universe, and dissolves moral principles into a choice of expediences.
From The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
The soldiers, accustomed, as all Roman soldiers were, to all the expediences and resources of warfare, had prepared planks which were to be run forward on the ladder, in order to construct a firm bridge.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
He is very happy in contriving expediences, and evinces considerable wit in the conception, for instance, of Yussuf the water-carrier.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
Alas, how, in thy soft-hung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of redtape philosophy, of expediences, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: but knowest thou whitherward?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
