expediences
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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
Mighty antagonisms reared themselves in their way,—ecclesiastical prejudices, the prejudices of culture, social hostilities, political expediences, and all the subtle and violent contrivances of the world, the flesh and the devil.
From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
They went about balancing expediences, plausibilities; gathering votes, advices; they never were alone with the truth of a thing at all.—Cromwell’s prayers were likely to be ‘eloquent,’ and much more than that.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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