expediences

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From Time • Apr. 29, 2013

Thus we see that these expediences, pretended for the ceremonies, are attained unto as well and better without them than by them.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

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 Herbert, Henry William

This is as old as Pythagoras and as new as Bergson and Croce; it assumes that the concept of justice is man-made, produced and to be altered by expediences and practicalities, always in flux.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

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 Carlyle, Thomas