expediences

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From Time • Apr. 29, 2013

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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

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 Marryat, Frederick

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 Tawney, R. H.