expediences
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From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013
Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw.
From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
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
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 Albert Parker Fitch
