As to your suggested danger of deception, it is non-existent: for the Voice, being the essence of one's Being,
cannot be thus changed at will.
If, observing himself, man sees that his will is always directed by one and the same law (whether he observes the necessity of taking food, using his brain, or anything else) he
cannot recognize this never-varying direction of his will otherwise than as a limitation of it.
They
cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it
cannot enable him to marry.
Yet this is not peculiar to substance, for it is also the case that differentiae
cannot be present in subjects.
It may happen in any particular instance that A is ALWAYS followed by B, but we
cannot know this, since we
cannot foresee all the perfectly possible circumstances that might make the sequence fail, or know that none of them will actually occur.
The curate and the others thanked him and added their entreaties, and he finding himself so pressed said there was no occasion ask, where a command had such weight, and added, "If your worships will give me your attention you will hear a true story which, perhaps, fictitious ones constructed with ingenious and studied art
cannot come up to." These words made them settle themselves in their places and preserve a deep silence, and he seeing them waiting on his words in mute expectation, began thus in a pleasant quiet voice.
Because men, when they receive good from him of whom they were expecting evil, are bound more closely to their benefactor; thus the people quickly become more devoted to him than if he had been raised to the principality by their favours; and the prince can win their affections in many ways, but as these vary according to the circumstances one
cannot give fixed rules, so I omit them; but, I repeat, it is necessary for a prince to have the people friendly, otherwise he has no security in adversity.
'I thought it best,' said he, 'to call: One
cannot settle things too soon.' Poor Peter shuddered in despair: His flowing locks he wildly tore: And very soon his yellow hair Was lying all about the floor.
Besides, as a city is composed of dissimilar parts, as an animal is of life and body; the soul of reason and appetite; a family of a man and his wife--property of a master and a slave; in the same manner, as a city is composed of all these and many other very different parts, it necessarily follows that the virtue of all the citizens
cannot be the same; as the business of him who leads the band is different from the other dancers.
We
cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington in the narrative of his exploits.
"If I
cannot prevail on you to follow my advice, you have only to say so, and Mrs.