The which I humbly beseech you to acceptin part of paiment of the infinite debt in which I acknowledge myselfe bounden unto you for your singular favours and sundrie good turnes shewed to me at my late being in England, &c.
Few festive audiences are unwilling to accept a story for a speech, and a proposal to compromise on such terms is very likely in itself to bring applause.
It is not so hard for the women born to it, as they know their fate and can accept it from babyhood.
He asked her to say to me that he would accept the offer I had made to go with him as interpreter and would call for me on his way down.
Some time ago you sacrificed a chance to play on the first team because you would not accept my position.
But, on second thought, he decided to lay low andaccept the bombardment.
The temptation to accept Bob's invitation had been too great for Judd to refuse.
The gallant young colonel answered, with irony, that he would accept their proposals if they meant to surrender, and could assure them good usage; that we were determined to defend the fort to the last extremity!
Seeming to accept his offer, but suspecting a trick, Bodle steered for home, nor felt quite safe till he reached Chester.
Consequently, they endure our rule for the present, but do not accept it.
But so great was the laziness of those Zambals that many of them refused to accept the land because it was not reaped.
He does notaccept the evidence, as the perceptible gain in height among such peoples is not apparently accompanied by the other distinguishing marks of the Caucasian or Polynesian, and consequently regards them as Malayan.
If, according to the noble precept, it be lawful to accept good advice even from an enemy, shall we set the ignoble example of refusing such advice even when it is offered by our friends?
He seems to have wished the world to accept this version of his untimely marriage.
There is every reason to accept the story as it has been handed down.
Yet the passion of desire that sways Antony is so splendidly portrayed; is, too, so dominant in all of us, that we accept it at once as explaining the inexplicable.
I am inclined to accept Rowe's statement that Shakespeare was received into an actor-company at first in a very mean rank.
But Adriana will not accept the reproof: she will have her husband at all costs.
I must begin by stating that I do notaccept implicitly Shakespeare's angry declarations that his mistress was a mere strumpet.
The ballad is said to have been lost, but certain verses were preserved which fit the circumstances and suit Shakespeare's character so perfectly that I for one am content to accept them.
An ideal course of conduct implies a constant readiness, after all has been done which can be done, to renounce one's feverish desires and accept whatever higher powers decree, even if it be death.
Few persons, even when they read and accept the statistics on the subject, really have a picture of the imperative need of hygiene as an integral part of every human life.
And forasmuch as the only cause that I am able to imagine as competent to produce such effects is that of intelligent guidance, I accept the metaphysical hypothesis that beyond the sphere of the Knowable there exists an Unknown God.
Yet no consistent materialist can refuse to accept this colossal chance hypothesis.
If any good chance offers I shall accept it--that is, if father and mother are willing.
I know you will be disappointed, Uncle Godfrey, and I hope you won't think I don't appreciate your kind offer, but I think it would be selfish in me to accept it.
Still, if I could hear of a good chance, I might induce my parents to let me accept it.
Thank you," said Abner, prompt toaccept the offer.
His elegant penmanship would have secured him an easy berth and better society at headquarters, but he declined to accept a detail.
Light, acceptthe blessed light, if you will have it when Heaven vouchsafes.
No danger it should let itself be flung in chains by sham secretaries of the Pedant species, and accept their vile Age of Pinchbeck for its Golden Age!
From the Universe of Fact he has turned himself away; he is gone into partnership with the Universe of Phantasm; finds it profitablest to deal in forged notes, while the foolish shopkeepers will accept them.
That it was not so understood by his mother herself is evident from the fact that she did not accept it as a refusal, but expected a compliance, and gave orders to prepare for it.
But if we accept the statement we have quoted from the Epistle to the Hebrews, that our Lord was tempted in all respects as we are, it must have been an invisible and spiritual presence with which he contended.
I accept my share In the great anguish of life's mystery.
I thank you, Sir; and for my children's sake I do accept your bounty.
Donation visits ought to be pleasant occasions to all concerned, for we have the very highest authority as to the blessedness of giving, and only mean and churlish natures will refuse to accept graciously what is graciously bestowed.
I shall be happy to accept your kind invitation," said Philip.
The authors who, by their fearless thinking and speaking, help us toward this readjustment should, in my opinion, whether we choose to accept their conclusions or not, be hailed as benefactors.
And to his honor be it said that for a long series of years he kept sending every penny he could spare, above the barest necessities, to his creditors, refusing to avail himself of the bankruptcy law and accept a compromise.
According to the curious custom of Sweden, a professor may, even though he has never studied theology, take orders and accept the charge of a parish.
The young people are, however, unwilling to accept happiness on the terms offered by his reverence.
Therefore we send no one, and beg you to accept our reasons in the best spirit.
For their better maintenance, where the foundation could not give them a full support, they were permitted to accept school-money and even provisions.
This our gracious Lords will accept with great gratitude as a favorable token of your good-will.
Professor Harnack appears to urge us to accept the "Easter message" while we need not, he thinks, believe the "Easter faith.
Finally I told the rebel officer that I did not like to accept a man's hospitality when I had such an unpleasant duty to perform as to arrest him, but circumstances seemed to make it necessary.
I would accept the position with a certain dignity, as though I knew that it was inevitable that I must sooner or later come to the front.
Perhaps it was well for him that his ignorant faith could accept the illusion as a vision charged with all the benignities of peace on earth, good-will toward men.
Monsieur Faye stopped every moment to talk to the market-women, to cheapen melons, and to accept bouquets from girls whose bright eyes he praised.
Therefore, welcome all experiences, I will accept them as the loving child of Him who metes them out.
But the Senor Don Manuel must accept five dollars for the accommodation that he had so kindly afforded our two horses.
I would quite as soon accept the mummy of any particular member of the Rameses family as a fair representation of the living man, as a mounted moth for a live one.
Mr. Maxwell was pleased to accept that also, with what I considered high praise, and to ask me to furnish the illustrations.
Thus had Mrs. Porter made time to study and to write, and editors began to accept what she sent them with little if any changes.
