expediences
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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?
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 George Gillespie
Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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 Frederick Marryat
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 Thomas Carlyle
