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“He had been handed over by the pope to the tender mercies of his rival, Cyril; he had been summoned to accept within ten days under pain of deposition, not a papal definition, but a series of anathemas drawn up at Alexandria under the influence of Apollinarian forgeries.”
“If, perchance, the master picked up some verbose Fourth of July oration, or some sophomorical newspaper declamation, he delivered it over to our tender mercies with as little remorse as a huntsman feels in throwing a dead fox to the dogs.”
“I do not for a moment suppose that it is the intention of the Legislatuae to leave a large portion of our people exposed to the tender mercies of their unscrupulous and vindictive foes.”
“Since the child is to be the inheritor of her parents 'wealth, she will not leave it to the tender mercies of Count Guido.”
“Though loyalty to his class prevented Scipio Aemilianus’s saying so, perhaps the seventeen-year-old expert at everything irritated him, for not long after young Metellus arrived at Spanish Numantia, Scipio Aemilianus handed him over to the tender mercies of the Terrible Trio — Jugurtha, Rutilius Rufus, and Marius.”
“That other purpose, as I said before, is the discomfiture of the so called philanthrophy of the world -- its discomfiture by showing it practically how little the slaves care for such freedom as they can offer, and that the tender mercies of such friends are cruel.”
“Not only was Spain saved from the tender mercies of Scipio, and Macedonia from the tender mercies of Silanus, but Rome herself is considerably the lighter of villains, if I may be excused calling some of our consulars villains.”
“It is our infirmity at the least, if we my, God hath forgotten to be gracious, and shut up his tender mercies in displeasure, Ps. lxxvii.”
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