The
direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn.
The bordering States, if any, will be those who, under the impulse of sudden irritation, and a quick sense of apparent interest or injury, will be most likely, by
direct violence, to excite war with these nations; and nothing can so effectually obviate that danger as a national government, whose wisdom and prudence will not be diminished by the passions which actuate the parties immediately interested.
But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the
direct injury of other species, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects.
And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States,
directed to the President of the Senate.
Captain Bonneville now
directed his course up along Bear River; amusing himself, occasionally, with hunting the buffalo, with which the country was covered.
The vice-King will occupy the village and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand's and Gibrard's divisions, which under his leadership will be
directed against the redoubt and come into line with the rest of the forces.
He first cast anchor at Botany Bay, visited the Friendly Isles, New Caledonia, then
directed his course towards Santa Cruz, and put into Namouka, one of the Hapai group.
Moody mentioned the name and
directed the envelope.
Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the
direct issue of a former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going
direct to Heaven, we were all going
direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.