Baudelaire and Gautier hardly did more than brilliantly champion the unpopular side of a foolish argument.

It seems, therefore, that in the main England, in defending her own interests, was consciously or unconsciously the champion of the independence of nations against the predominance of any one of their number.

The lay-hypocrite is to the other a champion, disciple, and subject, and will not acknowledge the tithe of the subjection to any mitre, no, not to any sceptre, that he will do to the hook and crook of his zeal-blind shepherd.

There is no reason why the Senate, composed of seventy-six of the most intelligent and liberty-loving men of the nation, shall not pass the resolution by a two-thirds vote, I really believe it will do so if the friends on this committee and on the floor of the Senate will champion the measure as earnestly as if it were to benefit themselves instead of their mothers and sisters.

And this philosopher, the most radical enemy love has ever knownpractically a champion of promiscuityhas, by a strange irony of fate, lent his name to the purest and most exalted form of love![307] SPARTAN OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOVE Had Plato lived a few centuries earlier he might have visited at least one Greek state where his barbarous ideal of the sexual relations was to a considerable extent realized.

"Now there is not at that castle any knight of sufficient worship to serve as champion thereof, wherefore all they of Beaurepaire stay within the castle walls and Sir Clamadius holds the meadows outside of the castle

In addition to all this, Germany's cause has been most vigorously championed by many Germans and German-Americans long resident in America.