Firstly, it prejudices the interests of a number of nations whose coasts are washed by the North Sea and the Baltic, since they are included in the blockade; secondly, it compels England to break up her fleet into two or three divisions.

Such a development would gravely prejudice the lasting interests of Italy, for she would forfeit her political independence by so doing, and incur the risk of sinking to a sort of vassal state of France.

Long-established prejudices and old usages, no matter how false and oppressive, are, like the everlasting hills, hard to be removed.

"You leave me without argument and with merely my prejudices, which I dare say are unjust, but I confess they are strongly in favor of my own countrymen and strongly against this unionthough, on the other hand, my daughter and her happiness are my first consideration in this world.

I mention this as an example of the curious way in which our minds may be unconsciously prejudiced by the survival of some forgotten early fancies.

President McGregor has made a strong representation to me that the schemes of General Whittingham, if publicly known, would, however unjustly, prejudice the credit of Aureataland, and he appealed to me not to give particulars to the world.

We should be very careful not to use any terms by which they would be unnecessarily prejudiced against the Gospel.

[Footnote 1: "The position cited by Chitty from Hawkins, by way of summing up the result of the cases, is this: 'In a word, all confederacies wrongfully to prejudice another are misdemeanors at common law, whether the intention is to injure his property, his person, or his character.'