She never for a moment entertained the cheap, consolatory thought that in time she would get over it; she would marry somebody else, and make that compromise which is responsible for more misery in this world than ever is vice.

But when anything brings it homelike this todayI feel that the mean compromise we all make must be a disintegrating moral force in the national character.

Compromise and temporise and choose the line of least resistance, as we habitually do, there still remains in most people a fibre that vibrates to that iron sincerity.

But this compromise, as between us, Mr. W, must be a finality.

This compromise was the adoption of a provision in the bill for the admission of Missouri, that in all territory south of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude (the southern boundary of the State of Missouri) slavery might exist; but it was prohibited in the region north of that line.

He was among those who at first supposed that the Missouri Compromise of 1821 was a final settlement, and was hostile to the further agitation of the slavery question.

He framed the creed that finally was known as the Thirty-nine Articles, and was the true founder of the English Church, as that Church has existed for more than three centuries,neither Roman nor Puritan, but "half-way between Rome and Geneva;" a compromise, and yet a Church of great vitality, and endeared to the hearts of the English people.

"Compromise and offers are sounds that become a burgher's lips.

No compromise by public servants could in this case be a cure; not that compromises are not often proper, but that no popular government can long survive a marked precedent that those who carry an election can only save the government from immediate destruction by giving up the main point upon which the people gave the election.

A compromise of the principles of Justice, is the deification of crime.

The compromise by which Missouri was admitted as a slave State, while slavery should be excluded from all territory outside of it north of 36° 30', was a temporary measure of expediency, and at that period was probably a wise one; since, if slavery had been excluded from Missouri, there might have been a dissolution of the Union.

It may be doubted whether such a compromise with profligacy, and such a profanation of the most solemn rites of the Church by its ministers, were not the greatest scandal of all; but it was in too complete harmony with their conduct throughout the whole of the reign.

" "Compromise is the word that men use when the Devil gets a victory over God's cause.

And yet, as for the carrying on of social life, the old must continue so long as the new is not ready, this perpetual compromise is an indispensable accompaniment of a normal development.'

Compromise is the very essence of a partial reformation; and compromise in matters of moral and religious concern, where it is not folly, is crime.

Evidently a man of great gifts, he knew how and when to yield and how and when to be firm; the compromise which solved the situationat all events, for the timewas mostly his work; statesman and patriot, he saved his country.

Compromise is the very essence of a partial reformation; and compromise in matters of moral and religious concern, where it is not folly, is crime.

Any compromise between the complete slavery and the personal freedom of the lower orders, could only be a respite to enable these implacable adversaries to reinforce themselves, so as to resume with more vigour than ever this desperate combat, the issue of which was so long to remain doubtful.

Entirely divorced from the other, neither is legitimate, and a compromise is the only possibility; while in the future advancing evolution will bring the two into complete harmony.

The Free States yielded, and every compromise was surrender, and invited new demands.

What the country wants is a permanent settlement; and it has learned, by repeated trial, that compromise is not a cement, but a wedge.

I was not quite satisfied how far the vaunted pay and discipline would prevail over the natural lawless propensities of my army, and in order not to try their insubordination too much, I conceived that a compromise would be the wisest plan, and giving them a few rupees, I desired them to make the most they could out of them.

All their previous "compromises" had been merely legislative compromises, which, as their cause advanced, they had themselves annulled.

There will be a sacrifice of some of the things the city gives, but a compromise is the only possible outcome of many claims.