Do we say accept or except

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We decided to accept the latter.

"It is your duty to accept and to believe the truth as laid down by the Church; at your peril you reject it; the responsibility is not yours so long as you dutifully accept that which the Church has laid down for your acceptance.

"It is your duty to accept and to believe the truth as laid down by the Church; at your peril you reject it; the responsibility is not yours so long as you dutifully accept that which the Church has laid down for your acceptance.

Certain that they hold "by no merit of our own, but by the mercy of our God the one truth which he hath revealed", they can permit no questionings, they can accept nought but the most complete submission.

Kindly greeting was given by both, and on Mr. Voysey suggesting that judging by one essay of mine that he had seenan essay which was later expanded into the one on "Inspiration", in the Scott seriesmy pen would be useful for propagandist work, Mr. Scott bade me try what I could do, and send him for criticism anything I thought good enough for publication; he did not, of course, promise to accept an essay, but he promised to read it.

The next thing was to save a few months' annuity, and so have a little money in hand, wherewith to buy necessaries on starting, and to this end I decided to accept a loving invitation to Folkestone, where my grandmother was living with two of my aunts, and there to seek some employment, no matter what, provided it gave me food and lodging, and enabled me to put aside my few pounds a month.

The answer appeared in the National Reformer: "S.E.To be a member of the National Secular Society it is only necessary to be able honestly to accept the four principles, as given in the National Reformer of June 14th.

If, on again looking to the Principles of the Society, you can accept them, we repeat to you our invitation.

This discovery induced him to accept an offer made by Jenkins of the head itself; and 220 guineas to share the profits.

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Such a commission, however, for one so young aroused bitter jealousy among officers of other companies, and Captain Conwell hearing of it, decided not to accept the appointment.

An unwritten law in the office was that neither he nor his partners should ever accept a case if their client were in the wrong, or guilty.

Friend always of the workingman, he was persistently urged by their party to accept a nomination for Congress.

For the church was heavily in debt, and one of the arguments Deacon Reed used in urging Mr. Conwell to accept was that he "could save the church."

When Darius, king of Persia, offered Alexander his daughter Stati'ra in marriage, with a dowry of 10,000 talents of gold, Parmenio said, "I would accept the offer, if I were Alexander."

"If hope is enough for Alexander," replied the friend, "it is enough for Perdiccas also;" and declined to accept anything.

So, in the following examples, after sake, and after dispenses: "The vanity that would accept power for its own sake is the pettiest of human passions."Ib., p. 75.

Tell me plainly, do you intend to accept him?" "Intend to accept him!"

Tell me plainly, do you intend to accept him?" "Intend to accept him!"

"Up to that period, so-called Physical Science had so far tyrannized over men's minds as to persuade them to accept her claim that evidence that could not be reduced to her terms was not, properly speaking, evidence at all.

I am glad that he did not accept Sir FRANCIS LOWE'S proposal to set the telephone-bells ringing all over London.

We may go to Ablain St. Nazaire ourselves if we will accept the risks of shelling.

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Except the two years that I came ashore for the King Philip business, when every man that could carry a gun was needed on the border, I've never been three casts of a biscuit from salt water, and I tell you that I never knew a better crossing than the one we have just made.

For he who desires nothing of this joy and quittance, even if it were told him, would but listen to a tongue he could not understand, since his heart is not turned to Love, and none can know the wealth of such riches, except Love whisper it in his ear.

He would never have shown her this thing, except that he was her familiar friend, and doubtless loves her more dearly than me, whom he has betrayed.

"I saw her but little, hardly at all, except at Modane.

I will take no answer except direct from her.

I had no communication, no dealings, with any of my fellow passengers except my brother and the Countess.

But Prof. Stonehenge was right too; it was a stone of the chalcedonic family, resembling sardonyx, except in color; others, similar to it both in a natural state and wrought into arrow-heads, had been found along the shores of Lake Superior.

There is no moral to my story except that of poetic justice.

Nothing, except that I wish to have a wedding next week.

Whatever happens cannot be worse than what has happened; they have already sent a bullet into my heart, and what worse can they do to me, except tear open my breast and take my heart out?

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From the purely tactical point of view there is therefore much to be said for Lord Lyndhurst's maxim, 'Never defend yourself before a popular assemblage, except with and by retorting the attack; the hearers, in the pleasure which the assault gives them, will forget the previous charge.' Morley's Life of Gladstone, vol.

The heavenly bodies seem, indeed, to have been the first objects of consciously exact reasoning, because they were so distant that nothing could be known of them except position and movement, and their position and movement could be exactly compared from night to night.

Like the old Chartists with whom I once spent an evening, they tell you that their politics have been 'all talk'all wordsand there are few among them, except those to whom politics has become a profession or a career, who hold on until through weariness and disappointment they learn new confidence from new knowledge.

If you tell a boy that one reason why food is wholesome is because we like it, and that it is therefore our duty to like that food which other facts of our nature have made both wholesome and likeable, you may find yourself stimulating nothing except his sense of humour.

But such words are not written except by great poets who actually feel what they write, and perhaps before we have a poet who loves London as Sophocles loved Athens it may be necessary to make London itself somewhat more lovely.

It is manifest that upon countless important public issues there is no collective will, and nothing in the mind of the average man except blank indifference; that an electional system simply places power in the hands of the most skilful electioneers....' Wells, Anticipations, p. 147.

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A sound will be heard, except when the two telephone terminals touch the water at points where the potential is the same.

Except by clumsy handling or accident, it does not need to be replaced, at least in one lifetime.

" Plausaby, Esq., at last concluded that he would sell to the plump gentleman any part of block 26 except the two lots on the south-east corner.

He had never heard Katy mention the matter, except to laugh about it.

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