"But I shall need helpI am afraid I should not make a success of it by myself.

In the late war we suffered in this respect, and we should not forget the lesson.

The intonation was not false or artificial, but only sad and regretful, as genuine laughter should not be.

"You are surprisedI should not have come here!

I should not consider that I was doing a bad deed, Mr. Attorney, in reading these pages to my married daughters, honest girls who have had a good example and good teaching, and who would never, never go away from the straight path for indiscretion, or away from things that could and ought to be understood....

We may generally observe a pretty nice Proportion between the Strength of Reason and Passion; the greatest Genius's have commonly the strongest Affections, as on the other hand, the weaker Understandings have generally the weaker Passions; and 'tis fit the Fury of the Coursers should not be too great for the Strength of the Charioteer.

I should not think of your going to a hotel, while I have a home in the city.

It is grounded in certain leading characters, men and women, conceived upon models of extraordinary grandeur; and as the Laureate has evidently grasped the genuine law which makes man and not the acts of man the base of epic song, we should not be surprised were he hereafter to realize the great achievement towards which he seems to be feeling his way.

I shouldnt have thought of comparing them if you hadnt started the idea.

Poor Marian, why shouldnt she have her lunch?

I confess I shouldnt like to make a regular legal bargain of going to live with a man.

Bob: did you get my letter?" "Of course I got it, or I shouldnt be here.

And yet he is just that sort of chap that I shouldnt be surprised at anything he might do.

If I could only keep from it for two days, I shouldnt be a bit disgusting.

I shouldnt have done so if you hadnt asked me.

If I could only swallow brandy, I shouldnt care.

" "You can put off consulting me just as long as you please; but this accident is no reason why you shouldnt do it at once.

"And you really should not use that little word 'you.'

And thus, very greatly to the dismay of Mrs. Bolton, suddenly there came to be no reason why they should not be married almost at once.

He ordered that short-lived meeting of the states-general about which we have no information left us, save that it voted the principle that "no talliage could be imposed on the people if urgent necessity or evident utility should not require it, and unless by concession of the Estates."

Were it not that I feel absolutely sure that the letter in question was received at the hospital and destroyed, I should not now raise this point.

But I think they are extremely Unjust to me in this Imputation: All that I contend for is, that those Excellencies, which are to be regarded but in the second Place, should not precede more weighty Considerations.

You should not be so careless; I wonder how it is that men are always careless about their letters.

I should not lay so much stress on this fact, if I did not believe that something like this is the prevailing tendency of my countrymen.

It is true that in the act of recognition she prescribed a condition which she had no power or authority to imposethat Texas should not annex herself to any other powerbut this could not detract in any degree from the recognition which Mexico then made of her actual independence.