1 He did nothing reluctantly, no matter how disagreeable; always at his post, never inconsistent.
2 For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
3 But that man, so heedless of his words, did not once during the whole time of his activity utter one word inconsistent with the single aim toward which he moved throughout the whole war.
4 All the impossible orders inconsistent with the course of events remain unexecuted.
5 Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
6 Meg stopped there, remembering all of a sudden that she hadn't made up her mind, that she had told 'her John' to go away, and that he might be overhearing her inconsistent remarks.
7 It occurred to me as inconsistent, that, for any mastering idea, he should have endangered his freedom, and even his life.
8 I think it neither out of place, nor inconsistent with what has been said above, to consider whether a free government existing in a corrupt city can be maintained, or, not existing, can be introduced.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII. 9 I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
10 Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
11 They were a pleasant race, these coastal Georgians, with their soft-voiced, quick rages and their charming inconsistencies, and Gerald liked them.
12 He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.
13 These, with their perplexities and inconsistencies, were the shifting quicksands of my mind, from the time of my departure to the time of my return home, three years afterwards.
14 It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John's character in view, that the reader may understand his conduct during the present evening.
15 feel as if he were examining not the words of the painter but seeking out inconsistencies in the procedures of the court itself.
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