Elliot put his frightless eyes near mine and gave an equine snort.

If merely one single value attribute is considered, we have an one-attribute evaluation; for instance, the enactment of a prescription imposing a speed limit on road trafficants is evaluated only from the point of view of safety of trafficants.

And after having sacrificed all we had “except honor,” in an unequal and (for its atrocities) unparalleled struggle for now three years, we are coolly and unmanlily deprived even of the assistance of our brethren—doomed to utter extermination for the eternal glory of the so-called Christian civilization of the nineteenth century, and for the honor of the nations whose Houses of Commons and legislative bodies will by-and-by overwhelm us with sympathetic expressions from the tribune.

But your Lordships must have heard with astonishment, that, upon points of law, relative to the tenure of lands, instead of producing any law document or authority on the usages and local customs of the country, he has referred to officers in the army, colonels of artillery and engineers, to young gentlemen just come from school, not above three or four years in the country.