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…of Herbert.” (Crosland, 31). After this statement, Bernier says nothing more of the matter. He just said what was on his mind and left it alone, hoping that his lord would take into consideration his plea. Time passes and Raoul is still planning to rage war…

…as a person, but instead as some disgraceful being. There are several instances when she does this: “Then must the Jew be merciful” (IV, i, 180), “Therefore, Jew through justice be thy plea.” (IV, i, 195-197), “And lawfully by this the Jew may claim a pound…

…trachoma. She was poor growing up, could not afford an education, and lived in a poorhouse. One day she ran up to a group of visitors and yelled "I want to go to school." R.F. Sanborn, a Boston philanthropist, was impressed by Annie's desperate plea…

…is meant to realize here, if they do not already, that a man cannot live without the qualities of mercy and pity, and it is the lack of these traits that makes him commit evil deeds. Siemon remarks that Portia's plea is essentially a plea for Shylock rather…

…to the authorities his plea to be permitted to live as a loyal citizen of the United States according to law. He further expanded his wishes that the forces of the United States and the Allies would be successful in the present conflict; that the imperial German…

…a felony: premeditated murder. Direct intentional homicide is a felony in all American jurisdictions, for which a plea of merciful motive is no excuse. Second, law aside, the physician behaved altogether in a scandalously unprofessional and unethical manner…

…refuses Agamemnon's plea and offers of gifts. Give in to Agamemnon? I think not, neither to him nor to the rest. I had small thanks for fighting, fighting without truce against hard enemies here. The portion's equal whether a man hangs back or fights his best…

…highly interested in a Democratic government and even attempted to establish this in Vietnam. His pleas went unheard after he sent a letter to Woodrow Wilson at the Treaty of Versailles asking for Democratic freedoms and a constitution. French Socialists…

…to follow in religious matters. His Protestant views forced him to flee Paris for his safety after his friend Nicholas Cop, who was giving his inaugural address as rector, made a strong plea for acceptance of the Reformation. But it was the case that many…

…was appointed as an assistant in the council of the state in 1774, a position he held through 1786. He was also, at one point, the chief judge of the court of common pleas for the county, and judge of the court of probate for the district of Litchfield. In 1775 he…