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1. Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss
2. Other countries, however, notwithstanding all the invidious restraints by which it is meant to exclude them, frequently enjoy a greater share of the real benefit of it
3. All the invidious restraints which at present oppress the trade of Ireland, the distinction between the enumerated and non-enumerated commodities of America, would be entirely at an end
4. Invidious praise has been heaped on certain regiments; but equal credit is deserved by every officer and man participating in the assault
5. it…right?” Junya said with an invidious smirk on his face
6. 2 While this was going on, an invidious rumour was uttered abroad by men who had banded together
7. Invidious comparisons to his older brother led many, including me, to overlook that he had an IQ of 128
8. 2 While this was going on an invidious rumour was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race
9. might be said (using the word in no invidious sense) to have a strong
10. There were no beasts, no invidious creatures to fight and die with sword in hand
11. Seven days ago, this man of invidious character had sentenced him to death, first in the run, and now in the crystal pits of Ar
12. I stormed out of his office without uttering a word, but furious, frustrated and hurt; although determined not to succumb, succumb to an invidious request? Over my dead body, I swore silently
13. He just thought of the injustice of having been chosen for this invidious mission for no other reason than because he was the most inexperienced member of the posse
14. The task would be an invidious one and one beyond my poor powers
15. But still she heard—was it really in her ears, or just her mind?—the invidious whispering: Dishonor
16. This on where we should expect je must have been attracted by the on in the sentence immediately preceding, and there is a fine effect in its use instead of the invidious I
17. Consider the intimate and curious acquaintance one makes with various kinds of weeds—it will bear some iteration in the account, for there was no little iteration in the labor—disturbing their delicate organizations so ruthlessly, and making such invidious distinctions with his hoe, levelling whole ranks of one species, and sedulously cultivating another
18. But the rich man—not to make any invidious comparison—is always sold to the institution which makes him rich
19. If I know my own heart, I did not make the comparison from any invidious purposes; but merely to turn the minds of gentlemen back to former times; that they might reflect upon the perils and calamities of those times, and the means by which an end was put to them; but in doing this, I could not avoid paying the tribute of deserved praise and of sincere gratitude to the men under whose agency we prospered abundantly
20. He knew how invidious a task it was to appear to lean to the side of inhumanity; he knew how very natural it was for the mind of man to relent after the commission of a crime, and to see nothing in a culprit but his misfortunes, forgetting his guilt; but there were occasions, and he took this to be one, where to lean apparently to the side of humanity is an act of as great injustice and cruelty to society as the Legislature can commit
21. This would introduce into the Legislature invidious comparisons, and, instead of legislating, we shall be sitting as judges upon character
22. I am aware that this opinion has subjected him, and the committee also, to the most invidious aspersions; but, sir, the situation of that officer, independent of his immense talents, enables him to form a more correct opinion than any other man in the nation of the degree of necessity which exists at the present time for a national bank, to enable the Government to manage its fiscal operations
23. I see that the only supervisors as to the State Governments are the people themselves, who are also the supervisors of Congress, who have also the invidious jealous eyes of the State Governments constantly upon them, as is illustrated in the conduct of some of the States on this very question, and who combined would guard this power from abuse by the General Government much more than the people alone will guard against abuses by the States
24. It forms depositories convenient to the government; but, you should recollect, depositories equally safe and convenient can be procured without being purchased at the expense of exorbitant and invidious privileges to a particular class in the community
25. The committee feel themselves by no means able to draw a line of distinction between a just claim liquidated and a just one unliquidated; and to attempt the invidious task of distinction in point of merit, where there can be no difference, and to open the statutes of limitation in order to relieve a part or a few favorite classes of claims, does not comport, in the view of your committee, with any principle of fairness, or with that equal system of distributive justice which ought to be dispensed toward all
26. In the comparison of the expenses and of the efficiency of an army and navy, instituted by my colleague, there is nothing invidious
27. It must also be observed, that the execution of them is so invidious as to attract toward the officers of Government the enmity of the people, which is of course transferable to the Government itself; so that, in case the State of Massachusetts should take any bold step toward resisting the execution of these laws, it is highly probable that it may calculate upon the hearty co-operation of the people of Vermont
28. The invidious occurrences of the rebellion would be forgotten in the resentment of the people against France, and they would soon be weaned from that attachment to her which is founded on the aid that was rendered to separate from the mother country
29. I know, sir, that this topic is regarded by many gentlemen as ungracious and invidious
30. He had heard of no such case as that alluded to by his colleague; but he trusted he had been sufficiently guarded not to commit himself, even to the most invidious construction, as opposed to a proper investigation of this subject
31. I know how ungracious and invidious topics of this kind are to some gentlemen
32. Chairman, let me put to you, and to the gentleman on my right, if it be within the compass of any man's powers to detract more from the merit of an administration of the Government of the United States in managing at least one branch of the revenue than has been done by that honorable gentleman? What has he said? I will not repeat his words; to do so would be odious, invidious; but I well know if what he did say had come from the other side of the House, it would have been set down to the rancor of party spirit; to personal spleen; or to want of respect for the White house, or the Red house, or some other house