a convict someone who is in prison because sharp teeth that lives in the sea they are guilty of a crime False pretences/prtents/ - lie to convict - to decide officially in a court of about who you are, what you are doing, or law that someone is guilty of a crime what you intend to do, in order to get whereupon - immediately after which something Career a job that you work at roar with laughter to express an emotion for some time Inflate to fill sth with air or with laughter gas Fascinating /fæs..ne.t/
Of others. No caballers, no intriguers, They mind the business of their own right living. They don't attack a sinner tooth and nail, For sin's the only object of their hatred; Nor are they over-zealous to attempt Far more in heaven's behalf than heaven would have 'em. That is my kind of man, that is true living, That is the pattern we should set ourselves. Your fellow was not fashioned on this model; You're quite sincere in boasting of his zeal; But you're deceived, I think, by false pretences. ORGON My dear good brother-in-law, have you quite done? CLEANTE Yes. ORGON I'm your humble servant. (Starts to go.) CLEANTE Just a word. We'll drop that other subject. But you know Valere has had the promise of your daughter. ORGON Yes. CLEANTE You had named the happy day. ORGON 'Tis true. CLEANTE Then why put off the celebration of it? ORGON I can't say. CLEANTE Can you have some other plan In mind? ORGON Perhaps. CLEANTE You mean to break your word? ORGON I don't say that.
meantime your son should fall dangerously ill, it would be no breach of your moral duty to fail in what you agreed to do; nay, rather, he to whom your promise was given would have a false conception of duty if he should complain that he had been deserted in time of need. Further than this, who fails to see that those promises are not binding which are extorted by intimidation or which we make when misled by false pretences? Such obligations are annulled in most cases by the praetor's edict in equity,/a in some cases by the laws. Injustice often arises also through chicanery, that is, through an over- subtle and even fraudulent construction of the law. This it is that gave rise to the now familiar saw, "More law, less justice." Through such interpretation also a great deal of wrong is committed in transactions between state and state; thus,