expediences

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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?

From Time • Apr. 29, 2013

Alas, how, in thy soft-hung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of redtape philosophy, of expediences, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: but knowest thou whitherward?

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw.

From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

The soldiers, accustomed, as all Roman soldiers were, to all the expediences and resources of warfare, had prepared planks which were to be run forward on the ladder, in order to construct a firm bridge.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William

They went about balancing expediences, plausibilities; gathering votes, advices; they never were alone with the truth of a thing at all.—Cromwell’s prayers were likely to be ‘eloquent,’ and much more than that.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas