Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Ian Livingston]

> Grace used here might literally mean time, but a fuller meaning would be
a period of being free from harm.

Well, now, there's a pithy bit. How much of liberty might be boiled down to
that phrase: freedom from harm? Thence, to what degree are liberty and
grace common factors of happiness?

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:42 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Okay, thinking about the grace as time thing. It holds possibilities as a
>> secular definition.
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>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>  p. 970...After Reef has had the drop taken on them by three Albanians,
>>> and Reef says the gleam from barrels
>>> all around and says he is a dead duck in Albanian...which
>>>
>>> "'Buys' him a minute and a half of grace", "which turns out to be just
>>> enough"....
>>>
>>> Grace here meaning time, of course,
>>>
>>> And I think that is no accident or outlier use and dovetails nicely with
>>> other uses....
>>>
>>>
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