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"His reply was as absurd as his avowed intention. 'Hitherto it has been impossible, he said; 'But in Our reign we shall make it possible! He declined any further conversation with me, referring me to you and our chief colleagues in the Cabinet." "Well?" "Well! I pay no more attention to a King's sudden caprice than I do to the veering of the wind!
Paulsberg showed him the greatest deference, and conversed with him about his series, "New Literature," which he found admirable; and the Journalist was happy and proud because of this approbation. He had a peculiar habit of twisting words so that they sounded odd and absurd, and nobody could turn this trick as smartly as he.
'You ought to know them by this time, you dolt, returned his patron, and complimented him on his bearing in the fight. 'You shall have your two hundred, and something will be added. Hold handy here till I mount. I start in ten minutes. Whether to speak a polite adieu to the bride, whose absurd position she had brought on her own head, was debated for half a minute.
"Because he thought it, or because the god Commanded him to do so." Men despise the poet, as if, in order to carry out his absurd mythological scheme, he denied each man his liberty of will. Now Homer does nothing of this kind, for whatever is reasonable and likely he ascribes to the exercise of our own powers, as we see in the common phrase "But I reflected in my mighty soul;" and
Take care you don't sacrifice yourself at last to these awkwardnesses and this sort of delicacies. I have still my fears that you will get into difficulties about Lady Sarah." Vivian could not help laughing at what he called his friend's absurd fears. "If you are determined, my dear Russell, at all events to fear for me, I'll suggest to you a more reasonable cause of dread.
It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretence that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow. Militant atheists are still unjustly persecuted; but rather because they are an old minority than because they are a new one.
A contention like this is absurd; there must therefore be something amiss with the premises which lead up to it.
The most sensational specimen of the group was “The Lure.” It would be absurd to face this production from any æsthetic point of view. It would be unthinkable that a work of such crudeness could satisfy a metropolitan public, even if some of the most marked faults of construction were acknowledged as the results of the forceful expurgation of the police.
You might surely have given some hint of the cause. It is an additional reason for wishing you here. If I had, before I left New-York, sufficiently reflected on the subject, I would never have consented to this absurd and irrational mode of life. If you will come with Mr.
"What! A place full of foul air?" said the boatswain, greatly to Don's relief. "Absurd! If Ramsden could not live in there, how could the escaped men? Here, let's get him down." "Ay, ay, sir. But I say, mate, where's your fighting tools? What yer done with them?"
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