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It is worth noting that both these suggestions have been proved practical but they had to wait until modern times to be carried out. In the anonymous A Perfect Description of Virginia, published in 1649, the population is given as 15,000 English and 300 negroes.
I saw that her rooms were furnished with extravagant luxury; and instead of Madame Schinner's returning my call, I received a card, twenty days afterward, and at an insolently improper hour. "On arriving at Paris, I went to walk upon the boulevard, proud of my anonymous great man.
Of course, from the very moment when the baron was arrested, the entire scandal, that is to say the existence of a conspiracy for the writing and distribution of anonymous letters, became public, and served to furnish material for articles both in the German and the foreign press on the alleged moral rottenness of the Court of Berlin.
This is probably true on the anonymous system, where the editor is answerable for every word, and for the literary form no less than for the substantial soundness or interest of an article. In a man of weakish literary vanity Jeffrey was evidently full of it there may well be a constant itch to set his betters right in trifles, as Gifford thought that he could mend Southey's adjectives.
'Well, it is an old and worn argument that about the inexpedience of tragedy and much may be said on both sides. It is not to be denied that the anonymous Sappho's verses for it seems that she is really a woman are clever. 'Clever! said Ladywell the young man who had been one of the shooting- party at Sandbourne 'they are marvellously brilliant. 'She is rather warm in her assumed character.
Pope for his advice concerning how best to answer the atrocious calumnies on Budgell then appearing in The Grub-Street Journal, and reposing, drolly enough, next the proof-sheets of an anonymous letter Pope had prepared for the forthcoming issue of that publication, wherein he sprightlily told how Budgell had poisoned Dr. Tindal, after forging his will.
Nevertheless, we have had many bitter manifestations of race hatred in this country, not a few of which have been attended by mass violence. When I reflect upon the savage race riots which have occurred in this country, and the numerous lynchings of negroes by infuriated mobs, I cannot bring myself to accept the easy optimism of the anonymous Jew-baiter.
During the third campaign I received many anonymous letters those from the men often obscene, those from the women revealing that curious connection between prostitution and the lowest type of politics which every city tries in vain to hide.
Do one thing more for me, and I will add another fifty to those I promised you. Conjure up an anonymous letter you know how and send it to my father, saying that if he wants to know where his son loses his hundreds, he must go to the place on the dock, opposite 5 South Street, some night shortly after nine.
There could be no doubt that the initials "A. D." in the anonymous note stood, not for Abner Dudley, but for Anson Drane, who probably for greater security had dropped his first baptismal name in the correspondence with the intriguers. "Can it be," he thought, "that both men are implicated in this nefarious matter?
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