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[Footnote 55: Von Rabenau wrote also “Hans Kiekindiewelts Reise” (Leipzig, 1794), which Ebeling (III, p.
He stands, in a curiously irritating way, between the picture he has painted and the man he has invited to look at it. In one instance he drags the eye down to a footnote in order that you may read: 'I, C. R., say this' which is very little more or less than an impertinence. The sense of humour which probably twinkled in the writer's mind is faint at the best. We know that he, C. R., said that.
In the London Magazine the following footnote came here, almost certainly by Lamb: "Violence or injustice certainly none, Mr. Elia. "Strike an abstract idea." I do not find this quotation if it be one; but when John Lamb once knocked Hazlitt down, during an argument on pigments, Hazlitt refrained from striking back, remarking that he was a metaphysician and dealt not in blows but in ideas.
[Footnote 35: It is noted among the publications in the July number of the London Magazine, XLIV, p.
So I signed on to serve King George an' his missus an' kids for ever an' ever, or duration of war, Amen, with a mental footnote, which last was the only part I mentioned in mailing my dad, that I was a Benevolent Neutral. An' here I am." "Good egg," laughed Courtenay. "Hope you're liking the job." "Waal, I'll amit I'm some disappointed, Loo-tenant," drawled the sergeant.
In that monumental effort, it is impossible to discover any adequate refutation or even calm discussion of the dangers of irresponsible parenthood and reckless breeding, any suspicion that this recklessness and irresponsibility is even remotely related to the miseries of the proletariat. Poor Malthus is there relegated to the humble level of a footnote.
"My market and my reputation rest principally with England," he wrote in 1838 a curious footnote, by the way, to Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address of the year before. But America joined with England, in praising the new book.
[Footnote 50: Ordres du Roy et Dépêches des Ministres;
A formidable pile of MS. was passed up by the Clerk, whose deprecating glances were not lost upon the Chairman. But Mr. Max Fortnaby cut open the budget in the midst, and peered in. "janua vel domina penitus crudelior ipsa" he read. It was a footnote. He lifted his eyebrows then his eyes upon the accused. "Propertius? You know Latin?" "I know some, sir."
If he knows the psychology of primitive man, primitive psychology he will find and criticize, even in a book on the making of gardens. If his specialty is French drama, French drama he will find, even in a footnote, and root it out and nuzzle it.
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