United States or Slovenia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Stealing or garbling my statements of Mind-science will never prevent or reconstruct the wrecks of "isms" and help humanity. Science often suffers blame through the sheer ignorance of people, while envy and hatred bark and bite at its heels.
These latter persons are of the class who are horrified that a Prince of the Republic should have debased himself as did Commodus, who feel that it is discreditable to Imperial Majesty in general that such shameful occurrences took place and who are foolish enough to fancy that harm done may be undone by forgetting what happened, by whispering about it, by keeping silent, by hushing up as much as possible all reports of it, by expunging all mention of it from the public records, by garbling histories and annals so as to make it appear that Commodus merely longed to do and practiced or played at doing what he actually did.
Thus, because he does not see the validity of my argument, he is to pretend that I have offered none: he is not to allow his readers to judge for themselves as to the validity, but they have to take his word that I am a very "queer" sort of logician, ready "for any feats of logical legerdemain." I have now to ask, what is garbling, if the above is not?
It was an awful blow to my pride considering that heretofore I've certainly had my fair share of attention, and even a little more than that to have to do all the love-making, and I'm certainly not going to go brag about it This time the conversation really did get interrupted, for Austin would not for one instant submit to such a "garbling of statistics" and took the quickest means in his power to put an end to it."
By garbling extracts it cleverly insinuated a good deal more than it said, and it so contrived to put several things that the reader could hardly fail to draw inferences which the writer must have known to be false. Even these attacks were equaled if not surpassed at a later period by the "London Times."
This we found was the case next morning when the captain's steward came forwards as usual; this worthy being better than a newspaper to all of us, for he used to tell us of things before they occurred, and truly enough too, instead of waiting for events to happen and then garbling them, as some prints I have seen do!
He had armed himself for this occasion with an arsenal of quotations from Audley's speeches, taken out of Hansard's Debates; and, garbling these texts in the unfairest and most ingenious manner, he contrived to split consistency into such fragments of inconsistency to cut so many harmless sentences into such unpopular, arbitrary, tyrannical segments of doctrine that he made a very pretty case against the enlightened and incorruptible Egerton, as shuffler and trimmer, defender of jobs, and eulogist of Manchester massacres, etc.
The President had long been dissatisfied with my course; indeed, he had harbored personal enmity against me ever since he perceived that he could not bend me to an acceptance of the false position in which he had tried to place me by garbling my report of the riot of 1866. When Mr.
Against this garbling of my report done by the President's own order I strongly demurred; and this emphatic protest marks the beginning of Mr. Johnson's well-known personal hostility toward me. "MAJOR-GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, "Commanding Mil. Div. of the Gulf, "New Orleans, La.
Davis's last cabinet meeting Formal opinions approving the "Basis" "The Confederacy is conquered" Grant brings disapproval from the Johnston administration Sherman gives notice of the termination of the truce No military disadvantage from it Sherman's vindication of himself Grant's admirable conduct Johnston advises Davis to yield Capitulation assented to, but a volunteer cavalry force to accompany Davis's flight A new conference at Durham Davis's imaginary treasure Grant's return to Washington Terms of the parole given by Johnston's army The capitulation complete Schofield and his army to carry out the details The rest of Sherman's army marches north His farewell to Johnston Order announcing the end of the war Johnston's fine reply Stanton's strange dispatch to the newspapers Its tissue of errors Its baseless objections Sherman's exasperation Interference with his military authority over his subordinates Garbling Grant's dispatch Sherman strikes back Breach between Sherman and Halleck It also grew out of the published matter Analysis of the facts My opinion as recorded at the time.
Word Of The Day