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But on this I will not dwell; for the moral insisted upon often loses its effect, and all that I will venture to hope is, that I have opened to thee one true, and not utterly hacknied, page in the various and mighty volume of mankind. In this busy and restless world I have not been a vague speculator, nor an idle actor.
"It is a pity, that we struck into different paths," said I; "no pleasure would have been to me greater, than making our political interests the same; but " "Perhaps there is no but," interrupted Vincent; "perhaps, like the two knights in the hacknied story, we are only giving different names to the same shield, because we view it on different sides; let us also imitate them in their reconciliation, as well as their quarrel, and since we have already run our lances against each other, be convinced of our error, and make up our difference."
They forget that Danton is actuated by ambitious jealousy, that Camille Desmoulins is hacknied in the atrocities of the revolution, and that their partizans are adventurers, with neither honour nor morals.
Without being a superior singer, she executes her songs with feeling. Madame GONTHIER. This actress still enjoys the benefit of her former reputation. She is excellent in a cast of parts become hacknied on the stage; namely, gossips and nurses. I have said nothing of the doubles or duplicates of all these ladies, as they are, in general, bad copies of the originals.
All who were now assembled were more or less suited to one another; all were people of the world, and yet occasional students of the closet; but all had a different method of expressing their learning or their observations. Clarendon was dry, formal, shrewd, and possessed of the suspicious philosophy common to men hacknied in the world.
Nothing so well assists the fancy, as an experimental knowledge of the matter in hand. 'Truth is strange, you know, 'stranger than fiction' besides being more to the purpose." Here I assured him I had an excellent pair of garters, and would go and hang myself forthwith. "Good!" he replied, "do so; although hanging is somewhat hacknied. Perhaps you might do better.
We must sign a dispensation to forego the exercise of common sense, and accept as 'fact' what they choose so to term. Few assertions by departed Spirits are more hacknied than, 'This is a great truth, and yet in an honest endeavor to prove that it is a 'great truth; and not a great lie, the sincere and earnest seeker is at every turn baffled and thwarted.
During the summer, no effort of the Association rose above the hacknied level of the usual weekly meetings and the repetition of the same stale grievances, except a gathering of Tipperary at Thurles, which took place on the 23rd of September. This was the largest of the monster meetings: but, although the crowd was enormous and the shouting loud, it seemed without purpose or heart.
They forget that Danton is actuated by ambitious jealousy, that Camille Desmoulins is hacknied in the atrocities of the revolution, and that their partizans are adventurers, with neither honour nor morals.
You may have won this girl's affections. It matters little whether the mamma be a hacknied match-maker, or the cousin a bullying duellist. If the girl have a heart, and that you have gained it" "Then I must marry, you would say." "Exactly so without the prompting of your worthy uncle, I see no other course open to you without dishonour.
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