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Abstract matter is a phrase without meaning, and individual things are collections of ideas in us, nothing more. If we take away all sense-qualities from a thing, absolutely nothing remains. Our ideas are not merely the only; objects of knowledge, but also the only existing things nothing exists except minds and their ideas.
The poor folks of the workhouse will miss him badly. When one has waded through masses of evidence on American municipal corruption, that phrase about 'big-souled geniality' makes one shudder. Star, November 28th, 1906.
I ask myself that even while I feel how much we achieve even by just hugging each other over the general intensity of it. This is what I have in mind as to our living to that extent by the vain phrase; as to our really from time to time winding ourselves up by the use of it, and winding each other.
But he's not. He's immensely dependent on his tastes, his friends, his circumstances." Alicia looked at Hilda; her glance betrayed an attention caught upon an accidental phrase. "The paramount stupidity." She did not repeat it aloud, she turned it over in her mind. "You are thinking," Hilda said accusingly. "What are you thinking about?" "Oh, nothing. I saw Stephen yesterday.
"I was, as the phrase goes, dying with curiosity, and as soon as we mounted our horses, exclaimed: 'Where, in the name of goodness, did you pick up your acquaintance with the language of these extraordinary people? 'Some years ago, in Moultan, he replied.
The uncertainty hanging round the definitions of the latter phrase greatly increased the annoyance to neutrals; and serious disputes existed on certain points, as, for example, whether materials for shipbuilding, going to an enemy's port, were liable to capture.
The presence of Jermain, Jr., in the classrooms of the State University had been capital for many a swelling phrase on his father's part "What's good enough for the farmers' boys of my State is good enough for my boy," etc., etc.
Anthony asked, with languor, lounging in. "Hush-sh-sh!" said Adrian, intent upon his manuscript, waving an admonitory hand. "It's time to dress," said Anthony. He lighted a cigarette. Adrian strummed through his phrase again, brows knitted, looking intensely judicial. Then he swung round on his piano-stool. "Hey? What did you say?" he questioned, his blue eyes vague, his pink face blank.
James was really at home, and, as the phrase is, was denied, would have made a second visit the next morning, had she not been prevented by a cold which she herself now got, and which was attended with a slight fever. This confined her several days to her house, during which Booth officiated as her nurse, and never stirred from her. In all this time she heard not a word from Mrs.
The bill provided that "The United States would pay ten millions of dollars to the Hudson's Bay Company in full of all claims to territory or jurisdiction in North America, whether founded on the Charter of the Company, or any treaty, law, or usage." The grandiosity, to use a mild phrase, of such a measure needs no comment.
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