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To play the part of a mere preacher to talk glibly, and with proper unction, in the stereotype phraseology of the profession was no difficult matter to a clever young lawyer of the West, having a due share of the gift of gab, and almost as profoundly familiar with scripture quotation as Henry Clay himself.
We who write this have referred to the passages indicated, and found the connection of ideas to be about an average sample, as coherency goes when quotation from Scripture is afoot. No doubt Maisie's husband found their selection entertaining. Said his lordship next morning to Mr. Norbury, bringing him preliminary tea at eight o'clock: "I want to catch Mr. Hawtrey before he goes to Lincoln's Inn.
Quotation has made classical those noble passages which glorify the continuous life of mankind, link the present by a chain of pieties to the past, conjure up a glowing vision of the social organism, and celebrate the wisdom of our ancestors and the infallibility of the race. There was, indeed, a real opposition of temperament here; but Burke had no monopoly of the historical vision.
He had wanted light refreshments and she had insisted on a knife-and-fork affair, and Miss Caroline had actually remarked on the wisdom of a solid meal. She had no patience with snacks. Mrs. Batty intended to lull Mr. Batty to slumber with that quotation. In the cab, as the Malletts jolted home in the care of the same surly driver, Caroline complaisantly spoke of her congratulations.
What is more remarkable is the fact that, although he clearly saw the clinical differences, he failed to see that the two types differed prognostically. His description is given in a table sufficiently concise to justify its quotation in extenso.
From the sociologist's point of view this is the mission of art and preaching of all kinds." The quotation from Professor Carver bears the impression of incompleteness, or rather of suggestiveness. If "making a virtue of necessity" is idealization, is not symbolism also a form of "make believe."
That line of Longfellow's came into my mind: "Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels." That quotation set me to thinking about Evangeline and the tragedy of her never finding her lover. Could it be possible, I thought, that two people could come so near to finding each other and yet be just too late?
The father said, 'If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us and help us. Christ's answer, according to the true reading, is not as it stands in our Authorised Version, 'If thou canst believe' throwing, as it were, the responsibility on the man but it is a quotation of the father's own word, 'If Thou canst, as if He waved it aside with superb recognition of its utter unfitness to the present case.
Afterwards the Rabbi vindicated and glorified Calvinism from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, from the Fathers, from the Reformation Divines, from the later creeds, till the brain of the Presbytery reeled through the wealth of allusion and quotation, all in the tongues of the learned. Then he dealt with the theology of Mr.
Their counsel submit in effect that in converting this direction for the preservation of all relevant documents into a direction for the destruction of 'irrelevant' documents a word used by the Commissioner as if it were a quotation from Mr Davis the Commissioner distorted the evidence.
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