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Guffey," gasped Peter. "Of course he'll deny it!" Peter could hardly believe his ears that they were taking seriously the denial of a dynamiter, and quoting it to him! "Yes, Gudge," responded Guffey, "but you might as well know the truth now as later Angell is one of our men; we've had him planted on these `wobblies' for the last year."
Don't you think that the author supports me?" He gasped at my audacity in quoting his own writings against him, and retreated into the silence which was his resource when he could not or would not answer. Put him in a corner and he would refuse to come out. Beggars used to come while we were eating out-of-doors; some called themselves "pilgrims."
"Now, talking of style, I will admit that the eternal apostrophising of God and the incessant quoting from the New Testament is tiresome to the last degree, and seriously prejudices the value of the 'Confessions' as considered from the artistic standpoint.
After quoting numerous passages of Scripture, which, in speaking of impurity, evidently include this practice, and denouncing it in severe terms, he closes with the following striking remarks. 'There can be no doubt that God has forbidden it by the usual course of providence.
The capacious area of the opera-house was densely packed, and the prices of admission were doubled on the opening night. The enthusiasm awakened by the performance can best be indicated by quoting from some of the contemporary accounts.
"How is it possible, Miss Banks, that you can repeat those words in such a shockingly irreverent way? Surely you profess to have at least a nominal respect for the One who first uttered them!" "Really!" said Miss Banks, with an embarrassed laugh, astonishment and confusion struggling for the mastery on her flushed face. "'Is Saul also among the prophets? There! I declare, I am quoting again.
A friend of his named Mitchell occupied a station in western Victoria named Langa-willi, and there on one occasion Boldrewood met Kingsley. The passage in which he gracefully records the event is worth quoting in full.
The pupils are stimulated by it to put forth the very best efforts of which they are capable, and the talent which they often develop is a surprise equally to themselves and their teachers. I cannot better give an idea of this practice-teaching, and especially of the criticism which is its vitalizing principle, than by quoting a few of the actual criticisms made during the last year.
After quoting something of that Strasburg Doggerel, the whole of which is now too well known to us, Voltaire proceeds: "From Strasburg he," King Friedrich, "went to see his Lower German Provinces; he said he would come and see me incognito at Brussels. I went, accordingly, to present my profound homages. "At the door of the court, I found, by way of guard, one soldier.
But now that the fiery lawyer had taken to quoting the Bible no one paid any further attention to him, and the party sank back into little duologues appropriate to the occasion. Later Bessie confessed to Isabelle that she had been positively frightened lest the Kentuckian would do "something awful," he had been drinking, she thought.
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