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Within sight of the river a mystery, or anything uninvestigated, or aught unamenable to the spirit of the age, would have seemed an anachronism. But back here, among the tall wild-parsnip tops and the never-stirring clumps of orange lilies, life was different, and dreams seemed likely to come true.
"What signifies that," replied Bonaparte, "if it was necessary to the object he had in view?" This is either an anachronism or a mere fabrication. Bonaparte was fourteen in the year 1783. He was then at Brienne, where certainly he did not go into company, and least of all the company of ladies.
Now such gallant speeches were all very well in the days of knee-breeches and periwigs, but in this age and in Chicago, they are an anachronism and the two young ladies started as if they had suddenly observed that Mr. Middleton had on a low-cut vest, or his trousers were two years behind the times, and somewhat curtly and coolly making their adieus, they sailed rapidly away, leaving Mr.
Admitting the first part of their proposition, we deny the conclusion they seek to draw from it. They are guilty of a glaring anachronism in assuming the same opinions and prejudices to have existed in 1825 which are undoubtedly influential in 1858.
Homer's accounts of contemporary art seem to be inspired by the rich art generally dated about 1500-1200. Yet there are "many traces of apparent anachronism," of divergence from the more antique picture of life. Here Mr. Leaf recognises a point on which we have insisted, and must keep insisting, for it is of the first importance.
The Latin colony seemed a still greater anachronism than the military colony of citizens.
"White men must be mastered by white men. Besides " "The negroes are only an instrument." "But that is not the question. I am the Master. I mean to be the Master. And I tell you these negroes shall not come." "The people " "I believe in the people." "Because you are an anachronism. You are a man out of the Past an accident. You are Owner perhaps of the world. Nominally legally.
She did not want to say that she had sold the table, which was the last relic of her early home, nor yet that she had been trying to get it out, in order to prevent the Jew purchaser from again coming in. Instead, she fingered her smock. "I have been looking for an engagement and they don't want you in black." Jones took a chair. "War has made mourning an anachronism in Europe.
"What signifies that," replied Bonaparte, "if it was necessary to the object he had in view?" This is either an anachronism or a mere fabrication. Bonaparte was fourteen in the year 1783. He was then at Brienne, where certainly he did not go into company, and least of all the company of ladies.
Why, even the theatrical managers of travelling companies brought their dramatic critics with them when they went on tour, and paid them very handsome salaries for writing laudatory notices. Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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