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Whilst I am anecdotal, perhaps I had better say something about books into which my stories have been pressed. I was always given to telling tales, but of course my great time was when Lord Morris and I would sit trying to cap one another.
Moreover, he was taught to suppose himself as welcome a guest as Dacier; and the cook could stand criticism; the wines wonderful to say of a lady's table were trusty; the talk, on the political evenings and the social and anecdotal supper-nights, ran always in perfect accord with his ideal of the conversational orchestra: an improvized harmony, unmatched elsewhere.
In richness of matter and fulness of detail as regards strategic appliances and attendant circumstances, they are even more instructive. The French "Memoirs" also fall under this category. In many cases these are written by men of mark, though relating to affairs of little note; they not unfrequently contain such a large amount of anecdotal matter that the ground they occupy is narrow and trivial.
Littre somewhere in his great Dictionary expresses the misgiving with which what he calls 'anecdotal etymology' fills him; while yet it is to this that we are continually tempted here to have recourse.
"We'll call in that man we met at dinner here: Corney: a capital doctor; an old-fashioned anecdotal doctor. How is it you are not well, my love? You look well. I cannot conceive your not being well." "It is only that I want change of air, papa." "There we are a change! semper eadem! Women will be wanting a change of air in Paradise; a change of angels too, I might surmise.
For to see insipid mildness complacently swallowed as an excellent thing, knowing the rich smack of savour proper to the story, is your anecdotal gentleman's annoyance. But if the anecdote had supported him, Sullivan Smith would have let the expletive rest. Major Carew Mahoney capped Mrs.
In the first place, the fear that such an advertisement might seem too much like a bait thrown out to the public, an attempt to compel its attention. Secondly, I was far from suspecting that a book written with a purely literary purpose could acquire at a bound such anecdotal importance, and bring down upon me such a buzzing swarm of complaints. Indeed, such a thing was never seen before.
"Mary had a little lamb," said the poet. "I shall imitate Mary." Charles and the Senator thought the remark undignified. After dinner, however, under the mellowing influence of some excellent Roederer, Charles began to expand again, and grew lively and anecdotal.
And what more beautiful pattern than this look! this line, this sweep, this group here, this clinging of the children round this mass all in a glow balanced by this mass of cool shadow. The meaning doesn't interfere with the pattern, you chump!" "Oh, so there is a meaning! You've become an anecdotal painter." "Adjectives be hanged! I can't talk theory in the precious daylight. If you can't see !"
Revelation, therefore, cannot be applied to anything done upon earth of which man is himself the actor or the witness; and consequently all the historical and anecdotal part of the Bible, which is almost the whole of it, is not within the meaning and compass of the word revelation, and, therefore, is not the word of God.
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