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Mr. Malcolm Laing has ably shown that the diction of this pretended translation is a motley assemblage from all quarters; but he is so fond of making out parallel passages as to call poor Macpherson to account for his 'ands' and his 'buts! and he has weakened his argument by conducting it as if he thought that every striking resemblance was a conscious plagiarism.
Control yourself, wipe your eyes, hold your heart in hand, and don't let us talk any more about it. I should not blush to have you for my son-in-law. The nephew of Monsieur Popinot, a judge of the civil courts, nephew of the Ragons, you have the right to make your way as well as anybody; but there are buts and ifs and hows and whys.
And thereupon the miner rose to his feet and handed one gun to Elwood and the other to Howard. "What does this mean?" asked the latter, not comprehending him. "You don't suppose we would be mean enough to sell you anything you needed so bad, do you? No; take them both, and here's a lot of lead, gun-caps and ammunition." "But " "No buts about it. Take 'em, you're welcome, for you need 'em.
I used to call it the 'sex impulse. Heavens!" "There's more 'buts," said Marcia "What are they?" "How could we live?" "I'll make a living." "You're in college." "Do you think I care anything about taking a Master of Arts degree?" "You want to be Master of Me, hey?" "Yes! What? I mean, no!" Marcia laughed, and crossing swiftly over sat in his lap.
She set the clock down, and the sisters exchanged agitated glances across the table. "Well," the elder retorted, "AIN'T it your birthday?" "Yes, but " "Well, and ain't you had to run round the corner to the Square every morning, rain or shine, to see what time it was, ever since we had to sell mother's watch last July? Ain't you, Evelina?" "Yes, but " "There ain't any buts.
The young belles and beaux whispered and tittered, and passed the original jokes and witticisms common in such cases, while the old ladies soberly took the matter in hand when they went out with their knitting to make afternoon visits, considering how much money Uncle Jaw had, how much his son would have, and what all together would come to, and whether Joseph would be a "smart man," and Susan a good housekeeper, with all the "ifs, ands, and buts" of married life.
It hath also foure Ingenios which make excellent sugar, two of the which are called Zauzes, and the other two, Tassacort. This Iland yeeldeth but little bread-corne; but rather is thereof prouided from Tenerif and other places. Their best wines grow in a soile called the Brenia, where yeerely is gathered twelue thousand buts of wine like vnto Malmsies.
'What "buts" can there be in so simple a matter? It was a distressing position. Colonel Mildmay, essentially a kind-hearted man and most averse to giving pain, felt it acutely. But he was not one to temporise. It was a case demanding the plainest speaking. 'My dear Lady Myrtle, he said, 'if I am blunt or rough, forgive me. It is just this.
One moment the man would be hanging before me in an intense light, and the next he was blotted out again in the darkness. I told the king we must cut him down. The king at once objected. "If he hanged himself, he was willing to lose him property to his lord; so let him be. If others hanged him, belike they had the right let him hang." "But " "But me no buts, but even leave him as he is.
"Now, there ain't no 'buts' in this matter, kid! Ye said as how ye'd marry me when I got Andy's reward money. Now I got it ye got to keep yer word." Tessibel shook her head. "I didn't say I'd marry you," she answered. "I said, away back there, when I was only a little kid, you could come back and ask me again. But I'm a woman, now, and I'm never going to marry anyone."
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