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Royal Highnesses, artists, men of science, young statesmen, and charlatans of all ages and conditions, who, unsubstantial and light, bobbing up like corks, show best the direction of the surface currents, had been welcomed in that house, listened to, penetrated, understood, appraised, for her own edification. In her own words, she liked to watch what the world was coming to.
You have spent your life in reviewing troops, in modifying uniforms, and in appending your signature to the legislative projects of ignorant charlatans. You created the despicable race of Press censors, in order to sleep in peace in order not to know the wants and not to hear the groans of the people in order not to listen to Truth.
The French word tabarin is almost obsolete, and its English synonym, merry-andrew, is not much in vogue, but as they are andronymics, to coin a word, embalming the memories of two famous charlatans, they possess an abiding interest apart from all question of their use or disuse. Andrew Borde and Tabarin were both charlatans and both famous, but here all resemblance between them ceases.
It is no mood of captious, unfriendly criticism that attention is specially directed to these compromises. Only political charlatans, ineffective quacks, and irresponsible soap-box orators see crime against the revolutionary program of the masses in a wise and honest opportunism.
How many charlatans would have been silenced, how much conceit would have been kept within bounds, how many fools, who are dazzled by fine sentences, and made drunk by declamation, would have remained, quiet and sober, in that quiet and sober way of faith which their fathers held before them.
For he knew nearly all the devices of the charlatans. And when the so-called spirits came, the medium was always entranced, that is, apparently will-less, and so to Malling not interesting.
"Who says medium surely says charlatan, Sir Lyon not to say something worse than charlatan!" Sir Lyon looked thoughtfully at the younger man. "I admit that often mediums are charlatans or rather, they begin by being mediums pure and simple, and they end by being mediums qua charlatans.
How we all brag and bounce, and beat the drum and shout; and nobody believes a word we utter; and the people ask one another, saying: "How can we tell who is the greatest and the cleverest among all these shrieking braggarts?" And they answer: "There is none great or clever. The great and clever men are not here; there is no place for them in this pandemonium of charlatans and quacks.
The serious-minded man who is disgusted with spiritualistic charlatans and their commercial humbug is naturally inclined here, too, at once to offer the theory that all is fraud and that a detective would be the right man to investigate the case.
One day, calling upon his servant to, bear witness to a fact that went pretty far back, the man replied, "I have no recollection of it, sir; you forget that I have only had the honour of serving you for five hundred years." St. Germain, like all other charlatans of this sort, assumed a theatrical magnificence, and an air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar.
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