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But he felt, as others felt, that submission rather than intimacy was the attitude which it suggested or compelled. There was no republic of letters in Carlyle's house. It was a dictatorship, pure and simple. What the dictator condemned was heresy. What he did not know was not knowledge. Mill was a poor feckless driveller. Darwin was a pretentious sciolist. Newman had the intellect of a rabbit.
'How should that be? asked the surly villain. 'Why, replied Jack, 'the people got rusty about it, and would not deal, and they had bought so many brooms that 'Well, for all that, said the other, 'I think we should be down upon the fellow one of these darkmans and let him get it well. 'But old Meg's asleep now, said another; 'she grows a driveller, and is afraid of her shadow.
He was not rich himself, nor distinguished, nor clever; at school he had passed for a dull, slow-witted boy, sleepy, and greedy, and had borne the nickname 'driveller. It was marvellous! 'But if his wife is very rich, they say she's the daughter of some sort of a contractor, won't she buy my estate? Though he does say he doesn't interfere in any of his wife's affairs, that passes belief, really!
The spirit of the old laird was broken by the blow, and he descended at once from a jolly, good-natured and active man to a mere driveller, weeping over the body of his son, kissing his wound, his lips, and his cold brow alternately; denouncing vengeance on his murderers, and lamenting that he himself had not met the cruel doom, so that the hope of his race might have been preserved.
Leach," he said, "that this fellow is too stupid for a spy or a scout, and that, after all, he is no more than a driveller who has strayed from his tribe, from a want of sense to keep the road in a desert.
What the soul may be, I cannot pretend to conjecture; but I cannot separate it from the intelligence!" "Can you not? A blow on the brain can destroy the intelligence! Do you think it can destroy the soul? 'From Marlbro's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. "Towards the close of his life even Kant's giant intellect left him.
"You jest pleasantly enough on your low spirits," said Clifford; "but I have a cause for mine." "What then?" cried Tomlinson. "So much the easier is it to cure them. The mind can cure the evils that spring from the mind. It is only a fool and a quack and a driveller when it professes to heal the evils that spring from the body.
"Driveller" wanted to do a manly action, and he did it. There was a boy belonging to the Workmen's Club, who was called "Lengthy," one of the few type-setters in the town, a clever, facetious lad who now and then wrote an article for The Protest. "Driveller" insisted that "Lengthy" wanted to make fun of him.
Doubtless Father Martin did not wish that his followers should be distinguished by Christian meekness, and he appointed a bully whom people called "Driveller" Juan warden of the Benevolent Society. This Juan was a lad who lived without working; his mother and his sisters were dressmakers, and he bled them for money, and spent his life in taverns and gambling-dens. Dr.
His appearance was that of an idiot; people said he drivelled; whence they gave him the nickname of "Driveller" Juan. He lived by pretending to be terrible in the gambling houses, and bragged of having been in prison several times.
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