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Has cost already, I should guess, some 80,000 French drilled Men, paid down, on the nail, to the inexorable Fates: and of coined Millions, how many? In subsidies, in equipments, in waste, in loss and wreck: Dryasdust could not have told me, had he tried. And then the breakages, damages still chargeable; the probable afterclap?
Nay, the fact that some weak-brained enthusiasts undertook to bring about the millennium, by associating together, cultivating the earth, and "dibbling beans" for the New Jerusalem market, is regarded by our author as the "germ of Quakerism;" and furnishes an occasion for sneering at "my poor friend Dryasdust, lamentably tearing his hair over the intolerance of that old time to Quakerism and such like."
Charrington to dinner, Betty," remonstrated her sister. Then Cedric looked disgusted, and muttered something under his breath about old Dr. Dryasdust spoiling the fun, but Elizabeth put him down with a strong hand. "People's notions of fun differ," she said severely. "I am quite sure that the vicar and Mr. Herrick will have many interests in common. As for Mr.
These Dryasdust fellows get a reputation by raking up some small scandal about Semiramis or Nitocris, and then we have a thousand and one poems written upon it by all the warblers big and little. But I don't care a straw about the faux pas of the mummies. You do, though. You are one of the historical men more interested in a lady when she's got a rag face and skeleton toes peeping out.
As for the sublime four years' deliberations and debates of this Sanhedrim of the Universe eloquent debates, conducted, we may say, under such extent of wig as was never seen before or since they have fallen wholly to the domain of Dryasdust; and amount, for mankind at this time, to zero plus the burning of Huss.
For the Eternal Providences little as poor Dryasdust now knows of it, mumbling and maundering that sad stuff of his do rule; and the great soul of the world, I assure you once more, is JUST. And always for a Nation, as for a man, it is very behooveful to be honest, to be modest, however stupid!"
Who these Brandenburg Statthalters were, is heartily indifferent even to Dryasdust, except that one of them for some time was a Hohenzollern: which circumstance Dryasdust marks with the due note of admiration. A difficult problem he, like the other regents and viceregents, must have had; little dreaming that it was intrinsically for a grandson of his own, and long line of grandsons.
And then the book's so full of tenderness there are such lovely things in it about flowers and children. I didn't know an old Dryasdust like you could have such a lot of sentiment in him.
The young squire, the young parson, who have been yawning under the prose of Dryasdust, find refreshment in the gay prattle of archæological woman. The sun too is overpowering, and a pretty woman leaning on one's arm in the leafy recesses of a ruined castle is sometimes more overpowering than the sun. There is much in the romance of the occasion. There is a little perhaps in the champagne.
Oh, Dryasdust, does any long-eared mortal who is being skinned by a true King a Canning, Königlich, Able Man does the long-eared one amid his wriggles ever recognize the scope and transcendent significance of Kingship? Answer me that, Dryasdust, or shut your eloquent mouth and go home to dinner." That is quite a proper style for a disciplinarian, but I have not got into the way of using it yet.
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