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Here, indeed, we have a conception, or rather a vague picture, of the facts of modern industry, and of human nature as connected with it, which is worthy of a man from dreamland. Every detail mentioned is false. Every essential detail is omitted. In the first place, the disinterested inventor, from whose behaviour our author reasons, is purely a figment of his own clerical brain.
Fanciful as was this figment of a sick imagination, the result was the same as though it had been a valid conviction, for after a while Old Man Caleb roused himself and stretched his long arms. Then he rose and peered at the clock with his face close to its dial, and once more he replenished the fire. "Hit's past midnight now, Bas," he complained with a querulous note of anxiety in his words.
The schoolmistress seemed to be saying, 'We're going to play football and nothing but football. If you don't want to play football you can't play at all "What was I to do the playtime was so short! "You see, I felt that we were even denied what consolation there might have been in being a figment of a corporate man rising from his knees.
Professor Bruce, himself a Christian minister, is obliged to tell his orthodox brethren that "the errorless autograph for which some so zealously contend is a theological figment." "The Bible," he reminds them, "was produced piecemeal, and by the time the later portions were produced the earlier had lost their supposed immaculate-ness."
Standing there, in that delightful drawing room, made welcome by a man like Forbes, and admitted to a degree of charming intimacy by a girl like Forbes's daughter, Theydon tried to believe that his meeting with those ill-omened detectives at Waterloo Station was, in some sort, a figment of the imagination.
The 'Bocca della Verita' passes for a statue of the Virgin, and convicted a woman of perjury the other day; it is in reality an image of the goddess Rhea, and the modern figment is one of its ancient traditions; swallow both or neither. 'Qui Bavium non odit amet tua carmina, Mavi.
He had been inclined to regard Dean's suspicion that she was in love with the younger Hoff as the mere figment of jealousy, but where two young persons of the opposite sex are thrown together, there is always the possibility of romance.
He was able to testify with conviction that the giant bull was no figment of Indian's imagination or lumberman's inventive humor. For it was he whose search had been successful. In fact, he might have been content to have it just a shade less overwhelmingly successful.
"What one does question is whether she saw a man or a figment of her imagination some effect of the shadows that momentarily suggested a man." "Shadows do play queer tricks at night, at sea," Monk agreed. "I remember once " "Then let us look the ground over and see if we can make that explanation acceptable to our own intelligences," Lanyard cut in. "No harm in that."
The forms of government are abstractions, not names of realities, and their 'mixture' is a pure figment. King, Lords, and Commons are not really incarnations of power, wisdom, and goodness. Their combination forms a system the merits of which must in the last resort be judged by its working.
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