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He destroys the scientific discoverer in one age; in the next he finds his own existence is threatened because he refuses to acknowledge that the discoverer was right; then he confesses the truth, and readjusts his hocus-pocus to suit it.
If I didna feel just sure of the lassie, and that she was awful pleased and chief with Alan, I would think there was some kind of hocus-pocus about yon." "And is she so pleased with ye, then, Alan?" I asked. "She thinks a heap of me," says he. "And I'm no' like you: I'm one that can tell. That she does she thinks a heap of Alan. And troth!
In all his disguises he is still our ancestor. His story reads like a fairy book. Never did nimble fancy of childhood invent such transformations only the transformations are so infinitely slow, and attended with such struggle and suffering. Strike out the element of time and we have before us a spectacle more novel and startling than any hocus-pocus or legerdemain that ever set the crowd agape.
If the suffrages of the Commons of England were polled together, the hustings-books of the last general election will prove that a very considerable majority of their numbers is opposed to the present Government, and that therefore, under this new democratic scheme, this great body of the nation are, by some hocus-pocus tactics or other, obliged to submit to the minority.
It may be added that Coué prefers the gradual cure, finding it more stable and less likely to be disturbed by adverse conditions. We should approach autosuggestion in the same reasonable manner as we approach any other scientific discovery. There is no hocus-pocus about it, nor are any statements made here which experience cannot verify.
I queried: for I did not understand all this hocus-pocus of locating any given spot in the Iowa prairies in 1855. "Where's my land?" "The heft of it," said he, "is right down there in Hell Slew. It's all pretty wet; but I think you've got the wettest part of it; the best duck ponds, and the biggest muskrat-houses. This slew is the only blot in the 'scutcheon of this pearl of counties, Mr.
“It is not only hocus-pocus,” replied Eberhard, who was now completely transformed, though he did not grasp the painful indignation of the musician. “You see, I have associated but very little with men. My refuge has been the realm of departed and invisible spirits who take on visible form only when a believing soul makes an unaffected appeal to them.
"You'd better put your hat on, Marge, or you'll have a skinned nose," said her father. "We'll be right in to breakfast." "There's some hocus-pocus about this," whispered Trask, as he and Locke moved forward for a private talk. "What do you make of it?" "Jarrow's in on the deal with the crew. That's why I wanted him out of the way for awhile so we could figure things out.
Your aunt and I, dear child, are passing toward the shadows of life, while you and my boy Jack are just starting out. Your happiness shall not be cindered upon a false altar I swear it!" "Good old boy," Tommy murmured. "Do you mean that, honest?" "Pardieu, have I not sworn it?" "And you wouldn't try to muddy the water again if I confessed that our Marine Law was a hocus-pocus?"
No subtlest hocus-pocus of "reason" versus "understanding" will avail for that feat; and it is terribly perilous to try it in these provinces! The truth is, I now see, Coleridge's talk and speculation was the emblem of himself: in it as in him, a ray of heavenly inspiration struggled, in a tragically ineffectual degree, with the weakness of flesh and blood.
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