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Meanwhile one thing is clear: that if this present barbarism and anarchy of covetousness, miscalled modern civilisation, were tamed and drilled into something more like a Kingdom of God on earth, then we should not see the reckless and needless multiplication of liquor shops, which disgraces this country now.
For these very ministers of luxury then miscalled art from the periwig- maker to the play-actor who like them had seen the frivolity, the baseness, the profligacy, of the rulers to whose vices they pandered, whom they despised while they adored!
There was another pause; and then Bessy started much like a person running a race, reading as fast as she could, till, like the same runner, when he comes to a stumbling-stone, she broke down over the first hard word, which happened to be at the end of the second sentence. Mrs. Fairchild gently set her right, and she went on a little till she came to another word, which she miscalled, so that Mrs.
The etchings across the upper surface of the base of the pipe, miscalled fingers, are not only made to assume a hand-like appearance but the accommodating fancy of the artist has provided a roundish object in the palm, which the bird appears about to pick up.
"The system won't accept destruction on any othah tomes," said Miss Woodburn, demurely. At the reception, where two men in livery stood aside to let him pass up the outside steps of the house, and two more helped him off with his overcoat indoors, and a fifth miscalled his name into the drawing-room, the Syracuse stone-cutter's son met the niece of Mrs.
Such miscalled metaphysical systems are reeds shaken by the wind. Compared with the inspired wisdom and infinite meaning of the Word of Truth, they are as moonbeams to the sun, or as Stygian night to the kindling dawn. No man hath seen the person of good or of evil. Each is greater than the corporeality we behold. "He cast out devils."
As forsooth this did presently appear; also that one of the ladies was her Gracious Majesty's self masked to the general eye, the better to enjoy these miscalled festivities.
"I suppose, by the poor, you mean the pampered, ill-mannered and detestably conceited County Council children," Lilian Rosenberg chimed in. "I wouldn't give a farthing to such a miscalled charity, no not if I were rolling in riches." "And I think you would be right," Kelson replied. "But for these really poor Park refugees it is a different matter.
For no trees, however, may Americans feel more pride than for our American elms and our no less American tulip, the latter miscalled tulip "poplar."
"Robert Cosh, ye've had a fair trial, and ye have been convicted of three heinous sins. First, ye miscalled a good man for that three strokes with the cane; next, ye ill-used the quietest laddie in the whole school for that three strokes; and, lastly, being moved of the devil, ye went home and told lies to a magistrate for that six strokes.
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