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By imitating the dull effect of a distant voice, he is able to excite in the minds of his audience a powerful conviction that the sounds proceed from a distant point. There is little doubt that ventriloquism has played a conspicuous part in the arts of divination and magic. Misconception of Local Arrangement.
Even the sage Quintilian maintains the popular misconception when he says, "History is closely akin to poetry, and is written for purposes of narration not of proof; being composed with the motive of transmitting our fame to posterity, it avoids the dulness of continuous narrative by the use of rarer words and freer periphrases."
The native potato is commonly wet and waxy; I have never seen a native potato that would burst into a glistening mass of white flour, or that had the flavour of a really good potato. There has been much misconception about the interior of Alaska that obtains yet in some quarters, although there is no excuse for it now.
But Valk and Menin were too old politicians to be caught in such a trap, and they produced a brief, drawn up in Italian the foreign language best understood by the Earl with his own corrections and interlineations, so that he was forced to admit that there had been no misconception. Leicester at last could no longer doubt that he was universally odious in the Provinces.
"Ten or twelve pounds! Why, woman, what do you mean? Would you expect a rooster to be bigger nor a turkey?" We stared at each other. There was evidently some misconception on my part. "Bring the roaster up; and if I like it, I will buy it, though I must confess that I am not very fond of roast pig." "Do you call this a pig?" said my she-merchant, drawing a fine game-cock from under her cloak.
But one morning as they came down to the beach he startled the baron by saying: "I want to blay." "Yes, 'ighness, whad shall we blay ad?" said the Baron von Habelschwert uncomfortably, after a little hesitation. "I don't want to blay wiz you," said the prince in a tone which showed, beyond any possibility of misconception, that on that matter his mind was made up.
But he might have been indefinitely less than he was in any intellectual wise, and yet been precious to those who knew him for the gentleness and the goodness which in him were protected from misconception by a final dignity as delicate and as inviolable as that of Longfellow himself.
It can be traced to the slowness of Gérard's advance, to the Emperor's misconception of the situation, and to his despatch to Grouchy. In this he reckoned the Prussians at 40,000 men, and ordered Grouchy to repair with the French right wing to Sombref.
"She is here, owing to a miserable misconception," said Arabella. "Ah! she is here, however. That is the essential, as your old governess Madame Timpan would have said." "Nor can a protest against coarseness be sweepingly interpreted as a piece of unfilial behaviour," said Arabella. "She is coarse," Wilfrid nodded his head.
Encouraged by his sanguine and aggressive spirit, the Council decided that "the Admiralty should prepare for a naval expedition in February to bombard and take the Gallipoli Peninsula with Constantinople as its objective." In view of the fact that the operation as then conceived was to be purely naval, the word "take" suggests an initial misconception of what the navy could do.
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