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On the other hand, many of the papers criticised the work in a hostile and violent manner. It was, they said, a breach of official confidence for a man in Greville's position to keep a journal at all. Greville whose name it was fatally easy to rhyme to Devil was described as a man delighting in listening at keyholes, and habitually misrepresenting the only half-heard secrets.
Travellers who pass rapidly through the East, without a knowledge of the language, and rarely mixing with any but persons interested in misrepresenting their true character, are continually deceived by the dignified deportment of the Turks, their patriarchal manners and solemn speeches, although they would ridicule a Frenchman who,
Conyngham as a friend. There, senorita thank you, I will take coffee. I made the accusation in your presence. I retract it before you. It is, as you see, a small matter. 'But it is of small matters that life is made up, put in the General in his deferential way. 'Our friend, he went on after a pause, 'is unfortunate in misrepresenting himself.
"Servants, my dear, make such mischief, you know, by misunderstanding and misrepresenting every thing they hear; and they repeat things so oddly, and raise such strange reports!" "True very true indeed, ma'am," said Mr. Beaumont. "You are quite right, and I beg pardon for being so hasty I wish you could teach me a little of your patience and prudence."
Whether you entreated me as a brother in misrepresenting my preaching when you never heard me perform in the particular capacity of a preacher? 8th. Whether you entreated me as a brother in taking your leave of this correspondence without supporting one single particular of your admonition, or one single charge against me.
Presently he began writing upon large sheets of paper, handing each one to me as soon as it was covered. The manuscript read as follows: "I am not able to talk much. To me words are a lie and an abomination. Even these I now write are misrepresenting me and deceiving you, though I wish them to tell the truth. They will make me out an ass or a madman. I am neither.
We are all brethren; we are all citizens of the same heaven-favored country; and how residents of one part of it can spend their lives in vilifying, traducing, and misrepresenting those of another portion of it, is, to me, unaccountable. It is strange, indeed!
How then, you will say, could this fine lady choose to quarter herself on the establishment of a poor curate, where the carpets were probably falling into holes, where the attendance was limited to a maid of all work, and where six children were running loose from eight o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock in the evening? Surely you must be misrepresenting the facts. Heaven forbid!
His dicta are the dicta, not of a judge, but of an advocate: often of an advocate in an unsound cause. Yet, in the very act of misrepresenting the laws of composition, he shows how well he understands them. But he was perpetually acting against his better knowledge. His sins were sins against light. He trusted that what was bad would be pardoned for the sake of what was good.
Congress unanimously granted the petitioners leave to withdraw. Such evidence as this, not only hearsay, but heard from the party most interested in misrepresenting the Administration, was not entitled to much consideration. It had, moreover, the additional disadvantage of proving nothing against the President and Secretary, even if every word of it were admitted as true.
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