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"Exactly; and the worst of it is, I am not one of those genial fellows, half boys themselves, who can join in the sports con amore; I should only make a mountebank of myself if I tried, and the boys would distrust me the more." "Quite true. The only way is to be oneself, and one's best self, and the rest will come." "I'm not so sure of that. Some people mistake their vocation."
They were haughty and arrogant with subordinate officers, or at the best affable and condescending, and to superior officers they said, "Yes, sir," "No, sir," "Quite so, sir," to any statement, however absurd in its ignorance and dogmatism. If a major-general said, "Wagner was a mountebank in music," G.S.O. III, who had once studied at Munich, said, "Yes, sir," or, "You think so, sir?
Of course, he is not alone in shedding tears in his meetings, many of his hearers usually join him; especially the ladies, as these showers are intended for them. However, no one can sit for an hour and hear John. B. Gough, without coming to the conclusion that he is nothing more than a theatrical mountebank. The ablest speaker on the subject of Peace, is Charles Sumner.
"Who," said Giovanni, wonderingly, "could dream of trifling with your expressed wish?" "Henry dreams, but he will awake," said the Emperor curtly. "Hark you you seem to be a clever mountebank, and I know what power fellows of your sort have over the mob add to your play lines to be spoken by your puppet King.
So the banished man was most often doomed to become a hinin, one of that wretched class of wandering pariahs who were officially termed "not-men," and lived by beggary, or by the exercise of some vulgar profession, such as that of ambulant musician or mountebank.
'Ay, cried Philip, 'right, lad; and can he tell how long I shall be so? 'Things yet to come, said the mountebank, 'are only revealed after long preparation. For them must he gaze into the dark poor of the future. The present and the past he can divine by the mere touch of what has belonged to the person. 'It is passing strange, said Philip to Madame de Selinville. 'You credit it, Madame?
"I won't drop it it's too interesting! Oh, my! I wish we could go out there in the big car then we could follow him round " "Hush! Go out to Newark in the car! Trail round the streets and alleys after a fool mountebank! With a horde of gamins and low, horrid men crowding about " They won't be allowed to crowd about!" "And yelling " "I admit the yelling " "Aunt Abby, you're impossible!"
I pity our children when I reflect that their tranquillity and happiness will, perhaps, depend upon such a corrupt and unprincipled people of soldiers, easy tools in the hands of every impostor or mountebank. The lively satisfaction which Bonaparte must have felt at the pinnacle of grandeur where fortune had placed him was not, however, entirely unmixed with uneasiness and vexation.
"That's a bit thick! Harry's a good sort I've heard him " "I'm not concerned with his personality!" said the bass. "I resent being associated with a man who makes a mountebank, a clown, of himself!" I listened and said nothing. But I'll no be sayin' I did no wink at my friend, the contralto. The other singers tried to soothe the bass down, but they couldn't.
The clown at a theatre, the mountebank on the stage, are not so badly employed as theological triflers, who darken counsel by words without knowledge. It is not in prayer only, but in preaching and writing, that men should be in God's fear, and let their words be few. Mr. Jones preached last night on Christ in you, the hope of glory. I can understand, 1.
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