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Cheating, and lying, and taking bribes, and abuse of authority are ingrained into their very souls; and all the cut and dry formulas of namby pamby philanthropists, the inane maunderings of stay-at-home sentimentalists, the wise saws of self-opinionated theorists, who know nothing of the Hindoo as he really shews himself to us in daily and hourly contact with him, will ever persuade me that native, as opposed to English rule, would be productive of aught but burning oppression and shameless venality, or would end in anything but anarchy and chaos.
For life is a breaking-down as well as a building-up. Destruction as well as construction goes to the Metabolism of Society. November 27. It seems to me a weakness of the Peace Propaganda of our time though a weakness which represents an inevitable reaction from an ancient superstition that it tends to be under the dominance of Namby Pamby.
Poet, b. in Shropshire and ed. at Camb., wrote pastorals and dramas, was one of the Addison circle, and started a paper, the Freethinker, in imitation of the Spectator. He also made translations from Pindar and Anacreon, and a series of short complimentary verses, which gained for him the nickname of "Namby Pamby."
The news-man ran to the receiver and a moment later slammed it back on the hook. "Old frump, giving namby pamby talks on woman's influence in politics without votes." The news editor spat aimlessly. Bat tapped the story of the Rim Rocks with his pencil. "Well," he asked. "We'll give this flare." "We'll put this in red! God! The Senator is an artist! I like having to lick the hand that leashes me."
I am continuing the remedies you gave her. I I have thought it best to let her suppose that Doctor Namby had attended you, Geoffrey. She is very nervous, and I feared to excite her." Geoffrey commended her wisdom, but made it clear that he was not thinking of Miss Phoebe. Couldn't he see Miss Little Vesta? he asked. He wanted to to thank her for what she had done, and ask just how she had done it.
"No, Geoffrey, no! we do not think highly of Doctor Namby, but there was no one else, for you seem to feel so strongly about Doctor Pottle " "Pottle is a boiled cabbage-head!" said Geoffrey. "He couldn't set a hen's leg without tying it in bow-knots, let alone a man's arm. Who did set it, Miss Vesta? I'm sure I must be up to 105 by this time. I can't answer for the consequences, you know, if "
Butters; you spoke of him, I remember found you lying in the road, my child, quite unconscious. He is an unpolished person, but possessed of warm affections. I I can never forget his tender solicitude about you. He brought you home in his wagon, and carried you into the house. He volunteered to go to Greening for Doctor Namby " "Namby never put on this bandage!" interrupted Geoffrey.
Having informed him that the capture was made, and that he was to wait for the prisoner until he should have finished dressing, Namby then swaggered out, and drove away. Smouch, requesting Mr. Pickwick in a surly manner 'to be as alive as he could, for it was a busy time, drew up a chair by the door and sat there, until he had finished dressing.
Another of Addison's favorite companions was Ambrose Philips, a good Whig and a middling poet, who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. But the most remarkable members of the little senate, as Pope long afterwards called it, were Richard Steele and Thomas Tickell. Steele had known Addison from childhood.
Because those master-spirits which guide the present age, have given birth to a species of poetry more legitimate and useful in its design, and more valuable in its tendencies and characteristics. Instead of the "namby pamby" verses of the period I have alluded to, and the coarse scurrility of style which runs with a discolouring vein through the satirical pages of Dr.
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