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Updated: June 16, 2025
Augustine had himself been a Manichean mystic, and when after his conversion he became the great theologian of the Church, he must have known whether the teachings of the Buddha were being palmed off on the Christian world. The great leaders of that age were men of thorough scholarship and of the deepest moral earnestness.
Incredible it may seem foolish, false, inconsistent with reason, or the plain dictates of common sense, it certainly is but we have before us well-authenticated accounts of transactions in which the Romish priests claimed powers quite as extraordinary, and palmed off upon a credulous, superstitious people stories quite as silly and ridiculous as anything recorded in these pages.
Get me, madam? You, Bill, get the idea! And see she does it. Now, ready! Be a bit wistful as you look at the horses. That's it! Nobody'd guess you'd palmed the hooks and connected them. Straight out! Let her go!"
Peter here trembled from an apprehension that the wife, in accomplishing some object of her own in reference to the land, was about to undeceive the landlord, touching the lie which he had so barefacedly palmed upon that worthy gentleman for truth. In fact, his anxiety overcame his prudence, and he resolved to anticipate her.
When his master saw the lad returning in such a sorry plight, he understood at once what had happened to him, and making no bones about the matter, he told Antonio what a fool he had been to allow himself to be so imposed upon by the landlord, and to let a worthless animal be palmed off on him instead of his magic donkey.
It is like a gigantic ordnance map palmed off on one instead of a real landscape." "Come now, to be just, say an Italian garden." "That flatters it, but the simile will do. The eye sees to the end of every path, and knows that it leads to nothing." "Ah! dear Hadria, but all the pathways of the world have that very same goal."
'Only one day more and I must save the pa-apers! So the lawyer Aunt Ida had for years, heard that Frank was or had been at Garbin. So I got a license, and the Reverend Sanderson, and took the evening train down there. At the hotel I asked for Mr. Cameron, and they sent you in. And you know the rest, you you old fraud! How you palmed yourself off on me " "I never did!
Oh, I have secured that opera-box, Val, but at an extravagant price, considering the little time that remains of the season." "What opera-box?" "Didn't I tell you? It's one I heard of yesterday. I was not going again to put up with the wretched little box they palmed you off with. I did tell you that." "It was the only one I could get, Maude: there was no other choice." "Yes, I know.
He rapidly took up his opponent's hand and spread them face up before the astonished eyes of the gambler. There were only three, instead of four aces, with a jack and deuce. "I had you beat on the showdown, Bart. Really, I am surprised!" Then to the profane delight of Red, he carelessly opened his hand, exposing the missing ace which he had adroitly palmed.
In the morning, when Laird Macharg went to the door, he found standing against one of the pilasters a piece of black ship oak, rudely fashioned into something like human form, and which skilful people declared would have been clothed with seeming flesh and blood, and palmed upon him by elfin adroitness for his wife, had he admitted his visitants.
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