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When I first came into the world, which was at the age you are of now, so that, by the way, you have got the start of me in that important article by two or three years at least, at nineteen I left the University of Cambridge, where I was an absolute pedant; when I talked my best, I quoted Horace; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
With all his faults, that conceited old pedant contrived to make one of the most entertaining books ever written on this side the water, and we wonder that no one should take the trouble to give us a tolerably correct edition of it. Absurdity is common enough, but such a genius for it as Mather had is a rare and delightful gift. This last volume has given us a higher conception of Mr.
And thus he sets forth the results of his four days' deliberation: "'De mortuis nil nisi bonum. I declare I have considered the wisdom and foundation of it over and over again as dispassionately and charitably as a good Christian can, and, after all, I can find nothing in it, or make more of it than a nonsensical lullaby of some nurse, put into Latin by some pedant, to be chanted by some hypocrite to the end of the world for the consolation of departing lechers.
Urge the foaming steed, and strike terror into the rapid stag, but meddle not with matters too high for thee." "He has given you the dor now, sir," said Lady Bath; "let the old man say his say." "I bring, therefore, as my small contribution to this day's feast; first a Latin epigram, as thus " "Latin? Let us hear it forthwith," cried my lady. And the old pedant mouthed out
I am no pedant about Protection, and if it could be shown that the security of an island kingdom like the United Kingdom could only be made complete by Protection in certain matters, I should be perfectly willing to vote for measures to give that security. In other words, I would have voted for what has been called "a state of siege" tariff.
If it did, I think there is a little question on 'why should habit turn sacred? which would somewhat confound and pose you, and pose also, for that matter, every pedant that ever went blind and crook-backed over books, or took ivory for horn. And there is an end of it. Argue it with whom you will. Look you out 'Garfagnana, district of, Valley of Serchio' in the index.
Elsley was going to say something in return; but his guest turned the conversation as fast as he could. "And now, I know you want to be busy, though you are too civil to confess it; and I must be with that old fool Tardrew at ten, to settle accounts: he'll scold me if I do not the precise old pedant just as if I was his own child. Good-bye."
Having said or thought this, he is ripe for the scaffold. III. Robespierre. Robespierre. Mediocrity of his faculties. The Pedant. Absence of ideas. Study of phrases. Wounded self-esteem. His infatuation. He plays victim. His gloomy fancies. His resemblance to Marat. Difference between him and Marat. The sincere hypocrite. The festival in honor of the Supreme Being, and the law of Prairial 22.
Indeed he went further, and characterized the Baron as the most intolerable formal pedant he had ever had the misfortune to meet with, and the Chief of Glennaquoich as a Frenchified Scotchman, possessing all the cunning and plausibility of the nation where he was educated, with the proud, vindictive, and turbulent humour of that of his birth.
It was the barber's watch first. He propped up the sleeping pedant, and shaved his head, and when his time came, awoke him. When the pedant felt his head bare, "What a fool is this barber," he cried, "for he has roused the bald man instead of me!" A variant of this story is related of a raw Highlander, fresh from the heather, who put up at an inn in Perth, and shared his bed with a negro.
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