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Updated: May 11, 2025
The host pronounced EX CATHEDRA and without hesitation about the matter. . . . The power and vitality of the Pickwickian legend are extraordinary indeed; all day long we found people bewildered, as it were, by this faith, mixing up the author and his hero."
Canonicus had no wish to meet a foe who was thus prompt for the encounter. He immediately sent to Governor Bradford the assurance, in Narraganset phrase, of his high consideration, and begged him to believe that the arrows and the snake skin were sent purely in a Pickwickian sense.
There is certainly no need to repudiate as untypical of Australian political society the Pickwickian spectacle of a drunken Postmaster-General fearfully trying to walk a plank after a Vice-regal dinner, in order to win three dozen of champagne wagered by the leader of the Opposition, while the Premier looks on and holds his sides with merriment; or the case of the Premier's wife, who, on being told by a newly-arrived Governor a musical enthusiast that he hoped to be able to 'introduce Wagner' at the local philharmonic concerts, said: 'I'm sure we shall be very pleased to see the gentleman.
It is a rambling old house and a good deal dilapidated, and of good age." With this meagre record it yet offers such Pickwickian interest that, not many months ago, a photograph was taken of it which was engraved for the Daily Graphic. There is no Mr.
Being "one of the oldest-established," it must have been there at the time of the Pickwickian visit. At the Bull, they show you "Mr. Pickwick's room" as well as Tupman's and Winkle's Boz's very particular description enables this to be done. Mr.
Chairman, since the gentleman has said there was too many fools on the committee, and has just explained that he didn't mean any one of us three, I'll be obliged if he'll explain who in thunder he did mean." This sounded unanswerable, but the cunning Budge was equal to the occasion. "It gives me pleasure to answer the question of the gentleman: my remark was made in a Pickwickian sense."
'How I should like to go, said Mr. Tupman again. 'So should I, said the stranger 'confounded luggage, heavy smacks nothing to go in odd, ain't it? Now general benevolence was one of the leading features of the Pickwickian theory, and no one was more remarkable for the zealous manner in which he observed so noble a principle than Mr. Tracy Tupman.
This copy was annotated by the owner with notes, historical and explanatory, and is now a cherished possession of the nation in the safe custody of the Library of the British Museum, where it is known as the "George and Vulture" copy. The "Blue Boar," Leadenhall Market, was an inn of considerable Pickwickian importance.
Appearance of the harbor. Preparations for return. The harbor. Friendly relations. Arrival of emigrants from England. Declaration of war. Canonicus. Weakness of the Pilgrims. Council called. Pickwickian challenge. Preparations for defense. Completion of the fortification. The challenge retracted. An arrival. Kind reception. Complaints from the Indians. Relief wanted. Death of Squantum. His prayer.
When a Russian Communist speaks of dictatorship, he means the word literally, but when he speaks of the proletariat, he means the word in a Pickwickian sense. He means the "class-conscious" part of the proletariat, i.e., the Communist Party.
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