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In fact, his apparent carelessness is very discreet management. His object was, under the fiction of an independent multitude, to smuggle in a virtual unity; for his court physicians are no plural body in effect and virtue, but a mere pleonasm and a tautology. And in good earnest, Hume had reason enough for his caution.
Why indeed do not the petitioners refute the apostles of the "New Criticism," instead of appealing to the authority of Convocation? They plainly declare that the "New Criticis" rests on "utterly baseless foundations" which is a curious pleonasm or tautology for a body of "educated" gentlemen.
It bears the name of Pietra-Sasso the explanation of this odd pleonasm being, I suppose, that here the whole mass of rock, generally decked with grass or shrubs, is as bare as any single stone. There followed a pleasant march through pastoral country of streamlets and lush grass, with noble views downwards on our right, over many-folded hills into the distant valley of the Sinno.
Offensive in its mutilated shape, it smells sweet again when restored to its native orthography. BY NO MANNER OF MEANS. The most vigorous writers are liable, in unguarded moments, to lapse into verbal weakness, and so you meet with this vulgar pleonasm in Ruskin. BY REASON OF. An ill-assorted, ugly phrase, used by accomplished reviewers and others, who ought to set a purer example.
It is a pleonasm to inscribe on any order for distinguished service; for every order ought to be for distinguished service. That stands to reason. Section 4. Honor. Honor is a much larger question than rank, and more difficult to discuss. Let us begin by trying to define it.
"Well, no," Ideala acknowledged, "I always adopt a little pleonasm myself to avoid Christian controversy, and say 'when So-and-so became' a Roman or Anglican Catholic, a Protestant, Positivist, or whatever else it might be; and I let them say 'convert' or 'pervert, whichever they like, to me, because I know that it really cannot matter, so long as they are agreeable not that anybody ever expects them to be, poor little people! although they know quite well that they should never let their angry passions rise.
We were near neighbors, as the pleonasm has it, both when I lived on Berkeley Street and after I had built my own house on Concord Avenue; and I suppose he found my youthful informality convenient.
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