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The person thus addressed was a man of about the middle age, very grotesquely attired, and with a periwig preposterously long. He approached us with a saunter, and saluted Tarleton with an air servile enough, in spite of an affected familiarity. "What think you," resumed my companion, "we were conversing upon?" "Why, indeed, Mr.
I am no great admirer of self-taught geniuses; to be self-taught is a misfortune, except in the case of those extraordinary minds, to whom the title of genius justly belongs; for in most cases, to be self-taught is to be badly grounded, to be slovenly finished, and to be preposterously conceited.
The evidence was preposterously small. He believed the worst, but we were really uninformed. "I shall find out the truth," he promptly replied. "How can you? If you question her you'll simply drive her to perjure herself. Wherein after all does it concern you to know the truth? It's the girl's own affair." "Then why did you tell me your story?" I was a trifle embarrassed.
There is Colonel Cowles, whom you presume to despise, because you know, or think you know, more political and social science than he does. Where you got your preposterously exaggerated idea of the value of text-book science I am at a loss to understand. The people you aspire to lead for that is what an editorial writer must do care nothing for it.
Most of the time we are very much absorbed in busy, outward-looking activity, overwhelmed with engagements and hurry and worry; and then in the midst of this active life there stands the chapel with its summons to us to pause and give the reflective life its chance. That is one of the chief offices of religion in this preposterously busy age.
I arrived at last at the clear realisation that my political associates, and I in my association with them, were oddly narrow, priggish, and unreal, that the Socialists with whom we were attempting co-operation were preposterously irrelevant to their own theories, that my political life didn't in some way comprehend more than itself, that rather perplexingly I was missing the thing I was seeking.
"When I was a lil' fellow of fifteen," said Mr. Direck in the tone of one producing a melancholy but conclusive piece of evidence, "I worshipped that miniature. It seemed to me the loveliest person.... And it's just you...." He too was preposterously moved. It seemed a long time before Cecily had anything to say, and then what she had to say she said in a softened, indistinct voice.
Whereas Clara fatalistically dismissed her father's attitude as only one more of the preposterously unreasonable phenomena which she was constantly meeting in life; and she persevered grimly with her obscene word. "Eh!" said Mrs Hamps enthusiastically, after a trifling pause. "It does me good when I think what a help you'll be to your father in the business, with that clever head of yours."
It is only the preposterously young who expect a man to rhapsodise over somebody else's inamorata at such a moment. I turned up the fur collar of my coat. "She is good-looking," said I. "Any idiot can see that!" he burst out impatiently. "I want to know what opinion you formed of her." I reflected.
It is of oak, and preposterously ponderous, immense beams and rafters, which no modern walls could support, a gigantic old skeleton, which architects say must have stood a thousand years; and, indeed, it is impossible to ascertain the date of the original foundation, though it is known to have been repaired and restored between five and six centuries ago.
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