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Bateman agreed in the main, except that Reding had stated the case rather too strongly. "But what if their letter contradicts a doctrine of the Fathers? am I to force the letter?" "If such a case actually happened, the theory would not hold," answered Bateman; "it would only be a gross quibble. You can in no case sign an Article in a sense which its words will not bear.
It was always said that the preachings suppressed, had not been established previously to that arrangement; but the preachings had in reality obtained almost every where, and were now universally abolished. The ridiculous quibble was also used that, in the preachings other religious exercises were not included, whereas it was notorious that they had never been separated.
Tomorrow they will rise and begin forthwith to lie, quibble, cheat, steal, fourflush and kill, each and all inspired by the solacing monomania that every one of their words and gestures is a credible variant of perfection. Yes, tomorrow they will be as they were yesterday. But in this rain at night they rest from their perfections, they lay aside for a few hours their paper masks.
With this hunger, which was his human birthright, he must labor on, unappeased. It was given him merely to know what would recreate living for him, what would make of the days joy instead of pain, and it was not to be his, except for this moment of time. "I think," he said, "there is enough to suffer and endure. We will not quibble about the law.
"Well," said the Judge, easy and thoughtful, "what do you mean by principle?" "I didn't think you'd quibble," flashed Molly. "I'm not a lawyer myself." A man less wise than Judge Henry would have smiled at this, and then war would have exploded hopelessly between them, and harm been added to what was going wrong already.
"I say you believe in the Dutchman the man you call George the Second the Pretender." "I do not believe in the Pretender," exclaimed Hilary quickly. "Don't quibble, my boy," said Sir Henry smiling. "You call my sovereign the Pretender, and that is what I call the man you serve. Good heavens, boy! how could you devote your frank young life to such a service?"
You quibble; you lied to our General." A wicked light shone in his eyes. "I choose to pass that by, for the moment," said he. "I am sorry you forget yourself; it were better for you and me to be courteous till our hour of reckoning, Shall we not meet some day?" he said, with a sweet hatred in his tone. "With all my heart." "But where?" "In yonder town," said I, pointing. He laughed provokingly.
And if you will set a value upon your lost time from the day you left New York until your return, both days inclusive, I will include that in the check also." "Suppose I should charge you one thousand dollars a day for my lost time," she suggested curiously. "I should pay it without the slightest quibble. The Laird would be delighted to get off so cheaply.
Drummond, or I cry off, and you can seek a husband to your daughter somewhere else," said I. "It is I that am to be the only dealer and the only judge. I shall satisfy myself exactly; and none else shall anyways meddle you the least of all." "Upon my word, sir!" he exclaimed, "and who are you to be the judge?" "The bridegroom, I believe," said I. "This is to quibble," he cried.
Johnson says: 'A quibble is intended between as the conditional particle, and ass the beast of burthen. On this note Steevens remarked: 'Shakespeare has so many quibbles of his own to answer for, that there are those who think it hard he should be charged with others which perhaps he never thought of. The second note is on the opening of Hamlet's soliloquy in act iii. sc. i. The line
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