short-meaningness

Updated: May 13, 2025

We have thought no harm of this, so long as no Act of Congress required the reading of the "Congressional Globe." We submitted to the general dispensation of long-windedness and short-meaningness as to any other providential visitation, endeavoring only to hold fast our faith in the divine government of the world in the midst of so much that was past understanding.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861

We have thought no harm of this, so long as no Act of Congress required the reading of the "Congressional Globe." We submitted to the general dispensation of long-windedness and short-meaningness as to any other providental visitation, endeavoring only to hold fast our faith in the divine government of the world in the midst of so much that was past understanding.

James Russell Lowell - The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V: Political Essays