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The materialists have drawn the silliest inferences from this subordination of liberty to the laws of numbers: as if man were not under the influence of all that surrounds him, and as if, since all that surrounds him is governed by inexorable laws, he must not experience, in his freest manifestations, the reaction of those laws!
"She looks as if she had never had a trouble in the world," sighed Bet, looking up at the picture. "Laugh and the world laughs with you!" hummed Joy. "Cheer up, the worst is yet to come!" "Keep quiet, Joy Evans. Those are about the silliest speeches a human being can make. I wish you'd go home oh no, Joy, I don't mean that, I'm just worried." "Of course you are, old dear.
"Yes, dear," said that lady; "you had much better let him bid for you." "Very well," said Rosa; "you can bid for this chest of drawers lot 25." When lot 25 came on, the broker bid in the silliest possible way, if his object had been to get a bargain.
That I am sure of. To be very truthful to a person, one must have a liking. So I judge by myself. Do I presume too much?" Kindness was on Laetitia's face. "But now," said Clara, swimming on the wave in her bosom, "I tax you with the silliest suspicion ever entertained by one of your rank. Lady, you have deemed me capable of the meanest of our vices! Hold this hand, Laetitia; my friend, will you?
"What you here again?" said she, swinging round on her music-stool. "That's a jolly crescendo, isn't it? But they're the silliest words, don't you think? As if love ever came home to stay if he could help it. He might put up a few things in a portmanteau, and run down from Saturday to Monday, perhaps, and the lady was very accommodating, wasn't she?"
But his Milanese countrymen are not even disagreeable; they are simply dull. 'This is the silliest stuff that e'er I heard, remarked Hippolyta of Bottom's amateur theatricals; and one is tempted to wonder what she would have said to the dreary puns and interminable conspiracies of Alonzo, and Gonzalo, and Sebastian, and Antonio, and Adrian, and Francisco, and other shipwrecked noblemen.
For my part, Athenians, by the gods I believe, that Philip is intoxicated with the magnitude of his exploits, and has many such dreams in his imagination, seeing the absence of opponents, and elated by success; but most certainly he has no such plan of action, as to let the silliest people among us know what his intentions are; for the silliest are these newsmongers.
Rebener, seeing his dinner a failure, although not quite understanding the cause, like many a nervous host compelled to face a tableful of distinguished guests who do not hesitate to show that they are bored, did the silliest thing possible under the circumstances, and drank more than he should. Presently he began to talk in such unrestrained fashion that "Mr.
I am in dreadful trouble, and I have not a penny of my own, and I have cut the silliest figure; and yet I mean to win you, Julia. Look at me, if you can, and tell me no! She looked at him; and whatever her eyes may have told him, it is to be supposed he took a pleasure in the message, for he read it a long while.
What was silliest of all, many of them took the whole episode seriously, that is, did not regard the verses as a lampoon but actually thought it realistic and true as regards the governesses a poem with a tendency, in fact. But the excessive freedom of the verses struck even them at last; as for the general public they were not only scandalised but obviously offended.
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