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But Montanelli had no lack of supporters. Two days after the publication of the skit, the Churchman, a leading clerical paper, brought out a brilliant article, called: "An Answer to 'The Mystery of the Annunciation," and signed: "A Son of the Church." It was an impassioned defence of Montanelli against the Gadfly's slanderous imputations.
"After a brief consultation," concluded this clever skit, "the jury, who had carefully examined the documents, were of opinion that there was nothing to prove that the prisoners wrote the libels complained of. A verdict of acquittal was accordingly entered, and the prisoners were discharged." Now, every person acquainted with Biblical criticism knows that Mr.
He would write a skit on the "popular" scientific book; he would so heap platitude on platitude, fallacy on fallacy, false analogy on false analogy, so use his superior knowledge to abound in the sense of the ignorant, that even the gross crowd would join in the laugh against its augurs.
Do you remember Whately's clever skit 'Historical Doubts of Napoleon I'? showing how easy it was to logically prove that Napoleon never existed?
The claimant is getting the worst of it, however, and we are tempted to overlook his ingratitude for the sake of the following skit called forth by his appearance as a thinker and clothier of thoughts. The Critic. There is something slightly pathetic in the delayed statement that some of General Grant's best thoughts were supplied by General Adam Dado.
"He says he may stick to Barrett for a name, it has such a twangy sound, whatever that may mean; and he also promised to be led by us even to the extent of breaking his own gay heart." "Nice boy. I hope our little skit won't spoil his fun. It is just for that, you know, little chum, I have agreed to postpone my flight.
It is even a depressing book: but this may be because the deepest rooted of our illusions, deeper than the illusion about politics, is the illusion concerning the cleverness of authors. The skit, written with Mr.
His laughter subsided again and he sat gazing thoughtfully at the publisher. "Unless it means," he wound up, "that I've over-shot the mark." "If I am the mark, you certainly have," said Harviss, with a glance at the clock. The Professor caught the glance and interpreted it. "The book is a skit," he said, rising. The other stared. "A skit? It's not serious, you mean?"
At one point or another in this skit, the style of each principal sensational novelist of the day is delightfully imitated. 'Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
While we climbed to the upper floor I retailed the events of the previous night. "It's the finest thing I ever heard of," McKnight said, staring up at the ladder and the trap. "What a vaudeville skit it would make! Only you ought not to have put your foot on her hand. They don't do it in the best circles." I wheeled on him impatiently. "You don't understand the situation at all, Richey!"
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