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How shall we explain these inconsistencies, and, at the same time, grant Mr. Sawyer his claim to literalness of rendering? Luke ix. 24, 25, Mr. Both these thoughts are lost in Mr. Sawyer's translation; and a more tame, insufficient, and tautological rendering than his could scarcely be imagined. Another instance of Mr.
After he had eaten his "breakfast for five" he came in to see me with the air of a man who was determined to have it out. I myself was in no mood for talk; indeed, I scarcely ever am in such a mood, unless it be with a pretty woman or a great sinner. You may regard that sentence as tautological if you like; I sha'n't quarrel about it.
At length, after several preliminary hems, and much tautological expression of his devotion to his honour's service, by night or day, living or dead, he began to insinuate, 'that the banks had removed a' their ready cash into the Castle; that, nae doubt, Sandie Goldie, the silversmith, would do mickle for his honour; but there was little time to get the wadset made out; and, doubtless, if his honour Glennaquoich or Mr.
"What any leddy whatsomever, as is a leddy, would say! What lots o' other leddies, as leddylike as enny leddy could wish to be, ridin' in their coaches an' livin' in houses tin times 's big as this, leddies as had none but leddylike ways, has said!" is the tautological response.
Hewitt. But the lights were low, generally a sign that the lady was asleep, so she went on to her own room. "Blown to bits!" she said to herself bitterly, stopping opposite her confidant, the mirror. "And she sitting on a chair looking like Marie Antoinette being taken to execution in a kitchen chair!" It was a breathless and tautological remark, but it relieved her feelings.
"We've the fists: we've the fists," was shouted. Cornelia, smiling on Mr. Barrett, asked him why he had confused the poor people with the long word "tautological." "I threw it as a bone," said he. "I think you will observe that they are already quieter. They are reflecting on what it signifies, and will by- and-by quarrel as to the spelling of it. At any rate it occupies them."
He is perhaps unnecessarily diffuse and tautological; but he enters largely into the reasons of the abstruse doctrines of which he treats, and his work is calculated to lead the student to inquire more earnestly into the philosophy of the science. Fearne's Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders, should then be well studied.
Then, in the mouths of all the surrounding inhabitants, Beacon Ledge became known as Beacon Ledge Beacon, and so kept its name, in spite of tautological criticism, or of different and more formal christening, by Government authority.
Our Pilgrim Fathers accepted these absurd, tautological verses gladly, and sang them gratefully; but we know the spirit of poesy could never have existed in them, else they would have fought hard against abandoning such majestic psalms as Sternhold's "The Lord descended from above and bow'd the heavens hye And underneath his feete he cast the darkness of the skye.
Now, this is as if it should be pretended that the education of liberty is effected by liberty, the instruction of the mind by the mind, the determination of value by value, all of which propositions are evidently tautological and absurd.
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