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And Francisco, though not given to cringing, skulked like a beaten dog when the verbal flagellation was finished. Turning then to the Brazilians, McKay formally apologized for the insults to them. "It is nothing, senhor," coolly answered the bowman though his glance at the Peruvians said plainly that it would have been something but for the swift punishment by the Americans.
Failure to prove the truth of this unadmitted statement constitutes the fallacy. Such a form of begging the question, however, does frequently occur. Sometimes the fallacy is so hidden in a mass of illustration and rhetorical embellishment that at first it is not apparent; but stripped of its verbal finery, it stands out very plainly.
I have not only letters from our imperial mother to deliver to your majesty, I am also the bearer of verbal messages, but-" "But what?" cried Joseph, as Leopold paused. "But I must request of your majesty to grant me a private interview." "With his majesty's permission, I shall withdraw," said Lacy.
About three or four days before Easter he came again, with the doctor, and a verbal process was drawn up against me for rebelling, in not giving up papers. Copies of my writings were then put into their hands; for I had not the originals. I know not where those who got them from me have put them; but I am firm in the faith that they will all be preserved, in spite of the storm.
'Yet anyone would suppose so, went on Godwin, hotly. 'Though you are employed in a shop, I should have thought you might still aim at behaving like a gentleman. Indisposed to quarrel, and possessed of small skill in verbal fence, Oliver drew aside with shadowed brow.
A verbal message was also sent to me to inquire if I knew anything about smelting iron, casting guns, etc.: to which I answered, in pursuance of friendly advice, that I was ignorant of everything except my own medical profession.
Hume saw this; Kant saw it; since their time, more and more eyes have been cleansed of the films which prevented them from seeing it; until now the weight and number of those who refuse to be the prey of verbal mystifications has begun to tell in practical life.
Even he, coarse and brutal in perception as he was, was conscious of a difference not wholly attributable to the Lithia League and felt himself impelled to some verbal recognition of his host's conspicuous well-being. "Ye're on the level all right," he swore obscurely. "Ye're white! Ye're lookin' good, ye're lookin' fine By the Lord Harry, Carl, I don't know as I blame yuh!"
Farragut's letter, written from the Hartford above Port Hudson on the 6th of April, was the first communication Banks had received from Farragut, save a brief verbal message brought to him by the Admiral's secretary, Mr. E. C. Gabaudan, on the 10th of April, just before the army set out from Brashear. Mr.
An ounce of experience is better than a ton of theory simply because it is only in experience that any theory has vital and verifiable significance. It tends to become a mere verbal formula, a set of catchwords used to render thinking, or genuine theorizing, unnecessary and impossible.
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