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"Which was favourable, ma'am, I presume; for, if not fitted for the one, she naturally must have been fit for the other." "So I thought," replied the lady, to this polite non sequitur of the gentleman. "But Mr M is a very odd man, and, if I must say it, not very polite.
Not in reply to such non sequitur, but quickened by an insight which was to receive earlier vindication than he could have anticipated, Quincy prophesied that, amid the diverse and contrary interests of the several states, which the lack of a common object of affection left still imperfectly unified in sentiment, a glorious navy, identified with the whole country because of its external action, yet local to no part, would supply a common centre for the enthusiasm not yet inspired by the central government, too closely associated for years back with a particular school of extreme political thought, narrowly territorial and clannish in its origin and manifestation.
I love you though you have only twelve thousand a year. And all over the hall we caught such phrases as, 'Yes, he dropped 25,000 on Non Sequitur at Bennings. 'Oh, just down for three weeks at Palm Beach, you know. 'Two millions in three weeks, they say, mostly out of Copper and Q.C.B. 'Yes, just back from South Dakota on the best of terms. Then the room vanished, we were by the sea, and Alice said wistfully, 'How limited our lives are, dear."
Raby was aristocratically gouty; Mrs. Raby, religious. Briefly, then, we have disposed of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Raby, baron et femme. Lady Caroline Coventry, niece of Sir Frederick. Faraday Huxley Little, son of Henry and Grace Little, deceased. Sequitur to the above, A HERO AND HEROINE. On the death of his parents, Faraday Little was taken to Raby Hall. In accepting his guardianship, Mr.
On the base of this figure, are the two following elegant lines, written by pope Urban VIII. in his younger years. Quisquis amans sequitur fugitivae gaudia formae, Fronde manus implet, baccas vel carpit amaras. Who pants for fleeting Beauty, vain pursuit! Shall barren Leaves obtain, or bitter fruit.
One has only to listen to a group of Irish laborers in their unrestrained talk to find that the delicious non sequitur, which is the charm of the grave-diggers' conversation in "Hamlet," is by no means obsolete. But who can write such a colloquy?
Raby, baron et femme. Lady Caroline Coventry, niece of Sir Frederick. Faraday Huxley Little, son of Henry and Graco Little deceased. Sequitur to the above, A HERO AND HEROINE. On the death of his parents, Faraday Little was taken to Raby Hall. In accepting his guardianship, Mr. Raby struggled stoutly against two prejudices: Faraday was plain-looking and skeptical.
"I say, Tom," said Massa Aaron, on one occasion when I was rather tedious on the subject, "all those little cherubs, as you call them, at least the most of them, are the offspring of the cotton bales captured in the American war." "The what?" said I. There is logic for you, my darling." "Your last is a non sequitur, my dear sir," said I, laughing.
The preamble which prefaced their action cited the Declaration of Rights in the constitution of Tennessee to the effect that "all power is inherent in the people, and the people have an inalienable right to alter, reform, to abolish the Government in such manner as they may think proper." This was followed by a declaration which might well be viewed as a non sequitur.
It is scarcely possible that Douglas convinced himself by such a glaring non sequitur; but he had no other alternative. It was a desperate expedient to shield himself as well as he might from the damaging recoil of his own temporizing statesmanship.
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