Littell's Living Age, Volume 75Living Age Company Incorporated, 1862 |
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Page 456
... thing cannot be ; it is contrary to nature . " And they would have been quite as right in saying so , as in saying that most other things cannot be . one hardly knows what is . The truth is , that people's fancy that such and such things ...
... thing cannot be ; it is contrary to nature . " And they would have been quite as right in saying so , as in saying that most other things cannot be . one hardly knows what is . The truth is , that people's fancy that such and such things ...
Page 606
... THINGS . ance may be an impertinence , an unpalatable truth , or a disagreeable thing , according to time and circumstance . For example , in a fit of absence , we perpetrate some solecism in dress or behavior . It is an unwelcome truth ...
... THINGS . ance may be an impertinence , an unpalatable truth , or a disagreeable thing , according to time and circumstance . For example , in a fit of absence , we perpetrate some solecism in dress or behavior . It is an unwelcome truth ...
Page 609
... thing jars on this nice adjustment . The speaker has the un- justifiable aim of lowering this fancied eleva- tion , whether moral or social ; and he dis- pels illusions , not as he supposes , in the interest of truth on any social or ...
... thing jars on this nice adjustment . The speaker has the un- justifiable aim of lowering this fancied eleva- tion , whether moral or social ; and he dis- pels illusions , not as he supposes , in the interest of truth on any social or ...
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