A Study of Fallacies

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A-to-Zed school, 1925 - 31 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 22 - The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Pàgina 12 - By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church. " Q, How prove you that ? "A. Because by keeping Sunday they acknowledge the church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin.
Pàgina 10 - Most assuredly those who came at her call to receive from science what she knew she could not pay have the right to declare her bankrupt!
Pàgina 10 - I had not the desperate courage of a fellow schoolboy who used to chew the heads of matches and soap for the purpose of sparing his mother the knowledge that he was a smoker.
Pàgina 22 - ... wants to believe that the founder of his family was an ape, a gorilla, a mud turtle, or a monad, he may do so; but when he insists that I shall trace my lineage in that direction, I say, No sir! The matter is not quite settled yet, and I propose to give myself the benefit of the doubt; and while he is looking for 'the missing link...
Pàgina 24 - Mr. Belasco is my cousin" gained her quick entrance to that inner shrine. The result of that visit of the little cousin from the West with stage aspirations was the ingenue part in "Very Good Eddie," then being produced by Morris Gest, son-in-law of Belasco.
Pàgina 18 - College, the other day, the educational programme of the Government was denounced on the ground that it placed English and Irish on an equality. The English language, we were informed, is foreign to the Irish mentality, yet in the same breath bilingualism was denounced on the ground that "English has a firm grip of the people while Irish declines.
Pàgina 26 - Then she turned to writing, love of which and excursions into which field she had heen making all her young life. Now she dreamed of a successful literary career. But the dream never came true. Instead here for Vallie there were heartaches and disappointments. Every manuscript she toiled over came back. Then she started to go to parties. One night...
Pàgina 10 - a compositor falling on the floor in a fit in Manchester, and he was a great snuff-taker." It is lamentable that, just when you have at last discovered what seems a perfectly innocent habit, someone invariably comes along with a raven's warning. It is almost impossible to become virtuous, indeed, merely by changing one's vice. As for smoking, how can anyone even regard it as...
Pàgina 26 - An hour later her mother went to her room to see if she might want anything, for her light was still burning. On the bed lay Vallie, still in her evening clothes. Her hand clutched an empty bottle of poison.

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