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...ault in a child,” said Mr. Brocklehurst; “it is akin to falsehood, and all liars will have their portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone; ... ...r features. In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate... ...he worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, 36 Jane Eyre you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who... ...who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut—this girl is—a liar!” Now came a pause of ten minutes, during which I, by this time in per... ...oke— “Helen, why do you stay with a girl whom everybody be- lieves to be a liar?” “Everybody, Jane? Why, there are only eighty people who have heard y... ...h jealousy: she was too inferior to excite the feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine: sh...

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...osse, what is, or is not, serues 644 As stuffe for these two, to make paradoxes. 645 Nest. And in the imitation of these twaine, 646 ... ... and Cressida Shakespeare: First Folio 954 sinnewes, or else there be Liars. Hector shall haue a great 955 catch, if he knocke out either o...

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...e, Success or loss, what is or is not, serves As stuff for these two to make paradoxes. NESTOR: And in the imitation of these twain— Who, as Ulysses ... ...’en so; a great deal of your wit, too, lies in your sinews, or else there be liars. Hector have a great catch, if he knock out either of your brains: ...

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...ntious terseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other to... ...atural gift of lying. His lies are not of the highly imaginative sort that liars in fiction commonly indulge in; like Falstaff’s, they resemble the fa... ...r I am called Ginesillo de Parapilla or not.” “Don’t they call you so, you liar?” said the guard. “They do,” returned Gines, “but I will make them giv... ...f to witness, for it is my un- stained truth that has made you false and a liar.” Cardenio heard these words clearly and distinctly, being quite close... ...“So far,” said the ecclesiastic, “I take you to be more a chatterer than a liar; but I don’t know what I shall take you for by-and-by.” “Thou citest s... ...ice I burn,’ ‘in flames I shiver,’ ‘hopeless I hope,’ ‘I go and stay,’ and paradoxes of that sort which their writings are full of. And then when they...

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...; For even her folly help’d her to an heir. DESDEMONA: These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i’ the alehouse. What miserable praise hast t... ...ILIA: She said so: I must needs report the truth. OTHELLO: She’s, like a liar, gone to burning hell: ’Twas I that kill’d her. EMILIA: ...

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...en her folly helpt her to an heire. 913 Desde. These are old fond Paradoxes, to make Fooles 914 laugh i’th’ Alehouse. What miserable pra... ...She said so: I must needs report the truth. 3398 Oth. She’s like a Liar gone to burning hell, 3399 ’Twas I that kill’d her. 3400 A...

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...indispensable condition and forerunner of civilization; and from the pecu- liar ferocity and the sanguinary superstitions which disfig- ured the Pagan... ...pt for simi- lar purposes in other parts of the world, is one of the pecu- liarities of this country which not only first attracts the at- tention of ... ...ome momentary and farcical ef- fect, deliberately assumes the license of a liar. Not only he adopts the language of moral indignation where we know th... ...d to set me free.’ I will venture to say that Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese liar, that Sir John Mandeville, the traveller, that Baron Munchausen, the m... ...first edition; which was wrong, and could have occurred only to a lover of paradoxes. For Warton (not Tom, but Joe) had actually seen Pompey, and reco...

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... night, when you returned from wandering in the forest, you went to the bil- liard-room and helped yourself to liquors, or descended to the cellar and... ...cal. It is one of the curiosities of human nature, that although all men are liars, they can none of them bear to be told so of themselves. T o get an... ...y and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness; – it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consola- t...

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...red the Prince, weaving in a patch of truth, according to the habit of all liars. ‘Business leads you to Mittwalden?’ was the next ques- tion. ‘Mere c... ... the root of wisdom. You two gentlemen are too good to be forgiving.’ ‘The paradox is somewhat forced,’ said Gotthold. ‘Pardon me, Colonel,’ said the ...

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...ou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. ‘O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numb... ...orce of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once. OPHELIA: ...

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...to know where the gen- eral is?” “To that, monsieur, I have already replied.” “Y es, but you have already replied an incredible thing.” “It is true, n... ...at devoted servant, a Gascon like myself, poor as myself, and, I was going to add, brave as myself, relates instances of the meanness of Henry IV.? My... ...ut doubt. Saint-Paterne, you see, passes for hav- ing been the first bishop of Vannes. It is true that Aramis 495 Dumas pretends he was not. But he i...

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...ch bear par- ticularly upon the novel before us, and account for his pecu- liar hold over the minds of his countrymen. T urgenev, who was born in 1818... ...im alone!’ said Darya Mihailovna, ‘you know that you will hear nothing but paradoxes from him.’ Pigasov smiled ironically. A footman came in and an- n...

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...arriage leaves the man unchanged. This is a hard saying, and has an air of paradox. For there is some- thing in marriage so natural and inviting, that... ...ay be a little devil after all. Yet so it is: she may be a tale- bearer, a liar, and a thief; she may have a taste for brandy, and no heart. My compli... ...ortant; in a certain sense even they may or may not be false. The habitual liar may be a very honest fellow, and live truly with his wife and friends;...

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... eccentrici- ties, like their oddities of dress, their wild theo- ries and paradoxes, were an entertainment which amused her, but had not the slightes... ...stocks and shares; but I am aware that Captain Nichols was an out- rageous liar , and I dare say there is not a word of truth in anything he told me. ...

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...other’s industry equally becoming. He was no more anxious to insure his own reputation as a liar than to uphold the truthfulness of his companion; and... ...tel in a sweat, through long tracts of glare and passages of freezing shadow. But the pecu- liar outdoor sport of this district is tobogganing. A Scot... ...esently have more to say. With all this in mind, I have often been tempted to put forth the paradox that any place is good enough to live a life in, w...

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...alists—follow up their interests and start and sustain war. There lies the paradoxical reality of this question. Our first inquiry lands us into the e... ...class suspi- cion against the synthesis of the public welfare is not pecu- liar to Great Britain; it is probably going on with local varia- tions in G... ... Russian teachers will be found to agree with me; others will not. It is a paradox in the psychology of the teacher that few teachers are willing to a...

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...habemus.” [“For we also have eyes that are versed in the matter.”— Cicero, Paradox, v. 2.] If the soul has not therein so much to enjoy, as in the fir... ...the stone, it seems to have it too; even the faculties that are most pecu- liarly and properly its own cannot then perform their func- tions, but mani... ... little worth, in the service of a prince, to be secret, if a man be not a liar to boot. If he who asked Thales the Milesian whether he ought solemnly... ...ustom with grammar are triflers): this is an ignorant discourse: this is a paradoxical discourse: that is going too far: thou makest thyself too merry... ... set on foot at his table, began in these words: “It can be no other but a liar or a fool that will say otherwise than so and so.” Pursue this philoso... ... sub- sistence and tillage, that our riches are truly estimated.”— Cicero, Paradox, vi. 3.] My real need does not so wholly take up all I have, that F... ...bedience of a subdued and abject mind, wanting its own free will.”—Cicero, Paradox, V . I.] Crates did worse, who threw himself into the liberty of po... ...eptibly; others expose it all in plates and branches; so that to the one a liard is worth a crown, and to the others the inverse: the world esteeming ... ...be always looking high or low, on one side, before or behind you. It was a paradoxical command anciently given us by that god of Delphos: “Look into y...

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...ered why he should, in the presence of this stranger, exaggerate his pecu- liar style of speech. But the worthy merchant’s conscious- ness of his iden... ...; Lady Charlotte murmuring aloud: “And in the third chapter of the Book of Paradox you will find these words.” “We afford a practical example and forg... ... pipe-smoke. Emilia’s voice, her growing beauty, her simplicity, her pecu- liar charms of feature, were all conjured up to combat the dismal images su... ...n we know best is the one whom we never understand.” “You answer me with a paradox.” “Is it not the natural attendant on an assumption?” “What assumpt... ...it. “And no.” Mr. Barrett, with his eyes on her, laughed softly. “Which is paradox at the fountain-head! But, when we say we know any one, we mean com... ...but—now—it’s a lump—others would have made a nice row about it—but is he a liar? Is he a seducing, idling, vagabond dog? Is he a contemptible scoundre... ...was proud, in fact, of all City appetites. What, though none saw the pecu- liar sting? They felt it; and one virtue in possessing an ‘ideal’ is that, ... ...n that she might worry her. Hitherto she had not known that anything pecu- liar lodged in her tongue, and with no other person did she think of using ...

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...our author’s political, religious, and philosophic axioms and systems, his paradoxes and his errors in logic: these have been so long and so exhaustiv... ...had the faults common to my age, was talkative, a glutton, and sometimes a liar, made no scruple of stealing sweetmeats, fruits, or, indeed, any kind ... ...at of being detected, of being publicly, and to my face, declared a thief, liar, and calumniator; an unconquerable fear of this overcame every other s... ...d in; yet all this was the work of conjecture, for one of my foolish pecu- liarities was, not daring to inquire after her, or even pro- nounce her nam... ...n this situa- tion, justness of expression and presence of mind were pecu- liarly necessary in answering. Would my timidity which dis- concerts me in ... ...eau to conquer in her turn, is upon the whole scandalous and useless, is a liar and a hypocrite; hearken not to him. Besides this object of morality a... ...I heard of him, that Mr. Hume joined a very republican mind to the English Paradoxes in favor of luxury. In this opinion I considered his whole apolog...

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...sk, the notes he had been pretending to work over all the morning. “Damned liar!” he said, and then, “Dirty liar!” He decided to lunch at the club, an... ...wn mind in Prothero after I have failed to find it in myself? It is, to be paradoxical, my impersonal personality, this Being that I have in common wi... ..., and smote the policeman to the earth with the stout stick that the pecu- liar social atmosphere of Hayti had disposed him to carry. By the local sta... ... upon precision and cleanliness. Benham was roused to defence against this paradox. “But all exaltation neglects,” said Prothero. “No religion has eve...