I was really surprised, didn't know what to say at once, when the absurdity of the thing struck me and I answered that Washington was far, perhaps across the ocean, but there were compensationsbut

Marie de Médicis had imported the Italian grace and wit,Anne of Austria the Spanish courtesy and romance; the Hôtel de Rambouillet had united the two, and introduced the genre précieux, or stately style, which was superb in its origin, and dwindled to absurdity in the hands of Mlle. de Scudéry and her valets, before Molière smiled it away forever.

The boasted, though groundless pretensions of certain illiterate empirics to cure diseases which have eluded the skill and penetration of the faculty, is another absurdity into which people of good common sense have been most woefully entrapped.

But how can you explain such absurdities as Friday being an unlucky day, and the terror of spilling salt, or meeting an old woman? "Poiet.

Then the hesitating and the timid disappeared one after another, not having the courage to continue the absurdity to the end.

He is never more troubled than when he has to maintain talk with a gentlewoman, wherein he commits more absurdities than a clown in eating of an egg.

" ABSURDITIES OF PARACELSUS, AND VAN HELMONT.

It consists in treating an absurdity with an air as if it were none; or as if it had been a pure matter of course, erroneously mistaken for an absurdity.

See, I'm getting on finely now;you're a judge of such matters; isn't that nice?" As she spoke, Nan offered the polished absurdity for inspection with innocent pride.

No kind of high-handedness, no combined effort, will ever be able to keep afloat absurdities like the dream of the vast indemnity, the Polish programme, the hope of annexing the Saar, etc.

The word "divine" was added by some transcriber; and it heaped absurdity on absurdity, too much of it, alas!

Paul had none of these absurdities about him; but was an accomplished person, as well as a divine speaker.

The Prussian king set up as a Caesar in 1871; Queen Victoria became the Caesar of India (Kaisir-i-Hind) under the auspices of Lord Beaconsfield, and last and least, that most detestable of all Coburgers, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, gave Kaiserism a touch of quaint absurdity by setting up as Czar of Bulgaria.

As to our formalitiesthey have run off into absurdity at some points, but it was a real spirit created those very forms.

The modern martyr of the Pankhurst type courts the absurdity without making the suffering strong enough to eclipse the absurdity.

"The Several Heterodox Hypotheses, concerning both the Persons and the Attributes of the Godhead, justly chargeable with more inconsistencies and Absurdities than those which have been groundlessly imputed to the Catholic system."

After that the way is downward through one set of absurdities after another, until of late some signs of more common-sense treatment begin to be visible.

And then you will have effected that compromise of which our countrymen report so unfavourably from abroad,a high grand faith and worship which compels their admiration, and puerile absurdities among the people which excite their contempt.

So the critics agree to some hard and fast impossible definition of socialism, and extract absurdities from it as a conjurer gets rabbits from a hat.

This, as Von Hoist points out, practically meant that, "whenever different views are entertained about the powers conferred by the Constitution upon the Federal government, those of the minority were to prevail,"an evident absurdity under a republican government.

I have often fancied with my self how enraged an old Latin Author would be, should he see the several Absurdities in Sense and Grammar, which are imputed to him by some or other of these various Readings.