But the climax of absurdity is in paying the loch in sterling coin.
Twenty years later, Reginald Scot, as already stated, wrote and spoke, not against witches, but against the absurdityof believing that such persons existed.
After a time the absurdity of this system, and the ruinous results which followed, forced upon the minds of the more intelligent citizens the fact that something must be done, and that at any cost.
He exposes the absurdity of men expecting everything from Government, and trusting to public employments rather than to individual exertion.
Let me tell the Socialists that it is here their absurdity becomes apparent, for, in the long-run, these interests must be regulated and adjusted.
The absurdity of this may be shown by a multitude of examples: as, man and woman, male and female, father and mother, brother and sister.
Besides the absurdityof representing "a vowel" as having "vowels contained in it," these rules are made up of great faults.
There is absurdityin calling it even "a part of the verb.
They do not always see absurdity in the approbation of opposites; yet one should here, perhaps, count them with the majorities they allow.
But care should be taken lest it produce ambiguity or obscurity, absurdity or solecism.
An absurdity so glaring, does not need refutation.
The absurdity of supposing with Horne Tooke, that the same word can never be used so differently as to belong to different parts of speech, I have already alluded to more than once.
If there is absurdity in this, there is more in undertaking to avoid it; and the inconvenience should be submitted to, since it amounts to little or nothing in practice.
Now the absurdity of this latter supposition will go a great way towards making a man easy.
To me, the inserting of the word being into all our passive verbs, seems the most monstrous absurdity ever broached in the name of grammar.
But when the faction involved the king also in the plot, which Oates positively charges upon him in his last publication, and thereby renders him an accessory before the fact to an attempt on his own life, the absurdity is fully completed.
If you ask a man whether he really believes any very egregious absurdity quoted from these books, he replies with the greatest naivete in the world, 'Is it not written in the book; and how should it be there written if not true?
Absurdity of determining medical practice by laws, and presuming every one to know it 269 Government by fixed laws is better than lawless government by unscientific men, but worse than lawless government by scientific men.
When such reflections cross my mind, I shrink from theabsurdity of the doctrine, and try to confine my attention to Forms like those which you mentioned first.
Absurdity of determining medical practice by laws, and presuming every one to know it.
Next, How much of it is intended as serious reasoning, how much as mere caricature or parody, for the purpose of exposing and reducing to absurdity the doctrines of opponents?
The only absurdity is seen when radical Protestantism adopts the church of pomps and liturgies.
Think of the absurdity of Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians affecting to restore Gothic monuments, when the great end of sacred eloquence is lost in those devices which appeal to sense.
There may be no flaw in the argument, but the argument may land one in absurdity and contradiction.
This phrase, a priori, is in common, most grossly misunderstood, and as absurdity burdened on it, which it does not deserve.
She laughed a tremulous, half-frightened laugh at the absurdity of the jest.
The absurdity of the question brought back his good humor.
But this boldness and absurdity belong not to the project we advocate.
At one time the fulness of an almost bursting heart was ready to pour forth in bitter denunciation--then the miserable absurdity of the thing, rushing into my mind, would excite my risible propensities.
Let the case of the church of Arnheim[39] witness the mischief and absurdity of this popular government once for all.
What an absurdity were it, if in the body natural all were an eye, or hand!
But why mention the Church in general, when the method of reasoning used would equally prove that the Church universally did so; and the absurdity of such reasoning must be evident upon a very little consideration of the subject.
But if the text be interpreted not of several acts of the same office, but of several sorts of officers, this absurdity is prevented, Let ruling elders be doubly honored, especially those that both rule and preach.
At this time what impressed me most was the absurdity of my position looked at in the light of modern civilization and all my advantages and acquirements.
In fine, our misery became so perfect that we both broke out into loud and sarcastic laughter over the absurdity of our situation.
Any person not familiar with it would see the absurdity of one going to the Northern Wilderness with the deliberate purpose of writing about himself as a lost man.
At one moment he ridiculed himself for the absurdity of such an imagination, even, and then the imagination returned.
For a vivid instant he had an idea of rushing to the market and setting up surreptitiously a term of credit for the Carrolls, by paying their bills himself, but the absurdity of the scheme overcame him.
In spite of his annoyance, the utter absurdity of the whole thing was too much for Anderson.
The tragic absurdity of the situation filled him at once with a monstrous mirth and grief.
I'm so glad to have my mind settled about it," she said, with a pathos which overcame herabsurdity and vulgarity.
It was an absurdityfor Carroll to load himself up with that squirming puppy, when the ownership seemed so problematic.
He seemed even to be begging for his partisanship, although the absurdity of that was obvious.
Once allow that the Bible may be interpreted to suit such theories and any heresy or absurdity can prove its position from the Bible as all of them by this same process do.
This agrees with his statement as to the absurdityof such schemes.
His march to Russia, as we have already observed, was a gigantic absurdity in the eyes of all Europe--his delay at Moscow was a gigantic absurdity in the eyes of every subaltern in his army.
We see the absurdity none the worse for it being presented through the transparent medium of the French writer.
He'd been a musical-comedy producer so long that no megalomaniacal absurdity could take him by surprise.
She smiled widely over the absurdity of indulging in a pleasurable feeling of possession in a squalid little cubby-hole like this.
The absurdity of this consideration was simply intolerable.
No plea that the inspired rhetoric of passion could be capable of could have convinced her of his love for her and of his need for her love as did the divine absurdity of this attempt of his to show her that she need give him--nothing.
But, in return, we should point out to such a reasoner the absurdity of considering fever and hail-stones in some cases as divine punishments; in others as mere natural effects.
The suffering they endured for their faith convinced them more than ever of theabsurdity of that religion which could inflict such cruelties.
It was feared that the prosperity of Judaism would prove the absurdity of Christianity's and Islam's claims and prophecies.
Horace quietly makes a mock of the absurdity of the practice.
However inclined he may have been to use her and her practices for poetic purposes, he manifestly not only saw through the absurdity of her pretensions, but laughed at her miserable impotence, and meant that others should do the same.
I perceived now the element of absurdity in me, but at the time I was as serious as a man who is burning.
My heart warms to a sense of affectionate absurdity as I recall dear old Codger, surely the most "unleaderly" of men.
The Lecture on the Origin of Language, indeed, the absurdity of which has been exposed with so much playfulness by Cowper, might well have been omitted.
