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... the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique topsy-turvy style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert...

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...e revolving sun; often the whole dire catastrophe, together with its total consequences, is both accomplished and made known to those whom it chiefly ... ...we inhabited, there seemed to be a moral impossibility that any dangers of consequence should meet her in the course of those brief absences from my p... ...eebleness and the dependence of woman. I looked at him more attentively in consequence of the feeling tone in which he now spoke, and was surprised th... ... land in which all these events happened; neither is that of the slightest consequence. Guilty she was pronounced: but sentence at that time was defer... ...rom his keepers, and of no future moment, having passed by without present consequences. But had she, instead of thus reporting her own erroneous impr... ... was not very accurate in anything but in the use of logic. All his philo- logical attainments were imperfect. He did not talk German; or so obscurely... ...ay happen that a better valua- tion of it may disturb the whole edifice of logical inferences by which it seemed to favor the speculations of the war ... ...cdotes, and all simi- lar anecdotes, might be true, but were delusive. The logical vice in them was—that they substituted an occasion for a cause. The...

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... of this tale points out how the hero Ivan might have avoided the terrible consequences of a quarrel with his neighbor (which grew out of nothing) if ... ...moral to which we all might profitably give heed. He illustrates the awful consequences of intemperance, and concludes that only kind treatment can re... ... from the fact that my father and my mother did not deceive each other. In consequence of this, I had built from childhood a dream of high and poetica... ...pating debauchery, but in favoring it, by assuring the harmlessness of the consequences. Besides, it is not a question of that. It is a question of th... ...lt of activity. The object of activ- ity cannot consist in suppressing its consequences. The object of Man, as of Humanity, is happiness, and, to atta... ...r than marriage, evidently the human race will come to an end. But, if the logical conclusion of the argument is that the human race will become extin...

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...er of conscience? Was she in love with Gordon Wright, and did she wish, in consequence, to forget—and wish him not to suspect—that she had ever receiv... ...leave Miss Vivian—that is, to return to the charge or to give up trying—in consequence of my fresh impression?” Gordon seemed perfectly unembarrassed ... ...t in the light of Gordon’s requirements. There was all this time an absurd logical twist in his view of things. In the first place he was not to judge... ...s one that in turn I have a right to ask you. What do you propose to do in consequence of what I have told you?” “I propose to do nothing.” This decla... ...r, G.W. “P.S. It is perhaps as well that I should say that I am leaving in consequence of something that happened last evening, but not—by any traceab... ...have been traceable. It had simply affected his imagina- tion, which was a consequence of the imponderable sort. This view of the case was supported b...

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...ms very favourable to its success. There is, perhaps in every thing of any consequence, a secret history which it would be amusing to know, could we h... ...re, which it exhibited, like some of the reflections of Rochefaucault. The consequence was, that he went home with Reynolds, and supped with him. Sir ... ... in the Dic- tionary, to which his Lordship’s patronage might have been of consequence.’ He then told Dr. Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him ... ...o feel very sensibly the distinction which you have bestowed upon me. ‘Few consequences of my endeavours to please or to benefit mankind have delighte... ...cteristical anecdote of Johnson while at Plymouth. Having observed that in consequence of the Dock-yard a new town had arisen about two miles off as a... ...not be too often or too highly praised; of which Mr. Harris, in his Philo- logical Inquiries, justly and liberally observes: ‘Such is its merit, that ...

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...seigneur d’Artois pulls the mask from a fair impertinent; fights a duel in consequence,—almost drawing blood. (Besenval, ii. 282-330.) He has breeches... ...at it professes to be, an infinite one. Attempt not to swallow it, for thy logical digestion; be thankful, if skilfully planting down this and the oth... ...ly Tollendal, pious son of the ill-fated murdered Lally; on whose head, in consequence, a civic crown (of oak or parsley) is forced,—which he forcibly... ...and growing ever welcomer; for it alone goes to the heart of the business: logical cobwebbery shrinks itself together; and thou seest a thing, how it ... ... our two kinds of civil war; between the modern lingual or Par- liamentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel battle-field;—m... ... on the morrow; to-morrow he repairs his golden fires! The think that will logically extinguish him is perhaps still a desideratum in Constitutional c... ...ation. For how, till a man know, in some measure, at what point he becomes logically defunct, can Par- liamentary Business be carried on, and Talk cea... ...nged flight of thirty thou- sand, with mixed cackling and crowing, rose in consequence! For, in addition to all, this people, as we said, is much divi... ...ed Travelling Party, be it Baroness de Korff’s, or persons of still higher consequence, will perhaps please to rest itself in M. Sausse’s till the daw...

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...chievousness, cruelty, and utter incapacity for sympathy as the inevitable consequence of his magnificent bodily and mental health. In short, though m... ...ild and Siegfried. He would certainly not have thought this a matter of no consequence had he finished the whole work ten years ear- lier. It must alw... ...ed into the key of actual life Night Falls On The Gods would have been the logical con- summation of Das Rheingold and The Valkyrie instead of the ope... ... exactly as we deify the creative force of the universe, by attributing to logical design what is the result of blind instinct. What Wagner meant by “... ...sign in this respect. Thus the second stave is usually a perfectly obvious consequence of the first; and the third and fourth an exact or very slightl... ...of the theme is an intel- 96 The Perfect Wagnerite ligent and interesting consequence of the recurrence of the dramatic phenomenon which it denotes. ... ...from the first note to the last as the untrammelled themes of The Ring. In consequence, it used to be professorially demanded that all dramatic music ...

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...lacing them I put Ridgeon’s tube where Muldooley’s ought to have been. The consequence was that I inoculated the typhoid case for tetanus and the teta... ...ur sake. Sir Colenso Ridgeon will be in his proper place, in the bacterio- logical laboratory. I shall be in my proper place, at the bed- side. Your h...

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...seigneur d’Artois pulls the mask from a fair impertinent; fights a duel in consequence,—almost drawing blood. (Besenval, ii. 282-330.) He has breeches... ...at it professes to be, an infinite one. Attempt not to swallow it, for thy logical digestion; be thankful, if skilfully planting down this and the oth... ...ly Tollendal, pious son of the ill-fated murdered Lally; on whose head, in consequence, a civic crown (of oak or pars- ley) is forced,—which he forcib...

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...on puts Homer and the Homeric poems proper back in the ages before chrono- logical history began, and at the same time assigns the purely Cyclic poems... ...haracter, and it is also the best-known of the Hymns to English readers in consequence of Shelley’s translation. After a brief narrative of the birth ... .... 242: For Helen had been previously carried off by Theseus, and it was in consequence of this earlier rape that Aphidna, a town in Attica, was sacked...

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...can think our way into our behavior. I would certainly like to believe her, but the evidence points to the fact that we are psychological, not logica... ...ave probably heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logica... ...n imaging is giving us pictures of how the brain will react. Imaging often shows us that the brain will react in ways quite different from the logica... ...te different from the logical rules that we think of as our unique human ability. The limbic system in the brain often takes priority over the logica... ... 11 ―Most of don‘t want to believe it but we are psychological—not logica... ...action. So in setting both long and short term goals many of us would profit by looking at all of the options and thinking seriously about the conseq...

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...sses of mankind. And this state of affairs may come about more easily than logical, statistical-minded people may be disposed to think. Our first impu... ...whose intensity officialdom would do well to ponder. But it is the natural consequence of, it is the popular attempt at a corrective to, the aloofness... ...troublesome thing to elect them, but it will involve much more troublesome consequences if they are not elected. This, I think, is one of the consider... ...But so soon as the League takes on the shape its general proposition makes logically necessary, the armament interest will take fright. Then it is we ... ...st concede that. But in practice this involves something else. A practical consequence of this disarmament idea must be an effective control of the im... ... we are united. The question I would put to the reader is this: Are we all logically, sincerely, and fully carrying out the plain implica- tions of th... ...complete change in international methods, and we are bound to stick to the logical conse- quences of that. We have placed ourselves on the side of dem... ...ng things. Life is full of vestigial struc- tures, and it is a long way to logical perfection. Let us keep on, they would argue, with what we have. An... ...nd alone again and be secure. And turning now to the other aspect of these consequences of the development of material science, it is too often as- su...

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...im, thus advancing them to first place; whereas in my Admonition I stick logically and consistently to the original position: I place the Interior ... ...nd that together—and that is all that thought is—and out of them built her logical arrangement of infer ences. Edison couldn’t have done it any bette... ...enced to heavy punishment of a public sort—and are become local heroes, by consequence. That is the very mistake which was at first made in the Missou... ...rdy, the stranger, the despised. In a day he was become the person of most consequence in the region, the only person talked about. As to those other ... ...n, the patriot, are the essential thing; the cherry tree incident is of no consequence. T o prove that T ell did shoot the apple from his son’s head w... ... all the monarchies present and to come, was really a person of no serious consequence to these people. To them, with their training, my General was o... ...get such fine food as they get, or live such a high and luxurious life. By consequence they are larger and longer and sleeker than their working siste... ...st be held in reverence by everybody else; 3. therefore, by conse quence, logically, and indisputably, whatever is sacred to me must be held in reve...

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...loose with mankind’s resources against hunger; there will be less bread in consequence, and for lack of that bread somebody will die next winter: a gr... ... a question; I am indeed ready, and more than willing, to accept the rigid consequence, and lay aside, as far as the treachery of the reason will perm... ...ple this in- direct and tactical procedure in life, and to judge by remote consequences instead of the immediate face of things. The very desire to ac... ..., not seeing any clear distinc- tion, we fall back on the consideration of consequences. The truth is, by the scope of our present teaching, nothing i... ...walk- ing with our own conscience every hour of the day, and not fame, the consequence, the far-off reverberation of our foot- steps. The walk, not th... ...ought humorous situations. There 108 Robert Louis Stevenson will be now a logical nexus between the moral expressed and the machinery employed to exp... ...iority over any other. But the fable does not end here, as perhaps, in all logical strict- ness, it should. It wanders off into a discussion as to whi... ...ng Banquo. He may have some northern poetry of speech, but he has not much logical understand- ing. In his dealings with the supernatural powers he is...

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... fate is poignant, it is intensely in- teresting, and of not the slightest consequence. GUY DE MAUPASSANT—1904* TO INTRODUCE Maupassant to English rea... ...s Attitude before the Public Opinion, and so on to the chapter of the Last Consequences. We see, created for us in his outward form and in- nermost pe... ...soned con- viction; it has behind it the profound belief in the right of a logical necessity to be appeased at the cost of so much blood and treasure.... ...a State does not spring from such a contemptible source. It is a matter of logical growth, of faith and courage. Its inspiration springs from the cons... ...lance back at the last hundred years shows the invariable, one may say the logical, powerlessness of Russia. As a military power it has never achieved... ...he most repressive 82 Notes on Life and Letters measures with a perfectly logical duplicity, Prince Bismarck’s Empire has taken care to couple the ne... ...us- sia is to find her end, it can never be a revolution fruitful of moral consequences to mankind. It can- not be anything else but a rising of slave... ... all possible tones carrying conviction, the gently persuasive, the coldly logical; in tones Hegelian, Nietzschean, war-like, pious, cynical, inspired... ...ts renewed assertion) an object of dislike and mistrust. As an unavoidable consequence of the past Poland will have to begin its existence in an atmos...

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...hich are most strongly evident in the art of De Maupassant. We now see the consequences which were inevitable by reason of them, endowed as Maupassant... ...e exact still because the half-civilized person is often impulsive and, in consequence, the physical easily predominates. There, as elsewhere, the deg... ...angerous pessimism that pervades some of his later work. This was partly a consequence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted ... ...ection of proper names, or of verbs, or of numbers, or merely of dates, in consequence of an accident. The localization of all the avenues of thought ... ...ng, delicate hands of a sensual prelate—and exclaimed: “That is absolutely logical, and I should like to be in their place.” 201 Selected Writings TH... ... illness was, and were told that she had been in bed for fifteen years, in consequence of terrible grief. No doubt they did not believe it, and though... ... * “It would be useless to enter into all the psycho- 220 De Maupassant logical details which marked the course of my pas- sion for the Countess, a...

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... because of this. They don’t care what they do, nor do they care about the consequences. I believe that because my mom was there, she taught me the th... ...as and statistics have come from is an act of plagiarism. Serious academic consequences can result from such behavior, and it is a federal crime to co... ...rents that the police cited me for underage drinking. I never knew all the consequences of drinking and I chose the wrong way to find them out. I’m no... ... I’m not sure I could have handled. The campus was notified, adding to the consequences I had to accept. Even though we were caught off campus, the ca... ...Segments, whether sec- tions or paragraphs, are fully developed and follow logically from what precedes them. Headings and subheadings are appropri- a... ... has an effective introduction and conclusion. The order of information is logical, and the reader can follow it because of well-chosen transitions. P... ... can follow it because of well-chosen transitions. Paragraph divisions are logical, and the paragraphs use enough specific detail to make their point ...

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...otal failure of En- gland to do that business of government, as at least a logical reason for the claim. England has confessedly failed; the world say... ...ng in the Commons with the gravity of platonic disputants. But they have a logical position, equivalent to the best of arguments. They are representat... ... occupied Goito, a position which he held till the evening of the 27th. In consequence of the concentrating movement of the Ital- ian army which I hav... ...uld be, until further notice, subjected to a quarantine of fifteen days in consequence of cholera having made its appearance at the latter place. A sa...

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...hristian evan- gelical congressmen and senators. On an issue of such great consequence, our Administrations voice must be heard. If judges insist on o... ..., , , , however, isn’t without faults, according to his wife. Richard uses logical reasoning and Vera relies on mood and feeling when dealing with cer... ... (assertions in writing terms) one needs to pro- vide evidence in a highly logical fashion. This in- cludes providing the reader with the very best so...

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...both went abroad, being ad- vised by their friends to leave the country in consequence of the transactions which are recounted at the close of the vol... ...ger, for Popish eccle- siastics to wear their proper dress; and he was, in consequence, in no wise astonished that the priest should now appear before... ... rather than inclination called him, and was perfectly bewildered in theo- logical controversy. In the course of his reading (which was neither pursue... ... lord,” says Lord Mohun. Whereupon Harry Esmond, filled with alarm for the consequences to which this disastrous dispute might lead, broke out into th... ... good Father meant that Esmond should join the Roman communion for fear of consequences, and that all England ran the risk of being damned for heresy,... ...rce of arms. ’Twas said he withdrew his opposition all of a sudden, and in consequence of letters from the King at St. Germains, who entreated him on ...

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...ng that his comrades were blackguards, whose opinion would never be of any consequence to him if by chance they survived the present war, which seemed... ...ed! She can have nothing more to lose.” Bitter reflection! rakes alone are logical and will punish a woman for devotion. Man created Satan and Lovelac... ...ermaster, rich as he was, was allowed no place in public life, and society logically refused him that to which he pretended in its midst. Finally, to ...

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... erate care, and none ever had more certificates for less edu- cation. One consequence, however, of my system is that I have much less to say of Profe... ...n- sole; books of a large design, shadowing the complexity of that game of consequences to which we all sit down, the hanger-back not least. But the a... ...ng them indeed; but when they were done, I could see they were rubbish. In consequence, I very rarely showed them even to my friends; and such friends... ...r and answer arguments, not only with natural wisdom, but with candour and logical honesty. But if the subject of debate be something in the air, an a... ...t of debate be something in the air, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he ma...