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• And in a world of daily--nay, almost hourly--journalism, where every clever man, every man who thinks himself clever, or whom anybody else thinks clever, is called upon to deliver his judgment point-blank and at the word of command on every conceivable subject of human thought, or on what sometimes seems to him very much the same thing, on every inconceivable display of human want of thought, there is such a spendthrift waste of all those commonplaces which furnish the permitted staple of public discourse that there is little chance of beguiling a new tune out of the one-stringed instrument on which we have been thrumming so long. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• Does he not remember that he owes to Rustem his throne--nay, his very life? —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
• No member except Hadria had ever dreamt of insinuating that one might have a very pronounced taste for stars and kingdoms--nay, a taste so dominant that life would be worthless unless they were achieved--yet might be forced, by the might of events, to forego them. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• She was very gracious to Mr. Trenchard--nay, altogether bewitching--though for the first ten minutes she herself saw and heard nothing save a thing in black with white hair, talking to her of the beauties of Dorsetshire. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
• She looked less old than usual--nay, almost beautiful--so exquisitely peaceful was the expression of her countenance Nathanael and his wife hung back, letting Mr. Harper meet her first She rose and held out both hands to him. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel

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