" They should seek divine counsel on even the "most trifling matters.
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This is not anyone's first rodeo, and the dedication of powerful people to the most trifling bullshit and vainglory is not a problem unique to Russia, but just because all this absurd venality isn't surprising doesn't mean there still isn't something shocking about it.
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Again, in "On Pedantry", Hazlitt declares that "The power of attaching an interest to the most trifling or painful pursuits ... is one of the greatest happinesses of our nature".
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According to Alexander Maconochie, tickets of leave could be suspended in summary fashion for the most "trifling irregularities," and a "very large proportion" of ticket-of- leave holders were returned to government work as a result.
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1–2 The Entr'acte and Limelight commented that the opera was reminiscent of Trial by Jury and Sorcerer but found it diverting and called the music "very charming. To hear so-called grand opera imitated through the medium of the most trifling lyrics, is funny"."London Theatres. Opera Comique", The Entr'acte and Limelight: Theatrical and Musical Critic and Advertiser, 1 June 1878, 466: p.
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Darwin's greenhouse at Down House was extended to provide hothouses where he spent an hour or so every morning and afternoon, examining plants and planning future experiments. Darwin had "found the study of orchids eminently useful in showing me how nearly all parts of the flower are coadapted for fertilisation by insects, & therefore the result of n. selection,—even most trifling details of structure". His own interest in orchids and in fertilisation of plants by insects continued.
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More than 20 years later its work was being admirably managed by Miss E. C. Onians. Forster's original society made a new start in March 1886, Mrs Margaret Hobson of South Yarra having given him some land. £2000 was collected within a few months and a hall built. Other buildings were added in later years, and the institution became in effect a boys' club, largely managed by themselves, with gymnasium, swimming-pool, a library, and many classes, the fees for which were of the most trifling nature.
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Not a man in the colony would, I believe, rely upon his word or > engagement for the most trifling thing. In 1834, Loane claimed, without evidence, that Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur had a personal grievance against him and encouraged the pound-keepers and police to take his cattle. He took his complaints to England and prosecuted in person, displaying rancour, exaggeration and disregard of evidence which did not impress the Colonial Office. Arrogant and completely absorbed with the promotion of his fortune, Loane became well known in the colony for his unscrupulous actions and litigation.
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He was compelled by the revolutionists to attend on the wounded for three days' running. When at last he came to his house to change his clothes he found nothing but four bare [40] walls! His fortune in Government bonds was burned along with the house, as well as all his precious collection of anatomical preparations, etc. He told us that since that great shock his nerves have been so susceptible that he sheds tears at the most trifling events, and has a depression of spirits which often keeps him silent for days.
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6-1 Koehler's carriage mounted the gun on a sliding bed attached to the main body of the carriage via a vertical spindle. Firing the cannon forced the bed to slide upwards, rather than making the entire carriage recoil. As an eyewitness, John Drinkwater, noted, "the carriage, when the gun was depressed, seldom moved; the gun sliding upon the plank to which it was attached by the spindle, and returning to its former place with the most trifling assistance." This system was a forerunner of the recoil systems that are standard features of modern artillery pieces.
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Margaret Drabble (eds.) The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) p. 372. In modern times The Fool of Quality's rambling and digressive structure, and the sentimental extravagances which it shares with other novels of sensibility, have prevented it from reaching a wide readership. Many would agree with the critic who, in 1806, noted that > an unnatural elevation is given to the most trifling circumstances and > sentiments; every emotion is a rapture or an agony, every person seems to be > the deity of the moment who attracts all eyes and all hearts; in short, we > are in another world.Thomas Reynell, in Leigh Hunt (ed.) Classic Tales, > Serious and Lively: With Critical Essays on the Merits and Reputation of the > Authors (London: John Hunt & Carew Reynell, 1806-1807) vol.
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Hill's views on cancer treatment were that cancers should be radically excised aiming for cure, an approach in contrast to the mainstream view of leading European surgeons such as Alexander Monro primus, Samuel Sharp (c1709– 1778) and Henri François Le Dran (1685–1770) that cancers should only be minimally excised to relieve symptoms. He was able to review the outcome of surgery in 88 patients, 86 of whom recovered from the procedure and 77 of these enjoyed a normal expectation of life ‘according to the bills of mortality.’ These outcomes were much superior to the documented results of, for example, Alexander Monro primus. The cancers concerned were mainly skin cancers and a few breast cancers and Hill acknowledges the difficulty in dierentiating some cancers from benign lesions in the era before histological examination. He concludes that his results justify his recommendation that tumours, including ‘the most trifling,’ should be ‘cut entirely out.’Hill J. (1772), p. 49.
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Herodotus's version of history advocated a society where men became free when they consented lawfully to the social contract of their respective city-state. Edward Gibbon suggested that the increasing use of Oriental-style despotism by the Roman emperors was a major factor in the fall of the Roman Empire, particularly from the reign of Elagabalus: > As the attention of the new emperor was diverted by the most trifling > amusements, he wasted many months in his luxurious progress from Syria to > Italy, passed at Nicomedia his first winter after his victory, and deferred > till the ensuing summer his triumphal entry into the capital. A faithful > picture, however, which preceded his arrival, and was placed by his > immediate order over the altar of Victory in the senate-house, conveyed to > the Romans the just but unworthy resemblance of his person and manners. He > was drawn in his sacerdotal robes of silk and gold, after the loose flowing > fashion of the Medes and Phoenicians; his head was covered with a lofty > tiara, his numerous collars and bracelets were adorned with gems of an > inestimable value.
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The death of vice-governor Heins in October, 1689, and the election of John Lorentz to take his place, did not improve the position of the Brandenburgisch-Africanische Compagnie on the islands nor the relations between them and the Danish West India Company. Within a fortnight after his election Lorentz issued an order forbidding the Brandenburgers to bring any privateers or prizes into St. Thomas harbor.Lorentz's Journal (October 19, 1689) This was in strict accordance with paragraph 35 of the treaty,Schück, II, 267 and with Denmark's neutral position in the King William's War, which was just beginning; hence it could not reasonably be objected to; but when on November 7, he issued a mandate forbidding the Danish inhabitants from buying any wares from the Brandenburgers' magazine that could be found in stock at the Danish company's warehouse, and further forbade the payment of debts to the Brandenburgers until the debts to the Company had been satisfied, there was reason for the Brandenburgers to feel apprehensive.Lorentz's Journal (November 7, 1689); P. B. O., 1683–1728 (November 7, 1689) The most trifling complaint against the rival company became the subject of solemn investigation by the zealous governor.
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