I admit, before you came to my keep, I was intrigued by the tales of my fellow clansmen of the rare beauty who parlayed like the veriest statesman at the behest of the king.
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" Finally, trumpeted Freud, "Man's craving for grandiosity is now suffering the third and most bitter blow from present-day psychological research, which is endeavoring to prove to the 'ego' of each one of us that he is not even master in his own house, but that he must remain content with the veriest scraps of information about what is going on unconsciously in his own mind.
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He had great fighting skills and played at his best when behind but was prone to anxiety lapses. Tilden concludes that "Laurentz might beat anyone in the world on his day or lose to the veriest dub when at his worst.".
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Football Association Challenge Cup. Manchrster Guardian. p. 6. 30 October 1890. The local press was scathing: the Post called it "quite the most egregious blunder which has been perpetrated in football circles this season", and supposed that "the veriest tyro in the winter pastime would have known better than to spoil the club's chances for fame in such an absurd way".
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What ere it be, said Banks, to please him, I will charge him to do it. > Then, said Tarleton: charge him bring me the veriest whore-master in the > company. The horse leades his master to him. Then "God a mercy horse > indeed," saies Tarlton, The people had much ado to keep peace; but Banks and > Tarlton had like to have squar'd, and the horse by to give aime.
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Indeed, they took to their heels, with shameful haste, > leaving their brave comrades and valiant Captain in the lurch. Pedel, > judging that it would be the veriest folly to withstand such overwhelming > numbers, wished to close together and retreat in good order, but his > soldiers would not listen to him. Fear had the upper-hand, and life was dear > to them; each therefore sought to save himself. The Chinese saw the disorder > and attacked still more vigorously, cutting down all before them.
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According to the reviewer in the Western Mail: > Hero and heroine and villain of the piece are well enough drawn; and there > is incident enough in the book to satisfy the veriest glutton for sensation; > while towards the close of an exciting story the murder trial... finishes in > a most unexpected manner. Mr. Arthur Wright has been compared with the late > Nat Gould; and as a rule, his books contain even greater dramatic, or > melodramatic, possibilities, or impossibilities, than the numerous works of > that most prolific writer.
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"Why should a Man whom God, by nature, has endowed with such transcendent abilities, so degrade himself into the veriest automaton as to be moved only by the poisonous steam of Hell-fire?" he said. While Poe's wife Virginia was sick, Chivers had to carry Poe home after a night of excess. Moreover, as attested to in an 1848 pamphlet titled Search After Truth, Chivers disagreed with Poe regarding aesthetics. This small booklet presents a series of dialogues between the Seer [Chivers] and Politian [Poe].
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In this wise, two beggars in filthy rags came masquerading before the public in the rich robes of the kings of harmony; and, in this sordid fashion, two men of genius, disguised as monkeys, decked in flimsy tinsel, mutilated and deformed, were presented to the French people, by their tormentors, as Mozart and Weber! And the public was deceived, for no one came forward to punish the miscreants or give them the lie. Alas! how little the public recks of such crimes, even when it is cognizant of them! In Germany and England, as well as in France, such adaptation (which means profanation and spoliation) of masterpieces by the veriest (sic) nobodies is tolerated.
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Future president Andrew Johnson from Tennessee was one of several congressmen fiercely opposed to the bill Senate No. 271 ran into numerous obstacles in the House. Then Tennessee representative and future president Andrew Johnson was one of many vociferous opponents of the proposal to debase silver, calling the idea of Congress fixing the value of currency an exercise in the "merest quackery--the veriest charlatanism". Additionally, the bill was encumbered by numerous House amendments led by a cadre of congressmen who wished to see the United States switch entirely to the gold standard. The most important amendment, authored by Representative Cyrus Dunham, would have removed legal tender status from any new silver coins in private transactions, so as to eliminate silver as a medium of exchange.
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