Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for... larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To summarize the contentions of this paper then. Firstly, the phrase 'the meaning of a word' is a spurious phrase. Secondly and co...nsequently, a re-examination is needed of phrases like the two which I discuss, 'being a part of the meaning of' and 'having the same meaning.' On these matters, dogmatists require prodding: although history indeed suggests that it may sometimes be better to let sleeping dogmatists lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurts... nobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profun...dity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, e...mbedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errors ...are only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.... Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I saw it I was so glad I could not speak. My eyes seemed too little to see it all.... I was a long time without speaking to m...y friend. To see me always looking and never speaking he thought I had lost my mind. I could not understand where all this could come from.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »