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...manuscript, which rumor said had been sent to him from Alexandria. Many were the conjectures as to the nature of the writing. At last an old peasant ventured to approach the reader and gaze over his shoulder. These words, in Caesar's own hand, met his eye, "The Gods confound me if I did not lose two millions of sesterces last night. My villa at Tibur and all the statues which my father brought from Ephesus must go to the auctioneer." In other words, Caius Julius Caesar had been "ground," and by no less a man than "the prudent Catiline...
...Freshman coming out of an examination in mathematics was heard to exclaim, "O dear! Thunder! ! Confound it! ! !" Then turning to his companion, be said apologetically, "It does a man good to swear sometimes...
...discouraged if you fail to see any beauty in authors who receive high praise. Tastes differ, and some of these authors may in themselves be unfitted for us. Another disturbing influence is that caused by critical students of the history of literature, (especially Anglo Saxon students,) who confound historical value with literary value, and often bestow the highest praise on works which to the modern taste have no literary excellence. Second, don't be discouraged if an author who at one time has moved us seems at another time to be insufferably dull. This experience comes to every...
Milligan has a cold contempt for those skeptics "who attack first principles and confound their readers or hearers with paroxysms...
...worth quoting: "Having never seen nor (we confess it) heard of this book before, we picked it up with the reflection: 'The man that could perpetrate a story of five hundred pages about Harvard - or any other college for that matter - ought to be flayed. Conceited undergraduate, no doubt. Confound him!' 'God bless him!' we say now. He is a gentleman, and a very noble one, or he could not have written such a book as this. It is the best story of college life we have ever read - 'Tom Brown at Oxford' not excepted. A friend tells us that...