Word: ipsos
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...writer next informs us, and no doubt on excellent authority, that the Southern States are at present engaged in the unpleasant occupation of "writhing and groaning under the ignorant despotism of their colored legislators." This is adduced as a particularly lamentable instance of the evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition...
...Sermonis cursu a Doctore B. rogatus, ut fabellam narraret, "Fabella digna, quam narrem," Doctor A. respondet, "mihi non est; mihi autem somnium proxima nocte mirum fuit, quod, amici mei, si vobis placcat, libenter narrabo. Me mortuum esse et ad Paradisum iter contendisse somniavi. Petro Sancto invento, ut intrarem, ab ipso petii. 'Quis es?' rogat Petrus. 'Doctor A., Bostonianus,' respondeo. 'Doctor A., Bostonianus? vehementer doleo, amice, quod non intres, sed mehercle! ut medicus in Paradisum intret, fieri non potest.' Ab imo pectore suspirans, 'Et ego, Petre Sancte, vehementer, vehementissime quidem doleo,' oculis respondeo lacrimantibus, 'iter longissimum confeci, defessissimus sum, quoeam nescio...