The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010 M09 15 - 440 páginas If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. |
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... holds that God did not literally put pen to paper to reveal his thought, instead inspiring certain writers to undertake that task, we find that the “writer who evolves this [devil's] dictionary [is inspired] from an understanding ...
... holds that “one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become,” he clearly meant that one lifetime is ...
... hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle— Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. G. J. [2.] The surrender of a crown for a cowl, in order to compile the shin-bones and toe-nails of saints. The voluntary renunciation ...
... hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G. J. ...
... hold for trial. In England this is one of the most irregular of verbs, its past participle being fullied. The ingenious reader may conjecture why. 'Tis plain that crime we'll ne'er suppress, Nor bate its force a whit, While all the ...
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