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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... Person of the Trinity, as an Irishman might say) and his name must not be taken in vain.”28 By the time Bierce next resumed “The Cynic's Dictionary” in July 1904, his work had been appearing regularly in the Examiner and the New York ...
... person. Abjure, v.t. To take the preliminary step toward resumption. Ablative, adj. A certain case of Latin nouns ... Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they ...
... person's literary work, in which those parts that tell against the convictions of the abridger are omitted for want of space. Abroad, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American ...
... person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction. Absolute, adj. [I.] Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases ...
... person for whom one has performed some friendly service. Ace, n. The one-fourth part of the Hand of Fate. Aceldama, n. A piece of real estate near Jerusalem, in which the broker, Judas Iscariot, invested the money he made by selling ...
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