Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
And whenever he spoke (which he did almost always), he took care to produce the very finest and longest words of which the vocabulary gave him the use, rightly judging that it was as cheap to employ a handsome, large, and sonorous epithet, as to use a little stingy one.
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.
Every Muslim who calls a Muslim infidel will have the epithet returned to him.
I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
Oswald Garrison Villard, a political journalist of the old school, who spent half a century crusading for standards of probity in public administration, once declared that he had never ceased to marvel at the shortness of the public's memory, at the rapidity with which it forgets episodes of scandal and incompetence. It sometimes appeared to him of little use to attack a party for its unethical conduct, for the voters would have no recollection of it. The glee with which the epithet 'ancient history' is applied to what is out of sight is of course a part of this barbarous attitude. The man of culture finds the whole past relevant the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
'Bourgeois,' I observed, 'is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent'.
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