The first was Bell's clear, straightforward story of HOW HE DID IT, which rebuked and confounded the mob of
pretenders. The second was the historical fact that the most eminent electrical scientists of Europe and America had seen Bell's telephone at the Centennial and had declared it to be NEW--"not only new but marvellous," said Tyndall.
"These fellows are
pretenders in a double sense," said one of the party; "they can do nothing which it is worth one's while to be made a dupe by.
And do you not also think, as I do, that the harsh feeling which the many entertain towards philosophy originates in the
pretenders, who rush in uninvited, and are always abusing them, and finding fault with them, who make persons instead of things the theme of their conversation?
While the servants were busied in providing materials, the surgeon, who imputed the backwardness which had appeared in Sophia to her fears, began to comfort her with assurances that there was not the least danger; for no accident, he said, could ever happen in bleeding, but from the monstrous ignorance of
pretenders to surgery, which he pretty plainly insinuated was not at present to be apprehended.
To say what good of fashion we can, it rests on reality, and hates nothing so much as
pretenders; to exclude and mystify
pretenders and send them into everlasting 'Coventry,' is its delight.
As to the clerks, he pronounced them mere
pretenders, not one of whom had ever been among the Indians, nor farther to the northwest than Montreal, nor of higher rank than barkeeper of a tavern or marker of a billiard-table, excepting one, who had been a school-master, and whom he emphatically sets down for "as foolish a pedant as ever lived."
I hope you will pull through and live to collar the diamonds; but if you do, take my advice and don't have anything more to do with
Pretenders!"
The local witch-doctor, knowing his own medicine better than any other knew it, was jealous of all other
pretenders to accomplishments in the black art.
"Mountain delivered of a Mouse", produces the moral of his fable in ridicule of pompous
pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops her cheese, lets fall, as it were by accident, the strongest admonition against the power of flattery.
LOCAL hope Sole
Pretender (above), trained by Norman Lee, will carry top weight in tomorrow's Guinness Galway Hurdle.
The title of Duke of Perth was conferred on him by the Old
Pretender, James Edward Stuart, but the British government and crown did not officially recognise the title.