Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequecy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.
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- Born: July 31, 1965
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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Biship Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. i observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it--"I refute it thus.
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