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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: Homeopathic remedies
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.215746.5388@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <2934674522.0.p00168@psilink.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:57:46 GMT
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- p00168@psilink.com (James F. Tims) writes:
- : >wsadjw@rw6.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys) writes:
- : >:
- : >: It is even not much more irrational than astrology.
- : >:
- : >
- : >Excellent!
- : >
- : >In english that is called being "damned with feigned praise."
- : >
- :
- : "When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
- : So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises."
- : --Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_ [1633], canto 7.
- : "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
- : And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;"
- : --Alexander Pope, _Prologue to Imitations of Horace_, l. 193
-
- Well, you learn something every day. Having heard rather than read
- the phrase, I always thought they were saying "feigned" rather than
- "faint." Though you've got to admit feigned works well also. (I just
- looked it up to make sure it meant what I thought it meant.)
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