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profession himself a reply at once sensible
[180] It is said of Birkenhead, that when an unmannerly Member of Parliament, in opposing him, took occasion to say, that he was surprized to hear an alehouse-keeper's son talk so confidently in the House, he coolly replied, I am an alehouse-keeper's son, I own it, and am not ashamed of it, but had the gentleman, who upbraided me with my birth, been thus descended, in all probability he would have been of the same profession himself; a reply at once, sensible and witty.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber

paper had a remarkable air of scientific
The paper had a remarkable air of scientific research, such as might deceive all but the most learned and wary.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

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