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complain bitterly; or speak passionately against
- Oh, good God, if only the cousins could have come to Bologna and heard that old enemy of the Church taunting and inveighing against the Christian sensitivities of the Romantics.4.9 - Growing Anxiety / Two Grandfathers and a Twilight Boat Ride (88% in)
- How could Herr Settembrini not help inveighing against such an atrocious misuse of the idea of the "politic," against this gesture of shrewd, conceited forbearance that the spirit—or what passed for spirit in this case—extended to its alleged guilty opposite, in the presumption that such "politic" action was necessary, when in truth no such noxious indulgence was required; he could not help castigating a damnable dualistic interpretation of the world that cursed the universe—in...7.4 - Mynheer Peeperkorn (Continued) (39% in)
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