10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKSURELY»
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cocksurely in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought: ...
He is intensely and cocksurely moral, but his morality and his self-interest are
crudely identical. He is emotional and easy to scare, but his imagination cannot
grasp an abstraction. He is a violent nationalist and patriot, but he admires
rogues in ...
Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert, 2007
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A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the ...
He is intensely and cocksurely moral, but his morality and his self- interest are
crudely identical. He is emotional and easy to scare, but his imagination cannot
grasp an abstraction. He is a violent nationalist and patriot, but he admires
rogues ...
3
The American Studies Anthology
All these ways of thinking are the marks of the peasant. ... He likes money and
knows how to amass property, but his cultural development is but little above that
of the domestic animals. He is intensely and cocksurely moral, but his morality
and ...
4
Prejudices: Third Series
He is intensely and cocksurely moral, but his morality and his self-interest are
crudely identical. He is emotional and easy to scare, but his imagination cannot
grasp an abstraction. He is a violent nationalist and patriot, but he admires
rogues in ...
Henry Louis Mencken, 1922
5
The Pride of the Graftons
He did not speak cocksurely or loudly, he did not sprinkle his conversation with
the "Waal, I guess's," of the Westerner; one would hardly have known he was not
English, he was so like a self-reliant, self-made, middle-class Englishman, except
...
Mrs. Teignmouth Shore, 1909
His part in counsel and action may still be great in the fortunes of his party, it Is
premature to forecast his future or to say cocksurely that he may not be even for a
third time a candidate for President. But suppose that he voluntarily and In good ...
... they are perfectly certain that wood pavements, policemen, shops and gaslight
come in the regular course of nature. You can guess with these convictions how
thoroughly and cocksurely they handle little trifles like colonial administration, ...
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Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives
The pessimist of the 1920's told us cocksurely that scientific materialism had
made all the old values and aspirations of mankind appear futile. The mystic of
1946 tells us beseechingly that, at the very moment we are gaining mastery over
the ...
Then, two hours later, when near the Bulgarian frontier—so near that he
cocksurely imagined he had crossed the border-line l—his engine gave out and
he came down to earth with a thud, only to find himself still in Serbia and soon in
the ...
Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Harlan Logan, 1916
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The Mystery of the "Ocean Star"
... and the arms outstretched in the posture of a crucified person. Short of a
skeleton, to my notion, one ought never to be able to say cocksurely, pointing to a
body, ' this is Death.' The fellow might be in a faint, or in a fit, or a cataleptic; his
body ...
William Clark Russell, 1888
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COCKSURELY»
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Reasons to Live: Doldrums, Wire, East India Youth
... Doldrums record, which is bigger and better and even more cocksurely eccentric than 2013's well-regarded Lesser Evil in all the right ways. «Toronto Star, Apr 15»
Manchester United 2-1 Valencia: Marouane Fellaini Masks Cracks …
Van Gaal hubristically allowed the starting XI to return down the tunnel first before he cocksurely strode across the turf and took in the acclaim of ... «Huffington Post UK, Aug 14»
What's Worth Reading About Iraq
Last night I pointed out that many of the people who had cocksurely argued in favor of the war were now resurfacing unchastened to offer ... «The Atlantic, Jun 14»
The Weeknd brings the Kiss Land heat to Vancouver
Cocksurely, the artist called out a few back-row smokers for the hold-up, had a laugh, and introduced the retro electro-pop number "Wanderlust" ... «Straight.com, Sep 13»
Annie Get Your Gun: At the Palace, Irving Berlin's ode to …
She gives her Annie spunk to spare, cocksurely facing down Frank – an appealing, if somewhat subdued, Phil Rodriguez – even though she ... «Austin Chronicle, Jul 12»
