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"Special pleading" Quotes from Famous Books

... attic and there each morning I hammered away, eager to get my material "roughed out" while it was hot in my memory. I often wrote four thousand words between breakfast and luncheon. One story took shape as a brief prose epic of the Sioux, a special pleading from the standpoint of a young educated red man, to whom Sitting Bull was a kind of Themistocles. Though based on accurate information, I intended it to be not so much a history as an interpretation. It interested me at the time ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... he was not, I can't trust a page of his special pleading, let it look as clever as the ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... bad breeding, but of want of knowledge. When they were wrong, they have readily admitted their mistakes; when they were right, they have never sneered at their European adversaries. There has been, with few exceptions, no quibbling, no special pleading, no untruthfulness on their part, and certainly none of that low cunning of the scholar who writes down and publishes what he knows perfectly well to be false, and snaps his fingers at those who still value truth and self-respect more highly than victory or ...

— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller

... these delightful pages have not been marred by discussion of the causes or conduct of the great struggle between the States. There is no theorizing or special pleading to distract our attention from the unvarnished story of the ...

— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore

... Basilike' was no more written by Charles than by Cromwell. It was a doctored composition—a churchman's spurious history, trumped up by Charles's friends and partisans, possibly with the approval of the King himself. It is a fine piece of special pleading in ...

— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

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