In Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher Berkeley gives the fullest statement of this argument, while adding more commonplace attacks on the pettiness of religious scepticism. [Please select]
Despite the pettiness of the game, which disgusted both Gallatin and Jefferson, the decision was fateful. [Please select]
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For Grandma Rachel, schooled though she was to pious contentment, probably had her moments of human pettiness like the rest of us. [Please select]
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And she sent me home amazingly comforted, my pettiness and self-consciousness routed by the quiet influence of her gray eyes searching mine. [Please select]
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The pettiness of the legal inquiry has been also a maddening irritation. [Please select]
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VI But then literature would give only the perfect moments of existence, would ignore the tragedies, ironies, pettiness of life. [Please select]
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Nothing could better prove the pettiness of the ancient state-horizon; no busily active great power could find time for such trifles. [Please select]
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Her glimpse of tasks involving millions of people and a score of nations reduced Main Street from bloated importance to its actual pettiness. [Please select]
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It would be a great relief, he admitted, to be rid of the pettiness of the proprietors, and it might be accomplished some time in the future; but not now. [Please select]
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