HIGH FALUTIN.
Thus saith the “ Wairarapa Star” • Th# mysterious and terrible' amount of verbiage that occasionally finds its way into the editorial. columns of modem colonial journals may be accepted as undeniable and irrefutable* evidence of the singular tendency of the overtaxed philosophical mind to abandon the fundamental - principles of English composition, ioorder that it may launch into a labyrinth of wordy sentiments too profound* to’ be intelligible. The following specimen extracted from the leading columns of the “ New Zealand Times’’explains what we mean: —“ Speculations, whose sole foundation consists in the beguiling expectation of some lucky turn in the wheel of fortune* cannot, even when that lucky turn does come, be placed either morally or intellectually to the credit of the actors ; and the provoking rareness with which the dreamt-of result occurs shows that those who embark on such speculations have forgotten the divine law of induction, which, whether in business or.; in statesmanship, is. the only sure basis of success.” It is evident that the vote for (he Wellington Asylum will not be in ▼aim.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2771, 9 February 1882, Page 3
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176HIGH FALUTIN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2771, 9 February 1882, Page 3
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