insignificancy
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What matter its importance or its insignificancy, so that it be just.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
This gave me a perfect image of the insignificancy of the creatures who practise this enormity; and made me conclude, that it is ever want of sense makes a man guilty in this kind.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
When, by them, Administration is convinced of its insignificancy, they are soon to be convinced of their own.
From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Henry Morley
The revolution had entered into a new phase, the Legislative Assembly had become the Constituent Assembly, which despoiled the monarchy of the last appearance of power and degraded it to a mere insignificancy.
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Give her a true conception of the vanity, folly, and insignificancy of all human things; and strengthen her so as to beget in her a sincere love of Thee in the midst of her sufferings.
From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
It is he who sits in busy and brooding anxiety over his speculations, wrinkled, perhaps, by care, and sobered by years into an utter distaste for the splendors and insignificancies of fashionable life.”
From Sowing and Reaping by Dwight Lyman Moody
On my entrance, his highness motioned to me to sit beside him, and through the medium of the interpreters began with some commonplace courtly insignificancies, as a prelude to more interesting conversation.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.
From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
It is therefore completely indifferent whether such insignificancies are duly vouched for by documents, or, as in the romance, invented to suit the character and ascribed to this or that name and circumstances.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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