Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (195 page)

 

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i.e.
No bird in this aviary lives on mince-pies.

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i.e.
No plum-pudding, that has not been boiled in a cloth, can be distinguished from soup.

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ch
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h
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,     i.e.

h
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i.e.
All
your
poems are uninteresting.

38.

 

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dc
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i.e.
None of my peaches have been grown in a hothouse.

39.

 

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† 2
he

† 4
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    ¶
a
′b
0

i.e.
No pawnbroker is dishonest.

40.

 

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    ¶
ah
0

i.e.
No kitten with green eyes will play with a gorilla.

41.

 

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    ¶
db
0

d
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,     i.e.

d
1
b
0

i.e.
All
my
friends in this College dine at the lower table.

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h
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i.e.
My writing-desk is full of live scorpions.

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hd
0

i.e.
No Mandarin ever reads Hogg’s poems.

44.

 

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† 4
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ch

    ¶
b
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0

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, i.e.

c
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b

0

i.e.
Shakespeare was clever.

45.

 

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† 4
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† 3
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† 5
cb
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    ¶
dh
0

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d
1
h
0

i.e.
Rainbows are not worth writing odes to.

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