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brute took up his position on the wash-basin stand; and every attempt to dislodge him brought to the ground some fragile articles of furniture — glasses, basins, and jugs —
I felt super anxious after seeing this for a while, because he kept throwing away some useless things that were of no use.
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and perpetrated by a curious felon — occurred in this town on Monday night. Mr. Smith, with his lady, resides in the apartments of Mrs. Weaver in Mardol.
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Perpetrated（v.)<br /> -To carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action).
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Singular (adj.) -Remarkably or strikingly unusual or extraordinary.
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Felon (n.) -A person who has committed a serious crime, typically one punishable by imprisonment.
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The{a} mental features discoursed of as the analytical{a′} are, in themselves, but little, susceptible of analysis.
still found it hard to fully understand this, but Edgar put it in the beginning of the story, it should be an important or inspiring idea.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action,(1) so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
Although the wording is quite complex and difficult throughout the passage, but I think with this explanation makes me understand it better. (a man showing muscles just like analyst solving problems, both have its own happiness)
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He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each{b} a degree of acumen{c} which appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural.
ok then that's why he can be a detective, I even have no idea about the wording here...literally looking up for the words all the time...
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Like all the rest [of the tales], it is written backwards.
I had to reread this paragraph multiple times to understand this line. Does it mean the story starts from the present and end at the past? It means, that the story forms clearer and clearer with each edition.
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It is the ancestor of a vast number of works which have given much harmless pleasure to all sorts and conditions of men.
What works, for example?
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- Aug 2018
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The Prime Minister stated that the object of Confederation was to strengthen the monarchical principle in this country. I do not see that it is necessary to confer upon the Crown greater privileges than it already possesses in England itself. In England the members of the House of Lords are not appointed by the Crown ; succession in the peerage goes down hereditary from father to son ; but here it is proposed that the members of the Legislative Council, which body corresponds to the House of Lords, should be selected by the Crown. Why should this be ? Why go beyond what is done in England itself? Is it that the Crown complains that it has not sufficient power here ?
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