It enjoys the credit of being curt in its statements, brief in the expression of its opinions, perfectly silent in reference to its surmises, distinctly repudiative of the gift of prophecy, consistently averse to the attribution of motives, persistently wise in giving the shortest possible account of murders and scandalous cases, and copious in its references to literature, art, and religious progress, besides being extremely methodical in its arrangement.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne
Nevertheless it would be repudiative to say that I have sophisticated my previous opinion.
"God's Good Man"
Marie Corelli
