'As final as it is lazy'
While reading the novel 'A Tale of Two cities', I found an expression which seems to me the use of positive degree which is out of date now. Please let me know if I'm right. The sentence is-
Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date , was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is is right", an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
Please, explain the starred part of the sentence( as final as it is lazy).
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zany banana 409 Please, explain the starred part of the sentence( as final as it is lazy). The aphorism is both unarguably correct ( = final) and a truism (= mentally lazy). zany banana 409 an expression which seems to me the use of positive degree which is out of date now That kind of absolute degree comparison is still common.
- zany banana 409 Please, explain the starred part of the sentence( as final as it is lazy).
- The aphorism is both unarguably correct ( = final) and a truism (= mentally lazy).
- zany banana 409 an expression which seems to me the use of positive degree which is out of date now That kind of absolute degree comparison is still common.
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zany banana 409Please, explain the starred part of the sentence( as final as it is lazy).
The aphorism is both unarguably correct ( = final) and a truism (= mentally lazy).
zany banana 409an expression which seems to me the use of positive degree which is out of date now
That kind of absolute degree comparison is s
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