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Things, praiseworthy in themselves, were magnified into stupendous and impending menaces.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Things, praiseworthy in themselves, were magnified into stupendous and impending menaces.”
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Beveridge discusses how benign actions were often exaggerated into threats by public discourse.
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