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"ref": "1828 May, “Diary for the Month of April”, in The London Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 272",
"text": "This writer, however, with all his blunders and noodleisms, has picked up some truths, too, we must do him the justice to say: and we hope his countrymen will fructify thereupon.",
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"ref": "1849 January, “Address”, in Zadkiel's magazine, volume 1, number 1",
"text": "The intolerable humbug of our public writers as to all matters concerning the Philosophy of Nature, founded on observed facts, shall be unflinchingly exposed ; and the niaseries and noodleisms of many so-called philosophers shall be held up to the world for its scorn, contempt, or ridicule, as they may severally deserve.",
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"ref": "1901, P. C. Sense, A Critical and Historical Enquiry Into the Origin of the Third Gospel, page 22",
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"ref": "1845 August 30, “Noodles”, in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, volume 2, number 27, page 1",
"text": "You may direct your discourse to him, but he will merely answer you with monosyllables and exclamations; of if he is far gone in noodleism, he will content himself with shrugging his shoulders, or waving his hand, or peradventure he will nod his head in such a solemn and mysterious manner as will impress you with an idea that he is a perfect Solon. It is only after he opens his mouth you discover he is merely a solan goose.",
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"text": "Again, all Snivelling hypocrisy in speculation, such as that which, when discoursing of the world's evils, delights to call Man's sin God's providence,—all boisterous noodleism in reform, whose champions would take society on their knee, as a Yankee takes a stick, and whittle it into shape; —to these satire gravitates by a natural law.",
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"ref": "1995, Marie Mulvey Roberts, Tamae Mizuta, The Oppenents: The Anti-suffragists, page 21",
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