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..., I perceive, for no other purpose than to escape the consequences of your crimes; and I can readily understand your embarrassment when I addressed my... ... each intent upon some unknown interest, criminal or kindly. “They talk of war,” he thought, “but this is the great battle- field of mankind.” And the... ...ing manners. But when all is said, he was not the man to lead armaments of war, or direct the councils of a State. A fortunate chance and some influen... ... For Harry, in a double capacity, was heart and soul upon that side of the war: not only did he adore Lady V andeleur and fear and dislike her husband... ...lf in life. By life,” he added, “I do not mean Thackeray’s novels; but the crimes and secret possibilities of our society, and the principles of wise ... ...you but a hundredth part of its story; what passed in former ages, to what crimes and treacheries it incited 143 New Arabian Nights men of yore, the ... ...stood in a bleak stretch of country some three miles from the shore of the German Ocean. It was as large as a barrack; and as it had been built of a s...

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... and took pains to read every word, not only in English, but in French and German, which was published concerning his profession. Whenever he could sn... ...and placed his two large hands on the table. 32 TheMagician ‘Burkhardt, a German with whom I was shooting, was down with fever and could not stir fro... ...ill the other day, when our friend Miss Ley asked me to meet at dinner the German explorer Burkhardt. I dare say you remember that Burkhardt brought o... ...ate, cold yet sensual; unnatural secrets dwelt in his mind, and mysterious crimes, and a lust for the knowledge that was arcane. Oliver Haddo was attr... ...the neighbourhood of the ruined castle which was the scene of his horrible crimes.’ ‘It’s awful to know that this dreadful danger hangs over her, and ... ...each of human help. In a little while there would be no trace of all those crimes and all those horrors. Now it was one mass of flame. It looked like ...

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...WTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING...

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...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ... are probably not consciously decided. But we hope that as we become more humanized we are more able to think for ourselves. ―Studies in German... ... 20 in authority told them it was acceptable.(3) I guess that we shouldn‘t be surprised when young German... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ...mit that violence in films, TV programming and video games, helps to make better soldiers—where killing is an ideal form of behavior. In World War I ... ...that the unloved child is a primary candidate for juvenile delinquency, and criminologists tell us that a lack of love is at the root of many crimes... ...ing, gang fights, kidnapping, robbery, spousal beatings, and murder. During the last ten years in your country the rate of arrests for violent crimes... ...a Venetian shell hit it and exploded the ammunition that the Turks had stored there. I experienced the spectacle in English, Greek, French and German...

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...ther on account of frequent deaths, or the often re- curring calamities of war. I pray that every reader who shall read this book, may pardon me, for ... ...from Brutus, and rose from the family of Brutus. Aeneas, after the T rojan war, arrived with his son in Italy; and Having vanquished T urnus, married ... ...nd Boganus. From Hisicion arose four na- tions—the Franks, the Latins, the Germans, and Britons: from Armenon, the Gothi, Balagothi, Cibidi, Burgundi,... ...o reigned forty-seven years after the birth of Christ. He carried with him war and devastation; and, though not without loss of men, he at length conq... ...apprehen- sions of Ambrosius.* In the meantime, three vessels, exiled from Germany, arrived in Britain. They were commanded by Horsa and Hengist, brot... ...fth of his reign, five hundred and forty-seven years. 32. At that time St. Germanus, distinguished for his numer- ous virtues, came to preach in Brita... ...n years before the coming of our Lord to judge the quick and the dead, the crimes of the people might be washed away through his intercession, and the...

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...which o’er them shed tears feelingly and fast. “His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mi... ...d veracity have I related what was laudable or wicked, I have concealed no crimes, added no virtues; and if I have sometimes introduced superfluous or... ...ncle became the husband of my aunt, and their children were doubly cousins german. Before a year was ex- pired, both had the happiness to become fathe... ...t he suddenly disappeared, and we learned some time af- ter that he was in Germany, but he never wrote to us, and from that day we heard no news of hi... ...ll treatment rendered me cal- lous; it seemed a kind of composition for my crimes, which authorized me to continue them, and, instead of looking back ... ...is, my conduct was pre- determined, I was resolved not to return. Madam de War- rens, seeing her endeavors would be fruitless, became less explicit, a... ...some one prevented me. The good bishop, who that day was visiting Madam de War- rens, did not remain idle; he took her into the garden, where they wen... ...ometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished. The only means I had to obtain news of Ma... ...ough 146 The Confessions he had experienced inconceivable difficulties in Germany; for not understanding a word of German, Latin, or French, he had b...

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...ng Rob- ert Bruce. Douglas, impatient to get at the Saracens, entered into war with those of Spain, and was killed there. Lockhart proceeded to the Ho... ...t defiance the nature of the climate and country to which they had come to war. The accoutrements of the horse were scarcely less massive and unwieldy... ...ts from the wretched natives for sparing their possessions when engaged in war- fare with the Saracens, and he had not availed himself of any opportun... ...n himself, an idolater, a devil-worshipper, a necro- mancer, who practises crimes the most dark and unnatural in the vaults and secret places of abomi... ... begun to show itself betwixt the French and English, the Italians and the Germans, and even be- tween the Danes and Swedes; but it is only that which... ...lly treated, because men’s mouths—even those of his own minne-singers [The German minstrels were so termed.]—are filled with the praises of King Richa... ...om the princely rank belonged. He had been raised to the ducal sway in the German Empire on account of his near relationship to the Emperor, Henry the... ...sing himself; “but we are also forbidden to avoid the punishment which our crimes have deserved. And since so poor are thy thoughts of fidel- ity, Hak... ...nished, and the crime was confessed. Credit me, royal brother, that hidden crimes have often been brought to light by the testimony even of inanimate ...

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...usive of Rus sia, Norway, and Sweden. It would contain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or I... ...ombined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Aus tria, Italy, and T urkey; and almost all this wide region i... ...e Arkansas (about a month out from their start ing point), where a tribe of war whooping savages swarmed out to meet and murder them; but they appeal... ...cality as Marquette had before been greeted by them— with the booming of the war drum and the flourish of arms. The Virgin composed the difficulty in ... ...d of every line very long. When he was done they all fetched a kind of Injun war whoop, and then another was sung. It begun:— “There was a woman ... ...own a good honest blow which stretched him out. I had committed the crime of crimes—I had lifted my hand against a pilot on duty! I supposed I was boo... ...ound him self “quite unable to describe;” and therefore was grateful when a German tourist helped him out with the exclama tion— “By ——, they look e... ...less fun of it, and its first exhibition would be also its last. Against the crimes of the French Revolution and of Bonaparte may be set two compensat...

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...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...s well as the particulars of the night’s conver- sation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy an... ...ch her father’s ruin had just driven her, she would have seen what her own crimes were, and how entirely her character was jeopardised. Such criminal ... ...the Park, where I am told the wretch drives with the brazen partner of his crimes,” Mrs. Bute said (letting the cat of selfishness out of the bag of s... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ...

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...lodge the Duc de Luxembourg; but he had to do with a man who in matters of war was his superior, and who continued so all his life. Namur, which, by t... ... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...s. The Duc de Choiseul, indig- nant that the reward of his services in the war was attached to a domestic affair which concerned himself alone, refuse... ...This enemy was M. de Chavigny: he was secretary of state, and had also the war department. Either from stupidity or malice he had left all the towns i... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...s, but on certain conditions. These were, absolution from the Pope for all crimes of his life, his murders and his apostasy in- cluded; security again... ...ueen of dupes. It would seem that there are, at certain times, fashions in crimes as in clothes. At the period of the Voysins and the Brinvilliers, th... ...reputation which this Prince had acquired, the general love of all, became crimes in him. The contrast with M. du Maine excited daily irrita- tion and...

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... Paflagonia, and every other coun- try. She knew French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, He- brew, Greek, Latin, Cappadocian, Samothracian, Aegean,... ...he mouth and eyes, and nearly choked him, as they painted him pea-green. I war- rant he had leisure to repent of having been rude to the Fairy Blackst... ...er breakfast, I tell you!’ says His Majesty, quite sulky. ‘We shall have a war, Sire, depend on it,’ says the Minister. ‘His father, King Padella….’ ‘... ... a repentance for their past misdeeds, usurpations, and private and public crimes. As for Glumboso, that rogue was sent to the galleys, and never had ...

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...ught by a lengthy acquaintance with the perils and disastrous haz- ards of war. An officer who had only just joined the regi- ment, the son of a peer ... ...n to criticism. Still, as the matter might have some bearing on the art of war, he felt uneasy about the Medea of the bulletin until a day ar- rived w... ...y advanced to the attack, not like French sol- diers, but as stealthily as Germans, impelled by frank animal greediness. “Oh! you little rogues! Do yo... ...the salon, and all the rest of the evening until bedtime they talked about war and politics; Genestas evincing a most violent dis- like of the English... ...in the Pontoon Troop of the Guard, and was constantly on active service in Germany, lastly the poor fel- low made the Russian campaign.” “We are broth... ...e who are still standing on their stumps after marching over Italy, Egypt, Germany, Por- tugal, and Russia must have applied to Providence and taken o... ...t the criminal go in peace, are you not making yourself answerable for the crimes he will commit?” “It is all of a piece,” said Benassis. “If the mayo... ...read the newspapers, even the most harmless journal contains references to crimes or to public evils, and she whom I hoped to win had never cast her e...

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...ton wagon umbrella, Presley recognised Hooven, one of Derrick’s tenants, a German, whom every one called “Bismarck,” an excitable little man with a pe... ...een wheat at two dollars and five cents in the year of the T urko- Russian War! He turned back to the house after giving Phelps final directions, gloo... ...ce of hops. “Hops ought to be a good thing,” Harran told him. “The crop in Germany and in New York has been a dead failure for the last three years, a... ... ranch as Magnus’s tenant. It needed only Harran’s recommendation that the German should remain to have Magnus consent upon the instant. “You know mor... ...I was maker von vagons in Carlsruhe, und I nef’r gedt home again. Vhen der war hef godt over, I go beck to Ulm und gedt marriet, und den I gedt demn s... ... He saw the matter in its true light. It was typical. It was the world-old war between Freedom and Tyranny, and at times his hatred of the railroad sh... ...right- ened her. It was dark, gloomy, dirty, a place suggestive of obscure crimes and hidden terrors. For twenty minutes or half an hour, she hesitate...

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...om, with the gloomy and dreadful resolve of accepting the challenge of the war like Doctor Slammer, and abiding by the worst consequences that might ... ...s 30 the approaching struggle, and Mr. Snodgrass to arrange the weapons of war, and put them into proper order for imme diate use. it was a dull and ... ...for the soft light of intelligence burned rather feebly in the eyes of the war riors, inasmuch as the command ‘eyes front’ had been given, and all th... ...much absorbed as he ought to have been, contrived to com mit various high crimes and misdemeanours, which excited the wrath of the fat gentleman to a... ...emainder of the company smiled, and looked on in si lence. ‘T alk of your German universities,’ said the little old man. ‘Pooh, pooh! there’s romance... ...ere the virtues of the shepherd, the worthiness of his flock, and the high crimes and misdemeanours of everybody beside—dissertations which the elder ...

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................... 254 CHAPTER XXXIV OBSERV ATION ON THE MEANS TO CARRY ON A WAR ACCORD- ING TO JULIUS CAESAR ............................................. ...y said: “What, shall I bear a tyrant, I who cannot bear wine?”] We see our Germans, when drunk as the devil, know their post, remember the word, and k... ...t and free; so delicate a palate is not required to make a good toper. The Germans drink almost indifferently of all wines with delight; their busines... ...Carthaginians, please him: that men forbear excesses in the expeditions of war; that every judge and magistrate abstain from it when about the adminis... ...at he shall afterwards him- self be astonished at what he has done; as, in war, the heat of battle impels generous soldiers to perform things of so in... ...me person. Scipio, being one day accused before the people of Rome of some crimes of a very high nature, instead of excusing himself or flattering his... ...ccustomed to, one of my train, a lusty, tall fellow, mounted upon a strong German horse, that had a very ill mouth, fresh and vigorous, to play the br...

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........................................................... 38 Declaration of War. ......................................................................... .............................................................. 129 Fortune of War. ......................................................................... ..................................................................... 238 THE GERMAN PARNASSUS. ............................................................ ...d of explanation will suffice for those who have made the greatest poet of Germany, almost of the world, their study, and to whom the story of his lif... ...e the very spirit of Nature, and embody the real music of the feelings. In Germany, they are univer- sally known, and are considered as the most delig... ...’ning breeze That with the curtain sports. 1803. 39 Goethe Declaration of War. Oh, would I resembled The country girls fair, Who rosy-red ribbons And... ...atiently the door. * * * * May many, pond’ring on their crimes, A moral draw from this betimes! II. As he proceeded on his way He t...

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... But not at all adapted to my rhymes. Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war, And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d; There ‘s no mo... ... for accomplishments of chivalry, In case our lord the king should go to war again, He learn’d the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how t... ...ead that they ‘ll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, ‘t is true, But then, no do... ...o spreads, they say ‘T is grown high time to thin it in its turn, With war, or plague, or famine, any way, So that civilisation they may lea... ... ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends... ...make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Germany, the Pegasus he ‘d prance on Would be old Goethe’s (see what ... ... a thing of that astringent quality Which in the North prevents precocious crimes, And makes our snow less pure than our morality; The sun, wh... ...n’ (As Pistol calls it), but a young Livonian. Juan, to whom he spoke in German, knew As much of German as of Sanscrit, and In answer made a... ... Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 198 And one good action in the midst of crimes Is ‘quite refreshing, ’ in the affected phrase Of these ambr...

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... was proved, but there was little doubt of it. There are traditions of his crimes without num- ber, especially his furious anger and malice. He compel... ...y had time for thought. Guy says we are all growing dissipated.’ ‘Ah! your German, and dancing, and music, do not agree with thought.’ ‘Poor music!’ s... ... do last winter; Laura commenced some compli- cated perspective, or read a German book with a great deal of dictionary; Amy had a book of history, and... ... work. ‘“Lavender—steadfastness—Strafford—Cordelia in ‘King Lear’—the late war.” How funny!’ cried Charlotte. ‘For hear the next: ‘Honeysuckle—steadfa... ...f, in his early youth, a doomed man, destined to bear the penalty of their crimes in the ruin of his dearest hopes, as if his heirloom of misery had b... ...sir,’ said old James Robinson, ‘he spoke just like the captain of a man-of-war, and for all Mr. Markham says, I don’t believe he’d have been able to g... ...either in May or June; but he intended, himself, to travel on foot through Germany and Italy, and would write again before quitting Ireland. ‘So,’ sai...

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...versity is an equal opportunity university. Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................ ...e: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw Preface to the First German Edition IN READING through this German version of my book in the Man... ...induce some readers of the original English text to read the book again in German. For some time to come, indeed, I shall have to refer En- glish read... ...in them on all occasions shamelessly and excessively. He com- mits hideous crimes when crime is presented to him as part of his duty; his craze for wo... ...he idea of forming a heroic bodyguard. He has trained his love children as war-maidens (Valkyries) whose duty it is to sweep through battle-fields and... ...called the Neidings, upon whom he and Wolfing thenceforth waged implacable war until the day when his father disappeared, leaving no trace of himself ... ...d Act So far, Wotan’s plan seems prospering. In the mountains he calls his war-maiden Brynhild, the child borne to him by the First Mother, and bids h...

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...ome over in boats across 9 Charlotte M. Yonge the North Sea and German Ocean. These people had their home in the country that is called Hol... ... kings, each with a different part of the island and as they were often at war with one another, they used to steal one another’s subjects, and sell t... ...dom as best he might. The King of Denmark died in the midst of his English war; but his son Cnut went on with the conquest he had begun, and before lo... ...th a fighting man em- broidered upon it. Then the Normans rode up on their war- horses to attack him, one brave knight going first, singing. The war-h... ...had two children—William and Maude. The girl was married to the Emperor of Germany and the boy was to be the husband of Alice, daughter to the Count o... ...glad- ness again all the rest of his life. His daughter Maude had lost her German husband, and came home. He made her marry Geoffrey of Anjou, the bro... ...e are getting wiser now, and think it better not to keep up the memory old crimes and hatreds. Henry, Prince of Wales, was a fine lad, fond of all tha...

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...f that heaven, that thereby the planet became more lucent. And if the star war, changed and smiled, what did I become, who even by my nature am transm... ... “Now canst thou judge of such as those whom I accused above, and of their crimes, which are the cause of all your ills. To the public ensign one oppo... ...row the crown of that land which the Danube waters after it aban- dons its German banks; 13 and the fair T rinacria 14 (which is darkened, not by Ty... ... that in the tower called Malta, where ecclesiastics who committed capital crimes were imprisoned, no such crime as his was ever punished. 13 That is... ...It is fit that where one is the other be led in, so that as they served in war with one another, together likewise may their glory shine. “The army of... ...arth all gone astray after the bad example! Of old it was the wont to make war with swords, but now it is made by taking, now here now there, the brea... ...ment. 13 The devastation of Bohemia in 1303, by Albert of Aus- tria (the “German Albert” of the sixth canto of Purgatory), will soon set in motion th...

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...est and noblest of the three hundred and sixty four 29 Mark Twain ancient German principalities, and one of the few that was allowed to retain its ro... ...done enough harm for one day . Do you want to squander all your capital of crimes and follies on a single deal? Sit down, I tell you. I have arranged ... ...ble cause—the modern Achilles, who gained so many victories in the Florida War?” “I bear that name,” said the Major, “and those titles, trusting at ... ...e. By the above compari son between his age and Ambulinia’s, we guess the war worn veteran to be twenty two; and the other facts stand thus: he had g... ...d him. “Who,” said he, “will call us to arms? Where are my thunderbolts of war? Speak ye, the first who will meet the foe! Who will go forward with me... ...words by the sound, or by orthographic aspect. Many of them have French or German or English look, and these are the ones I enslave for the day’s serv... ...— and that was good too; for without these, one must do as one does with a German paper—pay our precious time in finding out what an article is about,... ...g primer leaded and has a page of advertisements, there is no room for the crimes, disasters, and general sweepings of the out side world—thanks be! ...

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...the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly attached to the Emperor of Germany; or whether she was obliged to fight out the quarrel of William of ... ...h they should gain by it;—whatever the reason was, it was evident that the war was to continue, and there was almost as much soldiering and recruiting... ...amation to his soldiers after running away, a hijo de la guerra—a child of war. Not seven cities, but one or two regiments, might contend for the hono... ...Bavarian service; and when, after the battle of Blenheim, two regiments of Germans came over to the winning side, Gustavus Adolphus Maximilian found h... ... at the “Bugle Inn,” they might have taken down a conversation on love and war—the two themes discussed by the two parties occupying the kitchen—which... ... She have killed, they say, nine gentlemen at supper, and have strangled a German prince in bed. She have robbed him of twenty thousand guineas, and h... ...wever, like Mr. Conrad, the Corsair, one virtue in the midst of a thousand crimes,—he was faithful to his employer for the time being: and a story is ... ... since. Billings told him of all the virtues of his wife, and the manifold crimes of the lad: how he stole, and fought, and lied, and swore; and thoug... ...ead in an audible voice. “Captain Macshane. “The seventh victim to his own crimes was the famous high- wayman, Captain Macshane, so well known as the ...

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...lay which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the profes... ...muddled through. Nature gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their beds in 1914... ...y because they had not been prevented. They were not undone by winning the war. The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. The W... ...eback Hall unfortunately suffered from both. For half a century before the war civilization had been going to the devil very precipitately under the i... ...haw Remonstrances and warnings were met either with an accu- sation of pro-Germanism or the formula, “Remember that we are at war now.” I have said th... ...off his cassock first, and the respect- able school governor expelling the German professor with insult and bodily violence, and declaring that no Eng... ...or a shop counter]. Come, come! let me show you how you can turn your very crimes to account. Why not set up as a locksmith? You must know more about ...

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...ooking as ashamed and disgraced as if the girl had committed the vilest of crimes. RAMSDEN. [roaring with rage] I will not have these abomi- nations u... ...nite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyous- ness. T o his sculptor he ow... ...n com- edy, nothing but a perpetual romance, a universal melodrama. As our German friend put it in his poem, “the poetically nonsensical here is good ... ...h. Man gives ev- ery reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his co... ...Force fanatics. Did you not meet in Heaven, among the new arriv- als, that German Polish madman—what was his name? Nietzsche? THE STATUE. Never heard ...

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... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...is innocent and living piety. I had meant to tell of his cottage, with the German pipe hung reverently above the fire, and the shell box that he had m... ...d in the one as in the other case rough habits and fist-law were the rule. Crimes were committed, sheep filched, and drovers robbed and beaten; most o... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ... ...o that Edinburgh was a world centre for that branch of applied science; in Germany, he had been called “the Nestor of light- house illumination”; even...