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....................................................... 160 THE REVOLUTION OF GREECE. ...................................................................... ...oppressors, exhibit to us the incarnations of Wordsworth’s principle. Such wars are of rare occurrence. Fortunately they are so; since, under the poss... ...zed by the ex- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshu... ... the true and transcendent spirit of mercy which resides virtually in such wars, as maintaining the unity of God against Poly- theism and, by tramplin... ... English bar—not Pericles or Demosthenes, from the fierce democ- racies of Greece—not Paul preaching at Athens—could snatch a wreath from public homag... ...erally, whose chief business must have lain amongst the great writ- ers of Greece and Rome—cannot have found leisure to cul- tivate extensively their ... ...ven qua- druple interpretations—each rising in dignity, each crypti- cally involving another. Even amongst natural agencies, pre- cisely as they rise ... ...tity of C at the same time that B commands a double quantity of C, without involving any absurdity at all. And, if so, the disputed doctrine is establ...

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... opportunity of observing in connexion with the Drama—which, by the by, as involving a good deal of noise, appears to me to be occasionally con found... ...the most of his legs. ‘No doubt,’ said he. ‘ And you’ve seen me along with warses of flowers, and any number of table kivers, and antique cabi nets, ... ...riends, the moment a grey hair appears on his head. All the noble savage’s wars with his fellow sav ages (and he takes no pleasure in anything else) ... ... with his fellow sav ages (and he takes no pleasure in anything else) are wars of extermination—which is the best thing I know of him, and the most c... ...nds, and from the birds and beetles of the trop ics, and from the Arts of Greece and Rome, and from the Sculptures of Nineveh, and from the traces of... ...nger immediately started up again, and said that after those observations, involving as they did ample concession to his honour without compromising t...

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...t an early period, the seat of frequent immigrations from various parts of Greece. Among the immigrants was Menapolus, the son of Ithagenes. Although ... ...tion of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed over the ... ...of the pseudo Herodotean Life of Homer, from which they are taken.” Lit of Greece, pp. 38 in Encycl. Metrop. Cf. Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 317.] Bu... ...ior none such hatred bear: Strife and debate thy restless soul employ, And wars and horrors are thy savage joy, If thou hast strength, ’twas Heaven th... ...grow, Repulsed and baffled by a feeble foe. So small their number, that if wars were ceased, And Greece triumphant held a general feast, All rank’d by... ...mes, The golden spoil, and thine the lovely dames. With all the wealth our wars and blood bestow, Thy tents are crowded and thy chests o’erflow. Thus ... ...e, warrior, haste! preserve thy threaten’d state, Or one vast burst of all-involving fate Full o’er your towers shall fall, and sweep away Sons, sires...

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...or the murder, then, indeed, Lydia enjoyed high peace and security, but in Greece and the countries about it the like villanies again re- vived and br... ...at way back: That it was a 17 Plutarch’s Lives decree consented to by all Greece, that no vessel from any place, containing above five persons, shoul... ...ssemble upon any affair for the common interest. Nay, differences and even wars often occurred be- tween them, which he by his persuasions appeased, g... ... begun: the fame of the strength and valor of Theseus being spread through Greece, Pirithous was desirous to make a trial and proof. of it himself, an... ...together, nobody committed the like in Rome; and Lucius Hostius, after the wars of Hanibal, is recorded to have been the first parricide. Let thus muc... ...ndship or cor- respondence for the advantage of commerce, but enmities and wars and the slaughter of citizens, and, at last, the loss of the city Aphi... ...is; but there his soldiers’ hearts failing, after exposing his project and involving the Spartans in a dangerous war, he retreated to Thespiae. After ...

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... splendor of his actions in arms, and his suc- cessful achievements in the wars, drew off his ambition in that direction. At his first beginning, he s... ... he was advanced to places of honor and trust under his general. After the wars with the Cimbri and Teutones, he was sent into Spain, having the comma... ...ome by Sylla and fled into Af- rica, and Sylla had left Italy to go to the wars against Mithridates, and of the two consuls Octavius and Cinna, Octavi... ...s to claim the command of the expedition, and by carrying the war far from Greece into Persia, to anticipate the designs of the bar- barian. He also w... ...ereigns both at sea and land, should not achieve some memorable action for Greece. And so to be even with Tisaphernes, he requites 59 Plutarch’s Live... ...ook off his head, and presently dealt with Agesilaus about his return into Greece, sending to him am- bassadors to that purpose, with commission to of... ...o his fellow citizens. For it will not even do to say, that he dreaded the involving the city in war, by seizing Nicanor, and hoped by professions of ...

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...of a demiurgus or creator of the world, indi- cated one stage amongst six; involving probably many mil- lions of years. The silliest of nurses, in her... ...ested by 81 Thomas de Quincey the ‘Lutrin.’ The story in Herodotus of the wars between cranes and pigmies, or the Batrachomyomachia (so absurdly ascr... ...over the Grecian trag- edy, and to court which feeling the tragic poets of Greece naturally spread all their canvas, was more nearly allied to the atm... ... figure as incommensurate to this height. Not at all. The flowing dress of Greece healed all that. But, besides the cothurnus, you have heard of the m... ...worth? Worth the money? How mean a thought! T o see Helen, to see Helen of Greece, was the chief prayer of Marlow’s Dr. Faustus; the chief gift which ... ...rtial was not resorted to in England: except for the short term of the two wars, and the brief intermediate campaign of 1648, the country was in a 16... ... What blood did he cause to be shed? A great deal was shed no doubt in the wars (though less, by the way, than is imagined): but in those Cromwell was... ...y of an eminent person contemporary with the fact] it must be looked on as involving a peremptory defi- ance to all succeeding critics who might hesit... ...hdraw, therefore, from the rash attempt to quarrel with this sort of bull, involving itself in the verbal expres- sion. But the following, which lies ...

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...and el- egant poem, in ottava rima, entitled, “Mr Pope’s Welcome Home from Greece,” in which his different friends are pic- tured as receiving him hom... ...its beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus; it was used in part of Greece, and frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest persons: whereas... ... 90 By the same laws which first herself ordain’d. Hear how learn’d Greece her useful rules indites, When to repress, and when indulge our flig... ...ds; Secure from flames, from envy’s fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving age. See from each clime the learn’d their incense bring! Hear in... ..., and all mankind. VER. 130, 131:— When first young Maro sung of kings and wars, Ere warning Phoebus touch’d his trembling ears 60 The Poetical Works... ... Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire, A dreadful series of intestine wars, Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. At length great Anna said—‘L... ...roud Caesar, ‘midst triumphal cars, The spoils of nations, and the pomp of wars, Ignobly vain and impotently great, Show’d Rome her Cato’s figure draw...

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...esholds. I have conversed with living men of genius. The poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, and mod- ern Italy, and our own country, has been to me, l... ...n of Rome might affix to what he should produce. It was at the period when Greece was led captive and Asia made tributary to the Republic, fast vergin... ...e demon pale, his sanguine shrine forsook. _405 32 32 32 32 32. ‘Then Greece arose, and to its bards and sages, In dream, the golden-pinioned Gen... ...ew his cause their own, and swore Like wolves and serpents to their mutual wars Strange truce, with many a rite which Earth and Heaven abhors. ... ...as through empty space, music and light: _240 T en thousand orbs involving and involved, Purple and azure, white, and green, and golden, Sph... ...88. 88. 88. 88. 88. ‘And the bold, true warriors Who have hugged Danger in wars Will turn to those who would be free, Ashamed of such base company. 89... ...hymesters—pamphleteers—stock-jobbers— _190 Men of glory in the wars,— Line 183 One of the attributes in Linnaeus’s description of the Cat....

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...an always does. Public opinion cannot force that kind of men to go to the wars. When they go it is for other reasons. Other spirit contenting reasons... ...r blue squares. ( Image not avail able—ed.) Henry VII. had no liking for wars and turbulence; he preferred peace and quiet and the general prosperit... ...as to private particu lars. “Where do you live when you are at home?” “In Greece.” “Greece! Well, now, that is just astonishing! Born there?” “No.” “... ...when the right words are conspicuous that they thunder: The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome! When I got back from Howells old to ... ...in and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. The Indians pursued their warfar... ...f an asp which she dissolved in a wine cup. The only form of government in Greece was a limited monkey. The Persian war lasted about 500 years. Greece... ... and the Courts at Westminster, nothing short of employment in some career involving con stant contact with legal questions and general legal work W... ...ance points out, “would require nothing short of employment in some career involving constant contact with legal questions and general legal work.” ...

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...ticipate still worse mischiefs; and in your goodness and wisdom, beware of involving your family in such broils; let it continue to enjoy its former r... ...ould longer insist upon it. Edward I., King of England, having in the long wars betwixt him and Robert, King of Scotland, had experience of how great ... ...tribute to the continuation of the successes he had always obtained in the wars against them. In like manner certain of the Indians, in their battles ... ...ct. And other people of the same New World carry about with them, in their wars, the relics of valiant men who have died in battle, to incite their co... ... of the Emperor Leo, which prophesied all the emperors and patri- archs of Greece. This I have been an eyewitness of, that in public confusions, men a... ...to use by the legislator Charondas; and that, before his time, the laws of Greece punished those with death who fled from a battle; whereas he ordaine... ... so admirable effects. They used to go, it is said, to the other cities of Greece, to inquire out rhetoricians, painters, and musicians; but to Laceda...

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... Our race has never been able contentedly to suppose that the noise of its wars, con- ducted by a few young gentlemen in a corner of an incon- siderab... ...ld; but if you begin to ask what it was in other periods and countries, in Greece for instance, the strangest doubts begin to spring up, and everythin... ...sticating brain. Not long ago I wrote a letter to a friend which came near involving us in quarrel; but we met, and in personal talk I repeated the wo... ...nity. The shadows and the generations, the shrill doctors and the plangent wars, go by into ultimate silence and emptiness; but underneath all this, a... ...States to honour them.” – Sir Will- iam Temple. T HERE IS ONE STORY of the wars of Rome which I have always very much envied for England. Germanicus w...

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...rofane, as utterly unworthy of notice, until long after the Christian era. Greece, even in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest me... ...once in Book XX. sect. v. c. 8, of his Antiquities; once in Book I. of his Wars: but in sect. 10 of the chapter first cited you will find a particular... ...great trunk arteries between two mighty realms, 4 and haunted for ever by wars or ru- mors of wars, decussated (for anything I know to the con- trary... ...the candid reader perceives at once the necessity for at least four bloody wars. Falling indeed a little farther, as, for instance, into the pigstye, ... ... the eye in one poem, unless by sacrificing all unity of theme, or else by involving the earlier half, as a narrative episode, in the latter;—this mig...

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...ey would speak to him, but those with whom he would not care to speak; thus uncon- sciously involving himself in the condemnation of his coun- trymen.... ...rfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies be- yond the flight of our imaginations. Greece, Rome, and Judaea are gone by forever, leaving to g... ...u apprehend by an athletic act of the imagination. A faint far-off rumour as of Merovingian wars; a legend as of some dead religion. 117 Robert Louis... ... be crusty with half a year’s baking?’ I think this quip would leave us cold. The ‘Isles of Greece’ seem rather tawdry too; but on the ‘Address to the... ...averley, and Guy Mannering, the Voyages of Captain Woods Rogers, Fuller’s and Bunyan’s Holy Wars, The Reflections of Robinson Crusoe, The Femaile Blue...

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...Hitherto, either slave labour (Phaleas),** or at least class distinctions involving unavoidable labour in the lower class, have been assumed— as Plat... ...ntary. That is true even of those triumphs of static endeavour achieved by Greece. The Greek temple, for example, is a barn with a face that at a cert... ... thought, the flow of intention, poured always more abundantly. There were wars, but they were conclusive wars that established new and more permanent... ...xperiments dating back to the first dawn of philo- sophical state-craft in Greece. That hasty despair of specialisation for government that gave our p... ...laws, and they will certainly be responsible for a large proportion of the wars, hardships, and cruelties the immediate future holds in store for our ...

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... great enterprises, and the nobles ex- hausting their resources by private wars, the lower orders were enriching themselves by commerce. The influence... ... which has not turned to the advantage of equality. The Cru- sades and the wars of the English decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the... ... their citizens. It would be ridiculous to compare the American was to the wars of the French Revolution, or the efforts of the Americans to those of ... ...e laws; and the President may frequently change his line of policy without involving the State in difficulty or destruction. Whatever the prerogatives... ...own courts of justice. It cannot be doubted that the *This was the case in Greece, when Philip undertook to ex- ecute the decree of the Amphictyons; i... ...01 Tocqueville No great change takes place in human institutions with- out involving amongst its causes the law of inheritance. When the law of primog... ...respecting their slaves. The most profound and capacious minds of Rome and Greece were never able to reach the idea, at once so general and so 500 De... ...er say that it was by the luxuries of Rome and the Epicurean philosophy of Greece. If their social con- dition, their present circumstances, and their...

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...ke Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance lite... ...sage author stand without a peer. 40 Don Quixote – Part I DON BELIANIS OF GREECE To Don Quixote of la Mancha SONNET In slashing, hewing, cleaving, w... ...” said the curate. “This that comes next,” said the barber, “is ‘Amadis of Greece,’ and, indeed, I believe all those on this side are of the same Amad... ... have seen and heard and talked with the invincible knight Don Belianis of Greece. This, then, sirs, is to be a knight-errant, and what I have spoken ... ... should follow letters, another trade, and the third serve the king in the wars, for it is a difficult matter to gain admission to his service in his ... ...is much, that the choice 380 Don Quixote – Part I he made of going to the wars was attended with such success, that by his gallant conduct and courag... ...t the present moment your request is inop- portune, for I am debarred from involving myself in any adventure until I have brought to a happy conclusio...

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...ke Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance lite... ... shall endure, And thy sage author stand without a peer. DON BELIANIS OF GREECE To Don Quixote of la Mancha SONNET In slashing, hewing, cleaving, w... ...” said the curate. “This that comes next,” said the barber, “is ‘Amadis of Greece,’ and, indeed, I believe all those on this side are of the same Amad... ... have seen and heard and talked with the invincible knight Don Belianis of Greece. This, then, sirs, is to be a knight-errant, and what I have spoken ... ... should follow letters, another trade, and the third serve the king in the wars, for it is a difficult matter to gain admission to his service in his ... ...f Cato’s. But I can say this much, that the choice he made of going to the wars was attended with such success, that by his gallant conduct and courag... ...t the present moment your request is inop- portune, for I am debarred from involving myself in any adventure until I have brought to a happy conclusio... ... this is not the time for going into questions of the sort, which would be involving ourselves in an inextricable labyrinth. Believe 625 Cervantes – ... ...n or a rational being. In the end, though they sought to dissuade him from involving himself in such a challenge, assur- ing him they admitted his gra...

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...the light of a spark. It was known that a valorous General of the Algerian wars proposed to make a clean march to the capital of the British Empire at... ...tures; and they were good landlords, good masters blithely followed to the wars. Sing an old battle of Normandy, Picardy, Gascony, and you cel- ebrate... ...re in that way. The Romfreys did not breed warriors for a parade at Court; wars, though frequent, were not constant, and they wanted occupation: they ... ...the ordinary condi- tions of the world: these two countries are France and Greece! None other give you the perfect woman, the woman who conquers time,... ... shots at the detested one, and certain boys were maltreated for an ardour involving clumsiness. A 234 Beauchamp’s Career young genius of this horde ... ...glorious motion, odorous air of sea and herb, exquisite as in the isles of Greece. And the Continental travelling ninnies leave England for health!— r... ...s politics, he disdained prudence. A monstrous crime had been commit- ted, involving the honour of the family. No subtlety of in- sinuation, no sugges... ...say Yes would be to plunge a dagger in her bosom; but No was a vain deceit involving a double wreck. Assuredly a man standing against the world in a g... ...s inner mind. ‘Oh! not England, Italy, Italy!’ Renee exclaimed: ‘Italy, or Greece: anywhere where we have sunlight. Mountains and valleys are my dream...

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... said. ‘The journals are trading engines. Panics are grist to them; so are wars; but they do their duty in warn- ing the taxpayer and rousing Parliame... ...d it; and in her present wrestle with the scheme of a large country estate involving new intimacies, anxieties, the courtship of rival magnates, follo... ...he luxuries they will occasionally condescend to taste, like some tribe in Greece; boxers, rowers, runners, climbers; braced, indomitable; mag- nanimo... ...e, at his reading of a lengthy report in a newspaper of a Wedding Ceremony involving his favourite Bishop for bridegroom: a report to make one glow li... ...touched Nesta simply, as a young girl to be protected, without abhorrently involving the woman. He had his ideas of the Spirit of Woman stating her ca...

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...ric. It was the same noble breed of men, of Asiatic birth, that settled in Greece; the same happy and poetic kindred who dwelt in Arcadia, and— whethe... ...rils and rude emergencies of their intermi- nable descent. In the constant wars with which Italy was plagued, by the dissensions of her petty states a... ...torial art, devoutly exercised, might effect in behalf of religious truth; involving, as it does, deeper mysteries of revelation, and bring- ing them ...

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...ling. From the formless fetichism of savages to the graceful inventions of Greece, or the profound and metaphysical doctrines of Egypt and In- dia, wh... ...s, though he’s a brave fellow, took it into his head he wouldn’t go to the wars; in fact, the army wasn’t a healthy place for one of his family. So wh... ...ercial, and is turned over. Thus, besides the evil of parcelling the land, involving that of the diminution of horses, cattle, and sheep, the section ... ...ers, whose only function would be to oppose bad legislation and capricious wars. The Chamber, as constituted to-day, will 189 Balzac proceed, as you ...

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...the better part of two thousand years, its annals of obscure policies, and wars, and continu- ally recurring misfortunes, seem also but broken rubbish... ...e suffered chance to direct her steps as it would. Thus it happened, that, involving herself in the crookedness of Rome, she saw Hilda’s tower rising ... ...ric. It was the same noble breed of men, of Asiatic birth, that settled in Greece; the same happy and poetic kindred who dwelt in Arcadia, and— whethe... ...rils and rude emergencies of their intermi- nable descent. In the constant wars with which Italy was plagued, by the dissensions of her petty states a... ...torial art, devoutly exercised, might effect in behalf of religious truth; involving, as it does, deeper mysteries of revelation, and bring- ing them ...

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...ons, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that wa... ...ar of his country. That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredl... ...ung lady , whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and politenesses likely to p... ...s of a very frugal kind: not only because that was the safest way of life, involving the least offence to the people, but because they were not rich, ... ...ens 317 no better man? Tell her, to night, what you know of her danger as involving her child and her father. Dwell upon that, for she would lay her ...

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...ad hitherto been unattainable. With- out warning or preparation, increment involving countless possibilities of further increment was coming to the st... ...ce or precision what we felt about that maga- zine. “To the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.” 67 H G Wells CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPT... ...r own times, we could suppose Brixton ravaged and Hampstead burnt in civil wars for the succession to the throne, or Cheapside a lane of death and the... ...ities, improving all the facilities of life, making great fleets, wag- ing wars, while this aimless decadence remains the quality of the biological ou... ... my vision that night, stretched new cen- turies of confusion, vast stupid wars, hastily conceived laws, foolish temporary triumphs of order, lapses, ...

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...racious and easy than Tirante el Blanco? Who more courtly than Lisuarte of Greece? Who more slashed or slash- ing than Don Belianis? Who more intrepid... ...g one, which the cousin got by heart and they say ran thus- I’m off to the wars For the want of pence, Oh, had I but money I’d show more sense. The ... ...and my poverty are the reason of my travelling so airily, and it is to the wars that I am bound.” “How poverty?” asked Don Quixote; “the heat one can ... ...arthagena; I would rather have the King for a master, and serve him in the wars, than serve a court pauper.” “And did you get any bounty, now?” asked ... ...o questions of the sort, which 261 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. would be involving ourselves in an inextricable labyrinth. Believe me, my friend, we... ...n or a rational being. In the end, though they sought to dissuade him from involving him- self in such a challenge, assuring him they admitted his gra... ... for the right to adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended for Homer. The lamentations of Sancho and the niece and ho...

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...nnocent, of course he will be set at liberty; if guilty, why, it is no use involving ourselves in a conspiracy.” “Let us go, then. I cannot stay here ... ...der VI., were the following lines, which I can never forget: — “`The great wars of Romagna had ended; Caesar Borgia, who had completed his conquest, h... ...prevalent among the women of Arles, a mode of attire borrowed equally from Greece and Arabia. But, by degrees, watch-chains, necklaces, parti-colored ... ...checked by the long peace which seemed likely to endure throughout Europe. Greece only had risen against Turkey, and had begun her war of independence... ...lunteer assistance. Fernand sought and ob- tained leave to go and serve in Greece, still having his name kept on the army roll. Some time after , it w... ...hich proved that the person repre- sented by the picture had served in the wars of Greece and Spain, or, Alexandre Dumas 407 what was just the same t...

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...rs have been but for these queens?” Blondet went on; “Lais and Rhodope are Greece and Egypt. They all indeed are the poetry of the ages in which they ... ...les like the Diana and the Callipyge, it is the privi- leged possession of Greece and Asia Minor. Esther came from that cradle of the human race; her ... ...led to the other. Was there some trans- position of the vital force in her involving her in inevitable suffering? Everything is doubtful and obscure i... ... the only word for an idea so little known in real life. Vanished nations, Greece, Rome, and the East, have at all times kept women shut up; the woman... ... with the magistrates of the old French Parlement in the time of the civil wars, when the presidents found themselves face to face with death, and sto...

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...m. After her favourite brother, a young gentleman, was killed in the civil wars (by Sir Morbury’s near kinsman), her feeling was so violent that she h... ...ct and do not even now know whether the young gentlemen of classic Rome or Greece made verses to the same extent—or whether the young gentlemen of any... ...,” says the constable calmly, with a slight professional hitch of his neck involving its better settle ment in his stiff stock, “although he has been... ...late from his knees, “and says to me, ‘What, comrade! You have been in the wars!’ I didn’t say much to you, commander, then, for I was took by surpris...

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...m. After her favourite brother, a young gentleman, was killed in the civil wars (by Sir Morbury’s near kinsman), her feeling was so violent that she h... ...ct and do not even now know whether the young gentlemen of classic Rome or Greece made verses to the same extent—or whether the young gentlemen of any... ...,” says the constable calmly, with a slight professional hitch of his neck involving its better settle ment in his stiff stock, “although he has been... ...late from his knees, “and says to me, ‘What, comrade! You have been in the wars!’ I didn’t say much to you, commander, then, for I was took by surpris... ...e rights of women to sit in Parliament, and Caddy tells me it is a mission involving more correspondence than the old one. I had almost forgotten Cadd...

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...f farms and peasant villages, and little towns among the farms. There were wars, crusades, barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia,... ...e freer initiatives of private en- terprise. Most of these are occupations involving a greater element of interest, less direction and more co-operati... ...estern Europe in the nineteenth century. Or again one opens at destructive wars. One sees these surplus forces over and above the Normal Social Life w... ...ancies. And the oscillations of empires and kingdoms, religious movements, wars, invasions, settlements leave upon the mind an impres- sion that the s... ...fore methods upon a much larger scale, employing wholesale ma- chinery and involving great economies. It is alleged by mod- ern writers that the perma... ...served so useful a purpose in the middle group of subjects, the sub- jects involving numerous but a finite number of units, has also to be abandoned h... ...pose of improving style, “as the exact and beautiful languages of Rome and Greece.” Is it not time at least that this last, this favourite but thread-... ...ation more marked than in military and naval affairs. In the great days of Greece and Rome war was a special calling, requiring a special type of man....

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... statue spoke to him from a twisted column of the pleasure-loving myths of Greece and Ionia. Ah! who would not have smiled with him to see, against th... ...ests of Alexander, the massa- cres of Pizarro in a matchbox, and religious wars disorderly, fanatical, and cruel, in the shadows of a helmet. Joyous p... ...maginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never possessed. Your wars and revolutions come up before me for judgment. What is a feverish fug... ...ging the desires of youth; but now I became my own master, and in dread of involving us both in ruin by some piece of negligence, I did not dare to al... ...’s delights of boston and gossip, for he was a poet, and so must needs pit Greece against Mahmoud. “In war, is not man an angel of extirpation, a sort... ...t in de- lightful festivals in realms unknown? Has Europe ever ceased from wars? She has never given herself time to wipe the stains from her feet tha... ... a presentiment that there would be some inheritance to sample and divide, involving inventories and engrossing; an inheritance rich in fees and deeds...

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...t folio volume, in which were entered all the charges, of whatever nature, involving any serious ten- dency—in fact, all that exceeded a misdemeanor—i... ...able, that the whole ancient system of civi- lization, all the miracles of Greece and Rome, Persia and Egypt, moved by the machinery of races that wer... ...d countenanced by innumer- able books) as to the true historical origin of wars in many notorious instances. If these had arisen on trivial impulses, ... ...d them. If a man has once persuaded himself, that long, costly, and bloody wars had arisen upon a point of ceremony, upon a personal pique, upon a has... ...so flexible to any stern counter-volition as those must be supposed, whose wars argued so much of vicious levity. The inference is unexceptionable: it... ... trade in slaves. And one thing is clear, that when all the causes of war, involving manifest injustice, are banished by the force of European opinion...

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...tated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending gen- 43 The W... ...reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending gen- 43 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two erally,... ...eir burdens would be general, their ben- efits would be local and partial, involving an obnoxious inequality; and Third. Because they would be unconst... ...vements would be general, while their benefits would be local and partial, involving an ob- noxious inequality. That there is some degree of truth in ... ...by the election of Cass, and in addition a course of policy leading to new wars, new acquisitions of territory and still further exten- 78 The Writin... ...ns. His voice spoke war and peace in the contest with Great Britain. “When Greece rose against the Turks and struck for lib- erty, his name was mingle...