When some one remarked that, with the addition of a chaplain, it would have been a perfect Cromwellian troop, he observed that he ...would have been glad to add a chaplain to the list, if he could have found one who could fill that office worthily. It is easy enough to find one for the United States Army. I believe that he had prayers in his camp morning and evening, nevertheless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the ro...pe having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was a ...time you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with. Well, it's been that way all through history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here stands the row of enormous stelæ that have furnished the date that links the Mayan calendar to ours. These stones standing g...rimly in line, swelling with the enormous strength of their halfobliterated carvings, still give you, through all the confusion of races and empires long dead, of languages and writings that can never be understood, a feeling of serene order and form... so that after seeing them, the railroad and the guns and the overseers and the loading sheds and the uptodate malaria hospital, all the carefully organized machinery for efficiently squeezing...the sweat and blood of the yellow brown and white mongrel race of workers who live in the rows of company shacks...seems feeble and flabby, not organization at all, not order at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This good had full as bad a Consequence: The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,... Which each presum'd he best cou'd understand, The Common Rule was made the common Prey; And at the mercy of the Rabble lay. The tender Page with horney Fists was gual'd; And he was gifted most that loudest baul'd: The Spirit gave the Doctoral Degree: And every member of a Company Was of his Trade, and of the Bible free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a notable prince that was called King John; And he ruled England with main and with might,... For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There one that ruffled in a manly pose For all his timid heart, there that slow man,... That meditative man, John Synge, and those Impetuous men, Shawe-Taylor and Hugh Lane, Found pride established in humility, A scene well set and excellent company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My idea of good company ... is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I c...all good company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »