History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts: it has flowed forward. Rome is a ...continuity, called "eternal." What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting th...e Scripture, 'If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.... I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its wooden beams were so inviting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He packed a lot of things that she had made Most mournfully away in an old chest... Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs In with them, and tore down the slaughterhouse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »