If a Sovereign should, by great accident, deviate into moderation, justice, and clemency, what a contemptible figure would he make... in the catalogue of Princes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Calm fell. From Heaven distilled a clemency; There was peace on earth, and silence in the sky;... Some could, some could not, shake off misery: The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a dear m...an, a dear person. He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense. He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the Reformed Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything. He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer's peas. He wears a hairshirt of pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. Another report states that he was a very posthumous child. I appeal for clemency in the name of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That clemency which the world cries up for such a mighty virtue proceeds sometimes from ostentation, sometimes from laziness and n...eglect, very often from fear, almost always from a mixture of all these together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »