Is a man too strong and fierce for society, and by temper and position a bad citizen,--a morose ruffian, with a dash of the pirate... in him;Mnature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school, and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy. Thus she contrives to intenerate the granite and the feldspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in, and keeps her balance true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon, And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,... He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit, And Custard gobbled him, every bit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when ba...d, he is entitled to none at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the two boys walked sorrowing along, they made a new compact to stand by each other and be brothers and never separate till dea...th relieved them of their troubles. Then they began to lay their plans. Joe was for being a hermit, and living on crusts in a remote cave, and dying, some time, of cold, and want, and grief; but after listening to Tom, he conceded that there were some conspicuous advantages about a life of crime, and so he consented to be a pirate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who fel...t that the public eye was on him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist an...d has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir: Between buccaneers, no ceremony; I take your dry goods, and in return I send you pimento; therefore, we are now even. I enter...tain no resentment.... Nothing can intimidate us; we run the same fortune, and our maxim is that the goods of this world belong to the strong and valiant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »