I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the re...ceiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together. Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth; with ... />righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.... The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think you overestimate our dear Viennese, my friend. Do you know you didn't even give them a good bang at the end of songs, to l...et them know when to clap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,... For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, during his daily walk, he met any children flying kites, playing marbles, or whirling peg tops, he would buy the toys from the...m and exhort them not to gamble or indulge in vain sport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left.... Think it over ... no more syphilis, no more clap, no... more typhoid ... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But every insight from this realm of thought is felt as initial, and promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and beho...ld what was there already. I make! O no! I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement, before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages, young with the life of life, the sunbright Mecca of the desert.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the mome...nt? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »