We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftin...ess in deceitful scheming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the planters began by stealing the liberty of their slaves, by stealing their labour, by stealing, in fact, all they had; and ...the natural result was that the slaves stole back all they could. So in the case of women. Reduced to the condition of dependency and with no other avenue for acquirement of success than the one which lies through their mastery or influence over the opposite sex, their natural powers to charm and seduce are, of course, reinforced by astuteness and trickery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a write...r puts on the face of reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Iliad noble heroes move inexorably, by way of a combination of choice and of forces beyond their control, toward destructio...n and dissolution. We are left with mourning, honour, endurance, and pity. In the Odyssey a somewhat dubiously heroic hero wins his way through various fantastical hazards by means of trickery and ingenuity. The Odyssey is not exclusive; it has room for travel, for rustics and servants, for low life, and for dastardly villains. Its overall movement is away from war and from barbarity towards prosperity and peace, cen tred on the wife and a happy domestic scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »