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I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room room for the human mind. Why should we sacrifice a real world that we have, for one we know not of? Why should we enslave ourselves? Why should we forge fetters for our own hands? Why should we be the slaves of phantoms. The darkness of barbarism was the womb of these shadows.
Count of Pitigliano; Nicolo Orsini, born 1442, died 1510. And as with these examples I have reached Italy, which has been ruled for many years by mercenaries, I wish to discuss them more seriously, in order that, having seen their rise and progress, one may be better prepared to counteract them.
Business is run on credit faith. "Faith is the sustaining force of all personal and social life; a panic is its end a lapse to the level of the beast of the field whose life is ruled by fear. "Banks were not made as strong boxes for the hoarding of money. Money was hoarded in strong boxes centuries before banks were invented.
"Thus Athens, though still in name a democracy, was in fact ruled by her greatest man." THUCYDIDES, book ii. chap. 65.
He had tried again and again to destroy it. Everything else that had got in his way he had destroyed, but this he had not destroyed. He was trying to destroy it now, but he returned it to his pocket, unable to destroy it, ruled by it, when he raised his eyes and saw his daughter before him. She had not been without foresight even in her shame and sorrow.
The violent party which now ruled at Brussels had ungratefully forgotten the eminent services of Vander Mersch, and accused him of treachery, merely from his attachment to the noble views and principles of the widely-increasing party of the Vonckists.
You know that I never could say him nay. He ruled me, as he used to say, with a rod of iron for he made a boast of it, my dear and he was never so happy, I think, as when he was torturing me and making me wince with pain." "He must have been " when Janetta stopped short: she could not say exactly what she thought of Mrs. Brand's second husband. "He was cruel, my dear: cruel, that is, to women.
After seven hundred years the prince died, and another prince ruled in his stead and married the beautiful peasant girl in his turn; and after another seven hundred years he died also, and another prince and another husband came in his stead, and so on until she had had seven husbands.
By this time Elizabeth had two children, and the Landgrave was rejoiced. He was a powerful and a wise ruler, and while he was perfectly just, he punished evil-doers with a hand of iron. On one occasion he was called away from home to give aid to the Emperor Frederick the Second in putting down a revolt in his dominions; and Elizabeth ruled over Thuringia until his return.
And Damaris, younger then by nearly five years, had listened impatiently, ready to skirmish down into the front hall directly the carriage turned the elbow of the drive and enclose her faithful nurse and foster-mother in arms of child-like love. But destiny ruled otherwise. In vain she waited.
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