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The cause which the historian assigns to the effect is one that deserves to be carefully noted by ambitious statesmen because the authority of Pericles was worthily acquired, the people often suffered it to be even unpopularly exercised.
At Bonn, a member of one of the three more fashionable corps spends far more than these sums, and his habits may be less Spartan. The ridiculous expenditure of some of our mamma-bred undergraduates, who go to college primarily to cultivate social relations, are unknown anywhere in Germany, for a student would make himself unpopularly conspicuous by extravagance.
In the city of there lived one Rodman Raikes, unpopularly known as the "Fist." The title, however, was not in recognition of personal prowess, for no more cringing, evasive creature ever existed. He was little in mind, little in body, and little in his dealings. If a principle could ever be concrete, Raikes was the embodiment of the grasping and the uselessly abstemious.
The family came originally from Guernsey and had married into Sark, and, for this and other reasons, was still looked askance at by the neighbours. Both Johnnie and his ancient relative were popularly or unpopularly credited with powers of mischief which secured them immunities and privileges beyond the common and not a little prudently concealed dislike. Old Mrs.
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