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I can easily reconcile myself to the idea of annihilation, as a man who knows how to value a dreamless sleep after a day brimful of enjoyment as a man who if he must cease to be Euergetes would rather spring into the open jaws of nothingness but as a philosopher, no, never!"
"A defeat would mean collapse, annihilation and horrors most dreadful for all of us. Our imaginations revolt at such a possibility. Our representatives in the Reichstag have unanimously declared on innumerable occasions that the Social Democrats could not leave their Fatherland in the lurch when the hour of destiny strikes; the workmen will now redeem the promise given by their representatives.
Doubtless it was too late already, and whoever might have the bravery to attempt the feat would be blown to pieces. Guillaume himself had often run a similar risk of death with perfect composure. But on this occasion he remained as if rooted to the floor, unable to take a step, paralysed by the dread of annihilation.
"Annihilation of the individual, murder of the thought, criminal denial of the intelligence, the most sublime of man's gifts! "Oh miseries of the soul! filth of the body! vileness of the spirit! unfathomable depths of human folly! What am I and what are we, and whom do we wish to deceive? "What are we, we who say to others, 'Be just, humble, chaste, pitiful?
For Samnium and Latium this war was as much a national struggle as the wars of the fifth century; they strove not for a greater or less amount of political rights, but for the purpose of appeasing long-suppressed hate by the annihilation of their antagonist.
The father of the gods is weighed down by the sense of approaching annihilation. He now realises that the consequences of his lawless lust of power are beginning to work his ruin. He tells Brünnhilde the whole story ot his schemes to avert destruction by the help of Siegmund and the Valkyries, ending by commanding her, under dreadful penalties, to leave the Volsung hero to his fate.
What her love to him would have been three months after marrying him, I am glad to have no occasion to imagine. She held out her hand. Miss Vavasor drew herself up, and looked a cold annihilation into her eyes. The warm blood rose from Hester's heart to her brain. Quietly she returned her gaze, nor blenched a moment.
After this defeat by the Germans, the king, Wladyslaw Lokietek, granted him a coat of arms and the estate of Bogdaniec as a special privilege. Wojciech returned home, only to discover the complete annihilation of his family.
With the most consummate generals in the world before them, and an admirable commander on their own side, they chose to neglect the councils, and to rush into a combat with the former, which would have ended in the utter annihilation of their army but for the great skill and bravery of the Duke of Vendosme, who remedied, as far as courage and genius might, the disasters occasioned by the squabbles and follies of his kinsmen, the legitimate princes of the blood royal.
Immediately succeeding the battles of the Wilderness, opportunity offered to put this plan into execution to some extent, and from that time forward from the battle of Yellow Tavern our success was almost continuous, resulting finally, before the close of the war, in the nearly total annihilation of the enemy's cavalry.
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