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His own father was brutally executed at Vinegar Hill, by sentence of a drum-head court martial, in 1798, and his family proscribed by the British Government. With his uncle, the Rowans, the Jacksons, and some others, he emigrated to America, and settled at Nashville, Tennessee. The Jacksons were of the same family, and distantly connected with General Jackson.
"No, we flatter ourselves it is an original idea," replied the public, brutally. "You ought to be charmed with it. Out you come!" So they took the critics out and drowned them, and then passed a short act, making criticism a capital offense.
One is tempted, on observing the free and unembarrassed bearing of all ranks of people toward each other, to say that no sense of difference exists, and I do not think there is ever shown, among Italians, either the aggressive pride or the abject meanness which marks the intercourse of people and nobles elsewhere in Europe, and I have not seen the distinction of rich and poor made so brutally in Italy as sometimes in our own soi-disant democratic society at home.
Two of Spinoza's best friends, Cornelius and Jan de Witt, who had by a change in political fortune become the enemies of the people, were brutally murdered . Spinoza for once, when this occurred, lost his habitual philosophic calm. He could restrain neither his tears nor his anger.
But, if accounts speak true, there are others who are more deserving the lash of correction than many whom they so brutally arrest. Need they be told that they have no right to kick, or jerk, or otherwise abuse an unresisting victim? Are they aware of the fact that the fallen are still human, and that, as guardians of the peace, they are bound to yet be merciful while discharging their duties?
Sixty of their clansmen after surrendering themselves had been shipped off to the colonies, all their own possessions and those of their neighbours had been seized, and friends and kinsfolk had been brutally put to death.
Well, we aren't asking any special favour of them; we're just making sure that if they all come the same night, they'll have the same seats, time after time. And they'll like it, Henry." "But to be brutally frank, I still don't see where we get off any better." "You wait.... So we sell for just one particular performance say the 8.45 one, one night a week season tickets.
When he did open his lips, it was to say rather to himself than me: "You're not the girl." "No," I said, with a strange choking at my heart, "I'm her friend." By this time he had recovered his surprise, and he seemed to be aware that he had let out more than he ought. "You may be anybody's friend you like," he said, brutally, "so long as you don't come jabbering nonsense here.
There is seemingly not one white man in Wellington who will speak a word for law, order, decency, or humanity. Those who do not participate will stand idly by and see an untried man deliberately and brutally murdered. Race prejudice is the devil unchained." "Well, den, suh," said Josh, "where does we stan' now? W'at is we gwine ter do?
Rosina remained quietly in her place. "A minute later, and apparently when the Colonel was snug in his couch of straw or hay, he repeated, 'Rosina? "The tone of this second call was even more brutally questioning than the first.
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