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He threw it back, and dislodged the palpitating Hooliam with a vigorous foot. The breed struggled to his knees, supporting himself by a guy rope. Just then there was a blinding flash, and the mast and the wet ropes were wreathed again for an instant in bluish flame. Partly shocked, but more from abject fear, Hooliam collapsed with a brutish moan. "Throw this carrion ashore!"
A good rule for optimists would be this: 'Believe in moral progress, but do not believe in too much of it. I think there would be more optimists in the world, more cheerfulness, more belief in moral progress, if we candidly faced the fact that morally considered we are still in a neolithic age, not brutes indeed any longer, and yet not so far outgrown the brutish stage as to justify these trumpetings.
Why do the heathen in a brutish rage, Themselves against the Lord of Hosts engage? Why do the frantic people entertain Their thoughts upon a thing that is so vain? Why do the kings themselves together set? And why do all the princes them abet?
All the same he is an obstinate brute, and sticks to his brutish ideas as a snail sticks to its shell. I am an obstinate brute! I am absolutely convinced that I have the right to choose my own woman, if I want one which I don't, or if ever I do want one which I never shall!" She drew her hands quickly from his grasp. There were tears in her splendid dark eyes.
The place was a regular thieves' kitchen ... what is called in the hideous Yiddish jargon that is the criminal slang of modern Germany a "Kaschemme." Never in my life have I seen such brutish faces as those that leered at me nightly through the smoke haze as I shuffled from table to table in my mean German clothes.
That there was any general participation of our troops in this inhuman and revolting deed, is not for a moment to be supposed. That it was the act of a few vulgar and brutish individuals, is, we think, just as certain, as that the great mass of the army were shocked at its perpetration.
"Savage, brutish people, sir; in general without shoes and stockings, with coarse features and heads of hair like mops." "How do they live?" "The men tinker a little, sir, but more frequently plunder. The women tell fortunes, and steal whenever they can." "They live something like the Gipsiaid." "Something, sir; but the hen Gipsiaid were gentlefolks in comparison."
For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small Families, the concord whereof dependeth on naturall lust, have no government at all; and live at this day in that brutish manner, as I said before.
But as brutish as these Englishmen were, their stomachs turned at the sight.
"He sent me to the King deeming that he should have one full of faithful love to speak a word on his behalf, and I, brutish oaf as I was, must needs take it amiss, and sulk and mope till the occasion was past, and that viper Cromwell was there to back up the woman Boleyn and poison his Grace's ear." "As if a man must not have a spirit to be angered by such treatment." "Thou forgettest, good wife.
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