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VII. If we consider the situation of the Spartans at the time of Lycurgus, and during a long subsequent period, we see at once that to enable them to live at all, they must be accustomed to the life of a camp; they were a little colony of soldiers, supporting themselves, hand and foot, in a hostile country, over a population that detested them.
The federal agreement did not prohibit either Rome or Latium from undertaking an aggressive war on their own behoof; and if a war was waged by the league, whether pursuant to a resolution of its own or in consequence of a hostile attack, the Latin federal council may have been legally entitled to take part in the conduct as well as in the termination of the war.
Full of confidence in God, he sets out under the inviolable safeguard of a religious habit. He passes through the hostile troops without any obstacle; far from being molested, he receives, at every step, marks of veneration from the soldiers of the two parties.
He has sold another horse, said Olenin, and glanced towards the oven. A pair of large, dark, and hostile eyes glittered as they gazed severely at him. He became ashamed of what he had said. 'What of it? He does no one any harm, suddenly remarked Maryanka. 'He makes merry with his own money, and lowering her legs she jumped down from the oven and went out banging the door.
The hotel-keeper did not allow such a light to remain long hidden under a bushel, and it was soon spread far and wide that the Honourable Charles Glascock and his suite were again in the beautiful city. And the fact was soon known to the American Minister and his family. Mr. Spalding was a man who at home had been very hostile to English interests.
Come; never mince the matter, I scarcely been half a brother hitherto, I grant you of an enemy, perhaps, than friend; but no reason why I should continue hostile or indifferent. So tell me who the lad is, and what are his pretensions." I endeavoured to draw him off to some other subject, but he would not be diverted from this.
The feverish enigma of the Campagna was no longer hostile and disturbing to him; he had made himself master of its tragic beauty; in his arms he held Demeter, sleeping. During April he received an invitation from Paris to go there and conduct a series of concerts. Without troubling to think it over, he decided to refuse, but thought it better to mention it to Grazia.
Democracy, even Social-Democracy, though as hostile to British Junkers as to German ones, and under no illusion as to the obsolescence and colossal stupidity of modern war, need not lack enthusiasm for the combat, which may serve their own ends better than those of their political opponents.
And when one thinks of the way in which for years past he has held these big meetings in the hollow of his hand, and now, because he crosses their passion, their whim, no kindness! no patience nothing but a blind hostile fury! Yet they thought him a traitor, no doubt. Oh! it was all a tragedy!" There was silence an instant. Then he resumed: "We got him into the back room.
As a race the Indians are no longer hostile, but may be considered as submissive to the control of the Government. Few of them only are troublesome. Except the fragments of several bands, all are now gathered upon reservations. It is no longer possible for them to subsist by the chase and the spontaneous productions of the earth.
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