Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
For some stone-cutter, scornful of working by the card, or born with an inordinate taste for periods, set forth, below her obiit, the astounding statement: "The first woman. She made the journey to Boston. By stage." Here, too, are the ironies whereof departed life is prodigal.
It is one of the ironies of our time that the techniques of a harsh and repressive system should be able to instill discipline and ardor in its servants while the blessings of liberty have too often stood for privilege, materialism and a life of ease. But I have a different view of liberty. Life in 1961 will not be easy. Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so.
He feared the return of the Marechal when the King, who was approaching his majority, should be the master; once delivered of the yoke he did not wish it to be reimposed upon him. He well knew that the grand airs, the ironies, the authoritative fussiness in public of the Marechal were insupportable to his Majesty, and that they held together only by those frightful ideas of poison.
It was very strange, as he remembered afterwards, that only when he had gained the companion did the sense of his utter loneliness rush upon him with overwhelming force: one of the ironies of life, he supposed.
'Well, be it so; only let us have done with ironies and covert taunts. And with these words their hands were joined; and Uncle Silas, after he had released hers, patted and fondled it with his, laughing icily and very low all the time.
But Morgan's happiness was dependent on his attitude towards things, not on the things themselves. And just now he but perceived all these elements that might have made another life enviable as so many ironies. His ambition his self-realisation and its recognition by his fellows had been all in all to him; its abandonment had been the culmination of anguish infinite.
His harshness repels regard, his coldness blights confidence, and so, though he is admired for his dazzling skill in surgery, for his dogged perseverance and unremitting power of application, for his fine horsemanship and iron nerve; he is not regarded with affection. He is not in the least aware of it, to do him justice, when his rough ironies and his brusque repartees give offence.
In the Near East and the Far it is commerce, concessions, loans that have led to the rivalry of the Powers, to war after war, to "punitive expeditions" and irony of ironies! to "indemnities" exacted as a new and special form of robbery from peoples who rose in the endeavour to defend themselves against robbery.
How unlike is the house of English language and the enclosure into which a traveller hither has to enter! The French equivalent in adjectives reaches no further than the adjective itself or hardly; it does not attain the participle; so that no French or Italian poet has the words "unloved", "unforgiven." None such, therefore, has the opportunity of the gravest and the most majestic of all ironies.
Indeed, it is one of the ironies of the barbarous condition we are pleased to call civilisation, that so many rich men thousands daily are systematically toiling and moiling till they are unable to enjoy any pleasure which requires vigour of mind and attention, rendering themselves impotent, from sheer fatigue, to enjoy the delights which life gives generously to all those who fervently seek them.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking