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In any event, I will answer for our local postman. In May "a wealthy magnate is going to die." In June there is going to be a fire. In July "Old Moore has reason to fear there will be trouble." I do hope he may be wrong, and yet somehow I feel a conviction that he won't be. Anyhow, one is glad it has been put off till July. In August "one in high authority will be in danger of demise."
But the scene of the fight was a small, intensely local, easily agitated society of persons, all keenly though narrowly educated, and all accustomed to be addressed in verse.
Well, the glorified political images may grow dim or tawdry with time, but the poetry has endured, and it is everywhere felt to be a truly national, a deeply racial product. Its time and place and hour were all local; but the Canadian and the American, the South African and Australasian Englishman feels that that Elizabethan poetry is his poetry still.
He cultivated competition in local industries, weaving and cooking; and started his people on the path of economic success of a new type. In conclusion, the pioneer was individualistic and emotional. These traits were caused by his economic experience. While that experience lasted, he could be made no other sort of man than this.
Sa'd occurs as adjective 'fortunate, is the appellation of certain stars, and the god Sa'd is identified by an Arab poet with a certain rock the rock is doubtless an old local divinity. Manāf, if understood, as is possible, in the sense 'high place, is not abstract but concrete, though in that case the original reference of the term is not clear. The original meaning of the word is obscure.
If nothing transpired during the next eight and forty hours, the corpse would be buried by the parish authorities. The village policeman acted as Merrick's guide. It was an event in his life that he was not likely to forget. "A stranger to these parts, I should say, sir," the local officer said. "He's in a shed at the back of the 'Blue Anchor, where the inquest was held.
In August, 1919, their rights were confirmed unanimously by all parties in the new constitution. They received the suffrage and eligibility for the Reichstag, and for the Parliaments of the States and local bodies universal, equal, direct and secret and applied exactly on the same terms as to men. Women are by the constitution eligible to all State and Government offices.
But he speedily gained the respect and confidence of the rank and file, not only by stern punishment of the mutineers, but by raising money from a local banker, so as to make good some of the long arrears of pay. Other grievances he rectified by prompt reorganization of the commissariat and kindred departments.
They insisted that "debils-debils" suffered from certain physical limitations; they could not cross the sea hence the variety native to the Island might be different from the mainland species, and would therefore demand local study before being approached with hostile intentions.
"Be that as it may," he replied, "your race is not in a condition to make friends by opposing the prevailing local policies of their environments."
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