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Updated: May 13, 2025
There are pitfalls and man-traps at every step, and the mere youth, at the very outset of his career, needs often the prudence and self-denial, as well as the moral courage, which belong commonly to riper years. High moral principle is his only safe guide; the only torch to light his way amidst darkness and obstruction.
Upon my word, you will go home not very much wiser than when you set out; and the only excuse you can give, for not having seen more sights, will be man-traps mantraps, my masters! that frightened you! And then, in my indignation, I fell back upon first principles. What right has this man to the soil he thus guards with dragons?
If only people would not bring up their daughters as man-traps for the matrimonial market, the next generation would see women fit to be the companions of men in all their pursuits; "though," he added, "I don't think that men have anything to fear from their competition."
"man-traps and spring-guns!" In America I had never heard of the like. What could it mean? They were not surely cannibals, that dwelt down in that beautiful little dale, and lived by catching men, like weasels and beavers in Canada! "A man-trap!" It must be so.
If you dare to come here again unless you're sent for, I'll keep watch-dogs in the yard that'll growl and bite I'll have man-traps, cunningly altered and improved for catching women I'll have spring guns, that shall explode when you tread upon the wires, and blow you into little pieces. Will you begone? 'Do forgive me. Do come back, said his wife, earnestly. 'No-o-o-o-o! roared Quilp.
On the other side, for uniformity's sake, was a precautionary annunciation of spring-guns and man-traps of such formidable powers, that, said the rubrick, with an emphatic nota bene "if a man goes in, they will break a horse's leg."
Man-traps are laid under the pavements, sometimes they are secretly introduced under your very table or bed, and if anything is said against that piece of machinery called the main-spring, or against the head engineer, the trap will nab you and fly away with you, like the spider that carried off Margery Mopp.
Beauty is deceitful, and favour a snare, and I'm thankful the Lord has spared me from such man-traps and spring-guns." But even Sally could not help secretly admiring Ruth. If her early brilliancy of colour was gone, a clear ivory skin, as smooth as satin, told of complete and perfect health, and was as lovely, if not so striking in effect, as the banished lilies and roses.
Parachutes and rail-roads man-traps and spring-guns! And who shall calculate the immense influence upon social life upon arts upon commerce upon literature which will be the immediate result of the great principles of electro magnetics! Nor, is this all, let me assure you! There is really no end to the march of invention. The most wonderful the most ingenious and let me add, Mr. Mr.
The world has too often seen "captive good attending captain ill" to believe in a providence that sets man-traps and spring-guns for the trespassers on its domain, and Christianity, perhaps, elevated man in no way so much as in making every one personally, not gregariously, answerable for his doings or not-doings, and thus inventing conscience, as we understand its meaning.
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