United States or Caribbean Netherlands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But it is my task to narrate the gradual corruption of Grimworth manners from their primitive simplicity a melancholy task, if it were not cheered by the prospect of the fine peripateia or downfall by which the progress of the corruption was ultimately checked. It was young Mrs. Steene, the veterinary surgeons wife, who first gave way to temptation.
It shall not endure...” Of the disastrous Franco-Prussian War and the resulting overthrow of Napoleon III, which occurred less than a year after this statement, Alistair Horne, a modern scholar of nineteenth century French political history has written: History knows of perhaps no more startling instance of what the Greeks called peripateia, the terrible fall from prideful heights.
Word Of The Day