United States or Andorra ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Agricola, thus ruled out, did a thing he did not fully understand; he rolled up the "Philippique Générale" and "The Insanity of Educating the Masses," and, with these in one hand and his staff in the other, set out for Frowenfeld's, not merely smarting but trembling under the humiliation of having been sent, for the first time in his life, to the rear as a non-combatant.
He sank back, closed his eyes, and said, more softly and dreamily, as if to himself, "I forgive everybody. A man must die I forgive even the enemies of Louisiana." He lay still a few moments, and then revived excitedly. "Honoré! tell Professor Frowenfeld to take care of that Philippique Générale. 'Tis a grand thing, Honoré, on a grand theme! I wrote it myself in one evening.
Nay, let me talk." He sighed, closed his eyes, and opened them again suddenly. "Oh, Honoré, you and the Yankees you and all going wrong education masses weaken caste indiscr' quarrels settl' by affidav' Oh! Honoré." "If he would only forget," said one, in an agonized whisper, "that philippique générale!" Aurora whispered earnestly and tearfully to Madame Grandissime.
By the Baron d'Holbach. Voltaire (Works, xii. 212) describes this book as 'Une Philippique contre Dieu. He wrote to M. Saurin: 'Ce maudit livre du Système de la Nature est un péché contre nature. Je vous sais bien bon gré de réprouver l'athéisme et d'aimer ce vers: "Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer." Je suis rarement content de mes vers, mais j'avoue que j'ai une tendresse de père pour celui-l
"Society, Professor," he addressed himself to a weeping girl, "society has pyramids to build which make menials a necessity, and Nature furnishes the menials all in dark uniform. She I cannot tell you you will find all in the Philippique Générale. Ah! Honoré, is it " He suddenly ceased. "I have lost my glasses." Beads of sweat stood out upon his face. He grew frightfully pale.
Word Of The Day