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A second world force to modify the status of women Accounts of Caesar and Tacitus on position of women among Germanic peoples The written laws of the barbarians Guardianship Marriage Power of the husband Divorce Adultery The Church indulgent to kings Remarriage Property rights Peculiarities of the criminal law Minutely-graded fines Compurgation and ordeals Innocence tested by the woman walking over red-hot ploughshares Women in slavery Comparison of position of women under Roman and under Germanic laws Influence of theology Sources
He understood perfectly that hypothesis must not be stated as truth. But the vast accumulation of biological fact on the one hand, and of historical criticism on the other, that has become the common property of the scientific mind, how was it to be recapitulated within Catholic limits? He wrote in fear, like one walking on the burning ploughshares of the ordeal.
What then shall we become now, when peace has smiled once more upon our beloved country; and the thousands of brave arms, who brandished the sword, sabre, or musket, have come home once more; and their weapons have been turned into ploughshares, and their swords into pruning hooks?
For if a case was too hard for him to decide in his own mind, he would study to find some way in which the truth might make itself known, as it were. Nor did he hold much with trial by hot water, or heated ploughshares, and the like; finding new ways of his own contriving, which often brought the truth plainly to light, but which no other man would have thought of.
Nations reflected on their follies, and resolved to beat their swords into ploughshares. Then began a period of philanthropy as well as of rest and reaction.
Better days are coming some think near at hand. Turning a seer's eye on futurity, Isaiah descried them in the far distance saw the reign of the Prince of Peace Jesus crowned King of kings and Lord of lords swords beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks every man, whether at hall or cottage door, sitting under the shade of his vine and fig-tree the whole earth quiet, and at rest.
And then he began to ceaselessly hurl at me maces, and ploughshares, and winged darts and lances, and javelins, and battle-axes, and swords and arrows blazing like javelins and thunderbolts, and nooses, and broad swords, and bullets from barrels, and shafts, and axes, and rockets. And permitting them to come towards me, I soon destroyed them all by counter-illusion.
Five years later, having thrown aside his sword, he became a controller of ploughshares as Minister of Agriculture in the Government of the Orange River Colony, and the father-in-law of a British officer who had fought against him. This responsibility had been laid by Napoleon upon his officers nearly a century before. Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking
Some of the ranches have three or four thousand acres in wheat, and it may interest you to know how such large farms are managed. The ploughing is done by a gang-plough, as it is called, which has four steel ploughshares that turn up the ground ten inches deep.
If Peter's director was made of money and intent on throwing it away; and if a blast furnace or a steel plant, or whatever could turn worthless rock into pruning-hooks and ploughshares, should by some act of folly be built in the valley at the foot of the hill he owned, why something might come of it. But, then, so might skies fall and everybody have larks on toast for breakfast.
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