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True, I had no parents to lament my wanderings and failures; but I did not wander. I studied closely, with a degree of diligence which seemed to surprise all my companions. I was ambitious intensely ambitious. My head ran upon the strifes of the forum, its exciting contests of mind and soul its troubles, its triumphs. This was my leading thought it was my only passion.
How many pages of history are written with the point of the sword not with ink, but tears and blood? It is chiefly taken up with the recital of wars. What age has not been the era, what country the scene of bloody strifes? What soil does not hold the dust of thousands that have fallen by brothers' hands? Our glebes have been fattened with the bodies of the slain?
His talents like those of other wicked beings, are probably not impaired by his fall, but even sharpened and invigorated by malignant practice. In the aspect of this creation, and in the character of a degenerate world, we may perceive the infernal fiend. We may see his dark hand in the strifes of society, supplying the burning fuel to intemperate passions and discordant societies.
Whatever may be the determining factors in strifes between neighboring continental States, when a question arises of control over distant regions, politically weak, whether they be crumbling empires, anarchical republics, colonies, isolated military posts, or islands below a certain size, it must ultimately be decided by naval power, by the organized military force afloat, which represents the communications that form so prominent a feature in all strategy.
Ten years ago I regarded him as the future leader of the Tory party and a predestined Prime Minister. Of late years he has seemed to turn away from the strifes and intrigues of ordinary politics, and to have resigned official ambition to his elder brother; but his figure has not lost rather has gained in interest by the change.
For this the mothers were very grateful, for the children now had something worthwhile to do, and quarrels and strifes were thus obviated. In short, everybody said that the three children proved themselves valuable to the inhabitants of the fort in many ways, and soon the topic of general conversation was nothing else than their varied and useful activity.
Such a crowd was fit only for Indian women, and some of them shrank from it, I noticed. You heard the news about the King?" "The sad, sad news. Yes." "And the Sieur feels he must go back to France." "What is Quebec to do? And if there is an Indian raid? Oh, this new land is full of fears." "And think of the strifes and battles of the old world! Ah, if peace could reign.
Politics and private life were alike demoralized by unceasing intrigues; and amidst strifes of Pope and Emperor, duchies and republics, cities and autocrats, there was formed that type of Italian character which is delineated in the pages of Macchiavelli. From the depths of debasement of that cynical age the Buonapartes were saved by their poverty, and by the isolation of their life at Sarzana.
Men of this stamp used to hang around Christ to entangle Him in His talk. They come into our meetings to hold a discussion. To all such I would commend Paul's advice to Timothy: "But foolish and unlearned questions avoid; knowing that they do gender strifes." They think they are to defend the whole Bible.
Promise me, Voltaire, that as long as you live with me you will engage in no written strifes or controversies that you will not employ your bitter irony against the government, or against the authors." "I promise that cheerfully!" "Will you do so in writing?" Voltaire stepped to the table and took the pen. "Will your majesty dictate?"
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