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After the coal-heaving job was finished, Denison lay back and luxuriated on the £5, 17s. 6d. he had earned for his week's toil. Then one morning he saw an advertisement, in the North Queensland Trumpet-Call, for a proof-reader. He wrote his letter on bank paper and then went back to Sum Fat's to await developments.
For the rest, the appeals which they individually made to Humanity were as dissimilar as the currents of their lives, and equally dissimilar in effect. The magic flute of Rousseau's eloquence breathed fanaticism into his disciples, and a desire to mass themselves against the foes of liberty. Tolstoy's trumpet-call sounds a deeper note.
To us, who once thought to see in him the man of the new time, he seems only the brave, sonorous trumpet-call that heralded a king who never put in his appearance, the glare that in the East lights the sky for an instant and seems to promise a new day, but extinguishes again. He is indeed the false dawn of modern music. Moussorgsky
It was soft, at first, and dreamy, telling of old Germany, the mother of nations, of the rich, warm plains, and the grey cities, and the fame of dead heroes. But then verse after verse rang like a trumpet-call. It was of the Germany of now, the Germany which had been taken unawares and overthrown, but which was up again, and snapping the bonds upon her giant limbs.
France! France!" His voice well known, well loved thrilled the hearts of his comrades, and brought them together like a trumpet-call. They had gone with him many a time into the hell of battle, into the jaws of death.
"Ay," said the dragoon, whose eyes were riveted in the same quarter, "there's not a marshal of France so well mounted; and he knows the trumpet-call like the oldest soldier of the troop." "You will return to-morrow," said I, recovering myself suddenly, and endeavoring to appear composed and at ease. "Well, then, to-night I shall give you an answer for the general; be here at eight o'clock."
"I am sick of it, ashamed of it; I want the world to hear that trumpet-call! I want you to break your way into the churches to make them listen to you, and realize their blasphemy of life!" She caught hold of him and clung to him; he could feel, like an electric shock, the thrill of her excitement.
Temptation says: 'Do this pleasant thing; do not be hindered by the fact that it is wrong. Trial, or proving, says: 'Do this right and noble thing; do not be hindered by the fact that it is painful. The one is 'a sweet, beguiling melody, breathing soft indulgence and relaxation over the soul; the other is a pealing trumpet-call to high achievements.
The solitude of this great city is really remarkable; the theatres are empty; I hardly ever go to them." In two days there was a complete change. Paris woke up as if to a joyous trumpet-call, and Madame de Remusat was full of happiness: "My dear, what good news!" she wrote October 14, "... This morning the cannon announced the victory to the city of Paris; it produced a great effect.
Surely it could not be that the land was all sunk in selfishness and unfaith that there were no longer any generous souls who could be stirred by a trumpet-call, and led forth to strike a new blow for the great hope of Humanity! Section 17. The long winter dragged by, and the fury of it seemed to increase; they were as if besieged by demons of cold and storm.
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