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It took all our past national distresses, and it takes all our present national sorrows, to lift up our nation on that high career where it will march along after the foreign aristocracies that have mocked and the tyrannies that have jeered, shall be swept down under the omnipotent wrath of God, who hates despotism, and who, by the strength of His own red right arm, will make all men free.
The white man is cleverer than a jackal. Yes, so shall it be; and may the snake of the Butiana people stand up upon its tail and prosper the war, for so shall we be rid of Wambe and the tyrannies of Wambe.
I dare say that things have mended somewhat in the last seven-and-twenty years; but my experience was in the main a record of petty tyrannies and oppressions, at the memory of some of which my blood boils even unto this day. There is a comic side to everything, however, and I can laugh over a good many of my own experiences.
In the state of peace we do not live in peace: our native roughness breaks out in unexpected places, under extraordinary aspects tyrannies, extravagances, domestic exactions: and if we have not had sharp early training . . . within and without . . . the old-fashioned island-instrument to drill into us the civilization of our masters, the ancients, we show it by running here and there to some excess.
As I said a moment ago you may mould yourselves into noble forms. But in the making of character we have to work as a painter in fresco does, with a swift brush on the plaster while it is wet. It sets and hardens in an hour. And men drift into habits which become tyrannies and dominant before they know where they are. Don't let yourselves be shaped by accident, by circumstance.
Up till now, in spite of the perennial pressure of Hannah's tyrannies, which, however, weighed much less upon him than upon Louie, he had been as he had let Reuben see happy enough. The open-air life, the animals, his books, out of all of them he managed to extract a very fair daily sum of enjoyment.
The educational doctrines of Rousseau had then brought into fashion a régime of open-air exercise and freedom for the young, such as we commonly associate with English, rather than French, child-life; and Aurore's early years when domestic hostilities and nursery tyrannies, from which, like most sensitive children, she suffered inordinately, were suspended were passed in the careless, healthy fashion approved in this country.
Every measure and movement of the King's administration flowed as a direct consequence from this original aggression: his military system, the necessity of rendering his kingdom one of the first-rate powers of Europe, and, in short, all the long train of his faults, his tyrannies, and his crimes. We will cast a momentary glance on the opening scenes of this contest between the two houses.
Remember that; for I for one shall combat it and expose it. Good day. Beauchamp continued, in the street: 'Tyrannies like this fellow's have made the English the dullest and wretchedest people in Europe. Palmet animadverted on Carpendike: 'The dog looks like a deadly fungus that has poisoned the woman. 'I'd trust him with a post of danger, though, said Beauchamp.
No better instrument for stimulating and strengthening the growing popular sentiment, and rousing the latent spirit of the nation, could have been desired by the Elizabethan politicians at that crisis, 'for the great labour was with the people' that uninstructed power, which makes the sure basis of tyrannies that power which Mark Antony takes with him so easily the ignorant, tyrannical, humour-led masses the masses that still roar their Elizabethan stupidities from the immortal groups of Coriolanus and Julius Caesar.
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