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Updated: May 13, 2025
In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency. The pen is mightier than the sword only when it has behind it a heart as well as a brain. He who wields it must be brave, upright and steadfast. We are giving our Chief Executive enormous powers. As a rule his wishes prevail. His name becomes the symbol of party loyalty.
It was not yet its time, but I saw in the bazaars that redoubted Dervish, who is the master of the Hag the leader of every procession, accompanying the sacred camel; and a personage almost as much respected as Mr. O'Connell in Ireland. Winter and summer he wears no clothes but a thin and scanty white shirt. He wields a staff, and stalks along scowling and barefoot.
Anyone can be a millionaire, but a journalist who succeeds he wields a power beyond price.
A dreaming scholar can never be a good king; and he who, instead of sword and sceptre, wields the pen and fiddle-bow, will never be a good general." "Nevertheless, no regiment made a finer appearance, or was better drilled, at the last review, than that of the prince royal," said the Duke of Holstein. The king cast a distrustful look at him, and muttered a few words which no one understood.
In ancient times the gods and Asuras were very active in destroying one another. And the terrible Asuras always succeeded in defeating the gods. Vasava addressed then that Asura saying, 'Why art thou bent on behaving insolently to this lady? Know that I am the god who wields the thunderbolt.
His personal likings are for bear-shooting, deer-stalking, and yachting, but he also wields the lawn-tennis racket and the rapier with fair skill. The names of several of his hunting lodges -Rominten, Springe, Hubertusstock, and so on are familiar to many people in all countries. Rominten preserve is in East Prussia, and embraces about four square miles, with little lakes and some rising ground.
A Midnight Visit to the Barn. The Detective wields a Shovel to some Advantage. Fifty Thousand Dollars found in the Earth. A good Night's Work. The day following the revelations made in the preceding chapter, Edward Sommers returned to the agency and communicated the information which he had received the day before, and awaited instructions before proceeding further in the matter.
Bulwer's deservedly famous phrase, "The pen is mightier than the sword," beneath its surface application, if you think it over, has this further suggestion to make to the believer in literature that, as the sword is of no value as a weapon apart from the man that wields it, so, and no less so, is it with the pen.
"As soon as man thus knows himself a creature, he has established a direct relation with the Creator, did he but realize it, not in mere thought of some temporal creation, some antecedent fact of a beginning, but in immediate experience of that continuing act which keeps the universe in being, 'Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath and kindles it above,
"Bravo; speak the word boldly, Signore it is no stranger to my ears. But even the stiletto of a Bravo is honorable, compared to that sword of pretended justice which St. Mark wields! The commonest hireling of Italy he who will plant his dagger in the heart of his friend for two sequins, is a man of open dealing, compared to the merciless treachery of some in yonder town!"
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