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Hence there arose that crass contradiction, which existed in Rome to a large degree as long as these particular systems of philosophy prevailed, between the duty which a man, as a thinking man, owed to himself, and the duty which he, as a good citizen, owed to the state.
'It's one thing to say it and another to prove it, sneered Crass, who was anxious for an opportunity to produce the long-deferred Obscurer cutting. 'Money IS the real cause of poverty, said Owen. 'Prove it, repeated Crass. 'Money is the cause of poverty because it is the device by which those who are too lazy to work are enabled to rob the workers of the fruits of their labours.
It was the professor who first broke the silence. "I am deeply pained, Mr. Philander, that you should have evinced such a paucity of manly courage in the presence of one of the lower orders, and by your crass timidity have caused me to exert myself to such an unaccustomed degree in order that I might resume my discourse. As I was saying, Mr. Philander, when you interrupted me, the Moors "
"Once upon a time there was in France," said a ,pamphlet, entitled Le Songe de M. de Maurepas, attributed to Monsieur, the king's brother, "there was in France a certain man, clumsy, crass, heavy, born with more of rudeness than of character, more of obstinacy than of firmness, of impetuosity than of tact, a charlatan in administration as well as in virtue, made to bring the one into disrepute and the other into disgust, in other respects shy from self-conceit, timid from pride, as unfamiliar with men, whom he had never known, as with public affairs, which he had always seen askew; his name was Turgot.
In a few minutes he had damaged the things beyond hope of repair, while Crass stood by, white and trembling, watching the proceedings but lacking the courage to interfere. 'Now go to the office and ask Rushton for 'em, if you like! shouted Sawkins. 'You can 'ave 'em now, if you want 'em.
After this, Hunter again took a screwdriver himself, and when they got all the screws out with the exception of the two broken ones, Crass took a hammer and chisel out of the bag and proceeded to cut off what was left of the tops of the two that remained.
'Not so many as usual, admitted Crass, 'but still, we can't grumble: we've 'ad one nearly every week since the beginning of October. That's not so bad, you know. Crass took a lively interest in the undertaking department of Rushton & Co.'s business.
<b>ERISTOW-KASAK, PRINCESS MARIE.</b> Among the many Russian portraits in the Paris Exposition, 1900, two, the work of this pupil of Michel de Zichys, stood out in splendid contrast with the crass realism or the weak idealism of the greater number. One was a half-length portrait of the laughing Mme.
Wife "Chorp an diouol, Brian, hould your tongue, Or I'll turn you out o' the kitchen. One can't hear their own ears for you, you poor squakin' dhrone. By the crass, I'll eh? Will you whisht, now?" Farmer "Go an. Amn't I dhrawin' my pipe?" Wife "Well dhraw it; but don't dhraw me down upon you, barrin . Do you hear me? an' the sthrange people to the fore, too!
I say nothing for their tone, which is essentially low exhibiting, as it does, a tendency of rather pandering to the vitiated appetites of the mob than seeking to raise the standard of public taste and public manners; nor, for their literary power and status, as their leading articles are mostly a collection of loose sentences, strung loosely together without method or reasoning, and they frequently display such crass ignorance in the way of blunders in history and geography, as would shock an English school-boy.
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