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‘High Mightiness’ as used by the Stadholder of Holland,
I found this so amusing but also realistic in the way men love to set themselves apart from others with titles of grandeur
Indians.’
As alcohol harmed the Indians, so religion has harmed africans in almost the same way
Like Shakespeare’s shrew, she should have been beaten every day by her husband, but of course never was.
Unfortunate comparison
If men of such vast means will not benefit the world by their example while they live we have a right to … use them as a warning after they are dead.’
Found this poignant especially in this age
Mrs Frederick Vanderbilt was even more original. She had been told that Venetian beauties of the Renaissance liked to toy with a single jewel. So she walked majestically through the lobby with a string of pearls that went to her ankles, kicking before her a huge uncut ruby. Although the grandes dames of New
I wish there was a video of this. So amusing
tyrannically’ — meaning that laws without public support would not stick.
Yes! A court judgment, devoid of the people's readiness to change simply becomes a tyrannical order, but then Brown Vs Board of Education was one that needed to be enforced and was enforced
Here we have a state three millions of whose citizens are languishing in foreign exile; whose intelligentsia have been methodically destroyed; a state nearly half a million of whose citizens, reduced to servitude for their political opinions are rotting and freezing through the Arctic night; toiled to death in forests, mines and quarries for indulging in that freedom of thought which has gradually raised man above beast. Is it not strange that decent British men and women can be so airily detached from realities that they have no word of honest indignation for all these agonies?
These words can be substituted for the millions living under horrific situations in 2020
