 Fire!' is given; and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest!...  The Living Age - Page 2371918Full view - About this book
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...French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending ; till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties cotne into actual juxta-position ; and thirty stands fronting...these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Dculschland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still, as of old, ' what devilry soever kings do, the... | |
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...has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand their interests and their... | |
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...mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out ; and, instead 16 of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so it is in Dentschland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still, as of old, ' what devilry soever kings... | |
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...entirest strangers ; nay, iu so wide a universe, there was even, uaconscionsly, by commerce, some mutnal helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their...another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shooL' Turn from this sketch, to the falling-out ' governor' — a BONAPARTE, perchance, luxuriating... | |
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...Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, ' some mutual helpfulness between them. How then 1 ' Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen out ; and,...these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutsch' land, and hitherto in all other lands ; still as of old, ' " what devilry soever Kings do,... | |
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