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THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

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...THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY 1910 COPYRIG... .... Arnold. Of course you could. All I fear is bookish talk Cooked up by writers out of literature, To give the shudder to dyspeptic girls. Dying ... ...er's As hot as heart could wish, - boy gen- s, in Holland, France, With military honors falling thick; - And I, a Tantalus set in a lake of thirst... ...er and stand each at one corner of the couch. The arrangement suggests a medieval church tomb, of which Mrs. Arnold's kneeling figure fm a part.] ...

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...The Armenians were also raided by Kurdish tribesmen on a regular basis. An Ottoman military tribunal, convened between 1919-21, even convicted for ... ...nt instruments, burnt alive or drowned forcibly. The massacres were carried out by military officers with dictatorial powers, aided by criminals es... ...ocean. It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was sup... ...er Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that A... ...about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it as fact. Current oce... ...re written by St. Paul. The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek. The Bible is the bestseller of all times. More than 5... ...e alive, Bolivar was a much hated dictator and - at the beginning of his career - a military failure. His aide and friend, Gen. Daniel O'Leary, a... ....com/mvm/htm/bc/71721.htm Nightmare The word nightmare is the private name of a medieval female demon that attacked sleeping people. "Mare" mea... ...as been a Jewish symbol for a mere 400 years, though. It appears, for instance, on medieval cathedrals. The symbol in known in India as the Sri...

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...ble database of articles stretching back to 1998 on its website. The student yearbook is called The Gulielmensian, which means "Williams Thing" in Greek.[52] It was published irregularly in the 1990s, but has been annual for the past several years and dates back to the mid-...

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...r all, a pictorial scene is painted. Perhaps the greatest of these is the "Military Guard," which is not only re- markable for clearness of expres- si... ...lege, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 7.30 p. 111., 4 H. H.—College, Geology 1. Go... ...ry 1, Economics 2, Eng- lish 8, French 1, French 2, Frencli 3, French 3 b, Greek 1, Latin 2: Entrance, German; Entrance, Mathematics liii part i, Wedn... ...y a (lance. Prof. Hewitt gave an IlluatrHfed lecture before the classes in Greek 1 Thursday evening on Homeric subjects. Hanson '09, because of inelig... ...1134 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn. Papers Read Before Classical Socie- tyon Military andMedical Topics Two papers were presented at tlie ClaBsical soci... ...osh- ua Reynolds, Rosseau and others. One of Messonier'o excellent Frenoh^ military scenes is repre- sented in the collection. WILLIAMS REOORD, MONDA... ... a brilli- ant stylist, and belongs to the decorative, prose-poet order of writers. While it is true that in many of his personal traits he re- minds ... ...nilwr which show increasing ease and creative faculty on the part of thair writers. ""The Gate of Tears'" by Mr. Westerraann, is espuoially sweet, ten... ...istory need intelligent adaptation to the present. The differences between medieval conditions and present conditions do not invalidate the arsument t...

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...s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, ...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...reedom for everyone. One of his first moves was to organize the Mongol military into units of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. H... ...his Khan was this tradition his grandfather had established in the Mongol military: He never asked his men to die for him and never willingly sacrif... ...enturies before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stressing the importance of a safe Silk Road, Kubla...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...n today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquest... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ... freedom for everyone. One of his first moves was to organize the Mongol military into units of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. H... ...his Khan was this tradition his grandfather had established in the Mongol military: He never asked his men to die for him and never willingly sacrif... ... centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stressing the importance of a safe Silk Road, Kubla...

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...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ...died a horrible, humiliating death. That was the level to which the mightiest military culture was brought to: because of their insane, inhuman prac... ...led cultures the nomads conquered. For thousands of years: the most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Centur... ...ern Empire to ever exist… and then… out last, take over that Empire. Not as a military power, but as a spiritual power. And spread its religious do... ...here, and accomplishing something.’ This is nothing more than a modernized medieval oath of loyalty. Every peasant on Earth for thousands of yea... ...e part of our past is organically connected to our present. For example: The Medieval ritual of anointing Kings with sacred oil is over 2,500 years... ...½ of Europe to the same squalor, poverty and terrorization as the rest of his medieval empire of starving slaves. The American empire was not crea...

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...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... ...lace. Was it more of a conglomeration of 300 years of warfare between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achi... ...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ...business, to the politicians, and to other elites like the unions and the military. ―Then there is the question of how much should one society... ...entages of people in the various occupations. For example in the U.S. the military is a high percentage of the public sector employment. Then some c... ...they far exceed in expenditures of the Constitutional mandates to provide military and naval forces and to fight piracy. ―The best countries t... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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...problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek ... ...thers. I can then pursue the highest human needs, those of ‗self-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek ... ...slims, Christians and Jews against each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthodox Armenians and the Orthodox Greek ... ...qba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region of North Africa, establishing a number of milita... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...efenses. We hate to see death, but sometimes for the good of the world those trying to improve it must defend themselves. We would never use a milita... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer... ...ced, uncreative, and conforming. These people function reasonably well in a highly structured authoritarian social system such as is found in milita...

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.... The book of the non-poems is a protest against art's marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money?? Only books abou... ...e of MVJ: 3.1. Neutrosophy: <philosophy> (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Flore... ...y A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] means knowledge of neutral thought. B) Defini... ... western ideology, politics, culture, behavior, etc. b) conditioned - by military, ideological, economical imposed forces (in dictatorships, for e... ..., the bad and idealization, as spirit necessity, are exaggerations. (...) Greeks' <measure> was excessive as the hybrid which broke it. Their serenit... ...ich determine a country or group of people or class to remain neuter in a military, political, ideological, cultural, artistic, scientific, economica... ...of Mathematics>, Bombay, India, No. 18, 53-55, 1996. [20] Leff, Gordon, "Medieval Thought from St. Augustine to Ockham", Penguin Books, Inc., Balti... ...d (T 2 , I 2 , F 2 ) under others. 98 ----------- ----------- The Medieval paradox, called Buridan’s Ass after Jean Buridan (near 1295-1356),...

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...ated enemy. Precision bombing is expensive, in terms of lives - of fighter pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-of... ... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) (b) Is the government the optimal... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) b. Is the government the optimal mo... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat...

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...ated enemy. Precision bombing is expensive, in terms of lives - of fighter pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-of... ... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) (b) Is the government the optimal... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) b. Is the government the optimal mo... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat...

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...ities and riches of e-publishing. Government use of e-books (e.g., by the military) may have the same beneficial effect. As standards converge (A... ...ttp://www.Turnitin.com Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to k... ...where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, the Islamic world, and Medieval Europe). With e-books, content will once more become a collabora... ... Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old French, Polish, Russian, Romanian, and... ...ialog. For low volumes of messages, this is a good thing. But top-selling writers could not handle email from thousands of dedicated fans. Even in ... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscop... ...op service. Macedonia just handed a second mobile operator license to the Greek OTE. "By the end of 2005, the total number of mobile subscribers in ... ... It is quite curios that recursive learning, originally created for the military- industrial complex (for the purposes of rocket navigation) was fo... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyrosco...

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... a cer- tain measure of trust: trust that at least some third-party software writers will write good and useful code, and trust that users of the devi... ...amateurs and running on Internet servers has enabled amateur journalists and writers to prepare and cus- tomize chronological accounts of their work—“... ...s monopoly for far less restrictive be- havior that gave its own application writers an advantage against independent software producers. See United S... ...orically, the adjective “plastic” has meant “moldable” or “sculptable,” from Greek; Notes to Pages 61–72 267 about a century ago it came to refer to ... ...ry application of force . . . from French plastique or Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plassein ‘to mould’); see also Lawrence Lessig, Soc... ...each other through char- itable contributions. See, e.g., Larry Catá Backer, Medieval Poor Law in Twentieth Cen- tury America: Looking Back T owards a... ...P A  1974, at 9–28, 97–150, available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/LH_ Notes to Pages 197–202 311 privacy_act-1974.html (repor...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...y for the Encour- agement of Murder; but, according to their own delicate [Greek: euphaemismos], it is styled—The Society of Con- noisseurs in Murder.... ...ose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of us, master and disciples, Plato and [Greek: hoi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire... ... Fifth Book, I think it is, of his Metaphysics) de- scribes what he calls [Greek: kleptaen teleion], i.e., a perfect thief; and, as to Mr. Howship, in... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... witness their development, or their prosperous application. More than one military plan was entered upon which she did not approve. But she still con... ...s Joanna’s, viz., expressly to shield her modesty amongst men, wore a male military harness. That reason and that example authorized La Pucelle; but o... ...ideous creatures, however visionary 8 , have a real traditionary ground in medieval belief—sincere and partly reasonable, though adulterating with men... ...their memory, had made the most memorable and effective charge recorded in military annals. They leaped their horses—over a trench where they could, i...

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...ked straight and considered what they saw. Her face was much warmer than a Greek face; on the other hand it was much bolder than the face of the usual... ...ere at home; he knew about a great many things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian... ...s. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and English prose into Greek iambics; he was an authority upon coins; and—one other thing—oh yes, ... ... of youth in a railway station in Bombay, he had seen only coloured women, military women, offi- cial women; and his ideal was a woman who could read ... ...xpedition 1884-85 (honourably mentioned). Clubs: United Service, Naval and Military. Recreations: an en- thusiastic curler.’” Sitting on the deck at H... ...n’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, edi... ...s wheeled past. Susan followed. Mr. Venning strolled after her. Portuguese military families, their clothes suggesting late rising in untidy bedrooms,... ...away to the other side of the world as they were, in smoky rooms, and grey medieval courts, they appeared remarkable figures, free-spoken men with who... ...it again, but kept it on her table, and looked at it occasionally, as some medieval monk kept a skull, or a crucifix to remind him of the frailty of t...

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...the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the Soldier put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail. Th... ...IFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscu rity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a ... ...ted to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors. Phaedrus thus immortalizes the event: Aesopo ingentem st... ...cription) as to secure to himself the right to be con sidered the father of Greek fables, and the founder of this class of writing, which has ever si... ...f subjects. It has no correspondence with the pure Aesopian fable. 12 Post medieval Preachers, by S. Baring Gould. Rivingtons, 1865. 13 For an acco... ... at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers. Francisci Vavassoris opera omnia. Amsterdam. 1709. 16 The clai...

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... hall. It was paved with red and yellow tiles, on which alternately were a Greek Cross and the Lamb of God. An imposing staircase led out of the hall.... ...to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master was engaged to teach mathematics more systematically ... ...f which the nail had a little black edge to it, was point- ing out how the Greek ships were placed and how the Persian. 78 Of Human Bondage XVII PHIL... ...ze; and the tall roofs, the spires of the churches, gave it a pleas- antly medieval air. There was a homeliness in it which warmed the heart. Hayward ... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ...e hands with Philip. He was dressed in a long frock coat. He looked like a military man; his moustache was waxed, his gray hair was short and neat, he... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h...

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...d deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform e... ...e was indeed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable West, to which, to her deep... ...he finest thing in na- ture. It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas-relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very p... ... happen. Sud- denly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall— a Greek bas-relief to stick over my chimney-piece. The key of a beautiful edi... ...es. Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England no... ...rt in frames as pedanti- cally primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exha... ...istoric building in a narrow street whose very name recalled the strife of medieval factions; and found com- pensation for the darkness of her frontag... ...nd she pointed out to Isabel that as he had been there before, as he was a military man and as he had had a classical education—he had been bred at Et... .... It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great com- pany of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which,...

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..., was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith. And... ...l you the name of every kind of tree, and some of their 93 Sinclair Lewis Greek and Latin names too! Besides, we owe the Joneses a dinner. Besides, g... ...e stone rotunda, decorated with crown-embroidered velvet chairs and almost medieval tapestries, parrakeets sat on gilded lotos columns. With exclamati... ...e the Sunday School into four armies, depending on age. Every- body gets a military rank in his own army according to how many members he brings in, a... ...attaining financial success. The Sunday School adopted Babbitt’s system of military ranks. Quickened by this spiritual refreshment, it had a boom. It ... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...g of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora- tion till certain writers took up the “rat” as a new subject. “What! after having seen Corali... ...king; “La Torpille can laugh and make others laugh. That gift of all great writers and great actors is proper to those who have investigated every soc... ...g saint to such profanation. Herrera disguised himself so effectually as a military man, that Esther hardly recog- nized him; he took care to make his... ...lain, tight dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are... ... narrated, and a book is now the weapon —less swift, but no more sure—that writers wield. In the course of this morning, amid the coming and going 16... ...uage of Panurge, a name symbolizing the people, for it is derived from two Greek words signifying All-working. Science is changing the face of the wor... ...been captain in a cavalry regiment, and was looking forward to a brilliant military career, when his father insisted on his help in decapitating the k...

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...tic knowledge of literature, (a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator, Guardian, &c.,) would be likely to have learned a... ...have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth. This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers; but, with reference to Addison in parti... ...ly in talking Latin, to which afterwards he added a competent study of the Greek; and finally he became unusually learned for his rank, but the most a... ...clothed in English; but present him with the most trivial common-places in Greek, and he unaffectedly fancied them divine; mistaking the pleasurable s... ...erility upon the name Desdemona, as though in- tentionally formed from the Greek word for superstition. In fact, he had evidently read little beyond t... ...al fact. First of all, the very mansion founded by Shakspeare be- came the military headquarters for the queen in 1644, when marching from the eastern... ...ld’s uncle domineered as regent of France; and that child’s armies were in military possession of the land. But were they undis- puted masters? No; an... ...nd of robbers by profession. This was the woe of France more even than the military dishonor. That dishonor had been palliated from the first by the g... ...notion found little counte- nance in Lamb’s own way of treating the gloomy medieval traditions propagated throughout Europe about the Jews, and their ...

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... activity applies to getting through speech or reading the idea of, say, a Greek helmet, where no direct use of any kind enters in. What shared activi... ...stand are combined. Thus the words in which a child learns about, say, the Greek helmet originally got a meaning (or were understood) by use in an act... ...helmet has its use. For the time being, the one who understands the words “Greek helmet” becomes mentally a partner with those who used the helmet. He... ...nd the future state official and administrator and furnished the means for military, industrial, and political defense and expan- sion, it was impossi... ...ubordination of individuals to the superior interests of the state both in military defense and in struggles for international supremacy in commerce, ... ...and failures with nature than does political history—to say nothing of the military his- tory into which political history so easily runs when re- duc... ...thing, of the practi- 274 Democracy & Education cal and the intellectual. Medieval philosophy continued and reinforced the tradition. To know reality... ... occasion for treating it as an enemy to man’s higher interests. Greek and medieval knowledge accepted the world in its qualitative variety, and regar... ...ivate psychic consciousness is comparatively modern. In both the Greek and medieval periods, the rule was to regard the individual as a chan- nel thro...

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...ips and men and goods contraband of war, and all those semi-nautical, semi-military rules and axi- oms which it is necessary that all attorneys-genera... ...ith Southern politics. The South for many years had had the disposition of military matters, and the power of distributing military appliances of all ... ...upulous. But I do not believe that any President previous to Buchanan sent military materials to the South with the self-acknowledged purpose of using... ...h it has al- ways given when joined with a strong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywor... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ... It is not uncommon to see in front of a square brick house a wooden quasi-Greek portico, with a pedi- ment and Ionic columns, equally high with the h... ...d Ionic columns, equally high with the house it- self. Wooden columns with Greek capitals attached to the doorways, and wooden pediments over the wind... ...there is, of course, none of that old- fashioned, time-honored, delicious, medieval life which lends so much grace and beauty to our colleges. There a... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last...

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... it has, therefore, received but slight attention at the hands of economic writers. When viewed in the light of that modern common sense which has gui... ... a satisfactory spiritual plane with “high thinking.” From the days of the Greek philosophers to the present, a degree of leisure and of exemption fro... ... discrediting — in a mild and uncertain way —those government employments, military and civil, which require the wearing of a livery or uniform. With ... ...tances may be gath- ered from descriptions of beautiful women by poets and writers of the chivalric times. In the conventional scheme of those days la... ...ng the Japanese, Chinese, and other Ori- ental nations; likewise among the Greeks, Romans, and other Eastern peoples of antiquity so also, in later ti... ...d with the pecuniary employments. Such are politics and ecclesiastical and military employments. The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of r... ...ure class, and almost exclusively among that class. The exceptions are (1) military and naval officers who are ordinarily members of the leisure class... ...ons to this rule as are afforded, 207 Veblen for instance, by some of the medieval orders of monks (the members of which actually labored to some use... ...r and tempera- ment. In the German universities the place of athletics and Greek-letter fraternities, as a leisure-class scholarly occupa- tion, has i...

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...t Boughs Alone....541 The Dead Emperor............................541 As the Greek’s Signal Flame.............541 The Dismantled Ship.................... ...At the close of his crowded course.) Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems, Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Sc... ...nd stated, Christ divine having studied long, I see reminiscent to day those Greek and Germanic systems, See the philosophies all, Christian churches ... ... torchlight procession! The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following; People, endless, streaming, with strong voices... ... The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres, The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands, The cause is asleep, ... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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...her went; and although this is as undesirable an expertness as that of the medieval robber baron, it qualifies men to keep an estate or a business goi... ...ary organizations for doing what was plainly the business of the civil and military authorities, but actually handed out money to any thief in the str... ...r as criminal or unchristian. The Act of Parliament introducing Compulsory Military Service thoughtlessly exempted these persons, merely requiring the... ...de no pretence of having any objection to war at all, and had not only had military training in Officers’ T rain- ing Corps, but had proclaimed on pub... ...among us, the shock was not the less appalling because a few stu- dents of Greek history were not surprised by it. Indeed these students threw themsel... ...he great men of action are always inveterate talkers and often very clever writers, and therefore cannot have their minds formed for them by others, t... ...ombed the Little Theatre in the Adelphi, and narrowly missed bomb- ing two writers of plays who lived within a few yards of it, the fact was not even ...

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...—the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service— had not to move out either of them, while Countess Nord... ... hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her, stepped between her and the fli... ... in the race. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historicall... ...ed Vronsky that he even wore a hat and flung a cloak over his shoulder in the medieval style, which, indeed, was extremely becoming to him. “Here we li... ...ng his portrait of Anna, deciding that it was now not needed. His picture of medieval life he went on with. And he himself, and Golenishtchev, and sti... ...afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two ch... ...of discussing metaphysics, hav ing derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied meta physics, and in Moscow Levin had had ...