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...g around Congress dressed up as an ‘Strategic Defense Initiative,’ better known as ‘Star Wars’?” Radcliff might have aged more than Brand had imag... ...posite the bishop, and the bishop did likewise. “We’re having quail and wild rice with a Sicilian salad. I hope that meets with your approval? What... ...tch. “Would tomorrow morning be all right?” “If you weren’t married I’d kiss you, in the Sicilian tradition of course.” “That won’t be necessary, ... ... see,” Brand said, and wondered if he might not have made a good Capo if he had been born Sicilian. “Then we wait. But I must use a secure phone to c... ...ile, but I think we’ll be using it more often,” Anna said. “I had our chef prepare a most Sicilian dinner,” she said as she pointed to where she woul... ...t bad, he said to himself. Beats orange juice and toast. The dinner was an assortment of Sicilian dishes. “These are some of my father’s and Godfat... ... freedom must be compromised in order to have peace and tranquility without the threat of wars.” “They’re going to circle the space station with we... ...combat, just like the old days.” “Be careful,” Alex said. “Careful doesn’t always win wars.” The fire from the Uzi’s continued to blaze at the ... ...at about the men we left back on the beach?” “Leave it to the police. There’s still gang wars in L.A.” “So, what’s your game plan?” Barkley asked ...

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... gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to s...

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........................................................................... 33 WARS, MASSACRES AND FAMINES ................................................ ...der methods that have historically controlled population have been reduced. Wars are so horrible that countries now occasionally try to avoid them. ... ...a of people and how do we develop a universal good life with no poverty, no wars, no ecological problems. “A few people are trying to educ... ...spite of the fact that human history is largely a chronicle of tragedy, with wars and natural disasters killing millions upon millions, people keep t... ...em both and each other. History seems to be nothing more than religions and wars, and religions were the instigators in many of those wars.” —“... ...cates. Columbia is worse. And we certainly know a bit about the Italian and Sicilian mafias from the movies. Even the welfare paradise Norway has it...

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....” “And your father?” “He thought it might be useful someday. You know how Sicilians are.” “You don’t have a Sicilian accent.” “I do when I ne... ...e intention. “Holy Father, I have done nothing wrong. And I am proud to be a Sicilian,” Antonio said defensively. “Calm yourself Antonio. It was ... ...nding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your sentiment, but forgive me for sayin... ...ates of spaghetti, and the sound of opera music wafting over the tops of loud Sicilian voices. As Antonio walked to his father’s house, he could smel... ... of bread. "Why didn't you tell us you were coming?" his father chided him in Sicilian, wiping his hands on a white, stained apron that hung from hi... ...hen his father remembered, "How come you've stayed away?" He gave Antonio the Sicilian tradition of a slap to the back of his head. "Mama's been wor... ...Artemis will go down in history as Alexander The Great, Conqueror of the Drug Wars. But, that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong. ... ...housands." "But this is a Holy War," Antonio protested. "There are no Holy Wars, Antonio. There is only war. Whether it is for good against evil ...

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...ing called Patron. Everyone called him Boss, but Patron reminded him of his old Sicilian hometown near Palermo, where Patron meant something more th... ...e one ally. Maybe, in the future, after he had set himself up on some beautiful Sicilian island, he would take Pierce out. Just for the fun of it! T... ...strange game, it seemed to flourish in times of National disasters, and global wars. He thought of Bush's approval ratings after the Gulf War, almo...

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...ys. It was all laziness, he said; barons and princes must needs have their wars, and use up all the stout men that were fit to bend a bow in a thicket... ... “but he is a mere frag- ment of a man, wasted in your Earl of Leicester’s wars.” “Where dwells he?” asked Richard, keenly interested in all his fathe... ... the Prince mounts me. Said you this poor man had been wounded in the late wars?” “Ay, hacked and hewed worse than by the Infidels them- selves! Woefu... ...ather, Baron Mohun of Dunster, had been deeply im- plicated in the Barons’ Wars, and had been a personal friend of the Earl of Leicester, from whom he... ...es had followed him so soon as the Genoese transports could return for the Sicilian troops. “I see the masts!” exclaimed Richard; “the bay is crowded ... ...ho well; and as from the close connection between the English, French, and Sicilian courts, whose queens were all sisters, she knew who every one was,... ...trict orders, how- ever, to hold no parley with any one from the French or Sicilian camps, lest they should bring home the infection of the pestilence... ...ad sailed first, but were not in harbour when the English came in; and the Sicilians, who had brought up the rear, arrived the next day, but still the... ...tion, whether any of the sons of the English Earl of Leicester were in the Sicilian army. Of Earl of Leicester the Italian knew nothing; but Count of ...

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... splendor of his actions in arms, and his suc- cessful achievements in the wars, drew off his ambition in that direction. At his first beginning, he s... ... he was advanced to places of honor and trust under his general. After the wars with the Cimbri and Teutones, he was sent into Spain, having the comma... ...ome by Sylla and fled into Af- rica, and Sylla had left Italy to go to the wars against Mithridates, and of the two consuls Octavius and Cinna, Octavi... ...d live there in peace and quietness, and safe from oppression and unending wars; but his inclinations being perceived by the Cilician pirates, who des... ...t. She took a small boat, and one only of her confidents, Apollodorus, the Sicilian, along with her, and in the dusk of the evening landed near the pa... ...res. This Verres, who had been praetor of Sicily, and stood charged by the Sicilians of many evil practices during his government there, 503 Plutarch... ...laves, who was said to be given to Jewish practices, would have put by the Sicilians, and un- dertaken the prosecution of Verres himself, Cicero asked... ...r the suspicion of being cor- rupted by bribery to lessen the sum. But the Sicilians, in testimony of their gratitude, came and brought him all sorts ... ...s way. But at Hipponium, a city of Lucania, now called Vibo, one Vibius, a Sicilian by birth, who, amongst many other instances of Cicero’s friendship...

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...ssemble upon any affair for the common interest. Nay, differences and even wars often occurred be- tween them, which he by his persuasions appeased, g... ...together, nobody committed the like in Rome; and Lucius Hostius, after the wars of Hanibal, is recorded to have been the first parricide. Let thus muc... ...ndship or cor- respondence for the advantage of commerce, but enmities and wars and the slaughter of citizens, and, at last, the loss of the city Aphi... ...e absence of their husbands, who spent the best part of their lives in the wars, their wives, whom they were obliged to leave absolute mistresses at h... ...der; and, having obtained one, used him with honor and rever- ence; so the Sicilians behaved to Gylippus, the Chalcidians to Brasidas, and all the Gre... ...ey might make a descent upon the island; and terror at this fleet made the Sicilians incline to send an embassy into Greece to demand succors from the... ...ed not be at any cost and trouble upon his account, or run the hazard of a Sicilian voyage, especially since the Carthaginians, alliance with whom aga... ...eign of former oppressors seemed to be a golden age in comparison, and the Sicilians began to consider those more happy who had expired in servitude, ... ...ing that the mother city should ex- pose to the view of other Greeks these Sicilian tyrants, living now in an exiled and a low condition. After this h...

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...this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Span- iards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an o... ...der VI., were the following lines, which I can never forget: — “`The great wars of Romagna had ended; Caesar Borgia, who had completed his conquest, h... ...t of the floor was hired by a very rich gentleman who was supposed to be a Sicilian or Maltese; but the host was unable to decide to which of the two ... ...?” asked Franz of his host. “A very great nobleman, but whether Maltese or Sicilian I cannot exactly say; but this I know, that he is noble as a Borgh... ...hich proved that the person repre- sented by the picture had served in the wars of Greece and Spain, or, Alexandre Dumas 407 what was just the same t... ...aid to my worthy Adelmonte. He reflected, smiled, and re- plied to me by a Sicilian proverb, which I believe is also a French proverb, ‘My son, the wo...

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...e character sur- vived in a Slesvig family, now extinct. It was during the wars that ranged from 1652 to 1660, between Frederick III of Denmark and Ch... ... not long the control of the treasure of France; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out the memory of the self-devotion o... ...REGULUS US US US US B.C. 249 B.C. 249 B.C. 249 B.C. 249 B.C. 249 THE first wars that the Romans engaged in beyond the bounds of Italy, were with the C... ...ded the Swiss to their celebrated revolt, and commenced the long series of wars with the House of Hapsburgor, as it was now termed, of Austria—which f... ...an usurpation would expose their young men to be drawn upon for the Duke’s wars, cause their property to be subject to perpetual rapacious exactions, ... ...d, and the few people a miserable mongrel set, part Arab, part Greek, part Sicilian, and constantly kept down by the descents of 188 A Book of Golden... ...nded upon the white cross being still on that point of land when the tardy Sicilian fleet should set sail. He was one who 192 A Book of Golden Deeds ... ...ramparts of the Borgo. The 15th of June was passed. Nothing would make the Sicilian Viceroy move, nor even let the warships of the Or- der sail with t...

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...denly bright yellow, and for a kilometre or so we were passing nothing but Sicilian mule carts loaded with hay. These carts seem as strange among the ... ...t seems to be part of the stern resolve of Fate that this, the greatest of wars, shall be the least glorious; it is manifestly being decided not by vi... ...n does not go down under gun fire as stone or brick does. The whole fabric wars rust, bent and twisted, gaping with shell holes, that raggedest displa... ...hen fortification improves. The defensive holds its own for a long period, wars are mainly siege wars, and for a century before the advent of Napoleon... ...weeping invasions, no marches upon the enemy capital and so on. There were wars of reduction, wars of annoyance. Napoleon developed the offensive by s... ...of everyone of importance in the dark years that fol- lowed the Napoleonic wars. That is just one survivor of the old tradition. Another is Blight the...

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...r world relate. Now at their native realms the Greeks arrived; All who the wars of ten long years survived; And ‘scaped the perils of the gulfy main. ... ...ant grief my soul annoy’d, These riches are possess’d, but not enjoy’d! My wars, the copious theme of every tongue, To you your fathers have recorded ... ...ows of love to veil his felon hate! To grace the victor’s welcome from the wars, A train of coursers and triumphal cars Magnificent he leads: the roya... ...with a constant mind; Inured to perils, to the worst resign’d, By seas, by wars, so many dangers run; Still I can suffer; their high will he done!” Th... ... were wanting; those from ample jars We drain’d, the prize of our Ciconian wars. The land of Cyclops lay in prospect near: The voice of goats and blea... ...noon day dreams. But, prince! for once at least believe a friend; T o some Sicilian mart these courtiers send, Where, if they yield their freight acro... ... that divide his care T ook their laborious rest, and homely fare; And one Sicilian matron, old and sage, 317 Pope With constant duty tends his droop... ...ound. The victim portion’d and the goblet crown’d. The hoary king, his old Sicilian maid Perfum’d and wash’d, and gorgeously arrayed. Pallas attending... ...train. For due refection to the bower they came, Call’d by the careful old Sicilian dame, Who nursed the children, and now tends the sire, They see th...

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... Our race has never been able contentedly to suppose that the noise of its wars, con- ducted by a few young gentlemen in a corner of an incon- siderab... ...nity. The shadows and the generations, the shrill doctors and the plangent wars, go by into ultimate silence and emptiness; but underneath all this, a... ...States to honour them.” – Sir Will- iam Temple. T HERE IS ONE STORY of the wars of Rome which I have always very much envied for England. Germanicus w... ...we some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appearance of old warships and the romance that invests the sea and everything sea-going in t... ...appropriate in this connection, that the latter was greatly taken with his Sicilian title. “The signification, per- haps, pleased him,” says Southey; ... ... nobility of soul to do nothing in particular, than would carry on all the wars, by sea or land, of bellicose humanity. It may very well be so, and ye...

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...Quincey trunk arteries between two mighty realms,* and haunted for ever by wars or rumours of wars, decussated (for anything I know to the contrary) a... ...er the independent jurisdiction of chiefs who claimed the right of private wars.” 74 7 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLARS: This most famous of the milita... ... cruelties of Charles in Sicily caused the popular upris- ing known as the Sicilian V espers, 1282, in which many thou- sands of Frenchmen were assass...

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...ned with the hours of the Bartholomew Butchery, of the Armagnac Massacres, Sicilian Vespers, or whatsoever is savagest in the annals of this world. Ho... ...ent tempers reduced to a state of desperation, very miserable things done. Sicilian Vespers, and ‘eight thousand slaugh- tered in two hours,’ are a kn... ...e Comte Puisaye; entirely unknown to Louvet; greatly suspected by him. Few wars, accordingly, were ever levied of a more insuffi- cient character than... ... their own interests than to ours) set fire to our store-houses, arsenals, warships in 195 Thomas Carlyle Toulon Harbour, before weighing; some score... ...le bronzed-complexioned Artillery-Officer of Toulon, home from the Italian Wars! Grim enough; of lean, almost cruel aspect: for he has been in trouble... ... military tribunal as an Emi- grant; Hoche himself cannot save him. If all wars, civil and other, are misunderstandings, what a thing must right- unde... ... Feraud, stretching out his hands, baring his bosom scarred in the Spanish wars, obtests vainly: threatens and resists vainly. Rebellious Deputy of th...

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...lains: Fair Thames, flow gently from thy sacred spring, While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing; Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play, And Alb... ..., and all mankind. VER. 130, 131:— When first young Maro sung of kings and wars, Ere warning Phoebus touch’d his trembling ears 60 The Poetical Works... ... Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire, A dreadful series of intestine wars, Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. At length great Anna said—‘L... ...roud Caesar, ‘midst triumphal cars, The spoils of nations, and the pomp of wars, Ignobly vain and impotently great, Show’d Rome her Cato’s figure draw... ...s in his looks appears; In years he seem’d, but not impair’d by years. The wars of T roy were round the pillar seen: Here fierce Tydides wounds the Cy... ...in modest majesty. In living sculpture on the sides were spread The Latian wars, and haughty T urnus dead; Eliza stretch’d upon the funeral pyre, Ænea...

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... his bed—that was shot through the head by the masther’s side in the weary wars in Spain? and whom could ye be bound to serve barring Master Phelim, t... ...that the capture was so conducted as not to in- volve T urkey in dangerous wars with European powers. Cap- ture by the Moors had for several centuries... ...s, perceiving the tartane to be an Italian vessel, and expecting a raid by Sicilian robbers on their cattle; but the Moors had informed them that it w...

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...ter of the times. Morality is at all periods fearfully shaken by intestine wars, and by instability in a government. The actual dura- tion of war in E... ...ith- out illustration, however, the age itself and its rapid succession of wars between barbarous and semi-barbarous tribes, might, if any one chapter... ... connected with their use, or their taxation! Arcadian shepherds again, or Sicilian from the ‘bank of delicate Galesus,’ can these be other than poeti... ...ld of Marathon, of Plataa, and others deriv- ing their interest from later wars, he makes a casual use of his soldiership. Captain Beaufort, again, as...

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... Berend heard the body squire say the Herr Graf had sworn not to go to the wars till every stick at the ford be burnt, every stone drowned, every work... ...e had the summons come for such and such a slave by name, or for five poor Sicilians, twenty Genoese, a dozen Marseillais, or the like, but still no w...

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...ns being gone, and the Britons being much reduced in numbers by their long wars, the Picts and Scots came pour ing in, over the broken and unguarded ... ...ssful and triumphant, assisted by the valour of the English in his foreign wars, and with little strife to trouble him at home, Canute had a prosperou... ...ed’s daughter. We shall hear again of pretty little Arthur by and by. This Sicilian affair arranged without anybody’s brains being knocked out (which ... ...taking it. It was exactly so in this case. It was necessary to conquer the Sicilian Crown before it could be put upon young Edmund’s head. It could no... ... were squandered away, without doing any good to the King, or bringing the Sicilian Crown an inch nearer to Prince Edmund’s head. The end of the busin... ...ng of Ireland. He afterwards went himself to help his brother in his Irish wars, but his brother was defeated in the end and killed. Robert Bruce, ret... ...eat general on the English side in France. But, two of the consequences of wars are, Famine—because the people cannot peacefully cul tivate the groun... ...nto the two parties of York and Lancaster, and led to those terrible civil wars long known as the Wars of the Red and White Roses, because the red ros...

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...ould longer insist upon it. Edward I., King of England, having in the long wars betwixt him and Robert, King of Scotland, had experience of how great ... ...tribute to the continuation of the successes he had always obtained in the wars against them. In like manner certain of the Indians, in their battles ... ...ct. And other people of the same New World carry about with them, in their wars, the relics of valiant men who have died in battle, to incite their co... ... an agreement, they conceive it lawful to employ without reproach in their wars any means which may help them to conquer. The ancient Florentines were... ... saporem: Non avium cyatheaceae cantus Somnum reducent.” [“Sicilian dainties will not tickle their palates, nor the melody of birds an... ...icked enterprises; and that befalls us, which Thucydides said of the civil wars of his time, that, in favour of public vices, they gave them new and m...

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...As dreams of heaven to souls that sleep! And felt, despite earth’s jarring wars, When day is done And dead the sun, Still a voice divine can sing, 35... ...he spied, By light throwing shallow shade, Between the beam and the gloom, Sicilian Enna, whose Maid Such aspect wears in her bloom Underneath since t... ... lead, Drink they of thee, thee eyeing, they unaged Shall on through brave wars waged. XIV More gardens will they win than any lost; The vile plucked ... ...orth of merry dingles round the tors; And deftest hand was he from foreign wars, But soon he hailed the home-bred yeoman mate. 477 XX Before the blac...

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...e half-killed each other, as in Brittany and in La Vendee during the civil wars, but you can no more reconcile the calumniators and the calum- niated ... ...irlwind of that storm, just as the wounded left behind to die in the great wars of the empire cried out, “Long live the Emperor!” This sublimity of so... ...ied in those cellars,” observed Rigou, cleverly. “Nonsense!” “Well, in the wars of the olden time the great lords, who were often besieged and surpris... ...nt. The borer is the despair of the land-owner; he works un- derground; no Sicilian vespers for him until he becomes a cockchafer! If the populations ...

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...ew his cause their own, and swore Like wolves and serpents to their mutual wars Strange truce, with many a rite which Earth and Heaven abhors. ... ...ssion but that fatal word, The death-seal of mankind’s captivity, Like the Sicilian’s hair-suspended sword, Which trembles o’er his crown, would he ac... ...88. 88. 88. 88. 88. ‘And the bold, true warriors Who have hugged Danger in wars Will turn to those who would be free, Ashamed of such base company. 89... ...hymesters—pamphleteers—stock-jobbers— _190 Men of glory in the wars,— Line 183 One of the attributes in Linnaeus’s description of the Cat.... ...as the event of the living drama whose arrival it foretells. Prophecies of wars, and rumours of wars, etc., may safely be made by poet or prophet in a... ...r thunder-bearing minion; _265 ‘The other long outlived both woes and wars, Throned in the thoughts of men, and still had kept The jealous key of...

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...o change of times shall ever shock”!’ and he began to hum it. ‘That is the Sicilian Mariners’ hymn,’ said Averil. ‘I can sing you that whenever you pl... ..., that interference was dangerous. No one in Israel was to go forth to the wars of the Lord save those who ‘willingly of- fered themselves;’ and thoug... ... because ours is a fight of men, not of children; not one of your European wars of paltry ambition, but a war of prin- ciple!’ cried Cora, with that i... .... The little ones broke out, ‘0, Henry, Henry, you must not go away to the wars!’ and Averil’s pleading eyes spoke the same. Then Henry sat down and b...

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...s in his power and he let us go. Besides we can be on our guard; let us take arms, let Planchet post himself behind us with his carbine.” “Planchet is... ...l fight in a much more decided fashion than they have done hitherto.” “I am completely ignorant of it, madame,” said the car- dinal, accompanying his ... ...the ceremony; and Porthos, in full dress, mounted his finest horse, taking the part of supernumerary musketeer, as D’Artagnan had so often done former... ...French, in good French, my lord, take care of your accent; they killed six thousand Angevins in Sicily because they pronounced Italian badly. Take car...

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...eeping apartments), had been a good deal bruised and defaced in Cromwell’s wars, and then, under the Res- toration, repaired and much enlarged; and ho... ...at crowds and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures—a class of efforts as to which she ... ...urney. Fancy me be- tween Scylla and Charybdis! I don’t want to die on the Sicilian plains—to be snatched away, like Proserpine in the same locality, ...

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...is and who is there at this moment; he is also known to the Abbe Busoni, a Sicilian priest, of high repute in the East, where he has done much good.” ... ...that period of his life, I lost sight of my young comrade.” “Was he in the wars?” “I think he entered the service.” “In what branch?” “In the navy.” “...

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...lv’d his anxious life in endless cares, Expos’d to wants, and hurried into wars! Can heav’nly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite... ...Now scarce the Trojan fleet, with sails and oars, Had left behind the fair Sicilian shores, Ent’ring with cheerful shouts the wat’ry reign, And plowin... ...e saw, in order painted on the wall, Whatever did unhappy Troy befall: The wars that fame around the world had blown, All to the life, and ev’ry leade... ..., and his Indian crew. Penthisilea there, with haughty grace, Leads to the wars an Amazonian race: In their right hands a pointed dart they wield; The... ... repent, Which he will equal, and perhaps augment. We want not cities, nor Sicilian coasts, Where King Acestes Trojan lineage boasts. Permit our ships... ...the times, Accus’d and sentenc’d for pretended crimes, Because these fatal wars he would prevent; Whose death the wretched Greeks too late lament Me,... ...ong tracts of seas divide your hopes from Italy: For you must cruise along Sicilian shores, And stem the currents with your struggling oars; Then roun... ...shift your sails; what place can please me more Than what you promise, the Sicilian shore, Whose hallow’d earth Anchises’ bones contains, The Aeneid ... ... jav’lin bore. His mother was a dame of Dardan blood; His sire Crinisus, a Sicilian flood. He welcomes his returning friends ashore With plenteous cou...

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...ay, if without envy, that he whom an honest quaestorship had endeared to the Sicilians was not more by them importuned against Verres, than the favour... ...ugh it be valour enough in soldiership, is but weakness and cowardice in the wars of Truth. For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almigh... ...e.” Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells a...

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...rters carrying rolls of carpet, preceded by Ftatateeta and Apollodorus the Sicilian. Apollodorus is a dashing young man of about 24, handsome and debo... ... face). What’s this? Stand. Who are you? APOLLODORUS. I am Apollodorus the Sicilian. Why, man, what are you dreaming of? Since I came through the line... ... the Queen. APOLLODORUS (gallantly). Beautiful Queen: I am Apollodorus the Sicilian, your servant, from the bazaar. I have brought you the three most ... ...it be sword against pilum, or sword against sword? SENTINEL. Roman against Sicilian, curse you. Take that. (He hurls his pilum at Apollodorus, who dro... ...e. Cleopatra. I must abide by my orders, and not by the subtleties of this Sicilian. You must withdraw into the palace and examine your carpets there.... ...ting Caesar as a much more various person than the historian of the Gallic wars, I hope I have not succumbed unconsciously to the dramatic illusion to...

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...which is Mahomet’s sword, or like unto it; that is, to propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences; except it be in... ...eseen that the population of a kingdom (especially if it be not mown down by wars) do not exceed the stock of the kingdom, which should maintain them.... ...me of the heathen; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in divers of the... ... is that justice, im printed in the nature of men, that they enter not upon wars (whereof so many calamities do ensue) but upon some, at the least sp... ... be the fore most, and leave it to none other to have the honor. As for the wars which were anciently made, on the behalf of a kind of party, or taci... ... 70 the liberty of Grecia; or when the Lacedaemonians and Athe nians, made wars to set up or pull down democracies and oligarchies; or when wars wer...

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...riumphs of mankind, Here where the wrong is right, the right is wrong, Where wars abound so many, and myriad faced Is crime; where no meet honour hath... ... how rich in flocks, or how In snow white milk abounding: yet for me Roam on Sicilian hills a thousand lambs; Summer or winter, still my milk pails br... ...ith a second Tiphys shall there be, Her hero freight a second Argo bear; New wars too shall arise, and once again Some great Achilles to some Troy be ... ..., I For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds, And treat of dolorous wars will rather tune T o the slim oaten reed my silvan lay. I sing but ... ...art, re tune the songs I framed In verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed Of the Sicilian swain. Resolved am I In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to c...

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...hat, al- though crimes may win an empire, they do not win glory. Necessary wars are just wars, and the arms of a nation are hallowed when it has no ot... ...es will suffice those who may be compelled to follow them. Agathocles, the Sicilian,* became King of Syracuse not only from a private but from a low a... ...ica, and in a short time raised the siege of Syracuse. The *Agathocles the Sicilian, born 361 B.C., died 289 B.C. 40 The Prince Carthaginians, reduce... ... English knight whose name was Sir John Hawkwood. He fought in the English wars in France, and was knighted by Edward III; afterwards he collected a b... ... into Italy. These became the famous “White Company.” He took part in many wars, and died in Florence in 1394. He was born about 1320 at Sible Hedingh... ...ds to keep it up, when he made war on the King of France; and he made many wars without imposing any extraordinary tax on his subjects, for he supplie... ... if at any time he did turn to books, only those pleased him which told of wars and the mighty deeds of men. Messer Anto- nio beheld all this with vex...

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...ea of making him- self agreeable to others, having only been mixed up with wars and the orgies of bachelors, with whom he did not put him- self out of... ...ide for them all, at a time when people were just recovering from the late wars, and patching up their unsettled affairs. Now the good man Bastarnay h... ...ich happened to the French in Sicily, which was true in every respect. The Sicilian knight, whose name was Pezare, was a Vene- tian long absent from t... ...for the night is closing in.” “ Are you then, acquainted with no French or Sicilian gentle- men at Palermo?” “No.” “Then you are not certain of being ... ...to watch them, disturbed by a gleam of jealousy , cast into his heart by a Sicilian courtier, who was furious at the sudden favour which the Frenchman... ...oved her to dis- traction for eleven weeks; had left her only to go to the wars, and loved her still as much as his most precious member, which accord...

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...nd yet it was after a long practice of arms beyond the mountains, of which wars he left us a journal under his own hand, wherein he has given a precis... ...ard a blow. The Island of Gozzo being taken some years ago by the Turks, a Sicilian, who had two beautiful daughters marriageable, killed them both wi... ...y brother, and I, travelling one day together during the time of our civil wars, met a gentle- man of good sort. He was of the contrary party, though ... ...seated in the very centre of all the bustle and mischief of the late civil wars in France; thinking myself in all security and so near to my retreat t... ...nd with great facility render it common, as by the experience of our civil wars is manifest enough; and whoever could at this time unite us all, Catho... ... it, the son of that great Labienus, the chief of Caesar’s captains in the wars of Gaul; and who, afterwards, siding with Pompey the great, so valiant...

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...190 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers on such a delicate point, which the Sicilian canon, Recupero, fancied that there was;* but which, in my own opi... ...d countenanced by innumer- able books) as to the true historical origin of wars in many notorious instances. If these had arisen on trivial impulses, ... ...d them. If a man has once persuaded himself, that long, costly, and bloody wars had arisen upon a point of ceremony, upon a personal pique, upon a has... ...so flexible to any stern counter-volition as those must be supposed, whose wars argued so much of vicious levity. The inference is unexceptionable: it... ...rrator,—we may take for granted, that the current stories ascribing modern wars (French and English) to accidents the most inconsiderable, are false e... ...es like a fever, and in substitu- tion for the occasional and intermitting wars of high na- tional police, administered with the dignified responsibil...

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...means the only high prices which seem to have been occasioned by the civil wars. The second event was the bounty upon the exportation of corn, granted... ...ion to deliver their wheat at this rate being considered as a tax upon the Sicilian farmers. When the Romans, therefore, had oc- casion to order more ... ...ary con- tract price of English wheat, which in quality is inferior to the Sicilian, and generally sells for a lower price in the European mar- ket. T... ...not only much private and public profusion, many expensive and unnecessary wars, great perversion of the annual produce from maintaining productive to... ... been expected from them? The fire and the plague of London, the two Dutch wars, the disorders of the revolution, the war in Ireland, the four expensi... ...disorders of the revolution, the war in Ireland, the four expensive French wars of 1688, 1701, 1742, and 1756, together with the two rebellions of 171... ...with the two rebellions of 1715 and 1745. In the course of the four French wars, the nation has con- tracted more than £145,000,000 of debt, over and ...

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...were not as well unknown. Attila Invasions, Walter-the-Penniless Crusades, Sicilian Ves- pers, Thirty-Years Wars: mere sin and misery; not work, but h... ...Invasions, Walter-the-Penniless Crusades, Sicilian Ves- pers, Thirty-Years Wars: mere sin and misery; not work, but hindrance of work! For the Earth, ... ...le business of the Diamond Neck- lace. Red-hatted Cardinal Louis de Rohan; Sicilian jail-bird Balsamo Cagliostro; milliner Dame de Lamotte, ‘with a fa... ...idden it bridled; for German is, by his very name, Guerre-man, or man that wars and gars. And so the People, as we say, is now called French or 244 T... ...ro rege nostro! ‘Such a day,’ Mirabeau writes, ‘may come.’ Din of battles, wars more than civil, confusion from above and from below: in such environm... ...e not be Aristocrat-Austrian Invasion; butchery, replacement of Feudalism; wars more than civil? The hearts of men are saddened and maddened. Dissiden... ... coming; massacre by Austrians, 286 The French Revolution by Aristocrats, wars more than civil, it all depends on you and the hour!—National Guards r... ...d with the hours of the Bartholomew Butchery, of the Armagnac Mas- sacres, Sicilian Vespers, or whatsoever is savagest in the annals of this world. Ho... ...t tempers reduced to a state of despera- tion, very miserable things done. Sicilian Vespers, and ‘eight thousand slaughtered in two hours,’ are a know...

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... wife. 17 By the insurrection which began at Palermo in 1282,— the famous Sicilian Vespers,—the French were driven from the island. 18 This brother ... ... horse, oven thrown by a wild boar in the forest of Fontainebleau. 15 The wars of Edward I. and Edward II. with the Scotch under Wallace and Bruce we...

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...were not as well unknown. Attila Invasions, Walter-the-Penniless Crusades, Sicilian Vespers, Thirty-Years Wars: mere sin and misery; not work, but hin... ...a Invasions, Walter-the-Penniless Crusades, Sicilian Vespers, Thirty-Years Wars: mere sin and misery; not work, but hindrance of work! For the Earth, ... ...able business of the Diamond Necklace. Red-hatted Cardinal Louis de Rohan; Sicilian jail- bird Balsamo Cagliostro; milliner Dame de Lamotte, ‘with a f...

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...great Punic houses. They had carried their ancestors, had triumphed in the wars, and they were reverenced as being the favourites of the Sun. Those of... ...ce of restrained hate, and the rage of betrayed hopes. People recalled the Sicilian di- sasters, and all the burden of his pride that they had borne f... ... three hundred of their own people, who had been made prisoners during the Sicilian war, arrived on board an old Punic trireme. Hamilcar, in fact, had...

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...s leap, nor yet at the Almains; for, said Gymnast, these jumps are for the wars altogether unprofitable, and of no use—but at one leap he would skip o... ...ers of Lerne, and those of Gargantua’s country, whereupon were waged great wars. At that time, which was the season of vintage, in the begin- ning of ... ... that there was no hope left to draw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained co... ... was there present at that time an old gentle- man well experienced in the wars, a stern soldier, and who had been in many great hazards, named Echeph... ...; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity. For proof whereo... ...ion is of great antiq- uity, as appeareth by the testimony of Diodorus the Sicilian, and confirmed by Pausanias, and universally held amongst the Lamp... ...hey seem to follow the example of Philoxenus and Gnatho, one of whom was a Sicilian of ful- some memory, the ancient master-builders of their monastic...

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...d fly, With all thy train, athwart the moony sky— Apart—like fire-flies in Sicilian night,* And wing to other worlds another light! Divulge the secret... ...miled a silent dell Where the people did not dwell; They had gone unto the wars, Trusting to the mild-eyed stars, Nightly, from their azure towers, To...

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... _710 I go towards the shore to drive my ship To mine own land, o’er the Sicilian wave. CY CY CY CY CYCL CL CL CL CLOPS: OPS: OPS: OPS: OPS: Not so,... ...utify the night, The sunrise, and the setting of the moon, Earthquakes and wars, and poisons and disease, _100 And all their causes, to an ab...