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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson, ... ................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II – CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ................................................... ...ourse you may use and misuse a word as much as you please, if you have the world along with you. But love is at least a somewhat hyperbolical expressi... ...plain the poets have been fooling with mankind since the foundation of the world. And you have only to look these happy couples in the face, to see th... ... like life in this – that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. II H OPE, THEY SAY, deserts us at no period of our ex istence. From first t... ... a-colonelling, in the company of rowdy sol- diers, against the enemies of France; surely a melancholy example for one’s daughters! And then you have ... ... fight, so they discovered a startling eager- ness for battle, and courted war like a mistress. When the news came to Essex before Cadiz that the atta... ... be on deck in a basket to direct and animate the fight. I said they loved war like a mistress; yet I think there are not many mistresses we should co...