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Preface to Major Barbara First Aid to Critics

By: George Bernard Shaw

...heir competitors can do to them. The history of the English factories, the American trusts, the exploitation of African gold, diamonds, ivory and rub-... ...om time to time by violent ex- plosions of revolution; so the attempt—will Americans please note—to found moral institutions on a basis of moral in- e... ...but unnatural Reigns of the Saints relieved by licentious Restorations; to Americans who have made divorce a public institution turning the face of Eu... ... The ordinary man, uneducated in social theory even when he is schooled in Latin verse, cannot be set against all the laws of his country and yet pers... ...nt rulers whilst amiable and privately harmless monarchs have ruined their countries by trusting to the hocus-pocus of innocence and guilt, reward and...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...is Pictus) an Orbis Vestitus; or view of the costumes of all mankind, in all countries, in all times. It is here that to the Antiquarian, to the Histo... ... Decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. “Reader, the heaven inspired melodious Singer; loftiest Serene... ...’s games, differing apparently by mere superficial shades from those of other countries. Concerning all which, we shall here, for obvious reasons, say ... ...ly, and disproportioned to its breadth? We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “mechanically” taught; He brew scarce even mechanically; much... ...y own rules, produced the following; which however, for an alleged defect of Latinity, a defect never yet fully visible to my self, still remains une... ..., still remains unengraven;”—wherein, we may predict, there is more than the Latinity that will surprise an English reader: HIC JACET PHILIPPUS ZAEHDA... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,...

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