...nly added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction that buries the reformer *Gaudeamus: Carmina V agorum S... ...flection that it was the price we have to pay for cochineal. And with that murder- ous parody, logical optimism and the praises of the best of possibl... ...ithdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax.... ...ood neighbour as to be a bad subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts. Thoreau had now seceded, and was a polity unto himself; or, ... ...ed, if ten men whom I could name – ay, if one honest man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this ... ...ouis Stevenson at games of hazard on the one hand, and on the other of the murder of one Thevenin Pensete in a house by the Cem- etery of St. John. If... ...er Guillaume Coiffier was beguiled by an accomplice to St. Mathurin to say mass; and during his absence, his chamber was entered and five or six hundr... ...; and she died about a year after the 147 Familiar Studies of Men & Books murder, of grief and indignation, unrequited love and un- satisfied resentm... ...ar to that of Shakspeare’s Hamlet. The times were out of joint; here was a murdered father to avenge on a powerful murderer; and here, in both cases, ...