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Letter "B" » barbarous
«We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.»
«MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon --that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
barbarous, destitute, destitute of, elementary, monosyllabic, Saxon, testifying, that is to say, vapid
«LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like _caries_ and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ailment, ailments, Air conditioning, barbarous, breathing, caries, Cary, curable, disorder, eating disorder, immunity, incurred, incurring, incurs, influences, physician, prevalent, pure and simple, races, ravage, ravaged, ravages, removal, temporary insanity
«Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
Age of Man, barbarous, hover, middle-aged man, printed, sage, scarce
«Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
barbarous, crime, Crime and Punishment, criminal, criminal law, duplicate, duplicated, duplicates, duplicating, essential, horror, Laws, laws of logic, murder, murdering, Or logic, punish, punishment, Republican, The Criminals, tolerate, tolerating
«Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.»
«The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
barbarians, barbarous, coarse, coarser, coarsest, The Barbarians, vulgar
«The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king / So rudely forced.»
«Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
army, barbarous, Discovery of, disgracefully, Empire, introduced, shaken, Shakespeare
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