 Fire !' is given ; and they blow the souls out of one another ; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest...  The Peace Manual: Or, War and Its Remedies - Էջ 27George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 252 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1834 - 600 էջ
...length, after infinite effort, the two parties cotne into actual juxta-position ; and thirty stands fronting thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway...these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Dculschland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still, as of old, ' what devilry soever kings do, the... | |
 | 1839 - 536 էջ
...has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand their interests and their... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 էջ
...mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out ; and, instead 16 of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so it is in Dentschland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still, as of old, ' what devilry soever kings... | |
 | 1838 - 588 էջ
...virtue has been blown,) which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Eusy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far...out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunuing to make these poor blockheads shoot.' Turn from this sketch, to the falling-out ' governor'... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 էջ
...a ' Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, ' some mutual helpfulness between th«m. How then .' ' Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen...these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutsch' land, and hitherto in all other lands ; still as of old, ' " what devilry soever Kings do,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 590 էջ
...entirest strangers ; nay, iu so wide a universe, there was even, uaconscionsly, by commerce, some mutnal helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their...another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shooL' Turn from this sketch, to the falling-out ' governor' — a BONAPARTE, perchance, luxuriating... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 էջ
...has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand their interests and their... | |
 | 1839 - 542 էջ
...has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand their interests and their... | |
 | 1839 - 536 էջ
...quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entires! strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand their interests and their... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 324 էջ
...Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, ' some mutual helpfulness between them. How then 1 ' Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen out ; and,...these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutsch' land, and hitherto in all other lands ; still as of old, ' " what devilry soever Kings do,... | |
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