The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.
With that characteristic touch of late-Romanov rashness, the government, by ukase of August 22, extended prohibition for the duration of the war. As the sale of vodka was a state monopoly, this act at...
Reproaches himself for recoiling from the stench of the poor and the sick,
The history of the Jews is…intensely peculiar in the fact of having given the Western world its concept of origins and monotheism, its ethical traditions, and the founder of its prevailing religion, y...
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.
Were being ravaged by her brother. In their agreement Amadeus
The boy would learn to ride, to fight, and to hawk, the three chief physical elements of noble life,
For each man that shall be damned shall be damned by his own guilt, and each man that is saved shall be saved by his own merit. Unperceived, here was the start of the modern world.
The Archimedean point where the lever can be applied. At
In the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.
Explicit communiqu
What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.
The hypothetical has its charm, but actual government is history.