 | 1887 - 620 pages
...was even unco isciously by commerce some mutual he! pf u .ness between them. How then? Simplet in! Their governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." Is not this, in a nutshell, the history of half the wars the world has seen? The governors have quarreled,... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 pages
...universe, there was even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How, then? Simpleton, their governors had fallen out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make those blockheads shoot." In 18«0, there were, in France, Germany, Russia, Austria, and Italy, 7,358,164... | |
 | thomas carlyle - 1888
...Commerce, some mutual help' fulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors 'had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the ' cunning...these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in ' Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still as of old, " what ' devilry soever Kings do,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 552 pages
...universe, there was even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then f Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out ; and instead...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' ;Sartor Resartus. ) Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not, ultimately... | |
 | John Ruskin, Edwin Ginn - Readers - 1892 - 184 pages
...commerce, som» mutual helpfulness between them. 1 Stone : a weight of fourteen pounds. How then ? Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out; and instead...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." 1 II. I pass now to our second order of war, the commonest among men,—that undertaken in desire of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 192 pages
...Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How 25 then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen out ; and,...these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still as of old, ' what devilry soever Kings do, the... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 518 pages
...universe, there was even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out; and instead...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' (Sartor Resartus.) Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not, ultimately... | |
 | JOHN RUSKIN - 1894 - 578 pages
...universe, there was even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then * Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out; and instead...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' ;Sartor Resartus.) Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not, ultimately... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1895 - 184 pages
...universe, there was even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out; and instead...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." 1 II. I pass now to our second order of war, the commonest among men, — that undertaken in desire... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and, instead...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." This is very witty, but is it a true picture of modern war? The Governors of these sixty men had not... | |
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... shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them.... 
