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His presence, with all that it involved, had made a most happy change in the maidens' lives; and yet there was still great dreariness, much restraint in the presence of constant precaution against violence, much rudeness and barbarism in the surroundings, absolute poverty in the plenishing, a lack of all beauty save in the wild and rugged face of northern nature, and it was hardly to be wondered at that young people, inheritors of the cultivated instincts of James I.

With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death and every poisonous element of death in action close on life,-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two; here sow him in corruption, to be raised[123] in corruption; an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside; a shameful testimony to future ages that civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.

Since the war began he has published "The Barbarism of Berlin" (1914), "The Appetite of Tyranny" including "Letters to an Old Garibaldian" (1915, Dodd), and "The Crimes of England" (1916, Lane).

" Thus, for example, slavery was an unsurmountable obstacle to progress, and had to be crushed out by civilisation; the license to kill is also a form of barbarism which to-day we are boasting of having just outgrown-or, at least, of having reached the final limit of its duration.

On a more subtle comparison it will perhaps be found, to the honour of Richard Wagner's German nature, that he has acted in everything with more strength, daring, severity, and elevation than a nineteenth-century Frenchman could have done-owing to the circumstance that we Germans are as yet nearer to barbarism than the French;-perhaps even the most remarkable creation of Richard Wagner is not only at present, but for ever inaccessible, incomprehensible, and inimitable to the whole latter-day Latin race: the figure of Siegfried, that VERY FREE man, who is probably far too free, too hard, too cheerful, too healthy, too ANTI-CATHOLIC for the taste of old and mellow civilized nations.

With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two, here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside, a shameful testimony to future ages how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.

" Whatever the reason, you don't see that great patriot Bob Herbert holing up at the Four Seasons in Birmingham to write column after column about the barbarism of Alabama justice.

The United States finds itself in the company of countries like China and Iraq, it said, adding, "The social and racial logic that the United States has never radically questioned deepens the barbarism of the American exception.

We meet the young hit men who guarded the kidnap victims, and odors of fatalism, superstition, and barbarism waft upward from the page, in an unmistakable indication that we are in the presence of the grimmest poverty.

Anyone looking for a further proof of the return to barbarism at the end of this millennium could probably find it there.

Slavery's barbarism gets lost in Ball's New Age journey of self-discovery.

The West drew a moral line against barbarism but failed in its primary aim, which was to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

Tarzan and John Carter represent the era of Anglo-American civilization, at the midpoint between prehistoric barbarism and post-historic decadence.

Does the barbarism of a few of Slobodan Milosevic's victims vitiate the justness of the war?

Beyond the theology lies the simple human fact that most Muslims, like most other human beings, are repelled by mass murder and barbarism whatever their justification.

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