Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...People soon forget the meaning, but the impression and the passion remain.' Burke. TV l OST people, ' says Plutarch (Life of Timokon, xxxii.), 'seem to feel hard words more than hard deeds, and are more upset by insults than by actual injuries. What we do to an enemy in war is done from necessity, but the evil we say of him seems to arise from an excess of spite.' T N a letter to his son Philip, Sir Henry Sidney warns him that 'a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with the sword. Be rather a hearer and bearer away of other men's talk than a beginner and procurer of speech.... Think upon every word before you utter it, and remember how nature hath ramparted up, as it were, the tongue with teeth, lips, yea, and hair without the lips, and all betokening reins or bridles for the loose use of that member.' III. 9. Therewith curse we men. TN Rob Roy (pt. 1. ch. xiii.) Andrew Fairservice remarks: --' I have heard wives flyte in England and Scotland--it's nae marvel to hear them flyte ony gate--but sic ill-scrapit tongues as thae Hieland carlines'--and sic grewsome wishes, that men should be slaughtered like sheep--and that they may lapper their hands to the elbows in their heart's blude--sic awsome language as that I never heard oot o' a human thrapple;--and, unless the deil wad rise among them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that this talent at cursing could be amended.' E are told that, at the breaking up of the v v Council of Trent, the legate pronounced the words "Anathema to all heretics," and then the whole assembly rose, and the hall re echoed from every lip, "Anathema! Anathema!" It was well suggested by an American bishop of our own day, that if the Angel of Peace could have...