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1. The weary cynicism that comes through prolonged exposure to other people's stupidity and mean-faced barbarism
2. That in those times of poverty and barbarism these were proportionably much cheaper than corn, is undoubtedly true
3. The greater part of the writers who have collected the money price of things in ancient times, seem to have considered the low money price of corn, and of goods in general, or, in other words, the high value of gold and silver, as a proof, not only of the scarcity of those metals, but of the poverty and barbarism of the country at the time when it took place
4. I shall only observe at present, that the high value of the precious metals can be no proof of the poverty or barbarism of any particular country at the time when it took place
5. As the low value of gold and silver, therefore, is no proof of the wealth and flourishing state of the country where it takes place ; so neither is their high value, or the low money price either of goods in general, or of corn in particular, any proof of its poverty and barbarism
6. But though the low money price, either of goods in general, or of corn in particular, be no proof of the poverty or barbarism of the times, the low money price of some particular sorts of goods, such as cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, etc
7. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated; and the western provinces of Europe, which had enjoyed a considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism
8. Under such absurd management, nothing but the great fertility of the soil, and happiness of the climate, could preserve such countries from soon relapsing into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism
9. Obviously they did not understand SAP COIN, and our ways until the shots were fired and they saw the barbarism of necklaces first hand
10. As with all conflict the two sides have widely different views on each other with the colonials considering the insurrection to be nothing short of tribal barbarism and an attack on whites because they were white
11. Aeschliman terms the system that yields such products “a new form of barbarism
12. Through the ages of man, he had watched the barbarism, and the wars fought in the name of religion
13. That terrorist and suicidal act of barbarism, consummated at the heart of the most powerful country in the world, executed against the land of opportunity and exemplary defender of liberty, constitutes an irrational aggression against all democracies
14. barbarism, but "the collision with another heifer
15. She feared him, told herself she loathed his raw brute strength and unashamed barbarism, yet something breathless and perilous inside her leaned toward him; the hidden primitive chord that lurks in every woman's soul was sounded and responded
16. Only the whetted instincts of barbarism could have sensed it, but Conan knew, without seeing or hearing him leave, that the master of Dagon no longer stood outside the door
17. At least, she knew that there was something about him, some super-vitality or barbarism that set him apart from his wild mates
18. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph
19. Forced to battle continually for their lives, they yet managed to retain vestiges of their former state of highly advanced barbarism
20. To the south the Hyborians have founded the kingdom of Koth, on the borders of those pastoral countries known as the Lands of Shem, and the savages of those lands, partly through contact with the Hyborians, partly through contact with the Stygians who have ravaged them for centuries, are emerging from barbarism
21. By any standards, the bombing of civilians and refugees at Dresden was an act of barbarism
22. There have been many crimes committed against humanity in recent times, but the pitiless cause the German military with all its savagery and barbarism has no parallel
23. Much of the splendor and culture of the Roman and Greek Antiquity has vanished, replaced by barbarism, religious obscurantism and intolerance
24. He had been rudely awakened from the Big Sleep, he had been nearly drowned by Schmoozeglutton, he had barely survived the barbarism of his fellow trolls with their graphic custom of the challenge
25. To me, folks, that is barbarism at its most barbaric
26. Dog-lovers? Hand me a scalpel and turn me loose on all who practice this barbarism and I’ll barber their behinds and ear lobes and see how they like it, fierce-looking or not! What the blankety-blank do all these puppy butchers need scary-looking dogs for, anyway? A beast with sharp teeth and powerful jaws and a built-in stupid loyalty to his or her “owner” can chase away or disable any bad guy just as easily with full-flopped ears and swishing tail as with stubs
27. Every barbarism cumulates and drives further atrocity
28. noting a place where barbarism was the norm
29. What honour can there be in this barbarism?
30. Ravan had never been guilty of a direct act of barbarism to a woman or child and, on some level, believed himself a better man for it
31. Without an iron fist, without the church’s power and the religious brainwashing of Catholic dogma filling their souls, without the almighty church telling them what is good and what is evil, what is Christian and what is an abomination, without the superstitions and taboos and customs and traditions and holy days and saints days and teachings of the Catholic church which had been their peasant culture as obedient feudal slaves, without their illiterate cultures kept alive by close-knit villages preserving the ancient ways, without the Medieval barbarism that had regularly swept through Europe and kept each peasant huddled in their cottage or hovel hoping and praying to God that the murderers and rapists and robbers would not burn down his village this year… gave the lower classes a chance to live in peace as equals
32. Sadly, we experience elements of systematic barbarism in particular cultures, political regimes, ideologies, traditions and religions operating to this day
33. The interaction of base desires and instincts in association with one’s personal choices, environment and/or experiences can produce thoughts, feelings, attitudes, values and beliefs that facilitate particular behaviours and content of speech that manifest in a actions such as, violence, discrimination, hatred and barbarism within and between individuals and groups
34. Many believed it had arrived with the Beatles, but the truth is they do not know when it will arrive, this golden age of men and thought, when peace reigns and war is conquered, when the thought of men will turn foolish barbarism to wonder and wisdom
35. and barbarism which covered the earth
36. ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth" History of Philosophy
37. entirely lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth
38. almost entirely lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth" History of
39. in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth"
40. lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the
41. Heathen and Christian doctrines were stil more intimately blended, til , at last, both were almost entirely lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth" History of Philosophy
42. lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth
43. As the Eclectic philosophy spread, Heathen and Christian doctrines were still more intimately blended, till, at last, both were almost entirely lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth
44. As the Eclectic philosophy spread, Heathen and Christian doctrines were still more intimately blended, till, at last, both were almost entirely lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth" History of Philosophy
45. Any religious forms, any philosophical speculations, any policy, any art, any literature, any civilization, any barbarism, you please, if Christ may be but set aside, or His truth caricatured, or Apostolic Scripture kept out of view, or the Gospel discredited, or its faithful teachers deprived of their moral power
46. But surely if Christianity was worth promulgating, even although pious Israelites could be saved before the Advent, much more must it be 'worth while, to promulgate Christianity among those whose knowledge of God has been restricted to the broken lights of a world darkened by the philosophy and priestcraft of Eastern paganism, or by African barbarism
47. barbarism of monsters masquerading as men
48. We are floundering about in mere barbarism
49. If we cannot argue that all barbarism is a degraded civilization, neither can we set any limits to the depth of degradation to which the human race may sink through war, disease, or isolation
50. Even if we admit that our first ancestors had no such institution as marriage, still the stages by which men passed from outer barbarism to the comparative civilization of China, Assyria, and Greece, or even of the ancient Germans, are wholly unknown to us
51. As the princes adopted a degree of civility to optimize their survival, Sean will have to adopt a degree of barbarism to optimize his
52. He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked
53. He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to him, no harm as he did it and consequently he considered modesty in the girl not merely as a relic of barbarism, but also as an insult to himself
54. ‘The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished—there remains nothing but free labor, and its fomms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted
55. After one Montero there would be another, the lawlessness of a populace of all colours and races, barbarism, irremediable tyranny
56. First of all, the word had no sense for cultured minds, to whom the narrowness of every belief is odious; and secondly, in connection with the everlasting troubles of this unhappy country it was hopelessly besmirched; it had been the cry of dark barbarism, the cloak of lawlessness, of crimes, of rapacity, of simple thieving
57. There is above the middle part of this house a sort of first floor, with narrow openings like loopholes for windows, probably used in old times for the better defence against the savages, when the persistent barbarism of our native continent did not wear the black coats of politicians, but went about yelling, half-naked, with bows and arrows in its hands
58. Gould, the time approaches when all that the Gould Concession stands for shall weigh as heavily upon the people as the barbarism, cruelty, and misrule of a few years back
59. Townships leveled to the ground, straggling columns of exiles, workhouses multiplied, and still crowded, express the determination of the Legislature to rescue Ireland from its slovenly old barbarism, and to plant there the institutions of this more civilized land
60. The Russians protested loudly at this unacceptable Yankee capitalist barbarism and urgently asked their scientists if they could do the same
61. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
62. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; only the barbarism of 1815, which
63. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even specimens of its amusing barbarism
64. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand privileged persons,—these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,—these are the doings of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the doing of the King
65. and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the
66. A woman married only six months ago; a man professing himself devoted, even engaged to another; that other her near relation; the whole family, both families connected as they were by tie upon tie; all friends, all intimate together! It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of! yet her judgment told her it was so
67. {40} Could all this be forgotten? Yes, a schism / Nurtured by foppery and barbarism Made great Apollo blush for this bis land
68. "The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished—there remains nothing but free labor, and its fomms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted
69. Do you not prove by this, you obstinate man, that you wish to carry off the young lady by force? that you desire to buy her of people who preserve—thanks to the relics of barbarism still triumphant among us—a species of power over her? Surely she showed you sufficiently clearly that she despises you? You have had your wretched tasteless present of to-day—that bracelet thing—returned to you; what more do you want?”
70. It is a curious fact that the most civilized natures are most akin to barbarism
71. Destroy the rights of property and we lapse into barbarism
72. 11) Barbarism interferes with the union of people, but the same thing is done by a too great refinement without a religious basis
73. It is impossible to prove, as the defenders of the state claim, that the destruction of the state will lead to a social chaos, mutual rapine, murder, and the destruction of all public institutions, and the return of humanity to barbarism; nor can it be proved, as the opponents of the state claim, that men have already become so wise and good that they do not rob or kill one another, that they prefer peace to hostility, that they will themselves without the aid of the state arrange everything they need, and that therefore the state not only does not contribute to all this, but, on the contrary, under the guise of defending men, exerts a harmful and bestializing influence upon them
74. It sounds exaggerated to say that the enlightened men of our time, the advanced thinkers, are speciously degrading society, plunging it into a condition worse than pagan,—into a state of primeval barbarism
75. It can neither be proved on the one hand, as the partizans of the State claim, that its destruction would be followed by a general upheaval, by robberies and murders, and by the nullification of all social laws, and the return of man to a condition of barbarism; nor on the other, as the enemies of the State affirm, that man has grown so virtuous and well disposed that, preferring peace to enmity, he will no longer rob and murder his neighbor; that he is quite able, without State assistance, to establish a community, and conduct his own affairs; and that the State itself, while assuming an air of protection, is really exerting a demoralizing influence
76. But that is not all; besides these graceful frivolities, our literature is full of simple nastiness and brutality, of arguments which would lead men back in the most refined way to primeval barbarism, to the principles not only of the pagan, but even of the animal life, which we have left behind us five thousand years ago
77. And strange and terrible to say, the cultivated men of our day, the leaders of thought, are in reality with their subtle reasoning drawing society back, not to paganism even, but to a state of primitive barbarism
78. Moreover, under every government without exception everything is kept back that might emancipate and everything encouraged that tends to corrupt the people, such as literary works tending to keep them in the barbarism of religious and patriotic superstition, all kinds of sensual amusements, spectacles, circuses, theaters, and even the physical means of inducing stupefaction, as tobacco and alcohol, which form the principal source of revenue of states
79. And it cannot be proved, as the champions of the state maintain, that the destruction of government involves a social chaos, mutual spoliation and murder, the destruction of all social institutions, and the return of mankind to barbarism
80. Speaker, at a period when the civilized world is convulsed by continued war, to its centre; when the European continent is exhibiting the marks of ruthless conquest, and is threatened with all that barbarism, with which Attila, with his invading hordes, overwhelmed the Roman world, it becomes the Councils of this nation to move with cautious steps on the theatre of our foreign relations; to move, sir, with a fixed eye on the great law of neutrality, and yield an implicit obedience to its high injunctions
81. The extremes of civilization and barbarism are nearer together in those countries which the Spaniards have wrested from their native inhabitants, than in any other portion of the globe
82. But one point, that of the substitution of w for r, marked the speaker as one of that subject race, which, in thus slowly rising from barbarism, while it loses much that is amusing to the merely curious observer, is steadily gaining in what pertains to the dignity of manhood, and the well-being of immortal souls
83. Civilization was too strong to be resisted by barbarism, and then began the long catalogue of organized Indian miseries
84. They did not hold that half a million savages had a right to dispute the ultimate sovereignty of civilization, but they agreed that when civilization should move forward and barbarism should retreat, the Indian should have Christian justice and not un-Christian wrong
85. It may be the providence of God that barbarism shall be crowded out by civilization, that the Indian's hunting-ground shall yield to the railway and the marts of commerce