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Sing on, then, till thy fate draws nigh...
...fear, of uncleanliness in preparing the food. There can be little doubt that all disorder will cease in our new refectory; indeed, if the principle be true, "In Rome do as the Romans do," it is surprising that we have not, many of us, met with the fate of some of the followers of Ulysses...
...years has patiently waited in the Vatican. But endow him with an instinct amounting to foreknowledge, with a tact in the management of men that turns them into passive instruments in his hands, and renders him long invulnerable to counterplots and adverse chance, and he becomes, in fact, the Fate of his age. His history is no longer one of the several greatest dramas of all history, but it is unique and must stand by itself...
...Fate! O Fate! O cruel Fate...
Neither the words "misfortune" nor "fate" seem to apply to that condition of positive evil which the tendency of the age to extravagance and luxurious living has brought about. The "form and pressure of the times" have not been subdued to their proper confines, but have been allowed to increase and swell beyond proportion, and with these neither "fate" nor "misfortune" has had anything to do. The records of the past week have made known a heavy embezzlement by the cashier of the Treasury Department of the State of New York, amounting to $ 300,000, developing a system of fraud...