Word: rightnesses
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...their actions. Not to value human nature too highly, we can at least lay claim to some better motives than these. We should be unwilling to believe that all actions are induced by the wish to obtain pleasure or to get rid of pain, and that a feeling of right or duty was never considered in men's actions. There is in every man's nature something which calls for higher springs of action and exerts a more powerful influence than mere pleasure or pain; and to account for these as Mr. Bain does is to annihilate all sense...
...background you vill notice the Pyramids, vich was builded by the ambitious and notorious kings of Egypt, vich caused the death of several 'undred thousand people, - Jews and others, - for to build them, all for their own selfish plans, which was wrong. Upon the extreme right notice the ferocious charge of the abandoned and in every way profligate Mamelukes, - derived from two Greek works, mammy, mamy, and look, look, - so called because ven young and left by the mothers, who goes a verkin' for the day, ven they sees them a comin' home, they cries, "Mammy, look!" - mamy, look, - hence...
...looked forward with pleasure to the Editor's Easy Chair, remarking that the profession is one which offers splendid rewards, but at the same time the best opportunities for work, and that one must begin, as the old saying is, "at the bottom of the ladder," and prove his right to a high position before he can claim...
...raised his fat right hand...
...line, he must return with the ball to the spot where the line was so crossed, and then either (1) bound the ball in the field of play, and then run with it, kick it, or throw it back to his own side, or (2) throw it out at right angles to the touch line...