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...have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims: 1) "It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong and to make use of it or not according to necessity." 2) "Men are so simple . . . that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived." 3) "It is unnecessary for a prince to have . . . good qualities . . . but it is very necessary...
...effects of rabies are the same in animals or humans, making proper allowance for the beast's normal way of expressing itself. The first usual symptom in a dog is its abnormal affection. It feels something is wrong and tries to tell its master. It is restless, easily irritated, will snap at objects. Later its throat begins to become paralyzed.* The pain of swallowing even water is terrific. So it avoids water, giving reason for the name hydrophobia. It bites at things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from...
...portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading?but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss Glasgow is too merciless to make her Judge bearable; too doctrinaire to know what she means by Annabel. The best character is Gamaliel's twin sister, Edmonia, who lost her virtue young, married four times and loves to tell about...
...Johnson once said, "When I was a boy. I used always to choose the wrong side of a debate, because the most ingenious things, that is to say the most new things that could be said upon...
...Library and Jefferson Laboratory depended for their existence on the financial returns from three or four Billy Sundays lecturing in Mechanics Hall and the New York Hippedrome on government, literature, and science at five dollars admission. It would be laughable of course but it is no more illogical and wrong than to make the development of bodily health depend upon a similar system. This like the development of the mind. Should depend upon endowment in the case of private institutions, and upon legislative appropriations in the case of state universities. The CRIMSON hopes that Harvard, leader in a same athletic...