Category: Humour
The great spirits of the past, chiefly Hellenes, recently revisited England. With a view to an exchange of ideas on English contemporary life, they met at night in various towns of Italy, where, by the favour of Dionysus, the author was allowed to be present, and to take notes...
"'You have, ladies and gentlemen, heard some of the disadvantages that will inevitably be entailed upon you by not granting us what Justice, Equity and our Costume render a dema...
5. Part 5"So are all the Cynics. So are Ibsen, Tolstoy; so is Shaw. Their dramas may be, say _are_ no dramas at all; their novels may be, say _are_ no novels at all; their serious treati...
3. Part 3"All this clearly proves, O Empedocles, how right and, at the same time, how wrong you were in your view of the origin of things. Perhaps you were right in saying that the parts...
2. Part 2"Why, Nature created men in order to have a few _generalists_, if I may say so, amongst all the specialists called animals or plants; just as amongst men she created Homers and...
11. Part 11"'At the risk of wearying hon. members I should like to add just a remark or two on another argument of the alarmists. We have seen the Danish argument; the Hock argument; and t...
7. Part 7"'No,' I said, 'he never did, which is one of the many reasons of his divine genius. But he does speak of temperance, and simple life, and the superman, and all the other so-cal...
10. Part 10"The hall was curiously unfit for the business of a national Assembly. It is neither large, nor light enough. The acoustics are fair, but superfluous. For, who cares very much w...
13. Part 13"Not so the little ones. For them religion is viewed as a matter of documentary evidence, like a bill of sale. They constantly clamour for 'evidence,' 'proofs' and 'verification...
4. Part 4"An Irishman reviling war, and soldiers, and the military spirit! How unutterably grim,--how unspeakably grimy! The Irish, endowed by nature with gifts of the body as well as th...
8. Part 8"'And then, _entre nous_, could you not bring with you a Lais, a Phryne or two, in their original costumes as they allured all you naughty Greeks in times bygone? It would be ch...
1. Part 1The great spirits of the past, chiefly Hellenes, recently revisited England. With a view to an exchange of ideas on English contemporary life, they met at night in various towns...
9. Part 9"When the Belgian artist played it, I listened in vain for Dodona. What I heard was the rustling of silken tones through the wood of the chairs and tables at the Carlton. Where...
12. Part 12"This nation, like all of us Hellenes, has many centuries ago made up its mind to keep its political liberty intact and undiminished. For that purpose it always tried to limit,...
15. Part 15"I will not undertake," Plato said, "to determine what direction the new Religion of the little ones will take. That direction depends upon their whole life in peace and war, wh...
14. Part 14"'My "Life of Jesus" will have three sections. The first will contain the Antecedents. I will start with the soil, the air, and the waters of Palestine. I will investigate the i...
16. Part 16LANG (E.M.), The Book of Fair Women. By Federigo Luigino of Udine. Translated from the Venetian edition of 1554. With 6 pictures. Foolscap 8vo, hand-made paper, parchment bindin...