Word: cassandra
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...highly laudable purpose, not of educating the public concerning fish, but of sending English manufactures to South America to be exchanged for shiploads of gold, und for taking over and miraculously disposing of the English national debt in sixteen years. Parliament was favorable and Mr. Walpole, the Cassandra of that generation, was deserted through his opposition to the scheme. "It seemed as if the whole nation had turned stock jobbers. Exchange Alley . . . was blocked by crowds. Every fool aspired to be a knave. . . . Innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere, soon receiving the name of bubbles", such as a project...
...appeal to the undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge of Latin and Greek is too valuable a heritage of civilization to be lost, but an enforced study destroys the "sweetness and light" of this ancient learning. It might prove Cassandra-like to herald a revival of the Viscount's assertion that "the case for making Latin the normal groundwork of a liberal education is overwhelming" is no longer resented as an unwarranted bit of pedagogy...
...Lloyd George is not often placed in the position of Cassandra, but a modest share of disbelief usually attends the prophecies of a statesman. His prediction of a "peace of the English" is not likely to prove an exception. Centuries ago a Romar, far from the golden mile-stone, was secure in a barbaric world, because the legions were eager to enforce the Pax Romana with their broadswords. While it may be true in the present age there can be no peace in the world without an understanding among the English speaking nations that war shall be prohibited yet unless...
...Cassandra and her lover stole away...
...course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece of art, however, the poem is smoothy done, and, like the "Cassandra", remarkably well contained. The verse-form-irregularly rhymed lambio pentameter-is a most difficult one, yet Mr. McLane manages his rhymes so skillfully that it attains the most desired object: it sounds line extraordinarily good blank verse. The description of Christ is curious, but would be true if the story were...