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Smith rejected it, falling back instead on insults and threats. "For your riches we have no use," Smith shrugged. And if Powhatan meant to challenge the colonists' superior firepower, bring it on, Smith taunted, for "in such wars consist our chiefest pleasure...
Must Man, the chiefest Work...
...course of the year 1631, in the little French town of Loudun, an entire convent of Ursuline nuns went insane, or rather, to use the analytical term of that day, they were possessed by devils. And since the chiefest of these was a demon of desire for the parish priest-a dashing esthete adored by the women of the town and detested by their husbands-it was indisputably evident to the man's enemies that he was a wizard, and that something had to be done about...
Limning, as the Elizabethans called it, was done with opaque watercolor on vellum using fine brushes called pencils. In his Art of Limning, Hilliard directed: "The first and chiefest precept which I give is cleanliness, and therefore fittest for gentlemen, that the practicer of limning be precisely pure and cleanly in all his doings . . . take heed of the dandruff of the head shedding from the hair, and of speaking over your work for sparkling, for the least sparkling of spittle will never be helped if it light in the face or any part of the naked...
...mortals' chiefest enemy...