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...face it, the completest and friendliest thing...
...thankless; and when we are in need of assistance, we can count upon the saint lending his hand with more certainty than we can count upon any other person.... Felicity, purity, charity, patience, self-severity--these are splendid excellencies, and the saint of all men shows them in the completest measure...
...credulously embraced charlatans like Count Cagliostro, who had a yellow pill that would keep one permanently young, à la Dorian Gray. The age prattled of liberty, but the man the intellectual French Encyclopedists hailed as a philosopher king, Frederick the Great, was described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife." The age worshiped good sense, yet "the High Priest of Reason," Dr. Johnson, would scrape his knuckles with a penknife till they were raw, and insisted on touching every...
...rest of the way home, across Poland and Germany, the roads were good and the food was fine. Italian Prince Scipione Borghese, captain of the Itala crew, led a triumphant parade into Paris to complete what he called "the amplest, the completest, the most persuasive testing to which this new instrument has ever been subjected." The trip had taken just two months...
...remains a sphinx and acts unexpectedly with lightning speed." By coincidence, only three days earlier the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language organ of the Foreign Office, had published an "abstract exploration for a possible world peace" which was either a pipe dream of the future or the frankest, completest and grimmest Fascist plan to date for the New World Order...