Word: honours
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...come easily to a devout republican and a man who seldom met with anything--from bifocals to popcorn to spelling to the Lord's Prayer--that he did not feel he could improve on. While he might well write off European peerages as "a sort of tar-and-feather honour, a mixture of foulness and folly," he kept this view to himself while consorting with the aristocrats who eased the U.S. into being. A year before his return, Franklin did concede, "There are two opinions prevalent in Europe which have mischievous effects in diminishing national felicity; the one, that useful...
...Paulin. You have never had the honour of hearing him speak due to a kerfuffle over his views on Israel. We have never heard him speak because no English student has ever been known to go to a lecture. What a waste of?...
...years. According to a BBC report, there are not many men left alive in that unfortunate land. Most of the population consists of women and children. They are facing famine this winter. Much of the placeincluding the magnificent Buddha statues of another erais already destroyed. It brings no honour to us to bomb ruins further into ruins. In any case, this is a side issue. The main question lies in and around Jerusalem, both in myth, in history, and for the present...