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...Jungle English'' is what Crusader Herbert calls the tangled verbiage so dear to polysyllabic politicians, patriots, businessmen. Many of his horrible examples are taken from the venerable London Times. He translates into Jungle English a passage from the Anglican Catechism ("My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men, as I would they should do unto me:"), thus: "In connection with my co-citizens a general standard of mutual goodwill and reciprocal non-aggression is obviously incumbent upon me; but a comprehensive delimitation of my obligations might be grouped under...
...were to ask him whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly for his own amusement; one ("A Neighbour's Landmark") for an Eton periodical; one ("Wailing Well") to scare the Eton Boy Scouts as they sat around their campfire...
...able to do. And at his day's end he goes back to his study and bedchamber in an entry where his fellow students may be men from any or all three of the upper College classes, and perhaps one or more of his tutors, all presumably good neighbour who can be dropped in on at reasonable hours. This is a palace revolution from the bad old days when undergraduatos were abandoned to miscellaneous College or private domormitories and nondescript houses, even three-decker wooden tenements, eating at one-armed lunches, seeking only little sets of personal acquaintances, often very...
...There is no question, but that a little wine 'for the stomach's sake' represents a real therapeutic result and has an action not on the stomach but on its nearest neighbour, the heart...
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour...