But in order to justify my friend, he confessed that this expedient was put into his head by the famous Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa,
Logos. He tells about how Psalmanazar thought and what he did.
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fricassee
meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout
People eating these children is disgusting and I cannot believe they ever reached this point to think it was okay.
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I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl before twelve years old is no salable commodity
salable-subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold commodity-something of use, advantage, or value The fact that children were sold at any age is such a terrible thing to imagine.
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The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born
This could fall under both pathos and logos. So many women could be "breeders" and out of all of them such a big amount won't be able to do so due to many reasons. Everyone should be able to have their own children if they want to and it is sad that some people don't really have a choice or that chance gets taken away from them.
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melancholy
a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
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- Mar 2016
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paddy fields
A paddy field is a flooded parcel of land used for growing semiaquatic rice
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constables
an officer of the peace, having police and minor judicial functions, usually in a small town, rural district, etc.
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It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone ‘must’.
Also known as "musth", it is basically a condition when a male elephant acts in an extremely aggressive behavior. It also raises their reproductive hormones. When in "musth" the testosterone levels in the elephant can reach as high as 60 times greater than in another male elephant.
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bayonet
a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat
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tyranny
unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.
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- Feb 2016
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When wealthy people give away money, we can always say that they are doing it to ease their consciences or generate favorable publicity.
It's sad that some people think this way. Just because they have money and do something generous doesn't have to mean anything more than them having a good heart. And then there is also those people that criticize the ones that have so much money and don't do anything.
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philanthropy.
noun, plural philanthropies. 1.altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
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That shocked him because he assumed that, if there are vaccines and treatments that could save lives, governments would be doing everything possible to get them to the people who need them.
It's so crazy that this is true. I never understood why things can't be given or shared with all around the world to save these people. We are all human.
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What is a human life worth?
Money has become such a big thing that the human life has to be questioned with how much it is worth.
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The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street. As many of these as I could, I converted into teache
He was smart and took advantage of the help that was right in front of him.
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s, I finally succeeded in learning how to write.
It's great reading how he didn't give up no matter how long it took him. He had a goal and he found any opening where he saw he could learn from and took advantage of it and succeeded.
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I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to ge
He realized that knowing how to read wasn't going to get him anywhere. Slaves who knew how to read weren't common but the ones that did know, realized it wasn't help for the situation they were in. All it helped him with is learning more about the horrible things happening to him.
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t. They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utteranc
What he read basically gave his thoughts a way to express and speak in his mind before he realized that he wouldn't be able to voice them.
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brute
a nonhuman creature; beast
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- Jan 2016
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The way people treated them like if they were always wrong and how badly they talked to them, he just hopes it will be different with them and that they are reasonable towards what he has to say.
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infanticide
killing infants
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Nebuchadnezzar
Chaldean king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.
They are not able to live their lives freely, instead it's relating it to monologue as in it being one person trying to take all control.
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"Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?"
They were is such injustice that things they were doing made themselves ask if they would be able to handle any bad treatment, both verbally and physically or even being accused for doing nothing wrong.
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