The foremost benefit of remaining single is the retention of complete autonomy over one’s own life. Any opportunity may immediately be taken advantage of without the consultation of others. Life may be lived as luxuriously as one’s budget will allow or as stoically as possible in order to s...
He appears as ‘Velent’ in a side-story to a 13thC Scandinavian retelling of the popular Germanic saga of the life of the Gothic hero-kingTheoderic (Dietrich) the Great (Þiðrekssaga/Thidrekssaga). This is itself another version of the story inVölundarkviðaalbeit different in...
Wise ruling this of life: but yet again Perchance too rigid diet is not well;He lives not best who dreads the coming pain And shunneth each delight desirable:FLEE THOU EXTREMES, this word alone is plain, Of all that God hath given to Man to spell! AMARYLLIS–(Theocritus, Idyll, iii.)...
The warriors are supposed to lie in a charmed sleep in Craig-a-howe Cave, near Munlochy, Ross-shire. Caoilte, the swift runner, was a famous Fian. Finn was chief, and Goll and Garry were of Clan Morna, which united with the Fians. “Moolachie” is a little babe, and “clarsach,...
Cap-makers became colonels, fulfilling the duties of generals; revolvers and swords were displayed around big, peaceful stomachs wrapped in flaming red belts; little tradesmen became warriors commanding battalions of brawling volunteers, and swearing like pirates in order to give themselves some ...
Folk narratives describe Robin Hood-like heroes, such that righteous warriors and robbers (the aforementioned ʿayyārūn, or, in Persian, ʿayyārān) distributed their spoils among the poor. It is in historical chronicles where we see the fityān as hoodlums who threatened shakedowns ...
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppre...
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[As shown in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and referenced in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Amanda’s headstone also confirms the date of Freddy’s “death” at the hands of the Elm Street parents.]Circa...
Rarely has there been as neat a fit between a book’s subject and its author’s biography as in "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" by Nayan Chanda. ... A. the book will exert some influence in changing people’s opinions. B....