 Darkness have been furnished with more light than was good for them or profitable for us. We have been injudicious. The Blessings-of-Civilization Trust, wisely and cautiously administered, is a Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty,...  Soldiers of Fortune - Page 261by Richard Harding Davis - 2006 - 272 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | H. J. Ogden - 1901 - 358 pages
...Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom...Darkness have noticed it — they have noticed it, and begun to show alarm. They have become suspicions of the Blessings of Civilisation. More — they have... | |
 | H. J. Ogden - 1901 - 362 pages
...playing it badly of late years, and must certainly sutter by it in my opinion. She has been soeager to get every stake that appeared on the green cloth...Darkness have noticed it — they have noticed it, and begun to show alarm. They have become suspicious of the Blessings of Civilisation. More — they have... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1923 - 472 pages
...Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds]of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom...suffer by it, in my opinion. She has been so eager to getVvery stake that appeared on the green cloth, that the People who Sit in Darkness have noticed it—they... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1923 - 454 pages
...Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom...suffer by it, in my opinion. She has been so eager to getWery stake that appeared on the green cloth, that the People who Sit in Darkness have noticed it... | |
 | Forrest G. Robinson - 1995 - 288 pages
...Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom has been playing it badly of late years."13 In Following the Equator, his metaphor for the masquerade of colonial exploitation as "enlightenment"... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 2000 - 398 pages
...Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom has been playing it badly of late years."20 In Following the Equator, his metaphor for the masquerade of colonial exploitation as enlightenment... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2020 - 98 pages
...Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom...years, and must certainly suffer by it, in my opinion. * New York: Anti-Imperialist League of New York, 1901. 75 She has been so eager to get every stake... | |
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