BS: Make what you will of it

Subject: BS: Make what you will of it
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 12 Oct 02 - 01:18 PM

Make what you will of the following words:

    "If there is a sin superior to every other, it is that of willful and offensive war. Most other sins circumscribed within narrow limits, that is, the power of one man cannot give them a very general extension, and many kind of sins have only a mental existence from which no infection arises; but he who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of Hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."    -- Thomas Paine

Subject: RE: BS: Make what you will of it
From: Cappuccino
Date: 13 Oct 02 - 01:21 PM

What's a 'cotagion'?

- ian B

Subject: RE: BS: Make what you will of it
From: Amos
Date: 13 Oct 02 - 02:09 PM

I think it is a rare bird known as Typo Americanus Accidentalus; it has a peculiar mating call made up of four-letter words...


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Subject: RE: BS: Make what you will of it
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 13 Oct 02 - 03:54 PM

My Bad. That was, indeed, a typo. The word should have been "contagion". Sorry.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Make what you will of it
From: mack/misophist
Date: 13 Oct 02 - 04:58 PM

Thank you Sir. It went into my scrapbook, right next to deQuincy's Murder.


For,

if once a man indulges himself in
murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing
he comes next to drinking and Sabath-breaking, and from that to
incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.
Many a man dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.

          On Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts

          Second paper, 1839
          by Thomas De Q

I believe Bush and Ashcroft are past the sabbath- breaking stage.

Subject: RE: BS: Make what you will of it
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Oct 02 - 05:14 PM

I somehow don't think they're headed in the direction Quincey warns about.

Subject: RE: BS: Make what you will of it
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 09:37 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Make what you will of it
From: diesel
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 09:43 PM

Make what you will of what you have asked for here is thine answer ablast from he past ......Diesel

Main Entry: con·ta·gion
Pronunciation: k&n-'tA-j&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin contagion-, contagio, from contingere to have contact with, pollute
Date: 14th century
1 a : a contagious disease b : the transmission of a disease by direct or indirect contact c : a disease-producing agent (as a virus)
2 a : POISON b : contagious influence, quality, or nature c : corrupting influence or contact
3 a : rapid communication of an influence (as a doctrine or emotional state) b : an influence that spreads rapidly