 In five or six thousand years five or six high civilizations have risen, flourished, commanded the wonder of the world, then faded out and disappeared; and not one of them except the latest ever invented any sweeping and adequate way to kill people. They...  The Mysterious Stranger: And Other Stories - Página 111por Mark Twain - 1922 - 323 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1917 - 626 páginas
...have remained a poor and trifling thing to the end of time. . . . "It is a remarkable progress . . . high civilizations have risen, flourished, commanded...people. They all did their best, to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history, but only the Christian... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1916 - 188 páginas
...was not the time to continue our work. Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand...people. They all did their best — to kill being the chiefest ambition s of the human race and the earliest incident in its history — but only the Christian... | |
 | Louis J. Budd - 1999 - 674 páginas
...of wars. "In five or six thousand years," says Satan, "five or six high civilizations have arisen, flourished, commanded the wonder of the world, then...people. They all did their best — to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history — but only the Christian... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2009 - 404 páginas
...was not the time to continue our work. Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a. remarkable progress. In five or six thousand...people. They all did their best — to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history — but only the Christian... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1916 - 1064 páginas
...was not the time to continue our work. Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand...people. They all did their best, to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history, but only the Christian... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1916 - 1078 páginas
...was not the time to continue our work. Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand...people. They all did their best, to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history, but only the Christian... | |
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