(Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Brazen Crown, Perpetual Arch-Master of the Rosicrucian Masons of Mesopotamia; Attached (in Honorary Capacities) to Societies Musical, Societies Medical, Societies Philosophical, and Societies General Benevolent, throughout Europe;
etc. etc."'We' are getting along; 'we' shall be ready on the ; 'we' shall start on the ,"
etc.,
etc.Author of Father Goose-His Book; The Wizard of Oz; The Magical Monarch of Mo; The Enchanted Isle of Yew; The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; Dot and Tot of Merryland
etc. etc.A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage,"
etc. -- accompany- ing himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have used -- supposing the machine to be a trifle out of order.
And so when the days of my mourning for Nicolete were ended (and in this sentence I pass over letters to and fro,--letters wild from Nicolete, letters wise from Aucassin, letters explanatory and apologetic from the Obstacle--how the Major-General had suddenly come home quite unexpectedly and compelled her to explain Nicolete's absence,
etc.,
etc.She has lived practically on the tourist traffic attracted by her annual pageants of Parliaments, Boards, Municipal Councils,
etc.,
etc.Again and again, of course, he will be found to express himself so clearly that all reference to his other writings may be dispensed with; but where this is not the case, the advice he himself gives is after all the best to be followed here, viz.:--to regard such works as: "Joyful Science", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", "The Antichrist", "The Will to Power",
etc.,
etc., as the necessary preparation for "Thus Spake Zarathustra".
{25} The heart, liver, lights, kidneys,
etc. were taken out from the inside and eaten first as being more readily cooked; the
Easy, easy,
etc., come from the elderly staid spectators, who pat her comfortingly.
X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn,
etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name -- Xristos .
She is very cross (mamma writes me) about coming abroad, and doesn't seem at all to mind the expense that papa has been put to--talks very ill-naturedly about losing the hunting,
etc. She expected to begin to hunt in December, and wants to know whether anybody keeps hounds at Hyeres.
Another set pretended that out of one thousand new moons that had been observed, nine hundred and fifty had been attended with remarkable disturbances, such as cataclysms, revolutions, earthquakes, the deluge,
etc. Then they believed in some mysterious influence exercised by her over human destinies-- that every Selenite was attached to some inhabitant of the earth by a tie of sympathy; they maintained that the entire vital system is subject to her control,
etc.