How soft it was, how delicately the Nile sun had tinted it!
They drank the pledge, “Victory to the king, destruction to his enemies.
In him Themistocles and Leonidas would find a worthy foeman.
I can answer you in the words of Homer, the singer of Hellas, the words he sets on the tongue of a wanderer and outcast, even as I.
And whether he shall ever rise to live again, Zeus knoweth; but from me it is hid.
There are certain circumstances that distinguish cretins from idiots; and their infirmities appear to depend upon endemic or local causes, regarding which much diversity of opinion has prevailed both amongst medical men and travellers.
In Styria, the Tyrol, and along the Rhine cretins are quite common, and not long since cases existed in Derbyshire.
In this branch I have seen successful work done by cretins and idiots, the latter drawing in exactly the same manner as primitive man.
In a single valley where some ten or fifteen thousand people live, not less than three thousand cretins are found.
The same phenomenon has been observed, although in a less striking manner, occasionally in cretins and quite often in criminals.
I shall be glad to hear more of these Cagots; about the Cretins a good deal is known, and with much certainty, but nothing, as far as I can learn, that tends to identify them historically with any religious sect.
Suppose the Cretins removed from the imagined community, and a colony of Australian ant-catchers or California lizard-eaters be in their stead: must not the Napoleons govern these?
Must the Napoleons govern the Cretins without their "consent"?
Now, this inequality, physical and mental, by birth, makes it impossible that the government over these Cretins can be in their "consent.
In the higher end of the valley of Isere, where cretins are very numerous, they lead an out-of-door life with the cattle which they are taught to herd.
When I first settled here, sir, I found a dozen cretins in this part of the canton," and the doctor turned round to point out the ruined cottages for the officer's benefit.
After preparing people's minds, I made another transportation by night, and six more cretins were taken away.
Cretins abound in the valley, and those not belonging to the idiot tribe have an expression of abjectness and misery not much higher in the scale.
A group of cretins in the valley of Aosta (Piedmont).
In degenerates it is frequently on one side of the head and in cretins on the forehead.
Among the inmates of asylums, we may find cretins and idiots that are able to play on a whistle any melody they have heard.
Cretins have poor memories on the retention side and so cannot learn.
Thus in cretins reconstructed by thyroid feeding, the straight, rather animal hair becomes lustrous and fine, silken and curly.
It was at the end of this period, that, with a moral courage and devotion of which history affords but few examples, Doctor Guggenbühl resolved to dedicate his life to the elevation of the cretins from their degraded condition.
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