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The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. - Matthew Arnold, Obermann Once More (st. 28) And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. - Bible, Exodus (ch. III, v. 8) There are Batavian graces in all he says. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, retort to Beresford Hope who had referred to him as an "Asian Mystery" To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window. - Albert Einstein Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.] - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Naufragium All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Following the Equator
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