Yankee
Yankee is originally a self-referential term for residents of New England. The etymology is uncertain. See also yankee ingenuity[?]Yankee has several other meanings:
- A mildly derogatory term for the Union forces in the American Civil War, used by the Confederates
- A sometimes-derogatory term for citizens of the United States of America (often shortened to Yank)
- A baseball team in New York, New York is the New York Yankees, despite New York not being part of New England.
- A type of bet
- The letter Y in the NATO phonetic alphabet
See also the song Yankee Doodle, and film Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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and assisted with his own hands the defeat of the Persian host at
Nemesis that attends upon human pride, the vengeance that follows crime,
under their influence he evolved for himself out of the popular idea of
Read for example the following passage from the "Agamemnon" and contrast
more strikingly the transformation that could be effected, under the
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This can our thought track out--
And as he wills, the rod
'The Gods list not to hold
The grace of holiness'--
Breathed forth rebellious fire--
Of bliss and health and treasure--
At last, in tears and pain.
Who spurns the shrine of Right, nor wealth nor power
To guard him from the gulf: there lies his lot,
Lust drives him on--lust, desperate and wild
And cure is none; beyond concealment clear
As an ill coin beneath the wearing touch
Its metal false--such is the sinful wight.
Fair pleasure flits, and lures him childlike on,
Beneath the grinding burden of his.
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