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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...fice was superfluous and should be abolished, the Comptroller assuming its duties. He now abol- ishes by resignation his own connection with it, in sp... ...er. Through all the Napoleonic wars she was still a country ruled by great feudal landlords, and gentlemen adventurers associated with them. The lawye... ...arriage, but also to the decreased absorption of married women in domestic duties. A woman, from the point of view of this discussion, is not “married... ...ency in modern society to lighten the disadvantages (in the case of legacy duties, for example) and stigma laid upon illegitimate children. And a type...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ated large parts of Christian south-eastern and central Europe into his burgeoning feudal empire. Local kings and emperors were left to govern as a... ...he Criminality of Transition Fascism - The Tensile Permanence Communism, Capitalism, Feudalism Left and Right in a Divided Europe Anarchism for a Pos... ...sors in universities, policemen - all demand, and receive, bribes to fulfill their duties, or, more often, to turn a blind eye. Pakistan habitually... ...tability and trust. The new Ministry of Finance and Economy has introduced customs duties and a few taxes with modest success. But the government's... ...ftware and movies. The Central Fiscal Authority of Kosovo estimated that, in 2001, duties and taxes were paid only on $590 million worth of imports... ...m - The Tensile Permanence Left and Right in a Divided Europe Communism, Capitalism, Feudalism A Classification of Cultures Why America is Hated ... ...onceived in Europe in eras past, is fraying at the edges. Rights and corresponding duties are ill-defined or mismatched. What is legal is not alwa...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...or herself she thus com- pleted the circle of her relations to this life’s duties, by pre- senting me with a son. Of this child, knowing how weari- so... ...y. And it is evident that, had she been the wife of any man engaged in the duties of a profes- sion, she might have been summoned from the very first,... ...eld the nominal office of cook in our little establishment, but whose real duties had been much more about her mistress’s person—and with a searching ... ...s con- nected with the routine of public business, and by other of- ficial duties which required signatures or attestations, to find much leisure for ... ... husbands’ safety, rarely indeed are able to take this Roman view of their duties. T o return to the narrative. Agnes had not, nor could have, the mos... ...ld to open the book of modern history, as distinguished from the middle or feudal history,) had the battle of Pavia foreshown to him, not by name, but... ... war, which, for various reasons has been continually increasing since the feudal period, will op- erate as another limitation upon its field, concurr...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...es, so that 99 Trollope all may be well with her as she enters on her new duties. So is it that England should send forth her daughters. They should ... ...State should be rid. As soldiers, fit or capable of being made fit for the duties they had undertaken, I could find but one fault with them. Their ave... ...talking of their rights, but seem to have a most indifferent idea of their duties. They have no scruple at demanding from men ev- erything that a man ... ...omen, has perhaps been the most precious of the legacies left to us by the feudal ages. How, amid the rough darkness of old Teuton rule, women began t...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ose hopes were set on him, yet preached to by this stripling scholar about duties and sacred obligations! Well might he rue the day he ever set foot i... ...s are Catholic.’ ‘What matters it? In my cause they shall fight!’ said the feudal Lady, ‘for me and my daughter!’ And as the pastor uttered a sound of... ...submission and respect, the boy, as a hus- band and father, had rights and duties that would assert them- selves manfully if opposed. It was true that... ...aman, who was perfectly at home in the Bay of Biscay , and had so strong a feudal feeling for the house of Walwyn, that he placed himself and his best... ...s of Normandy and Brittany, but it had since, like most other such ancient feudal fortresses, become the nucleus of walls and buildings for use, defen... ...,’ said Madame de Quinet. ‘I honour your filial love to him. Yet, you have duties to this little one. You have no right to keep her from her position.... ...ile, he made a point of know- ing nothing of his mother’s guests, lest his duties as a gover- nor might clash with those of hospitality. He offered to... ...stacle to their recogni- tion; but Berenger felt himself bound by all home duties to return to England, nor had he clear convictions as to the absolut...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...FIRST IMPRESSIONS—’’SAIL HO!’’ . . . . . . . . . . 6 CHAPTER III — SHIP’S DUTIES—TROPICS CHAPTER IV — A ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND . . . . . . .... ...APTER XIV — SANTA BARBARA—HIDE DROGH ING—HARBOR . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 DUTIES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—TH... .... I had now got my sea legs on, and was beginning to enter upon the regular duties of a sea life. About six bells, that is, three o’clock P. M., we s... ...d. - 5 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CHAPTER III — SHIP’S DUTIES—TROPICS As we had now a long ‘‘spell’’ of fine weather, withou... ...reak the monotony of our lives, there can be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ... ...following. Then I could see them receiving their A.Bs. from the dignified, feudal looking President, with his ‘‘auctoritate mihi commissa,’’ and w...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, ...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...r progress. The conceptions of legality, of larger patriotism, of national duties and aspirations have grown un- der the shadow of the old monarchies ... ...n of unit- ing and consolidating the particular ambitions and interests of feudalism in favour of a larger concep- tion of a State, of giving self-con... ...al bloodshed than the history of the Polish State, which never knew either feudal institutions or feu- dal quarrels. At the time when heads were falli... ...s taking up the modest but spiritual inheritance of a hard life and simple duties; of duties so simple that nothing ever could shake the traditional a... ...busy men their work was but the ordinary labour of earning a living; their duties in their ever-recurring round had, like the sun itself, 175 Joseph ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...tera- ture and its extreme unsuitability to the conditions. What he calls “Feudal Literature” could have little living action on the tumult of America... ...etwixt sleep and waking, of all the pleasureless pleasurings and imaginary duties in which we coin away our hearts and fritter invaluable years. He ha... ...nd of life. It is “when we fall behind ourselves” that “we are cursed with duties and the neglect of duties.” “I love the wild,” he says, “not less th... ... cannot thoroughly explain. Certainly, he became a ronyin, a broken man, a feudal outlaw; certainly he was liable to be arrested if he set foot upon h... ...be held accountable for his late vassal’s conduct. There is some nicety of feudal custom here that escapes my comprehension. In Yeddo, with this nonde... ...ow resigned to the provincial Government on a lesser count, as a Ronyin or feudal rebel. But, how- ever that may be, the change was of great importanc... ...e has taken liberties with the author and the public. It is no part of the duties of the editor of an established classic to decide what may or may no... ...lems. But so re- 187 Familiar Studies of Men & Books spectability and the duties of society haunt and burden their poor devotees; and what seems at f...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...we dined to- gether at an inn; he had been on circuit, for he stuck to his duties like a chief part of his existence; and I remember it as the only oc... ...m- perfect efforts to outdo Sir Philip Sidney. For the ideal of the dog is feudal and religious; the ever-present polytheism, the whip-bearing Olympus... ... subtle casuists. The duty to the female dog is plain; but where competing duties rise, down they will sit and study them out, like Jesuit confessors.... ...nd himself in a 88 Robert Louis Stevenson dilemma between two conflicting duties of loyalty and grati- tude. His old friends were not to be neglected...

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