...re are of man, all of which society fashions to meet its needs. Now in the social order, as in Nature’s order, there are more young shoots than there ... ...the Civil Service, may also serve to show some of the evils of our present social customs. Xavier Rabourdin, deeply impressed by the trials and pov- e... ... ed- dies, as it were, of the storm of 1789, which the historians of great social movements neglect to inquire into, although as a matter of fact it i... ...make his fortune, the other loses time and health and life to no avail. An undermining evil lies here. Certainly a nation does not seem threatened wit... ...n their eyes, crime belongs to the as- sizes or the police-courts; but the socially refined evils escape their ken; the adroitness that triumphs under... ... whereas if a man keeps himself well in sight before the world, cultivates social relations and extends them, he succeeds. After all, ministers and th... ... cried Saillard, comprehending more clearly than Monsieur l’abbe the rapid undermining, like the path of a mole, which his daughter had undertaken. “S...

...ire admission of the same to the full privileges, political, religious and social, of manhood, requires power- ful effort on the part of the enthralle... ...quality to their white fellow citizens, in civil, religious, political and social rank, but they have also illustrated and adorned our common country ... ...tish and Irish audiences in public, and the refinement and elegance of the social circles in which he mingled, not only as an equal, but as a recogniz... ...e?’ `Immediately pass laws entitling black men to all civil, political and social privileges,’ was the instant reply— and the questioning ceased.” The... ... fathers or families, and its laws do not recognize their existence in the social arrangements of the plantation. When they do exist, they are not the... ... the cause of Christ? You do not desire to do so, we know; but are you not undermining religion?” This has been said to me again and again, even since...

...vinces. Veronique was all the more studied because she had appeared in the social world like a phenomenon; but once there, she remained always simple ... ...which usually deceives the object of this ephemeral worship. It is to this social caprice that we owe so many local geniuses, soon ignored and their f... ... agreeable and distinguished men in the town; but by this time Veronique’s social power was all the stronger be- cause it was exclusive; she accepted ... ...l words, “and wife.” The card tables were deserted at night in the various social salons, and malicious tongues discussed what women were known in Mar... ...rtile farms. Left in their savage and primitive state these unculti- vated social and natural wastes give birth to discouragement, laziness, weakness ... ... useful. But all this is nothing in comparison to the real malady which is undermining me. I feel an awful transformation 166 The Village Rector goin...

...or a habit of the nose, involv- ing a serious drawback on the pleasures of social intercourse, 28 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 4 until he had discovered... ... well as with you. Since she cares so little for me as to care nothing for undermining my respectability, she shall go her way and I will go mine. My ... ...re wills than were ever made by the elder Mr Harmon of Harmony Jail. In my social experiences since Mrs Betty Higden came upon the scene and left it, ...

...dow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s communication of this idea to her clerical and ... ...stress, and a very hard one— and would be taken all over the strange city. Social people in other gondolas began to ask each other who the little soli... ...er consideration was accredited to a family so conspicuously niched in the social temple as the family of Dorrit. At this remark the face of Mr Dorrit... ...arm to Mrs Plornish’s corner. Mr Pancks’s object was not professional, but social. He had had a trying day, and wanted a little brightening. By this t... ...irably stabled. Nor did his be- nevolence stop here. He took pains, on all social occasions, to draw Mr Sparkler out, and make him conspicuous before ... ...Little Dorrit – Book Two and flat streets, had not yielded long ago to the undermining and besieging sea, like the fortifications children make on the...

...ances of man wasted and obliterated by ne- glect, and witness the marks of social life effaced gradually by the influence of vegetation, the size of t... ...portion of the fighting devil, though not, it may be, quite so much of the undermining fiend, that finds an underground way to his purpose—who hides h... ...nt. Her jealousy of power was lulled asleep; her resolution to forsake all social or domestic ties, and dedicate herself exclusively to the care of he...

...s of beeches, and fre- quent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made ... ...t Scatcherd, who had hitherto been silent enough about his sister in those social hours which he passed with his gentleman friend, boasted of the enga... ...t behoved him to be a good deal at Barchester, canvassing the electors and undermining, by Mr Nearthewinde’s aid, the mines for blowing him out of his... ... had in effect banished herself from the most intimate of the Greshamsbury social circles. She magnified in her own mind the importance of the confere...

... promenaders, chiefly military of the garrison, were few at that period of social protestation, and he could declare his disap- pointment aloud, ringi... ...onfiding her innumerable perplexities of sentiment and emo- tion to paper, undermining self-governance; self-respect, per- haps! Further than that, sh... ...his usual absent interest in everything not turning upon Art, politics, or social intrigue. He said, ‘Yes, good, good,’ at the proper intervals, and w... ...he transitory; with less of the gentlemanly fine taste, the light and easy social semi-irony, than Cecilia liked and would have expected from him. How... ... ‘ve heard him,’ sighed the colonel. ‘He calls the Protes- tant clergy the social police of the English middle-class. Those are the things he lets fly... ...imits of our most excellent and approved Con- stitution. I could wish that socially … that is all.’ ‘Socially and politically mean one thing in the en...

..., with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert... ...it with the noise and alarms of supplications; his way was another sort of undermining. They report that the Queen, as she loved martial men, would co...

...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

...demanded an epic life: what were many volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up tha... ...and formlessness; for these later born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for th... ...ict as the ability to count three 2 Book I — Miss Brooke and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile th... ...such a nature struggling in the bands of a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled... ... their comprehension of the Thirty nine Articles, and would have been less socially uniting. Mr. Brooke, seeing Mrs. Cadwallader’s merits from a diffe... ...ry, had not a potently sweetening effect. If the truth should be that some undermining disease was at work within him, there might be large opportunit...

...t child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcil...

...pli- cated play of parties was going on among the staff of the army. A was undermining B, D was undermining C, and so on in all possible combinations ... ... choice of occupation—such free- dom as his wealth, his education, and his social position had given him in his own life—is just what makes the choice...

...Biological systems obey the same order- increasing (natural) laws as do physical and social ones. We are part of the Universe in the sense that we ar... ...: "Bestowed Entities". These are entities whose existence is bestowed upon them by social agreement between conscious agents. But this definition i... ...ss. Religion and money are two examples of entities which owe their existence to a social agreement between conscious entities - yet they don't str... ...s pertinent and our definition should be refined accordingly. We must distinguish "Social Entities" (like money or religion) from "Bestowed Entitie... ...creates a change in the Language Field. Such a change can lead to a conflict with a social norm, for instance, or with a norm, a personal value, or ... ... of events? If he did, out go the concepts of determinism and predestination, thus undermining (and upsetting) quite a few religious denominations ...