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...ute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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... actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature. In “The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris” some like- nesse... ...is one of Balzac’s remark- able and most famous pictures in the “Comedy of Human Life.” K.P.W. 4 Balzac BEATRIX I A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION F RANCE, ... ... violets or a lily of the valley in the glade of a forest, is framed by an African desert banked by the ocean,—a desert without a tree, an herb, a bir... ...sed to submit to an operation, in spite of the entreaties of her sister-in-law. The secret reason of that ob- stinacy was known to herself only; she d... ...e washing of which caused the only dispute she ever had with her sister-in-law,— her habit being to change it only once a week. From the large wadded ... ...ed Calyste as if she felt that 31 Beatrix her intentions gave her certain rights over him; her plans seemed to authorize a supervision. Not that her ... ...re, who is neither man nor woman, who smokes like an hussar, writes like a journalist, and has at this very moment in her house the most venomous of a... ...ed this writer for the last seven years, as she had so many other authors, journalists, artists, and men of the world. She knew his nerveless nature, ... ...ch is the fief of Les Touches, from which the Revolution lopped its feudal rights. The paludiers, however, continue to call it “the chateau,” and they...

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...n Saturday night. The speech, not very well reported, appears in the State journal of this morning. Y ou doubtless will see it; and I hope that you wi... ...e policy of preserving the new Territo- ries from the baneful influence of human bondage, as the North- western Territories were sought to be preserve... ... and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and be-... ...decide the facts between P . & B. and S.C. It is said that under a general law, whenever a R. R. Co. gets tired of its debts, it may transfer fraudule... ...on of fraud in either case? It is said, if a purchaser have acquired legal rights, let him not be robbed of them, but if he needs legislation let him ... ...n let him submit to just terms to obtain it. Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded in every possible way against fraud), so that, when... ...the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buy... ...subject. The American people, on the first day of January, 1854, found the African slave trade prohibited by a law of Congress. In a majority of the S... ...ly; they must blow out the moral lights around us; they must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate 62 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five th...

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...her half of this sheet; and still another set, if you can, by studying the law, think of a form that in your judgment, promises additional security, a... ...souri and Maryland. With the same reason in both States, Missouri has, by law, provided a test for the voter with refer- ence to the present rebellio... ...pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves and in property cases where rights ... ...aty between the United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave-trade, made on the 17th day of February last, has been duly r... ...n my attention the uncertain state of international questions touching the rights of foreigners in this country and of United States citizens abroad. ... ...sting rebellion means more and tends to do more than the perpetu- ation of African slavery—that it is, in fact, a war upon the rights of all working p... ...ople by other working people. It should never be so. The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all w... ... word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails to- day among us human creatures, even in the North, and all professing to love liberty. He... ...ly printed and published this morning in the New Y ork World and New Y ork Journal of Commerce, newspapers printed and published in the city of New Y ...

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... masked knight could be. “Also the Emperor became more and more excited with curiosity, and with great suspense one awaited the hour, when according t... ...e was sitting on a limb right over me, looking down at me. I felt something of the same sense of humiliation and injury which one feels when he finds ... ...but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use. Now I’ve never heard a jay use bad grammar but very seldom; and when they do, they are as ashame... ...tion; but the German student already has his mansard roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular bra... ...etails, and drop this one from your list. The bloody-minded Fourtou will be sure to attend to it. Or I myself—yes, to make certain, I will drop a note... ...living ant that seemed to have any more sense than a dead one. I refer to the ordinary ant, of course; I have had no experience of those wonderful Swi... ...consequently trade was soon as brisk as ever. Leaving the Expedition outside to rest, I quartered myself in the chalet, with Harris, proposing to corr... ...ed afterward, in Paris, but not for amusement; not with a motive of any sort, in- deed, but simply from a selfish indifference to other people’s comfo... ...th great respectfulness. She said, in good English, and in a deeply offended tone, that she had paid her passage and was not going to be bullied out o...

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...her, what seemed scarcely 8 Sartor Resartus less interesting, a quite new human Individuality, an al- most unexampled personal character, that, namel... ...st here be revealed, and treated of, might endanger the circulation of any Journal extant? If, indeed, all party-divisions in the State could have bee... ...ished, Whig, Tory, and Radical, embracing in discrepant union; and all the Journals of the Nation could have been jumbled into one Journal, and the Ph... ...pher explain, not why I wear such and such a Garment, obey such and such a Law; but even why I am here, to wear and obey anything!— Much, therefore, i... ... Philosophical reflections intervene, and sometimes touch- ing pictures of human life. Of this sort the following has surprised us. The first purpose ... ..., has become obsolete, and were now a foreigner to his Europe. Thus is the Law of Progress secured; and in Clothes, as in all other external things wh... ...fulness (Ungestum) under which the boldest quailed, assert that he too had Rights of Man, or at least of Mankin.” In all which, who does not discern a... ...en the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo- Jumbo and Indian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all things,... ...rom 169 Thomas Carlyle High-breeding, only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights, I disce...

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...he noble life. There after his tragic death came his old friend White, the journalist and novelist, under a promise, and found these papers; he found ... ...oo, one might hazard, Benham was dreaming when he thought the noble life a human possibility. Perhaps man, like the ape and the hyaena and the tapewor... ...eems but a horror-stricken child knew what was happening…. This picture of human indignity tortured Benham’s imagi- nation much more than it tortured ... ...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ... money and bought and kept a small terrier in the school house against all law and tradition, under the baseless pretence that it was a stray animal o... ...ute truth about things.” “I don’t know that I’m particularly built to be a journal- ist,” Benham objected. “You’re not,” said Billy… . “You might go i... ...n years old or thereabouts, the boy who doesn’t grow up.” “But doesn’t the law—?” “There’s no law. Only custom and the T urkish tax collector. “You se... ...ot one universal moral law, but no effective reconciliation of the various rights and duties of a single individual. At any rate I find myself doubtfu... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat...

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...n up since the words ‘Mr. Justice Patteson’ were of frequent occurrence in law reports. John Patteson, father of the subject of the present memoir, wa... ... to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he came to London to study law. In 1816 he opened his chambers as a special pleader, and on February 2... ...instructions of your 33 Yo n g e clear mother, than whom a more excellent human being never existed. I pray God that this assistance may continue thr... ...In the autumn of 1849, he obtained a second class in the school of Literae humaniores, a place that fairly represented his abilities as compared with ... ...s the ‘Duke of Portland.’ Meantime here are a few extracts from Patteson’s journal- letter during the voyage. Sea-sickness was very slightly dis- abli... ... John was much staggered at this. It looked to him like a surrender of his rights. I told him, at great length, why I thought he must consent; but fin... ... Confession of a fault in an indi- vidual is wrong in a State; indeed, the rights of the case are, and perhaps must be, unknown to people at a distanc... ...there should be two missionary dioceses, and without the right man for the African Mission, there might have been a difficulty in carrying out the pla... ... a good land indeed. I read and hear of others, such as that noble Central African band, and I wonder how men can go through it all. It comes to me as...

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... for deser- tion. The grave of this unfortunate man was the first place of human interment that the author ever beheld, as the smoke- house was the fi... ...with his theory, rather obtained from than corrected by experiments on the human constitu- tion; the pious, self-denying, laborious, and ill-paid miss... ...paid mission- ary; the half-educated, litigious, envious, and disreputable law- yer, with his counterpoise, a brother of the profession, of bet- ter o... ...wer that the keen frosts of those regions always extracted from one of his African origin. Still, there was a smiling expression of good-humor in his ... ...f them who’ll rob a man of his rightful dues.” “Y ou are tenacious of your rights, this cold evening, Natty,” returned the Judge with unconquerable go... ...e than Marmaduke Temple’s right to forbid him,” he said. “But if there’s a law about it at all, though who ever heard of a law that a man shouldn’t ki... ... any district of extent thus con- ceded; though under the crown’, manorial rights being often granted with the soil, in the older counties the word “m... ...of all passing events; and his diary, which was written in the manner of a journal, or log. book, embraced not only such circumstances as affected him... ...worth remembering, which, on his return, were regularly transferred to the journal with proper notations of the time, manner, and other little particu...

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...s. His emulation, the fellows fancied, was for get- ting the school into a journal of the Sports. He used to read one sent him by a sporting officer o... ...t. “Men are mortal,” he said, with a lot of pretended stuff, deploring our human condition in the elegy strain; and he fell to reckoning the English h... ...d crown), “we are bound to sheathe the sword and govern by the Book of the Law.” “But if they won’t have the Book of the Law!” “They knew the power be... ...the power behind it.” “Not if we knock nothing harder than the Book of the Law upon their skulls.” “Happily for the country, England’s councils are no... ...ord Ormont enjoyed a perusal of a letter addressed by him to the burgess’s journal; and so did his detractors. The printing of it was an act of editor... ...r- min in their multitudes gnawing to get at the cheese-trap. She could be humane, even sisterly, with women whose con- duct or prattle did not outrag... ...o, or a broken bridge, before the formalities are cleared away to grant us rights of citizenship. She was like those frank lands where we have not to ... ...ave a taste for the work, doesn’t dispirit. Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time. I shall manag... ...ed distinct breaches of the law and the peace, and were a violation of the rights of her neighbour, Mr. Gil- bert Addicote, might hope that the troubl...

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...and are much visited in London; speech is all that is wanting to make them human. During his brief interview with Mr. Fogg, Passepartout had been care... ...or at the Reform two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics, were at his ser- vice. A moderate-sized safe stood in his... ...n boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs. When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, with her long hull, rolled fearfully. ... ...ealing the cards, and between two rubbers—and questioned himself whether a human heart really beat be- neath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas F... ... at noon; so that Phileas Fogg had five hours before him. According to his journal, he was due at Calcutta on the 25th of October, and that was the ex... ...g betrayed no surprise whatever. The policeman was a representative of the law, and law is sacred to an En- glishman. Passepartout tried to reason abo... ...on the prescribed time of her arrival. Phileas Fogg noted this gain in his journal, and then, accompanied by Aouda, who betrayed a desire for a walk o... ...nd dinner, as his time would be absorbed all day in putting his affairs to rights. In the evening he would ask permission to have a few moment’s conve...

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... Stalky, reading the near- est. “‘Prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law. G. M. Dabney, Col., J.P .,’ an’ all the rest of it. ‘Don’t seem to me ... ...l when the soft and smiling Stalky was laughing at him. Consequently—since human nature is what it is—those boys had been doing wrong somewhere. He ho... ...e dearrs,” said the woman. “They’ll niver touch my man. He’ll poach ‘em to rights. Iss fai! Fresh berries an’ cream. Us Dartymoor folk niver forgit th... ...’ll be considerate. I’ll be merciful. By gad, I’ll be the very essence o’ humanity! Did ye, or did ye not, see my notice-boards? Don’t attempt to den... ...,” said Stalky, warningly, and Beetle closed the book, in obedience to the law under which he and his companions had lived for six checkered years. Th... ...d McTurk, jerking his head toward the wall, where hung a small wooden West-African war-drum, a gift to McT urk from a naval uncle. “Then we shall be t... ...able to do any work,” said Aladdin. “They’ve begun already.” Now that West-African war-drum had been made to sig- nal across estuaries and deltas. Nu... ...d Prout himself, with a dull and lowering vis- age, tried to think out the rights and wrongs of it all, only plunging deeper into bewilderment. Why sh... ...th half-shut eyes above his cigar, would he speak of great men living, and journals, long dead, founded in their riotous youth; of years when all the ...

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...urice, Maurice! as if I had not been a most provoking, presuming sister-in-law. As if I had not acted so that if Albinia ever had a temper, she must h... ...to the utmost. I assure you, Winifred, I mean to be proud of my brother-in-law.’ ‘What did you hear of the first wife?’ ‘It was an early marriage. He ... ...miration of the girls. They were all very happy and busy setting things to rights, but Albinia was in difficulty how to bestow her books. There was an... ... by visitors—now for a vigorous T uesday. Her unpacking and her setting to rights were not half over, but as the surface was habitable, she resolved t... ...aimed Albinia, as they finally turned their backs on her. It was hardly in human nature to help making the obser- vation, but it was not prudent. Gilb... ...in a tone as if to mark the hopeless gulf between. ‘And you are sorry. All human goodness begins from sor- row. It had even to be promised first for b... ...a was not likely to supply what education had omitted. Looking back on old journals and the like, I am as- tonished to see how unsettled my notions we... ...e, none of my little friends need be alarmed at its vicinity. Inhabits the African deserts, but may be bred in more temperate latitudes. I myself saw ...

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...ity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING. —Cole... ...ost Sin- cere Acknowledgement of HIS PRE-EMINENT SERVICES IN BEHALF OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE... ...ther upon the indestructible and 5 Frederick Douglas unchangeable laws of human nature, every one of which is perpetually and flagrantly violated by ... ...pid, that they are unconscious of their wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing ... ...in college, and afterward Governor of Cape Palmas) published the Freedom’s Journal, in New Y ork City; probably not less than one hundred news- paper ... ...y have been cloven down, * * * * no matter what complexion an Indian or an African sun may have burned upon him,” not only may “stand forth redeemed a... ...in the north, sometimes designated father, is literally abolished in slave law and slave practice. It is only once in a while that an exception is fou... ...f the child be by a woman in whose veins courses one thirty-second part of African blood. My father was a white man, or nearly white. It was some- tim... ...rederick Douglas tween the slave and all civil constitutions—their word is law, and is implicitly obeyed. The colonel, at this time, was reputed to be...

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...s was naturally far from my thoughts. A work which distinguishes itself by human piety and can- did intelligence; which, in all details, is careful, l... ...flections contain in reference to this most friendly, bright and beautiful human soul; who walked with me for a season in this world, and remains to m... ...th with his word and with his stroke. There sur- vives yet, in the Commons Journals,* dim notice of his controversies and adventures; especially of on... ...elf worsted, declared to be in the wrong; and so vanishes from the Commons Journals. What became of him when Cromwell got to Ireland, and to Munster, ... ...ded to Captain Sterling; she happiest to him happiest,—as by Nature’s kind law it is arranged. Mrs. Sterling, even in her later days, had still traces... ...ilitary bearing, whereof he was rather proud; an incapacity for practicing law;—and con- siderable uncertainty as to what his next course of life was ... ... times with anger, altogether to disown it, and rigorously insisted on the rights of anonymity, he was not unwilling to take the honors too: the priva... ... into a state of great excitement, and massa- cre a good many thousands of Africans and Asiatics?—For the present, it appears, the English Education Q... ...hat the straightest line from Gibraltar to this place goes close along the African coast; which accordingly we saw with the utmost clearness; and foun...

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...nger Marius made himself consul against Sertorius’s wishes and contrary to law, when Carbo, Norbanus, and Scipio fought unsuccessfully against Sylla, ... ...rma- tion to the story, and added new honors to the memory of Antaeus. The Africans tell that after the death of Antaeus, 13 Plutarch’s Lives his wif... ...d men, whom for honor’s sake he called Romans, combined with seven hundred Africans, who landed with him when he first entered Lusitania, together wit... ...lia, the daughter of Melesippidas. Now the succession belonging to Agis by law, Agesilaus, who in all probability was to be but a private man, was edu... ...having added to his natural kingly and commanding qualities the gentle and humane feelings of a citizen. While he was yet a boy, bred up in one of wha... ...and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very strict and too exquisitely regular diet, ... ...iot, and alight from it in full speed. Sometimes, for sport’s sake, as his journals tell us, he would hunt foxes and go fowling. When he came in for t... ...ated dictator by the senate, he called home the exiles, and gave back then rights as citizens to the chil- dren of those who had suffered under Sylla;... ...wed those who made restitution, to retain without further punishment their rights as citizens. He engaged too, in war, so far as to give a defeat to t...

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...ake him give up the money; but he couldn’t, and then he swore he’d make the law force him. The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to ta... ...t to go to school much before, but I reckoned I’d go now to spite Pap. That law trial was a slow business — appeared like they warn’t ever going to g... ...hes that ain’t fitten for a hog. They call that govment! A man can’t get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just le... ...t for me to wear — one of the wealthiest men in this town if I could git my rights. “Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here... ...a sound, only I thought I could hear my heart. The dogs were as still as the humans, but they followed a little behind me. When I got to the three lo... ... anything like it, I’m a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. HUCKLEBERRY FINN 114 CHAPTER XXV. The news was all over town... ...a shirt, too.” “What do we want of a shirt, Tom?” “Want it for Jim to keep a journal on.” “Journal your granny — Jim can’t write.” “S’pose he can’t ... ...ld him what they would be and what they was for. And told him how to keep a journal on the shirt with his blood, and all that. He told him everythin... ...Phelps. Look at that shirt — every last inch of it kivered over with secret African writ’n done with blood! Must a ben a raft uv ‘m at it right along...

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...cute’, to posterity, ex- ceeded his powers, is a trite criticism; like all human enter- prises, his purpose was only imperfectly fulfilled; but this c... ...ion with some per- son relative to them, while walking with her sister—in— law, and their two children: Ces deux messieurs, qui sont absens,... ...close them at my death. We suffer before we think; it is the common lot of humanity. I experienced more than my pro- portion of it. I have no knowledg... ...ge they were about to conduct him to prison. He insisted (according to the law of this re- public) that the accuser should be confined at the same tim... ... of heaven. T wo of these fellows were Sclavonians, but gave out they were African Jews, and (as they assured me) had run through Spain and Italy, em-... ...tion with as much eagerness as I had hitherto sought to retard it. The two Africans had been baptised with great ceremony, they were habited in white ... ... ambition, confined to a desire of waiting on her, never exceeded its just rights. At table I was ever attentive to make the most of them; if her foot... ...e had the laughter on their side. What I most regret, is not having kept a journal of my travels, being conscious that a number of interesting details... ...at pretext it could have been seized on; at length, however, I learned the rights of the story, which (as it is a very curious one) must not be omitte...

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...onsieur Lepitre. I was to study the higher mathematics, follow a course of law for one year, and begin philosophy. Allowed to study in my own room and... ...over, my freedom was carefully chained up. Monsieur Lepitre sent me to the law school accompanied by a man-of-all-work who handed me over to the profe... ...g naught of love. How strange a thing, this first irruption of the keenest human emotion in the heart of a man! I had seen pretty women in other place... ...yself to be unjustly scolded that I might listen to those harmonies of the human voice, that I might breathe the air of her soul as it left her lips, ... ...how you wish me to love you.” “Love me as my aunt loved me; I gave you her rights when I permitted you to call me by the name which she chose for her ... ...fections. No dog barks at you; the servants, like the dogs, recognize your rights; the children (who are never mis- led, and know that their power can... ...a while forgot me. I corresponded with Madame de Mortsauf, and sent her my journal once a week. She an- swered twice a month. It was a life of solitud... ...tmosphere, and lives in water under pain of not living at all. Her love is African; her desires are like the whirl- winds of the desert—the desert, wh...

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...886 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Book First 3 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... his discourse was pervaded by something sul try and vast, something almost African in its rich, basking tone, something that suggested the teeming e... ...‘Well, you see, I don’t go out much, except to the courts.’ ‘Do you mean the law courts? Every one has got some profession over here! Are you very amb... ...m was to the effect that the simplest division it is possible to make of the human race is into the peo ple who take things hard and the people who t... ...ng a firm. He ground his teeth a little as he thought of the contrasts of the human lot; this cushioned feminine nest made him feel unhoused and underf... ...ppiest days, for when causes were embodied in foreigners (what else were the Africans?), they were certainly more appealing. She had just come down to... ...nd then went on at her own measured pace. She lectured on temperance and the rights of women; the ends she laboured for were to give the ballot to eve... ...eople were those (and there were a good many of them) of whom there was some journalistic mention every day in the year. Nothing less than this would ... ...t it baffled her to understand why, when parents were so trashy, this natural law should not be suspended. Such a question brought her back, however, t...

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...eaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.” —Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett. “Nantucket itself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is ... ...h glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round li... ...sell to-night, cause to-morrow’s Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin’ human heads about the streets when folks is goin’ to churches. He wanted to... ...d strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private wh... ...rs and Judges. Delight,—top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. Delight... ...of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship. But for all this, the great negr... ...- can whale captains, who, as a set, rather incline to the opinion that by rights the ship’s cabin belongs to them; and that it is by courtesy alone t... ...mortal in forecastle stories after death, but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions of a name; had as much a name indeed a... ..., the home of the fire worshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most d...