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...pended on the wives, whose evidence was not admissible; indeed that—as the law then stood— was not the question. Those who had raised the storm were r... ...or what would Lady Diana’s feelings have been if Viola had carried home an Australian kiss? “This is Miss T racy.” Viola’s carriage was now actually c... ...t I could see that he was shocked at the contrast between our poor and the Australian settlers, where food and space were plenty and the wages high. I... ...ate young men, who, though they had not themselves openly transgressed the law of the land, yet were the offspring of unhallowed unions with the child... ...” he answered, and meditated for ten minutes more, for no doubt it was the Australian practice to offer free quarters to all comers with- out Mrs. Gru... ...r. Bullock didn’t approve of—that he would not, not if Mr. Alison took the law of him. His landlord do it at his own expense? That made him look knowi... ...to testify to her how far the attack had been from anything approaching to constitutional in- sanity. The terrible fall, of which Harold’s head still ...

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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... ...am married;’ and again, when relating some joke with his cousins about the law-papers, of the Squire of Feniton, he adds: ‘But the Squire of Feniton w... ...gher than that of most men: his nature was prone to introspection, and his constitutional inertness rendered it so difficult for him to live up to his... ... the Matins were daily, and followed by a lecture. At this time Patteson’s constitutional shrinking from gen- eral society was in full force, and he a... ...s. There is a botanical garden here with a very good collection of all the Australian trees and shrubs, and with many New Zealand and many semi-tropi-... ...Your affectionate cousin, ‘J. C. Patteson.’ This meeting was called by the Australian Board of Mis- sions to receive information or propositions conce... ...ions to receive information or propositions concerning the missions to the Australians and Melanesians. Bishop Barker of Sydney was in the chair, and ... ... all, and many , many more were dying, emaciated, cough- ing, fainting; no constitutional vigour of body, nor any mutton broth, or beef tea, or jellie...

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... mildly but seriously dissuaded him from it; and his strong-minded son-in- law, the archdeacon, the man of whom alone Mr Harding stood in awe, had urg... ...blisher, and the Rev. Theophilus Grantly, who allows none of his father-in-law’s extravagances to escape him. Then he is generous to his daughter, for... ...on Theophilus Grantly, for he is always more or less in debt to his son-in-law, who has, to a certain extent, assumed the arrangement of the precentor... ...hos- pital without further assistance; and that, though the bishop was the constitutional visitor, and as such en- titled to special reverence from al... ... his name, when she addressed him. Bold wished with all his heart that the Australian scheme was in the act of realisation, and that he and Eleanor we...

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...orge Meredith almost correct in calling it disinterested. The brothers-in- law had a mutual plea of expense that kept them separate. When Anthony refu... ...legislate and crush agriculture, and “I’ve got a mi- ser for my brother-in-law,” said the farmer. Alas! the hun- dred pounds to back him, he could hav... ...e occasion of his sister’s death, Anthony informed his bereaved brother-in-law that he could not come down to fol- low the hearse as a mourner. “My pl... ...No wonder, then, that his dream was of prairies, and primeval forests, and Australian wilds. He believed in his heart that he would be a man new made ... ... mortals, does not matter in the least. But we have nothing to do with the constitutionally luck- less: the calamitous history of a simple empty stoma... ... back too, and cash is run low. D’ ye mind, sir? Are you kind- hearted?” A constitutional habit of servility to his creditor when present before him s... ..., like the “give way” of athletes pausing. But the delirious beat down the constitutional strength. A hard bright smile ridged the hollow of Dahlia’s ...

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...only the dead things, the choiceless things, live in absolute obedience to law. To have free play for one’s individuality is, in the modern view, the ... ...o will would be to command and achieve, and within the lim- its of natural law we could at any moment do exactly as it pleased us to do. All other lib... ...people would have us believe, that a man is more free where there is least law and more restricted where there is most law. A socialism or a communism... ... Utopia from a synthesis of the old T rades Unions, and which has become a constitutional power; but any man who has skill or humour is presently maki... ...kind. Is there, however, an all-round inferior race in the world? Even the Australian black-fellow is, perhaps, not quite so entirely eligible for ext... ...eligible for extinction as a good, wholesome, horse- racing, sheep-farming Australian white may think. These queer little races, the black-fellows, th...

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...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ...th little or no aid from the imagination, could yet see how the bodies had been turned, and where the head had been and where the feet. Some faded tra... ...er wrote. O poor sister! well for you to be far from here, and keep that as your last remembrance of him! The ladies of the clergyman’s family, his wi... ... hands behind her, and declined to accept it; backing into the fireplace, and very shrilly declar- ing, regardless of remonstrance from her friends, t... ...e my shameful wishes for the best of mothers long taught otherwise and in the best of omes though now reduced to take the present liberty on the Iway ... ...ness, prosperity, and civilisation, together with unbounded na- tional triumph in competition with the foreigner, would infallibly flow from the Branc... ...in a white hat might have suffused the pump (where they were principally discussed) with blushes, for months afterwards. Herein Titbull’s was to Titbu... ...hat of Ruffian, and of disquieting and despoiling me as I go peacefully about my lawful business, interfering with no one, then the Gov- ernment under...

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... he did not enliven his sisters. The three plod- ded on, taking a diligent constitutional walk, exchanging very few words, and those chiefly between t... ...e Fiord. Its beauty and tricks were duly displayed, and a most beauti- ful Australian parrot was exhibited, Mrs. Larpent taking full interest in the t... ... their short way! and then came some stories of his op- pression as a poor-law guardian, which greatly aggravated the wrath of the speaker and audienc... ...ing. “Ha, Norman! Think a little another time, my boy, before you take the law into your own hands, or, what is worse, into a lot of hands you can’t c... ...n, in his style of popular oratory. “If it is illegal, some one will go to law about it, and we shall have our alley again. We have shown him our mind... ...ppositions as to her deten- tion, adding besides, that no one believed the Australian paper whence the report was taken. He had seen the Alcestis, kne...

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...ave ever to do. They dispossess him of his greedy gettings. And how of the Law? But the Law is always, and must ever be, the Law of the stronger. —Ay,... ...tation of a rigid morality arming you legal gentlemen to make it so!’ ‘The Law must be vindicated.’ ‘The law is a clumsy bludgeon.’ ‘We think it the h... ...of stuff in the passing youngster’s green-scum eye: it was. And there your Law did good work.—You’re for Bordeaux. What is your word on Burgundy?’ ‘Ou... ... a case in opposition, on the part of the loquently weaker of the pair. In Constitutional King- doms a powerful Government needs not to be tyrannical ... ...o greet her being shown. Colney Durance came in, bringing the rumour of an Australian cantatrice to kindle Europe; Mr. Peridon, a seeker of tidings fr... ... one hundred years hence to be a place of pilgrimage for Americans and for Australians. Age, he said, improves true beauty; and his eyelids indicated ... ...s of the merchant’s wealth, and the miner’s, and the gigantic American and Australian million- aires, high rank is of necessity vowed, in peril of utt... ... solve, he saw she was firm: and he asked himself, whether he might not be constitutionally better adapted to persuade than to dissuade. The question ...

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...rther off than ever! Or perhaps you will fulfil them, and go and teach the Australian blacks!” “A very unpromising field,” said Mrs. Best, “though I h... ... hungry, and came out to find Lord Rotherwood fishing, and his daughter-in-law watching for the boat to put out from the white houses with grey roofs,... ...peaker had become de- veloped. With a little assistance from her sister-in-law Agnes’s unwilling stage experience, and entreaties, not easily to be wi... ...nk, in a state of much elevation at acquiring a dear delicious brother- in-law, and insisted on Primrose sharing her sentiments till her boasting at l... ...ve a peculiar faculty for dealing with those very unpromising natives, the Australian gins. Franciska remembered her tender nursing and bright manner ... ...with a cour- teous, “Miss Prescott! You have come in for the arrival of my Australian sister! What luggage have you?” Wherewith all was absorbed in th... ...ike disproportionate indignation and impatience in dealing with errors and constitutional weakness. “And the example of my brother’s poor son is not e...

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...g all sorts of service, was at last employed as a government packet in the Australian seas. Being condemned, however, about two years previous, she wa... ...st him. So much for stout little Jermin. All English whalemen are bound by-law to carry a physi- cian, who, of course, is rated a gentleman, and lives... ...hough, probably, it would not have been sanctioned by the Marine Courts of Law. At any rate, such was the state of both vessel and crew that, whatever... ...atter instance, the natives were perfectly in the right. At that time, the law against the traffic in ardent spirits (every now and then suspended and... ...paration has been made to send you to Sydney for trial. The Rosa (a small Australian schooner, lying in the harbour) will sail for that place in the ... ...t these were the mere accompaniments of an indolence, bodily and mental; a constitutional voluptuousness; and an aversion to the least restraint; whic... ...nciple, the T ahitians are less civilized now than formerly. T rue, their constitutional indolence is excessive; but surely, if the spirit of Christi...

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..., since he was so good as to invite me, until his daughter and his son-in- law came back, I inquired how little Emily was? Well, sir, said Mr. Omer,... ...certainly a very mod- erate income from the bequest of his late brother-in-law, I promised to do so. We then took leave of each other. I cannot leave ... ... at the world, there was good and evil in that; look at the ecclesiastical law, there was good and evil in that. It was all part of a system. Very goo... ...ery different days, but that at all periods of her existence she had had a constitutional objection to spies, intruders, and informers. She named no n... ...the land; and looking at the bullocks, as they came by, with the eye of an Australian farmer! David Copperfield Vol. II 405 CHAPTER 53 ANOTHER RETR...

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...ome shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to adopt such a conclusion; for children might be baptized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as li...

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... There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to adopt... ... it ought in candor to be considered that possession is nine points of the law. He who would not have introduced, was often obliged to retain. Finally... ...one whom cus- tom regarded as little above a mountebank, and the illiberal law as a vagabond. The same degrading appreciation attached both to the act... ...he far Atlantic, the multitude of the isles, and the generations unborn in Australian climes, even to the realms of the rising sun (the greek: anatola... ...in with the vices of his temperament, high prin- ciple concurring with his constitutional love of ease, we need not wonder that he should early retire... ...sappointment perhaps it was which brought on a vio- lent attack of Swift’s constitutional malady. On the last of August he quitted Pope’s house abrupt... ...lignity than these doubtful propensities, of which the first perhaps was a constitutional defect, a defect of his temperament rather than his will, an...

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...igion, for example, is very un- compromising upon the use of wine, and the law of the T en Commandments completely prohibits the making of graven imag... ...parent is of no consequence at all to the offspring. Neither does acquired constitutional ill-health necessarily transmit to a child; it may or it may... ... is science, than a brigand at large on a mountain has to the machinery of law and police, by which finally he will be hanged. Among such raiding theo... ...utions, expedients, prohibitions, and vindictive reprisals, the net of the law, they would have us believe there is a fatal necessity inherent in thei... ...tegrity, let the curious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existe... ...isms and final disaster to uncivi- lized races, are accomplished in peace; constitutional changes, economic reorganizations, boundary modifications an...

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...l hurry to the drawing-room, and tear open the black-edged letter with the Australian stamp. “All is right, mamma. She has been very ill, but is fast ... ...r. “Nests are made to be taken,” said Francis. “I’ve got an egg of all the Australian birds the Major could get me,” said Conrade, “and I mean to have... ... an unhappy promise not to put himself in what she fancied danger from the law, and then died, leaving him a baby that did not live a day. He was too ... ...Alison obeyed, as she always obeyed her sister; and Lord Keith, taking his constitutional turn before breakfast on the esplanade, was met by what he s... ...inidad. I believe it would be the bitterest pill to him that either son-in-law should come in for any part of the estate.” “I thought it was entailed.... ...I always meant that for Ermine. I think she must have the emu’s egg set in Australian gold.” “If she were to be induced by the bribe,” said Colonel Ke... ...he more at the perfect good taste and good breed- ing of his new sister-in-law, who had spent among them all the most critical years of her life. She ...

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...t have been a maiden sis- ter of Mrs. B- come to help nurse her brother-in-law. His youngest boy, a late-comer, a great cricketer it seemed, twelve ye... ...l fine arts, it must be based upon a broad, solid sincerity, which, like a law of Nature, rules an infinity of different phenomena. Your en- deavour m... ...g, sheet of foam to leeward. For the best of it was that Captain S- seemed constitutionally incapable of giv- ing his officers a definite order to sho... ...f to know how much wind there was, Captain S- (who, as I have said, seemed constitutionally incapable of ordering one of his of- ficers to shorten sai... ...hole subject, is precise as to rules, mentions illustrative events, quotes law cases where verdicts turned upon a point of stowage. He is never pedant... ...ewhere between the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam and Cape Otway on the Australian coast. It was a hard, long gale, gray clouds and green sea, heav... ... on earth, the weather may be trusted. Yet not too implicitly. Even in the constitutional realm of Trade Winds, north and south of the equa- tor, ship... ...nt, sweeping over the greatest body of solid land upon this earth. For the Australian east coast the East Wind is the wind of the ocean, coming across... ...o, year in, year out, took them from London—the place of captivity—to some Australian port where, twenty-five years ago, though moored well and tight ...

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...gans of small importance — Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect —The law of Unity of Type and of the Conditions of Existence embraced by the the... ... quite whimsical; thus cats with blue eyes are invariably deaf; colour and constitutional peculiarities go together, of which many remarkable cases co... ...seful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man se- lects on... ...y careful selection of the best cocks. How low in the scale of nature this law of battle descends, I know not; male alligators have been described as ... ...rtility; that these facts alone incline me to believe that it is a general law of nature (utterly ignorant though we be of the meaning of the law) tha... ...tly diversified in structure. It may be doubted, for instance, whether the Australian marsupials, which are divided into groups differing but little f... ...mals, could successfully compete with these well-pronounced orders. In the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an early and i... ...t heights on the Himalaya, were found in this country to possess different constitutional powers of resisting cold. Mr. Thwaites informs me that he ha... ...iods. — Mr. Clift many years ago showed that the fossil mam- mals from the Australian caves were closely allied to the living marsupials of that conti...

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... the point of honor. Had the Southern States sought to obtain secession by constitutional means, they might or might not have been successful; but if ... ...end to say that, having secession at heart, they could have obtained it by constitutional means. But I do intend to say that, acting as they did, dema... .... But I do intend to say that, acting as they did, demanding secession not constitutionally, but in opposition to the constitution, taking upon themse... ... own, had also her own carriage. These carriages were always open, and the law of the land imperatively de- mands that the occupants shall cover their... ...f this nature. Such an arrangement partakes of all the vice of a sumptuary law, and sumptuary laws are in their very essence mistakes. It is well that... ...o Mr. Neal Dow, the Father Matthew of the State of Maine, the Maine liquor law is still in force in that State. There is nothing to drink, I should sa... ...t British North America should ever be sev- ered from England, or that the Australian colonies should ever be so severed, will by many Englishmen be d... ...tions the giving of an inch has ever created the desire for an ell. If the Australian colonies even now, with their scanty population and still young ...

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...volcanic nature of these oceanic islands is evidently an extension of that law, and the effect of those same causes, whether chemical or mechanical, f... ...l, stuck in his belt. The steward touched his arm, and reminded him of the law; upon which turning to the Governor, he said he was extremely sorry, bu... ... exclaimed, “Mugeres!” (women!). He knew them to be the wife and sister-in-law of the major’s son, hunting for ostrich’s eggs. I have described this m... ...only fact which I know analogous to it, is the habit of that extraordinary Australian bird, the Calodera maculata, which makes an elegant vaulted pass... ...sas has been elected, with powers and for a time altogether opposed to the constitutional principles of the republic. CHAPTER VIII BANDA ORIENTAL AND ... ...most in the same words, of the same ludicrous habit among the Caffres; the Australians, likewise, have long been notorious for being able to imitate a... ...ethod of climbing trees, of tracking animals, and of hunting. Although the Australian may be superior in acquire- ments, it by no means follows that h... ... revolt- ing details, had I not met with several people, so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the negro as to speak of slavery as a tolerable ev...

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...I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether. Such is the universal law, which no man can ever outwit, and with regard to the railroad even we ... ... supe rior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears... ... on purely illusory foundations. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but ... ...of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and in curable are all constitutional vices. I confess, that prac tically speaking, when I have l... ... habet ille viae .” Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road. It is not ...

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...ng the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is made; the weeds at the bott... ...se of a ship, so our boat, being of wood, gladly availed itself of the old law that the heavier shall float the lighter, and though a dull water fowl,... ...erica are not so interesting to the student of nature, as the more fertile law itself, which depos its their spawn on the tops of mountains, and on t... ...at some newspaper joke, and New England shakes at the double entendres of Australian circles, while the poor reformer can not get a hearing. Men do ... ... sexes are naturally most strongly attracted to one an other, by constant constitutional differences, and are most commonly and surely the complement... ...er will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its hei nousness. The constitutional differences which always exist, and are obstacles to a perfe...

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...unds wag offered. But whether the fear of falling into the clutches of the law for murderous assault stimulated Cashel to extraordinary precaution, or... ...er solicitors by evincing a capacity for business, and a patience with the law’s delay, that seemed incompatible with her age and sex. When all was ar... ...esterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-tennis player. She vanquished the Australian champion last year.” It seemed that Byron, after all, was someth... ...ng of a court- ier; for he displayed great astonishment at this feat. “The Australian champion!” he repeated. “And who may HE— Oh! you mean the lawn-t... ... never approach the subject without confirming my opin- ion that women are constitutionally incapable of compre- hending it.” “It is natural for you t... ...y he found that it was impossible; no such demise was known to the English law or practicable by it. He subsequently admitted the folly of this by sec... ...he treasury bench. It is doubly erroneous in dealing with me; for I have a constitutional antipathy to it.” “Yes,” he said, hurriedly; “but give me on...

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...d not share it. One of these men had been the parent of the Fugitive Slave Law; the other had been great in fostering the success of filibustering. Bo... ... all the civilized world be- fore many years have passed. If international law be what the lawyers say it is, international law must be altered to sui... ...ceeding. Would Captain Wilkes have been right, ac- cording to the existing law, if he had carried the “Trent” away to New York? If so, we ought not to... ...; and these committees have relations with the ministers. But they have no constitutional power over the ministers; nor have they the much more valuab... ...th the full consent of the legislatures of thirty- three States, could not constitutionally put down slavery in the remaining thirty-fourth State. In ... ...ains it, and not to the national government by which the question has been constitutionally ignored. The men who have participated in the government h... ...all her books direct from London, as do the West Indies. Whether or no the Australian colonies have as yet learned to reprint our books I have never l...

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... limited and qualified freedom who will not co oper ate actively with the law and the public authorities in the repression of evil doers. A people wh... ...sequence of previous bad govern ment, which has taught them to regard the law as made for other ends than their good, and its administrators as worse... ...er exercised over them as a people whose sympathies are on the side of the law, and who are willing to give active assistance in its enforcement. Agai... ... be, we may imagine a despot observing many of the rules and restraints of constitutional government. He might allow such freedom of the press and of ... ...urse? Is he to defer to the nation? If so, he is no longer a despot, but a constitutional king; an organ or first minister of the people, distinguishe... ...ion. The mon arch would have to succumb, and conform to the conditions of constitutional royalty, or give place to some one who would. The despotism,... ...e whole of the unappropriated lands in the regions behind our American and Australian colonies have been given up to the uncontrolled disposal of the ... ...hich one third was British American, and an other third South African and Australian. Yet to this it must come if there were any thing like fair or e... ...them, than when reduced to be a single member of an American, African, and Australian confederation. Over and above the commerce which she might equal...

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...es and Things that have passed away, will be Conrad en pantoufles. It is a constitutional inability. Schlafrock und Pantoffeln! Not that! Never! … I d... ...ly from the ideal honesty of the respectable majority, from the honesty of law- givers, of warriors, of kings, of bricklayers, of all those who expres... ...inquebille, hawker of vegetables, became aware of the august aspect of the law as he stood indicted before the tribunal of the higher Police Court on ... ...s the conscience of a mere street-hawker in the face of the symbols of the law and before the ministers of social repression. Crainquebille is innocen... ...m- ness which in the utter absence of all hope falls on minds that are not constitutionally prone to despair. Yet in this time of dismay the irrepress... ...t would have been a pre- posterous proceeding. And indeed I was to make an Australian voyage and encircle the globe before ever entering a London hans... ...en nothing thicker than a single bale of wool (an ordinary, hand- pressed, Australian wool-bale), it would have made no difference? If scientific men ...