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...h is still, intellectually and artistically, in search of itself. HY ` ERES, February, 1919. 4 I — FIRST IMPRESSION I — FIRST IMPRESSION I H asty gen... ...nch, being unable to live without good talk, are respectful of all the small observances that facilitate it. Interruption is considered the height of ... ...ct. Yet none has been more enslaved by social conventions, small complicated observances based on long past conditions of life. No race has shown more...
...e. Seemeth it not strange that madness should filch from his memory his father’s very lineaments; the customs and observances that are his due from su... ...r aggrandisements to other great servants of the Crown, the Council had resolved to hold a sitting on the 16th of February for the delivering and conf... ...—than any other scheme that could be devised. Then the Earl proceeded, very delicately, to instruct Tom as to the observances proper to the stately oc... ...and recreations were rather a burden to him than otherwise, they were so fettered by restrictions and ceremonious observances. However, he had a pri- ... ...was made without an adventure of importance. But it ended with one. About ten o’clock on the night of the 19th of February they stepped upon London Br... ...did rise before him now, they made him feel more despicable than the worms that crawl. At midnight of the 19th of February, Tom Canty was sinking to s...
...s son to a clergyman of a Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated at Eton, and there formed more than one ... ... to study law. In 1816 he opened his chambers as a special pleader, and on February 23, 1818, was married to his cousin, Elizabeth Lee, after a long e... .... It was replied to in terms of warm and sincere regret; and on the 2nd of February, Sir John Patteson was nominated to the Privy Council, as a member... ...nd he could act with com- paratively little obstacle from his deafness. On February 10, 1852, he took his leave of the Bar. The Court of Queen’s Bench... ...e was cultivating would be of inestimable value in far distant regions. In February, while Sir John Patteson was in London, his son James was the caus... ...its were decidedly diminishing, though their superstitious prac- tices and observances were by no means dropped. The Diary, on July 24, thus speaks of... ...er with some good reason for urging this or that change in the manners and observances of the people. Often as I think of it, I feel how greatly the C... ...n’t find much that you associate with religion in England, in the external observances of it; but there are not a few ignorant people (I am not speaki... ...serving char- ity. If one-twentieth part of a diocese insists upon certain observances which nineteen-twentieths repudiate, it seems clear that the ve...
..., but which shall never be one; which, after endless struggling, shall, in February next, sink into sad rest,—dragging much along with it. So singular... ...e what kind of Convention and Parliament it is. Much changed indeed:—since February gone two years, when our Constituent, then busy, spread fleur-de-l... ...in first; but that France herself declared war first on both of them; (1st February; 7th March (Moniteur of these dates).)—a point of immense Parliame... ...concrete reality which the streets of Paris exhibit, on Monday the 25th of February 1793. Long be- fore daylight that morning, these streets are noisy... ...he early candle-light, are Baker and Commissioners: and yet the pale chill February sunrise discloses an unpromising scene. Indignant Female Patriots,... ...gathered together, there are formed modes of existing together, habitudes, observances, nay gracefulnesses, joys! Citoyen Coitant will explain fully h...
..., is an exception which requires the sanc- tion of a law. – See the Act of February 22, 1822, for ap- pointing the authorities of the city of Boston. ... ...cipal laws of the State of Massachusetts relative to the selectmen: Act of February 20, 1786, vol. i. p. 219; February 24, 1796, vol. i. p. 488; March... ...ii. p. 45; June 16, 1795, vol. i. p. 475; March 12, 1808, vol. ii. p. 186; February 28, 1787, vol. i. p. 302; June 22, 1797, vol. i. p. 539.] 81 Tocq... ...the advice** of his council.*** The officers of the county *See the Act of February 14, 1821, Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 551. **See the Act of ... ...ransmit the result of the ballot to the Secretary of the State. See Act of February 24, 1796: Id., vol. i. p. 488. ** Thus, for instance, the selectme... ...f Rome are to be met with in the Union.* The Catholics are faithful to the observances of their religion; they are fervent and zealous in the support ... ...nd the vulgar crowd, to the details of the same creed; it imposes the same observances upon the rich and needy, it inflicts the same austerities upon ... ...r truth is no less clear – that religions ought to as- sume fewer external observances in democratic periods than at any others. In speaking of philos... ...aturally be bared to the light of open day: they are unmoved by ceremonial observances, and they are predisposed to attach a secondary importance to t...
... but which linked them so as to form a sort of club, with common religious observances and pursuits of science, especially mathematics and music. And ... ...so a pistol and dagger, they crept out, but not on the direct road. It was February, and the ground was covered with snow. All night they walked easil... ...g cells. The festive sea- son was nearly at an end, for it was the 20th of February; but the evening had been more than usually gay, and had been spen... ...ruelty with great exactness about religious worship, carrying his personal observances to the most fanatic extravagance. In the vacancy of the Metropo...
...ad never received from her more than outward attention, nothing beyond the observances of complaisance; had never succeeded in any point which she wan... ...in the course of the following autumn. Chapter 18 IT WA S THE BEGINNING of February; and Anne, having been a month in Bath, was growing very eager for... ...d; her letter en- grossed her. It had been begun several days back. “February 1st. “My dear Anne,—I make no apology for my silence, because I kn... ... she had been hastily preparing to interest Anne’s feelings, as far as the observances due to Mr Elliot’s character would allow, when Anne’s refutatio...
.... TO NEW YORK LEAVING B OSTON ON THE AFTERNOON of Saturday the fifth of February, we proceeded by another railroad to Worces ter: a pretty New Eng... ...mboat was going to make his first trip for the season that day (the second February trip, I believe, within the memory of man), and only waited for us... ...n a gloomy silence, bolts himself, in the same state. But for these animal observances, you might suppose the whole male American Notes – Dickens 168... ...otes – Dickens 180 of viands, in the same dull manner, and with the same observances. The company appeared to be oppressed by the same tremendous co...
...upon that occasion. It was, as the reader is probably aware, upon the 23rd February last, at a public meeting, called for establishing a professional ... ...he following extract from the Edinburgh Weekly Journal for Wednesday, 28th February, 1827.] The Theatrical Fund Dinner. Before proceeding with our acc... ...h the Author of Waverley has the honour to be President, was instituted in February 1823, for the purpose of printing and publishing works illustrativ... ...st, or rather one indifferent to all religion, except some supersti- tious observances which had been handed down from her parents. On Hamish the Reve... ...ent, and two subalterns, were ordered to repair to Glencoe on the first of February with a hundred and twenty men. Campbell being uncle to young Macdo...
...t the commencement of this year the first (most extraordinary) on the 18th February the other a month after. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER ... ... James’s Palace. Portland had his first audience of the King on the 4th of February, and remained four months in France. His polite- ness, his courtly... ...presentative at a for- eign Court. Madame de Navailles died on the 14th of February: Her mother, Madame de Neuillant, who became a widow, was avarice ... ...precision, and with all possible secrecy and success. It was on the 1st of February, 1702, at break of day, that the surprise was attempted. The Marec... ...en heard of in recent ages, was brought to the King at Marly on the 9th of February, 1702, by Mahony. Soon after it arrived I heard of it, and at once... ...sation or prayers conducted them to the hour for bed, when nearly the same observances took place as in the morning. Finally, their Catholic Majesties... ... than any one I knew?—His piety was only cus- tom, scruples, fears, little observances, without knowing any- thing of religion: the Pope a divinity wh...
... for it is solemnized on the dies nefasti, or non-court days, of the month February , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast... ...he eleven days, and every other year added an intercalary month, to follow February, consisting of twenty-two days, and called by the Romans the month... ...e third place; and January, which was the eleventh, he made the first; and February, which was the twelfth and last, the second. Many will have it, th... ...l have it, that it was Numa, also, who added the two months of January and February; for in the beginning they had had a year of ten months; as there ... ...uintilis, and the sixth Sextilis, and so the rest; whereas, if January and February had, in this account, pre- ceded March, Quintilis would have been ... ..., both as to time and place; ordering that each family should perform such observances within private walls, and that they should continue only the sp... ...n to this day to offer to these Greeks and Gauls certain secret ceremonial observances in the month of November. In the beginning of this war, in whic... ...ey were gone into their provinces, lit upon books concerning the religious observances, where he found some- thing he had not known before; which was ... ...run into any superstition, because they never varied from nor exceeded the observances of their ancestors. So soon as Flaminius with his colleague had...
... steeped in eau d’Arquebusade was flung across him. Their customary devout observances concluded, lights were extinguished, and the ladies kissed, and... ...e. Dorothea said: ‘When I think of Mr. Posterley’s addiction to ceremonial observances, and to mat- rimony, I cannot but think of a sentence that fell... ...th London borough to be open in January; early next year, at least; may be February. You have family interest there.’ ‘Personally, I will do my best,’... ... are we standing if we ask such things?—she held on to her thread of life. February went by. And not a word from Themison; nor from Carling, nor from ...
...iverton orders a fire in the dog-days, and Swettenham opens the windows in February. See how Cramley takes the whole breast of the turkey on his plate... ...as much as they do. These people are not wicked because of their religious observances, but in spite of them. They are too dull to understand humility...
...he fact is ascertained by a proclamation from the Privy Council, dated 4th February, 1589, directing letters of fire and sword against the MacGregors ... ...t which was really unworthy, but was made to depend on certain punctilious observances totally apart from that which was in itself deserving of praise... ...ng act of the Privy Council seems to decide the question:— “Edinburgh, 4th February, 1589. The same day, the Lords of Secret Council being crediblie i...
...ent straight and rapidly to deeds. A thing decided on was a thing done. In February, 1822, a strange piece of news burst like a thunderbolt on the tow... ...for all knew her habits of benevolence and the regularity of her religious observances. She always went to early mass so as not to delay her husband’s...
...eccadillo of a soldier is a 63 Balzac crime in a general, and vice-versa. Observances are not alike in all cases. They are not the same for the glean... ...ispered in her ear, “I should have chosen him myself.” T oward the last of February all the deeds for the estates in Provence were signed by Latournel...
...olently employed your valuable efforts to assist such members of our faith as have sought the bodies of lost friends to give them burial in our consec... ...d, cloth, stone, iron, earth, and some- thing else. Is the something else, the decay of dead citizens in the vaults below? As sure as Death it is! Not... ... the moment, and by one who has never examined these boys. The Uncommercial, invited to add another, falteringly demands how many birthdays a man born...
... resume her usual employments near her aunt Bertram, and pay her the usual observances without any apparent want of spirits. Thursday, predestined to ... ...y, and as expeditiously as could rationally be hoped in the dirty month of February. They entered Oxford, but she could take only a hasty glimpse of E... ...es. Fanny had been everywhere awake to the difference of the country since February; but when they entered the Park her perceptions and her pleasures ...
...ms us him- self, between eleven and twelve o’clock in the day, the last of February 1533, at the chateau of St. Michel de Montaigne. His father, Pierr... ...emplation the remaining term of his life; and on his birthday, the last of February 1571, he caused a philo- sophical inscription, in Latin, to be pla... ...d to grant you, gentlemen, a happy and long life. From Montaigne, this 8th February 1585. Your humble brother and servant, Montaigne. 49 Montaigne XI... ...on him to court; we shall be there on Thursday. From Orleans, this 16th of February, in the morning [1588-9?]. Your very humble servant, Montaigne. XI... ...was born betwixt eleven and twelve o’clock in the forenoon the last day of February 1533, according to our computation, beginning the year the 1st of ... ... salutiferous an effect, to the blindness and injustice of our customs and observances; sacrificing the in- nocent blood of so many of His elect, and ...
...e mysterious occupant of Wildfell Hall would wholly dis- regard the common observances of civilized life,—in which opinion she was supported by the Wi... ...ally had some little gratifi- cation in conversing with me; and one bright February morn- ing, during twenty minutes’ stroll along the moor, she laid ... ...d any- thing more, he will lose it again. 268 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall FEBRUARY 10TH.—It is a hard, embittering thing to have one’s kind feelings ... ...hs after our parting were fairly passed (which would be about the close of February), and then I would send her a letter, modestly reminding her of he... ...o show me his sister’s letters now, and I never hinted a wish to see them. February , however, was approaching; December was past; Janu- ary, at lengt...
...Redworth would 131 George Meredith be best. Women are bound to such small observances, and especially the beautiful of the sisterhood, whom the world... ...nses to a state like the barely conscious breathing on the verge of sleep. February blew South-west for the pairing of the birds. A broad warm wind ro...
...elf even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances which he supposed a regular part of the business. On finding... ...nd the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and some times cold, did January and February pass away. March was to take Elizabeth to Hunsford. She had no...
...ations; he be gan to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances. The material distinctions of rank and wealth he increasingly d... ...happen to render another outdoor engagement unnecessary. It was a peaceful February day, of wonderful softness for the time, and one would almost have...
...- ously to turn their attention to the introduction of those cus- toms and observances which had been the principal care of their fore fathers. There ... ...se, 204 The Pioneers and then I tap my trees; say along about the last of February, or in these mountains maybe not afore the middle of March; but an... ...e the reader, accompanied by the passing remarks of the sheriff: “‘London, February 12, 1793.’ What a devil of a pas sage she had! but the wind has be...
...breeze smelt fresh of roots and heath. It was more a May-night than one of February. So strange an as- pect had all these quiet hill-lines and larch a... ...drew him to the point I had at heart, ‘for hunting ‘ll soon be over. It ‘s February, mind!’ ‘Oh, lots of time!’ T emple cried out, and on every occasi... ...r. That was the man’s report. I am not commonly one to be forgetful of due observances. The prospect of the possible eternal separation from my belove...
...art of Greece. Kourshid had marched early in January, 1821; and already in February 222 Memorials, and Other Papers symptoms of the coming troubles a... ...e, however irritated, the first impulse was to comply with the ceremonious observances that belonged to his rank. He made a cold obeisance, whilst an ...
...s which most offended the Romans, who felt as if all the honors and solemn observances of their country were, for Cleopatra’s sake, handed over to the... ... councilors wearing garlands, and other citizens such as pleased. Of these observances, some small traces, it is still made a point of religion not to... ... day ensuing, the eighteenth, as the Romans call it, before the Calends of February, the mur- der was done. On that day, in the morning, Galba sacrifi...
... in his pocket; he lying dead against the main-mast—on the four- teenth of February, seventeen forty-nine!’ cried Walter, with great animation. ‘ Ay, ... .... But the Captain was not unmindful, for all that, of such decent and rest observances in memory of poor W alter, as he felt within his power. Rousing...
.................................... ............................. 10 SPEECH: FEBRUARY 1842. ............................................................... ...................................... ........................... 11 SPEECH: FEBRUARY 7, 1842. ............................................................ ............................. .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ........................................................... .............................................. ........ 23 SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. ........................................................... ........................................... .......... 28 SPEECH: BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. ........................................................... ... so, for instance, to rise superior to the little shackling prejudices and observances perchance exist ing in his trade when they will not bear the t...
...842. ..................................................................................................................................... 10 SPEECH: FEBRUARY 1842. ................................................................................................................................... 11 SPEECH: FEBRUARY 7, 1842. ....................................................
...t when Gardiner was illegally deposed by the regency of Edward VI. on 14th February 1550, John Poynet, a considerable scholar, but a man of disgracefu... ...nce at Anfield. It broke out in November, and continued till the following February. Many persons died of it, and were not brought to the church, but ... ...aijor. For my very worthy friend, Richard Mayor, Esq.: These. London, 12th February 1648. Sir—I received some intimations formerly, and by the last re... ... enclosed in his, a Letter from you, bearing date the 5th of this instant, February, wherein I find your willingness to entertain any good means for t... ..., also seeing their two daughters, Dor- othy and Anne. In a letter of 28th February, Cromwell thanks Mr. Maijor for “The reception of my son, in the l... ...ent of which really prevented the general inculcation of the more reverent observances which teach and imply doctrine. In consideration of the feeling...
... mother of Henry VIII. She died in the Tower of London, on the eleventh of February, A.D. 1502, in the thirty-seventh year of her age. Between the sec... ...ommitted to his safe custody, and from him had received more than ordinary observances; now, such was the goodness of the Queen’s nature, that she nei...
...only two eyes “visible” glittering like carbuncles,’ the old man is here. (February, 1778.) What an outburst! Sneering Paris has sud- denly grown reve... ...au of Versailles: summoned thither de par le roi. There, on the 22d day of February 1787, they have met, and got installed: Notables to the number of ... ... at the ‘Hotel-de-Ville, through the whole remainder of the day, ’ a weary February day; offers to reveal secrets, if they will save him; handsomely d... ... ready to be hurled into the melting-pot,—might one not try? On the 4th of February, accordingly, M. le President reads to his National Assembly a sho... ...Parl. iv. 445.)—and the whole City was illuminated. This was the Fourth of February 1790: a day to be marked white in Constitutional annals. Nor is th... ...thered together, there are formed modes of existing to- gether, habitudes, observances, nay gracefulnesses, joys! Citoyen Coitant will explain fully h...
...tion of conspiracies may get its edge from his own very recent experience (February 1513), when he had been arrested and tortured for his alleged comp... ...he one attain his end, the other fail; and similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful, the one being cau- 96 The Prince tious...
...th to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt, into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men t... ... mar joram, warm set. There followeth, for the latter part of Janu ary and February, the mezereon tree, which then blossoms; crocus vernus, both the...
...liar grave tone. ‘A place where 189 Anthony Trollope there are no Sabbath observances—’ ‘And have you been at Rome, Mr Gresham?’ said the young lady,... ...nd that railway, I shouldn’t be now here asking your votes; and, when next February comes, I shouldn’t be sitting in Westminster to represent you, as ... ...r Reddypalm—if only it might turn out that Mr Moffat should, in the coming February, take his seat as member for Barchester. But Mr Reddypalm was a ma... ... and seemed almost contented at the idea of remaining at Greshamsbury till February; which was the time now named for the marriage. But Lady Arabella ... ...whole for Frank; and sad enough, we may say, for our friend the doctor. In February Frank again went back to college; having settled with Harry Baker ... ...l joys, but one not altogether unsuited to the feelings of the happy pair. February is certainly not a warm month; but with the rich it is gener- ally... ... of the country? What was to be done in the rural districts? The religious observances, as regards women, of a Brigham Young were hardly so bad as thi...
... and lacked the sinister courage to desert his victim. About the middle of February (1788), he had to tear himself from his Clarinda and make a journe... ... for a man of Burns’s stomach. Nor was this the front of his offending. On February 27, 1792, he took part in the capture of an armed smuggler, bought... ...he uttered his thoughts they were suit- able to his state and services. On February 8, 1668, we find him writing to Evelyn, his mind bitterly occupied... ...so noble, but it is the product of the time; and a world of little finical observances, and little frail proprieties and fashions of the hour, go to m...
...cember. (20) In March. (21) The latter part of January and earlier part of February. (22) i.e. the octopus or cuttle. (23) i.e. the darker-skinned peo... ...king with a staff (the ‘third leg’ — as in the riddle of the Sphinx). (25) February to March. (26) i.e. the snail. The season is the middle of May. (2... ...heart desires.’ HESIOD: ‘How would men best dwell in cities, and with what observances?’ HOMER: ‘By scorning to get unclean gain and if the good were ...
... tinue playing the fool down there.’ She holds her ground from August into February, and then sets forth, to undergo the further process of her taming... ... senses. Nine English cavaliers, then, left London early on a Janu- ary or February morning in a Southerly direction, bearing East; and they were the ... ...s with Leddings.’ ‘Excellent! You speak like a fellow recording the devout observances of a great dame with her minor and superior, ecclesiastical com...
... and resume her usual employments near her aunt Bertram, and pay her the usual observances without any apparent want of spirits. Thursday, predestined... ...fully, and as expeditiously as could rationally be hoped in the dirty month of February. They entered Oxford, but she could take only a hasty glimpse ... ...asses. Fanny had been every where awake to the difference of the country since February; but, when they entered the Park, her perceptions and her plea...
...ettled. Mrs Proudie was very firm in general in the matter of Sabbath- day observances; but when she had to deal with such persons as Mrs Harold Smith... ...ot do to tell his wife of it just at present. On the 21st of that month of February, however, he did receive a reminder that the bill and all concerni... ...ire, I shall, perhaps, most quickly explain its import: ‘Chaldicotes,—20th February, 185-. ‘My Dear Mark, ‘“Lend not thy name to money dealers, for th... ... don’t know what you call long, Tozer; but the last bill was only dated in February. ’ ‘It’s overdue; ain’t it?’ ‘Oh, yes; it’s overdue. There’s no do... ...s must be frequent, and that wretchedness very intense. Salmon and lamb in February, and green pease and new potatoes in March, can hardly make a man ...
...You can’t make out,” she contended, “that we got to Rome before the end of February.” He more than agreed. “There’s nothing in life, my dear, that I c... ...ng of any one; anything almost of poor Bob Assingham, condemned to eternal observances and solemnly appreciating her father’s wine; anything verily, y...
...ng about one spot, in one unsettled manner, and going through one round of observances with his pipe and his negro-head and his jack-knife and his pac... ...o meetings that I have now to tell of. One afternoon, late in the month of February , I came ashore at the wharf at dusk. I had pulled down as far as ...
...ot now of your ordinary religious believer, who follows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammeda... ... and hereupon the visual hallucination came. [24] Journal of the S. P. R., February, 1895, p. 26. Another informant writes:— “Quite early in the night...