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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, ... ... immutability which science gives to zoological species is found in Breton human nature. Even now, after the Revolution of 1830, Guerande is still a t... ...llery, supported by what we must call brackets, each ending in a grotesque human head. This gallery has a balustrade of exquisite workmanship. From th... ...ertheless, to an observer enough remained of the imperishable forms of the human 17 Beatrix face which appealed to the soul, even though the eye coul... ...e was failing of its purpose. As she spoke, Felicite was employing all the resources of her eloquent physi- ognomy. “Blond as she is, however,” she we... ...well arranged, so cared for, that charming nape of the neck, where all the resources of art are displayed to exhibit the contrast between the hair and... ...blend with that of Felicite. Both had often sung this piece; they knew its resources, and they put their whole marvellous gift into bringing them out.... ...A woman who can, as it were, create herself beautiful must have many other resources for love.” And that is true. Deserted women are usually those who...

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...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 ... ...ideas anyhow. They just pop—as God meant them to do. What stupid things we human beings are!” Her philosophical moments were perhaps the most baf- fli... ...ion. Benham told Prothero as much as his mother had conveyed to him of the resources of his wealth. Her version had been adapted to his tender years a... ... us, so that it can never be arrested and dark- ened again, is the dawn of human possibility….” (White could also see his dead friend’s face with its ... ...rk. 80 The Research Magnificent This man Merkle seemed quite unaware that humanity “here and now”—even as he was engaged in meticulously putting out ...

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...missis —” “And besides, if you will I’ll show you my sore toe.” Jim was only human — this attraction was too much for him. He put down his pail, took ... ...it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or... ...a of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations. Mary... ...his work with his left hand. For a time the girl refused to notice; but her human curiosity presently began to manifest itself by hardly perceptible ... ...next morning. Therefore he must now begin to get ready. He would collect his resources together. He went to a rotten log near at hand and began to dig... ...m Aunt Polly’s cham ber. And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began. Next the ghastly tick ing of a deat...

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...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... ... may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure— but he’s got feathers on him, and don’t belong to no church, perhaps; but otherwise he is just a... ...lk to me—I know too much about this thing; in the one little particular of scolding— just good, clean, out-and-out scolding—a bluejay can lay over any... ...discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal, a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is an ass just as well as you do—maybe bet- ter. If a jay... ... side when you haven’t any room to speak of, you won’t take to the perpendicular cliffs on the other shore when they appear to be blasting there, too.... ...Joseph N. Verey. He spoke eight languages, and seemed to be equally at home in all of them; he was shrewd, prompt, posted, and punc- tual; he was fert...

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...ese sublime beauties are virgin still; they will be seen to harmonize with human phenomena, also vir- gin—at least to poetry—which here took place, th... ...vantage ground the whole landscape whereon our simple yet super- 9 Balzac human drama was about to be enacted could be seen and noted. The winter of ... ...g the rocks, might be unrecognizable beneath the snow. Thus it was that no human creature gave life to the white desert where Boreas reigned, his voic... ... echoes neither the whirr of its wings nor its joyous notes. Besides, what human eye was strong enough to bear the glit- ter of those pinnacles adorne... ...berg, rising thence from ledge to ledge toward the summit. What were they? human creatures, or two arrows? They might have been taken 11 Balzac for e... ...e painter who would fain put life upon his canvas and strives with all the resources of his art in the vain attempt.” “Monsieur, all that you say is t... ... a life without storms or conflicts,—they plainly showed the inexhaustible resources of impetuous senses and the appetites of instinct; just as every ... ...o derives his chief enjoyments through lies; who wrings Nature and all her resources to put a musket on his shoulder; who employs his intellect to has...

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... for that matter 2056—may be none too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty y... ...s. Only in one direc- tion is there any plain recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consi... ...f our fathers went on. From the beginning to the ripening of that phase of human life, from the first clumsy eolith of rudely chipped flint to the fir... ...ree thousand centuries, ten or fifteen thousand generations. So slowly, by human stan- dards, did humanity gather itself together out of the dim intim... ...arm river valleys, where food is abundant and life very easy, the emerging human overcoming his earlier jealousies, becoming, as necessity per- secute... ...ially haphazard agriculture into a ritual, he added first one metal to his resources and then another, until he had copper and tin and iron and lead a... ...hs that the indefatigable Leblanc had hammered into them; and, drawing his resources from the King of Italy, he had provisioned his conference with a ...

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...k of energy that distinguishes the occupants of alms houses, and all other human beings who depend for subsistence on charity, on monopolized labour, ... ...ne spot, as its place of birth and burial, creates a kin dred between the human being and the locality, quite inde pendent of any charm in the scene... ...onnexion, which has become an unhealthy one, should at least be sev ered. Human nature will not flourish, any more than a po tato, if it be planted ... ...er forenoons— when the fervent heat, that almost liquefied the rest of the human family, merely communicated a genial warmth to their half torpid syst... ...iarchal personage with, I think, livelier curiosity than any other form of humanity there presented to my notice. He was, in truth, a rare phe nomeno... ...y custom; and she must either sustain and carry it forward by the ordinary resources of her nature, or sink beneath it. She could no longer borrow fro...

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... takes me with sympathy not only by reason of the dream he pursued and the humanity of his politics, but by the mixture of his nature. His vices come ... ...ddle and diseases and dirt and misery; the ending of confusions that waste human possibilities; they thought of these things with passion and desire a... ...h their names. But Machiavelli, more recent and less popular, is still all human and earthly, a fallen brother—and at the same time that nobly dressed... ...of my now abandoned project, I came to perceive how that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has alt... ...every prince and statesman is something of a servant and every intelligent human being something of a Prince. No magnificent pensive Lorenzos re- main... ...he old Science and Art Department, and “visiting” various schools; and our resources were eked out by my mother’s income of nearly a hundred pounds a ... ...tarian squabbles, its misconduct of the Boer War, its waste of the world’s resources… . It soon became manifest that my opening and my general spaciou... ...er hard trained, and yet 253 H G Wells kindly. I’m not convinced that the resources of education are exhausted. I want to better this, because it alr...

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...ht wanted at least three inches of Sir Richmond’s five feet eleven; he was humanly plump, his face was round and pink and cheerfully wistful, a little... ... faith—as children do, as the animals do. At the back of the healthy mind, human or animal, has been this persuasion: ‘This is all right. This will go... ...ial life. He may become frantically self-seeking—incoherent … a stampede…. Human sanity may—disperse. “That’s our trouble,” the doctor completed. “Our... ...see that clearly. Science and plan have to replace custom and tradition in human affairs. Soon. Very soon. Granted. Granted. We used to say all that. ... ...yet. With whom I shall presently join up… The attempt may fail; all things human may fail; but on the other hand it may succeed. I never had such fait... ...thing. Which do not even represent happiness. And which help to use up the resources, the fuel and surplus energy of the world.” “I suppose they have ... ...entific control, the Utopia of fully developed people fully developing the resources of the earth. For a number of trivial reasons Sir Richmond found ... .... So far as socialism involved the idea of a scientific control of natural resources as a common property administered in the common interest, she and...

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...e of a life governed by other than the false and cruel principles on which human society has all along been based. And, first of all, we had divorced ... ... at them. Are they not warm with the beacon fire which we have kindled for humanity?” “The blaze of that brushwood will only last a minute or two long... ...nd that, though the ruddi ness of our window panes had tempted her into a human dwelling, she would not remain long enough to melt the icicles out of... ..., was fearful to the poor girl, heretofore accustomed to the narrowness of human limits, with the lamps of neighboring tenements glimmering across the... ...ontide walk along the cheery pavement, with the sug gestive succession of human faces, and the brisk throb of human life in which I shared; my dinner... ...eeded with one lady whom we wot of, that he anticipates, from her abundant resources, the necessary funds for realizing his plan in brick and mortar!”...

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...eover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had a fancy for a literary career, and a friend of mine had... ...r addressed by Stendhal to his sister: “I have a passionate desire to know human nature, and have a great mind to live in a boarding-house, where peop... ...of petticoats was, at the Pension Beaurepas, the most familiar form of the human tread. There was the usual allotment of economical widows and old mai... ... he had tasted of the tree of knowledge; he had got beyond Lausanne, whose resources he pronounced inadequate. Lausanne, as he said, “manquait d’agrem... ...o ex- pressive of a desire to fraternise, and so exempt from any theory of human differences, that I quite forgot his se- niority, and found myself of... ...alk round that way; I ain’t a postman!” Briefly speaking, Mr. Ruck had few resources. His wife and daugh- ter, on the other hand, it was to be suppose... ...fears. They are perfectly ignorant; they 46 The Pension Beaurepas have no resources. The vision of fine clothes occupies their whole imagination. The...

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...David Ritchie desired to possess, as a compensation for his exclusion from human society. His sister survived till the publication of the tale to whic... ...he most hideous dwarf that the sun had ever shone on. His head was of full human size, forming a frightful con- trast with his height, which was consi... ...place, the scene of it had been avoided, at least after night-fall, by all human beings, as being the ordinary resort of kelpies, spunkies, and other ... ... column to which they now approached, they discovered a form, appar- ently human, but of a size much less than ordinary, which moved slowly among the ... ...d- ance—I want not your lodging—it is five years since my head was under a human roof, and I trust it was for the last time.” “He is mad,” said Earnsc... ...at I cannot enter into your mirth, Lucy, so readily as usual. If he has no resources, how is he to exist in this waste country, living, as he does, at...

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...the state of affairs slowly but surely, pointed his finger…. Never had two human beings understood each other more completely. A dirty little boy! Cap... ... to be discovering nothing but the incurable per- versity and militancy of human nature. It was a day under 18 The Soul of a Bishop an east wind, whe... ...sive and relieving steps. One was that he had stated his case to an- other human being, and that a very charming and sympa- thetic human being, he was... ...of Levantine phrases and images, full of the patched contradictions of the human intelligence utterly puzzled. It is about those two Gods, the God bey... ...now—of a relationship between these two, that eludes them, that eludes the human mind, as water es- capes from the hand. It is unity and opposition th... ...ion, food diminishes and fails, there is a wasting away of all the hoarded resources, of all the accumulated well-being of mankind; and there is no cl...

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... on a chair in the hall, waiting and counting the minutes, longing for any human counte- nance. But when at last he heard the alarm spring its rattle ... ...in a son of whom I thought I could be reasonably proud—‘ But it was beyond human nature to endure this longer, and John interrupted almost with a scre... ... more mo mentous misadventures, which were more than he de- sired, and, by human standards, more than he deserved; how he reached California, how he w... ... arts, or because (as I am sometimes tempted to suppose) there is a law in human nature that prevents young men—not otherwise beasts—from the performa... ...r bank in which he was an humble clerk; and it chanced, in conformity with human nature, that out of all this business it was the last that came to be... ...k that can be wise,’ objected Flora. ‘You have a very imperfect idea of my resources, and not at all of my effrontery,’ replied Alexander. ‘Please ob-...

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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... ... Philosophical reflections intervene, and sometimes touch- ing pictures of human life. Of this sort the following has surprised us. The first purpose ... ...cient Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, with- out arms, save the ball of heavy Flin... ..., the whole country being under water? But, on the other hand, show us the human being, of any period or climate, without his Tools: those very Caledo... ...asting Now? Think well, thou too wilt find that Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there is no Space and no Time: WE are—we kno... ...ain, is by nature no proselytizing Sect; but it boasts of great hereditary resources, and is strong by union; whereas the Drudges, split into parties,...

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...aying rather neatly: ‘You have taught them it is English as well as common human nature to feel an interest in the dog that has bitten you.’ The dog p... ...bout them beaten down, they would understand that solitariness is a common human fate and the one chance of growth, like space for timber.’ As to the ... ...y comic, adventurous, instructively tragic, it is in the interwinding with human af- fairs, to give a flavour of the modern day reviving that of our P... ...d on no skeleton-anatomy. But each, with Philosophy in aid, blooms, and is humanly shapely. T o demand of us truth to nature, excluding Philosophy, is... ... much as legs are wanted for the dance, Philosophy is required to make our human nature credible and acceptable. Fiction implores you to heave a big- ... ...aracter if she had flown—a reflection emanating from in- experience of the resources of sentimentalists. If she had flown! She was borne along by the ... ...of sorrow! ‘One word of her we call our inner I. I am not drawing upon her resources for my daily needs; not wasting her at all, I trust; certainly no... ...g down everything for the woman!’ The trial of a superb London gentleman’s resources in the love-passion could not have been much keener. No sign of h... ...nd had to be put out, and 250 Diana of the Crossways smoked sullenly. Her resources were tried in restoring him to reason. The months of absence from...

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...ady gone through several attacks of gout. Now, among the petty miseries of human life the one for which the worthy priest felt the deep- est aversion ... ... social life were utterly unknown. And yet, the natural selfishness of all human beings, rein- forced by the selfishness peculiar to the priesthood an... ...as to her a sort of intermediary creature between the indi- viduals of the human species and those of the canine species; he was classed in her heart ... ...ements has never existed for them. They grow sharp and peevish because all human beings who miss their vocation are unhappy; they suffer, and sufferin... ... can deny the talent of knowing how to lay bare the most secret motives of human actions. 37 Balzac “You don’t see the whole thing yet,” said an old ... ...the actions of others gave power to Mademoiselle Gamard, and what were the resources on her side. Accompanied by the taciturn Abbe T roubert she made ...

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...s by JOHN MILTON 1671 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 1 Of that s... ...But throw’st them lower then thou didst exalt them high, Unseemly falls in human eie, 690 Too grievous for the trespass or omission, Oft leav’s... ...thou interpret’st hate, 790 The jealousie of Love, powerful of sway In human hearts, not less in mine towards thee, Caus’d what I did? I saw t... ... Sacrifices, Triumph, Pomp, and Games; Thy strength they know surpassing human rate, And now some public proof thereof require 1315 To honour t...

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...ture. This ignorance and this curiosity had led to the utmost confusion in human knowl- edge; all things were still mere personal experience; the no- ... ...e. The countess had heard all; for in many of the great crises of life the human organs acquire an otherwise unknown delicacy. But the cries of the ch... ...botanists through the vast fields of thought, the fruitful com- parison of human ideas, the enthusiasm given by a clear con- ception of works of geniu... ...made him suffer. He lived by his soul and by his intellect. Laying hold of human thought by reading, he rose to thoughts that stirred in matter; he fe... ... mystical language by which to communicate with his mother. He studied the resources of his voice like an opera-singer, and often he came beneath her ... ... Hated Son These four personages formed a tableau full of instruction upon human life. The man-at-arms, the priest, and the physi- cian, all three sta... ...his own voice had taught the lan- guage of sounds, in which the soul finds resources greater than speech to express its thoughts, could divine the tim...

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... anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligent young Ger- man, Count O... ...; they flushed in the afternoon light and their vague rosiness gave them a human expression in face of the cold expanse toward which the prow was turn... ... convinced him rather effectually that even in a great democracy there are human differences, and that Ameri- can life was full of social distinctions... ... but ten minutes. But, as we recognise, he went so far as to wish that the human belongings of a person whose high spirit appeared to have no taint ei... ... plenty of occupation in a society supposed to be meagrely pro- vided with resources for that body which Vogelstein was to hear invoked, again and aga...