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...anies, each company consisting of three thousand footmen and three hundred horse. These companies were called legions, because they were the choicest ... ...ered in the circus maximus at all other times, and only at 46 V olume One horse-races is exposed to public view; others merely say that this god had ... ..., for those that gave the bride or escorted her or otherwise were present, sportingly to say Talasius, intimating that she was henceforth to serve in ... ... a gallant man, eager of honor, and of aspiring thoughts, being mounted on horseback, was galloping on before the rest, and mired his horse here, and,... ...d-servants gather together and run about playing; afterwards they fight in sport, and throw stones one at another, in memory that they then aided and ... ... it, he alleges an inscription upon one of the copper quoits used in those sports, upon which the name of Lycurgus continued uneffaced to his time. Bu... ... which he used so wisely, that he rose to the highest reputation, was very influential, and left the Claudian house behind him, inferior to none in Ro... ...hest place, he unhesitatingly accepted the hatred of the most powerful and influential leaders in the city, but more especially of Aristides, the son ... ...rsia’s satrap, for his security, and immediately became the first and most influential person about him. For this bar- 339 Plutarch’s Lives barian, n...

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...ntes had been taken to prison, and he had gone to all his friends, and the influential persons of the city; but the report was already in circulation ... ... anhelitu,” you know it refers to a stag flying from a wolf. Are you not a sports- man and a great wolf-hunter? Well, then, what do you think of the m... ...s of ambition. Ten minutes afterwards Villefort reached his hotel, ordered horses to be ready in two hours, and asked to have his breakfast brought to... ...lous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of “moderation” — but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantes. Villefort retained his pla... ...ty; and, in all prob- ability, I should be promoted to the honor of making sport for the children, if such innocent beings could be found in an abode ... ...s. The young man, in reply, took up the chisel, bent it into the form of a horse- shoe, and then as readily straightened it. “And will you engage not ... ...nd that he was still master of that element on whose bosom he had so often sported as a boy. Fear, that relentless pursuer, clogged Dantes’ efforts. H... ...e, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless de- sires. Alexandre Dumas 189 Meanwhile, by a cleft between two walls of rock... ...yed it in manoeuvring his yacht round the island, studying it as a skilful horseman would the animal he destined for some important service, till at t...

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...lls motor cars, cycles, and what not, will go. I doubt if we shall see any horses upon this fine, smooth, clean road; I doubt if there will be many ho... ... horses on the high roads of Utopia, and, indeed, if they will use draught horses at all upon that planet. Why should they? Where the world gives turf... ...uld they? Where the world gives turf or sand, or along special tracts, the horse will perhaps be ridden for ex- ercise and pleasure, but that will be ... ...s, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world. All this will be passing, as ... ... women are capable of ideal emotions and wishes beyond merely physical de- sires, but the shape these take are almost entirely a reaction to external ... ...le of disinter- ested feeling, even if it amounts only to enthusiasm for a sport or an industrial employment well done, for an art, or for a locality ... ...games in public or to watch them being played. Certain dangerous and hardy sports and exer- cises are prescribed for him, but not competitive sports b... ...confidence in the public imagination. We have, however, a very audible and influential school, the Modern Imperialist school, which distinguishes its ...

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...ted: ‘Irish men and English women! though it’s putting the cart before the horse—the copper pen- nies where the gold guineas should be. So here’s the ... ...d. Champagne on that! … Irishmen, as far as I have seen of them, are, like horses, bundles of nerves; and you must manage them, as you do with all ner... ...in. That seems to me the secret of Irish character. We English are not bad horsemen. It’s a won- der we blunder so in our management of such a people.... ...xiety to draw them over to the cause of her friend set her thinking of the influential Mrs. Cramborne Wathin, with whom she was distantly connected; t... ...tures were those of the finely- bred English; he had the English taste for sports, games, manly diversions; and in the bloom of life, under thirty, hi... ...able launching of such a book. ‘Mrs. Warwick? Mrs. Warwick?’ said the most influential of editors, Mr. Marcus T onans; ‘what! that singularly handsome... ... nights were not so tuneable to the superior mind. When asleep she was the sport of elves that danced her into tangles too deliciously unravelled, and... ... Lady Pennon. ‘It would be a way of learning that we are no wiser than our sires; but perhaps too painful a way,’ Whitmonby ob- served. ‘Poor Mountfor... ... could not answer it, though Manx, as leader of the Shipping interest, was influential. The man had to be endured, like other doses in politics. Dacie...

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... “The True History.” “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse- whales, which had bones of very great value for their teeth, of whic... ...en V oyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchas. “In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their... ...t near the coast, are the property of the king.” —Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond un- erring o’er his head suspends ... ... 1690 some persons were on a high hill observ- ing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed: there—pointing to the sea—is a... ...dolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake- hous... ...answer was a snore. I then rolled over, my neck feeling as if it were in a horse-collar; and suddenly felt a slight scratch. Throwing aside the counte... ... unerring harpoon of the son fitly replacing the in- fallible arrow of the sires. To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almos... ...ast if this were otherwise, there were not wanting other motives much more influential with him. It would be re- fining too much, perhaps, even consid... ... crew from them, nor had he in any way hinted his de- 225 Herman Melville sires on that head. Nevertheless he had taken private mea- sures of his own...

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...vices. Had it been otherwise—had an active poli tician been put into this influential post, to assume the easy task of making head against a Whig Col... ... burden of these dismal reminiscences. The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector’s junior cle... ...A child’s shoe; the doll, seated in her little wicker carriage; the hobby horse—whatever, in a word, has been used or played with during the day is n... ...through the public prints, in my decapitated state, like Irving’s Headless Horseman, ghastly and grim, and longing to be buried, as a political dead m... ...Inspector—who, by the bye, l regret to say, was overthrown and killed by a horse some time ago, else he would certainly have lived for ever—he, and al... ...adows in my view: white headed and wrinkled images, which my fancy used to sport with, and has now flung aside for ever. The merchants—Pingree, Philli... ...es, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden yea... ...scend a step or two from the highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more impor... ...being then in the first stages of joyless deportment, and the offspring of sires who had known how to be merry, in their day), that they would compare...

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...nvenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhab- ited this world. Justice has never been d... ...countless possibilities of further increment was coming to the strength of horses and men. “Power,” all unsuspected, was flowing 28 The New Machiave... ... to the south was extensively en- closed, and what had been an ill-defined horse-track to Do- ver, only passable by adventurous coaches in dry weather... ...l of Penge. That engraving became in a way my mis- tress. Often when I had sported my oak and was supposed to be reading, I was sitting with it before... ...ine.” Britten writhed, appreciating the image. “There’s to be a section of sports. You must do that.” “I’m not going to do any fine writing,” said Sho... ...e features,” touching them off on his fingers, “Epigram, Literary Section, Sports. Then we want a section to shove anything into, a joke, a notice of ... ...myself and with no greater advan- tages than mine had raised themselves to influential and even 141 H G Wells decisive positions in the worlds of pol... ... to be no idle threat. She had dis- covered very early that the last thing influential people will do is to work. Everything in their lives tends to m... ...x of power- 235 H G Wells ful people, clever people, enterprising people, influential people, amidst whom power is diffused to-day, to produce that s...

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...r than any of the other boys. At the end of the Easter term there were the sports, and he would be able to go in for the races; he rather fancied hims... ...ttaining his desire: he began to wish, when he saw a new moon or a dappled horse, and he looked out for shooting stars; during ex- eat they had a chic... ...ed at the luxury of her home and com- pared her life in Lincolnshire, with horses to ride and carriages to drive in, with the mean depen- dence of her... ...the sideboard and a square table; against one wall was a sofa covered with horsehair, and by the fireplace an arm-chair to match: there was a white an... ...partition, and here they found Watson sitting back in a chair, reading The Sportsman. He was a large, 198 Of Human Bondage stout young man, elegantly... ...s; a Turkey carpet adorned the floor , and the walls were deco- rated with sporting prints. Mr. Carter was sit- ting at the desk and got up to shake h... ...h-century ceiling. “What a crime to pull this down, eh, Hodgson? You’re an influential citizen, why don’t you write to the papers and protest?” The ma... ... faces, it was terrify- ing; their features were distorted with paltry de- sires, and you felt they were strange to any ideas of beauty . They had fur... ...their words or their writ- ings, had instilled into him, and never the de- sires of his own heart. Always his course had been swayed by what he though...

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...hilst the public spirit of the local communities is less awakened and less influential.* These differences may be perceived to a certain extent in the... ...central government itself is imperfectly organized, which is invariably an influential cause of inferiority when the nation is opposed to other coun- ... ...and the citizens no longer protected themselves; when human nature was the sport of man, and princes wearied out the clemency of Heaven before they ex... ... of the people.* *Unhappily the mixed race has been less numerous and less influential in North America than in any other country. The American contin... ...s neigh- bor devotes to gain, turns with him to a passionate love of field sports and military exercises; he delights in violent bodily exertion, he i... ...es from conquering the Mexican Empire with 600 foot sol- diers and sixteen horses. If the Romans had been better ac- quainted with the laws of hydraul... ...ary; a thousand chances waft them to and fro, and their life is always the sport of un- foreseen or (so to speak) extemporaneous circumstances. Thus t... ... troops superior to all others, such as the Swiss in- fantry or the French horse of the sixteenth century, it was not thought necessary to raise very ... ...f water, and nothing is to be seen on them but herds of buffaloes and wild horses. Some hordes of Indians are also found there, but in no great number...

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...r, and having long been out of society had lost her 10 War & Peace former influential connections. She had now come to Petersburg to procure an appoi... ... Andrew again interrupted him, “let us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?” “No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and w... ...War & Peace tions. He went to Kuragin’s. Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards’ bar- racks, in which Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighte... ...st daughter— both named Nataly. Ever since the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going continually, bringing visitors to the Coun... ...he Freemasons merely to associate with the wealthy young Brothers who were influential through their connections or rank, and of whom there were very ... ...s the best time of the year for the chase. The hounds of that ardent young sports- man Rostov had not merely reached hard winter condi- tion, but were... ...e huntsman that he was being carried away by that irresistible passion for sport which makes a man forget all his previous resolu- tions, as a lover f... ...ses and trap were sent home. Count Ilya Rostov, though not at heart a keen sportsman, knew the rules of the hunt well, and rode to the bushy edge of t... ... at the unpleasant thought that oc- curred to him, of how all that nest of influential men on the staff would be stirred up by this news, especially B...

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...fore I could reach the climate of her favours. But I am an old hawk at the sport, and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my ... ...the famous Clarinda and Sylvander corre- spondence. It was begun in simple sport; they are already at their fifth or sixth exchange, when Clarinda wri... ...ent on his redemption, they but used the favourite subject as a stalk- ing-horse. In the meantime, the sportive acquaintance was ripening steadily int... ...but used the favourite subject as a stalk- ing-horse. In the meantime, the sportive acquaintance was ripening steadily into a genuine passion. Visits ... ...he love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the pas sion for light and the open air, – all is an old unvaried s... ...sed.” It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal de- sires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the gener- ous impulse... ...neighbourhood of Regnier de Montigny and Colin de Cayeux was probably more influential on his after life than the contempt of Catherine. For a man who... ...were abed. He set forth in haste, accompanied by two squires riding on one horse, a page, and a few varlets running with torches. As he rode, he humme... ...as if he had been rather more dependent than most. Of those who are to act influentially on their fellows, we should expect always something large and...

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...o another picture, and only left it when she returned to her carriage. The horses started 13 Balzac off, the final vision of luxury and refinement we... ... time when there was no re- straint on art or morals, when torture was the sport of sover- eigns; and from their councils, churchmen with courtesans’ ... ...fantastic shapes that sprang up from under his feet, like children of some sportive demon. Are not fearful poisons set up in the soul by a swift con- ... ...poured out, was a scourge of fiery sparks to these men; released like post-horses from some mail-coach by a relay; they let their spirits gallop away ... ...d education means. For some it consists in knowing the name of Alexander’s horse, of the dog Berecillo, of the Seigneur d’Accords, and in ignorance of... ...growing pale,” said Bixiou. “Kant? Yet another ball flung out for fools to sport with, sir! Materialism and spiritualism are a fine pair of battledore... ...r- 67 Balzac face of gadding about, and eager efforts to attach myself to influential kinsmen, or to people likely to be useful to us. My relaxations... ...heir doors on me in the first place. I was related to people who were very influential, and who lavished their patronage on strang- ers; but I found n... ...s—” “I tell you—” “Yes, yes, very true, I am quite of your opinion—our de- sires expand—” “The skin, I tell you.” “Yes.” “You don’t believe me. I know...

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...fe automatically groups itself more or less closely into herds. Buffaloes, horses and wolves run in packs. Some of these groups are knit closely toget... ...otect in all cases. Nations and men readily engage in killing, either from sport or because of a real or fancied wrong. Mob psychology shows how whole... ...or the most part by youths who have had almost no chance to get the needed sport and physical experience incident to boy- hood. The foot-ball, base-ba... ...ery exhibited at stores. The kleptomaniac, however, is generally a rich or influential woman. She steals something she does not need, and she is there... ...s and new ways to commit crime. It has likewise created many wants and de- sires that furnish the motive power of property crimes. Each new invention ... ...me become ad- justed to the automobile as they have become adjusted to the horse, but until that time comes, it will demand its heavy toll of unfortun... ...ke place, and even the best society has given its sanction to this sort of sport. Whether the state should permit prize fights is not the question. Th... ...ms. At any rate he knows what he wants and breeds that kind. Similarly the horse-raiser will breed for race horses or dray horses as the case may be, ... ...nd pitfalls. His brain and nervous system are filled with emotions and de- sires which lure him here and there. Temptations are beck- oning and passio...

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...lses. Interrogate them. They lump along like the old loblegs of Dobbin the horse; or do their business like cudgels of carpet-thwackers expelling dust... ...dmirable passion to excel, however, was chiefly directed in his youth upon sport; and so great was the passion in him, that it was commonly the presen... ...ughby at the Hall. He had ridden back at night, not caring how he used his horse in order to get swiftly home, so forgetful of himself was he under th... ...had some vogue in their ball-rooms, and in showing them an English seat on horseback: I must resign myself if I have not been popular among them. I co... ...s themes in public were those of an English gentleman; horses, dogs, game, sport, intrigue, scandal, politics, wines, the manly themes; with a condesc... ...o run dilating on her woes to others, because of the silliest of human de- sires to preserve her reputation for consistency . She had heard women abus... ...lf-shut door. Now you have only to be reminded that it is the habit of the sportive gentleman of easy life, bewildered as he would otherwise be by the... ...ngs like mine teach me unhappy things of myself.” “Rich, handsome, lordly, influential, brilliant health, fine estates,” Mrs. Mountstuart enumerated i... ...n the toils. Her father will stay at Patterne Hall as long as his host de- sires it. She hesitates, she is overcome; in spite of a certain nausea due ...

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...flushed like a turkey cock, “I as- sure you that Alan rides like—” “Like a horse marine,” said Norman. Hector and Harry both looked furious, but “June... ... out, “Why, Norman, non- sense! Mr. Ernescliffe rode the new black kicking horse till he made it quite steady.” “Made it steady! No, Mary, that is say... ...ying too much for it,” said Mr. Ernescliffe. “It has no harm in it—capital horse—splendid,” said the doctor; “I shall take you out with it this aftern... ...as the fancy of Ned Anderson and his associates to make his timidity their sport; he was scorned and ill-treated, and driven, by bodily terror, into a... ..., putting his arm around her as she stood by him. “It will be a fine day’s sport for you.” “But can’t you like it beforehand, papa?” “Not just this mi... ...eaks; and, though he was not much of a laugher himself, contrib- uted much sport in the way of bright apposite sayings to the home circle. It was a ve... ...he dreadful evils reigning unchecked, and engulfing many a child whom more influential teaching might have saved. Mental arithmetic, and the rivers of... ...sure hope. God crown all their crosses unto them, and fulfil all their de- sires unto everlasting life.’ I feel that I am not rendering her words with...

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...just as it was over. First an elegant open carriage, drawn by two valuable horses, drove up with Miusov and a distant relative of his, a young man of ... ...ient, jolting, but roomy , hired carriage, with a pair of old pinkish-grey horses, a long way behind Miusov’s car- riage, came Fyodor Pavlovitch, with... ...ays injuring myself with my politeness. Once, many years ago, I said to an influential person: ‘Your wife is a ticklish lady,’ in an honourable sense,... ...He is a driver. We’re not poor people, Father, not poor; he drives our own horse. It’s all our own, the horse and the car- riage. And what good is it ... ...coup d’etat of December, I happened to be calling in Paris on an extremely influential personage in the Government, and I met a very interesting man i... .... Interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of de- sires, men distort their own nature, for many senseless and foolish desires... ...he masters on her boy’s behalf, and in the end Dardanelov, a respected and influential teacher, exerted him- self in his favour, and the affair was ig... ...e of their evidence. But it was supposed that he did this rather by way of sport, so to speak, for professional glory, to show nothing had been omitte... ...eadful ghosts away and hide our heads in the pillow so as to return to our sports and merriment as soon as they have vanished. But we must one day beg...

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...y be as sured. Adeimantus added: Has no one told you of the torch race on horseback in honour of the goddess which will take place in the evening? W... ...eback in honour of the goddess which will take place in the evening? With horses! I replied: That is a novelty. Will horsemen Plato’s The Republic 16... ... do not want a just man to be your counsellor the pur chase or sale of a horse; a man who is knowing about horses would be better for that, would h... ...our them both in public and private when they are rich or in any other way influential, while they despise and overlook those who may be weak and poor... ...l truth? Assuredly. But then again, as we know by experience, he whose de sires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they wil... ... is in its own nature; for the arts in general are concerned with the de sires or opinions of men, or are cultivated with a view to production and c... ..., as you know, he attains truth most nearly, and is least likely to be the sport of fantastic and lawless visions. I quite agree. In saying this I hav... ... worth mentioning of what he imitates. Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in iambic or in Heroic vers...

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...ten accused my visions of be- ing the work of the enemy of mankind and the sport of my imagination… . I showed them the jewels which the divine hand h... ...my appearance by accident upon a globe itself whirled through space as the sport of the catastrophes of the heavens,” says Madame Ackermann; “when I s... ..., I would just as lief, yes, rather, die with a hearty enjoyment of music, sport, or any other rational pastime. As a timepiece stops, we die— there b... ...dog and toad, yea, gladly would I have been in the condition of the dog or horse, for I knew they had no soul to perish under the everlast- ing weight... ...rs for some distance back, and then ran for life with the speed of an Arab horse for about half an hour, and fortunately happened to come to a small v... ... through my soul, and oh, how I was changed, and everything became new. My horses and hogs and even everybody seemed changed.” This man’s case introdu... ...ger desires anything, what comes from above cannot depress it; for its de- sires alone are the causes of its woes.”[182] And now, as a more concrete e... ... he gave up art for science and entered Harvard University, where his most influential teach- 509 William James ers were Louis Agassiz and Charles W....