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...en by one Lacunza a Jesuit, was the same work which was laid upon my table without any information concerning it, except that it was written by Juan... ... years and a half; or forty and two months, or 1260 days, —which led him into his whole theory of this vision, or as he modestly proposeth it, his c... ...ff. Now this principle established upon so broad a basis, bears hard upon our author’s theory of the apocalyptic prophecy who goes about to deprive ... ...f faith. Of which faith indeed my countrymen and churchmen have matured an intellectual theory, (that it is no more than the bare receiving of the wr... ...econd death.” Rev. xxi. 8. Concerning the condition of the earth thereafter, we have no information, if it be not in that word of St. Paul; “Then co... ...tever has been thought upon Antichrist; nor does it appear that there remains any other information to be added. And yet we dare say, that from Com... ...of the future Antichrist, as we find it in the best historians; and to this may all the information which we possess concerning this great personage... ...all this history, or for the substance of it? From what public or private archives hath information so marvellous been derived? It is granted, that ...

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...itted them as sisters to an almost equal fel- lowship in abjection. If the theory was that, yes, alas, one of the pair had ceased to be noticed, but t... ... five; she was to set forth in pursuit of Lord Mark on some prepos- terous theory of the premium attached to success. Mrs. Lowder’s hand had hung out ... ...t—he awaited her, at her request, conveyed in a “reply-paid” telegram, his theory was that of their still clinging to their idea, though with a sense ... ...e music, her making you boldly as welcome as you say—that’s an awfully big theory, you know, and worthy of all the other big things that in one’s acqu... ...ouldn’t in the least have asked, or have wanted to; there was no source of information to his hand, and he had really needed none: he had found out si... ...they had been told so: she saw them all about her, on seats, digesting the information, recognising it again as some- thing in a slightly different sh... ...urage. People in our case always arrange it.” She listened as for the good information, and there was support for him—since it was a question of his g... ...just evoked. “Wouldn’t it have been possible then to deny the truth of the information? I mean of Lord Mark’s.” Densher wondered. “Possible for whom?”... ...ern herself: it was only that her acceptance of Mr. Densher as a source of information could scarcely help having an awkwardness. 440 The Wings of th...

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...at you know nor into what you do not know;’ to which Socrates replies by his theory of reminiscence. T o the doctrine that virtue is knowledge, Plato ... ... pils, and not merely instruct them in rhetoric or impart to them ready made information for a fee of ‘one’ or of ‘fifty drachms.’ Plato is desirous o... ... is incapable of collecting or arranging his ideas. He has practice, but not theory; art, but not science. This is a true fact of psychology , which i... ...sses:’ (1) that true knowledge is a knowledge of causes (compare Aristotle’s theory of episteme); and (2) that the process of learning consists not in... ...he soul is also car ried further , being made the foundation not only of a theory of knowledge, but of a doctrine of re wards and punishments. In t... ...se unmeaning propositions are hardly suspected to be a caricature of a great theory of knowledge, which Plato in various ways and under many fig ures...

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...sess herself of the secrets of her lodgers. But I never subscribed to this theory; I am convinced that Madame Beaurepas had outlived the period of ind... ...is tone, so 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... ...And what won- der! What would youth be without its illusions? Aurora has a theory that she would be happier in New York, in Boston, in Philadelphia, t... ...I may not be so fresh as Miss Ruck,” I said, “but in future, when you want information, I recommend you to come to me for it.” “Our friend offers to t... ...trong in the seventeenth century schools.” As my companion offered me this information I per- ceived Mr. Ruck come lounging in, with his hands in his ...

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...l is, however, that I told George Corvick what had befallen me and that my information had an immense effect upon him. He had at last come back, but s... ...as like nothing, I told him, but the maniacs who embrace some bedlamitical theory of the cryptic character of Shakespeare. To this he replied that if ... ...r the interval, and one of them was deeply absorbing. Corvick had kept his information from his young friend till after the removal of the last barrie... ...death of his wife. That poor lady I had never seen, but I had had a futile theory that, should she survive him long enough to be decorously accessible... ...ht from Hugh Vereker.” He looked at me like a dim phrenological bust. “The information—?” “Vereker’s secret, my dear man—the general intention of his ...

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...er my landing, a fugitive slave whom I had once known well in slavery. The information received from him alarmed me. The fugitive in question was know... ...ny of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them. What was theory before the war has been made fact by the war. There is cause to be t...

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...tober 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained in your dispatch of yesterday, while ... ...ESSEE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., De- cember 7, 1863. Reliable information being received that the insurgent force is retreating from East... ...onal consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship, and render special homage... ...le to obtain this proof. from the want of guides to the proper sources of information. These might be supplied by requiring clerks of courts where d... ... in whose Department those names might be arranged and printed for general information. There is also reason to believe that foreigners frequently be-... ...expressed, the writer has not correctly understood me. I have never had a theory that secession could absolve States or people from their obligations...

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...de a considerable use of them; but he had a dread of vulgarity, and even a theory that it was increasing in the society that surrounded him. Moreover,... ...old-fashioned view of the education of young persons. He had no particular theory on the subject; it had scarcely as yet become a necessity of self-de... ... notes of everything, and he regularly consulted his notes. Among them the information he obtained from Mrs. Al- mond about Morris Townsend took its p... ... world, lived abroad, amused himself. I believe it was a kind of system, a theory he had. He has lately come back to America, with the inten- tion, as... ...his visitors about foreign lands, concerning which Morris offered him more information than he was ready, as he mentally phrased it, to swallow. Dr. S... ... only when the danger should be proved. It was not in his manner to obtain information by indirect methods, and it never even occurred to him to quest... ...man almost lost patience again; owing to which she at last volunteered the information that Morris looked very hand- some, but terribly haggard. “Did ... ... stay with me?” “If I live with you, I ought to obey you.” “If that’s your theory, it’s certainly mine,” said the Doc- tor, with a dry laugh. “But if ... ...ver. She might have reflected that Catherine would supply him with all the information he needed on this point; but we know that Mrs. Penniman’s refle...

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...he part of his round eyes and frightful whis- kers, was trying to evolve a theory of the anchored ship. His dominant trait was to take all things int... ...the day after tomorrow.” After thus overwhelming us with the extent of his information he slipped out of the cabin. The mate observed regretfully tha... ...t what he was alluding to was his old captain’s reluctant admission of the theory of suicide. It would obviously serve his turn—if I had understood at...

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...t condition for the contemplated pedestrian tours; we were well satisfied with the progress which we had made in the German language, [1. See Appendix... ...ary qualification. 11. No moneyless student can belong to it. 12. Money qualification is nonsense—such a thing has never been thought of. I got some o... ...nd went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning. I was the only one of our party who saw this grand sight; *The seeker... ...reign people’s ways, he is very likely to get a reminder to look nearer home, before he gets far with it. I open my note-book to see if I can find som... ... been boiled. The Germans are pretty sure to boil a trout or anything else if left to their own devices. This is an argument of some value in support ... ...of them before and therefore could not be sure that you had; and I was glad to learn the names of those imaginary children, too. One can get quite a f... ...rs object that water boils at a lower and lower tem- perature the higher and higher you go, and hence the appar- ent anomaly. I answer that I do not b... ...ut with the ice-axes, and it proved to be a piece of the undressed skin of some animal—a hair trunk, perhaps; but a close inspection disabled the hair... ...ther discussion and examination exploded it entirely—that is, in the opinion of all the scientists except the one who had advanced it. This one clung ...

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...young friend another sharp glance, a silent retort to the glibness of this information. “Very extinct indeed. I’m afraid the subject today would scarc... ... “Select a few of the worst!” Mr. Locket laughed. Over Baron’s distressing information he had become quite hu- 25 Henry James man and genial. But he ... ...peak of, for he left no property.” ‘’That’s to his honour and against your theory, ’’ said Mr. Locket. “I have no theory. He left a largeish mass of d...

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...ng whom vanity had put so off her guard. Hers was the only vanity I have ever 8 Glasses known that made its possessor superlatively soft. Mrs. Meldru... ...’t believe a word of it. She has been speculating on her impunity, on the idea that her danger would hold off: she has literally been running a race w... ... swarms of pretty faces in my eyes and a chorus of loud tones in my ears. Geoffrey Dawling had on his return to England written me two or three letter...

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...igent; one of them was a major of engineers, who offered me a profusion of information upon the new organisation of the Italian army. While he talked,... ...rd, for I remember I used to disparage that woman to him. I had a complete theory about her. But he didn’t seem at all stiff; on the contrary, he appe...

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...comes to an election, what are sen- timents! This Scene is written for the information of countries so unfortunate as not to know the blessings of nat... ...to the Mulet. The landlord, his wife, and her maids had meantime gained no information from a careful exami- nation of his trunks, and the articles ab... ...et with opposition. In that of the commissary of police you will find some information about the state of the town which ought to be useful to a man o... ...the road to Arcis. XIII PREFACE BEFORE LETTERING ONCE IN POSSESSION of the information furnished by the land- lady of the Mulet and by the sub-prefect... ...ational Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful theory of a do-nothing!” cried Emile Blondet, laughing. “No, my dear fellow... ...him about it. In that way I won his confidence and so obtained some little information about the impenetrable Monsieur Jacques Bricheteau. Though read... ...t tale to Marie-Gaston.” “That,” I answered laughing, “is against your own theory of secrecy, in which a third party is one too many.” “Oh, Marie-Gast... ...crifice was necessary for the public weal. Messieurs, I do not accept that theory. T o kill, without the necessity demonstrated a score of times of le... ...nly in order to seem composed, she said with feeling,— “ According to your theory of heroism you must think Mon- sieur de Sallenauve very foolish to h...

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...he character of the man himself, as to which it will now be useful to give information. Though the son of a ministerial porter, Thuillier was what is ... ...ught only of wealth and fortune. He frequented the Thuillier salon to gain information as to Celeste’s probable inheritance. He knew, like Dutocq and ... ...ade a very different fortune.” He had seen the right, which is possible in theory and im- possible in practice,—results proving contrary to pre- mises... ...plied la Peyrade. Mademoiselle Thuillier, as she listened to young Vinet’s theory of the necessity of spending an income, assumed a distant air and ma... ...avarice, which might, however, be the effect of poverty. “I have had other information about him. He belongs to the Peyrades, an old family of the ‘co... ... this,” said the widow, when she parted from the man who had given her the information. “I’ll take care and remember you—if anything comes of it.” T o... ...or Madame Katte say much. It’s like talking to the wall to try and get any information out of them. We have been porters here these twenty years and w... ... of which I was the first to discover the solution; but above all, for my ‘Theory of Perpetual Motion,’—four volumes in quarto with plates; Paris, 182... ...,” roared the old man; “he ruined my reputation, he tarnished my name. My ‘Theory of Per- petual Motion,’ the printing of which cost me every penny I ...

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...vouch for its accuracy. The moment I have been enabled to obtain any certain information upon this interesting point, you may depend upon receiving it... ...finitesimal doses, which the section were doubtless aware was based upon the theory that the very minutest amount of any given drug, properly disperse... ... quality of the bear. He shuddered as he threw out the re mark; but if this theory, on inquiry, should prove to be well founded, it would at once exp... ...d strictly upon the principle of the human eye. ‘THE PRESIDENT required some information upon this point. He had yet to learn that the human eye was r...

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...es on the subject of incident, &c., such as would be generally approved in theory, but the result of which, when carried out into practice, often proc... ...pped, di- rected me here,’ said I. ‘I doubted at first the accuracy of his information, not being aware that you had such a residence as this.’ “‘Oh, ... ...lf frequented no place of worship, and owned no God but Mammon, turned the information into a weapon of attack against the equability of my temper. He... ...mind the contents of these books; that mind resists the admission of grave information, it re- coils, it grows restive, sullen tempers are shown, disf... ... he knows not what:” it said this so plainly, that I determined to request information on the point concerning which my ignorance seemed to be thus ta... ...thought indeed some chance word might be dropped which would afford me the information I wished to obtain, without my running the risk of exciting sil... ... the surprise I should give; I enjoyed the triumph of my practice over his theory; and leaning over the table, and uttering the words slowly but with ...

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...ties; the peculiar pungency of the manure he got, in pursuit of a chemical theory of his own, has scarred my olfactory memories for a lifetime. The in... ...said a small white- faced sniffing boy in a big bowler hat. I supplied the information. His sharp little face scrutinised the ground about us. “Got it... ...the principles of Socialism pretty thoroughly, and we got up the Darwinian theory with the help of Britten’s medical-stu- dent brother and the galleri... ...ck’s Pi.” And I never disillusioned her by any subsequent levity from this theory of my innate and virginal piety. 6 6 6 6 6 It was against this harsh... ...ted themselves to the elaboration and realisation of this centre of public information she had conceived as their role. They set out to study the meth... ...intro- duced to Margaret and said absolutely nothing to her—there being no information either to receive or impart and noth- ing to do—but stood snatc... ... by means of the joined painters. Still it was the fault of the inadequate information supplied in the books and not of Altiora that that was not the ... ...of schemes of action when we returned to London, with the development of a theory of Margaret. Our marriage had done this much at least, that it had f... ...absent, the qui- eter influence of the Cramptons prevailed; temperance and information for its own sake prevailed excessively over din- ner and the pl...

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...tantial writ- ing; and though no authentic portrait was to survive for the information of posterity, he betrays by a score of casual phrases that he w... .... That was the most generalised form of soldiering. The development of the theory of war had been for some decades but little assisted by any practica... ...il from a British torpedo boat, announcing a truce, and giving the welcome information that food and water were being hurried down the Rhine and were ... ...s. The king’s freedom from the trammels of etiquette was very complete. In theory—and he abounded in theory—his manners were purely democratic. It was... ... under a tremendous mistake…. Indeed you are in error…. I asked merely for information….’ 129 H G Wells ‘When last I saw him,’ said Barnet, ‘he was s... ...d when one of the two newly arrived Home Rule members for India sought for information how to bring in a bill, they learnt simply that bills were not ...

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... of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, ha... ... on the Migrations of the Herring? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Appar... ... symbolically, perhaps significantly enough, shadowing forth the same! Our theory begins to be that, in receiving as literally au- thentic what was bu... ...akes scientific rank beside Codifica- tion, and Political Economy, and the Theory of the British Constitution; nay rather, from its prophetic height l... ...our present subject, is that of the Dandies; concerning which, what little information I have been able to procure may fitly stand here. “It is true, ... ...icions, we may re- 213 Thomas Carlyle mark, that the absence of all other information on the subject, except what is contained in the work, is itself...