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...the purposes of research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act. iii A mon Petit Canard que j’aime de to... ...gularly on the market but French Natural Remedies from Beautiful Tasmania is an innovation; it essentially differs on five major points.  Primar... ... if you suffer from allergy. Eggshell Eggshells are very rich in calcium and act as an excellent antacid so they alleviate stomach cramps and he...

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...ty. I don't know that I'm better than they are by usually preferring not to act that way. I'm just another creature out there with microorganisms in ... ...ed writing her piece, the spider would be smashed, but she believed that the act should be performed with conscience. Gabriele did not subscribe to th... ...ch and at other times like a soldier in a queue waiting for inspection. This act more than any other was a reminder of the fact that she was a bit lik... ...ulations were what they wanted. This doing it in the open was a rather brave act, wouldn't you say, considering that they could be struck down by ligh... ...und, he was no doubt using logic to create a sententious wallowing where the act was more hallowed in the past. She presumed that he was thinking bac... ...ing about the destruction of the environment, the vitiation of curiosity and innovation among pampered capitalists, and often exploited third world wo...

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...hese actions. It explains that the most important thing is not the worldly act, but the aim in the spiritual world. What a person does with his or her... ... the events of the present and the future are made to happen there—all the innovations and transformations—and how they come down from there to our wo...

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... LIFE .......... 285 CHAPTER XXXIII THAT FORTUNE IS OFTENTIMES OBSERVED TO ACT BY THE RULE OF REA- SON .................................................. ...he duties to which you have received so legitimate a call. And so you will act in a manner very agreeable to me, while the contrary will displease me ... ...tionately attached to the repose of his country, an en- emy to changes and innovations, he would have preferred to employ what means he had towards th... ...to me, and who loved me so entirely, and that his example would help me to act in a similar manner when my turn came. Interrupting me, he begged that ... ...desire at present discourage you from this course, for I would have no one act in opposition to his conscience; but I wish, hav- ing regard to the goo... ...imself with a halter about his neck to the people, to the end, that if the innovation he would intro- duce should not be approved by every one, he mig... ... edifice, having been ripped and torn in her old age, by this thing called innovation, has since laid open a rent, and given suffi- cient admittance t... ...st;” [“Fine words truly.”—Ter. And., i. I, 114.] but the best pretence for innovation is of very dangerous consequence: “Aden nihil motum ex anti... ...nd custom received, and neither to wrest it, nor to introduce anything, of innovation. If, sometimes, the divine providence has gone beyond the rules ...

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...andalised the nursery, like Griff, by un- seemly pranks on Sundays, nor by innovations in the habits of Noah’s ark, but was as much shocked as nurse w... ...o begun. That we had a Christmas Day Communion at all at Earlscombe was an innovation only achieved by Mr. Henderson going to assist the old Rector at... ...thing, if I could tell what you mean!’ I felt the motion of his muscles in act to rise, and grasped him. Griff held him with a strong hand, hoarsely c... ...1830, with a brand new squire and parson, was too ticklish a time for many innovations. Hillside Church was the only one in the neighbourhood where Ho... ...eomanry, and, like Griff, put on his uniform, while my father had the Riot Act in his pocket. All the horses were thus absorbed, but Chapman and the m... ...er knew what he was about—cer- tainly before he could get hold of the Riot Act—he found the stable lantern made over to him, and Griff ’s sword flash-... ..., boy; I am gratified to see you are acquiring pres- ence of mind, and can act like a man.’ Clarence smiled when they were gone, saying, ‘That would h... ...re at first inclined to take the same line, and be vexed with Griff for an act of impertinence towards a guest. He had a great deal of difficulty in i... ...reathed with red and green cabbage leaves! My mother was startled at these innovations; but my fa- ther, who had kept abreast with the thought of the ...

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...forms of mittimus for ghosts that might be refractory, and probably a riot act, for any émeute amongst ghosts in- clined to raise barricades; since he... ...c drama. He got to work instantly; and very soon he had composed the first act of his “Sultan Selim;” but, in defiance of the metre, he soon changed t... ...te boxes. He expected every one of us, he said, to pull an oar. We were to act the tragedy. But, in fact, we had many oars to pull. There were so many... ...veral times (that is, once in every one of his six parts) during the first act. In reality, the sultan, though otherwise a decent man, was too bloody.... ...business, that scarcely any of the characters remained alive at the end of act the first. Sultan Amurath found himself in an awkward situation. Large ... ...ed for a bed room. It is of coach travel- lers I speak. And the particular innovation in question com- menced, as was natural, with the mail coach, wh...

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...yllabub.” This was received with a great “Ho! ho!” and a demand who was to act as milker. “That was the best of it,” said Aurelia. “Soon came Miss Her... ...mour had been stung in his tenderest feeling. They fought with pistols, an innovation that, as you know, my father hates, as far more deadly and unski... ...; and there has been much difficulty in consequence of his being unable to act, or to do more than give his signature.” “Ah! sister, I wish you had no... ...nown as an excellent and trustworthy person, so that, if she were going to act in the same capacity to my Lady’s second family, Aurelia would have a f... ...e of lips encouraged no questioning, so she merely uttered thanks for each act of hospitality. “There! You will take no more roll? You are better, now... ...endants of a former Sir Jovian, only my Lady’s poor kinswoman sent down to act gouvernante to the Wayland brats, who had been impertinently quartered ... ...ilk stockings, and Amoret, white-frocked, blue-sashed, and bare-headed (an innovation of fashion), were admiring the nodding mandarins, grinning nonde...

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...change them. Like those who join a brotherhood, they fancy it needs but an act to be out of the coil and clamour for ever. But this is a wile of the d... ...; every 1st of January a remarkable turning-point in our career. Any overt act, above all, is felt to be alchemic in its power to change. A drunkard t... ...py within such august circumvallations. And yet there is probably no other act in a man’s life so hot-headed and foolhardy as this one of marriage. Fo... ...were always sins in his own sight; he could then only sin when he did some act against his clear conviction; the light that he walked by was obscure, ... ... a very difficult thing to paint the marriage of Cana, or write the fourth act of Antony and Cleopatra, there is a more difficult piece of art before ... ...e it comes. But the conservative, while lauding progress, is ever timid of innovation; his is the hand upheld to counsel pause; his is the signal advi...

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...termined, without pointing out, in what manner language and the human mind act and react on each other, and without retracing the revolutions not of l... ...ch general approbation is at present bestowed. It is supposed, that by the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement that he will gr... ...not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise which by the act of writing in verse an Author in the present day makes to his Reader; b... ...honorable to the Writer’s own character than false refinement or arbitrary innovation, though I should contend at the same time that it is far less pe... ...is really im portant to men, so by the repetition and continuance of this act feelings connected with important subjects will be nourished, till at l... ...nd, and likewise of certain powers in the great and permanent objects that act upon it which are equally inherent and indestructible; and did I not fu...

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... opinion, that to carry my gay garments through these sloughs, would be an act of unfriendship to my sover- eign person and royal wardrobe; wherefore,... ...ranklin observes you.” Unheeding this remonstrance, and accustomed only to act upon the immediate impulse of his own wishes, Brian de Bois-Guilbert ke... ...le of his sword, and perhaps only withdrew, from the consciousness that no act of violence could be safely executed in that place and presence. Cedric... ...em an opportunity of getting free, by exercising upon their creditors some act of unprincipled violence. Under the various burdens imposed by this unh... ...embled some barons, who, for their own interested mo- tives, were ready to act as their protectors. On the present occasion, Isaac felt more than usua... ... as well as by the greater part of the English commons, who feared farther innovation upon their rights and liberties, from a sovereign of John’s li- ...

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...oolish and de- structive law”—I quote the Vicar—the Elementary Educa- tion Act of 1870, by getting him to sit outside the open window while instructio... ...ove-making, to conclude … poor dear Lady Wondershoot—she didn’t like these Innovations. Very conservative, poor dear lady! A touch of the eighteenth c... ... every time we blunder against their limits or stretch out to any spacious act…. “Our easy paces are wild flights to them, and all they deem great and... ...n strike,” the thing appeared to many of them as a deliber- ate, concerted act. “They mean to try our strength,” said the men in the trains going home... ...the little folk the Spirit looks and learns. From us by word and birth and act it must pass— to still greater lives. This earth is no resting place; t...

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...ave given his life to defend a worm-eaten shrine. He tried to explain the “innovations” to his old master, us- ing a thousand tactful precautions; som... ...g in the character of respected and respectable mothers of fami- lies, and act men’s parts in tight-fitting garments at night. Worthy M. Chesnel, in h... ...t farrago of maidenliness and muslin, in sweet looks as much studied as an Act of Parliament. And if the one man, who is in duty bound to believe in f... ...fear that du Croisier had gone to bed. In his position he was compelled to act quickly, and any delay was a misfortune. “In the King’s name!” he cried... ...eyed the summons at once; he wanted to know how M. Camusot was disposed to act. So he was compelled to answer the questions put to him. Camusot addres... ... his sovereign, and swelled the meagre train of the fallen king. It was an act of courage which seems simple enough to-day, but, in that time of enthu...

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...ook upon himself to speak sneeringly of T asso. T o this, which was a bold act for his timid mind, he was emboldened by the countenance of Boileau. Of... ...caying, and think it wise to trample him under foot, provided only in that act of trampling they can squeeze out of him their own individual debt. Lik... ... Islands,) did not occur until the year 1609. In the opening of the fourth act, Prospero formally betrothes his daughter to Ferdinand; and in doing so... ... one single heraldic term—a Welchman who mispronounces all words. The last act of the poet’s malice recalls to us a sort of jest-book story of an Iris... ...eding. Now, in Shakspeare, who first set an example of that most important innovation, in all his impas- sioned dialogues, each reply or rejoinder see... ... do with the old and new style, but was, we believe, redressed by the same act of Parliament. Now in Pope’s time it was absolutely necessary that a ma... ... that language in four weeks; a proof, by the way, that the system of bold innovations in the art of tuition had already commenced. Riding and fencing...

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...taking it, and must repeatedly let him see that for once they are content to act as audience. Moreover, even the privileged talker is not allowed to d... ...d of the soil and every stone of the houses. Intense dread lest any internal innovations should weaken the social structure and open a door to the ene... ... of dealing with the arts and sciences.” Think of the significance of such an act at such a moment! France was a welter of political and religious diss... ... France may teach us that, side by side with the qualities of enterprise and innovation that English blood has put in us, we should cultivate the sens... ...but to the average woman who is sufficiently free from bread winning cares to act as an incentive to other women and as an influence upon men. In Americ... ...latable word. To put a panache —a plume, an ornament—on a prosaic deed is an act so eminently French that one seeks in vain for its English equivalent... ...on that the lily should be gilded; that, however lofty and beautiful a man’s act or his purpose, it gains by being performed with what the French (in ...

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...head foremost; and in all respects, the descent had the air of a voluntary act. What followed? From every one of the bridges over the river, and from ... ...earliest of the three, viz., the immor- tal Williams’ murders of 1812. The act and the actor are each separately in the highest degree interesting; an... ... throughout the annals of universal Christendom, has there indeed been any act of one solitary insulated indi- vidual, armed with power so appalling o... ...n from the public eye. It is true, that few of this class are qualified to act as ‘able’ sea- men: but at all times, and especially during war, only a... ...m continually peeping into the window of Marr’s shop; and had thought this act, connected with the man’s appearance, so suspicious, that he stepped in... ... who does not see that with regard to that as well as to other Puritanical innovations there would have been a reflux of zeal in the restoration of th...

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...t so gen- eral, by which, instead of taking it in its proper sense, as the act of reproducing in our minds the feelings of another, whether for hatred... ...e old honest way of cutting throats, with- out introducing such abominable innovations from Italy? I consider all these poisoning cases, compared with... ...ith the fiendish looks, of a murderer. But when I found him, he was in the act of plundering the pantry of bread and other things. Now this gave a new... ...ht hand of kings? The He- brew boy inaugurated his patriotic mission by an act, by a victorious act, such as no man could deny. But so did the girl of... ... to our old English phrase 5 ) drive a coach-and-six through any copyright act that man born of woman could frame. 2dly, it is quite con- trary to the... ...n the tragedy? And, if all this were insufficient, then I cite the closing act of her life as valid on her behalf, were all other testimonies against ...

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...hich calls for correc- tion. For these reasons I beg of you, my reader, to act 11 Gogol also as my corrector. Do not despise the task, for, how- ever... ...f- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piece, even though, with arms sharply crooked and legs slightly be... ...at also. Not the words which he read, but the mere solace derived from the act of reading, was what especially pleased his mind; even though at any mo... ...lly which, as you may remember, I swopped from Khvostirev.” As a matter of act, Chichikov had never in his life seen either Khvostirev or the roan fil... ... Porphyri deposited the animal upon the floor; where- upon it proceeded to act after the manner of dogs. “There’s a puppy for you!” cried Nozdrev, cat... ... the peasants—of the estate. In those days mortgage to the Treasury was an innovation looked upon with reserve, and, as attorney in the matter, Chichi...

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...om your left, be this always an assured place in your remembrance: for the act was good and loving! To us also it is a little sunny spot, in that dism... ...e Future, and an indestructible tendency to persevere as in the Past, must Innovation and Conservation wage their perpetual conflict, as they may and ... ...1 Thomas Carlyle For Nature is true and not a lie. No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill draw... ...l,—having done it by mis- take, during these late centuries; that for such act one authority only is competent: the assembled Three Estates of the Rea... ...rganic grouplets: the inarticulate buzzing becomes articulate speaking and act- ing. By Primary Assembly, and then by Secondary; by ‘suc- cessive elec... ...d tie up the Third Es- tate, that it harm not the old privileges. In which act of tying up, never so skilfully set about, there is likewise no possibi...

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.................................. 333 Chapter 2.6.I. Executive that does not act. ......................................................................... ...om your left, be this always an assured place in your remembrance: for the act was good and loving! To us also it is a little sunny spot, in that dism... ...e Future, and an indestructible tendency to persevere as in the Past, must Innovation and Conservation wage their perpetual conflict, as they may and ... ...were all doomed. For Nature is true and not a lie. No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill draw... ...all,—having done it by mistake, during these late centuries; that for such act one authority only is competent: the assembled Three Estates of the Rea... ...and tie up the Third Estate, that it harm not the old privileges. In which act of tying up, never so skilfully set about, there is likewise no possibi...

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...f that dispute. The Vaudois and the Albigenses refused to recog- nize this innovation.” In short, Desplein was delighted to disport himself in his mos... ...rving his dignity, for he seemed to understand that the end ennobles every act. “When I left this good fellow, to be house surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu, ...

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... anguish of hope alternating with disappointment, as it may be supposed to act upon the poor shipwrecked seaman, alone and upon a desolate coast, stra... ...any appearance of a vulgar attempt to create omens; but still, in the very act of confessing the simple truth, and thus weakening the marvellous chara... ...position of the accuser as to the circumstances under which he alleged the act of felo- nious appropriation to have taken place. These circumstances w... ...e compatible with elevation of mind,) better to have committed some bloody act—some murderous act. Dreadful was the panic I underwent. God pardon the ... ...stances of the charge against her—as if an ingenu- ous nature, in the very act of recoiling with horror from a criminal charge the most degrading, and... ... so intense had been the uniformity of his life and habits, that the least innovation in the arrangement of articles as trifling as a penknife, or a p...

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...s; and that she may, in her present state, look with plea- sure upon every act of virtue to which her in- structions or example have contributed. 74 ... ...in, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encourage- ment, or one smile of favour. Suc... ...which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong pe... ... gained before. He made two speeches in the House for repealing the Stamp- act, which were publickly commended by Mr. Pitt, and have filled the town w... ...o, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of 220 Boswell’s Life of Johnson importance, it lasts ... ...ub- street.’ He said to Sir William Scott, ‘The age is run- ning mad after innovation; all the business of the world is to be done in a new way; men a... ... are to be hanged in a new way; Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation.’ It having been argued that this was an improvement,—’No, Sir, ...

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...stretched out his hand towards the curtains; but checked himself in the very act of undrawing them, turned his back sharply on the bed, and walked to ... ...ige their students to make some show of studying, in Mr. Idle’s time no such innovation as this existed. Young men who aspired to the honourable title... ...le Apprentices – Dickens 61 But, the wise donkey was at that moment in the act of bolting: not with the irresolution of his previous ef forts which... ...al stranger to me. The very flea who surprises me in my sleep may defend his act of assassination on the ground that I, in my turn, am always ready to...

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...ists themselves. -- 16. Shaping the English Language-William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ?pope? orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. -- 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again-Inventors strived from the early 1800s to mechanize Gutenberg’s process—unsuccessfully until Mergenthaler built his...

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...shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17.... ... chimpanzees make. The Wondrous Nature Of Listening It‘s not just the act of speaking that‘s wondrous. As we listen, we easily hallucinate word... ...tting the stage for Gutenberg One truly historic invention—or imported innovation—stands out, however, among the few advances. In his lucid hi... ...had been used for thousands of years without the benefit of those helpful innovations. CHAPTER 9 ―Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters ... ...ce, and  Stimulated a historic quest in the West for more knowledge and innovation that continues to this very day. First Page after CH 10... ... centuries stimulated a historic quest in the West for more knowledge and innovation that continues to this very day. Under Kublai Khan, Chinese civ... ...ution of goods and services. Consider just a few seldom-mentioned print innovations that helped push open the door to industrial capitalism:  ... ... of capitalism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. The very act of printing Bibles intruded capitalistic enterprise into consecrated s... ... consecrated space. When Luther called printing‘s role ―God‘s highest act of Grace,‖ he lent dignity not just to the print business but also to ...

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...all their pow- ers and rights, and vested him with sovereign authority, to act at his discretion for the com- mon good. Matthias immediately opened a ... ...ect a reconciliation with his brother by more peaceable means. By a formal act of abdication he resigned to Matthias, what in- deed he had no chance o... ...is own death. To complete his deg- radation, he was obliged, by a personal act of renunciation, to release his subjects in Bohemia, Silesia, and Lusat... ...with clamour and abuse. An imperial ci- tation was the consequence of this act of vio- lence; and as the exasperated populace even 50 The History of ... ... them had not that enlightened policy, nor that dis- interested courage to act upon the impulse. All men, without distinction, are allured by imme- di... ...sufficient to win the support of the three Ecclesiastical Electors to this innovation; and among the Protestants the vote of Saxony was alone of any i...

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...aking. To stem, or if that be impossible, profitably to divert the current of Innovation, such a V olume as Teufelsdr¨ ockh’s, if cunningly planted dow... ...sion did not call. But such admiration and such wonder, being followed by no act to keep them living, could last only nine days; and, long before our ... ...in continual growth, re genesis and self perfecting vitality. Cast forth thy Act, thy Word, into the ever living, ever working Universe: it is a seed ... ...re abhors a vacuum: how exceedingly false and calumnious! Again, Nothing can act but where it is: with all my heart; only, WHERE is it? Be not the sla... ...leton for medical purposes. How is this; or what make ye of your Nothing can act but where it is? Red has no physical hold of Blue, no clutch of him, ... ... ones, so you have an eye to read it? For Gneschen, eager to learn, the very act of looking thereon was a blessedness that gilded all: his existence w...