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... from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearying ...

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... with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re- quire. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between ... ... with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re- quire. My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided between... ...nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our beco... ... must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeply interested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I had done, t... ... from his great- grandfather s time, and in which his sister had a similar interest; but I may mention it in this place, whether or no. After dinner, ... ...hat afternoon, in con- sequence of default in the payment of the company s rates. To divert his thoughts from this melancholy subject, I informed Mr. ...

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...ry is rather a bad one, and yet he tells it so frankly, that I am somewhat interested in him. Has he been a good soldier except the desertion? About ... ...ght it proper, subject to the approval of the Sen- ate, to concur with the interested commercial powers in an arrangement for the liquidation of the S... ...ve been faithful in defending Ameri- can rights. In protecting commercial interests our consuls have necessarily had to encounter increased labors an... ... civil service $23,253,922.08, for pensions and Indians $4,216,520.79, for interest on public debt $24,729,846.51, for the War Department $599,298,600... ...War is a document of great 34 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven interest. It consists of: 1.The military operations of the year, detailed i... ... inaugurate a general sys- tem of uniform international charges at reduced rates of post- age, and can not fail to produce beneficial results. I refer...

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...and forty to a new way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have aban- doned still buzzing like a swarm of home... ... the very chamber of the statesman. 2 2 2 2 2 In Machiavelli’s outlook the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from... ...s and soldiers were my perpetual drama. I recall an incessant vari- ety of interests. There was the mystery and charm of the complicated buildings one... ...on, or summarising some book he had read. He talked to me of anything that interested him, regardless of my limitations. Then he would begin to note t... ...nd with much hesitation and penny-wise economy inaugurated drainage works. Rates be- came a common topic, a fact of accumulating importance. Several c... ...dings of the local Bench and the local Board, compelled tradesmen who were interested in these affairs to advertise, used the epithet “Bromstedian” as...

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...n; I have lived between here and the hospital, doing good work, enormously interested, prosperous, mildly distinguished. I had been born and brought u... ...her people’s boats, are merely the stage business of the drama. The ruling interests of this place are love—largely illicit—and persistent drinking…. ... ...re- lated—gave us dignity…. Certainly it wasn’t babies.” “All this is very interesting, very interesting, from the sci- entific point of view. A prior... ....” “That I take it is Nature’s device to keep the lovers to- gether in the interest of the more or less unpremeditated offspring.” “A poor device, if ... ...ry men. I guess she is a very jolly companion to be with, amusing, restful—interesting.” “H’m,” said Sir Richmond. “I think that is a fair descrip- ti... ...Nowadays we took a proper care of the young, we had no need for high birth rates, quite a small proportion of women with a gift in that direction coul...

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...PRINGFIELD, JULY 20, 1858. JNO. MA THERS, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—Y our kind and interesting letter of the 19th was duly received. Y our suggestions as to p... ...f little im- portance, it overshadows every other question in which we are interested. It has divided the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, and has... ... late contest both as the best means to break down and to uphold the slave interest. No ingenuity can keep these antagonistic elements in harmony long... ...of them and Boston the head- quarters of the other, it is both curious and interesting that those supposed to descend politically from the party oppos... ...fferson, and their opponents the anti-Jefferson, party, it will be equally interesting to note how completely the two have changed hands as to the pri... ...ing out of it? Oh, they are not fit to sit in Congress and decide upon the rates of postage, or questions of ad valorem or specific duties on foreign ...

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...hton. There had once been a belief abroad that he was ruined, but they who interest themselves in such matters had found out,—or at any rate believed ... ... him. They were very intimate; and on one subject, in which Lopez was much interested, their confidence had been very close. But the younger and weake... ...be said of her in these pages, and it is hoped that the reader may take an interest in her fate. But here, in speak- ing of the brother, it may suffic... ...rouble to occupy their minds with matters which have, or should have, real interest. Pope knew all about when he said that “The proper study of mankin... ... therefore the whole thing is debasing. A man ceases to care for the great interests of the world, or even to be aware of their existence, when his wh... ...ore ten. We are going to lend money to the parishes on the security of the rates for draining bits of common land. Then we shall sell the land and end... ...Then we shall sell the land and endow the unions, so as to lessen the poor rates, and increase the cereal products of the country. We think we can bri...

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...t at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and found... ... Monarch at Heidelberg WE STOPPED AT A HOTEL by the railway-station. Next morning, as we sat in my room waiting for breakfast to come up, we got a goo... ...xactly right and lay precisely in the middle of the black carpet. In New York these performances would have gathered a mighty crowd of curious and int... ...t belong to no church, perhaps; but otherwise he is just as much human as you be. And I’ll tell you for why. A jay’s gifts, and instincts, and feeling... ...the chains once more and enter the slavery of official or professional life. CHAPTER V: At the Students’ Dueling- Ground Dueling by Wholesale One day ... ...start a portrait-gallery of my ancestors with. I paid a dollar and a half for the duke and a half for the princess. One can lay in ancestors at even c...

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... the story far outnumber the hits. It is the main thesis which is still of interest now; the thesis that because of the develop- ment of scientific kn... ...ster for mankind and perhaps to destroy our race altogether. The remaining interest of this book now is the sustained validity of this thesis and the ... ...e another in an order that had a kind of logical necessity. It is the most interesting and instructive chapter in the his- tory of the human intellige... ...ing to pieces. But perhaps all elements are doing that at less perceptible rates. Uranium certainly is; thorium—the stuff of this incandescent gas man... ...and winding thoroughfare, and was in the act of making it com- modious and interesting, according to the remarkable ideals of Neo-Georgian aestheticis... ...erating body of the old. The idea of a greater subordination of individual interests and established institutions to the collective future, is trace- ...

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...e children Daffy, Mrs. Mann?’ inquired Bumble,following with this eyes the interesting process of mixing. ‘Ah, bless ‘em, that I do, dear as it is,’ r... ...e white waist coated gentleman was right or not, I should perhaps mar the interest of this narrative (supposing it to possess any at all), if I ventu... ...istrate: laying aside the paper, and leaning forward with an expression of interest. ‘Now, boy, tell us what’s the matter: don’t be afraid.’ Oliver fe... ...le go off the quickest. The people who have been better off, and have paid rates for many years, are the first to sink when they come into the house; ... ...ndertaker; why, you know, Mr. Bumble, I pay a good deal towards the poor’s rates.’ 27 OLIVER TWIST ‘Hem!’ said Mr. Bumble. ‘Well?’ ‘Well,’ replied th... ... even the meanest could point the finger of scorn, he retorted on him with interest. This affords charming food for contemplation. It shows us what a ... ...f melancholy in his face, my dear,’ resumed Mr. Sowerberry, ‘which is very interesting. He would make a delightful mute, my love.’ Mrs. Sowerberry loo...

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...case. ‘I think you will find him a staunch cham- pion even against his own interests.’ Perceptions came across Nuttie. ‘Oh, then I am a sort of lost h... ... her mother, when they rose to the routine of daily life with the ordinary interests of the day before them. There was a latent unwillingness in Mrs. ... ...im as a nephew. He was a good-hearted, steady young fellow, with his whole interest in ecclesiastical details, wearing a tie in accordance with ‘the c... ...ather tis, but enclosing some fine old coffin-lids with floriated crosses, interesting to those who cared for architecture and church history, as Mr. ... ...eelings might be less narrow, and stand on a surer foundation than present interest, a slightly aggressive feeling of contempt for all the other town ... ...e was, it would be so much prettier; and then he always advertises for cu- rates of moderate views, and they are so stupid. You never saw such a stick... ... at any rate, if the blacks do beat me, we could move. Think, no rent, nor rates, nor taxes— that is an inducement to swallow—no—to contend with, any ...

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...ed dispersed, and were not easy to assemble upon any affair for the common interest. Nay, differences and even wars often occurred be- tween them, whi... ... where people would be so solicitous for their dogs and horses as to exert interest and pay money to procure fine breeding, and yet kept their wives s... ...s thinking it neither for the good of the child itself, nor for the public interest, that it should be brought up, if it did not, from the very outset... ...out, and looked upon himself not so much born to serve his own ends as the interest of his country. Therefore, if they were commanded nothing else, th... ...the com- monwealth, and with power over the lives, franchises, and highest interests of all his countrymen? The manner of their election was as follow... ...lus imposed upon them. From thence sailing into Egypt, and, pressed by pi- rates, he lost most of his vessels; but he himself narrowly escaping, made ...

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... boy, a brilliant boy, but, I begin to see, just a little unbalanced.” The interest of him, the absurdity of him, the story of him, is that. Most of u... ... he read was more and more distressed that an accumulation so 7 H G Wells interesting should be so entirely unshaped for publication. “But this will ... ...sist upon is that I did not feel afraid. I was simply enormously, terribly interested…. “There came a tremendous jolt and a lunge, and we were both ti... ...s very urgently, ‘Don’t,’ to the man who looks up into the sky. It is very interesting to note how at a place like Eastchurch or Brooklands the necess... ...each other and vanished abruptly. He forgot his sense of insecurity in the interest of these active little silhouettes. And he noted how much bigger a... ...aper by nine votes, and there had been a new cut in the Atlantic passenger rates. He was expected to be interested and excited by these things. Presen... ... incident at the time, but afterwards she explained things to Benham. “Cu- rates,” she said, “are such pent-up men. One ought, I sup- pose, to remembe...

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...g to her seat, broke the seal with the languid gesture of the reader whose interests are all in- closed in the circle of one cherished presence. Her n... ...chair near the fire. “Do you want to hear the story? It’s not particularly interesting—just a squabble over interests in the Blue Star.” “But who is t... ...ep- recated the American wife’s detachment from her husband’s professional interests, but in practice she had always found it difficult to fix her att... ... her attention on Boyne’s report of the transac- tions in which his varied interests involved him. Besides, she had felt from the first that, in a com... ...pained. “I’m only just beginning,” she confessed. 63 Wharton “And does he interest you?” Mrs. Plinth inquired. “He amuses me.” “Amusement,” said Mrs.... ...had felt, and they had reached the same conclusion. People grew at varying rates, and the yoke that was an easy fit for the one might soon become gall...

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...u 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 periodically puts on madn... ...itan enough) have raised the Art in dignity on a level with History; to an interest surpass- ing the narrative of public deeds as vividly as man’s hea... ...ons in packets. Beyond it, apparently the world was void of any particular interest. Sir Lukin, whose bound- ary would have shown a narrower limitatio... ...to court the potent patron Lord Dannisburgh could be; and his wife had his interests at heart, the fork-tongued world said. The cry revived. Stories o... ...sal of romances. ‘Yes, our lives require compression, like romances, to be interesting, and we object to the process,’ she said. ‘Real hap- piness is ... ...rather than that exposure. Letters of a man of his age to a young woman he rates too highly! The world reads them. Do you hear it saying it could have... ...culable that they will win,’ said Redworth; and he was led to discourse of rates and duties and prohibitive tariffs to a woman surprisingly athirst, c...

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...a drug. He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adven- tures of each new day. He ... ...iligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive. After a rather thor... ...es he had to drip ether into the cocks of the cylinders, which was so very interesting that at lunch he would chronicle it drop by drop, and orally ca... ...vant, and in Ted’s intimacy with Eunice Littlefield. At sixteen Eunice was interested in no statistics save those regarding the ages and salaries of m... ... no way city- dwellers. They were rustics, living in a constricted valley, interested only in one another and in The Building. Their Main Street was t... ... knew the means of fire-proofing buildings and the relation of insur- ance-rates to fire-proofing, but he did not know how many firemen there were in ...

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...his foster-brother, Laurence Callaghan. Nobody was startled when Berwick’s interest pro- 13 Yo n g e cured for the dull boy of ten years old the Abbe... ...the poor boy. But I am wearying Madame.’ ‘Oh no, I listen with the deepest interest.’ ‘Finally, when the King was expected in Scotland, and men’s mind... ... she was, too much bound by the re- quirements of sympathy to manifest her interest, otherwise than by moving near enough to listen. That evening the ... ...when he ran away from school, and nearly knew by heart. Estelle was deeply interested in it, and varied in opinion whether she should prefer Calypso’s... ...y, bewildering city of Lyon, already the centre of silk industry; but more interesting to the travel- lers as the shrine of the martyrdoms. All went t... ...chi! Franchi!’ At that magic word, which was evidently understood, the pi- rates only held the two youths tightly, vituperating them no doubt in bad A...

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...be called upon to make a vigorous effort in this instance; and that if our interesting friend the Countess of Dombey—I beg your pardon; Mrs Dombey—sho... ...pursued Mrs Chick, still retaining her hand, ‘knowing how much I have been interested in the anticipa- tion of the event of to-day, and how trembly an... ...no business to expect they should be otherwise—but to which we attach some interest. ‘Miss T ox is very good,’ said Mr Dombey. ‘ And I do say, and wil... ...Mrs Chick, benignantly. ‘Still,’ resumed Miss T ox, ‘she naturally must be interested in her young charge, and must consider it a privilege to see a l... ...and she felt, as the child did, that there was something of confidence and interest be- tween them from that moment. Notwithstanding Mr Toodle’s great... ...him too, an eld- erly gentleman in a Welsh wig had paid house-rent, taxes, rates, and dues, for more years than many a full-grown mid- shipman of fles... ...circulating- medium, currency , depreciation of currency’, paper, bullion, rates of exchange, value of precious metals in the market, and so forth; bu...

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... He entered on a conversation with the Countess, telling her of the King’s interest and de- light in his beautiful freshly-founded Colleges at Eton an... ... if we make ourselves too friendly with the meine, but she never frets nor rates us, and does not heed so long as we do not demean ourselves unlike ou... ...han her wont. She saw him shudder a little, but his lame arm and wan looks interested her kind heart. “I fear me you are still feeling your wound, sir... ...ell’s unwilling husband, as such, though in a professional capacity he was interested in his treat- ment of his patient, and was likewise touched by t... ...nded Master Groot a sum which might bribe one or both; while it was to the interest of the captain to make off without being overhauled by either. CHA... ... to look to the sympathy and under- standing of his English and Burgundian interests alike, which he found in the maiden who sat by the hearth. From t...

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...us wildness. He did not wish to be a prig. He had taken a far more genuine interest in the artistry of ritual. Through all the time of his incumbency ... ...e Em- ber week, and he wore a red cassock and had a distracting and rather interesting day welcoming his ordination candi- dates. They had a good effe... ...d the puzzle of German psychology ousted for a time all other intellectual interests; like every one else the bishop swam deep in Nietzsche, Bernhardi... ...ave danger in war, and it was with an understandable desire to forward the interests of his realm that the King decided to set his statesmen an exampl... .... “Are you reading anything now, Mrs. Garstein Fellows?” he asked. “I’m an interested party.” She was standing at the side of the fireplace. She bit h... ...-table. It had been given him, together with an episcopal ring, by his cu- rates and choristers at the Church of the Holy Innocents, when he became bi...

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...t go to the dogs. We must preserve our great names. I speak against my own interest.” He lifted Adela’s chin on his forefinger. She kept her eyes demu... ...a view of Mr. Barrett. His features wore an admirable expression of simple interest. “Well, sir; sup- pose you dine with us to-day?” Mr. Pole bounced ... ...coat, clearly out of its element, must contain a story: that story must be interesting; until its secret is di- vulged, the subtle essence of it sprea... ...puta- tion I get. Nothing of this in London! you make your money, pay your rates, and nobody bothers a man.” “You should have done as our darling here... ...oni getting you out of it, and then be left there alone? It’s against your interests, too. Never mind how. Leave that to a busi- ness man. If your bro... ...e sentence: “We hope you will not fancy that we have any peculiar personal interest in view;” and replied to them that he was sure they had none: that...