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...l a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a...

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... O EQUIP SO SMALL A BOOK with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it ... ...a train, is a difficult matter for the Arethusa. He is somehow or other a marked man for the official eye. Wherever he journeys, there are the officer... ...no mark of it. I am as strange as a Jack Indian to their official spectacles. I might come from any part of the globe, it seems, except from where I d... ...o allegorical prints of Music and Paint- ing, and a copy of the law against public drunkenness. On one side, there was a bit of a bar, with some half-... ...r in our coffee. Y ou see what it is to be a gentleman – I beg your pardon, what it is to be a pedlar. It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar ... ...greater delicacy, or that my mistakes in French belonged to a different order; but it was plain that these distinctions would be thrown away upon the ...

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...lly indus trious—painstaking, a workman to execute with persever ance and labour—but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in t... ...abode. She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes. Among these ther... ...rvent longing to penetrate the secrets of na ture. In spite of the intense labour and wonderful discover ies of modern philosophers, I always came ... ...ch they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light. The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fa... ...ashamed) any of the enthusiasm which stimulated Frankenstein 30 my intended labours. I requested his advice concerning the books I ought to procure. ... ...eft him incredulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied en treaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of W...

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...learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire. And this difficulty attaches itself more clo... ...is household, and spin the flax he received as the price of his scholastic labours. So satisfactory was her performance of this task, and so modest he... ...ontents of a vase, in order to let them settle at last. We are perpetually labouring to destroy our 14 The Iliad of Homer delights, our composure, ou... ...te: Vol. ii. p. 214 sqq.] On the whole, I am inclined to believe, that the labours of Peisistratus were wholly of an editorial character, although, I ... ..., I must confess, that I can lay down nothing respecting the extent of his labours. At the same time, so far from believing that the composition or pr... ...reece then know, my purpose I retain: 194 The Iliad of Homer Nor with new treaties vex my peace in vain. Who dares think one thing, and another tell,... ..., and tries to persuade his son to re-enter the town. Hecuba joins her en- treaties, but in vain. Hector consults within himself what measures to take... ...ichest mine; And last a large well-labour’d bowl had place, (The pledge of treaties once with friendly Thrace:) Seem’d all too mean the stores he coul...

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...ey, to amplify the scope of this most precious invention; and no device of labour cred- its* or free demand of commodities from a central store** or t... ...akes available for human ser- vice, to the general needs of mankind. Human labour and existing material are dealt with in relation to that. Trading an... ...here will be the study of economic problems as problems in the division of labour, having regard to a social organisation whose main ends are reproduc... ...ocomotion and be the common carrier of the planet, con- vey and distribute labour, control, let, or administer all natural productions, pay for and se... ...ar exertion of toiling men. They ran their world by hand. Continual bodily labour was a condition of social ex- istence. It is only with the coming of... ... to be assimilated and made citizens; without, there is the possibility of treaties. Why, for example, should Britain and France, or either and the Un... ...ef sustained effort of will, is too much for the contem- porary mind. Such treaties, such sympathetic international movements, are but dream stuff yet...

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...ied against Germany were busily spinning a disastrous web of greedy secret treaties, were answering aggression by schemes 4 In the Fourth Year of agg... ...se opening days. The Russian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed to all the imperialist plans of the Allies; in the end ... ...to end war,” and we still did not know clearly how. We thought in terms of treaties and alliances. It is largely the detachment and practi- cal genius... ...oint of view, on the other. An illuminating dis- cussion, advocating peace treaties rather than a league, is Sir Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries ... ...en- tral Africa? Suppose Germany makes sudden proposals af- fecting native labour that win over the Portuguese and the Boers? There are a score of suc... ...ho happen to be at the head of this or that nation for the time being. Our Labour people will not stand this sort of thing and they will not be bound ... ... of the most significant features of the time is the evident desire of the Labour movement in every European country to take part in a collateral conf... ...ement in every European country to take part in a collateral conference of Labour that shall meet when 17 H.G. Wells and where the Peace Congress doe... ...ent on its proceedings. For a year now the demand of the masses for such a Labour conference has been growing. It marks a distrust of officialdom whos...

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... tremendous, that its bursting into full violence was almost a relief. The labouring of the ship in the troubled sea on this American Notes – Dickens... ...ved; but not so was the process; for many weeks of apparently unprofitable labour were passed before it was effected. ‘When it was said above that a s... ...nd wonder to see how rapidly, correctly, and eagerly, she goes on with her labours. Her teacher gives her a new object, for instance, a pen cil, firs... ...e, and cruelty have manufac tured since the creation of the world. In the labour department, every patient is as freely trusted with the tools of his... ...ble work for the in mates; whereas, with us, the prejudice against prison labour is naturally very strong, and almost insurmount able, when honest m... ...sities of the town. I was very much interested in looking over a number of treaties made from time to time with the poor Indi ans, signed by the diff... ... the credulous Big Turtle, or trusting Little Hatchet, had put his mark to treaties which were falsely read to him; and had signed away, he knew not w...

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...ld be happy to take her on any terms; while she, on her part, would rather labour with her own hands than be divided from the man she loved, whose hap... ...anaging housewife, with hands and head continually occupied with household labours and household economy. The very willingness with which she performe... ...tive that I could hardly get on with her at all. However, by dint of great labour and patience, I managed to get something done in the course of the m... ... pronounce some particular word in her les- son; and now I regret the lost labour I have had in striving to conquer her obstinacy. If I had passed it ... ...ssing than that wherein, however you may long for success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by t... ...nd they would do all they could to make her happy. But no arguments or en- treaties could prevail: my mother was determined not to go. Not that she qu...

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...ct siege of mendicancy, and the lazy to be actu- ally condemned to a day’s labour, may be imagined without words. It is more important to note the con... ...have seen all manner of ships, from men-of-war and deep-sea packets to the labour vessels of the German firm and the cockboat island schooner; and if ... ... he is in the Eleele Sa, the “Forbidden Soil,” or Neutral Territory of the treaties; that the magistrate whom he has just seen trying native criminals... ...al wage of a few dollars in the month. I am now on a burning question: the labour traffic; and I shall ask permission in this place only to touch it w... ...y criticisms, which they consider hypocritical, from men who would import “labour” for themselves, if they could afford it, and would probably maltrea... ...ip is very busy on some of the plantations; it is said that punitive extra-labour, by which the thrall’s term of ser- vice is extended, has grown to b... ...undred warriors at Mulinuu, as Becker himself owns, they had infringed the treaties, and Sewall entered protest twice. There were two ways of escap- i...

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...AN IS FREE from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to play the fool: “Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixer... ... its utmost power; wherefore it is that idle- ness is to me a very painful labour, and very prejudicial to my health. Most men’s minds require foreign... ...ritings: “Omnes clari et nobilitati labores fiunt tolerabiles;” [“All labours that are illustrious and famous become sup- portable.”—Cicero, Tusc... ...his sport, or the porter or cobbler, toiled and tired out as they are with labour and hunger? “Num tu, qux tenuit dives Achaemenes, ... ...l with tyranny itself. I should rather teach him this verse of the ancient labourer: [“That whoever will have a good crop must sow with his hand, and ... ...rance does not offend me, but the foppery of it. I have broken off several treaties that would have been of advantage to me, by reason of the impertin... ...is kingdom assembled with great ceremony, and at the public expense, about treaties and agreements, of which the true decision, in the meantime, absol...

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...omplain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the en treaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my... ...de of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition. On the 5th o... ...three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. We therefore trusted ourselves to the m... ... he, “as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to foreigners, we labour under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger ... ...cted by coming very Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 44 near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which ... ...have in every town public nurseries, where all parents, except cottagers and labourers, are obliged to send their infants of both sexes to be reared a...

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...g of burthened men, and the thud of the sacks. They all took turns at that labour except Mr. Bensington, who was manifestly unfit. He took post in the... ... task excep- tionally easy—astonishingly easy. Except that it was a longer labour, it was no graver affair than any common wasps’ nest might have been... ...ide, and after thirty minutes or so of rest, Cossar roused them all to the labours that were still to do. “Obviously,” as he said, they had to “wipe t... ...atan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. At any rate among the labouring classes. We bring up our under- housemaids on that principle, alw... ...difficult. They thought of many things, and meanwhile they broke him in to labour a bit by using him instead of a horse messenger to carry telegrams a... ... machinery—lives in its. I tell you it is hopeless— hopeless. As well make treaties with a tiger! They want things monstrous—we want them sane and swe...

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...e traveller, “I am sorry to see a gentle- man of your learning and gravity labouring under such strange blindness and delusion. Will you place the bri... ...il, in early youth, natu- rally caught some portion of his enthusiasm, and laboured for a time to make himself master of the technical process of astr... ...shed, or her wool was expended. She took the spindle, now charged with her labours, and, undoing the thread gradu- ally, measured it, by casting it ov... ...dle’s rod, caused the lame to walk, the blind to see, and the pal- sied to labour. He detected poachers, black-fishers, orchard- breakers, and pigeon-... ... character, and the indomitable pride with which they despised all regular labour, commanded a certain awe, which was not diminished by the consider- ... ...ht murder, with- out weapons or the slightest means of defence, except en- treaties, which would be only their sport, and cries for help, which could ...

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... tar- iffs, like the strategic occupation of neutral countries or se- cret treaties; they are forms of the conflict between nations to oust and prevai... ...of rapid economic recu- peration and social reconstruction. The commercial treaties, the arrangements for future associated action, made by the great ... ...ial, ill-conceived, and unnec- essary operation … Each will be thinking of Labour, wounded and perplexed, returning to the disorganised or nationalise... ...tery, living upon the produce of its own farming and supplying all its own labour, would be least embarrassed amidst the general perplexity. For it wo... ... Great Britain, and has been completely checked in France. The attempts of labour to readjust wages have been partially successful in spite of the elo... ...of prosperous people was perpetually increasing; it did not “pay” to build labourers’ cottages, and the more expen- sive sort of automobile had driven... ...ourse, a continu- ing rise in prices, a continuing writing off of debt. If labour has any real grasp of its true interests it will not resent this. It... ...aw is a thin wash that we paint over the firm outlines of reality, and the treaties and agreements of emperors and kings and statesmen have little of ...

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...d foreign sentimentalists who pretend so amusingly to be socialists in the Labour Leader, whose conception of foreign policy is to give Ger- many now ... ...e mountain chains while Italy has the steep side, and the foresight of old treaties has given her deep bites into what is naturally Italian terri- tor... ...an in any other part of Europe. In peace time, she has constantly exported labour; the Italian worker has been a seasonal emigrant to America, north a... ...e front line. Very clean young men in white overalls do it as if it were a labour of love. And the Germans in the trenches, the German gunners, know i... ...on works, the diminution of their efficiency by the use of aged and female labour, is the straight course to failure in this war. In X, in the forges ... ...those devoted brains, how they are get- ting new views about the duties of labour, religion, morality, monarchy , and any other notions that the gentl...

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...hich he laid on thee, he always was wont to say, he spared the hang- man a labour.” “One would have thought he left him little to do then,” said the c... ... Lambourne, entered the apartment. His toilet had apparently cost him some labour, for his clothes, which differed from those he wore on his journey, ... ...o be leagued with one who knows not even so much of Scripture, as that the labourer is worthy of his hire. I must, as usual, take all the trouble and ... ...with these cheeks flushed with haste, and all these brown curls, which you laboured to bring to order, straying as wild as the tendrils of an unpruned... ...ish for that day more fondly than I. With what rapture could I retire from labours of state, and cares and toils of ambition, to spend my life in dign... ... in London was necessary; and it was somewhat prolonged by the earnest en- treaties of Wayland Smith, who desired permission to take a walk through th... ...he skill she was mistress of, she trusted chiefly to the warmth of the en- treaties with which she urged them. Sometimes she even ven- tured to mingle...

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... of your fire. Impelled by the combina- tion of Misfortunes under which I laboured, namely Fear, Cold and Hunger I hesitated not to ask admittance wh... ...tly affected when we were first informed of the Event.The affectionate En- treaties of Augustus and Sophia that we would for ever consider their House... ...okes me more than anything else is that the Match is broke off, and all my Labour thrown away. Imagine 38 Love and Friendship how great the Dissapoi... ...reat the Dissapointment must be to me, when you consider that after having laboured both by Night and by Day, in order to get the Wedding dinner ready... ...oment is now arrived when I am to reap the rewards of all my Anxieties and Labours towards you during your Education. You are this Evening to enter a...

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... such days as these? There was, indeed, no firing. There was a belief that treaties were going on, but leisure only left the besiegers more free to go... ...SESSION STEAD IN POSSESSION STEAD IN POSSESSION “At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed.” ... .... The vexation was that all the manor was called to give their three days’ labour to Lady Elmwood’s crops just as all their 48 Under the Storm own we... ... land nothing. There was fresh grumbling too that the food sent out to the labourers in the field was not as it used to be, good beef and mutton, but ... ...s soon as he had swallowed his porridge, had to go off to finish his day’s labour for the lady of the manor, warning his sisters that they had better ... ... valley. He had not gone far, however, before he met a party of his fellow labourers running home. Their trouble had been saved them. The Roundhead so...

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...ry Memoirs from 1672 to 1713.” “Before the appearance in the world of that labour of Cervantes,” he said, “it was next to an impossibility for a man t... ...ene of his chival- ries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally vente... .... But if perchance thou hast a mind To win of idiots approbation, Lost labour will be thy reward, Though they’ll pretend appreciation. They say... ...udent; oft the random jest Recoils upon the jester’s head. Thy constant labour let it be To earn thyself an honest name, For fooleries preserved... ... beginning of books. For I can tell thee, though composing it cost me some labour, I found none greater than the making of this Preface thou art now r... ...him, and that he need not trouble himself with any further warnings or en- treaties, as they would be fruitless, and bade him make haste. During the d... ...d bewildered and not knowing what to say or do; but so urgent were the en- treaties of Basilio’s friends, imploring him to allow Quiteria to give him ...

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...earned his living with the first work that came to hand—as sailor, as dock labourer on the quays of Genoa, once as a hand on a farm in the hills above... ...a of qualifying for a mining engineer. But this scien- tific aspect of his labours remained vague and im- perfect in his mind. Mines had acquired for ... ...s. Gould, accompanying her husband all over the province in the search for labour, had seen the land with a deeper glance than a trueborn Costaguanera... ...es and churches left by the conquerors proclaimed the disregard of hu- man labour, the tribute-labour of vanished nations. The power of king and churc... ... has a quay-side, a long range of warehouses, and quite serious, organized labour troubles of its own. Nobody had ever heard of labour troubles then. ... ...o attempt what no doubt his soul, wrapped up in the sanctity of diplomatic treaties and solemn declarations, must have abhorred. I had ex- claimed ver... ...nded suspicious. When admonished sternly not to trifle he repeated his en- treaties and protestations of loyalty and innocence again in German, obstin...

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...an the vast authentic doomsday book of nature, as is elsewhere hinted, our labours have sufficient title to the name of history. Certainly they deserv... ...t, with which, in times of peace, the chambermaid was wont to demolish the labours of the industrious spider. In vulgar phrase, she had taken up the b... ...” He then proposed a libation as a necessary part of the ceremony at all treaties of this kind. Perhaps the reader may here conclude that he was wel... ... forward after a light refreshment, contrary to the desire and earnest en treaties of her maid, and to the no less vehement remon strances of Mrs. W... ...the uneasiness with which the big muse bears about her burden, the painful labour with which she produces it, and lastly, the care, the fondness, with... ...de from the commonwealth of literature any of those noble critics to whose labours the learned world are so greatly indebted. Such were Aristotle, Hor... ...ideration, restrained her from asking the question. The strange lady now laboured under a difficulty which appears almost below the dignity of histo...