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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...rt, skirt suits that have the office boys permanently in a state of slave labour. Pity she hasn’t the brains to go with the body beautiful. I still ... ...I’m going to regret this. The telephone rang hot all morning, friends and relations from the mainland conveying their condolences. The first telepho... ...Whoopee, lucky me. I’m smothered in lipstick and smell of after-shave, as relations and people I don’t even know have swooped on me like vultures. I... ...ssment. Michael and his sister are so very different, it reminds me of my relationship with my family; you just can’t believe they are related. 58 ... ... cells.” Ali’s right; I’m not getting any younger. Hold on a moment, this relationship has only just begun. It’s not about sex; it’s about two people... ...nd he’s definitely nothing like my ex-husband. I really want to see this relationship blossom, not turn into a weed, shrivel and die like my last r... ... if I can’t find anyone here who is, I’ll just buy someone in and save on labour costs. The conversation was boring, but the hot shower soothed the b...

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The Bedfordrow Conspiracy

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...r residence: he was an attorney, and proud of it; he was the grandson of a labourer, and thanked God for it; he had made his fortune by his own honest... ...abourer, and thanked God for it; he had made his fortune by his own honest labour, and why should he be ashamed of it? And now, having explained at fu... ...ing won, thank Heaven, an honourable fortune and position by my own honest labour; and standing here as I do—” * * * * * Here Mr. Scully (it may be sa... ...ly charmed with her, and warmly espoused her cause against her overbearing relations. 44 The Bedord-Row Conspiracy At his suggestion she wrote back t...

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Within the Tides Four Stories

By: Joseph Conrad

...om at the Antipodes, but everybody had heard of him -women, children, dock labourers, cabmen. The only person (besides himself) who had read 13 Moors... ... write home now and then. Not to any of his friends though. He had no near relations. The professor had been his guardian. No, the poor devil wrote no... ...t exactly,” muttered Renouard. “A trip has to be made every year to engage labour.” “I see … And he … How vexingly elusive the poor fellow has become!... ...e who had tried to murder him, and so the parson (he worked among the dock labourers) once spoke to me about it. That skunk of a fellow finding himsel... ...st sacred feelings. “Davidson was aware of some constraint in his domestic relations. But at the best of times she was not demonstrative; and perhaps ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...e results of his actions and, thus, to annul them altogether. If the fruits of our labour are at the mercy of others – we can never guarantee their... ...the exact nature and extent of the rot - but they witnessed approvingly the public relations antics, insider trading, stock option resetting , unwi... ...chaotic phenomenon - will translate to profit - hitherto the outcome of painstaking labour. Privatization itself was such a leap of faith. State own... ...nkenscientist, in due course, science will even be able to demonstrate a monovalent relationship between a pattern of brain activity in situ and the... ...l communication between humans would have ceased to exist. It would appear that the relationship between this universal language and the idiosyncrat... ...were handled on a "listing" basis ("flat file"), were serial, and had no intrinsic relationship to one another. Early databases constituted a sort ... ...as Poland and Macedonia attest to this continuity of feudal practices. Both manual labour and trade were derided in the Ancient World. This derisio... ...rricidal off-spring. The city liberated its citizens from the bondage of the feudal labour contract. And it acted as the supreme guarantor of the ri... ...sensus, belonging, social structures, procedures, forms, undertakings involving the labour or other input of human masses. Future versus Past Orien...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...e results of his actions and, thus, to annul them altogether. If the fruits of our labour are at the mercy of others – we can never guarantee their... ...the exact nature and extent of the rot - but they witnessed approvingly the public relations antics, insider trading, stock option resetting , unwi... ...chaotic phenomenon - will translate to profit - hitherto the outcome of painstaking labour. Privatization itself was such a leap of faith. State own... ...nkenscientist, in due course, science will even be able to demonstrate a monovalent relationship between a pattern of brain activity in situ and the... ...l communication between humans would have ceased to exist. It would appear that the relationship between this universal language and the idiosyncrat... ...were handled on a "listing" basis ("flat file"), were serial, and had no intrinsic relationship to one another. Early databases constituted a sort ... ...as Poland and Macedonia attest to this continuity of feudal practices. Both manual labour and trade were derided in the Ancient World. This derisio... ...rricidal off-spring. The city liberated its citizens from the bondage of the feudal labour contract. And it acted as the supreme guarantor of the ri... ...sensus, belonging, social structures, procedures, forms, undertakings involving the labour or other input of human masses. Future versus Past Orien...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... NBER working paper titled "Identifying inflation's grease and sand effects in the labour market", employers - unable to predict tomorrow's wages -... ...part of economic growth cannot be explained by increased utilisation of capital and labour. This part of growth, commonly labelled "multi-factor pr... ...gy and the second revolves around the role of technological progress in re-defining relationships between stakeholders. Both issues are related to ... ...mous centrifugal shift is underway. Power percolates back to the people. Thus, the relationships between user and supplier, customer and company, s... ...f the increase in the share price and the resulting capital gain. But whatever the relationship, there is no doubt that earnings are a good proxy t... ...eigh the physical or monetary kinds. This led to an ongoing revolution in economic relations. Ironically, dehumanizing totalitarian regimes, such a... ...egiances, head hunting, remote collaboration, contract and agency work, and similar labour market trends. Intellectual property is likely to become ... ...inning of the 20 th century than it is now. Capital flowed more freely and so did labour. Foreign Direct Investment was bigger. The more efficient... ...ental to the successful and happy exchange of goods and services. Also Read The Labour Divide - I. Employment and Unemployment The Labour Divide ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ed as a medium for cross promotion, supply chain management, and customer relations management. It offers only some minor synergies with non-cyberspa... ... of shifting allegiances, head hunting, remote collaboration, and similar labour market trends. But distributors, publishers, and record companie... ...tioned to provide these rating services reliably. Content brokers are relationship managers. Consider distributors: they provide instant access ... ...and reduce their overhead by outsourcing the functions of distribution and relationships management. The existence of central "relationship ledgers" ... ...Britannica. There is no brand as venerable and as veteran as this mammoth labour of knowledge and ideas established in 1768. There is no better valu... .... Rights may have to be re-assigned, revenues re-distributed, contractual relationships re-thought. Moreover, e-books have hitherto been to print boo... ...e of shifting allegiances, head hunting, remote collaboration and similar labour market trends. Market Fragmentation In a fragmented market with a... ... Britannica. There is no brand as venerable and as veteran as this mammoth labour of knowledge and ideas established in 1768. It numbered the likes o... ...head hunting, remote collaboration, contract and agency work, and similar labour market trends. Intellectual property is likely to become as atomize...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

........... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DIST... ... DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ....................................................................... ...... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ....................................................................... ......................................... 18 CHAPTER III THAT THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IS LIMITED BY THE EXTENT OF THE MARKET ................................ ...APTER V OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY ............................................. ...r. In the meantime he must, in many cases, be maintained by his parents or relations, and, in almost all cases, must be clothed by them. Some money, t... ...ement in the places of their nativity, the habitation of their parents and relations. No independent workman, it is evident, whether labourer or artif... ...nce which can arise from it. The inter- est of a nation, in its commercial relations to foreign nations, is, like that of a merchant with regard to th... ...veries. The second is the invention of money, which binds together all the relations between civilized societies. The third is the economical table, t...

...THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .........................................................

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...shop had been most success- fully veiled, and he knew not of Pluto’s close relationship to his lovely spouse. The marriages had happened in this way. ... ...he is a gentleman at once!’ they said, like those who see the end of their labours. Strike basely pretended to second them. It would have been delight... ...ng him when he pleased with a familiar ‘Ah, brother!’ and prating of their relationship everywhere. Strike had been a fool: in revenge for it he laid ... ...n do,’ continued: ‘For over here, in England, we are almost friendless. My relations—such as are left of them—are not in high place.’ She turned to Mr... ...ok sanctuary under her apron. Mrs. Mel glanced at the pair, continuing her labour. ‘Oh, aunt, aunt!’ cried Mrs. Fiske, ‘why didn’t you put it off for ... ... civility, and to tell him partly the reason why. On hearing the potential relations in which they stood to- ward the estate of his father, Evan hasti... ...titude, copied accurately from the workmen of the estab- lishment at their labour with needle and thread. Growing cognizant of the infamy of his postu... ...r late behaviour toward her dead parent. The Countess saw through her, and laboured to be friendly with her, while she rendered her disagreeable in th... ...nd that it was easy to tell at a glance that the complaint the young woman laboured under was one common to the daughters of Eve. He added that, shoul...

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The Saga of Grettir the Strong Author Unknown

By: Anonymous

...f King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father’s relations were mostly in Rogaland and Hordland. He was a great viking and... ...e would not come to Iceland. Onund said he wanted first to visit some of his relations and friends in the South. “Then,” said Thrand, “we must part. I... ...E THEREFOR ONUND WENT TO R OGALAND IN THE S OUTH and visited many of his relations and friends. He lived there in concealment with a man named Kol... ...d Asmund cared no more for Norway. Thorsteinn was taken over by his mother’s relations along with his property, while Asmund went on voyages and becam... ...e and said he would not grow up very prudent. The affair did not improve the relations between Asmund and his son. Soon after this Asmund spoke to Gre... ...aid: “I have something better to do than to keep my men guarding him. I have labour enough with my lands, and he shall not come in my way.” The Saga o... ...ding of the bridge had cost Thorsteinn, who was a great worker in iron, much labour. Grettir was a first rate hand at forging the iron, but was not of... ....” The Saga of Grettir the Strong 160 “You may venture it,” she said, “much labour will you have before Grettir is laid in the earth; often your lot ... ...cended the ladder and found there the woman’s log. He thought himself lucky, laboured home with it to the hut and threw it down with a great noise whi...

...f Gudbjorg, the mother of Gudbrand Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father?s relations were mostly in Rogaland and Hordland. He was a great viking and used to harry away in the West over the sea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Blaeing from Sotanes, and by Orm the Weal...

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Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume III : The Third Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

... o have children, to pro- duce an imitation, of nature, which is always in labour. Come to me, then, woman!—come to me, Eva! With this the author bega... ...e was a great silversmith. But now in his prime, by his great honesty, his labours, and so forth, he became a citizen of Paris and subject of the king... ... path he had chosen as steadily as a monk in vengeance. As a work- man, he laboured from morn to night; become a master, he laboured still, always lea... ...oks, and will yet write the epitaph of the human race.” T o please all the relations, to tread on no one’s corns, to break no glasses, to waste no bre... ...and my 20 Balzac citizenship, I will still keep that engine, gained by my labours and my studies, on which lies there,” cried he, striking his forehe... ...terously kept out of the way. Noticing this business, Amador suspected the relations of Perrotte and the chevalier, concerning whom it is possible tha... ...said the lady, “if you love us, you will refresh yourself after your merry labour by washing yourself in a bath that I have had heated by Perrotte.” A...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

By: Anthony Trollope

...f Hogglestock there resided only a few farmers higher in degree than field labourers, brickmakers, and such like. Mr Crawley had now passed some ten y... ... his congregation consisted only of farmers, brickmakers, and agricultural labourers, who would willingly have dispensed with the second. Mrs Crawley ... ...be a trouble to no one but me. I will have all the trouble myself, and the labour I delight in shall be physic to my pain.’ Grace Crawley could not du... ...m Hogglestockian parents. They had come thither from un- known regions, as labourers of that class do come when they are needed. Some young men from t... ...ance and manners nearer akin to the race of navvies than to ordinary rural labourers. They 111 Anthony Trollope had a bad name in the country; but it... ...gs to assure him that it will not now be possible that he should renew the relations which were broken off three years ago, between him and Mrs Dale’s... ...en proffered, perhaps, with too plain an inti- mation that on the score of relationship the professional work should be done without payment. The Mr T... ...g to say that love produces quarrels; but love does produce those intimate relations of which quarrel- ling is too often one of the consequences—one o... ...what he can. He is related to them, and is bound to save the honour of his relations if it be possible. I like him for going. I always liked him. As I...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...ley, outside the bounds of Framley Court, except those of farmers and farm labourers; and yet the parish was of large extent. Framley is in the easter... ...er suite, ’ said Mrs Proudie. ‘And that it will give us no trouble.’ ‘“The labour we delight in physics pain”’ said the gallant bishop, bowing low, pu... ... Men of this class have, as a rule, no daily work, no regular rou- tine of labour; but it may be doubted whether they do not toil much more incessantl... ..., Labuan, New Guinea, and the Salomon Islands. As is the case with all men labouring under temporary specialities, he for the time had faith in nothin... ...its novelty; except with the ordinary church congregation, the farmers and labourers of the parish; and the ‘quality’ in the squire’s great pew were c... ...the subject was allowed to drop. 430 Framley Parsonage Among those of her relations who wondered much at the girl’s fortune, but allowed themselves t...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...ip or for ear, he found it convenient, in life, for the greatest number of relations. He found it convenient, oddly, even for his relation with himsel... ...—which were quite such as fell in with his own taste. They had n’t natural relations, she and her father, she had explained; so they wouldn’t try to s... ...cation. Mrs. Assingham so far was right. But there were the facts—the good relations, from schooldays, of the two young women, and the clear confidence... ...— to such fidelities with something more than mere formal good manners? The relations of women with each other were of the strangest, it was true, and ... ...mself, for that matter—as was the case too with so many of his friends and relations; for none of whom more than for himself was it anything but a com... ... of surrender. She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it d... ...t stare us in the face and that— under whatever difficulty you may feel you labour—may now be enough for us. Your father has been extraordinary.” It ha... ...than to him; her clearnesses, clearances—those she had so all but abjectly laboured for—threatened to crowd upon her in the form of one of the cluster...

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Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1

By: Karl Marx

...olume I is to uncover and explain the laws specific to the capitalist mode of production and of the class struggles rooted in these capitalist social relations of production. Marx said himself that his aim was “to bring a science [i.e. political economy] by criticism to the point where it can be dialectically represented”, and in this way to “reveal the law of motion of mo...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...ch they lis- tened to him, or the success which might eventually crown his labours. Such little matters of detail never troubled him much. His teachin... ...ers. My uncle at once fastened upon this as the centre of interest, and he laboured at that blot, until by the help of his micro- 15 Jules Verne scop... ...f memory and fancy. There looked down upon me the faithful companion of my labours and my recreations. Every day she helped me to arrange my uncle’s p... ...he hold. My uncle, notwithstanding his hurry, had so well calcu- lated the relations between the train and the steamer that we 40 A Journey to the In... ...tant style, of calcined stones extracted out of the volcanoes by their own labour and at their own expense; in high westerly winds it was manifest tha... ...ve? Foreigners have their librar- ies at home, and the first essential for labouring people is that they should be educated. I repeat to you the love ...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...he unwonted dissipa tion of the previous night; Mr. Snodgrass appeared to labour under a poetical depression of spirits; and even Mr. Pickwick evince... ...e our New River Head; and we may be compared to the New River Company. The labours of others have raised for us an immense reservoir of impor tant fa... ...ns as he passed, enjoying the serenity of the evening, and their rest from labour. Many a look was turned towards him, and many a doubtful glance he c... ... feeble and infirm old man, whom he only re membered as a hale and hearty labourer; but they had all forgotten him, and he passed on unknown. ‘The la... ...aning Jingle) ‘was an impudent young fellow:’ a sentiment in which all her relations then and there present thoroughly coincided. It was the old lady’... ...uses in this place. It must not be lost.’ He tapped at the cottage door. A labouring man opened it. ‘Do you know how this stone came here, my friend?’... .... I pitied—yes, I pit ied—the wretched life to which her cold and selfish relations had doomed her. I knew that she could not live long; but the thou... ...d not help thinking that Maria Lobbs must be very particularly fond of her relations, if she paid as much attention to all of them as to this indi vi... ...an. ‘And me,’ interposed his wife. ‘And me, and me,’ said a couple of poor relations at the bottom of the table, who had eaten and drunk very heartily...

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Weir of Hermiston

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...on’s friendship, or even his son’s tolera- tion, on he went up the great, bare staircase of his duty, uncheered and undepressed. There might have been... ...s. The exhilaration of their exploits seemed to haunt the memories of their descendants alone, and the shame to be forgotten. Pride glowed in their bo... ...nion then blew it was quite swallowed up and forgotten in the scandal about Bonaparte. For the rest, Gilbert had set up his loom in an outhouse at Cau... ...t even Dandie slouched like a rustic. The rest of the congregation, like so many sheep, oppressed him with a sense of hob-nailed rou- tine, day follow... ...g with a fry of nephews and nieces about them, chatting and awaiting the expected signal. She stood back; she had no mind to direct attention to her l... ... time he was ready with his answer, and the angle was almost packed up, he had become completely Weir, and the hanging face gloomed on his young shoul... ... cur- tailment of our means, can we relieve the straitened cry of the passion within us; only thus, in the bitter and sensitive shyness of advancing y... ...e sides of the grave. And she looked forward over a waste of hours, and saw herself go on to rage, and tremble, and be softened, and rage again, until...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...her what to think nor what to do. I saw the world busy around me: one part labouring for bread, another part squandering in vile excesses or empty ple... ...f their vice, and heaped up work for sorrow and repentance; and the men of labour spent their strength in daily struggling for bread to maintain the v... ...strength in daily struggling for bread to maintain the vital strength they laboured with: so living in a daily circulation of sorrow, living but to wo... ...atures. After this the young priest applied himself to his countrymen, and laboured to compose them: he per- suaded, entreated, argued, reasoned with ... ... they had ruined their plantation, and destroyed their corn, that they had laboured so hard to bring forward, and killed the milch-goat and their thre... ...sures me of the contrary, and that they abhor it; perhaps, for any further relations, they may not be so exact as we are; but she tells me never in th... ...ns, they may not be so exact as we are; but she tells me never in the near relationship you speak of. R.C. – Well, what did she say to what you told h...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

...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... ...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... ...id, ‘Though politeness had prevented me from com plaining to my husband’s relations of his behaviour, yet they all were very sensible of it, and felt... ...may do some mischief. It is a pity he was not secured and sent home to his relations.” Now some conceits of this kind were likewise lurking in the m... ... indeed it was the opinion of most people, that it was only a trick of his relations to rob the poor man of his right.” “Very likely!” cries the lan... ...acquainted with her likewise. They were, besides, both equally her distant relations. After much consideration, therefore, she resolved to go early ...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...he usual fate of those who fell under his suspicion. Pythias had lands and relations in Greece, and he entreated as a favor to be allowed to return th... ...y in the midst of the seven hills of Rome. The captive Jews were forced to labour at it; and the materials, granite outside, and softer travertine sto... ...ank in at every step, and the Major’s chains rendered each motion terrible labour. It was only on the second night that Ivan, with his axe, succeeded ... ...apping prevailed; prisoners had their fixed price, and were carried off to labour in the Afri- can dockyards, or to be chained to the benches of the M... ...nd exposed region, and Vincent suffered much from being there set to field labour, but he endured all without a murmur. His master had three wives, an... ...est and Marseilles, where the convicts, closely chained, were kept to hard labour, and often made to toil at the oar, like the slaves of the Africans....

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...r days—reading, walking, music, gardening. Did not they all work like very labourers at the new arbour in the midst of the laurels, where Charles migh... ...n a hasty, em- barrassed manner,— ‘I beg your pardon, sir, but the ties of relationship—’ He drew himself up as if he was on parade, faced round, and ... ...him no fit companion for you. Nay, listen pa- tiently. You cannot help the relationship. I would not have you do otherwise than assist him. Let him no... ..., the proposal should be made to Mrs. Dixon. It was a way of assisting his relations likely to do real good, and on the other hand, he would be able, ... ... to Guy that it would be a capital opportunity of taking Arnaud to see the relations he had been talking for the last twenty years of visiting, and so... ...d to Interlachen, where they spent a day or two, while Arnaud was with his relations; and they visited the two beautiful lakes of Thun and Brientz. On... ...ut down, as there he lay with scarcely a sign of life, except his gasping, labouring breath. Guy stood over him, let the air blow in from the open win... ...enice, and to do a good deal, with Anne’s’ assis- tance, by her own manual labour. Guy said she did more for Philip outside his room than he did insid...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

...y the Chien Noir was the scene of a tragedy,’ said Susie. ‘Marie broke off relations with her lover, who is a waiter at Lavenue’s, and would have no r... ...avagery upon amusement, as though, resent ful of the weary round of daily labour, it sought by a desper ate effort to be merry. The English party wi... ...ed descent. Unless he has much altered, you will already have heard of his relationship with various noble houses. He is, in fact, nearly connected wi... ...redecessors Galen, Arnold of Villanova, and 71 Maugham Raymond Lulli, had laboured studiously to discover it.’ ‘Will it make me eighteen again?’ crie... ... in trivial quantities, at enormous 87 Maugham expense and with exceeding labour; it is so volatile that you cannot keep it for three days. I have so... ...cinated by the flaming lights. There was an awful mystery in those unknown labours which ab sorbed Oliver Haddo night after night till the sun rose. ... ...He clenched his teeth and tightened his straining muscles. Susie heard his laboured breathing, but she only heard the breathing of one man. She wonder...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...her. She looked at you, and forth it came: and it stuck to you, as nothing laboured or literary could have adhered. Her saying of Laetitia Dale: “Here... .... She dismissed the children to their homes. Plucking prim- roses was hard labour now—a dusty business. She could have wished that her planet had not ... ...to her likewise, though mystically, touched Laetitia with a faint sense of relationship to the chosen girl. “What is in me, he sees on her.” It decked... ...tter: he will only require to be spoken to. One would fancy the old fellow laboured now and then under a magnetic attrac- tion to beggary. My love,” h... ...ch to felicity had long been the portion of Sir Willoughby Patterne in his relations with Laetitia Dale. She belonged to him; he was quite unshackled ... ... she was listening to discursive observa- tions upon the inequality in the relations of the sexes. A sus- picion of a drift to a closer meaning had be... ...lf and foot, bearing his broad iron-grey head in grand elevation. The hard labour of the day approved the cooling exercise and the crowning refreshmen... ...arty, who never interferes, but must be attended to. And they feel they’re labouring together to get along, all in the proper proportion; and whether ... ...ck, and it quieted her mind in re- gard to the precipitate intimacy of her relations with Colo- nel De Craye. Willoughby’s boast of his implacable cha...

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The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner : Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-Inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself, With an Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'D by Pyrates

By: Daniel Defoe

...rade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from... ... suited to human Happiness, not exposed to the Miseries and Hardships, the Labour and Sufferings of the mechanick Part of Mankind, and not embarass’d ... ... who, by vicious Living, Luxury and Extravagancies on one Hand, or by hard labour, Want of Nec essaries, and mean or insufficient Diet on the other ha... ...oothly thro’ the World, and comfortably out of it, not embarass’d with the Labours of the Hands or of the Head, not sold to the Life of Slavery for da... ...at was not a Mast standing. The light Ships fared the best, as not so much labouring in the Sea; but two or three of them drove, and came close by us,... ...a Buoy to it, and then vered it out a great Length, which they after great Labour and Hazard took hold of and we hall’d them close under our Stern and... ...to buy. This 40 l. I had mustered together by the Assistance of some of my Relations whom I corresponded with, and who, I believe, got my Father, or a... ...ther having a Husband not so kind to her as he should be. But among all my Relations, or Acquaintances, I could not yet pitch upon one, to whom I durs... ...re, if I arrived, I concluded I should make some Acquaintance, or find some Relations that would be faithful to me; and according I prepar’d to go for ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...tanding not more than a dozen volleys of beer; Mr. Blacksmith’s boy, and a labourer whose name we have not been able to learn. Mr. Butcher himself was... ... Macshane took a large dose of strong waters, as a pleasing solace for his labours, dangers, and fatigue. When the maternal feelings were somewhat cal... ...whipped out of him in Virginia; where much ill-health, ill-treatment, hard labour, and hard food, speedily put an end to them. He forgot there even ho... ...loquence. The Abbe, who had a seat and a table by the bedside, resumed the labours 119 Thackeray which had brought him into the room in the morning, ... ... “Oh, I did not know whether you might be brought up to the trade, or your relations be undergoing the operation.” “My relations,” said Mr. Billings, ... ... vocation to cry out against such, and expose their errors as best he may. Labouring under such ideas, Mr. Isaac Solomons, junior, produced the romanc...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

... I was in any strait as to a place where to go, having several friends and relations in Northamptonshire, whence our family first came from; and parti... ...d children at the win- dows and doors of their houses, where their dearest relations were perhaps dying, or just dead, were so frequent to be heard as... ...acturers, and the like, being mostly poor people who de- pended upon their labour. And I remember in particular that in a representation to my Lord Ma... ...s first matter, cloud, resolve. I could fill this account with the strange relations such people gave every day of what they had seen; and every one w... ...impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were pre- dominant over all their passions, and... ...pinion as of another, kept family fasts, to which they admitted their near relations only. So that, in a word, those people who were really serious an... ...hem as they knew they had deserved. Not that it is any derogation from the labour or applica- tion of the physicians to say they fell in the common ca... ... is, the greatest part of the poor or families who formerly lived by their labour, or by retail trade, lived now on charity; and had there not been pr... ...he customs, likewise the watermen, carmen, porters, and all the poor whose labour depended upon the merchants, were at once dismissed and put out of b...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...out from all these others to survive; he felt as if there were no life, no labour, no devotion of soul and body, that could repay and justify these pa... ...hs, climbs the air in a balloon, makes vast inquiries, begins interminable labours, joins himself into federations and populous cities, spends his day... ...a touch. His heart, which all through life so indomitably, so athletically labours, is but a capsule, and may be stopped with a pin. His whole body, f... ...t who does not work. Service for service. If the farmer buys corn, and the labourer ploughs and reaps, and the baker sweats in his hot bakery, plainly... ...ture in service; that he has not a lion’s share in profit and a drone’s in labour; and is not a sleeping partner and mere costly in- cubus on the grea... ...as occasion required and means were provided. He was not a pure man in his relations with women, and the leprosy of 45 Lay Morals which he died shoul... ... Bishop-Home, but dirty Damien washed it. Damien was not a pure man in his relations with women, etc. How do you know that? Is this the nature of the ... ...which shall never be broken off. Fare- well father and mother, friends and relations! Farewell the world and all delights! Farewell meat and drink! Fa...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

... original Arabian legends, to those only that the book stands in any close relationship. The matter is for the most part borrowed, but the manner is a... ...ring which he probably waited for a repetition of the an- gelic vision–his labours in comparative privacy for three years, issuing in about 40 convert... ...followers, as a witness to his mission; and there can be no doubt that his relations with the Jews were, at one time, those of friendship and intimacy... ...a unity of thought, a directness and simplicity of purpose, a peculiar and laboured style, a uniformity of diction, coupled with a certain deficiency ... ...ing which the hours of night were spent by Muhammad in devotion and in the labour of working up his materials in rhythmical and rhyming Suras, and in ... ...yous too, on that day, the countenances of others, Well pleased with their labours past, In a lofty garden: No vain discourse shalt thou hear therein:... ...rge dark eyes, like pearls hidden in their shells, In recompense of their labours past. No vain discourse shall they hear therein, nor charge of sin,... ...a release, it will be nearer to piety. And forget not generos- ity in your relations one towards another; for God beholdeth your doings. Observe stric... ... all sides. 8 See ii. 249, p. 365. 9 Through the breaking off commercial relations. 10 Or, by right of subjection, Sale; in cash, Wahl.; all with- ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

.......................................... 170 CHAPTER IX – JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190 4 Robert Louis S... ...lainly on the irregularity and the too frequent vanity and meanness of his relations to women. Hence, in the eyes of many, my study was a step towards... ... my two dull papers are, in the matter of dulness, worthy additions to the labours of M’Crie. Yet I believe they are worth reprinting in the interest ... ...nt – to the great cost of this society that we enjoy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we... ...y death – by the deaths of animals, and the deaths of men wearied out with labour, and the deaths of those criminals called tyrants and revolutionarie... ...f forces into the illimitable,” and the visionary develop- ment of “wasted labour” in the sea, and the winds, and the clouds. No character was ever th... ... patent to all, it awakes in them some consciousness of those more general relations that are so strangely invisible to the average man in ordinary mo... ... to us by the best or worst in ourselves; but it is only in virtue of some relationship that we can be his judges, even to condemn. Feelings which we ... ...co, and his wife and children, in the intervals of dull and unremunerative labour; where a man in this pre- dicament can afford a lesson by the way to...

...TER VIII ? SAMUEL PEPYS .......................................................................................... 170 CHAPTER IX ? JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...d immodest. That you should continually try to establish human and serious relations, that you should actually feel an interest in John Bull, and desi... ...end, one to smoke cigars about a water- ing-place, the other to resume the labours of the field beside his peasant family. The first muster of a colle... ...hank God, securely enough shut; but when a young man sacri- fices sleep to labour, let him have a care, for he is playing with the lock. 20 Robert Lo... ...ral, told me of his acquaintance with the birds that still attended on his labours; how some would even perch about him, waiting for their prey; and i... ...ed be something different from human if his soli- tary open-air and tragic labours left not a broad mark upon his mind. There, in his tranquil aisle, ... ...th the other hand pointed through the window to the scene of his life-long labours. “Doctor,” he said, “I ha’e laid three hunner and fower-score in th... ...n almost any state of health. The spice of life is battle; the friendliest relations are still a kind of contest; and if we would not forego all that ... ...enjoy that amicable counter-assertion of personality which is the gauge of relations and the sport of life. A good talk is not to be had for the askin... ...d-natured barbarians – are all painful ingredients and all help to falsify relations. It is not till we get clear of that amusing artificial scene tha...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...s fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connec tion with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1... ... my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook f... ...mission; but I found afterwards, that, thro’ some discontent with his wife’s relations, he purposed to leave her on their hands, and never return agai... ...lings and six pence a week as much as we could then afford. He found some relations, but they were poor, and unable to assist him. He now let me kn... ...n acquaintance with an ingenious young man, one Wygate, who, having wealthy relations, had been better educated than most print ers; was a tolerable... ...eing at length join’d by France, which brought us into great danger; and the laboured and long continued endeavour of our governor, Thomas, to prevail... ...ossing but in paths kept clean by poor people with brooms, it was with great labour rak’d to gether and thrown up into carts open above, the sides of... ...to do good, I shall have only my The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 128 labour for my pains. If this method of obtaining the waggons and horses i...

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