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...dependent, and temperate. And therefore all those who have written well on politics, as Plato, Diogenes, and Zeno, have taken Lycurgus for their model... ... important conflicts, both as a private soldier and commander. In domestic politics, also, Solon, in play, as it were, and by counterfeiting madness, ... ...ists. Themistocles resorted to Mnesiphilus when he had already embarked in politics. In the first essays of his youth he was not regular nor hap- pily... ...r tells us; ever after which, they took opposite sides, and were rivals in politics. Not but that the incompatibility of their lives and manners may s... ... of Magnesia, having lived sixty-five years, most of which he had spent in politics and in the wars, in government and command. The king, being inform...

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...at thing—the Union, is it?—and delivered your maiden speech? If you’re for politics, Poff, that’s your game. Have you begun it?” She lay among splashe... ...ticipation in his indefinite out- look. She advised him about his probable politics—every- body did that—but when he broke through his usual reserve a... ...e of those men, too fine and far- reaching for the dull manoeuvers of such politics as rule the world to-day. The project seemed still large, still wh... ... things took their proper propor- tions again. And now what was he to do? “Politics,” he said aloud to the turf and the sky. Is there any other work f... ...d serious movement through his mind he came back to Science, Philosophy or Politics as the sole three justifications for the usurpation of leisure. 1...

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...y. Great fellow for chin- ning. He’ll talk your arm off, about religion or politics or books or anything.” Carol gazed with a polite approximation to ... ...e Clarks, the Haydocks—had no dignity. They were sound and conservative in politics, but they talked about motor cars and pump-guns and heaven only kn... ... whatever, since its several husbands were the controllers of business and politics. She was proud of herself for this practical view. She had taken o... ...come out definitely in favor of woman suffrage. Women haven’t any place in politics. They would lose all their daintiness and charm if they became inv... ...rm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure—wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes. Here in Gopher Prairie we’ve cleare...

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...easy command of three octaves.’ By which the allusion was transformed from politics to Art. Had Laura reserved this cunning turn a little further, yie... ...l scrapes. I dare say you agree with me that women have nothing to do with politics. Ob- serve: you see the lady who is speaking to the Austrian of- f... ...hy? She has been false to her Art, false! She has become a little devil in politics. It is a Guy Fawkes femelle! She has been guilty of the immense cr... ...n opera; it is a musical harangue in the marketplace. Illusion goes: it is politics here!’ Carlo Ammiani was sitting with his mother and Luciano breat... ...destroyed, and the opera reduced to be a mere vehicle for a fulmination of politics. But the general enthusiasm was too tremendous to permit of indivi...

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...said Edwards, or rather Effingham as we must now call him. “We differed in politics. If the cause of this country was successful, the trust was sacred...

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...hat Alexander received from him not only his doc- trines of Morals, and of Politics, but also something of those more abstruse and profound theories w... ...r riches, nor out of mere impulse, or by chance that he engaged himself in politics, but he under- took the service of the state, as the proper busine... ...s; whereas the contrary is most appar- ent, for the same party and post in politics which he held from the beginning, to these he kept constant to the... ...lay aside or change the name when he first stood for office and engaged in politics, that he would make it his endeavor to render the name of Cicero m... ...heir house; then he began to be more rough and untractable in the domestic politics of Greece, and showed plainly that he was wishing to shake himself...

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... certainly the issues of want. For, to speak in the phrase of writers upon politics, we may observe in the republic of dogs, which in its original see... ...end beguile with lies and flattery? O’er plains they ramble unconfined, No politics disturb their mind; They eat their meals, and take their sport, No... ... soft moments they can spare From visits to receive and pay, From scandal, politics, and play, From fans, and flounces, and brocades, From equipage an... ...mires, Among those venerable sires. Cadenus is a subject fit, Grown old in politics and wit; Caressed by Ministers of State, Of half mankind the dread... ... the form of speech, and instead of the word church, make it a question in politics, whether the monument be in danger? Because religion was nearest a...

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... wife, in fact, and it was as a relief from that, I think, that he took up politics of the rabid sort. He was a fanatical Radical—a So- cialist—or typ... ... twelve brains are better than one. They played it clev- erly. They worked politics with money, and kept on adding to the money by working currency an... ...e at last to take these miseries for granted. They use the people in their politics, they live in ease by their degradation. But you— you who come fro... ...st festoon of black to show that the popular religion followed the popular politics, hung across the lettering Graham had already become familiar with... ...e political unrest it will be crowded. The women take no great interest in politics—except a few here and there. You will see the mothers—most young w...

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... was permitted to roam at large. His tutor had his own studies; and church politics and controversial divinity, together with a love of learned ease, ... ...ve. The reason was explained in private. The unhappy turn of Sir Everard’s politics, the Minister observed, was such as would render it highly imprope... ... novels merely for amusement, for plaguing them so long with old-fashioned politics, and Whig and T ory, and Hanoverians and Jacobites, The truth is, ... ...f rank a legal education, he had been bred with a view to the Bar. But the politics of his family precluding the hope of his rising in that profession... ...iform. T o this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary and secluded authority...

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... it. It is a novelty to an English mind to find banking thus mixed up with politics, but it is not a novelty in Italy. All over V enetia there are agr... ...ion to the National Mission of Repentance and Hope the bishop did not talk politics but sex. He gave his hearers the sort of stuff that is handed out ... ...g, his persecution of the heretic and the illegitimate, his ecclesiastical politics, his taboos, and his doctrinal touchi- ness…. That is why, though ... ...thing is more illuminating and self-educational than to explain one’s home politics to an intelligent foreigner enquirer; it strips off all the second... ... an agreement as I have here sketched out would at once lift international politics out of the bloody and hope- less squalor of the present conflict. ...

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...and no more; a man’s share of it is his share of bread; and commerce, like politics, is here narrowed to a focus, shows its ugly side, and becomes as ... ...t he was followed to the islands by Mormon assassins. His first attempt on politics was made under the auspices of what is called the missionary party... ...s in the South Seas. It does not appear that he was any more particular in politics, but he was care- ful to consult the character and prejudices of t... ...4th, Fritze alone being absent, although twice invited: the affair touched politics, his consul was to be there; and even if he came to the meeting (s... ...e 8th his oft- repeated assurances that he was not authorised to deal with politics. The same day Leary retorted: “The question is not one of diplomac...

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...ments of this affair behind Butteridge’s prepos- terous love interest, his politics and personality, and all his shouting and boasting, and that was t... ...dday meal, then perhaps one might worry about the Empire and international politics; but not on a sunny Sunday, with a pretty girl trailing behind one... ...as the modernisations of patriotism produced by imperial and international politics. In the soul of all men is a liking for kind, a pride in one’s own... ...ose’s, and the sort of sunshine that was best in the world. Newspapers and politics and visits to “Lunnon” weren’t for the likes of him. Then came the... ...ay, Bert’s preposterous right to muddle further the naturally very muddled politics of the entirely similar little cads to himself (except for a smear...

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...ia of aristocratic conceit. It drove her, despite her youthful contempt of politics, into a Radicalism that could find food in the epigrams of Mr. Col... ...! I say, do keep the peace, please. An excellent good fellow; better up in politics than any man I know; under- stands music; means well, you can see.... ... in his pocket), a particu- lar inquisitiveness to know the bearing of his politics? Mr. Radnor was rich, true: but these are days when wealthy men, a... ...ling and Mr. Caddis were introduced. The former in Commerce, the latter in Politics, their sustaining boast was, the being our stable Englishmen; and ... ... one who is more fixed—the old-fash- ioned husband. New ideas must come in politics, but in So- ciety!—and for women! And the young having heads, are ...

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...lities were pretty well known in the army, where there were parties of all politics, and of plenty of shrewdness and wit; but there existed such a per...

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...der- ation of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no ... ...nd skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. Y ou have confidence... ...y affinity with what is called “Abolition- ism,” or with “Republican Party politics,” but who hold them purely as military opinions. I submit their o... ...ad any affinity with what is called abolitionism, or with Republican party politics, but who hold them purely as military opinions. I submit these opi...

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...ho, though of high and unshaken loyalty , had never concerned himself with politics, but led a quiet and studious life, and was every- where honored a...

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...you remember cette chere Annette!” *Anna Pavlovna. “Ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like Annette!” “And our little tea table?” “Oh, yes!” “Why i...

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...ich were common in the West at that time. He always took an active part in politics, but was never a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he ... ...ss for one term during the rebellion. Mr. White was al- ways a Democrat in politics, and Chilton followed his fa- ther. He had two older brothers—all ... ...from their early manhood up to a few years 14 Personal Memoirs before. In politics they differed. Hamer was a life-long Demo- crat, while my father w... ...der myself a citizen of Michigan. This was Mr. Chandler’s first entry into politics, a career he followed ever after with great success, and in which ... ...he army from before attaining my majority and had thought but little about politics, although I was a Whig by education and a great admirer of Mr. Cla...

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...of the Thirty Y ears’ War newly-organized state into the field of European politics. What this great prince had merely sketched in rude outline, was f... ... in his king- dom was as distant as ever. The inactivity and contradictory politics of the English court had abated the zeal of Gustavus Adolphus, and... ...ed king, who, acquainted with all the secrets of his master, versed in the politics of Germany, and in the relations of all the states of Europe, was ...

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...had a prosperous career as a professor or an official, but his interest in politics and his Radical views led him into more arduous paths. Already in ... ...ng occasion, abstract and metaphysical, except when they deal with current politics. He does not come to close quarters with economic facts, but dwell... ...rom these regions, he is much more at the mercy of current inter- national politics than Marx, much less imbued with the con- sequences of the belief ... ... of the State, and would therefore have nothing to do with Parlia- mentary politics. The Anarchists, from 1883 onward, had success in Paris and the So... ...ties in the T rade Unions and helped to bring about the resolution to keep politics out of the Unions. From this to Syndicalism was an easy step. Sinc...

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... is at least tangible; would you do it, then, for a doubtful fore- cast in politics, or another person’s theory in morals? So intricate is the scheme ... ...geneous company as ours) might be of incalculable value in all branches of politics and social progress. It would do more than this. If we could find ... ...gion of generalities. Their profession was forgotten in their electorship. Politics had en- gulfed the narrower economy of grave-digging. ‘Na, na,’ sa... ...and came fairly among the tombs. Here, at least, there were no commonplace politics, no diluted this- morning’s leader, to distract or offend me. The ... ...ng the waifs and strays of thy Bohemia. For lo! thy very gravediggers talk politics; and thy castaways kneel upon new graves, to discuss the cost of t...

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...here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “I know nothing about it and... ...he men of the day were mere babies who did not know the A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant little Frenchy, successfu... ...s which, according to him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever argum... ...ats, evi- dently had its own interests which had nothing to do with war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to the official... ...n beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his fore- head began talking to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these two. “The Berli...

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...ed boys. I know the fatal differences 7 Thackeray which separated them in politics never disunited their hearts; and as I can love them both, whether... ... least not them.” And to this day, whether the papers in cipher related to politics, or to the af- fairs of that mysterious society whereof Father Hol... ...nd. Harry Esmond was too young to have been introduced into the secrets of politics in which his patrons were implicated; for they put but few questio... ...tances, from having been intimate friends when they came to college first. Politics ran high, too, at the University; and here, also, the young men we... ...rchman, a strong King William’s-man; whereas Harry brought his family Tory politics to college with him, to which he must add a dangerous admiration f...

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... do not understand young ladies having male friends. ‘Hamilton Jocelyn—all politics. The stiff Englishman. Not a shade of manners. He invited me to dr... ...r of him; he is really admirable with the men—easy, and talks of sport and politics, and makes the proper use of Por- tugal. He has quite won the hear... ...Don’t let them mislead you, for you know you’re quite a child, out of your politics, and I shall take you in hand myself. Why, now, think, Uncle Mel! ... ...the conversation, and commenced, smiling at Melville: ‘We are to be spared politics to-day? I think politics and cookery do not assimilate.’ ‘I’m afra...