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.... I haven’t got the ruled ac count book, I have none of the tax gatherlng elements in my composition, I am not at all respectable, and I don’t want t... ... that capricious and deep old character who fell a prey to the—spontaneous element, do you, Tony, think it at all likely that on second thoughts he pu... ...y thing if Tulkinghorn should ‘pear with news that Coodle man was floored. Mercury in attendance with coffee informs Sir Leicester, hereupon, that Mr.... ... world and had perished from its surface with its other departed monsters. Mercury has announced Mr. Rouncewell, which is the cause of her appearance.... ...ghorn, be so good as to ring. Thank you. Re quest,” says Sir Leicester to Mercury, not immediately re membering the business term, “request the iron... ...embering the business term, “request the iron gentleman to walk this way.” Mercury departs in search of the iron gentleman, finds, and produces him. S... ...otten you. Thank you.” He makes his usual bow and goes quietly back again. Mercury, swift responsive, appears, receives instructions whom to produce, ...

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... me, and he illustrated one or two points with what he was pleased to call elementary mathematics, computing 10 The First Men in the Moon on an envel... ...gravitation out of a compli- cated alloy of metals and something new—a new element, I fancy—called, I believe, helium, which was sent to him from Lond... ...said Cavor. “For example? “ “Oh! sulphur, ores, gold perhaps, possibly new elements.” “Cost of carriage,” I said. “Y ou know you’re not a practical ma... ...y taken a thermometer into your warm hand and watched the little thread of mercury creep up the tube? These moon plants grew like that. In a few minut... ...oned it in vain. But after a long time I became aware of a new and sharper element, not mingling with the rest but standing 71 H. G . Wells out, as i... ...to interest. I perceived that the foremost and sec- ond carried bowls. One elemental need at least our minds could understand in common. They were bow...

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... felt the wind, That never passion discompos’d the mind. But all subsists by elemental strife; And passions are the elements of life. The gen’ral orde... ...l calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Passions, like elements, tho’ born to fight, Y et, mix’d and soften’d, in his work unite... ...ing good from ill, Grafts on this passion our best principle: ’ Tis thus the mercury of man is fix’d, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix’d; T...

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...er; his version of several of the shorter ones remains, as well as that to Mercury already published in the “Posthumous Poems”. 54 V olume Two His re... ...o thee, Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear, And they the regents are Of the four elements that frame the heart, _10 And each dive... ...ocean bright and wide, Like spirit-winged chariots sent O’er some serenest element For ministrations strange and far; ...

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...ght tea and mixed it with tea-leaves already used; also he adulterated the elements of chocolate in a manner which enabled him to sell the chocolate i... ...ed all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac tion, legality, movement, resistance... ...vernment are in question. He admits, with his chosen paper, the democratic element, but refuses in conversation all compact with the republican spirit... ...t to him means 1793, rioting, the Terror, and agrarian law. The democratic element is the de- velopment of the lesser bourgeoisie, the reign of Phelli... ...d for the seminary, was now at the Barniol institute, where he obtained an elementary edu- cation; Barniol, the son-in-law of the Phellions, was natu-... ... never suspected the statesmen, the diplomats, the Richelieus it produces? Mercury, monsieur,—Mercury, the cleverest of the gods of paganism,—what was...

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...ed, and inextinguishably respectable grandams swung their legs in the more elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of J... ...s business, to be seen going to ser- vices; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor’s sermons, how- ever d... ...the Parlors, and cheerful droning of choir-prac- tise. The quivering green mercury-vapor light of a photo- engraver’s loft. Then the storming lights o... ...American Legion does!” Babbitt grumbled. “Of course, they’re—they’re a bad element, but—Oh, rats!” At the Athletic Club, Babbitt was silent during lun... ... Now, of course, it’s a fight be- tween sound business and the destructive element, and we got to lick the stuffin’s out of ‘em when they challenge us... ... you’ve actually been advocating and supporting some of the most dangerous elements in town, like this fellow Doane.” “Colonel, that strikes me as my ...

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..., and the figure of Mer- cury on the east side of the temple is called the Mercury of Aegeus’s gate. The sons of Pallas, who before were quiet, upon e... ... accent it has been taken for the House of Hermes, 25 Plutarch’s Lives or Mercury, and the honor that was designed to the hero transferred to the god... ...on of his commonwealth, yet those who succeeded him found the oligarchical element still too strong and dominant, and, to check its high temper and it... ...utarch’s Lives of Jupiter, was taken from the name given by some Greeks to Mercury, denoting his office of attendance on the gods. When Numa had, by s... ...of the general universe, in the center of which the Pythagoreans place the element of fire, and give it the name of Vesta and the unit; and do not hol... ...ses the buds and flowers. The next is called May, from Maia, the mother of Mercury, to whom it is sacred; then June follows, so called from Juno; some... ...mentations and mournful songs. The mutilation, however, of the im- ages of Mercury, most of which, in one night, had their faces all disfigured, terri... ... of the more violent and heated partisans, and discharging, so to say, the elements of disease and disorder in the state. The consuls, therefore, sing... ...d always indulged his temper, and had regarded the proud and con- tentious element of human nature as a sort of nobleness and magnanimity; reason and ...

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...The cap of the radiator was adorned with a little brass figure of a flying Mercury . Frozen in a sprightly attitude, its stiff bound and its fixed hea... ...ng the starting handle as a club, he assailed the car. He smote the brazen Mercury from its foothold and sent it and a part of the radiator cap with i... ...e and his small soul was recognized. But he carried his point at last. The Mercury became his inseparable darling, his sym- bol, his private god, the ... ... Martineau sought information. “I suppose,” he said, “there was a sensuous element in these dreamings?” “Certainly. A very strong one. It didn’t domin... ... he said, with a smile to mitigate the impertinence. “I respect them.” “An element of fear.” “Well, I am afraid of them then. Put it that way if you l... ...nown. Health is a woman’s primary duty. But she is inca- pable of the most elementary precautions. She is madden- ingly receptive to every infection. ... ...life and ideas challenge my way of living. But if I eliminate the personal element? “ He pulled a sheet of note-paper towards him and began to jot dow...

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...imself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven kissing hill; Hamlet, Act III, scene iv 6... ...ncapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element: but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with the...

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...resolve into two simple principles; also that water, air, and fire are not elements. In another, he goes in a few words to the heart of magnetic myste... ...upiter will not cultivate the sciences, which they call darkness; those of Mercury abhor the expression of ideas by speech, which seems to them too ma... ...e image of human intellect ridden by Death, for it bears within itself the elements of its own destruction.’ Moreover, they can distinguish beings con... ...ral sciences, when they de- compose it, find little difference between its elements and those of other animals. On the other hand, the idea pro- duced... ...rate the Material World through the cohesion of all our faculties with the elementary substances; it bestows in- ternal conviction by developing our e...

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...out with his left hand permanently disabled; he had lost the use of it, as Mercury told him in the “Viaje del Parnaso” for the greater glory of the ri... ...een things as he saw them and things as they were. It is strange that this element of incongruity, underlying the whole humour and purpose of the book... ...hey seemed, at which spectacle Sancho began to shake like a man dosed with mercury, and Don Quixote’s hair stood on end; he, however, plucking up spir... ...brother, I know more about books of chivalry than I do about Villalpando’s elements of logic; so if that be all, you may safely tell me what you pleas...

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...the performance. At last he spied her, but there was a sudden falling of his mercury. She was sitting cosily on a little bench behind the schoolhouse... ...December, as she 106 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer pointed to the contending elements without, and bade me contemplate the two beings presented.” Thi...

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...ng. All Europe is in convulsions in a few months: to-morrow it may be. The elements are in the hearts of the people, and nothing will contain them. We... ... ‘Fools!’ he cried, plunging a rageing leg into his garments. ‘Here, Iris! Mercury! fly to Jupiter and say we are all old men and boys in Italy, and a... ...silly subtlety, jealousy, vanity, a direful congregation of antago- nistic elements; threads all loose, tongues wagging, pressure here, pressure there... ...y damped, and instead of apprentices in war, who possessed at any rate the elementary stuff of soldiers, miserable dummies were drafted into the royal... ... ordinary reckoning is based on calms. Without the operation of disturbing elements, the spider-thread would have gently detained the gossamer.” “Is t...

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..., and mothers clasp- ing babies which they had snatched out of the way of the coming destruction; and as this living wave washed aside, along the wall... ... defective barometer; so I allowed that one to be trans- ferred to the subordinate mess. I next boiled the thermometer, and got a most excellent resul...

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...yond. “In that little town there was, and I believe is, a school where the elements of human knowledge were communi- 19 Thomas Carlyle cated to me, f... ...ties and good affections alive in him, was probably the best counteracting element in his lot. And on the whole, have we not all to run our chance in ... ...well gained the early love of Sterling. And perhaps withal the most tragic element of his life is even this, That there now was none to which he could... ...ially of young London Literature and speculation; in which turbid exciting element he swam and revelled, nothing loath, for certain months longer,— a ... ...rise out of the haze; but they were few, and soon swallowed in the general element again. Balmy sunny islets, islets of the blest and the intelligible... ... Yet it is sad that you should be so melancholy. I often think that though Mercury was the pleasanter fel- low, and probably the happier, Saturn was t...

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...kable signs of a Celtic origin, and that were destined to become important elements in later romance; for he gives us the first literary record of the... ...important is his place as a delicate transformer of the story, the harsher elements of which he veiled with the courtliness familiar to him, while he ... ...im far more than the refinements of a Norman court, and by emphasising the elements that were most congenial to himself he developed an entirely diffe... ... legend a definite literary form, brought permanently together independent elements of tradition, and contributed enor mously to the popularity of th... ...IONS POSSESSIONS POSSESSIONS ARTHUR’S MAGIC POSSESSIONS form a prominent element in Welsh tradition, and their appearance in the early chronicles is... ...ell upon us we have bidden farewell to our homes, and putting our trust in Mercury, the god has led us to your realm.” When the king heard the name of... ...ercury, the god has led us to your realm.” When the king heard the name of Mercury as the god of their gov ernance, be inquired what manner of men th... ...y to raise altars. These gods have to name Phoebus and Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury. Many another god we worship, accord ing to the wont of our countr... ...as our fathers have told us. But above all gods we keep in chiefest honour Mercury, who in our own tongue is called Woden. Our fathers held this god i...

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... then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here. Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally... ...and Filby. But the Time T raveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him. Things that would have made the frame of a... ...ch I had only to understand to overcome; but there was an alto- gether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks—a something inhuman and ma... ...that originally the place had been artificially lit. Here I was more in my element, for ris- ing on either side of me were the huge bulks of big ma- c... ...en I realized that an eclipse was beginning. Either the moon or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun’s 75 H G Wells disk. Naturally, at firs...

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...the tapestry. It was of that set of Gobelin work which represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded o... ...r, as he exclaimed: “Pretty missy bring new life to mas’r!” Thus did a new element come into Aurelia’s life. She care- fully prepared Harriet’s favour... ... lovers worshipp on ther kne. There was I bid on pain of dethe to pere, By Mercury, the winged messengre. —Chaucer. BY TWELVE O’CLOCK on the ensuing d...

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...is one with her. FALSTAFF: But what says she to me? be brief, my good she Mercury. MISTRESS QUICKLY : Marry, she hath received your let ter, for th... ...charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch, you hag, you; come down, I s...

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... the thing more quietly than the boars; but they are so swift in their own element, that to pursue and strike them is the task of a good horseman, wit... ...apartment over my head were distinctly heard amid the roar and fury of the elements. I thought more than once I even heard a groan; but I frankly own ... ...g, who seemed to avoid human society, and to remain un- perturbed amid the elemental war, it seemed that to speak to him at that moment would have bee... ..., who, following the trade of sailors and fishermen, become as rude as the elements with which they contend. He hath no cer- tain name among them, whi... ...ly. It was plain, Ewart, though a good seaman, had not been bred upon that element. He was a reasonably good scholar, and seemed fond of showing it by... ...1 Sir W alter Scott TAM MARTE QUAM MERCURIO, as much devoted to Mars as to Mercury (as much a soldier as a pleader). TASS, a glass. TAU, the Greek: t....