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...n the planet hold. Every family owns an attractive high technology house. Parks and recreation facilities are found throughout the cities. The high i... ...et hold. Every family owns an attractive high technology house. Parks and recreation facilities are found throughout the cities. The high incomes of ... ...ingaling has gladly joined it. Research is speeding along on Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, many cancers, diabetes, and a number of other diseases and han... ... “Hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, restaurants, in fact many of the service industries, profit from the use of robots, costs are reduced, and ... ...cs technology extensively.” —“Korea leads in a lot of electronic areas. The country was the first to have border to border wi-fi. Everyone ... ...ATION CONTROL SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM —“Lee Kuan Yew was the greatest national leader of the last few centuries. In his 31 years as Singapore‟s ... ...e and incomes for more gum chewing. Just look at your country. Would your national debt be less, your stock market higher, your dollar worth more, y... ...axes or that the tax money could be spent for other things like parks and recreation activities, free higher educational opportunities for all the c... ...the writers of the document put some boundaries on these rights. Military service and normal civic obligations were excluded from the areas of right...

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...ir carriage or soldiers for their swords. Horses are valued simply for the services that they can render, and are only valued highly when they are kno... ...t you as though she ignored your existence while she is appropriating your services. The hunting lady who demands assistance is very particular about ... ... and much more commodious in the ball-room, in the drawing-room, or in the park, than they are in the hunting-field. Nor is the work in hand of a natu... ... or any probability that their neighbours would look askance at them. Such recreations are now unclerical in the highest degree, or if not in the high... ...solitude saves the clergy from absolute ignorance as to that branch of our national literature. All this is hard upon men who, let them struggle as th... ... argued, that his amusement is in itself innocent, and that some open- air recreation is necessary to him. Grant him that the bishops and old ladies a... ...he county which he hunts; one of those country noblemen or gentlemen whose parks are the glory of our English landscape, and whose names are to be fou... ...er and more ambi- tious squires began to undertake the management of wider areas, and so our hunting districts were formed. But with such extension of...

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...ly and before others, and I and my mother went off back across the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway statio... ...nd my mind thick-shot with flying frag- ments of rhetoric that might be of service in the letter I would write her. Scorn, irony, tenderness—what was ... ...nt right over the crest and looked westward there was farmland, there were parks and great mansions, the spire of a distant cathedral, and some- times... ... undeserving friends. There was a long frameful of his work in the Clayton National School, for example, inscribed in old English lettering, “Italian ... ...possible posts—I remember that among other things of the sort I offered my services to a firm of private detectives, a sinister breed of traders upon ... ...o the cottage, I fell talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at... ...ore, marked 112 In the Days of the Comet our approach to the more central areas of—I quote the local guidebook —”one of the most delightful resorts i... ...n in- different, that is to say. The Change had caught him at his week-end recreation, fly-fishing; and, indeed, he said, I re- member, that he recove... ...ties to the nominal, municipal, or national Government amidst whose larger areas their own dominions lay… . This sounds, I know, like a lunatic’s drea...

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...murderous, man selling despots, of the lowest order of humanity; and Mungo Park, fainting under a tree and succoured by a woman, gratefully remembers ... ... me that I have got rid of him at last. He has enlisted into the Company’s service, and is off directly—but he wants a cheese. He is informed by the s... ...sociated in the minds of all Englishmen with brave, unpretending, cordial, national service. We like to look at him in his Sunday state; and if we wer... ...in the minds of all Englishmen with brave, unpretending, cordial, national service. We like to look at him in his Sunday state; and if we were First L... ...dungeon a ship going down; secondly, that the military creature’s arm is a national affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.... ...en, 46 Reprinted Pieces not immoderately bilious, could see them in their recreations without very much respecting the character that is so easily, s... ...e tearing down from the house tops as if they had been mountain tops. Mrs. Parkins, my laundress—wife of Parkins the porter, then newly dead of a drop... ...ains, steamboats, sick travellers, and luggage, is our great Pavilionstone recreation. We are not strong in other public amusements. We have a Literar... ...use is below the ground, it is a common prac tice to throw the sheep down areas, neck and crop—which is exciting, but not at all cruel. When it is on...

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...flats and keels. The area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germ... ...subordinates reached the junction of the Wisconsin with the Mississippi. Mr. Parkman says: ‘Before them a wide and rapid current coursed athwart their... ...kasaw Bluffs,” where they halted and built Fort Prudhomme. ‘Again,’ says Mr. Parkman, “they embarked; and with ev ery stage of their adventurous prog... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...m the big stormy mate, and I was on the alert for an opportunity to do him a service to that end. It came at last. The riotous powwow of setting a spa... ...e where it is—I’ll fetch it!” If a rag picker had offered to do a diplomatic service for the Emperor of Russia, the monarch could not have been more a... ...rve to show how narrow some of the chutes were. The passengers had an hour’s recreation in a virgin wilderness, while the boat hands chopped the bridg... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ...the bear in sole possession. He presently grew lonesome, and started out for recreation. He ranged the whole boat—visited every part of it, with an ad...

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...s soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which is operating upon private property, pi... ...ollowed? From every one of the bridges over the river, and from other open areas which commanded the spectacle, there arose a sustained uproar of admi... ..., that it was a private event of that order which rose to the dignity of a national event. 2 But now, having prepared the reader to appreciate on its... ...for its own pe- culiar purposes, but utterly incommensurate to the general service of the capital, it was a most dangerous quarter. Every third man at... ... is thrown away the opportunity, not only of applying corrections to false national tastes, but oftentimes even to the unfair accidents of luck that b... ...ant 133 Thomas de Quincey litterateur, which furnished to him much of his recreation in all stages of his life, and much of his consolation in the la... ...paired duly in the morning, as he had done in former years, to St. James’s Park,—where he sate in contemplative ease amongst the cows, inhaling their ...

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...ty to repair a part of the wrong done to the other boy by doing a precious service for this one by undermining his foolish faith in his false gods. He... ... in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let us adjourn. Where have we arrived? O.M. At this. Th... ...t. But take the case of servant tipping in Europe. You pay the hotel for service; you owe the servants nothing, yet you pay them besides. Doesn’t th... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...tch itself wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ...be he did. If he did, it seriously short ened his law study hours and his recreation time in the courts. In those very days he was writing great play... ... it did; it could have attended cat assizes on the shed roof nights, for recreation, when no one was noticing, and have harvested a knowledge of cat... ...ed his Apologia from the Latin so correctly that neither he nor Archbishop Parker could suggest a single alteration.” It is the atmosphere we are rea...

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...olved some compromise of his dignity, went, awkwardly enough, away. Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reputation f... ...ly expectation day and night of being summoned, in conjunction with Doctor Parker Pep. 7 Charles Dickens ‘Well, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps in a ro... ...tland Place and Bryanstone Square.’ It was a corner house, with great wide areas containing cellars frowned upon by barred windows, and leered at by c... ...powder Plot, and occasionally 65 Charles Dickens read responses from that service. During the whole of these proceedings, Mr Dombey re- mained as imp... ...of this house, you have done your duty . Desir- ing to connect some little service to you with this occasion, I considered how I could best effect tha... ...orway, and put there to prevent the little MacStingers in their moments of recreation from tumbling down the steps. ‘ A boy that can knock my door dow... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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... you doing about here at this time of day? I thought you were on the night service this month.” “We’ve changed about a bit,” answered the other. “Come... ...? Do they remember the man that stood by them and risked his life in their service? No. They cut my pay down just as off-hand as they do the pay of a... ...hing seemed to combine to lower the price of wheat. The extension of wheat areas always exceeded increase of population; competition was growing fierc... ...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ...ity Hall, the usual loafers sat, chewing tobacco, swapping stories. In the park were the inevitable array of nursemaids, skylarking couples, and ragge... ..., friend and acquaintance of every man and woman in the town, stood by the park entrance, leaning an el- bow on the fence post, twirling his club. But... ..., and down go the prices. The remedy is not in the curtailing of our wheat areas, but in this, we must have new markets, greater markets. For years we... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ... ...succeeding crop. It was the mystery of creation, the stupendous miracle of recreation; the vast rhythm of the seasons, measured, alternative, the sun ...

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...he country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what w...

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...helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and ... ...ho had on her bonnet and shawl, hurried along the shrubbery and across the park that she might wander through the bordering wood with no other visible... ...tead of Lazarus at the gate, we should put the pigsty cottages outside the park-gate.” Dorothea was in the best temper now. Sir James, as brother in-l... ...not like it, you are all right. But it’s a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung—that kind of thin... ... thing, you know—will not do.” “I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises,” said Mr. Casaubon.... ...ny reason for being grateful to me. I 124 Middlemarch forgot what a great service you think it if any one snuffs a candle for you. Fred also had his ... ...e promoted in town, and many more got a legal right to practise over large areas in the country. Also, the high stan- dard held up to the public mind ... ...tor. “But I hope it will be long before this part of the country loses the services of my friend Chichely, even though it might get the best man in ou... ...ainst Middlemarch, Middlemarch was becoming more and more conscious of the national struggle for another kind of Reform. By the time that Lord John Ru...

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...he country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what w...

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...helpless looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and ... ...ho had on her bonnet and shawl, hurried along the shrubbery and across the park that she might wander through the bordering wood with no other visible... ...tead of Lazarus at the gate, we should put the pigsty cottages outside the park gate.” Dorothea was in the best temper now. Sir James, as brother in l... ...not like it, you are all right. But it’s a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung—that kind of thin... ... do.” 50 Book I — Miss Brooke “I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises,” said Mr. Casaubon.... ...’t know you had any reason for being grateful to me. I forgot what a great service you think it if any one snuffs a candle for you. Fred also had his ... ...e promoted in town, and many more got a legal right to practise over large areas in the country. Also, the high standard held up to the public mind by... ...tor. “But I hope it will be long before this part of the country loses the services of my friend Chichely, even though it might get the best man in ou... ...ainst Middlemarch, Middlemarch was becoming more and more conscious of the national struggle for another kind of Reform. By the time that Lord John Ru...

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... tion produced a considerable correspondence, which has been of very great service in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by le... ...fare. Even more obviously is this the case with his wife. Even in rest and recreation life still manifests its quality; the books the ordinary man rea... ...honour, and obey a King, and that they rejoice in this conception of their national purpose. Great sums of money were spent to emphasize this purpose,... ...ese things, or only a very grudging and qualified part, on his way to real service. He may or he may not, after deliberate examination, leave these th... ... of the new knowledge has taken for its work, so also are the loyalties of nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for pa... ...owners who attempted to stifle sound populations by using highly habitable areas as golf links, private parks, game preserves, and the like, and publi... ...e sound populations by using highly habitable areas as golf links, private parks, game preserves, and the like, and public-spirited people could combi... .... None of this has been very fully analyzed, of course (there are enormous areas of valuable research in these mat- ters waiting for people of intelli... ...th echoes of Froebel, T olstoy , Herbert Spencer, Ruskin, Herbart, Colonel Parker, Mr. Harris, Matthew Arnold, and the Morn- ing Post, trying to find ...

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...time availed to re-establish the child in conva- lescence. These practical services, and the messages of ma- ternal sympathy repeatedly conveyed from ... ... little contemplating either of these results, Agnes had done a prodigious service to the poor desolate mother by breaking the force of her misery, as... ... direction of the public minister who presided over that department of the national administra- tion, no person could be admitted to an interview with... ...ughout the year in which the prisoners were al- lowed to celebrate a great national event: and in those days of relaxed prison management the utmost l... ...d mass of dark green foliage—a belt of trees, such as we see in the lovely parks of England, but islanded by a screen (though not everywhere occupied ... ...to go, and over difficult ground; but at length it reached the forest-like park and the chateau of the wealthy proprietress. Kate was still half-fro- ... ...or had built a gorgeous hunt- ing-lodge, to which he resorted annually for recreation and relief from the cares of government. Led onwards in pursuit ... ...hat are now unfolding and pre- paring to unfold before us, are many vacant areas upon which the astronomer may pitch his secret pavilion. He may dedi-...