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... and felt it to be, of all others the most proper subject of thanksgiving unto God, and open acknowledgment in the sight of men; but when this instru... ...eous idea which prevaileth of judgment to come, He did deliver me from my darkness, and open my eyes to the knowledge and my heart to the desire of ... ...nd, and the series of thick-coming judgments and fearful perplexities was just about to open, I felt it as an immediate and overpowering duty which ... ...ch, and the personal advent of the Lord to destroy the one and to build up the other, I opened and defended out of the S criptures from sabbath to sa... ...ap these churches while they had all their eyes upon the word of God, and drew up their standards from the word of God. But now that men have presum... ...ions, Satan hath closed with us and overthrown us: and now our churches, which in their standards abhor all communion of the old man with the new ma... ...t be thought competent to decide on the best manner of its publication, and so wait the openings of Divine Providence. When the Lord hath a work to ... ...his time, while endeavouring to maintain their spiritual doctrines. Were it not for the standards of the reformation behind which I can rally myself... ...he greater number have not even a faith, or if they have a verbal faith, founded on the standards of their churches, have no actual faith in the per...

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... all things that make and pass, striving upon a hidden mission, out to the open sea. To Frederick Soddy’s INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM This story, which o... ...nd apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening phase of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of t... ... was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch of the British... ... were all justified before the book had been published six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has ha... ...leadership in war, and priest and king began to develop their roles in the opening drama of man’s history. The priest’s solicitude was seed-time and h... ...ng thither from Cairo, and to follow the Nile up to Khartum. Even by later standards, it must have been a very gleeful holiday for a young man, and it... ...e with a very tall and slender campanile and a line of cable bearing metal standards that he could not clear. He stopped his engine abruptly and dropp... ...ower. It was a world extraordinarily limited when one measures it by later standards, and it was now in a state of the direst confusion and distress. ...

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... and excited by the bulletins of that electoral battle that was for me the opening opportunity . I see the stencilled names and numbers go up on the g... ...paces of the floor and the bare brown surround were the water channels and open sea of that continent of mine. I still remember with infinite gratitud... ...wrong, and sometimes misled the too ob- servant learner very seriously and opened demoralising con- troversies. Quite early in life I acquired an almo... ...es are of digging and wheeling, of woods invaded by building, roads gashed open and littered with iron pipes amidst a fearful smell of gas, of men pee... ... ruling a seemly “home of taste,” with a vivarium in the conservatory that opened out of the drawing-room, or again, making preserves in the kitchen. ... ...at- tempt to understand or tolerate these outbreaks. She tried them by her standards, and by her standards they were wrong. Her standards hid him from... ...nted myself more completely grown than I was. At any rate, by all ordinary standards, I had “got on” very well, and my ideas, if they had not changed ... ...is and always had been unusual. She had not married, I suppose because her standards were high, and men are cowards and with an instinctive appetite f... ...t need training in charity and imaginative sympathy. Here are no universal standards at all, and indeed for no single man nor woman does there seem to...

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... he was still convinced there was something, something in the nature of an Open Sesame, perhaps a little more intricate than one had sup- posed at fir... ...e difficult to secure, but still in that nature, which would suddenly roll open for mankind the magic cave of the universe, that precious cave at the ... ...- cal republicanism rather in the manner of Shelley. This brought him into open conflict with Roddles, the History Master. Roddles had discovered thes... ...e First Limitation,” and the material in it was evidently designed for the opening volume of the great unfinished book. Indeed, a portion of it was al... ... 4 “Fear, the First Limitation”—his title indicated the spirit of Benham’s opening book very clearly. His struggle with fear was the very beginning of... ...forehand for any- thing in this filthy sort of life is a fool. You see the standards of the beast. They think of nothing but their dirty little tricks... ...miscellaneous tenderness, Benham? Why grin at it? Why try every one by the standards that suit oneself? We’re savages, Benham, shamefaced savages, sti... ...issionaries from Glasgow, and what doesn’t remind them of these delectable standards seems either funny to them or wicked. I admit the thing is slight...

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...place. It was so early an hour in the morning that the shops were scarcely opened as yet; the churches, however, stood open for the faithful, and we m... ...e sea-castle—bearing the unconquerable flag of our country. She had but to open her jaws, as it were, and she might bring a second earthquake on the c... ...the doors of which you may see the sergeants’ ladies conversing; or at the open windows of the officers’ quarters, Ensign Fipps lying on his sofa and ... ...t the endless cannon- ball plantations; awkward squads are drilling in the open spaces:sentries marching everywhere, and (this is a caution to artists... ... iron bedsteads at the time in a cracked old room on the ground-floor, the open windows of which looked into the square. No spot could be more favoura... ... 36 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo a couple of ragged old standards of one of the English regi- ments, who pursued and conquered in E...

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... coat on to a massive mahogany stand. “What name, Sir?” she asked, holding open the door of the consulting room. “Hardy,” said the gentleman, and then... ...h out of the place? … “I’ve given my name.” … He heard the door behind him open and for a moment pretended not to hear. Then he turned round. “I don’t... ...ough the gaps.” Upstairs on Dr. Martineau’s desk lay the typescript of the opening chapters of a book that was intended to make a great splash in the ... ...-blinded by science and the possibilities of controlling the world that it opens out. In that light your will is all for service; you care more for ma... ...n.” “T o begin with. Three weeks of perfect honesty with your- self. As an opening…. It will take longer than that if we are to go through with the jo... ... people who seem always to be happy and to radiate happiness. “By ordinary standards,” said Sir Richmond, “she was a thoroughly bad lot. She had about... ...less and unnecessary ill- ness,’ was it? … “Now has a man any right by any standards to use women as this man has used them? “By any standards?” The d... ...altogether. Here was a man whose life 45 H G Wells was evidently ruled by standards that were at once very high and very generous. He was overworking... ... Martineau said. “In which case we want the completest revision of all our standards of sexual obligation. We want a new system of re- strictions and ...

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...e to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chanced to be open simultaneously, a sudden draught of air gushed in, damp, glacial, and ... ...s mind; and, in fact, Landry was as clean without as within. He was frank, open-hearted, full of fine sentiments and exalta- tions and enthusiasms. Un... ...ks and book-keepers in shirt- sleeves bending over desks. Every office was open, and every one of them full of a feverish activity. The side- walks we... ... to help,” observed Laura, and at once Aunt Wess’ smiled. Landry Court was openly and strenuously in love with Laura, and no one of the new house-hold... ...id, “that’s over with. Look, I’m all dusty.” There was a knock at the half-open door. It was the cook. “What are you going to have for supper, Miss De... ... limits. The elaborated water-color, I contend, must be judged by the same standards as an oil painting. And if that is so, why not have the oil paint...

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..., the large red building of the school rose up peacefully, the windows all open for the holiday. Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and ... ...tly that her appearance was complete and perfect, accord- ing to the first standards, yet she suffered a torture, under her confidence and her pride, ... ...he quick of all laughter and pleasure. The door of the carriage was thrown open, to let out the very blossom of the day. The people on the roadway mur... ... He waited at the door of the carriage patiently, self-obliterated. In the opening of the doorway was a shower of fine foliage and flowers, a whitenes... ...arm of the bridegroom, who stared up into the sky before him, shutting and opening his eyes unconsciously, as if he were neither here nor there. He lo... ...nd if he does want my hat, such as it is,’ said Birkin, ‘why, surely it is open to me to decide, which is a greater loss to me, my hat, or my liberty ... ... at all, do you?’ he challenged Birkin, censoriously. ‘Standard—no. I hate standards. But they’re necessary for the common ruck. Anybody who is anythi... ...d or not, she signified the real world to him. He wanted to come up to her standards, fulfil her expectations. He knew that her criterion was the only... ...ng herself the measure of everything, making everything come down to human standards. Rupert is quite right, human beings are boring, painting the uni...

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...n early- wrinkled, young-old mother, moving as though her joints were dry, opens a suit-case in which are seen creased blouses, a pair of slippers wor... ...bands of pink skull apparent between the tresses, anxiously lifts her bag, opens it, peers in, closes it, puts it under the seat, and hastily picks it... ..., peers in, closes it, puts it under the seat, and hastily picks it up and opens it and hides it all over again. The bag is full of treasures and of m... ...eet of a carpenter, who grunts, “Ouch! Look out!” The dust-caked doors are open, and from the smoking- car drifts back a visible blue line of stinging... ...when Kennicott was satisfied that he had corrected all her worries and had opened a magazine of saffron detective stories, she sat upright. Here—she m... ... “My lamb, they do! Now don’t say they’re nervy. After all, Gopher Prairie standards are as reasonable to Gopher Prairie as Lake Shore Drive standards... ... the morals of Gopher Prairie by officially announcing that it is! … These standards that you and I live up to! There’s one thing that’s the matter wi...

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...isitor and stranger, should be des- tined to succeed to it, broke out into open war. And, divid- ing themselves into two companies, one part of them m... ...r. And, divid- ing themselves into two companies, one part of them marched openly from Sphettus, with their father, against the city, the other, hidin... ...ately in the night, and had the form rather of a religious rite than of an open spectacle or public feast. There are some who say that the Isthmian ga... ... city of Athens being in consternation, Menestheus persuaded the people to open their gates, and receive them with all manner of friendship, for they ... ...hus forcibly seized. Not long after the first foundation of the city, they opened a sanctuary of refuge for all fugitives, which they called the templ... ...ctator’s tent, Fabius went forth to meet him, on which he at once laid his standards at his feet, calling him with a loud voice his father; while the ...

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...over the inci- dents that immediately followed it. He wondered what it was open to him, after such an introduction, to do in relation to her, and he d... ... irritating, passed and repassed, accompanied, in the air so tremendously “open,” that rendered all voices weak and most remarks rather flat, by fragm... ...nd taciturn, ex- cept when occasionally they remarked to a passenger whose open trunk stared up at them, eloquent, implor- ing, that they were afraid ... ...h much eagerness to the functionary who had just liberated him. She had an open letter in her hand which she gave him to read and over which he cast h... ...t do for you,” he responded with an equal geniality. “I guess you’d better open that one”—and he gave a little affectionate kick to one of the trunks.... ...urn that the only way to enjoy the great Re- public would be to burn one’s standards and warm one’s self at the blaze. Such were the reflexions of a t...

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...once?” But the fellow had scuttled out of my room. Through the momentarily opened door I had a glimpse of a tall, stout man standing in the cuddy by t... ... gleam, as if ignorant of his 9 Joseph Conrad voice. As you may imagine I opened my ears very wide. Ev- ery word was precious. My ideas as to the val... ...nt customs. In a community so isolated and so exclusively “trading” social standards have their own scale. CHAPTER II I WOULD HA VE GLADLY dispensed w... ...as very sensitive himself. He remained as if thunderstruck, with his mouth open for some further commu- nication, but I did not give him the chance. “... ...of trouble,” I contradicted. “And in the end some fool leaves the skylight open in a fresh breeze, a flick of salt water gets at them and the whole lo... ...s sufferer with advice. It was prompted by the sight of a hammer (used for opening the wine-cases, I suppose) which was lying on the floor. “If I were...

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... of reverent vagueness, that tenderness of touch, which is by all Anglican standards im- perative in so deep, so mysterious, and, nowadays, in mixed s... ...arelessly thrown. It was in the form of that sleeveless cassock of purple, opening at the side, whose lower flap is called a bishop’s apron; the corne... ...gan of Pinner, he had never faltered from his profound confidence in those standards of his home. He had been kind, popular, and endlessly active. His... ...n when the bishop capitulated in favour of Princhester, that decision only opened a fresh trouble for him. Princhester wanted the palace to be a palac... ...egardful of all the bishop’s world. Across the fields a line of gaunt iron standards, abominably designed, carried an electric cable to some unknown e... ...il- derness of sidings and trucks, signal-boxes, huts, coal-pits, electric standards, goods sheds, turntables, and engine-houses, that ends in a bluis... ...rister would have said, “That is my case, my lord.” The bishop prepared to open the next stage in the proceedings. “I think, Norah, you shouldn’t have... ...rol- lable realities beyond it, but his daughter had as it were sud- denly opened a door in this glassy sphere of insecurity that had been his abiding... ...ld, half woman, so fragile 35 H G Wells and so fearless. And the door she opened thus carelessly gave upon a stormy background like one of the stormy...

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... only express himself in his creation—then there are some of us to whom an open display of sentiment is repugnant. I would not unduly praise the virtu... ...iating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in di... ...ence? And besides—this, remember, is the place and the moment of perfectly open talk—I think that all am- bitions are lawful except those which climb ... ...hich is not a grin. Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings ... ...not have told him he had put to flight the psychology of Nina Almayer, her opening speech of the tenth chapter and the words of Mrs. Almayer’s wisdom ... ... rules and no principles. And that may be very true. Rules, principles and standards die and vanish every day. Perhaps they are all dead and vanished ...

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...e scattered angels round. “Welcome to Norham, Marmion! Stout heart, and open hand! Well dost thou brook thy gallant roan, Thou flower of English... ...ese, Exposed to the tempestuous seas, Scourged by the winds’ eternal sway, Open to rovers fierce as they, Which could twelve hundred years withstand W... ...pon destruction’s wing; Then shall these vaults, so strong and deep, Burst open to the sea-winds’ sweep; Some traveller then shall find my bones White... .... They love a captain to obey, Boisterous as March, yet fresh as May; With open hand, and brow as free, Lover of wine and minstrelsy; Ever the first t... ...er cares denied, That now, November’s dreary gale, Whose voice inspired my opening tale, That same November gale once more Whirls the dry leaves on Ya... ...ky den, Where flows the sullen Till, And rising from the dim-wood glen, Standards on stardards, men on men, In slow succession still, And, sweep... ...ng high, Saint George might waken from the dead, T o see fair England’s standards fly.” “Stint in thy prate,” quoth Blount, “thou’dst best, And lis...

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...of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole life and environment have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragment or fi- bre of his Soul, Body, and ... ...ompleted;—thereby, in these his seemingly so aimless rambles, planting new standards, founding new habitable colonies, in the immeasurable circumambie... ...lace; with more of assurance on our side, with less of satire (at least of open satire) on his, than we anticipated; for the rest, with such issue as ... ...d talent for meditation he is possessed of. Let him strive to keep a free, open sense; cleared from the mists of prejudice, above all from the paralys... ...to- bacco,” held in it a mighty heart. The secrets of man’s Life were laid open to thee; thou sawest into the mystery of the Universe, farther than an... ...om his mild ways, an agreeable phe- nomenon there; more especially when he opened his lips for speech; on which occasions the whole Coffee-house would... ...? Intrinsic significance these had none: only extrinsic; as the accidental Standards of multitudes more or less sacredly uniting together; in which un...

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...only express himself in his creation— then there are some of us to whom an open display of senti- ment is repugnant. I would not unduly praise the vir... ...iating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in di... ...ence? And besides—this, remember, is the place and the moment of perfectly open talk—I think that all ambitions are lawful except those which climb up... ...hich is not a grin. Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open- eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our 9 Jose... ...t have told him he had put to flight the psy- chology of Nina Almayer, her opening speech of the tenth chap- ter, and the words of Mrs. Almayer’s wisd... ...rules and no principles. And that may be very true. Rules, principles, and standards die and vanish every day. Perhaps they are all dead and vanished ...

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... I had beguiled our sorry interval by finding in her a vague recall of the opening of some novel of Madame Sand. It didn’t make her more fathomable to... ...rs, though practically he got tired of them; she, however, had the highest standards about eleemosynary forms. She offered the odd spectacle of a spir... ...had anticipated Bayreuth. The very gates of the kingdom of light seemed to open and the horizon of thought to flash with the beauty of a sunrise at se... ...elf. We fared in company, and though he had a blue-book in his lap and the open jaws of his bag threatened me with the white teeth of confused pa- per... ...a greater effect last evening. We had two or three people, but he scarcely opened his mouth.” “He’ll be all the better to-night,” I opined after a mo-... ...t, as it was hoped that new beneficia- ries would arise and come up to new standards, it wouldn’t be a trifle that the first of these worthies shouldn... ...ain to you that they hadn’t your address.” I turned the thing over without opening it. “Why in the world should they write to me?” “Because they’ve so...

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...ing it to exercise its authority as it may see fit. CHAPTER 1 “Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold:— S... ...gan to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloudless eastern sky. In an instant the w... ... was not more bright nor delicate than the bloom on her cheek; nor was the opening day more cheering than the ani- mated smile which she bestowed on t... ...uced no sound from the other, in the surprise her veil also was allowed to open its folds, and betrayed an indescribable look of pity, ad- miration, a... ...g the dark and tangled pathway. The young man regarded the last speaker in open admiration, and even permitted her fairer, though certainly not more b... ... these again swung, heavily opening and closing in silken folds, the rival standards of England and France. A hundred gay and thoughtless young French...

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...up the steps, and rang the bell; and while she was waiting for the door to open, kept close in the porch, and talked to him from that point as out of ... ...he light from the neighbouring street-lamp and sparkled; and when the door opened and closed upon her, John felt cruelly alone. He proceeded slowly ba... ...t was remarkable what bright pros- pects were just then in the very act of opening before each of that little company of youths, and what pious consid... ...h the door and prove its untruth. As he went, he struck upon a drawer left open in the business table. It was the money-drawer, a measure of his fathe... ...mo mentous misadventures, which were more than he de- sired, and, by human standards, more than he deserved; how he reached California, how he was roo... ...use on Re- gent Terrace, kept for him in old days by an aunt. The door was opened (to his surprise) upon the chain, and a voice asked him from within ...