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...victims to the present state of things as the nobil- ity themselves. After political overturn comes the overturn of morals. Alas! before long woman wo... ..., the management of public business in those days was by no means clean. A political spy, a stock-jobber, a contrac- tor, a man who confiscated in col... ... them. Thus, if the two old bachelors had not been kept asunder by the two political systems of which they each offered a living expression, their pri... ...ruminating, offered to his ambition, through the half of her property, the political career of a deputy. Besides, his marriage with the old maid would... ...selves young, and in a position to choose a husband. France knows that the political system of Napoleon resulted in making many widows. Under that re-... ... we are with myths. Myths are pressing us from every point; they serve all theories, they explain all questions. They are, according to human ideas, t...

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...his teeth, his sudden wooden laugh, the absence of smiles, his exclusively political or politic-economical conversation, his passion for roast beef an... ...-rooms, and in his behaviour was more than ever Anglomaniac, grumbling and political. But the year 1825 came and brought much sorrow. Intimate friends... ...o doze off to the sound of the chatter of the old steward; he, the man of! political ideas, burnt all his schemes, all his correspondence, trembled be... ...repancy between his father’s words and 41 deeds, between his wide liberal theories and his harsh petty despotism; but he had not expected such a comp... ...less self-confidence, and playing with the weightiest ad- ministrative and political questions, as a juggler plays with balls. The expressions: “That’...

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...gles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had been previously established for the great... ...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...it was not intended to include other colored races -creates a new phase of political conditions that M. De Tocqueville could not foresee. Yet, in his ... ...ounty governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide de... ...truct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hith- erto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spe... ...truct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hith- erto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spe... ...esponded in many points with the most absolute demo- cratic and republican theories. It was this tendency which had aroused its most dangerous adversa...

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...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ...broad evidences of the credulity with which we have adopted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fiel... ...gy. And in what way could such a polemic interest be evoked except through political partisanship? But such partisanship connects itself naturally wit... ...n sect a peculiar denomination are also those which record its hon- orable political conflicts; so that his own connection, through his religious brot... ...e facts have been collected from all quarters,—examined, sifted, winnowed. Theories have been raised upon these facts un- der every angle of aspect; a... ...rs 166 Memorials, and Other Papers more vividly exemplified than in their theories upon the Pa- gan Oracles. On behalf of God, they were determined t... ..., indeed, we are all so deeply indebted to English wisdom on matters where theories really are dangerous, that we ought not to wonder or to complain i... ...e is a high presumption that he is in the right. In whatever rough way his theories are tossed about, they seem always, like a cat, to light upon thei...

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...eeper than the Seine,” said Raphael. “Oh, you don’ t understand me; I mean political crime. Since this morning, a conspirator’s life is the only one I... ... stood the young and auda- cious writer, who distilled the quintessence of political ideas better than any other man, or compressed the work of some p... ... she has.” “Oh, ho! No and yes, is not that the sum-up of all reli- gious, political, or literary dissertations? Man is a clown danc- ing on the edge ... ... and things supplied the half-tones in a crudely contrasted picture of two theories of life so diametri- 59 Balzac cally opposed. If you were not dru... ... to take the greatest interest in it, and all the more when I set forth my theories amusingly, instead of adopting the formal language of a professor ... ...elped me at any rate to find in my own excitement some living proofs of my theories. There was something ex- ceedingly odd in this combination of love... ...of,’ whispered Rastignac; ‘he is a chemist, a historian, a novelist, and a political writer; he has gone halves, thirds, or quarters in the authorship... ...of ducks assembled against its will, but luckily without either charter or political principles, living in com- plete immunity from sportsmen, under t... ...the fact that he is ill; some sort of treatment he must have. Let us leave theories alone, and put leeches on him, to counteract the nervous and intes...

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...at the mortality of these streets is double that of others! To sum up such theories by a single example: is not the rue Fromentin both murderous and p... ...ducation of the bourgeoisie; between religion and fancy-balls; between two political faiths, between Louis XVIII., who saw only the present, and Charl...

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...lways his last resource when he found his little friend getting him into a political, social, or theological corner. But this was the origin of a seri... ... out; and with the blessing of Providence upon the harvest (natu- ral, not political), I now dismiss you. All this is true, but the Circumlocution Off... ...he opportunity.’ Such a purchase would involve not only a great legitimate political influence, but some half-dozen church presentations of considerab... ...e most prejudiced people under the sun. This, therefore, might be called a political position of the Bleeding Hearts; but they entertained other objec... ...fly acted on by—’ ‘By the Barnacles?’ interrupted Gowan, laughing. ‘By the political gentlemen who condescend to keep the Circumlocution Office.’ ‘Ah!... ...ater people, had al- ways been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. When the storm of dust had cleared away and...

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...hington, a prestige suffi- cient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. ... ...fused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are ... ...ed in civil matters by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theories of free government. He was justus et tenax prop- ositi; and in per... ... no politi- cal power, as power is counted in the States. They vote for no political officer, not even for the President, and return no member to Cong... ...Parliament the House of Commons has greater po- litical strength and wider political action than the House of Lords; but in Congress the Senate counts... ...and rebellion, as Naples has lately succeeded in her attempt to change her political status; as Hungary is looking to do; as Poland has been seeking t... ...ce. We all, here in England, have the same ludicrous conception of Utopian theories of government *It must not, however, be supposed that by this “doi... ...e learned from books a perfect system of managing nations. To produce such theories is especially the part of a Frenchman; to disbelieve in them is es... ...pted into their form of government, and think that many of their political theories are wrong. We do not like universal suffrage. We do not like a per...

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...tion of Charlotte Stant’s arrival, ceased to linger, though with hopes and theories, as to some promptitude of renewal, of which the lively expression... ...er to be drawn into a statement of his idea. Statements were too much like theories, in which one lost one’s way; he only knew what he said, and what ... ...is constitution, or of Charlotte’s, that might prevail there. That artless theories could and did prevail was a fact he had ended by accepting, under ... ...ling. What was supremely grotesque in fact was the essential opposition of theories—as if a galantuomo, as 182 The Golden Bowl he at least constituti... ...moothly working man, each in his way a lubricated item of the great social political administrative engrenage—claimed most of all Castledean himself, ...

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...rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitle... ...he story of eccentric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to ... ...c selectively draws from multiple sources—Islam, history, and the region’s political and economic malaise. He also stresses griev- ances against the U... ...a’s leaders said “desires death more than you desire life.” 15 History and Political Context Few fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world gained ... ...l Context Few fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world gained lasting political power. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, fundamentalists... ...’s praise for the attack, his long record of involvement in terrorism, and theories that Ramzi Y ousef was an Iraqi agent and Iraq was behind the 1993... ...aq and al Qaeda in chapter 2.We have found no credible evidence to support theories of Iraqi govern- ment involvement in the 1993 WTC bombing.W olfowi... ... in his memo that he had attempted in June to get the CIA to explore these theories. 74. DOD memo,Wolfowitz to Rumsfeld,“Were We Asleep?” Sept. 18, 20...

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...under a more serious obligation.” And he then put some questions as to the political condition of America, which Silas answered with sense and proprie... ...hall only add that Mr. Scuddamore has already begun to mount the ladder of political fame, and by last advices was the Sheriff of his native town. THE... ...rthmour, it would show a change in his habits and an apostasy from his pet theories of life, well calculated to fill me with surprise. When he and I d...

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...s which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. His only political feeling had been hith- erto a sentimental Jacobitism, not more or... ...domontade, but filled with living indignation, to de- clare his right to a political opinion, and his willingness to shed his blood for the political ... ...ate, before it becomes fully operative. Strange excursions and high-flying theories may interest, but they cannot rule behaviour. Our faith is not the... ... and between friends of the same sex, but in the field of the less intense political sympathies; and his ideal man must not only be a generous friend ... ...should prevail.” For his part, he would not “for an instant recognise that political organisation for his government which is the slave’s government a... ... thus did it come twice, though in a subaltern attitude, into the field of political history. NOTE. – For many facts in the above essay, among which I...