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...ispers. Razumov was one of those men who, living in a period of mental and political un- rest, keep an instinctive hold on normal, practical, everyday... ...im upon anybody in the world has in an hour of trial involving his deepest political convictions turned to an illustrious Russian—that’s all.” The Pri... .... No doubt you shall be looked upon as a martyr some day —a sort of hero—a political saint. But I beg to be excused. I am content in fitting myself to... ... the spirit of cynicism. It informs the declarations of her statesmen, the theories of her revolutionists, and the mystic vaticinations of prophets to... ...udoir with his confession.” Razumov sat up in anguish. W as he to remain a political sus- pect all his days? W as he to go through life as a man not w... ...Secretariat. Hearing a great noise of footsteps in the hall and aware that political pris- oners were brought over sometimes at night from the fortres...

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.... There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These ... ... small but definite ways bad. One thing I claim, I have got my beliefs and theories out of my life and not fitted them to its circumstances. As often ... .... In the world of ideas about me, I have found going on a great social and political movement that correlates itself with my conception of a great syn... ...eme. This movement is Socialism. Socialism is to me no clear-cut system of theories and dogmas; it is one of those solid and extensive and syn- thetic... ... Imperialists and Tariff Reformers, and I suppose that among the prominent political figures of to-day the nearest approach to my New Republi- cans is... ...p of the implica- tions of the propositions under discussion. The ordinary political Socialist desires, as I desire, and as I suppose every sane man d... ... not that our guns and ships are marvellously good, but that our press and political organizations are haphazard 105 H. G . Wells growths entirely in... ...ather like a sheep, emotional, hasty and shallow, the practical outcome of political democracy in all large commu- nities under modern conditions is t...

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...with France or claim to her throne. The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Mo... ...ey foresaw for themselves the bright and cheering prospect of a revivified political existence. An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, n... ...t, I have laid aside even the name of my father, and altogether disown his political principles. He was — nay, probably may still be — a Bonapartist, ... ...I ask is, that Villefort will be firm and inflexible for the future in his political principles. Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourse... ...ready recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharp... ...riosity in the neigh- borhood of the Allees de Meillan, and a multitude of theories were afloat, none of which was anywhere near the truth. But what r... ...eness, a strict fidelity to government principles, a profound contempt for theories and theorists, a deep-seated hatred of ideal- ity, — these were th...

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...th suspi- cion. There is nobody to speak for Thomas except people who have theories to work off on him; and nobody under- stands Thomas except Thomas,... ...o, because the theory is stated in beautiful En- glish with all the latest political colour. There be other men who, though uneducated, see visions an... ... pulling at the huqa. ‘He returns to a country now full of educational and political reform, but, as the Pearl says, there are many who remember him. ... ...b, where I found him and enquired of him whether it was really true that a political prisoner had been added to the attractions of the Fort. The Sub-a...

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...o Hecataeus. For there was an hereditary feud between them, arising out of political differences, and Eumenes had more than once been known to denounc... ...cret practices in the midst of the people, and countermining Pompey in all political matters of most importance. He himself with his army close about ... ...f all Greece. Thirdly, Pompey’s transgressions of right and justice in his political life were occasioned chiefly by his relations with other people, ... ...s, and of Politics, but also something of those more abstruse and profound theories which these philoso- phers, by the very names they gave them, prof... ...s manner of life contrib- uted little by little to create and increase his political influ- ence. His enemies slighted the growth of it at first, pres... ...veral seasons, in just proportions to the whole creation. So it happens in political affairs; if the mo- tions of rulers be constantly opposite and cr...

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...estant, because it has had no policy but that of negation; it inherits the theories of Lutherans, Cal- vinists, and Protestants on the terrible words ... ... her justification. The product of liberty of will, religious liberty, and political liberty (not, observe this, to be confounded with civil liberty) ... ...where power has no vigor; where election, the fruit of liberty of will and political liberty, lifts to the surface none but commonplace men; where bru... ... of will, ought not to teach the dogma of liberty of conscience, or demand political liberty. But, as no society can exist without guarantees granted ... ...Duc d’Orleans. The record of Marie dé Medici is heavier still. Neither had political genius. It was in the course of these studies that the writer ac-... ...we may clearly see in it the influence of thought. But before entering the political arena, where Catherine will be seen facing the two great difficul... ...eat and unknown kings, the rulers of this science, I stand for the ancient theories, not the new. I believe in the transforma- tions of matter which I... ...will be destroyed in turn by its material consequences, which will turn to theories in due time. Europe is at the present moment getting the better of... ...inces are still sending us worthy men who take a serious view of political theories and the history of France. It is a leaven which will rise.” “Is yo...

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...variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V ... ...he other hand, largely to fertilize the many occasions of agitation, which political fermentations are too sure to throw off. Let this chance turn out... ...s adul- terating with her principle, to an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the F... ...and the truth of facts has been so much forced to bend before preconceived theories, whereas every valid theory ought to be abstracted from the facts,... ...onal temper in every stage of their growth; whilst the third abstracts the political or the ethical moral, and unfolds the philosophy which knits the ... ... simply on the ground of its limited extent; contending that in public and political transactions, such as compose the matter of history, human nature...

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...tance, I should have abandoned you to their wrath. “The release, civil and political, which it is so hard to win, which the police is so right to with... ...d too compromising, as if the physician and the writer, the priest and the political student, were not above all suspi- cion. However, a doctor who wa... ...man in the way just when we least expect such an obstacle. However great a political man may be, he always needs a woman to set against a woman, just ... ...oducing into it that which makes it delightful to most people—the stamp of political influence and dominion. You 49 Balzac will be as great as you no... ... will always be, you will die a prostitute; for in spite of the delightful theories of cattle-breeders, you can never, here below, become anything but... ...usted by King Ferdinand VII., to whom a bishop had recommended him, with a political mis- sion to France. The bishop, the only man who took any in- te... ...antly riveted by the hammer of necessity. Modern innovators write unctuous theories, long drawn, and 389 Balzac nebulous or philanthropical romances;...

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...wing eulogy or an accusation of levity? Should you like me to carry out my theories, daddy?” “By Jove, we should see some queer things!” cried Lord Wa... ...be firm,” the old man rejoined; “they’ll not be affected by the social and political changes I just referred to.” “You mean they won’t be abolished? V... ...e.” “I don’t think I am; I’ve been told I’m not; I’m said to have too many theories. But you haven’t told me about the ghost,” she added. Ralph, howev... ...he empty drawing-room. CHAPTER VI Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her for- tune ... ...s part an impulse more tender and more purely expectant. It was one of her theories that Isabel Archer was very fortunate in being independent, and th... ...e, as it were, had presumed to do. What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had 117 Henry James conceived the design of dr... ... no answer to the question. Another idea had come into his head. “Is it my political opinions? Do you think I go too far?” “I can’t object to your pol... ... his dissipations than in earlier days. In the list of his re- sources his political reflections should not be omitted, for they were doubtless the an... ...on of success. She took, it will be observed, not the sentimental, but the political, view of matrimony—a view which has always had much to recommend ...

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... RECEIPTS The old Chimaeras, old receipts For making “happy land,” The old political beliefs Swam close before my hand. The grand old communistic myth... ... A hundred such as these I tried, And hundreds after that, I fitted Social Theories As one would fit a hat! Full many a marsh-fire lured me on, I reac...

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... this wretched business, and there had been a scheme at once religious and political to wrest the estate and the lovely lady from the for tunate heir... ... have held such position as this title denoted in the fiercely con tested political struggles of the new democracy. “Do you know, Mr. Redclyffe, that... ...the strife, novelties, uneasy agi tating conflict, attrition of unsettled theories, fresh spring ing thought, did not attain a foothold; a good plac... ...don newspaper of the preceding day; Lillebullero, Chevy Chase, and the old political ballads; and, what a little amused Redclyffe, the three volumes o... ...England. What more is possible? How can you feel a heart’s love for a mere political arrange ment, like your Union? How can you be loyal, where per ... ...f reserve, had been coun teracted by the frank mixture with men which his political course had made necessary; he was quicker to feel what was right ...

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...eman ought to have done. His evenings were occupied. His work was in a way political, he told Winnie once. She would have, he warned her, to be very n... ...he told Winnie once. She would have, he warned her, to be very nice to his political friends. And with her straight, unfathomable glance she answered ... ...ily. “Its deliberations upon international ac- tion for the suppression of political crime don’t seem to get anywhere. England lags. This country is a... ... to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches. And they have the political power still, if they only had the sense to use it for their prese... ...urant or a theatre would suffer in the same way from the suggestion of non-political passion: the exas- peration of a hungry man, an act of social rev... ...to guide it safely he dismissed resolutely all suppositions, surmises, and theories out of his mind. He had the woman there, absolutely flinging herse...

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...man who knew himself honourably unclean, per- haps consequently a bit of a political jewel, hearing one of their number confounded for his pains, and ... ... cannot do, you must teach him to admire. A mercantile community guided by Political Economy from the ledger to the banquet presided over by its Dagon... ...or recreative dancing! And what a people, to be turning it into a place of political agitation! And what a country, where from morning to night it’s a... ...nion of the 144 One of Our Conquerors old order and the new, cessation to political turmoil: Radi- calism, Socialism, all the monster names of things... ...ncountered Mr. Caddis, and it was an encounter. Mr. Caddis represented his political opinions; but here was this cur of a Caddis whineing his niminy n... ... he brightened a moment, and he sank back absorbed in her prin- ciples and theories of life. It was understood by Nesta, that the processionists, goin... ...he laby- rinthine convolutions and changeful motives of the sex! Dartrey’s theories were absurd. Did Nataly think them dan- gerous for a young woman? ...

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...s were as a dyke against those invad- ing waters of novel opinion, social, political and other- wise, which carried away as in a torrent no few minds ... ... by birth he belonged were incensed at the innovators mainly because their theories were inimical to the privileged classes, not alone Captain Vere di...

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...us formulae, certain rules of conduct, certain concep- tions of social and political order, that had no more relevance to the realities and needs of e... ...indictment of all Lord Redcar’s class, their manners, morals, economic and political crimes, when my trouble with Nettie arose to swamp all minor trou... ...ed from the neglect of feudal obligations in Britain and the utter want of political foresight in the Americas, large masses of property had be- come ... ...ures that 164 In the Days of the Comet formed the most powerful weapon in political controversy. Like almost every main feature of the old condition ... ...and destructive speculations, the socialistic, republican, and communistic theories that one may still trace through the literature of the last days o...

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...0th of April. It ran as follows: “After examining one by one the different theories, re- jecting all other suggestions, it becomes necessary to admit ... ...ine machine, have excited public feeling in the two continents. I omit the theories without number by which it was sought to explain that of which you... ...iterature abounded in every language; but I did not see one single work on political economy; that subject appeared to be strictly proscribed. Strange... ...ned over by him, was covered with marginal notes, often contradict- ing my theories and systems; but the Captain contented himself with thus purging m...

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...nd if he were not asked to be chairman he would refuse the use of it for a political meeting. Josiah Graves told Mr. Carey that he might do as he chos... ... pedagogics, and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgivi... ...hange of yokes; he had been expelled from Geneva for it was not known what political offences. Philip looked upon him with puzzled surprise; for he wa... ... filled no breast with a hotter fire. One might fancy him, passionate with theories of human equality and human rights, discussing, arguing, fighting ... ... look like his old rooms at the Hall. He had ambi- tions that were vaguely political, he described himself as a Whig, and he was put up for a club whi... ...tely polite to him, and during the soup they talked of the weather and the political situation. There was a pause while they waited for the leg of mut... ...aw said, but Philip had a practical outlook and he grew impatient with the theories which resulted in no action. Cronshaw’s slim bundle of poetry did ... ...o, on the last day of September , eager to put into practice all these new theories of life, Philip, with sixteen hundred pounds and his club- foot, s... ...senses like anybody else, it was only a question of awakening them; he had theories about woman, the rip at heart, and thought that there 387 W. Some...

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...he three concords, and it is possible—thank Heaven!—to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. The raw bacon which clumsy Molly spares... ...he bay mare, you must have felt that, however ill he harmonized with sound theories of the clerical office, he somehow harmonized extremely well with ... ... claims unless he saw very clear grounds for ques- tioning them. He had no theories about setting the world to rights, but he saw there was a great de... ...pen to leave them quite out of our religion and philosophy and frame lofty theories which only fit a world of extremes. Therefore, let Art always remi... ... just yet. Meanwhile the conversation at the head of the table had taken a political turn. Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, thou... ...rs!” “Ah! Think o’ that, now!” said Mr. Poyser, impressed at once with the political bearings of the fact and with its striking interest as an anecdot...

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...hbour on the left during the roast, sweet, and savoury. They talked of the political situa- tion and of golf, of their children and the latest play , ... ... if his views were outrageous. I feel the need to ascribe to him fantastic theories about his predecessors, and it is with a certain sense of disillus...

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...unt for its not happening as a rule. I suppose you know something of these theories—” “Very little—except that they are wrong.” 160 Twelve Stories an... ...ying that game for years, that big laborious game, that vague, mon- strous political game amidst intrigues and betrayals, speech and agitation. It was...