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...aborigi nal race here, but have strayed into the woods from the cultivated stock. Wilder still, as I have said, there grows elsewhere in this country ... ...ck-woodsmen among the apple-trees, which, though descended from cultivated stocks, plant themselves in distant fields and forests, where the soil is f... ...se wild trees do not bear a valuable fruit of their own, they are the best stocks by which to transmit to posterity the most highly prized qualities o... ...the most highly prized qualities of others. However, I am not in search of stocks, but the wild fruit itself, whose fierce gust has suffered no “inten... ...Report that “apples of a small size are always, if equal in quality, to be preferred to those of a larger size, in order that the rind and kernel may ...

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...but she was either trimming a silken bonnet for Violet, or darning a pair of stockings for little Peony’s short legs. Again, however, and again, and y... ...ou comfortable in spite of yourself. We will put a nice warm pair of worsted stockings on your frozen little feet, and you shall have a good thick sha... ...e man saw nothing amiss. “Come wife,” said he, “let her have a pair of thick stock ings and a woollen shawl or blanket directly; and tell Dora to giv... ...ere she belongs.” The mother, meanwhile, had gone in search of the shawl and stockings; for her own view of the matter, however subtle and delicate, h... ... for pity’s sake, against the giver’s conscience! A hissing and a laugh ing stock to my own traitorous thoughts! An outlaw from the protection of the... ...who had the appearance of men who lived by regular and laborious handicraft, preferred the insulated bliss of an unshared po tation, and became more ...

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... GB Shaw which, taken with her brown legs and bare feet, suggests no great stock of underclothing. Suddenly there comes a tapping at the door, not lou... ... and the sheepishness of these colonists? They are men of the same English stock as our- selves: six to one of us (repeating it emphatically), six to ... .... Swindon, who has been thrown supine on the table, rises, ar- ranging his stock. He is about to speak, when he is anticipated by Burgoyne, who has ju... ...vertizers and examples of crime as the pillory, the whipping post, and the stocks, has a new rope at- tached, with the noose hitched up to one of the ... ...er River, that the English, having lost America a century ago because they preferred George III, were quite prepared to lose South Africa to-day becau... ...d George III, were quite prepared to lose South Africa to-day because they preferred aristocratic commanders to successful ones. Horace Walpole, when ...

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...g against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the brick bank; no matt... ...as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living be cause they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.... ...public heel had testified to their utility. I have looked after the wild stock of the town, which give a faithful herdsman a good deal of trouble by... ...hants, from Hanno and the Phoenicians down to our day; in fine, account of stock to be taken from time to time, to know how you stand. It is a labor t... ...en have an in distinct notion that if they keep up this activity of joint stocks and spades long enough all will at length ride somewhere, in next to... ...ges from heaven, the whole curse of trade attaches to the business. As I preferred some things to others, and especially valued my freedom, as I cou... ...r underlie, and one wall sepa rate several apartments. But for my part, I preferred the solitary dwelling. Moreover, it will commonly be cheaper to b... ...red so far as to make them the offer, they have one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor. While my townsmen and women are devoted in so man... ...bly with more or less effect, might have run “amok” against society; but I preferred that society should run “amok” against me, it being the desperate...

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...g the Times.” “Was Paul there?” “Yes; and Charles was talking to him about stocks and shares, and he looked frightened.” By slight indications the sis... ...imself out, she gave him her card and said, “That is where we live; if you preferred, you could call for the umbrella after the concert, but I didn’t ... ...basis of much popular religion; in the domain of business it dominates the Stock Exchange, and becomes that “bit of luck” by which all successes and f... ...or an ex- amination, or a dinner-party, or a possible fall in the price of stock: those who attempt human relations must adopt another method, or fail... ..., and the wych-elm had no pleasant connections for her, and she would have preferred to spend the afternoon at a concert. But imagination triumphed. W... ...ion—ah, this had been a cloud, but a cloud that passed. She came of Quaker stock, and he and his family, formerly Dissenters, were now members of the ... ...reet lamps, then the trees, and towards morning it got cloudy.” Tibby, who preferred his comedy undiluted, slipped from the room. He knew that this fe... ...to. It was pretty of him to have given that vinaigrette, and he had always preferred her to Helen—unlike most men. But the advance had been astonishin... ...fellow you thought?” He was annoyed with Miss Schlegel here. He would have preferred her to be prostrated by the blow, or even to rage. Against the ti...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. (SCENE.--DR. STOCKMANN?S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is plainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are two doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to the doctor?s study. In the lefthand wall,...

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...ated by Farquharson Sharp A play in five acts DRAMATIS PERSONAE Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Medical Officer of the Municipal Baths. Mrs. Stockmann, his wife... ...a teacher. Ejlif & Morten (their sons, aged 13 and 10 respectively). Peter Stockmann (the Doctor’s elder brother), Mayor of the Town and Chief Constab... ...able, Chairman of the Baths’ Com- mittee, etc. Morten Kiil, a tanner (Mrs. Stockmann’s adoptive father). Hovstad, editor of the “People’s Messenger.” ... ...r- way. 4 An Enemy of the People AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE ACT I (SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN’S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is plainly but neatly app... ...n which a lamp is burning. He has a napkin tucked under his chin, and MRS. STOCKMANN is standing by the table handing him a large plate-full of roast ... ...l know, I stand to the present Medical Officer of the Baths, I should have preferred not to speak this evening. But my official position with re- gard...

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...or, he stopped short. He had said he would fetch his wife, but now, taking stock of the emotion he was feeling, he decided that he would try on the co... ...Part Five terrible body, to take hold of that under the quilt, of which he preferred to know nothing, under his wife’s influence he made his resolute ... ...n return for all this he now found himself alone, put to shame, a laughing-stock, needed by no one, and despised by ev- eryone. For the first two days... ...without a suspicion that she was undergoing the sensations of a man in the stocks. Knowing that something had happened, but not know- ing precisely wh...

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... or the deep earth holds them; wher ever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this viva cious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is ... ...long since dead, which shows pretty plainly what constituted a fisherman’s stock in trade in those days. It purports to be a Fisherman’s Account Curre... ...ld pine and the juniper, shedding its perfume in the wilderness. Their old stocks still remain. He culled the graceful elm from out the woods and from... ... time, and so at last find themselves in Nashua. This smooth way they much preferred. But our boat was crowded with necessary furniture, and sunk low ... ...n’s tales of floating isles in bottomless ponds, and of lakes mysteriously stocked with fishes, and would have kept us till nightfall to listen, but w... ...Unhewn primeval timber, For knees so stiff, for masts so limber; The stock of which new earths are made, One day to be our western trade, ...

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...formed themselves, their accoutrement is in manner as followeth. They wore stock- ings of scarlet crimson, or ingrained purple dye, which reached just... ...of a matronal pudicity. The men were apparelled after their fashion. Their stock- ings were of tamine or of cloth serge, of white, black, scarlet, or ... ...ned colour. Their breeches were of vel- vet, of the same colour with their stockings, or very near, embroidered and cut according to their fancy. Thei... ...to bind him, and so many strong wooden arches unto his cradle, most firmly stocked and morticed in huge frames. Of those chains you have one at Rochel... ...astatis. The Shackles of Religion. The Racket of Swag-waggers. The Leaning-stock of old Age. The Muzzle of Nobility. The Ape’s Paternoster. The Cricke... .... You also tell us wonders of the industry of the ancient Franks, who were preferred to all others in point of archery; and when they hunted either bl... ...digni- ties, and preferments in this world; be revered and dreaded by all, preferred, elected, and chosen above all men. For there is not under the co... ...crowing of cocks cannot reach near it; and doubtless that sort ought to be preferred to the stenching common elder that grows about decayed and ruined...

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...He was fortunate in every thing, and had speculated very suc- cessfully in stocks of the Edgarton New Bank, as it was for- merly called. By these and ... ...I had been forced to drop the morsel of ham-skin, and I now found my whole stock of pro- visions reduced to a single gill of liqueur, As this reflecti... ...d of smock, which the deceased wore over his other clothing. It was a blue stockinett, with large white stripes running across. Having put this on, I ... ...the dreadful imminency of another—that of abso- lute starvation. Our whole stock of provision had been swept overboard in spite of all our care in sec... ... The spot is chosen with reference to its evenness of surface, and that is preferred which is the least encumbered with stones. This matter being arra... ...tross and other birds’ eggs with dark shells. We took in, too, a plentiful stock of the flesh of the hog which I have mentioned before. Most of the me...

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...and takes upon trust, are but shreds; which, however well in the whole piece, make no considerable addition to his stock who gathers them. Such borrow... ...ull survey of them, and their several modes, combinations, and rela- tions, we shall find to contain all our whole stock of ideas; and that we have no... ... of it; as well as, afterwards, by compounding those ideas, and reflecting on its own operations, it increases its stock, as well as facility in remem... ...on the variety of combinations that may be made with barely one of the above-men- tioned ideas, viz. number, whose stock is inexhaustible and truly in... ...ety. For, besides the vast number of different figures that do really exist, in the coherent masses of matter, the stock that the mind has in its powe... ... forbear any particular action, according to the determi- nation or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other: where eithe... ...es not conclude,—That a virtuous life, with the certain expectation of everlasting bliss, which may come, is to be preferred to a vicious one, with th... ...manners, the true boundaries of the law of nature, which ought to be the rule of virtue and vice, were pretty well preferred. So that even the ex- hor... ...improvement of truth and knowledge is the care and concern of mankind; since the arts of fal- lacy are endowed and preferred. It is evident how much m...

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...Zaporozhtzi only laughed when they saw the Jewish legs, cased in shoes and stockings, struggling in the air. The poor orator who had called down destr... ...by a wall of stone, or a house which served as a redoubt, or even an oaken stockade. The garrison was strong and aware of the importance of their posi... ...rs, showing that, perhaps only a week before, there had been a market here stocked with provisions. The streets, which were unpaved, were simply a mas... ...e poor fellow could not endure the tortures of hunger to the last, and had preferred to hasten his end by a voluntary death. At the sight of such terr... ...e Popovitchsky, the Timoschevsky and the Steblikivsky kurens. All the rest preferred to go in pursuit of the Tatars. On both sides there were many sto... ...r with the Tatars. There were likewise many brave Cossacks among those who preferred to remain, including the kuren hetmans, Demitrovitch, Kukubenko, ... ...rown across the street from one house to another, upon which hung Jew- ish stockings, short trousers, and smoked geese. Some- times a pretty little He... ... brandy, took off his caftan, and betook himself—looking, in his shoes and stockings, very like a lean chicken—with his wife, to something resembling ... ...rse to the terrible usurer. Old women were even found dying of hunger, who preferred to kill their bodies rather than lose their soul. Those who met h...

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...cellent than wisdom. Again, only the fool will deny that friendship is to be preferred to riches, since the wisest of men testifies this; but the chie... ... his Consolation; to whom the truth of books according to Aristotle is to be preferred. Moreover, since we know that riches first and chiefly appertai... ...hurch of God, as though the laity were not to be called churchmen. Ye, being preferred to the laity, sing psalms and hymns in the chancel, and, servin... ...eclared in our sixth chapter, they have added more in this brief hour to the stock of the sacred books than all the other vine dressers; following in ... ... we undertook to narrate in the present chapter. CHAPTER IX HOW, ALTHOUGH WE PREFERRED THE WORKS OF THE ANCIENTS, WE HAVE NOT CONDEMNED THE STUDIES OF... ...y the hearing of them can teach correctness of idiom. CHAPTER XI WHY WE HAVE PREFERRED BOOKS OF LIBERAL LEARNING TO BOOKS OF LAW THAT LUCRATIVE PRAC...

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...ure which their nature is capable of, we are justified in ascribing to the preferred enjoyment a superior ity in quality, so far outweighing quantity... ...er 27 J S Mill reached in philosophical controversy. The remainder of the stock arguments against utilitarian ism mostly consist in laying to its ch... ...cue as ‘a morally right action?’ Or suppose again, according to one of the stock illustrations of ethical inquiries, that a man betrayed a trust recei... ... offshoot from it, may in time take root and detach itself from the parent stock; so much so, that in the case of an habitual purpose, instead of will... ... that sum. On the contrary, if he owns ten thousand pounds three per cent. stock, he has a right to three hundred a year; because society has come un...

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... own town for reminding the congregation that the proph- ets had sometimes preferred Gentiles to Jews. In fact they try to throw him down from a sort ... ...your father are one. 2. Get rid of property by throwing it into the common stock. Dissociate your work entirely from money payments. If you let a chil... ...ch teaching was quite aware of all the objections that occur to an average stockbroker in the first five minutes. It is true that the world is governe... ...d is governed to a considerable extent by the considerations that occur to stockbrokers in the first five minutes; but as the result is that the world... ...know the truth can hardly bear to live in it, an objection from an average stockbroker constitutes in itself a prima facie case for any social reform.... ...Jesus to modern practice if they are to be of any use to us. If we ask our stockbroker to act simply as Jesus advised his disciples to act, he will re...

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... brother, that has God to his forefather, even as a son sprung from the same stock, and of the same high descent as yourself? And if you are stationed... ... What then? Are not these other things also works of God? They are; but not preferred to honour, nor are they portions of God. But thou art a thing p...

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...tilence, the rising subsided from inanition, but in such a manner that all preferred death to life under such conditions. We should rather say that se... ...onarch could only consolidate his power by completely destroying the royal stock, putting to death the king’s friends, real or supposed, and disturbin... ...his royal prerogative, at a time when he was so weary of reigning, that he preferred death to holding undivided sway (Numb. xi:14). For he made answer...

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...ed that we all liked beef underdone but not too un- derdone; that both men preferred a good liqueur brandy after lunch; that both women drank a very l... ...e City through whose territory we might be passing. I would grumble like a stockbroker whose conversations over the telephone are incommoded by the ri... ...virtues. That might have been because I had once dropped the remark that I preferred General Braddock to General Washington. For the Hurlbirds had bac... ...rse, they would be too refined to put the motive into words. They were old stock New Englanders. They would not want to have to suggest that a husband... ...hters or the best way to repair a 88 The Good Soldier Jacob’s ladder in a stocking. And, if they met seldom, yet it was often enough to keep each oth... ...riptions and for keeping his men smart. Leonora hated that; she would have preferred to buy dresses for herself or to have devoted the money to paying... ...s at all; they were Leonora’s manifestations. He liked to be clean, but he preferred, as it were, to be threadbare. She never understood that, and all... ... champagne, at five guineas a bottle, on the veldt and so on. Besides, she preferred to see how Edward was spending his five hundred a year. I don’t m... ...at street corners. And she had arrived at thinking that Edward took little stock in women that made eyes at him. She had formed what was, at that time...

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... Say! OEDIPUS What must I answer, child, ah welladay! CHORUS Say of what stock thou comest, what man s son OEDIPUS Ah me, my daughter, now we are u... ...S I marvel not if thou hast dallied long In converse with thy children and preferred Their speech to mine; I feel no jealousy, I would be famous more ... ...] ANTIGONE (Str. 1) Woe, woe! on this sad day We sisters of one blasted stock must bow beneath the shock, Must weep and weep the curse that lay ... ...ecedence of true men, But all good patriots, alive or dead, Shall be by me preferred and honored. CHORUS Son of Menoeceus, thus thou will st to deal W...

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...in his own right. Seeing that he was no longer in the vigour of his youth he preferred to find some other occupation. So Onund and his party returned ... ...the two brothers to come to him. On their arrival he asked them whether they preferred to keep watch on the house or to attack the jarl. They chose to... ...d lost my provision bag.” “Alone in misfortune is worst. I also have lost my stock of provisions; so we can look for them together. “ Skeggi was well ... ...ikings, and several of the leading men invited him to stay with them, but he preferred to return to his friend Thorfinn. So he took his passage in a t... ...urid who were just grown up. Thorhall was fairly wealthy, especially in live stock. His property in cattle exceeded that of any other man. He was not ... ...is estate, so he fled with everything that he could carry away. All the live stock which he left behind was killed by Glam. After that Glam went right... ...ittle; they reached the island and caught the ox. Grettir asked whether they preferred to ship the ox or to hold the boat, for there was a high surf r... ...they would go on home with the ox or whether they would beach the boat. They preferred to beach the boat, and they did so with all the water that was ...