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...was a awful thing, most awful!’ Mr. Weller was so very much overcome by this retro spect that he was unable, until he had wiped his brow several time... ...imself (in treating of the club, I may be permitted to assume the historical style, and speak of myself in the third person), who mounts upon a chair ... ...has in the two assistants, and arter cuttin’ and curlin’ of ‘em in the first style of elegance, says he should like to hear the woice o’ the greasiest...

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...him, but the ladies of Brookfield had ears and eyes for a certain tone and style about him, before they learnt that he was of the blood of dukes, and ... ...why he should, in the presence of this stranger, exaggerate his pecu- liar style of speech. But the worthy merchant’s conscious- ness of his identity ... ...her own hand. “Are you of my opinion in the matter?” “In the matter of the style? I am and I am not. Your con- demnation may be correct in itself; but... ... treatise should. When we ask for facts simply, we feel the intrusion of a style. Of fiction it is part. In the one case the classical robe, in the ot... ...ritics. Shall I give you examples? It is not necessary. Our simplest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have mad... ...id knew that he had been brutal in his representation of the part, and the retrospect of his conduct at Brookfield did not satisfy his remorseless cri... ...working up a scene, provoking needless excesses: you are storing misery in retro- spect, or wretchedness to be endured. Had you the habit of prayer! B...

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...o eleven or twelve. I played them intermittently, and they bulk now in the retrospect far more significantly than they did at the time. I played them ... ...as mostly out of doors, and school and classes caught me early. And in the retrospect I see them all not only mag- nified and transfigured, but fore-s... ...omstead Station. They were big clumsy residences in the earliest Victorian style, interminably high and with deep damp basements and downstairs coal-c... ...ours acquiring the skill to bowl Flack out. He was a bat in the Corinthian style, rich and voluminous, and succumbed very easily to a low shooter or a... ...to visit the old school were allusive and pleasant in the best Pinky Dinky style, and pretended to be in earnest about nothing but our football and cr... ...lack of cleanliness and method went out of fashion alto- gether! The dirty retrogressive Boer vanished from our scheme of illusion. All through my mid... ...ociety to vindicate the woman he had loved and never mar- ried. Now in the retrospect and with a mind full of bitter en- lightenment, I can do Meredit... ... coming of the first great Peace among the warring tribes of men… . In the retrospect each of us seems to have been talking 99 H G Wells about our ou... ...ght not be a K. C. B., Sir Richard Remington, K. C. B., M. P . But the big style prevailed… . We could not tell from minute to minute whether we were ...

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...a child. Of course, there were inventions and changes, but there were also retrogressions; things were found out and then forgotten again; it was, on ... ... of beasts, weari- ness and the bitter wind, failure and insufficiency and retro- cession. He saw all mankind in terms of the humble Sunday couple upo... ...g confusion of subpoenaed per- sons, briefless young barristers (forming a style on the most esteemed and truculent examples) and casual eccentric spe... ... in me; I hark back to unconstitutional monarchs. They chris- tened me too retrogressively, I think. I wanted to get things done. I was bored. I might... ...eanwhile? I am a costumier. All my connections and interests, above all my style, demand Paris… .’ Barnet considered the sky, from which a light rain ...

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...f some of the sepa- rate and indivisible great ones. In mere writing, mere style, he was not supreme; one seldom or never derives from any- thing of h... ...lieutenant, and a finale of blunderbusses, fire, devoted peasant girl with retrousse nose, and almost every possible tremblement. In strictness mentio... ... little, if not much, to lead him into and confirm him in those defects of style and form which distinguish him so remarkably from most writers of his... ...failure ever to attain, except in passages and patches, a thoroughly great style, but also that extraordinary method of composition which in after day... ...teristic as a writer is l’ennui, l’ennui boueux jusqu’a mi-jambe, that his style is intolerable, that his historical han- dling is like that of Gibbon... ...rs so much of French literature, though the attempt to write in an archaic style is at best a very successful tour de force, 17 Balzac and represents... ...ual as the true social unit. In this respect, at the risk of being thought retro- grade, I side with Bossuet and Bonald instead of going with modern i...

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... which we see represented by the old masters so often, and in such various styles. Here, too, beginning with a passionate and fiery conception of the ... ...thing like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, but healthful... ...ou not, Donatello?” “O, yes,” answered the young man; and, though not of a retrospective turn, he made the best effort he could to send his mind back ... ...cally, the form has not settled itself into sufficient repose.” In another style, there was a grand, calm head of Milton, not copied from any one bust... ...the guise of naked women. But, whatever criti- cism may be ventured on his style, it was good to meet a man so modest and yet imbued with such thoroug... ...e antique saloon in which they sat. It was constructed in a most ponderous style, with a stone floor, on which heavy pilasters were planted against th... ...rpetrated. It was not that the deed looked less wicked and terrible in the retro- spect; but she asked herself whether there were not other questions ...

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...advent in great power, and under some personal manifestation, were usually styled Fifth-Monarchists. However, waiving the question (interesting enough... ...nce him in this struggle—which yet he pushed on in the most uncompromising style, and to the utmost verge of defiance. The subject of the contrast giv... ...e expression, intellectually of singular endowments, possessing an elegant style of elo- quence, distinguished for his literature, generally temperate... ...particular, he slept upon the ground, and in other respects he practised a style of living the most simple and remote from the habits of rich men [or,... ...cy of one man, he did not feel his republican purism at all wounded by the style and title of Imperator,—that being a military term, and a mere titula... ...s was always in decline; ceasing to go forward, it could not do other than retrograde; and even the first appearances of decline can, with no propri- ... ... still it remains true, that in his reign the God T erminus made his first retro- grade motion; and this emperor became naturally an object of public ... ...: for about one century further it was an empire triumphant; and now, long retrograde, it had reached that point at which again, but in a different se...

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...wisted at right angles, and showed me a gate and the beginning of a gravel sweep; and a little after, as I continued to advance, a red brick house abo... ...ith the selfish trooper who snored on the next mattress. ‘Champdivers, my lad, your health!’ said a voice in my ear, and stopped me—and there are few ... ...om my fellow-travellers, I must first finish with them. I had never any occasion to waver in my first judgment of the Colonel. The old gentleman seeme... ...wringing his breast-but- ton, ‘the first duty of all poetry is to be mine, sir—mine. Inspiration now swells in my bosom, because—to tell you the plain... ...ted, in a hired chaise, by way of Dunstable. The mere mention of the name Amersham Place made every one supple and smiling. It was plainly a great hou... ...with a certain diffidence. But I remembered that if he was my first experience of a valet, I was his first trial as a master. Cheered by which conside... ...‘I had neglected all precautions, and you do right to be angry. APROPOS, Mr. Romaine, how did you come yourself, and how long have you been in the hou... ...cannot reasonably accuse of a conspiracy. As a matter of fact, I saw little of it and confessed to nothing. Certainly he was what some might call hand...

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...ver three or four pages, the sense of his lordship’s clear and perspicuous style so far escaped me, that I had the mortification to find my labour was... ...bout the time of its erection as an extremely elegant improvement upon the style of designing and erecting Edinburgh residences. Each house was, in th... ...eard Benjie gee-hupping, tchek-tcheking, and, above all, flogging in great style; while Solomon, who, docile in his general habits, was now stirred be... ...all his usual considerations of economy, has desired it may be in the best style possible. Come hither then, dear Darsie! or, I protest to you, I shal... ..., for fishers have ears, though fish have none,’ Willie led off in capital style, and I followed, certainly not so as to disgrace my com- panion, who,... ...aria!’ exclaimed the younger. ‘Oh, fie, Sister Seraphina! Fie, fie!— ‘Vade retro—get thee behind me!’ ‘Well, well; but, sister—Sister Angelica—let me ... ... an enchantress in the romance of Amadis of Gaul. USQUEBAUGH, whisky. VADE RETRO, get thee behind me. VALE, SIS MEMOR MEI, farewell, be mindful of me....

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...orium, my heaven of innocent plea- sures. If millions are offered me, I wave them back: retro, sathanas! – Evil one, begone! Fix your mind on my ex- a... ...y a kind of pitching movement to and fro across the axle, which well entitles it to the style of a Noddy. The hood describes a considerable arc agains... ... ran upon the missing treasure, the other two-thirds were more pleasingly busied in the retrospect of his detective skill. About eleven Casimir arrive...

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...he directed us all to leave the room, except the women attendants, whom he styled his garrison. But first, calling to him my brother, M. de Beauregard... ...thing but mere letters, I, in and from them, principally observe and learn style and language; if physicians, I the rather incline to credit what they... ...y must bridle the ass by the tail: “Qui capite ipse suo instituit vestigia retro,” [“Who in his folly seeks to advance backwards”—Lucretius, iv. 474] ... ...ion, assiduity, or persever- ance: that there is nothing so contrary to my style, as a con- tinued narrative, I so often interrupt and cut myself shor... ...elf, at every turn, at- tempt to equal myself to my thefts, and to make my style go hand in hand with them, not without a temerarious hope of deceivin... ...dy; not like a pedant, a preacher, or a pleader, but rather a soldier-like style, as Suetonius calls that of Julius Caesar; and yet I see no reason wh...

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...ntions. But Victor was not the man to steal his refreshments in that known style. He meant to make deeds of them, as far as he could, considering thei... ...real nest; where mama and I can wear dairymaid’s hat and apron all day—the style you like; and strike roots. We’ve been torn away two or three times: ... ...alled the decorous, it was great gain. Her supple person, pretty lips, the style she had, gave a pass to the wondrous confidings, which were for mascu... ... men never got it out of books. Now, you tell me—you’ve got a spiflicating style of talk about you—no brag, you tell me— course, the best man wins, if... ...g in an almost remorseless bo- som drew from certain chance expressions of retrospective physical distaste on Victor’s part;—hard to keep from a short... ...utes with Victor;—a Mercadante, honeyed and flowing; too honeyed to suit a style that, as Fenellan charac- terized it to Nataly, went through the musi... ...ly mend- ing word to the Punctilio donkey of London Bridge, soft- ened his retrospective view of the fall there, more than once. Although this man was... ...ling to possession of him in turn; until they united to head a plunge into retro- spects; which led to his reviewing the army of charges against Mrs. ... ...pleasant enough in the passage of them were barren, if not prickly, in the retrospect. He sprang out at the head of the park, for a tramp round it, in...

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...e antique saloon in which they sat. It was constructed in a most ponderous style, with a stone floor, on which heavy pilasters were planted against th... ... owl’s nest.” In fact, the room was fitted up as a bedchamber, though in a style of the utmost simplicity. It likewise served as an ora- 36 The Marbl... ... it seems a row of dwellings with one continuous front, built in a strange style of needless strength; but rem- nants of the old battlements and machi... ...you have never read Dante,” observed Kenyon. “That idea is somewhat in his style, but I cannot help regretting that it came into your mind just then.”... ...r of the church. Besides, it is a Gothic ornament, and only suited to that style of architecture, which requires a gorgeous dimness.” “Nevertheless,” ... ...rpetrated. It was not that the deed looked less wicked and terrible in the retro- spect; but she asked herself whether there were not other questions ...

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...ook the shape of as- suming a dress somewhat more rustic and summerlike in style than the garment she had first selected, and rustling down- 55 Edith... ...d the reach of envi- ous breakers; and she was apt to display a remarkable retro- spective insight into their ultimate fate, so that, when they had fu... ...to her in its fulness; and she could not bear to mar her mood of luxurious retro- spection by an act of definite refusal. She took up her pen and wrot... ...ell with Selden’s mood not to be instantly adopted by him, with a flash of retrospective contempt for what had once seemed the obvious solution. If re... ... at once. His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have thought the money had given out. Not a bad pur... ...nsequences. Y ou’re not very fond of me—yet—but you’re fond of luxury, and style, and amuse- ment, and of not having to worry about cash. Y ou like to... ...undred un- definable shades, from the persons who most abounded in her own style. It was in just such company, the fine flower and complete expression... ...surprises and subtleties worthy of what he would have called “the literary style.” At first, as Selden had noticed, it had been almost too preoccupyin... ...ction of the gate; and on the door- step stood Mrs. Gormer, with a glow of retrospective plea- sure on her open countenance. At sight of Lily the glow...

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...a thing like a fountain pen, a modern touch that prohibited any historical retrospection, and as he finished each sheet, writing in an easy flowing ha... ...n secure mental con- tinuity. The passage of years brings a man at last to retro- spection; at seventy-two one’s youth is far more important than it w... ...ied then by graver and intenser matters, and it is only now in the distant retrospect that I see these details of environment as being remarkable, as ... ...resent.” “But why should anything be left of life?” said I… . That was our style, you know, and meanwhile we walked together up the narrow street outs... ... me at that time to feel the odd- ness of many accepted things. Now in the retrospect I see it as intensely queer. The whole place was strange to my u... ...anded emotions, in a quaint modification of the old- time man-of-the-world style, with excessive moderation, with a trained horror of the enthusiasm t... ...upper apartments were simple and ample, fine and well done in the Georgian style, and they had been orga- nized to give the maximum of comfort and con... ...ious detestation. I wanted to get out of all this. After all, it wasn’t my style. I wanted intensely to say some- thing that would bring him down a pe...

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...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] Chapter 1 The Shade of Cardinal Rich... ...icelli upon me.” “Sire,” replied Richelieu, “rest assured that Particelli, the man to whom your majesty refers, has been hanged.” “Ah; so much the bet... ...enture I don’t suppose my dress would have been a very safe one. Give me my felt hat, Bernouin.” The valet instantly brought to his master a regimenta... ...ith a burst of laugh- ter; “those men must be poets.” “Come, Guitant, speak, if you please, respectfully of these gentlemen,” said Mazarin; “don’t you... ...he bag into the depths of an immense pocket. “Well, then, all is settled; you are to set off,” said the cardinal. “Yes, my lord.” “Apropos, what are t... ...aised to Heaven and walking, in all humility, the very last, D’Artagnan pulled him by the hem of his robe. Bazin looked down and started, as if he had...

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...all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly. CHAP... ...fer? I became very glowing again, and, expressing myself in a rhapsodical style, I am afraid, urged my request strongly; reminding the Doctor that I ... ...- sition over, before sending it by a porter, that it was something in the style of Mr. Micawber. However, I sent it. At night I repaired to Miss Mill... ... by the communication I had made to him, or by his having indulged in this retro- spect, I don t know; but they were raised by some influence. He talk... ...g about him very much. David Copperfield Vol. II 239 CHAPTER 43 ANOTHER RETROSPECT ONCE AGAIN, LET ME PAUSE upon a memorable pe- riod of my life. L... ...e letter over several times. Making due allowance for Mr. Micawber s lofty style of com- position, and for the extraordinary relish with which he sat ... ... ing at the contents, as if he cherished an artis- tic admiration of their style of composition, he began to read as follows: “Dear Miss Trotwood an... ... an Australian farmer! David Copperfield Vol. II 405 CHAPTER 53 ANOTHER RETROSPECT I MUST PAUSE YET ONCE AGAIN. O, my child-wife, there is a figure... ...d, as he put it in his breast. I promised, Mas r Davy. CHAPTER 64 A LAST RETROSPECT AND NOW MY WRITTEN STORY ENDS. I look back, once more for the la...

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... Timere vitam; sed malis ingentibus Obstare, nec se vertere, ac retro dare.” [“Father, ’tis no virtue to fear life, but to withstand great ... ...ugh trip over steps another would have stumbled at, yet never- theless his style seems to be more his own where he does not encounter those difficulti... ...rding to our use, when we say a man of high worth a good man, in our court style—’tis to say a valiant man, after the Roman way; for the general appel... ...st perfect. I also love Lucan, and willingly read him, not so much for his style, as for his own worth, and the truth and solidity of his opinions and... ...h he there so often makes use of. For my part, I more approve of a shorter style, and that comes more roundly off. He does, though, sometimes shuffle ... ...s wisdom, as the world does; and to make myself more sprightly, but not my style more wanton, which would rather have them grave and severe; at least ...

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...ct, the nature and value of the sys- tem of “local self-government,” as we style this most impor- tant feature of our plan, and (as has often happened... ...r object was the triumph of an idea. The emigrants, or, as they deservedly styled themselves, the Pilgrims, belonged to that English sect the austerit... ...f England; in 1650 the decrees of justice were not yet headed by the royal style. See Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 452. **Code of 1650, p. 28; Hartford, 183... ...t of interpreting the law with- out appeal; and those provinces which were styled pays d’etats were authorized to refuse their assent to an impost whi... ...ortant causes upon the spot; the court presided over by this magistrate is styled a “Circuit Court.” Lastly, all the most serious cases of litigation ... ...within a small compass the reasons which best explain the present. In this retrospective chapter I shall be succinct, for I shall take care to remind ... ...terest of the master. As slavery recedes, the black population follows its retro- grade course, and returns with it towards those tropical re- gions f... ...ons might be entertained for a moment lest the reli- gion of Christ should retrograde towards the superstitions which it had subdued. It seems evident...

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...ral stairway winds up round a central shaft carved with a grape-vine. This style, which recalls the stairways of Louis XII. at the chateau of Blois, d... ...ith their mantels of painted stone, surmounted by mirrors in panels of the style of the seventeenth century. The apartment was square, like the house,... ... On her head was a drawn bonnet of green silk, lined with white silk, of a style called /a la bonne femme/. Her face was framed by a cloud of lace. Sh... ...-room, painted throughout in gray, the design of the woodwork being in the style of Louis XIV., adjoined the sort of antechamber in which Manon was us... ...romance of an ardent young girl grossly deceived by an infamous husband (a style of romance then much the fashion); loving the young and gallant leade... ...and momentary dexterity. Halpersohn, an experienced observer, had divined, retro- spectively, the life of the old man and that of the lad and of the m...

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... His favourite author was one writing of Heroes, in (so she esteemed it) a style resembling either early architecture or utter dilapida- tion, so loos... ... utter dilapida- tion, so loose and rough it seemed; a wind-in-the-orchard style, that tumbled down here and there an appreciable fruit with uncouth b... ...peculiarity is that, as you are aware, he hates a compromise—won’t have it—retro Sathanas! and Drew’s proposal to take his arm instead of being carrie... ...d, and money down. Nevil will have to come down on Bevisham in the Jupiter style. Bevisham is downright the dearest of bor- oughs—”vaulting-boards,” a... ...e of good dispositions. The T ory possessed also an innate inimitably easy style of humour, that had the long reach, the jolly lordly indifference, th... ... tides and flung back on the flow, ignorant whether they be progressive or retrograde. Timothy Turbot assisted in that vast effort. It should have ele... ...id Wilmore. ‘I’ve danced there with the lady, the handsomest girl, English style, of her time. And come, come, our English style’s the best. It wears ... ...arned him. ‘Forty minutes.’ Colonel Halkett smothered a yawn that was both retro and prospective. ‘It has been fifty, papa.’ ‘It has been an hour, my ... ...red, nevertheless, a certain desperation of mind, scarce imaginable in the retrospect, by which, trembling, fever- smitten, scorning herself, she had ...

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...er. You dip your hands and face, I’ll have out the dress. You’ve the right style for her, my boy: and mind, she is an excellent good woman, worthy of ... ... ‘Ah, you give me shudders!’ ‘ And it’s her guest who talks of her in that style! and I hope to be thought a gentleman!’ Philip pulled himself up. ‘We... ...acceptance of him. ‘I recommended the telegraph because it’s my wife’s own style, and comes better from wires,’ said the captain, as they were putting... ...his pilot coat, flying necktie and wideish trowsers, a general airiness of style on a solid frame, spoke of the element his blue eyes had dipped their... ...eir social festivities, or of towering aloof a Matterhorn above it, in the style of Colonel Adister. Her discourse with the latter amused her passing ... ...daughters. She pointed to incidents of their youth; her vision was acutely retrospective. The wealth of her nephew and niece caused such a view of the... ... hoof, she called him her Irish cousin now in good earnest. Her nation was retro- spectively enthusiastic. The cordiality of her letter of reply to th... ...enough, and am asking for the devil to have the loveliest women as of old. Retro S. M.’ The youthful eye on their sex, the Irish voice, and the per- c...

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...d wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; ... ...y as a bracelet; but the 10 Middlemarch circle suited the Henrietta-Maria style of Celia’s head and neck, and she could see that it did, in the pier-... ...mself nearly as he would have done to a fellow-student, for he had not two styles of talking at command: it is true that when he used a Greek or 21 G... ... from the windows. The building, of greenish stone, was in the old English style, not ugly, but small-windowed and melancholy-looking: the sort of hou... ...iles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents. They say he is the most retrogressive man in the county. I think you must have taught them that wor... ... word in the `Pioneer.’” “Oh, that is Keek—an illiterate fellow, you know. Retro- gressive, now! Come, that’s capital. He thinks it means de- structiv... ...he word. Here is a sharp stroke or two. If we had to describe a man who is retrogres- sive in the most evil sense of the word—we should say, he is one... ...g man was no longer before her to awaken her pity: there remained only the retrospect of painful subjection to a husband whose thoughts had been lower... ...y. Night and day, without interruption save of brief sleep which only wove retro- spect and fear into a fantastic present, he felt the scenes of his e...

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...- son but because they were the most powerful. Magna Charta begins in this style: “We grant, of our own free will, the following privileges to the arc... ...was quite unknown till within these late years. Its poles have a very slow retro- grade motion from east to west, whence it happens that their positio... ... such resplendent flashes through this gleam, as amaze and aston- ish. The style is too much inflated, too unnatural, too closely copied from the Hebr... ...tian. But then it must be also confessed that the stilts of the figurative style, on which the English tongue is lifted up, raises the genius at the s... ...r have been unknown, would have been despised, or would have corrected his style. Boileau ap- plauded him, but it was in his first satires, at a time ... ...n pe- rused one or two of them, but without being able to under- stand the style in which they were written, though he under- stood all our good autho...

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...to delight me. A book which, in spite of what is called the dryness of its style, I took great pleasure in, was the An cient Universal History, thro... ...hole of Tacitus, Juvenal, and Quintilian. The latter, owing to his obscure style and to the scholastic details of which many parts of his trea tise a... ...kedly supe rior to anything that I had written before it. Bentham’s later style, as the world knows, was heavy and cumbersome, from the excess of a g... ...to those not accustomed to them, most labo rious reading. But his earlier style, that of the Fragment on Government, Plan of a Judicial Establishmen... ...bined with fulness of matter, scarcely ever surpassed: and of this earlier style there were many strik ing specimens in the manuscripts on Evidence, ... ...ul to it. This doctrine appeared inexpugnable; but it now seemed to me, on retro spect, that my teachers had occupied themselves but superfi cially ... ...ndividual, even of those from whom most was ex pected. And now, on a calm retrospect, I can perceive that the men were less in fault than we supposed...

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...d our need is not nearly so much to change the players as to broaden their style. And this brings me, in a spirit entirely antagonistic, up against Mr... ...o far as it notes great natural catastrophes and tells of the spreading or retroces- sion of human life through changes of climate and physical condit... ...t facts, that was the dominant view of the great period that we now in our retro- 111 H. G . Wells spective way speak of as the Victorian, and it sti... ...l kinds of absurd condemnations and exactions upon mat- ters of method and style. The underlying fallacy is always this: the assumption that the novel... .... I have done my best to reconcile the con- ception of a free and generous style of personal living with a social organisation that will save the worl... ...s of games and clothing and social conduct. It is, in fact, chiefly by his style in these latter things, his extensive unilluminated knowl- edge of Gr... ...deas on Educa- tion”!—this very brevity is eloquent, the more so since the style is by no means succinct. It must be read to be believed. It is quite ...

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...ition from a static to a dy- namic understanding of life. It simulates the style of the latter. It pays the tribute of speaking much of develop- ment,... ...ruction, reorganization. 77 John Dewey 2. Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection. A peculiar combination of the ideas of development and forma... ...currency. But the idea which underlies it is that education is essentially retro- spective; that it looks primarily to the past and espe- cially to th... ...em as present resources and taking them as standards and patterns in their retrospective character. 79 John Dewey (1) The distortion of the first poi... ... they will be the constituents. Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospec- tively or prospectively. That is to say, it may be treated as pr... ...ar as we are concerned. There is no before or after to such experience; no retro- spect nor outlook, and consequently no meaning. We get nothing which...

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...d to excel in all departments of literature, and the admirable lucidity of style and sound- ness and impartiality of judgment displayed in his histori... ...n of his country.” To Tilly’s deputies, who were entertained in a princely style, he gave a still plainer answer on the occasion. “Gentle- men,” said ... ... long-forgotten king and soldier. I may now be permitted to take a cursory retro- spect of Gustavus Adolphus in his victorious career; glance at the s...

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... than a day’s travel from that point. Finally I took out my ban- danna—the style of handkerchief in universal use then— and with this blindfolded my h... ... ceremony, thought it would be only civil to receive his guest in the same style. His uniform was there- fore got out, brushed up, and put on, in adva... ...other characteristics. General Scott was precise in language, cultivated a style pe- culiarly his own; was proud of his rhetoric; not averse to speaki... ...to harbor any who fall out of ranks after they have passed.” CHAPTER XXXIX RETROSPECT OF THE CAMPAIGN— SHERMAN’S MOVEMENTS—PROPOSED MOVEMENT UPON MOBI... ...OR—AN AN- ECDOTE OF THE WAR—BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR —CORRESPONDENCE WITH LEE—RETROSPECTIVE ON THE 31ST Sheridan advanced to near Old Cold Harbor. He fou... ...- got the object of our meeting. After the conversation had run on in this style for some time, General Lee called my attention to the object of our m... ...my repulsed with great loss. During the night, General Banks continued his retro- grade movement to Grand Ecore, and thence to Alexandria, which he re...