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...hat attention; not being somehow what one thought of as a “frank” subject, after the fashion of some, with its elements well in view and its whole cha... ...nt compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to see whom the situation I had primarily... ...close sharer of her life, of a consciousness similarly embarrassed? I have named the Rhine-maiden, but our young friend’s existence would cre- ate rat... ...lity than by her—the work of other hands (though with her own imbrued too, after all, in the measure of their never not being, in some direction, gen-... ...wn way and yet remain loyal. One difficulty alone stood out, which Densher named. “Of course it will never do—we must remember that— from the moment y... ...e; yet she felt her attention secretive, all the same, and her observation scientific. She struck herself as hovering like a spy, applying tests, layi... ...sented and periods in the banquet marked; while ap- pearances insisted and phenomena multiplied and words reached her from here and there like plashes... ...d of the whole collection, inasmuch as he would somehow wear the character scientifically, ponderably, proveably—not just loosely and sociably. Litera... ...ar as to impose themselves as 225 Henry James one of the groups of social phenomena that fell into the scheme of his public letters. For this group i...

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...hed six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagnosis of the essentia... ...r side. There could be no Alexanders or Na- poleons. And we soon heard the scientific corps muttering, ‘These old fools,’ exactly as it is here foreto... ... is still of interest now; the thesis that because of the develop- ment of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empi... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...aboos made them tolerable to him, and they revered him alive and soon even after he was dead, and were his allies against the beasts and the rest of m... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ... was mooning over his fireflies at Fiesole, a certain professor of physics named Rufus was giv- ing a course of afternoon lectures upon Radium and Rad... ...sented a box full of loaded revolvers to a Creche,’ he notes. He met a man named Lawson, an old school-fellow, of whom history now knows only that he ... ...t subsequent ages must piece together the image of these devastations. The phenomena, it must be remembered, changed greatly from day to day , and eve...

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...blime beauties are virgin still; they will be seen to harmonize with human phenomena, also vir- gin—at least to poetry—which here took place, the hist... ...eze between the prison-walls of rock against which it surges, the country- people call the little bay a “fiord,”—a word which geogra- phers of every n... ...een amid the foam. These trees plunge headlong into the fiord and reappear after a time on the surface, clinging together and forming islets which flo... ...thed softly on her forehead and eyes. Sud- denly, like a traveller relaxed after a bath, Minna forgot these keen emotions, already dissipated by that ... ...s by which men agree to express the two extremes of joy and misery. “These phenomena are within us, not without us,” Wilfrid went on. “The being whom ... ...onish the reader, partly through the crudity of their details. A man whose scientific eminence is incontestable, and who united in his own per- son po... ...eir visible evolutions in the system of the world, that some day, perhaps, scientific men will come to drink of these living waters. “Here,” said Mons... ... do a single thing from any human motive. One man alone, a Swedish priest, named Mathesius, set afloat a story that he went mad in London in 1744. But... ...ead, horses and horsemen, harlots, precious stones, in short, every- thing named in Scripture, has to them a clear-cut meaning, and reveals the future...

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...napped like a fiddle-string. “Nicoea!” The word remained like a little ash after a flare. The sleeper had awakened and lay very still, oppressed by a ... ...Above such an assembly. That was mere dreaming, of course. Was it dreaming after Raphael? After Raphael? The drowsy mind wandered into a side issue. W... ...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ... memory of his fur- tive cigarette, the bishop was staying with a rich man named Garstein Fellows. These Garstein Fellows people were steel people wit... ... a Bishop “I follow you,” said the bishop a little wearily, “I follow you. Phenomena and noumena and so on and so on. Kant and so forth. Pragmatism. ... ... uncommon with the more scholarly of our bishops. It is as if some eminent scientific man were to insist upon writ- ing H20 instead of “water,” and “s... ... he could doubt it now. Germany was the best orga- nized, most cultivated, scientific and liberal nation the earth had ever seen, it was for the good ... ...p- pose he was, or a supply,—do you call them supplies in your profession?—named, I think—Let me see—D—?” “Dale!” The doctor as he uttered this word s... ...rles Voysey, Swedenborgians, Moslem converts, Indian Theosophists, psychic phenomena and so forth, to meet him. Nevertheless it began to drift into hi...

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...ts course. This explanation will become a mere commonplace in the day when scientific men are brought to recognize the immense part which electricity ... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...oor dog in his kennel. Isn’t it much better to come and visit our daughter after she is married to a notary of Paris, and live eight months of the yea... ...hout offence, for I respect shopkeeping; the best of our kidney are in it. After selling perfumery like him for forty years, we should be worth three ... ...ead, but if our affair succeeds I may become deputy of Paris. Ah! I am not named Cesar for nothing; I succeed. It is unimaginable! out- side every one... ...an, an abyss for the feeble. A vine-dresser in the neighborhood of Chinon, named Jean Birotteau, married the waiting-maid of a lady whose vines he til... ...cts appropriate to the diver- sified nature of the human epidermis. T ruly scientific men— men who are really great in the sense that they never attai... ...Cesar. “Yes,” said Vauquelin, “from hot and cold changes, or from internal phenomena which produce the same effect. Prob- ably headaches and other cep...

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...nd Possessions, but has been probed, dissected, distilled, desiccated, and scientifically decom- posed: our spiritual Faculties, of which it appears t... ...imself in Clothes. Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after: the more surprising that we do not look round a 5 Thomas Carlyle li... ...ny, learned, indefatigable, deep-thinking Germany comes to our aid. It is, after all, a blessing that, in these revolutionary times, there should be o... ...n every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch-tower; and, to the raging, struggling multitude here and e... ...lling dupes,—it might have seemed wonderful how Herr Heuschrecke should be named a Rath, or Councillor, and Counsellor, even in Weissnichtwo. What cou... ...r natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...e of those bell-girdles, bushel-breeches, counted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History of Dress offers so many, escape him: more e... ..., speaking in the third person, calls himself, “the Wanderer,” is not once named. Then again, amidst what seems to be a Metaphysico-theological Disqui... ...etical. Thus, to say nothing of his Suppers on the Orchard-wall, and other phenomena of that earlier period, have many readers of these pages stumbled...

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...ssing. For, whether the origin of the myth be, or be not, founded on solar phenomena, the yearning Greek mind formed on it an unconscious allegory of ... ...asks testifies—and of re- pentant man conquering himself. The great crime, after which his life was a bondage of expiation; the choice between Vir- tu... ...he re- markable contest with the creature which had become a foe, because, after being devoted for sacrifice, it was spared; the obtaining the girdle ... ...rats that they actually married the two daughters of a man from Cumberland named Lewthwayte, whom Lord Erymanth had turned out of one of his farms for... ...d so severely; besides, there was no doubt of their hav- ing harangued the people, and stirred them up, and they were seen, as well as Prometesky, at ... .... His form and colouring must have come from the Cumberland statesman, but people said his voice and expression had much of his father in them; and no... ... understand it for one moment, and if I did recollect all about it, like a scientific dialogue, nobody would thank me for putting it in here, so it wi... ...o exhibit himself to Dr. Kingston’s new partner, and obtain a formi- dable scientific account of his sprains and bruises; so that Eustace had heard an... ...t that the purest, gen- tlest, brightest creature made by Heaven should be named in the same day with one stained with blood—aye, and deeds I could no...

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...quiet in quest of visionary gain. Here is, no doubt, the reason why a man, after the period of his boyhood, or first youth, makes so few friends. Want... ...ire work was purchased by a joint-stock company of boys, each drawing lots afterwards for the separate prints, and taking his choice in rotation? The ... ... Fleet Street—bright, enchanted pal- aces, which George Cruikshank used to people with grinning, fantastical imps, and merry, harmless sprites,—where ... ...ived the points of humor with a general sympathizing roar. Where are these people now? Y ou never hear any laughing at HB.; his pictures are a great d... ...he days when the work ap- peared we firmly believed the three heroes above named to be types of the most elegant, fashionable young fellows the town a... ...Gilpin” and “Epping Hunt;” for though our artist does not draw horses very scientifically,—to use a phrase of the atelier,—he feels them very keenly; ... ...current,” “the indistinctively seen craft,” “the solemn shadows” and other phenomena visible on rivers at night are detailed (with not unskilful rheto... ...es, as the first plate; but they are much better arranged than in the last-named engraving, and do not injure the effect of the principal figure. Rema... ...e hear, hold his works rather cheap; they prate about bad drawing, want of scientific knowledge:—they would have something vastly more neat, regular, ...

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...tality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter. For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish s... ...Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to adver ti... ...en were neat and clean to behold, when they went; and what more would the people have! It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produc... ... We name our fondlings in alphabetical order. The last was a S,—Swubble, I named him. This was a T ,—T wist, I named him. The next one comes will be ... ...s every night,’ said another gentleman in a gruff voice; ‘and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you—like a Christian.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ st... ... couple of young ladies called to see the young gentleman; one of whom was named Bet, and the other Nancy. They wore a good deal of hair, not very nea... ...case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improve ments being brought to that pass which will enable a ge... ...r indulged in many jests and ir relevant remarks, all highly unbecoming a scientific rubber. 175 OLIVER TWIST Indeed, the Artful, presuming upon the... ...to his breakfast when he ought to be ranging the mead ows after botanical phenomena of all kinds. T oo bad, isn’t it, Oliver?’ ‘I should have been ve...

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...n served every night in a gold or silver cup a drink prepared with spices. After we have gone some way in life we know the secret influence exerted by... ... terrible count. “No, he will not kill us!” she cried to herself mentally, after contemplating her husband for a long time. “He is frank, courageous, ... ...ne de Saint-Savin, a young lady who, by a not uncommon chance in days when people were killed off like flies, had suddenly become the representative o... ...- menclatures of theory did not exist; printing was done at enormous cost; scientific communication had little or no facility; the Church persecuted s... ...ecuted science and all research which was based on the analysis of natural phenomena. Persecu- tion begat mystery. So, to the people as well as to the... ...ned by the count before very long, she had died miserably, leaving a child named Gertrude, who had been rescued by the Sisters of the Convent of Poor ... ...her husband formed for the happiness and wealth of his second son, whom he named Maximilien. Etienne was to be made a priest, in or- der to leave the ... ...ng and the leisure necessary for a studious life and the accomplishment of scientific work. Beauvouloir had for some time desired the situation, becau... ...thout appearing extraordinary at a period when educated women were thought phenomenal. The house had been to her a convent, but with more freedom, les...

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...t; it has a stuffy, musty, and rancid quality; it permeates your clothing; after-dinner scents seem to be mingled in it with smells from the kitchen a... ...n, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon. The red tiles of the floor are full of depressions... ...ts of rooms on the second floor were respec- tively occupied by an old man named Poiret and a man of forty or thereabouts, the wearer of a black wig a... ...mers who 11 Balzac lived in the neighborhood. There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme. Vauque... ... of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, “After all, we cannot do without them.” Stately Paris ignores the existence ... ...e of thought and feeling in others which causes 89 Balzac so many strange phenomena that make an impression upon us of which we are all unconscious a... ...” “Mlle. Michonneau was talking the day before yesterday about a gentleman named Trompe-la-Mort,” said Bianchon; “and, upon my word, that name would d... ...lly watched, for it throws a light on several obscure and rather important scientific problems. One of the authorities says that if there is more pres... ...” “Dear Bianchon,” exclaimed Eugene. “Oh! it is an interesting case from a scientific point of view,” said the medical student, with all the enthusias...

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...she overshadows with her wings. Neverthe less, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing... ...ns would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so m... ...ced by a single unworthy mem ber; but seldom or never, on the other hand, after the first two generations, performing any memorable deed, or so much ... ...itude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy. Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contr... ... Mistress Prynne,” said old Roger Chillingworth, as he was hereafter to be named, “I leave thee alone: alone 62 The Scarlet Letter with thy infant an... ...e, unimpassioned lustre that would be indicated by the comparison. But she named the infant “Pearl,” as being of great price—purchased with all she ha... ...es. He was heard to speak of Sir Kenelm Digby and other fa mous men—whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural—as havin... ...hose days, than to inter pret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena that occured with less regularity than the rise and set of sun an...

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...n de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irks...

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...he road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an in- fatuated youth who had looke... ... the room immediately over- head. Lucien slept on till four o’clock in the afternoon, when he was awakened by Mme. de Bargeton’s servant, and learn- i... ...the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse for wear. Some people no longer look the same when detached from the background of faces, ... ...of the Council to introduce you to those houses; but you will meet so many people at Mme. d’Espard’s, that you are not likely to require me. So far fr... ...f Rubempre as a Jew to a baptismal name. Lucien’s father was an apothecary named Chardon. M. de Rastignac, who knew all about Angouleme, had set sever... ...p shirts to admiration, and is just about to be married to a local printer named Sechard. Such is the world! You no sooner show yourself than it pulls... ...uvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a great question which divided the whole scientific world into two opposite camps, with these two men of equal geniu... ...t was possible to think and speak freely on all matters of intellectual or scientific interest; hence the honesty of their friendships, the gaiety of ... ... supplied links of interpretations between human character and the curious phenomena of human life—subtle touches which 166 A Distinguished Provincia...

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...n his half-pay, and her conduct struck but at the man whose name she bore. After five years of marriage, and twelve of friendship, Sir Austin was left... ...iven two or three blazing dinners in the great hall he would have deceived people generally, as he did his relatives and intimates. He was too sick fo... ...ose troublesome appendages of success. He caused himself to be required by people who could serve him; feared by such as could injure. Not that he wen... ...Ordeal of Richard Feverel sophical tenets in front of him. He was charming after din- ner, with men or with women: delightfully sarcastic: per- haps a... ...ustin, the secretive youth drew out bundle after bundle: each neatly tied, named, and numbered: and pitched them into flames. And so Farewell my young... ...t. “He would have ridden back as hard as he went,” reflected this profound scientific humanist, “had there been a woman in it. He would shun vast expa... ...n her bearing. Had she stood before Sir Austin among rival dam- sels, that Scientific Humanist, for the consummation of his System, would have thrown ... ... letter arrived from Richard to his father, containing observations on the phenomena of London; remarks (mainly cynical) on the speeches and acts of P... ... behind thee?” And “I will,” firmly pronounced, speeds him over. The above-named manuscript authority informs us, that by far the greater number of ca...

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...d customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the people,—as in Brittany, where the native char- acter allows no forgetfulnes... ...have works. Public buildings, monuments of the past, count for much in the phenomena of retrospection; but the monuments of modern industry are freest... ...els not less curious: Croisic, and the village of Batz. There are no towns after Guerande except Vitre in the centre of Brit- tany, and Avignon in the... ...nce gives to zoological species is found in Breton human nature. Even now, after the Revolution of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially B... ...getables, bordered with cordons of fruit-trees, which the man-of-all-work, named Gasselin, takes care of in the intervals of grooming the horses. At t... ...lle du Guenic the baron’s elder sister, and an only son, aged twenty- one, named, after an ancient family usage, Gaudebert-Calyste- Louis. The father’... ...crossed to Ireland, faithful to the ancient Breton hatred for England. The people of Guerande feigned utter ignorance of the baron’s existence. In the... ...ng young woman opened her house to artists, authors of renown, learned and scientific men, and publicists,—a society toward which her tastes led her. ...

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...lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of wh...

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...ude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888—that is eleven months and four days after—my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentle- man, who certainly went ... ..., and reappeared in the same part of the 4 The Island of Dr. Moreau ocean after a space of eleven months. In some way he must have lived during the i... ...ny disaster. * Daily News, March 17, 1887. 5 H. G . Wells We thought the people on the launch would be better provi- sioned (though it seems they we... ...g of the boat. The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don’t know... ...assenger myself, from Arica. The silly ass who owns her,—he’s captain too, named Davies,— he’s lost his certificate, or something. You know the kind o... ...n shipped; the boat was perfectly sound) that I had leisure to look at the people in the launch again. The white-haired man I found was still regardin... ...pose, about fifty,—a prominent and masterful physiolo- gist, well-known in scientific circles for his extraordinary imagination and his brutal directn... ...pport of his fellow-investigators and his de- sertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shame- ful thing. Yet some of his experiments, by ... ... We have chased you for your good. Because this island is full of inimical phenomena. Be- sides, why should we want to shoot you when you have just of...

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... charge to us, the survivors, to do for it what we judged fittest, if indeed doing nothing did not seem the fittest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me....

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...d doing nothing did not seem the fittest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me. After som... ...hich he surveyed with open intent eyes, and the silent exercise of all the scientific faculties he had;—very strange mystery indeed, this new arrival,... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...ecalled from his German campaignings, and had before long, though not till after some waverings on his part, attached firmly to the Duke of Ormond and... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...on;— there to witness, in due time, the tar-barrels of Waterloo, and other phenomena that followed. Captain Sterling never quitted London as a residen... ...n I first saw London, I remember those unfortunate Spaniards among the new phenomena. Daily in the cold spring air, under skies so unlike their own, y... ...l, is very amus- ing; and for the Book on Watt, which disappointed me. The scientific part is no doubt very good, and particularly clear and simple; b... ...s and creeds as the dignitar- ies of the World had fixed upon and solemnly named rec- ommendable; prostrating his heart in such Church, by such accred...

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...first to the charming meadows which lay to the right of the road where the aftermath was springing up, then to the hill-slopes covered with copses whi... ...and glowing beneath a Raffaelle sky , and beside a canal shaded with trees after Hobbema. Whoever knows Nemours knows that nature is there as beautifu... ...is shrill voice grew sibilant, and his face took on the appearance of what people oddly enough call a sunstroke. 9 Balzac “Is that true?” he asked, a... ... say to the conversion of your uncle?” cried the tax-collector of Nemours, named Cremiere. “What do you expect me to say?” replied the post master, of... ...the part of Mephistopheles in the little town. This ill-conditioned youth, named Goupil, was head clerk to Monsieur Cremiere-Dionis, the Nemours notar... ...—one liberal, one minis- terial, one ultra,—a few periodicals, and certain scientific journals, the accumulation of which swelled his library. The new... ...to understand the reasons (which most people call caprices) underlying the phenomena of this delicious phase of life, when childhood is both flower an... ...r and against his theories as the Piccinists and the Gluckists for theirs. Scientific France was stirred to its center; a solemn conclave was opened. ... ...etween two forces, between an ill to be cured and the will to cure it. The phenomena of somnambulism, hardly perceived by Mesmer, were revealed by du ...

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...ice was the seat of the Government of Leon Gambetta in the autumn of 1870, after the dictator had been obliged to retire in his balloon from Paris, an... ...at Duke of Guise who was murdered by the order of Henry II. at Blois, was, after the death of his father, confined here for more than two years, but m... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ...or gold, to the austere M. Guizot, by one of her servants, an Alsatian Jew named Deutz. For many hours before her capture she had been compressed into... ...onsole me by telling me that when they are exhibited again it will be on a scientific basis, and with an order and regularity of which they were forme... ...lways poplars to be seen, but the poplar had become an aquatic plant. Such phenomena, however, at Macon attract but little attention, as the Saone, at...

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...lar, about a thousand hours of sincere work to learn a language completely—after three or four languages much less—which gives you, even at the outset... ...p like mushrooms! Then that “literature”—an astonishing conception! In the after- noon mathematics and the sciences. Could anything be sim- pler or mo... ...ending not to know gave her something to say. Mr. Lewisham nodded. “Of all people! Then”—frankly—”you have just found me out.” “I am afraid I have,” s... ...“It is nothing—it’s the proper thing for me to do, you know.” “But so many people won’t do it. Schoolmasters are not usually so—chivalrous.” He was ch... ... you … others can see, hear, feel. I have tested, sir. Tested! I have some scientific training and I have em- ployed tests. Scientific and exhaustive ... ...re a little confused in her mind. She ranked Lewisham with Smithers in the scientific triumph of the evening. On the whole she felt elated. She had no... ...deny it. But, as he explained, the thing is necessary—justifiable. Psychic phenomena are subtle, a certain training of the observation is necessary. A... ...s a little wanting in your scientific men. They are apt to be a little too phenomenal, you know, a little too ob- jective. Now I seek after noumena. N... ...m the catastrophic to the sordid; Lewisham had found work. An army crammer named Cap- tain Vigours wanted someone energetic for his mathemati- cal duf...