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...companions to the concept of inflation. In a far more subtle, yet no less forceful manner, the Boss shares with the reader some views about taxation, slavery (both literal and wage slavery), trade unions, the origins of the German language, the nature of marriage, and probably most powerfully, death. It is a tall order for a relatively brief text, but Twain manages it all ...

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...l Legislature to do everything else, and cannot authorize them to prohibit slavery. That is one of the things the court can decide, but can never give... ...e will it end?” These questions imply that those who ask them consider the slavery question a very insignificant matter they think that it amounts to ... ...ti- ated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has no... ...ed. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public ... ...tiated with the avowed object and confident promise of put- ting an end to slavery agitation. On the fourth day of January, 1854, Judge Douglas introd... ...end that policy of national exchanges which secures to working-men liberal wages, to agriculture remunerating prices, to mechanics and manufacturers a... ... hired laborers. The pru- dent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, ...

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...il, with whom, as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quack- e... ...at ef- fects, in various times and countries, Deception takes the place of wages of Performance: here truly is an Inquiry big with results for the fut... ...e ance of Ware so high even as at One to a Hundred (which, considering the Wages of a Pope, Russian Autocrat, or En- glish Game-Preserver, is probably... ...to suspect in himself any literary gift; but at best earns bread-and-water wages, by his wide faculty of Translation. Nevertheless,” continues he, “th... ...gs to us by nature, and of indefeasible right. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint; only such ove... ...e Fox: every prick of that little instrument is pricking into the heart of Slavery, and World- worship, and the Mammon-god. Thy elbows jerk, as in 15...

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...e with whom only he can ever have a real sympathy—the sincere opponents of slavery. It will be a mistake if he shall allow the provocations offered hi... ...rol, and influential citizens in each, owners of slaves and ad- vocates of slavery at the beginning of the rebellion, now de- clare openly for emancip... ...f which three years ago would tolerate any restraint upon the extension of slavery into new Territories, dispute now only as to the best mode of remov... ...to the Union under it, why also to the laws and proclamations in regard to slavery? Those laws and proc- lamations were enacted and put forth for the ... ... to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation or by any ... ...ere hired laborers. The prudent penniless beginner in the world labors for wages a while, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself,... ... was a postponement of the question of sepa- ration, upon which the war is waged, and a mutual direction of 294 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol...

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... need so many skilled workmen in my place, and it’s a lot of these cranky, wage-hogging, half- baked skilled mechanics that start trouble—reading a lo... ...d all these compli- cations and hoop-te-doodles and government reports and wage-scales and God knows what all that these fellows are balling up the la... ...r thought of giving her an allow- ance. His mother had never had one! As a wage-earning spinster Carol had asserted to her fellow librarians that when... ...re of the time for a person that isn’t willing to yield and pay exorbitant wages!” Carol was retorting, “But a maid does it for strangers, and all she... ...in common with a lot 209 Sinclair Lewis of laboring men rowing for bigger wages so that they can buy wretched flivvers and hideous player-pianos and—... ...ized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is slavery self-sought and self-defended. It is dullness made God. A savorless...

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...ink from the sublime height of motherhood to the somber depths of unmodified slavery, the abyss of separa tion between her and her boy was complete. ... ...erlin to earn the liquidation money. It took us two years to get out of that slavery. We traveled all about Germany, receiving no wages, and not even ... ...ears to get out of that slavery. We traveled all about Germany, receiving no wages, and not even our keep. We had to be exhibited for nothing, and beg... ...“Well, madam, the rest is not of much consequence. When we escaped from that slavery at twelve years of age, we were in some respects men. Experience ... ...as dumb for a moment; then he said: “Do you mean that you would be sold into slavery to save me?” “Ain’t you my chile? En does you know anything dat a... ...thers is all de same. De good lord he made ‘em so. I’s gwine to be sole into slavery, en in a year you’s gwine to buy yo’ ole mammy free ag’in. I’ll s...

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...hall dismiss you as I would any other clerk. Ninety pounds a year are good wages, and I expect to have the full value of my money out of you; remember... ...?” “Partly,” I replied. “I suppose you mean that I am to do my work for my wages; not to expect favour from you, and not to depend on you for any help... ... ca- pable of performing the work Mr. Crimsworth has set me; I can earn my wages conscientiously, and those wages are suffi- cient to enable me to liv... ... what are you but a poor clerk? You do Crimsworth’s work, and he gives you wages—shabby wages they are, too.” I was silent. Hunsden’s language now bor... ...ut tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps. I had received my first quarter’s wages, and was returning to my lodgings, possessed heart and soul with the ... ...ow given your service three months’ trial, and I find it the most nauseous slavery under the sun. Seek another clerk. I stay no longer.” “What I do yo... ...a wife’s nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be t...

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...have been expected from her, had promised that she would slave for him, if slavery were neces- sary. Then she had made her request, had been refused, ... ...ty; not employment.’ ‘No, no,’ exclaimed the baronet. ‘They work for their wages and do their best. Powell sees to that.’ Powell was the bailiff, who ... ...d not consent to be made a slave even for the sake of the country. But the wages had to be raised,—having raised them I expect to get proper value for... ...y breed- ing idleness when you teach people to think that they are earning wages without working for their money. Whatever you do with them, let them ... ...esque, and almost beautiful in the battle which such a one as himself must wage with the world before he could make his way up in it. He would not pic... ...ntent to live without loud grumbling as long as the farmers paid him their wages, and the land when sold would fetch thirty years’ purchase. He had no...

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... For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, courage Thrown into ... ... arrested me as a witness, And I lost my train and staid in Spoon River To wage my battle of life to the end. Oh, Cully Green, you were my savior— Y o... ...To vanquish A. D. Blood. But as the war Waged bitterly for votes and rumors flew About the bank, and of the heavy l... ...m must be The symbol and the medium to release From life’s denial and from slavery, Then give me rum!” Exultant cri...

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...res and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment in slavery, and indeed slavery was tried again and again and failed and failed... ...ive or six hundred per cent. and enormous fortunes were made and fantastic wages earned by all who were concerned in the new developments. This prospe... ...bsolutely impossible. As well might the council have proposed a revival of slavery. The capitalist system had already been smashed beyond repair by th... ...ass had been out of work, the attempt to put 133 H G Wells them back into wages employment on the old lines was fu- tile from the outset—the absolute... ...on a grand scale to keep the less adaptable out of mischief, and of paying wages to the younger adults for at- tendance at schools that would equip th... ...dled for half a million years, but now that the War against Flies has been waged so successfully that this pesti- lential branch of life is nearly ext...

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...poor and the Australian settlers, where food and space were plenty and the wages high. I was somewhat hurt at his way of viewing what had always seeme... ...s, filled with squalid women and children, little the better for the men’s wages when they were high, and now that the Com- pany was in a languishing ... ...rds the potters. The works were lingering on, only just not perishing; the wages that the men did get, such as they were, went in drink; the town in t... ...closed it, and why he could not bear to see its frequenters spending their wages on degrading themselves and making their homes miserable. In no mood ... ..., and, if successful, would much increase trade and profits, and a rise in wages was offered to such as could undertake the workmanship. Moreover, it ... ...ng her whole lifetime but toil for others; and if unselfishness and silent slavery can be religion in a woman, poor Alice had it. But! Harold once ask...

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...ving-man, who should have been left in charge of that big house upon board wages. “Are ye sharp-set?” he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee... ... twenty- pounders were those unhappy criminals who were sent over- seas to slavery in North America, or the still more unhappy innocents who were kidn... ...e to an end; but in those days of my youth, white men were still sold into slavery on the planta- tions, and that was the destiny to which my wicked u... ... sailor’s stories: that it was a place where lads were put to some kind of slavery called a trade, and where apprentices were continually lashed and c...

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.... Massacre, For this I prayed, would on thy sleep have crept, T reason and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust, And stifled thee, their minister. I know ... ...my brow Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery, _70 That thou—O awful Lovelines... ...I win!” _240 And Sin cursed to lose the wager, But Death promised, to assuage her, That he would petition for Her t... ...tar Now beckoning thee out of thy misty throne Could thaw the clouds which wage an obscure war With thy young brightness! ...

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...e youths were not slain by Minos, but spent the remainder of their days in slavery in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves o... ...rding to the mildest form of the story, to live vilely and dishonorably in slavery to insulting and cruel men; it is not to be expressed what an act o... ...engaged their body for the debt, and might be seized, and either sent into slavery at home, or sold to strang- ers; some (for no law forbade it) were ... ...or a disposition to serve, would never sell himself and his coun- try into slavery to a barbarous and hostile nation. Notwithstanding this, the people... ...o desire to learn and improve. T o proceed: Aemilius, being chosen consul, waged war with the Ligurians, or Ligustines, a people near the Alps. They w... ...s should think himself an enemy fit to match the Romans, and to be able to wage war with them so long on equal terms, with the re- mainder only of his... ...to give an exact account of the expenses of the war, to those with whom he waged it. Nay, when he had his foes as tutors, to instruct him what he had ... ...om their first youth unto their utmost age Appointed the laborious wars to wage, certainly they were the chief Romans of that time; who in their youth... ... retains the same course, so long,” said he, “shall the citizens of Athens wage war with the Persians for the country which has been wasted, and the t...

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...e best fellows in town. And what do you think the dinner cost a head? I’ll wager you’ll never guess.” “Was it two guineas a head?—In course I mean wit... ... has naturally the finest ear for music ever known!”); what evi- dences of slavery, in a word, are there! It is the condition of the young lady’s exis... ...her, the door was opened by the page, who instantly thanked her to pay his wages; and in the drawing-room, on a yellow satin sofa, sat a seedy man (wi... ...come before the Court, and passed through it since then: and I would lay a wager that Howard Walker was not a bit worse than his neighbours. But as he...

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...iticos, who plotted with foreigners for the surrender of the lands and the slavery of the people. The clamour of this Negro Liberalism frightened Seño... ...n Sulaco was described as “Foreman of the wharf” against the figure of his wages. “Was it for a joke they woke me up from my sleep after two days 232... ..., pays for the making of this railway. He was very pleased with me. But my wages were not due till the end of the month.” He slid down the bank sudden... ...fe. And the feel- ing of fearful and ardent subjection, the feeling of his slavery—so irremediable and profound that of- ten, in his thoughts, he comp...

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...d brought her knitting with her, and it seemed as if her tongue had laid a wager with her fingers, to outdo them in swift and ceaseless motion. Her da... ...d sneak of a nurse to keep out of my way for a day or two; I’d pay her her wages and send her packing to-morrow, but I know she’d do more mischief out... ...y you; but still, I repeat, stand firm. You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry a man you dislike. If your mother and brother are... ...clean and wash, and cook, won’t you? I can do all that; and never mind the wages: I’ve my bits o’ savings yet, and if you wouldn’t take me I should ha... ...er eyes. ‘I should like it above all things, Rachel, and I’d give you such wages as I could afford: such as I should give to any servant-of-all-work I...

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...s, for if they choose to do violence in the naughtiness of their hearts, and wager their heads that Ulysses will not return, they can take the high ha... ...es beat her from behind about the back and shoulders, and carry her off into slavery, to a life of labour and sorrow, and the beauty fades from her ch... ...e salute. In that country a man who could do without sleep might earn double wages, one as a herdsman of cattle, and another as a shepherd, for they w...

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... forever, he makes the most of it while it does last, and so lays up a good rest against the day that must see him put on the chains once more and ent... ...along, having a good time, other pedestrians went staving by us with vigorous strides, and with the intent and determined look of men who were walking... ...o you. It is con- sidered best to keep his expectations “on a string” until your stay in concluded. I do not know whether hotel servants in New York g...

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...er. Bad wants payin’ for.” He nodded and winked mysteriously. “Bad has its wages as well’s honest work, I’m thinkin’. Varmer Bollop I don’t owe no gru... ...o middle course for Richard’s comrades between high friendship or absolute slavery. He was deficient in those cos- mopolite habits and feelings which ... ...sides, he won’t hear for a week. This Tom beats that T om in cunning, I’ll wager. Ha! ha!” the hero burst out at a recollection. “What do you think, R... ...ng! But what did that mean? In other words: she was to receive the devil’s wages without rendering him her services. Such an arrangement appears hardl...