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...sterly friendship. His spirits were in that state of revival when a mutual alliance would have greatly added to the enjoyment of both; but Theodora ha... ...ure of beau- tiful scenery, the watchful care of her kind brother, and the progressive improvement of her babe, produced the desired effect; and when ...

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...he House of Lords in some coming session, and the great value of political alliances early in life, till the young Peer began to think that Lady Cantr... ... think all those conventional rules about men and women are absurd?’ ‘As a progressive American, of course I am bound to think all conventional rules ... ... same. I take upon myself to say that, had the world been informed that an alliance had been arranged between the eldest son of the Duke of Omnium and... ...ugh we were a narrow class, already too closely bound together by fam- ily alliances. The room for choice might be wide enough for you without going a... ... was satisfied. But when the marriage was spoken of, or written of, as an ‘alliance’, then he would say a hard word or two about dukes and lords in ge...

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...rmerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing way to an alliance with one of these great surrounding houses; and he had a passion f... ...without a word. Mr. Pempton believed that the Vegetarian movement was more progressive in England than in other lands, but he was at the disadvantage ... ...it is more serviceable to party than agree- able to country; and where the alliance of men and women binds a loving couple, of whom one is a torrent o... ...rther news, corroborative and consecutive, to show the action of things as progressive. Fenellan had sunk into his usual apathy:—and might plead the i... ...as impossible for him to speak the torments of those days of the monstrous alliance. The 111 George Meredith heavens were cognizant. He pleaded his c... ...sure you, my love, he touched chords.’ ‘Did he allude to advantages in the alliance with him?’ Nataly asked smoothly. ‘His passion—nothing else. Candi... ...erchants, whose preference for the plain positive, upon the question of an alliance between families by marriage, lends them for once a resemblance to... ...ow here!’ Skepsey had rushed across an open space to intercept a leisurely progressive man, whose hat was of the shape Victor knew; and the man wore t...

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...for making it. In spite of all ap- parent changes in his conduct (for this alliance naturally af- fected it somewhat) he remained faithful to the popu... ...innocence. Catherine then heard officially from the Pope’s own lips of the alliance reserved for her. The Duke of Albany had been able to do no more t... ...e an interest in his death, for Francois I. was negotiating for his son an alliance which would assuredly have aggrandized France. The count’s confess... ...supported by a powerful party,—the Catholic party,—and by the two powerful alliances Diane had made in marrying one daughter to Robert de la Mark, Duc... ... insult to the favorite. Diane’s greatest ambition was for the honor of an alliance with the royal family of France. The hand of her second daughter (... ...they died, and, above all, the impres- sion produced upon the crowd by the progressive diminu- tion of the chanting voices, superseded the fear inspir...

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...ceiving the bad effect produced upon the meeting by this rhapsody, and the progressive confusion of the speaker, I whis- pered (pulling his coat gentl... ...es of warfare— offensive and defensive; the financial means, the available alliances, and other resources, are with so much difficulty appraised—in or... ...ands on common ground; but how this mode of shedding terror can borrow any alliance from chapels, from ruins, from monastic piles, from Inquisi- tion ... ... 131 Thomas de Quincey the strongest barrier (viz., that against Mahometan alliances) is known to have given way, as in other cases innumerable, but f... ...hurch. But that did not hinder alli- ances, and ambitious attempts at such alliances, with their Venetian masters in the most distinguished of the Gre... ...e self-styled Evangelicals), he despised them so profoundly as to make all alliance between them impossible. He hated also many indi- viduals; but, no...

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...of insufferable, because unwarrantable, pride, and drawing, substance from alliances with the merchant class. 245 George Meredith Are they your leade... .... ‘So it was considered that in refusing my cousin Otto and other proposed alliances, I was heart-free. An instructed prin- cess, they thought, was of... ...m the point of view of the pretender to the supreme honour of the splendid alliance, the fault was none of hers. She overlooked his humble, his peculi... ...titled to be considered a fit and proper person, in rank and blood, for an alliance with the proudest royal Houses of Europe, and my grandfather was n... ...e of his very oldest, I’d say, if it didn’t impugn. As such, proud of your alliance. I am. I speak of it everywhere—everywhere.’ Here she dramatized t... ...ic could not. I knew, nevertheless, that to the rest of the world he was a progressive comedy: and the knowledge made him seem more tragic still. He c...

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...e succeed! How noble a task is that which has no instrument but love! Such alliances, made famous by the example of Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Alcibi... ... good family, in whose favor the King will grant this distinction. Such an alliance will get Lucien on in the world and at Court. This boy, of whom I ... ...han four daughters to provide for. No one doubted that in honor of such an alliance the King would revive for Lucien the title of Marquis. This distin... ...can come to you will be death, which you 75 Balzac now wish to meet.” The alliance between these two beings, who were to be- come one, as it were, wa... ...d Justice, are lowered in this nineteenth century, which asserts itself as progressive in all things. “And why should you never be promoted?” said Ame... ...hese hapless creatures danger lies everywhere; excepting in the case of an alliance as ominous as the prison where it was formed, they dare not trust ...

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...acle in the way of this prospect, this distin- guished life, this splendid alliance. Ah! Charlotte, some day you will do me justice by discovering how... ...ied de Marsay. “For very nearly fifty years we have been looking on at the progressive ruin of all social distinctions. We ought to have saved our wom...

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...s got a motor bicycle …. 2 2 2 2 2 Bert, it is necessary to explain, was a progressive Smallways. Nothing speaks more eloquently of the pitiless insis... ...ddie, and at last helper in a bicycle shop. Here, apparently, he found the progressive quality his nature had craved. His employer was a pirate-souled... ...e. It was always a very rhetorical and often a trying affair, but in these progressive times you have to make a noise to get a living. It was often ha... ...question of univiorsal service in a defensive militia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, adva... ...redominance in the world’s affairs. Then the German 68 The War in the Air alliance still struggled to achieve its dream of imperial ex- pansion, and ... ...ornamental, a long streaming flag, the red, black, and yellow of the great alliance, the Sun- rise and the Dragon. Beyond, to the east, at a much high... ...ad made. Yet they thought confidently that this was a secure and permanent progressive system, and on the strength of some three hundred years of chan...

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... our being Chris tians and Protestants, of neighbouring countries in strict alliance, that he would move the captains to take some pity on us. This i... ...d by men, who were able (as it should seem) to raise or sink, or put it into progressive motion, as they pleased. But not being at that time in a disp... ...voy age lasted four days and a half. I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island. On the second morning, ... ... south eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. There is a strict alliance between the Japanese emperor and the king of Luggnagg; which aff... ... ions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve. Alliance by blood, or marriage, is a frequent cause of war between prince... ...ith hatred, disgust, and contempt; and the more, by reflect ing on the near alliance I had to them. For although, since my unfortunate exile from the...

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...e saw him the very next day, and on this second occasion it was quite different; the sense of every syl- lable he paid for was fiercely distinct; she ... ... cipher about. The week proves blissfully fine, and her mother, at their lodgings—partly to her embarrassment and partly to her relief—struck up with ...

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...eys. With one of them, from whom he first received overtures, he formed an alliance, and became what he now was, the military leader of the tribe, and... ...e brought us troops of “tayos,” or 133 Melville friends, eager to form an alliance after the national custom, and do our slightest bidding. The reall... ... A few very brief extracts will enable the reader to mark for himself what progressive improvement, if any, has taken place. Nor must it be overlooked... ...ing, being unwilling to entangle themselves 177 Melville in a matrimonial alliance, however splendid in point of fam- ily. Tonoi’s men, the fishermen... ...r, an island about one hundred miles from T ahiti. This proving an unhappy alliance, the pair were soon afterwards divorced. The present husband of th...

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...ght have coarser tastes than that. You see they’re very luxurious, and these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury. They make them feel mor... ...e sort of way. The common lot? Why, I’m devoted to the common lot! Strike an alliance with me, and I promise you that you shall have plenty of it. You... ...t have told you why, but she found something that ministered to mirth in the alliance the correspondent of the Inter viewer had struck with Lady Pens... ...r for the first time in England, several months ago, and we struck up a grand alliance. I like her immensely, and I do what I don’t do every day—I admi... ...ver, to think that he had taken it into his head to marry her niece. Such an alliance, on Isabel’s part, would have an air of almost morbid perversity... ...thing to grudge to Henrietta’s violated conscience. Osmond had thought their alliance a kind of monstrosity; he couldn’t imagine what they had in comm... ...y correspondents appeared to him a part of the natural scheme of things in a progressive country, and though he never read their letters he supposed t...

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...t have coarser tastes than that. You see they’re very luxurious, and these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury. They make them feel moral... ...rt of way. The com- mon lot? Why, I’m devoted to the common lot! Strike an alliance with me, and I promise you that you shall have plenty of it. You s... ...or the first time in England, several months ago, and we struck up a grand alliance. I like her immensely, and I do what I don’t do every day— I admir... ...r, to think that he had taken it into his head to marry her niece. Such an alliance, on Isabel’s part, would have 289 Henry James an air of almost mo... ...ing to grudge to Henrietta’s violated conscience. Osmond had thought their alliance a kind of monstrosity; he couldn’t imagine what they had in common... ...rre- spondents appeared to him a part of the natural scheme of things in a progressive country, and though he never read their letters he supposed tha...

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...moved from each other. In the one is shown the result of long centuries of progressive Civilization and refinement, which have gradually converted the... ... as it is termed with us, might have been followed by an immediate nuptial alliance. At any rate, I have more than one reason to believe that tedious ... ...hiefly prize. They have at least twenty different terms to express as many progressive stages in the growth of the nut. Many of them reject the fruit ...

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...e. Here, then, we have one side of the case. Man-eating among kindly men, child-murder among child-lovers, in- dustry in a race the most idle, inventi... ...ption had caused much excitement in the vil- lage; it made the strangers popular. Paaaeua, in his difficult posture of appointed chief, drew strength ... ...metimes from the midst of the roof, an aerial whistling proceeds, appalling to the in- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its...

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...ena, whom he had mistrusted as so proud and fierce, submitted herself to the fairy-bride (as he called her), and learnt from her what she knew. He tho... ...k what a poor, mean, miserable thing it is! That must be real. It’s over.’ He has accompanied this incoherence with some wild unmeaning gestures; but ...

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... _100 Freedom calls “Famine”,—her eternal foe, To brief alliance, hollow truce.—Rise now! [Whilst the veiled figure has been chanti... ... the Turkish tyrant, and to brand upon their name the indelible blot of an alliance with the enemies of domestic happiness, of Christianity and civili... ...d their mutual jealousies in the presence of a mightier fear. Of this holy alliance all the despots of the earth are virtual members. But a new race h... ...s of the external world. 554 V olume One The concluding verses indicate a progressive state of more or loss exalted existence, according to the degre... ...berty in Italy. We have seen the rise and progress of reform. But the Holy Alliance was alive and active in those days, and few could dream of the pea...

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...of a man educated at a great public school. While he pointed out the great alliances which his ances- tors had formed, Philip amused himself by won- d... ...so that there might be room for dancing, and smaller ones were set out for progressive whist. “The ‘eads ‘ave to get there early ,” said Mrs. Hodges. ... ...ind you, she’s not a bad sort, she’s not like what some are.” After supper progressive whist was played. This was very noisy , and there was a great d...

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...: Then, as a pathway through a field of grain, Man’s laws appear the blind progressive worm, That moves by touch, and thrust of linking rings The whic... ...cts hooded their live wits T o issues. Never human fortune throve On such alliance. Viewed by fits, From Vulcan’s forge a hovering Jove Evolved. Th...

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...ngowan, and who indeed derived their principal claim of gentility from the alliance, were now disposed to pay to their trees of gene- alogy a tribute,... ... they now cultivate arts unknown to the former generation, not only in the progressive improvement of their possessions, but in all the comforts of li...

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...e could demonstrate the fact, that Shakspeare’s reputation was always in a progressive state; allowing only for the interruption of about seventeen ye... ...e-sided language. More probable it is, that the fiery eye recorded not any alliance with Jewish blood, but that disastrous alliance with insanity whic...

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...lude monarchies, as England includes dukedoms. But they will be overriding alliances, not overriding rulers. I leave it to the mathematician to work o... ...ent countries of the world are at the present moment quietly, steadily and progressively going bankrupt, and the mass of people are not even aware of ... ... her rancid cultivated nationalism to make not only the continuance of the Alliance after the war obviously advisable and highly probable, but also to... ...ic oligarchy have to accomplish an identi- cal task, to cement the pacific alliance of the Pledged Allies and to socialise their common industrial and... ...ears nothing of “the young”; one hears only of “smart juniors.” Reform and progressive criticism in the le- gal profession, unlike all other professio... ...stitutionalism, and of 75 H G Wells the balance of power against the holy alliance. In the figure of such a gentleman as Sir Edward Grey the old orde... ... the fundamental relationships of human Beings. First among such eternally progressive is- sues is religion, the relationship of man to God; next in i... ...outlook, to look west and east rather than southwardly, to be pacifist and progressive in a manner essentially American. From any close sympathy with ... ...n the United States capable of that propaganda of ideas and language, that progressive expression of a developing ideal of community, that in countrie...

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... observation and by sincere reflection to acknowledge that the gradual and progressive development of social equality is at once the past and future o... ..., and to curse that cause of liberty as a foe which it might hallow by its alliance. By the side of these religious men I discern others whose looks a... ...perated by their results.: These, however, are not conditions on which the alliance of the human will is to be obtained; its carriage must be free and... ...and those who fear the rule of abso- lute power, ought alike to desire the progressive growth of provincial liberties. On the other hand, I am convinc... ...rest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are ... ...ents, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.” In a previous part of the same le... ...f the future by the past,” says Mr. Cass, “we cannot err in anticipating a progressive diminu- tion of their numbers, and their eventual extinction, u... ...very twenty-two years. I perceive no causes which are likely to check this progressive increase of the Anglo-American population for the next hundred ... ... that I have made apply: or the authority of the Federal Government may be progressively entrenched on by the simultaneous tendency of the united repu...

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..., in an evil hour for that ill- fated city, they wormed themselves into an alliance with Prevesa; and in the following year their own quarrel with Ali... ...rary some of the officers had detected sufficient evidences of the Swedish alliances clandestinely maintained by the Landgrave; numbers of rare books,... ...e; indeed, they were 293 Thomas de Quincey supposed to have made a secret alliance with him, for pur- poses known only to the contracting parties. An... ...es of their masques to visit the Landgrave, and improve the terms of their alliance, whilst they declined the risk which they might have brought on th... ... production; manufactures, from the changes in machinery, which are always progressive and never *“Constantly tending to grow dearer”—T o the novice i... ...ting by experience, has never yet been abso- lutely regressive, though not progressive by such striking leaps or sudden discoveries as manufacturing a... ...e price upon all the five soils. And thus it happens that, whilst al- ways progressive, rural industry is nevertheless always travel- ling towards an ...

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...e day. This Yellowstone Park is laid out like Ollendorf, in exer- cises of progressive difficulty. Hell’s Half-Acre was a pre- lude to ten or twelve m... ...ry is supposed to be building a navy now. When the ships are completed her alliance will be worth having— if the alliance of any republic can be relie...

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...lgiojoso, who will represent in this “Human Comedy” the close and constant alliance between Italy and France, to which Bandello did honor in the same ... ... in consequence, partly, of the loneliness of the neighborhood, and of the alliance, to which their neces- sities had led, between them and the doorke... ...tted, as a respectful son yields to the tyr- anny of a mother. The strange alliance seemed to be the out- come of a strong will acting constantly on a... ...- claim the many merits of the lady of the house. Scandal is the true Holy Alliance in Paris. T ake that as an axiom. Inter- ests invariably fall asun... ...-deal- ers grow rich, it is generally not so much by trade as through some alliance between the shop and rural thrift. A large 138 Cousin Betty propo... ...and Victorin Hulot. These two politicians were trying to form a nucleus of progressives in the loose array of the Conservative Party. Giraud himself o...

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...ing way to an irritated pugnacity, and sucked the comforting caramel of an alliance with their troublesome next-door neighbour, profuse in comfits as ... ...them—met one day; they were a comtesse and a baronne, and they settled the alliance. The bell was rung, and Renee came out of school. There is this to... ...esn’t know when he can! Has he thrown up the service? I am to preserve the alliance between England and France by getting this French girl for him in ... .... It’s a very pretty sacrifice of himself he in- tends for the sake of the alliance, tell him that, but a lieutenant’s not quite big enough to establi... ...y on the ebb of tides and flung back on the flow, ignorant whether they be progressive or retrograde. Timothy Turbot assisted in that vast effort. It ... ... not a condition unnatural to us. The danger would be in not letting it be progressive, and there’s a little danger too at times in our slowness. We c... ...date for the borough. He announced his name and his principles T omlinson, progressive Liberal. ‘A true distinction from some Liberals I know,’ said B... ...at; but faithful to her comrade! I can swear it for her—faithful to a true alliance! You are not married, you are simply chained: and you are terroriz...

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...udden ca- pacities of horror; sometimes through the more natural and fixed alliances with the sense of power so various lodged in the mail system. The... ...lf, by multiplying to the imagination into infinity the 107 stages of its progressive diffusion. A fiery arrow seems to be let loose, which from that...

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... England, sire, and not of Charles II. It was doubtless wrong, from a family point of view, to sign a treaty with a man who had cut off the head of th... ..., would you approve of England’s sending to the United Provinces or to Spain a regiment, a company, a squadron even, of English gentlemen? Would you t... ...ld be separated you would no longer think of me.” “Dear Marie, is it then to-day only that you have discov- ered we are surrounded by people intereste... ...: Lambert demanded a profession of faith from his rival. The latter declared he had no other opinion than that of the majority. Lambert asked if it wo... ...ening, monsieur le prince,” said the minister, in a careless tone; “it is very kind of you to visit an old sick friend.” “A friend!” murmured the Comt... ...e refalling stone. Every time, the stone, abandoned by them, sunk deeper into the damp earth, which rendered the operation more and more difficult. A ...

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...size; and the ex- plosion took place about fifteen seconds after the rapid progressive motion had ceased: in a few cases it was preceded for a short i... ...plea- sure of the exercise, or perhaps is connected with their matrimonial alliances. I have now mentioned all the carrion-feeders, ex- cepting the co... ...rapid movement; generally revolving around different axes, but some- times progressive. The movement was visible with a very weak power, but even with... ... and help to compose it: these plants are very remarkable from their close alliance with the species growing on the mountains of Europe, though so man... ...Chilenos “el Turco,” is as large as a fieldfare, to which bird it has some alliance; but its legs are much longer, tail shorter, and beak stronger: it...

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...3, when as yet he is not thinking of Mr. Newman, he says,’ If knowledge is progressive, the de- velopment of Christian doctrine must be progressive li... ...ut I see the Newmanian cloven foot. As to the must, knowledge is certainly progressive; but the development of the multiplication table is not therefo... ...gressive; but the development of the multiplication table is not therefore progressive, nor of anything else that is finished from the beginning. My r... ...nd which never would be more accessible through any worldly attractions of alliance with power and civic grandeur or commerce, out of this darkness in... ...ors had been sent to Antipater, the father of Herod, offering the Parthian alliance and sup- port. At the same moment there happened to be at Jerusa- ... ...ely this question touched the salvation of the kindgom, since to accept an alliance with either empire, would be to insure the bitter hostility of the... ...ng 136 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One been effected by alliance with darker agencies, his only (as sublime moral agencies for work... ...ng. These perplexities are generally moving in coun- teracting paths: some progressive, some retrograde. There lies a man’s safety. But at times it wi...

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...and she wished to defend her cousin from the charge of contracting such an alliance, but Patrick’s face had brightened out of a gloom of stupefaction;... ...home, and who certainly would not have dreamed of contracting the abhorred alliance had she been breathing the air of common sense peculiar to her nat... ...ing her father’s paint- ing of him), he was almost interesting through his alliance:— an example of how much earth the worshipper can swallow when he ... ...him credit 118 Celt and Saxon for sound opinions: he was moderate, merely progressive. When it was added that the man had the habit of taking counsel... ...ast endurance. She had grounds for fearing that John, who might step to an alliance with any one of the proudest houses in the King- dom, would marry ... ...metimes to com- mand, the captain by the prophetic intimations of a holier alliance, a more illumined prescience. Reefs here, shallows there, yonder a...

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...gst Savages, an Alferez would in those days have been a natural noble. His alliance created honor for his wife and for his descendants. Some- thing, t... ...l skill will ever perfectly disenchant the great abyss from its terrors—no progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mys- ter... ...agic groups from the most awful section of the Gre- cian theatre. The next alliance of the same kind between the same great empires, in the persons of...

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...world; in North America, in Europe, and in China; which renders it rapidly progressive in the first, slow and gradual in the second, and altogether st... ... public prosperity. It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisitio... ...e. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all ... ...institutions, therefore, never disturbed the natural course of things, the progressive wealth and increase of the towns would, in every political soci... ...intain ministers in foreign countries, where the purposes either of war or alliance would not have required any. The commerce of the T ur- key company... ...pal branches of the house of Bourbon in a much stricter and more permanent alliance than the ties of blood could ever have united them. Joint-stock co...

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...gain. This rare charm the book owes in large mea- sure to its creator. THE ALLIANCE OF author with subject in Boswell’s Johnson is one of the happiest... ...took the charge of an edition of those Essays at Edinburgh, which followed progressively the London publication. This year he wrote to the same gentle... ...dvantages of Ox- ford for learning. ‘There is here, Sir, (said he,) such a progressive emulation. The students are anxious to appear well to their tut... ...swell’s Life of Johnson been carried on. In this war the smaller powers in alliance with him were of course led to en- gage, at least on the defensive...

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... to adjust itself in the social body. It is one of the main factors in the progressive embitterment of the Labour situation that whatever business is ... ...z faire. I would therefore lump them together under the term of Plan- less Progressives, and I would contrast with them those types which believe supr... ...therefore, as opposed to the Conservators and contrasted with the Planless Progressives, the name of Constructors. They are the extreme right, as it w... ...f Constructors. They are the extreme right, as it were, while the Planless Progressives are the extreme left of Anti-Conser- vator thought. I believe ... ...ggestion of the quality of this new status. A new type of family, a mutual alliance in the place of a subjugation, is perhaps the most star- tling of ... ...y uncomfortable. It is indeed an ideal problem for a healthy, hopeful, and progressive middle-aged public man. And, as I say, it deals with enor- mous...

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...f Satan), the simple old saint lent his ear to the subtle arguments of the progressive enemy of mankind. The venerable St. Mael fell away from grace b... .... Meanwhile till the time comes when there will be no frontiers, there are alliances so shamelessly based upon the exigencies of suspicion and mistrus... ...rd hint- ing tentatively at a possible re-grouping of European Powers. The alliance of the three Empires is sup- posed possible. And it may be possibl... ...of Europe which merges into Asia. No principle be- ing involved in such an alliance of mere expediency, it would never be allowed to stand in the way ... ...ne in the character of a friend he en- tered deliberately into a treaty of alliance with the Republic, and then, before the ink was dry, tore it up in... ...nother danger sprang up, a danger arising naturally from the new political alliances dividing Europe into two armed camps. It was the danger of silenc...

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...reer, proved instantly fatal. Stumbling forward with a hideous bellow, the progressive force of his previous motion, rather than any op- eration of hi... ... party now in power, with whom she main- tained a close correspondence and alliance; and that she hated, without fearing, the Ravenswood family (whose... ...poned against the attainder. Lord Ravenswood was an ancient title, and the alliance would, in some measure, legitimate his own possession of the great... ...e could conceive no other reason for a proceeding so extraordinary than an alliance betwixt the houses, and Ravenswood Castle assigned for the young l... ...esire in a match more than the sopiting of a very dangerous claim, and the alliance of a son-in-law, noble, brave, well-gifted, and highly connected; ... ...erclouded his fancy. In those features, so simply sweet, he could trace no alliance with the pinched visage of the peak-bearded, black-capped Puri- 1...

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...fields tempt his eye; but to him they are forbidden pasture: either pining in progressive starvation, he must stand; or, in mad exasperation, must rush... ...ears) escape him; and you too he devours at last. Can any Sovereign, or Holy Alliance of Sovereigns, bid Time stand still; even in thought, shake them...

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...al in life; all should, if possible, be sweetly spontaneous and swimmingly progressive. Thus he learned to make lead-pencils, and, when he had gained ... ...ris is in the hands of the butchers: the peasants have taken to the woods. Alliances are made and broken as if in a country dance; the English called ...