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...ontaigne's Essays IV. xx How the Soule dischargeth her Passions upon false objects, when the true faile it V. Whether the Captaine of a Place Besiege... ...says Book I: Chapter IV. HOW THE SOULE DISCHARGETH HER PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS, WHEN THE TRUE FAILE IT Table of Contents. Note on the e-text: thi... ... educational uses only. HOW THE SOULE DISCHARGETH HER PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS, WHEN THE TRUE FAILE IT GENTLEMAN of ours exceedingly subject to t... ...nto it selfe well setled motions, true and open judgements concerning the objects which it knew; which alone, and without any helpe or communication... ...reformed because I know him to have used household implements of gold and silver, according as the condition of his fortune gave him leave. I rather... ...t argento conflatus, totus et auro. -- Tibul. i. El. vii. 71. All made of silver fine, All gold pure from the mine Doth he not forthwith lose the re... ...ules devised this one, that none of them, upon paine to forfeit a marke of silver for every time offending, should ever ride either mule or mulet; as... ...e-tree gold, the wheeles whole circle gold, The ranke of raies did all of silver hold. You would say, we have the Coach-makers, Carpenters, and Paint... ...h he loved to see them richly armed, and made them weare gilt, graven and silvered armours, that their care to keepe them cleane and bright might ma...

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...Amidst a brilliant group of re- search assistants, Jordi Weinstock and David Silverstein stood out. Jordi showed a dogged ability to track down obscur... ...o writers, even if this would dramatically raise the price of books. What he objects to is dramatically raising the price of books written by long- de... ...the same time, more and more people are creating and distribut- ing cultural objects—becoming “subjects” of intellectual property law in the process, ... ...inal expression that copy- right covers. It does not cover purely functional objects, systems, processes, or methods of operation. One cannot copyrigh... ...ommons, one might enable the kind of hundred-year monopolies over functional objects that the critics of software copyright initially feared. If one w... ...ital conceptual and practical differences with property rights over tangible objects or land, that the framers of the Constitution who were most invol... ...tion, though at modest levels. Rafael Rob and Joel Waldfogel, “Piracy on the Silver Screen,” Journal of Industrial Economics 55 (2007): 379–395. Rob a...

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...y-ridden, corrupt, and opaque. Governments were accused of giving away the family silver. Maintaining golden shares in privatized enterprises was ... ...e may witness the bartering of agreements that have nothing to do with real world objects or values. In days to come, traders and speculators wil... .... Investors in derivatives get acquainted with it in the 2001-2 Enron affair. Mr. Silverstein was agonizingly introduced to it in his dealings wit...

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...ild pornography have? What about pornography involving women—as things—as objects to be used. A female writer in Norway has taken a definitely minori... ...fewer teeth than men. He never bothered to count them. He said that heavy objects fall faster than light objects, but never tested his statement for ... ... must not be sidetracked by amorphous meanings or erroneous evidence. The silver tongued possessors of ultimate knowledge, and the unbounded confide... ...al of the French Family. Four children gets you the bronze medal, six the silver medal and eight the coveted gold medal. It‘s a nice nationalistic n...

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...cut in and they both laughed. Woman of Honor 17 Geoffrey grabbed some silverware and left. Then he returned and carried some towels out. An... ...derstand that your upbringing gave you the opportunity to play with dangerous objects but here, you will treat them with the respect that they deser... ...d at her: large, piercing, and intelligent. But this was no mere eagle. The silver white feathers looked so soft and inviting that Aislinn longed ... .... The excursion was uneventful. They arrived when the moon peaked, casting a silvery light on their house. Aislinn knocked on the door as Donncha ...

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...ving our daughters to men whom we like. The practice of considering women as objects and ‘giving them to someone’ must be eradicated; we are strivi... ... Gandhi asks the non-Brahmins to work without even thinking of saving a small silver coin, and follow their 191 hereditary occupation on the basis...

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...t: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beaut... ...eaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For years the fairy child had come to him. Where others saw but... ...ltogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towel- rack was a rod of clear glass set in nickel. The tub was... ...ous tor- toiseshell, the meek pince-nez of the school teacher, the twisted silver-framed glasses of the old villager. Babbitt’s spectacles had huge, c... ...n suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican P... ... like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always lacking a supply of new leads) which belonged in the ...

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... THAT OUR AFFECTIONS CARRY THEMSELVES BEYOND US ......................................... 66 CHAPTER IV THAT THE SOUL EXPENDS ITS PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS, WHERE THE TRUE ARE WANTING....................................................................................................................................... 74 CHAPTER V WHETHER THE GOVERNOR OF A PLACE BESIEGED ...

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................. 66 CHAPTER IV THAT THE SOUL EXPENDS ITS PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS, WHERE THE TRUE ARE W ANTING.......................................... ...NS UPON F SIONS UPON FALSE OBJECT ALSE OBJECT ALSE OBJECT ALSE OBJECT ALSE OBJECTS, S, S, S, S, WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE THE THE THE THE THE TR T... ...together without strong move- ments, solid and clear judgments about those objects it could comprehend, and could also, without any helps, digest them... ...r the less temperate and virtuous for knowing that he made use of gold and silver vessels, when the condition of his fortune allowed him so to do; I h... ...s and to contemn honours: who is wholly self-con- tained: whom no external objects affect: whom fortune as- sails in vain.”—Horace, Sat., ii. 7,] such... ...! “Totus et argento conflatus, totus et auro;” [“Wholly made up of silver and gold.”—Tibullus, i. 2, 70.] does he not forget his palaces and g... ...is, that they should never ride mule or mulet, upon pen- alty of a mark of silver; this I had lately out of Guevara’s Letters. Whoever gave these the ...

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...still and mute! And when the midnight moon should lave Her forehead in the silver wave, How solemn on the ear would come The holy matins’ distant hum,... ... and slow, The beach of pebbles bright as snow. The boat had touched this silver strand Just as the Hunter left his stand, And stood concealed amid t... ...ugh upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue,— Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear! XIX.... ... birch-trees wept in fragrant balm; The aspens slept beneath the calm; The silver light, with quivering glance, Played on the water’s still expanse,— ... ...and banks of T weed, Where the lone streams of Ettrick glide, And from the silver T eviot’s side; The dales, where martial clans did ride, Are now one... ... mere verbal description. It is because Mr. Scott usually delineates those objects with which he is perfectly fa- miliar that his touch is so easy , c... ...d by mist, or the strange lights that are sometimes thrown upon particular objects, never fails to present an apparition to the imagination of the sol... ... un- usual situation, where the scenery around him suggested noth- ing but objects of horror. In this situation, he revolved in his mind the question ...

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...rried whisper now growing husky, “see here”; and the man held up two small objects faintly twinkling in the nightlight; “see, they are yours, Billy, i... ...What could it mean? And could they really be guineas, those two glittering objects the interloper had held up to his eyes? Where could the fellow get ... ...ghout the interview Captain Vere’s voice was far from high, and Claggart’s silvery and low; and the wind in the cordage and the wash of the sea helped... ... sea at the time; and the moon, newly risen and near to being at its full, silvered the white spar-deck wherever not blotted by the clear-cut shadows ... ...c stroke from for- ward. It was four o’clock in the morning. Instantly the silver whistles were heard summoning all hands to wit- ness punishment. Up ... ...rough the port comes the moon-shine astray! It tips the guard’s cutlas and silvers this nook; But ‘twill die in the dawning of Billy’s last day. A jew...

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...r Villaumes, mother and daughter, Milliners in the Rue St.-Martin, give ‘a silver thimble, and a coin of fifteen sous (sevenpence halfpenny),’ with ot... ...ger has only ‘three sous a day:’ the very Emigrants, it is said, will take silver-plate,—by way of re- venge. Clermont, Sainte-Menehould, Varennes esp... ...hrough this dim Phan- tasmagory of the Pit, will discern few fixed certain objects; and yet still a few. He will observe, in this Abbaye Prison, the s... ...ings had got a kind of brown-red colour, which makes the situation and the objects still more impressive on you. ’ (Goethe, Campagne in Frankreich (We... ... the elegant carriages of the Emigrants, many-coloured, lackered, gilt and silvered, evi- dently by the best builders, caught your eye. (See Hermann a... ...-creation of a World,’ says Foster; ‘and the actors in it, such small mean objects, buzzing round one like a handful of flies. ’— Likewise there is wa... ...ngpot, to make cannon. Censers and all sacred vessels are beaten broad; of silver, they are fit for the poverty-stricken Mint; of pewter, let them bec... ...s their heaped plunder,—ciboriums, suns, can- delabras, plates of gold and silver.’ (Mercier, iv. 134. See Moniteur, Seance du 10 Novembre.) The Addre...

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...judge of matter by the mind, Emasculated to the marrow It Hath but two objects, how to serve and bind, Deeming the chain it wears even men m... ...itself, without the power Of calling wholly back its self control; The silver light which, hallowing tree and tower, Sheds beauty and deep s... ...n our bosoms like the bag o’ the bee: Think’st thou the honey with those objects grew? Alas! ‘t was not in them, but in thy power To double ev... ...erior materials: she Had not so many ornaments to strike, Her hair had silver only, bound to be Her dowry; and her veil, in form alike, Wa... ...with state Before them, and fair slaves on every side; Gems, gold, and silver, form’d the service mostly, Mother of pearl and coral the less c... ...nd, Or were of tortoise shell or rare woods made, Fretted with gold or silver:—by command, The greater part of these were ready spread Wit... ... 110 Her daughter, temper’d with a milder ray, Like summer clouds all silvery, smooth, and fair, Till slowly charged with thunder they displa... ...y — the heart. It is observed that ladies are litigious Upon all legal objects of possession, And not the least so when they are religious, ... ...artlessly both heart and head Unto such feelings as seem’d innocent, For objects worthy of the sentiment. Some parts of Juan’s history, which Ru...

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...n, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of th... ...to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me—while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries... ...sed panes, and served to render sufficiently distinct the more promi- nent objects around; the eye, however, struggled in vain to reach the remoter an... ... which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of g... ... surfaces of the huge masses of agitated vapor, as well as all terrestrial objects immediately around us, were glowing in the unnatural light of a fai... ...fiery tongue, which sate in guard before a palace of gold, with a floor of silver; and upon the wall there hung a shield of shining brass with this le... ...carcass from out of the way before him, and approached valorously over the silver pavement of the castle to where the shield was upon the wall; which ... ... sooth tarried not for his full coming, but fell down at his feet upon the silver floor, with a mighty great and terrible ... ... shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet ...

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...ls of Certain English Prisoners by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE IT WA S IN THE YEAR of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and... ...was occupied by a very small English colony. It had been given the name of Silver-Store. The reason of its being so called, was, that the English colo... ...on of its being so called, was, that the English colony owned and worked a silver-mine over on the mainland, in Honduras, and used this Island as a sa... ...nduras, and used this Island as a safe and convenient place to store their silver in, until it was annually fetched away by the sloop. It was brought ... ...ndly Indians and guarded by white men; from thence it was conveyed over to Silver-Store, when the weather was fair, in the canoes of that country; fro... ...e at the top like plumes of magnificent green feathers; there were all the objects that are usually seen in those parts, and I am not going to describ...

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...y bodies’; a communi- cation which failed not to make the orbs and systems objects of ardent popular worship in Cologne, where the science was long si... ...sampler sheathed with twists of divers coloured threads, and was soon busy silver-threading Siegfried’s helm and horns. ‘I told you of the steward, po... ... Lisbeth does not approve of my songs,’ replied Margarita, untwisting some silver threads. ‘Do thy father’s command, girl!’ said Aunt Lisbeth. ... ...h.” Come, all! A day well ended, notwithstanding!’ 25 George Meredith THE SILVER ARROW AT THE THRESHOLD of Gottlieb’s house a number of the chief bur... ...her hand, as if to feel for a brooch or a ring. Then she blushed, drew the silver arrow from the gathered gold-shot braids above her neck, held it out... ...nly shot into the heavens. He had but to remember that his hand was on the silver arrow, and a radiance broke upon his countenance, and a calm fell up... ... of the heel, that made her fling out and show more mettle than speed. The objects of this fiery chase did not at first awake to a sense of being purs... ...yes. They were fixed as eyes that see the way of death through all earthly objects. ‘Now, dogs!’ cried the Baron, ‘the health of the night! and swell ...

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...f CLOCKWORK RAIL WAY ROLLING-STOCK AND RAILS. Also there are certain minor objects—tin ships, Easter eggs, and the like— of which I shall make inciden... ...at mineral wealth. Among them are to be found not only sheets and veins of silver pa- per, but great nuggets of metal, obtained by the melting down of... ... and build a jetty, and begin mining among the rocks to fill his hold with silver. Perhaps the natives will kill and eat the gentleman with the bag. A... ... made out of a piece of glass—the glass lid of a box for example—laid upon silver paper. Such water becomes very readily populated by those celluloid ... ...un of this game lies in the witty incorporation of all sorts of extraneous objects. But the incorporation must be witty, or you may soon convert the w...

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...s much as needed, from a sun Two hours declined towards the west; a day With silver clouds, and sunshine on the grass, And in the sheltered and the sh... ... up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things— 410 With life and nature—purifying thus Th... ...ith beauty Old as creation, drinking in a pure 565 Organic pleasure from the silver wreaths Of curling mist, or from the level plain Of waters coloure... ...ded fairies), yet not vain Nor profitless, if haply they impressed Collateral objects and appearances, 595 Albeit lifeless then, and doomed to sleep Un... ...one dear Vale! Those incidental charms which first attached My heart to rural objects, day by day 200 Grew weaker, and I hasten on to tell How Nature, ... ... in one dear Presence, there exists 240 A virtue which irradiates and exalts Objects through widest intercourse of sense. No outcast he, bewildered an... ...ox, thumps the kettle drum, And him who at the trumpet puffs his cheeks, The silver collared Negro with his timbrel, Equestrians, tumblers, women, gir... ...zed, That made my fancy restless as itself. 415 ’Twas now for me a burnished silver shield Suspended over a knight’s tomb, who lay Inglorious, buried ... ...period did not want Bright sprinklings of all human excellence, To which the silver wands of saints in Heaven Might point with rapturous joy. Yet not ...

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...i- can revolution. The fellow had actually managed to steal a lighter with silver, and this, it seems, only because he was implicitly trusted by his e... ...g. I don’t care for that. Now and then I go away quietly and lift a bar of silver. I must get rich slowly—you un- derstand.” There was also another cu... ...m: “What’s to prevent me reporting ashore what you have told me about that silver?” The cynical ruffian was not alarmed in the least. He actually laug... ...d. And who’s to prove the lighter wasn’t sunk? I didn’t show you where the silver is hidden. Did I? So you know nothing. And suppose I lied? Eh?” Ulti... ...cond of the two racially and socially contrasted men, both captured by the silver of the San Tome Mine, I feel bound to say something more. I did not ... ...himself, and his ad- versaries, the Federalists, were the supreme sinners, objects of hate, abhorrence, and fear, as heretics would be to a convinced ... ...e fit for is to betray men of the people into undertaking deadly risks for objects that you are not even sure about. If it comes off you get the benef...

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...erting Jews, of organizing and propagating education. T owards these great objects the Scot- tish clergy had worked with energy and with little distur... ...d in the maintenance of a high standard for theo- logical education. These objects are likely to suffer at any rate. But it is even a worse result whi... ...ely and unerringly recognised; or if those were not thought advisable, the silver ankle-bells, with their melodious chimes—the sandals, with their jew... ...g the fair supporter to any disagreeable expense of Hebrew or Chaldee. The silver bells alone would ‘bear the bell’ from every competitor in the room;... ... make the inner ends meet or flow into each other. III. Ear-rings of gold, silver, inferior metals, or even horn, were worn by the Hebrew women in all... ...s we collect from the Thalmud, Part VI. 43, the Jewish ladies wore gold or silver pendants, of which the upper part was shaped like a lentil, and the ... ...ven in the oldest ages, it was a practice amongst them to suspend gold and silver rings, not merely from the lower, but also from the upper end of the... ...ew most of their hints for improving their personal embellishment from the objects immediately about 49 Thomas de Quincey them, were indebted for the... ... of error may escape any man—may have been overlooked amongst the press of objects crowding on his eye; or, if not overlooked, if passed deliberately,...

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...all be well used, and have your return, either in merchandise or in gold and silver, for to us it is all one. And if you have any other request to mak... ... it much to your desire. But thus you see we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or jewels, nor for silks, nor for spices, nor any other commodity... ... oval and it is of ivy; an ivy somewhat whiter than ours, like the leaf of a silver asp, but more shining; for it is green all winter. And the state i... ...hters of the family, and veiled over at the top, with a fine net of silk and silver. But the substance of it is true ivy; whereof after it is taken do... ...roducing of light, originally from divers bodies. We procure means of seeing objects afar off, as in the heaven and remote places; and represent thing... ...l manner of reflections, refractions, and multiplications of visual beams of objects. “We have also precious stones, of all kinds, many of them of g... ...ome of cedar and other special woods gilt and adorned; some of iron, some of silver, some of gold. “We have certain hymns and services, which we say...