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...brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies him- self nothing. Mme. Vauquer’s astonished eyes behe... ...rs of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous trades- man, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it ... ...had been twisted out of shape very neatly for a man that’s not used to the trade.” “Really? You don’t say so?” “Yes. One of my friends is expatriating... ...er lover, was a mystery. What was the secret tie that bound her to the old tradesman? This mystery he meant to penetrate, hoping by its means to gain ... ...forces of his nature, as he put the whole power of his brain into the corn trade. He had regarded his wife, the only daughter of a rich farmer of La B... ... austere moralist to frown. How many respect- able people contract similar unions! We deceive nobody; it is deception that makes a position humiliatin...

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...d down on the day of her wedding. Those who know the habits of the British tradesman are aware that he has gregarious propensities like any lord in th... .... The tiptop men of the society were two bachelors, and two as fashionable tradesmen as any in the town: Mr. Woolsey, from Stultz’s, of the famous hou... ...the world he hates and de- spises, it is a Madonna. “I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine was born in London)—”I’m a hartist... ...ntine has so often talked to me about, and attended by some of the tip-top tradesmen of the metropolis!” “There’s better men here than Mr. Eglantine,”... ... to meet him with pistols, which the latter declined, saying, justly, that trades- men had no business with such weapons; on this the tailor proposed ... ... of honourable exceptions to the case above hinted at, and knows many such unions in which it is the Frenchman who honours the English lady by marryin...

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...y well be; as generous illusions of friendship; as fair mementos of bygone unions, of those nights and suppers of the gods, when, lapped in the sym- p... ...ch as ours, richer than usual in two things, in Truths grown obsolete, and Trades grown obsolete,—what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of ... ... Smuggler. With courteous brevity, I signify my indifference to contraband trade, my humane intentions, yet strong wish to be pri- vate. In vain: the ... ...g to himself a suit of Leather. This man, the first of the Quakers, and by trade a Shoemaker, was one of those, to whom, under ruder or purer form, th... ...ut only spiders and unclean beetles, in horrid accumula- tion, drive their trade; and the mask still glares on you with its glass eyes, in ghastly aff... ... but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade-winds, and Monsoons, and Moon’s Eclipses; by all which the condition ...

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...l of sea water and a race of grimy bargemen brought the heavy materials of trade from the Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers. Faint and... ...h was natu- rally to keep property intact, the board clear for the game of trade. Just as the feudal concern had been to keep the board 115 H G Wells... ...house guards, and drain and cable guards, its hosts of land-workers. Their unions it did not fight, but it under- mined and betrayed and bought them. ... ...olds me. Let me learn more of that. Your aeronaut was saying there is some trades union objection to one’s learning.” “There is, I believe,” said Linc... ...eople in blue—. The proverb runs: ‘Blue canvas once and ever.’ The Company trades in their labour, and it has taken care to assure itself of the suppl... ...f all the great things; the aeronauts are privileged and rich, the closest trades union in the world, and so are the engineers of the wind vanes. We h...

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...tle under two thousand people, mostly en- gaged in agricultural work or in trades serving agriculture. There was a blacksmith, a saddler, a chemist, a... ...uld have found most of the old houses still as he had known them, the same trades a little improved and differentiated one from the other, the same ro... ...stead of wooden pegs, to achieve all sorts of mechanical possibilities, to trade more freely and manufacture on a larger scale, to send goods abroad i... ...f its worst contortions. Residential vil- las appeared occupied by retired tradesmen and widows, who esteemed the place healthy, and by others of a st... ...reported the proceedings of the local Bench and the local Board, compelled tradesmen who were interested in these affairs to advertise, used the epith... ...tra large size, specially made and very inconvenient.) And he hated T rade Unions because they interfered with his 124 The New Machiavelli autocratic... ...heir own prosperity and that circumambient poverty, and they knew of Trade Unions simply as disagreeable external things that upset my uncle’s temper....

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...p-post. When the weather was wet, he put up his umbrella over his stock in trade, not over himself; when the weather was dry , he furled that faded ar... ...rds these does Mr Wegg stump, but towards the poorer shops of small retail traders in commodities to eat and drink and keep folks warm, and of Italian... ...and out at all?’ ‘Never was so well in. Mr Wegg, I’m not only first in the trade, but I’m the trade. Y ou may go and buy a skeleton at the West End if... ...y young female relative of any distinguished gentleman engaged in the lime trade (which I cherish next to my life) being present, I think it might be ... ...owed (Mr Inspector having proposed as an ap- propriate sentiment ‘The lime trade!’) and Bob withdrew to report the commendations of the guests to Miss... ...eerd that I’m a growing like the poor old people that they brick up in the Unions, as you may sometimes see when they let ‘em out of the four walls to...

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...nd it often happens that by inheritance, by marriage, or by the chances of trade, he is gradually furnished with the means. Thus, to balance the ten- ... ... tion of drains, point out the proper sites for slaughter-houses and other trades which are a nuisance to the neighborhood. See the Act of June 7, 178... ...this new species of confederation has been the cause which has brought all Unions to Civil War, to sub- jection, or to a stagnant apathy , and the peo... ...m of commercial pro- hibition, and the South took up arms in favor of free trade, simply because the North is a manufacturing and the South an agricul... ...extent this privilege is tolerated. The question of the tariff, or of free trade, produced a great manifestation of party feeling in America; the tari... ...nsult together upon the means which were most fitted to promote freedom of trade. This proposal circulated in a few days from Maine to New Orleans by ... ...ed would not return to their original isolated condition, but that several unions would then be formed in the place of one. It is not my intention to ... ...It is not my intention to inquire into the principles upon which these new unions would probably be established, but merely to show what the causes ar...

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...en,” demanded Simon Giguet, “have good citi- zens like those of Arcis made trade and barter of the sacred mission of deputy?” It is impossible to repr... ... entered the Giguet house,” said Monsieur Martener, who was practising his trade as examining-judge by count- ing the electors. 31 Balzac “If Charles... ...anufactures of Reims, nearly all the hosiery of France—a very considerable trade—is manu- factured about T royes. The surrounding country, over a cir-... ...the consumer is an evil not confined to hosiery. It exists in al- most all trades, and increases the cost of merchandise by the amount of the profit e... ...ty, is, relatively, a rich town abounding in capital slowly amassed by its trade in hosiery. Monsieur Phileas Beauvisage was the Alexander, or, if you... ...ngen was the unpleasant and scarcely moral product of one of those immoral unions which find their issue in the life of a daughter, after years and sa...

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...ysterious claims claimed to be bought off at exorbitant rates; the T rades Unions of all the building trades lifted up collective voices; and a ring o... ... be bought off at exorbitant rates; the T rades Unions of all the building trades lifted up collective voices; and a ring of dealers in all sorts of b... ... the hundred thou- sands; it swept over boundaries and turned the world of trade into a world of cataclysms: no wonder mankind hated it. And since it ... ...antic need. He knew nothing of money, this monstrous simpleton, nothing of trade, nothing of the complex pretences upon which the social fabric of the... ...all times, and that day it was unusually quiet: scarcely a cab, scarcely a tradesman’s cart passed all that morning. Now and then men went by—with- ou...

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...ready to find coin- cidences, sympathies, hidden gushes of feeling, mystic unions of the soul, and what not, in every single cir- cumstance that occur... ...ast in an Oldborough manu- factory, these shoes were made by an Oldborough trades- man, this heart first beat in Oldborough town, and pray Heaven may ... ...” Heeltap, who was generally drunk, fairly burst into tears, and the grave tradesmen and Whig gentry, who had dined with the Member at his inn, and ac... ...gh was an in- considerable place—that the inhabitants thereof were chiefly tradespeople, not of refined habits—that Mr. Scully himself had only for th...

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...me able editor; and more. Bibliopolic Momoro, Typographic Pruhomme see new trades opening. Collot d’Herbois, tear- ing a passion to rags, pauses on th... ...ut any sort of matter: in their towns, the common people beset the passing trader; demanding to hear from what regions he came, what things he got acq... ...ng remembered of men. Very strange Assemblages, Sanhedrims, Amphictyonics, Trades Unions, Ecumenic Coun- cils, Parliaments and Congresses, have met to... ...mbered of men. Very strange Assemblages, Sanhedrims, Amphictyonics, Trades Unions, Ecumenic Coun- cils, Parliaments and Congresses, have met together ... ...iot of grains, is trampled to death by a hungry exasperated People. What a trade this of Mayor, in these times! Mayor of Saint-Denis hung at the Lante... ...s Section, from Provincial Patriot Towns; From Alencon, Briancon, and ‘the Traders at the Fair of Beaucaire. ’ Or what of these? On the 3rd of August,...

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...riginally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote that book in ord... ...strial absurdity of Local Option. The Utopians will certainly control this trade, and as certainly punish personal excesses. Public drunkenness (as di... ...atriotisms and politics, and their obsession has always been international trade. Here in Utopia the World State cuts that away from beneath their fee... ...roup- ings, of neighbours and neighbourhood, of companies, as- sociations, unions, secret and public societies, religious group- *But see Gidding’s Pr... ...ly suspected assumptions upon which it rested. The facts were ignored that trade is a bye- product and not an essential factor in social life, that pr... ...opia did not at any rate go to that. He spoke, too, of the regula- tion of unions, of people who were not allowed to have chil- dren, of complicated r... ...y such an island should not build and order for itself and manufacture and trade. “Your ways are not our ways,” the World State will say; “but here is... ...order to secure good births, and secondly good home conditions, that these unions should not be free, nor promiscuous, nor practically universal throu... ...alance of social advantage is certainly on the side of much more permanent unions, on the side of an arrangement that, subject to ample provisions for...

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...ee to annoy one another with tar- iffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers... ...by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no more time to give to... ...t nearly every sane man desires. Meanwhile, a small minority of people who trade upon contention—militarists, ambitious kings and statesmen, war contr... ...and T reasury coffers, is locked up there and reserved for in- ternational trade. But Great Britain has other sentiments to consider than the finer fe... ...uction of food and necessary things, and to the restoration of that export trade which, in the case of Great Britain at least, now that her overseas i... ...e, the diminu- tion in size of the average family, the increase of sterile unions, and the consequent release of a considerable proportion of the ener...

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...there. Even the native-born English taverns drive a sort of broken-English trade; announcing in their win- dows Swiss whets and drams, and sheltering ... ...scended from so fine a family, you have had the condescension to come into trade? Stop though. Wines? Is it trade in England or profession? Not fine a... ...guerite. He, of so fine a family, and so proudly bred, has condescended to trade. To trade! Like us poor peasants who have risen from ditches!” A clou... ...crept over the fair brow, and she cast down her eyes. “Why, it is good for trade!” pursued Obenreizer, enthusiasti- cally. “It ennobles trade! It is t... ...benreizer, enthusiasti- cally. “It ennobles trade! It is the misfortune of trade, it is its vulgarity, that any low people—for example, we poor peas- ... ...was easily brought to pass that they should be asked to join these musical unions. Guardian and Ward consenting, or Guardian consent- ing for both, it...

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... St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-traders whose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fu... ... cient. Here is the bold stone house which General Sibley, the king of fur-traders, built in 1835, with plaster of river mud, and ropes of twisted gra... ... recalled the men who had come here eighty years ago—Maine lumbermen, York traders, soldiers from the Maryland hills. “It’s a good country, and I’m pr... ...p independent, and I don’t believe in this business of binding yourself to trade with the man that trades with you unless you really want to, but same... ...elmeyer is a shiftless old Dutch hog. But same time, I mean let’s keep the trade in the family whenever it is convenient, see how I mean?” “I see.” “W... ...the townsmen it is only by occasional teachers doctors, lawyers, the labor unions, and workmen like Miles Bjornstam, who are punished by being mocked ... ...lief that there’s anything to all these smart-aleck move- ments to let the unions and the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League kill all our initiative and ente... ... gained in Washing- ton was not information about office-systems and labor unions but renewed courage, that amiable contempt called poise. Her glimpse...

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...d as follows: “A good labor union is of value because it keeps out radical unions, which would destroy property. No one ought to be forced to belong t... ...hould be hanged. In fact, just between ourselves, there oughtn’t to be any unions allowed at all; and as it’s the best way of fighting the unions, eve... ...en’t had a lot of fun out of the Game; out of putting it over on the labor unions, and see- ing a big check coming in, and the business increasing. Bu... ...respondence with a man in New York—wants me to see him about a real-estate trade— may not come off till summer. Hope it doesn’t break just when we and... ...he gets to shooting off his mouth about economics or literature or foreign trade con- ditions, and you just ease in something like, ‘When I was in col... ...y cunning, with wrinkles bracketing his mouth. They all read newspapers or trade journals, boot-and-shoe jour- nals, crockery journals, and waited for... ...rofession. Second place— What is it distinguishes a profession from a mere trade, business, or occupation? What is it? Why, it’s the public service an... ... omitted: consists of several doodles and “(1) a profession (2) Not just a trade crossed out (3) Skill & vision (3) Shd be called “realtor” & not just... ...fficient, and versa- tile. He presided at meetings for the denunciation of unions or the elevation of domestic service, and confided to the 179 Sincl...

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...nly transgressed the law of the land, yet were the offspring of unhallowed unions with the children of a felon. I cannot go through it all, but it hin... ...-buckles. He told me the price of everything, all the discussions with his trades- men, and all the gazes fixed on him, with such simplicity that I co... ...e Company, and begun the works, having drawn in by his enthusiasm half the tradesmen and a few of the gentlemen of the place.” Three years of success;... ...of the greatly-soured representative of the original Crabbe, and one other tradesman, who held on for the sake, as it seemed, of maintaining adherence... ...ing Etruscan ware, was to be made, and, if successful, would much increase trade and profits, and a rise in wages was offered to such as could underta...

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...d that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8 in ships to these Islands, and... ..., without much difficulty, to where the tin and lead were. The Phoenicians traded with the Islanders for these metals, and gave the Islanders some oth... ...executed the laws, and paid no taxes, I don’t wonder that they liked their trade. And, as they persuaded the people the more Druids there were, the be... ... of the Druids fell off greatly in num bers, and the Druids took to other trades. Thus I have come to the end of the Roman time in England. It is but... ...ngs for the Welsh than that, by improving their laws and encouraging their trade. Distur bances still took place, chiefly occasioned by the avarice a... ...ed and cried after her in the streets with terrific vehemence. Such guilty unions seldom prosper. This husband and wife had lived together but a month...

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...in- deed suffered from this war far more than any other town in Italy. Her trade has largely ceased; she has no visitors. I woke up on my way to Udine... ...emarked, “along here— going up to the French front.” But there is a return trade. Near Paris I saw scores of thou- sands of shells piled high to go to... ...ume must be at least a free port; it would be wrong and foolish to cut the trade of Hun- gary off from the Mediterranean. But the banking puzzle is a ... ... into the acquisition of German power. That they have not been merely easy traders, but patriotic agents. It is alleged that they used their early “pu... ...is conditional upon the good behaviour of other people. “Unless the T rade Unions are more reasonable,” they will say. Or, “Unless the shipping intere... ... system that made him. He wants to hurt them. Upon that hate it is easy to trade. A certain section of what is called the Socialist press and the Soci...

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... fortune of the Casa Pedrotti, estimated at two millions, made in the corn trade, the young couple came into it within six months of their marriage, f... ...lomatists. In discussing literature, they spoke of the perennial stock- in-trade of the republic of letters—woman’s sin. And they presently found them... ...ration of the race, or to make households happier by abolishing scandalous unions and giv- ing the sole preference to moral qualities and beauty. “ ‘B... ...as a boudoir where elegance empha- sized the vulgarity of the tools of her trade. The Countess had in the course of time poetized, as I may say, a thi...