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...face to face with collaterals without a heritage. What are they to do? Our political future is big with the answer. The family of the man who under Lo... ...et was really coming to live in Nemours, they were seized (in spite of the political events which were just then weighing so heavily on Brie and on th... ...ctor’s life either by the bourgeoisie at large or by his heirs. As for his political opinions, he did not meddle in public matters seeing that he paid... ...amous.” Mesmer had disciples and antagonists as ardent for and against his theories as the Piccinists and the Gluckists for theirs. Scientific France ... ...ung girl reached Paris, and the doctor went at once to consult his notary. Political events were then very threaten- ing. Monsieur Bongrand had remark... ... and Monsieur Bongrand, were carried out in perfect secrecy, thanks to the political troubles 131 Balzac of the time. When quiet was again restored t...

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...eman ought to have done. His evenings were occupied. His work was in a way political, he told Winnie once. She would have, he warned her, to be very n... ...he told Winnie once. She would have, he warned her, to be very nice to his political friends. And with her straight, unfathomable glance she answered ... ...ily. “Its deliberations upon international ac- tion for the suppression of political crime don’t seem to get anywhere. England lags. This country is a... ... to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches. And they have the political power still, if they only had the sense to use it for their prese... ...urant or a theatre would suffer in the same way from the suggestion of non-political passion: the exas- peration of a hungry man, an act of social rev... ...to guide it safely he dismissed resolutely all suppositions, surmises, and theories out of his mind. He had the woman there, absolutely flinging herse...

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...ionally they 11 Turgenev sat on him severely. Once, on arriving late at a political meet- ing, he hastily began excusing himself. “Paklin was afraid!... ...e met with, the more heated he became—” I admit that the question is not a political one, but an impor- tant one, nevertheless. According to Skoropiki... ...out various matters of everyday life, about science, and even touched upon political questions. He was decidedly interested in his eloquent young comp... ...e same, it will have to be altered afterwards.” The conversation turned to political channels again. The mysterious inner pain again began gnawing at ... ... Sipiagin’s, that gentleman was sitting in his drawing-room with a halfcut political pamphlet on his knee, discussing him with his wife. He confided t... ... is a certain Mr. Nejdanov, whom I strongly suspect of dangerous ideas and theories—” “Un rouge a tous crins,” Kollomietzev put in. “Y es, dangerous i... ...” “Un rouge a tous crins,” Kollomietzev put in. “Y es, dangerous ideas and theories,” Sipiagin repeated more emphatically. “He must certainly know som...

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...active person, brilliant, ac- complished, full of fire and of faith in his theories of univer- sal benevolence and emancipation. She thought, if the t... ..., Ambrose would have outgrown and modi- fied all that was dangerous in his theories, and that they would have remained mere talk, the ebullition of hi... ... wet evening, and we all stayed in the house. Harold brought in one of his political economy studies from the library, and I tried to wile Dora to loo... ...ly startled Mr. Prosser. Some cabinets, he said, were very lenient to past political offences, but Prometesky seemed to 22 My Young Alcides h... ... man, and never could make short work of anything. They say that his chief political value was to be set on when anyone was wanted to speak against ti... ...let- ters, and portmanteau came on an improvised sleigh. He had an immense political, county, and benevolent correspon- dence, and was busied with it ... ...e for a young man to come up to London without either home or business, or political views, took to himself great credit for the wise decision. Indeed...

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... you must have come) was nothing but a slough at all seasons of the year. “Political events and revolutions had never reached this inaccessible countr... ...tem; there is nothing wonderful about them, they do not lend themselves to theories; it is their misfortune to be merely practically useful. And then ... ...as yet to grasp the changed con- ditions which should attach them to these theories. They have only reached those ideas which conduce to economy and t... ...ought to deal with according to its des- serts. Here I have discovered its political necessity and its usefulness as a moral agent; here, moreover, I ... ...blish to-day. The principle of election made it for a long while the great political power. Except the Catholic Church, there was no single religious ... ...are combined in religious dogma. It would be very difficult for any modern political system, however perfect people may think it, to work once more su... ...riters have called in question. In my opinion, a man who has thought out a political system, and who is conscious that he has within him the power of ...

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...man who knew himself honourably unclean, per- haps consequently a bit of a political jewel, hearing one of their number confounded for his pains, and ... ... cannot do, you must teach him to admire. A mercantile community guided by Political Economy from the ledger to the banquet presided over by its Dagon... ...or recreative dancing! And what a people, to be turning it into a place of political agitation! And what a country, where from morning to night it’s a... ...nion of the 144 One of Our Conquerors old order and the new, cessation to political turmoil: Radi- calism, Socialism, all the monster names of things... ...ncountered Mr. Caddis, and it was an encounter. Mr. Caddis represented his political opinions; but here was this cur of a Caddis whineing his niminy n... ... he brightened a moment, and he sank back absorbed in her prin- ciples and theories of life. It was understood by Nesta, that the processionists, goin... ...he laby- rinthine convolutions and changeful motives of the sex! Dartrey’s theories were absurd. Did Nataly think them dan- gerous for a young woman? ...

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...with France or claim to her throne. The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Mo... ...ey foresaw for themselves the bright and cheering prospect of a revivified political existence. An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, n... ...t, I have laid aside even the name of my father, and altogether disown his political principles. He was — nay, probably may still be — a Bonapartist, ... ...I ask is, that Villefort will be firm and inflexible for the future in his political principles. Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourse... ...ready recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharp... ...riosity in the neigh- borhood of the Allees de Meillan, and a multitude of theories were afloat, none of which was anywhere near the truth. But what r... ...eness, a strict fidelity to government principles, a profound contempt for theories and theorists, a deep-seated hatred of ideal- ity, — these were th...

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...his world at all, if quackery so grew and were sanctioned here. Alas, such theories are very lamentable. If we would attain to knowledge of anything i... ...f Job was written in that region of the world. I call that, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen. One fe... ...ssacks and cannons; and does a great feat in keeping such a tract of Earth politically together; but he cannot yet speak. Something great in him, but ... ...s, building up Religions, heroic Forms of human Exist- ence in this world, Theories of Life worthy to be sung by a Dante, Practices of Life by a Shaks... ...t it forever! We will say nothing at all, I think, of that sorrowfulest of theories, of its being some mean shop- keeper grudge, of the Augustine Monk... ...nay Ludlow, Hutchinson, Vane himself, are admitted to be a kind of Heroes; political Conscript Fathers, to whom in no small degree we owe what makes u... ...” says Lord Clarendon himself: “heats and jealousies,” mere crabbed whims, theories and crotchets; these induced slow sober quiet Englishmen to lay do...

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...practically no economic freedom,” said Miss Miniver, “because they have no political freedom. Men have seen to that. The one profession, the one decen... ...se I don’t know. I suppose an intelligent person ought to be interested in political affairs. They concern us all.” “I wonder,” said Mr. Manning, with... ...sort of history. But look at these glorious daisies!” “But don’t you think political questions are important?” “I don’t think they are this afternoon,... ...I’m old-fashioned, Miss Stanley. I don’t think women need to trouble about political questions.” “I want a vote,” said Ann Veronica. “Really!” said Mr... ...l, it isn’t exactly a depressing state, is it?” “You don’t know.” “One has theories,” said Ann Veronica, radiantly. “Oh, theories! Being in love is a ...

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...s were as a dyke against those invad- ing waters of novel opinion, social, political and other- wise, which carried away as in a torrent no few minds ... ... by birth he belonged were incensed at the innovators mainly because their theories were inimical to the privileged classes, not alone Captain Vere di...

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...il List. Eventually, she decided that, though Tarrion was too good for the Political Depart- ment, she had better begin by trying to get him in there.... ...nderfoot, the notion somehow dies away, and most folk come back to simpler theories. Life, in India, is not long enough to waste in prov- ing that the... .... He was just the type that goes there—all head, no physique and a hundred theories. Not a soul was interested in McGoggin’s soul. He might have had t... ...dependent cultivators in the Sub-Mon- tane T racts; and ethnologically and politically the notion was correct. The only drawback was that it was altog... ...hem, and knew that they were “assisting the Empire to grapple with serious political contingencies.” In most big undertak- ings, one or two men do the...

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...f sugar. And, alas, if to these two notabilities, of a Phenomenon and such Theories of a Phenomenon, we add this third notability, That the French Nat... ...e; endless Necessity environing Freewill! The weapons of the Girondins are Political Philosophy, Respectability and Eloquence. Eloquence, or call it r... ...ck, wherein better or worse some ration of bread may be found. It is true, Political Economy, Girondin free-trade, and all law of supply and demand, a... ...life, and began and ended,—remains the most interesting of all Chapters in Political Economy: still to be written. All which things are they not clean... ... 130 The French Revolution - V olume Three quitting him? Principle, faith political or other, beyond a certain faith of mess-rooms, and honour of an ... ... the purport of it, though not consciously so. False hopes, of Fraternity, Political Millennium, and what not, we have always seen: but the unseen hea...

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...absorbed in the spectacle of a world travailing for lack of the gospel of “Political Justice”, the study of orthographical niceties must have seemed a... ... to it every power of his mind, every pulsation of his heart. He looked on political freedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; a... ... fast aug- menting; and, in the ameliorations that have taken place in the political state of his country, we may trace in part the operation of his a... ...e public mind, as to how far a thirst for a happier condition of moral and political society survives, among the enlightened and refined, the tem- pes... ...virtue, and be incited to those inquir- ies which have led to my moral and political creed, and that of some of the sublimest intellects in the world.... ...ild talk will show _200 How vain are such aspiring theories.’ ‘I hope to prove the induction otherwise, And that a want of tha... ...ore particularly in the lyrics of this drama, his abstruse and imaginative theories with regard to the Creation. It requires a mind as subtle and pene...

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...to the right, and the entire admission of the same to the full privileges, political, religious and social, of manhood, requires power- ful effort on ... ...not only won equality to their white fellow citizens, in civil, religious, political and social rank, but they have also illustrated and adorned our c... ...emove prejudice?’ `Immediately pass laws entitling black men to all civil, political and social privileges,’ was the instant reply— and the questionin... ...r of more books—the reader of more newspapers—was more conversant with the political and social condition of this nation and the world—than nine-tenth... ...at all; nor do I wish to throw the slightest obstruction in the way of any political freedom that any class of persons in this country may desire to o... ... answer, would afford, perhaps, about the same satisfaction as the learned theories which have rained down upon the world, from time to time, as to th...

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...er the name of one of their eminent ministers. The Puritans formed a great political as well as religious party in England, and did not at first separ... ... with out which the affairs of life would be thrown into confusion by the theories of studious and visionary men. Wherefore, teach them their multipl... ...es printed volumes, were strewn manuscript sermons, historical tracts, and political pamphlets, all written in such a queer, blind, crabbed, fantastic...

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...n this world was no longer an avenue of exami- nations to a remote Bar and political eminence “in the Lib- eral interest (D.V.)” He had begun to reali... ...ng. Not only his work—his scientific career, but the Debating Society, the political movement, all 82 Love and Mr. Lewisham his work for Humanity…. W... ... and faithfulness,” said Parkson, “suffices for me. If we are to smear our political movements with this sort of stuff …” “Does it work?” interjected ... ...ith an increasing disposition to gossip. At South Kensington he dwelt with theories and ideals as a student should; at the little rooms in Chelsea—the...

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...- tertainment to pilgrims. These things, of course, are inci- dents of the political proscription which hangs its thick veil over the place. Chambord ... ...tory,—this luck- less manifesto, I say, appears to give the measure of the political wisdom of the excellent Henry V. It is the most factitious propos... ...ism of France, the revolutions, the barricades, the sinister pas- sion for theories. (I do not, of course, take upon myself to say that the individual... ...that her fiance might marry Anne of Brittany,—an alliance so magnificently political that we almost condone the offence to a sensitive princess. Mar- ...

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...and, to tell the truth, our author did not succeed in his undertaking. His theories were all beautiful, and the code of morals that he taught us certa... ... the smallest pos- sible era yet written of. Whatever economies we pursue, political or other, let us see at once that this is the mad- dest of the un... ...ors while we scrape our chins so uncomfort- ably with rusty knives! Oh, my political economist, mas- ter of supply and demand, division of labour and ... ...was a man of wit, and sparkled among the brightest at the dinner-tables of political grandees: indeed, he always sparkled; whether in society, in the ...

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...hanging. The essence of the jest consists in some catchword suggested by a political event, an incident in the police courts, a street song, or a bit ... ... of being rich was over, and all his intelligence was concentrated, not on political, but on commercial speculations. Goriot was an authority second t... ...re shut out, and M. le Baron likewise. They are si- lent as to the weighty political considerations that prompted their mission, and conjectures are r... ... crowns, you could look to marry the mayor’s daughter. Some petty piece of political trickery, such as mistaking Villele for Manuel in a bulletin (the... ... there have never been so few of those who square their courses with their theories, so few of those noble char- acters who do not yield to temptation... ...o of Bordeauxrama, rendered twice il- lustrious by the name of Laffite, no political allusions in- tended.—Come, you T urk!” he added, looking at Chri...

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...that case I cannot profess to imagine, for I have long since abandoned all theories about the ideals and satisfactions of Heaven. To be alone in a bal... ...ruction, and so sinking towards a tragic disorder of 69 H G Wells chronic political vendetta. Wedged in among these porten- tous larger bulks, swayed... ...ing, metal-work and sculp- ture, for example, in the grim intensity,of her political method, in her maritime and commercial ascendancy. But she repeat... ...e people of New York dealt altogether too much with the war as if it was a political demonstration. Little or no damage, they urge, was done to either... ...ers. Chief among these, it is worth remarking, was Mohini K. Chatterjee, a political exile who had formerly served in the British-Indian aeronautic pa... ... time, when one reads its surviving fragments of literature, its scraps of political oratory, the few small voices that chance has se- lected out of a...