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...ary bodies which exert their influences on the destiny of mortals. It is a science which I do not practise, like others who call them- selves astrolog... ...- dence, which, like most people of the period, he had freely given to the science, was riveted and confirmed. The utmost care, therefore, was taken t... ...aries. One of the most remarkable believers in that forgotten and despised science, was a late eminent professor of the art of legerdemain. One would ... ...horse-racing, with now and then the alterna- tion of a desperate duel. The occupations which he followed encroached, in their opinion, upon the articl... ...d a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of time, Abel Sampson, probationer of divin- ity, was... ...ght, and umwhile [Late] master of his Majesty’s mint, that the (pretended) science of astrology is altogether vain, frivolous, and unsatisfactory.” An... ...i- tutes human life. We observe the aged, the infirm, and those engaged in occupations of immediate hazard, trembling as it were upon the very brink o... ... were a gallant company. Ballad of Johnnie Armstrong. WITHOUT NOTICING the occupations of an intervening day or two, which, as they consisted of the o...

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...very learned and deeply read. “Above all, they said, he was learned in the science of the stars and of what went on yonder in the heavens and the sun ... ...e a full oil crop, and the three following not a drop will be got.’” “That science is called astrology,” said Don Quixote. “I do not know what it is c... ...he cage in which Don Quixote was placed, and said, “Señor, to ease my con- science I want to tell you the state of the case as to your enchant- ment, ... ...nation, I should shake or shatter this pillar of letters and vessel of the sciences, and cut down this towering palm of the fair and liberal arts. Let... ...ice to go back to our own houses, and there employ ourselves in pleasanter occupations -in hunting or fishing, for instance; for what squire in the wo... ...dying Latin and Greek, and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found him so wrapped up in that of poetry (if that can be called...

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... bring such windy punishment upon itself, as I never fail to find recorded in the newspapers when the wind has blown at all hard. Brixton seems to hav... ...honey, butter and fruit, and suckled their children as they sat by their clean baskets, and had such enormous goitres (or glandular swellings in the t... ...e should be of rushes, and how knowingly (with a sheaf and a bottomless chair at our back) we should lounge on bridges, looking over at osier-beds! Am... ...etimes on tramp again. Bricklayers often tramp, in twos and threes, lying by night at their ‘lodges,’ which are scattered all over the country. Brickl... ...and old enough to hear the story again just yet. But, she never spared me one word of it, and indeed commanded the awful chalice to my lips as the onl... ...ildren who awfully reverse Our Saviour’s words, and are not of the Kingdom of Heaven, but of the Kingdom of Hell. Clear the public streets of such sha... ...ring Satur- day evening towards eight of the clock, when with astonish- Charles Dickens 226 ment I beheld an old old man and an old old woman in it, ... ...ld phrenology, within certain limits, to be true; I am much of the same mind as to the subtler expressions of the hand; I hold physiognomy to be infal...

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... are as spiritually intelligent as men,—an argument in favor of the occult sciences. The old man-servant of Colonel Giguet, Madame Marion’s older brot... ...d only in time for dinner. Since 1832, he had substituted for his business occupations a daily visit to his father-in-law, a promenade about the town,... ...foolish pretension: that of being initiated by long study into a cer- tain science represented as arduous, which they call the sci- ence of public aff... ...e sci- ence of public affairs and which they (like physicians with medical science) alone have the right to practise. They are not willing that an und... ...obably it occurred to him that the poor young lady, having more ardor than science, was not going the right way to work, and the thought of improving ... ... the tail of the serpent is its venom,”—a remark of antiquity which modern science does not admit. Monsieur de l’Estorade was not mistaken; Sallenauve...

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...in sufficient number to punctuate the “Moniteur” and the “Encyclopaedia of Sciences,”—the loto-players lifted their noses and looked at him with as mu... ... flower, rested the mind, held the eye, and imparted the charm of the con- science that was there reflected. Eugenie was standing on the shore of life... ...ng in the hall, and his sadness was respected. Each of the three women had occupations of her own. Grandet had left all his affairs unattended to, and... ...en joy. After breakfast, when Grandet had gone to his fields and his other occupations, Charles remained with the mother and 108 Eugenie Grandet daug...

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... a desperate Dick, a carder and a dicer, a professor of the seven damnable sciences, if ever man 32 Kenilworth took degrees in them?’ No, by Heaven! ... ...ce in the town of Farringdon were occasioned by his progress in the mystic sciences, and his intercourse with the invisible world. Me also he tried to... ...suasion that he was a sorcerer. And yet his supposed advance in the occult sciences drew to him the secret resort of men too powerful to be named, for... ...e is at no court in Europe a man more skilled in this holy and most useful science than Doctor Masters, and he came from Us to our subject. Neverthele... ... for the encouragement which he gave to the pro- fessors of this pretended science. Indeed, the wish to pry into futurity, so general among the human ... ...ship of what your own honour demands have a right over your time, whatever occupations you may lay aside in order to indulge them.” “How! my honour? W...

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... from those elementary feelings; and from the necessary character of rural occupations are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and lastly,... ...he encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid c... ...of Po etry and Prose, instead of the more philosophical one of Poetry and Science. The only strict antithesis to Prose is Metre. 14 LyricalBallads I... ...and uni versal passions of men, the most general and interesting of their occupations, and the entire world of nature, from which I am at liberty to ... ...shapes the beauteous forms of things; —We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring... ...wer, I well remember.—He was one who owned No common soul. In youth by science nursed And led by nature into a wild scene Of lofty hopes, he t... ... cannot be too often reminded that Poetry is passion: it is the history or science of feelings: now every man must know that an attempt is rarely made...

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...t nothing is startling or obtrusive. Even those who break the laws of this science, 23 Balzac either through ignorance or carried away by some impuls... ...wrote articles for encyclopaedias, dictionaries of biogra- phy and natural science, doing just enough to enable him to live while he followed his own ... ...cyclopedia of angelic spir- its, each of whom bore the stamp of the art or science which he followed:— David Sechard to Lucien. “My Dear Lucien,—Enclo... ...e best chance of success lies in an empty head. The austerity of your con- science, clear as yet, will relax when you see that a man holds your future... ...arth at the back of the shops, strange freaks of vegetable life unknown to science grew amid the products of various no less flourishing industries. Y... ... ask for one favor, keep my visit a secret and leave me to my hell, to the occupations of the damned. Perhaps it is impossible to attain to success un...

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...ith you,” said the officer; “it was given me by an uncle, a learned man of science, who intended me great good by what he there wrote. Reap the profit... ...fit of my scientific knowledge; also to practise some new modes of medical science, which I could not so well do in the army.” “I think you are quite ... ... to be in quest of certain kinds of secret knowledge, which the fathers of science thought attainable. Now, in several quar ters, amongst people with... ...t old family in England was in posses sion of this secret, being a man of science, and the friend of Friar Bacon, who was said to have concocted it h... ...s old Friar Bacon and his acolyte discovered 66 Septimius Felton by their science! One ingredient, however, one of those plants, I scarcely think the... ...in cellar or garret, no doubt; so Septimius, in the intervals of his other occupations, de voted several days to the search; and not to weary the rea...

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...ing, drinking, ribaldry, laugh- ter, go on alongside of all sorts of other occupations in V anity Fair—the crowds were pouring out of church as Rawdon... ... the young gentlemen in Hart Street might learn a something of every known science. The Rev. Mr. V eal had an orrery, an electrifying machine, a turni... ... the learning which Georgy imbibed under this valuable master of a hundred sciences, to judge from the weekly reports which the lad took home to his g... ...itement. His daughter could not induce him to settle down to his customary occupations or amusements that night. He passed the evening fumbling amongs... ... his son. Reflect, afterwards when —when you are at leisure, and your con- science will withdraw this accusation. It does even now.” Amelia held down ...

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... partially remedied. But the reverse is the fact. Instead of acquiring new occupations, old ones have been discontinued. As previously remarked, the m... ...wever, would be all very well were the natives to apply themselves to such occupations as would enable them 165 Melville to supply the few articles t... ... and reefs whatso- ever. His impudence was audacious. He enlarged upon the science of navigation; treated us to a dissertation on Mercator’s Sailing a... ...ir business, they counted more upon his ultimate value to them as a man of science than as a mere ditcher. 202 Omoo Nor did the humorous doctor forbe... ...natives some account of distant countries; as commissioner of the arts and sciences, he instructs them in the use of the jack-knife, and the best way ...

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... nameless sequences of maladjustments that still defy our ordinary medical science. It was afflicting him with a general malaise, it was affecting his... ...ity in every- thing he experienced. And with that went this levity of con- science, a heaviness of soul and a levity of conscience, that could make hi... ...rt and so forth, who had acquired a consider- able amount of ungentlemanly science and energy in Ger- many and German Switzerland. But the Fellows ele... ...“In the eighteenth cen- tury they used to draw beautiful female figures as Science and Mathematics. Y oung men have loved Science—and Free- dom—as Pyg... ... very keen and happy. She had taken a first in the first part of the Moral Science T ripos, and she was working hard now for part two. Clementina was ... ...d the family was disposed about the dining-room engaged in various evening occupations; Phoebe sat at the table working at some math- ematical problem... ... returned to the dining-room hearthrug as his family resumed their various occupations. He tried to speak in a casual conversational tone. “I want to ...

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...re very good, madame, but M. de Villefort has so many important and urgent occupations.” “My husband has given me his word, sir,” said Madame de Ville... ...k of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the minis- ters of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination. Now, i... ...hat, above all, manifested the shrewdness of the steward, and the profound science of the master, the one in carrying out the ideas of the other, was ... ...justice.” “Do not alarm yourself, monsieur, we will duly respect your con- science.” At this moment the abbe pressed down his side of the shade and so... ...ow out of dogs with whalebone.” “And he is made a member of the Academy of Sciences for this?” “No; of the French Academy.” * Louis David, a famous Fr... ...eems” — “That his experiments have very considerably advanced the cause of science, doubtless?” “No; that his style of writing is very good.” “This mu... ...sufficient to maintain me. Rumor will prob- ably be busy respecting me, my occupations, my manner of living — that will signify but little.” “Mercedes...

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... Thackeray “I shouldn’t like to sleep in this yeer bed without a good con- science, Miss,” said the old woman. “There’s room for us and a half-dozen o... ... skin, and as she had no sort of character, nor talents, nor opinions, nor occupations, nor amusements, nor that vigour of soul and fe- rocity of temp... ...shion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And though he belonged to the household troops, who, as it was th... ...l; in dancing, without the aid of a master; and in the elements of natural sciences. In the use of the globes both are proficients. In addition to the...

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...ersonalities in space and time. Human analysis probing with philosophy and science towards the V eiled Being reveals nothing of God, reveals space and... ...gs. They are afraid of sunshine, of nakedness, of health, of adventure, of science, lest that old watching spider take offence. The voice of the true ... ... the right to conceive theology as he conceives it. The development of his science has destroyed that right. He does not realise how profoundly modern... ...state as compactly as possible the nature of these changes that biological science has wrought almost imper- ceptibly in the general scheme and method... ...e, will lessen luxury and the evil that comes from luxury. Conviction that science alone is able to redress the disharmonies of the human constitu- ti... ...t has already been suggested that there is a great and grow- ing number of occupations that belong already to God’s king- dom, research, teaching, cre...

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...ne SCHOOL TIME (continued) 25 More deeply read in thy own thoughts; to thee Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolu... ...ent me down 375 To instantaneous service; should at once Have made me pay to science and to arts And written lore, acknowledged my liege lord, A homag... ...urch, Whose worship, ’mid remotest village trees, 420 Suffers for this. Even Science, too, at hand In daily sight of this irreverence, Is smitten then... ...hness also found I at this time In human Life, the daily life of those Whose occupations really I loved; The peaceful scene oft filled me with surprise... ... entirely overlook 115 The pleasure gathered from the rudiments Of geometric science. Though advanced In these enquiries, with regret I speak, No fart... ...hoice Of time, and place, and object; by his wants, 105 His comforts, native occupations, cares, Cheerfully led to individual ends Or social, and stil... ...ins, there abounding most, 125 Where sovereign Nature dictated the tasks And occupations which her beauty adorned, And Shepherds were the men that ple... ... Pains taking thoughts, and truth, their dear reward) But turned to abstract science, and there sought 330 Work for the reasoning faculty enthroned Wh... ...d contentious thought, Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight, In trivial occupations, and the round Of ordinary intercourse—our minds Are nourishe...

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...lodged in the establishment of his prelate, a man of good morals and great science. Philippe de Mala, as he was called, resolved to behave well and wo... ...itable Queen of the Council—for before her bowed humbly all the authority, science, and wisdom of Christianity. The major domo did not know him, and w... ...l languages, even in that of the Carps’. Is it not silly thus to seal this science from maidens? Soon Blanche went to bed, and soon said she to the se... ...time Blanche was alone in the grounds, where the women work at their minor occupations, such as broidering and stitching, and often remained in the ro... ...e 12,000 crowns. With this sum I could buy lands, men, women, and the con- science of three priests at least; so that I believe if I give it to you I ... ...ards her pleasure. His two cousins having no presumption of the divinatory science, of which shepherds have had many passing attacks, had often talked... ...shirt without feeling either better or worse there, and will have the same occupations. But these preparatory ideas are to better to fix in the unders...

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...han five minutes since. The people are still quietly pursuing their ordinary occupations; but there is a wildness in their eyes, and an unwonted rigid... ...ot imagine the feverish state of irritation we are in, lest the interests of science should be sacrificed to the prejudices of a brute creature, who i... ...l skill, who had forwarded a paper to the President of Section D. Mechanical Science, on the construction of pipkins with copper bottoms and safety va... ...eulogised the proprietors of the establishment alluded to, for their love of science, and regard for the safety of human life, both of which did them ... ...uld the honourable member object to state, with a view to the advancement of science, whether she was in any way connected with the learned pig? ‘The ... ... whole of their leisure time in sitting upon boxes. ‘SECTION D. MECHANICAL SCIENCE. COACH HOUSE, ORIGINAL PIG. PRESIDENT Mr. Carter. VICE PRESIDEN...

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...mplished, but always with a clear view at least of what the heart and con- science of mankind demanded. This minimum of right the German Government ha... ...h law they shall be undisturbed in the peaceful pursuit of their lives and occupations and be accorded the consideration due to all peaceful and law-a...

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...me sit near her, and she asked me a dozen questions about my health and my occupations. “I live in the past,” I said. “I go into the galleries, into t... ... everything you may say against her. She declares that she has a good con- science.” “Ah,” said I, “she’s an accomplished woman!” And it is indeed ver...