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...t talking. They talked first of the prices of goods and the condi- tion of business; they referred to a person whom they both knew; then they plunged ... ...ently. She dried her tears, and began to reproach me, in hard and wounding terms, for my selfishness and cruelty. “I looked at her. Her whole face exp... ... tion grows worse? Again to the doctors, and more rem- edies! An excellent business! “But to return to our subject. I was saying that my wife nursed h... ...otice it. People have no time to inquire into your life. All are absorbed. Business, social relations, art, the health of children, their education. A... ...to myself. I went to bed, thinking myself tranquil again. I thought of the business that remained to be done, and I went to sleep without thinking of ... ...y of Zemstvo I sent a message that I was called back to Moscow by pressing business, and that I begged them to substitute for me a member of the Commi... ... slept two hours. I remember having dreamed that I 86 Tolstoy was on good terms with her, that after a quarrel we were in the act of making up, that ... ...n they moved into their respective homes, Ivan and Gavryl lived on as good terms as their fathers had done before them. Ivan remembered his dying fath... ...ell,” said the elder, “they all spoke of you in anything but complimentary terms; but it is mean in me to repeat what they said.” “Mean or not you mus...

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... communication, through their chief, with Mr Towlinson, to whom they offer terms to be bought off; and the third, in the person of an artful trom- bon... ...rom table, endeavours to comfort her; but she will not be comforted on any terms, and so the Major takes his leave. Cousin Feenix takes his leave, and... ... this man taketh this woman, and this woman taketh this man, on the solemn terms: ‘T o have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, ... ...sual position before the fireplace, and keeping on his hat, ‘this is a bad business.’ ‘You have received the news as was in print yesterday, Sir?’ sai... ...ter; and which was something of a novelty in connexion with the instrument business. In their several garments, which the vendor declared 64 Dombey &... ...s, and we don’ t know how to set about it. In short, we are so d - - - - d business-like,’ said the gentleman, walking to the window, and back, and si... ...deaf, dumb, blind, and paralytic, to a million things, from habit.” ‘’Very business-like indeed, Mr What’s-your-name,’ says Conscience, ‘’but it won’t... ...sometimes, say every Monday morning, at nine o’clock—habit again—I must be businesslike,’ said the gentleman, with a whimsical inclina- tion to quarre... ...ctly as if somebody was sitting upon me. ‘Them,’ said the Captain, ‘is the terms I offer. If they’re hard upon you, brother, as mayhap they are, give ...

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...greeable man.” “Yes, but he is rather fickle.” “He seems to be on the best terms with the Comtesse de Vaudremont?” said the lady, with an inquiring lo... ...ce she sent to the stranger; and although he had for some time been on bad terms with her, he determined to speak to her. The “ancient” Duchess, seein... ...ncial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Peasantry A Man of Business Cousin Betty Murat, Joachim, Prince The Vendetta 38 Domestic ...

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...ry important topic to an audience of perfect strangers, while dressed in a business suit. At one time, students might have imagined their public leade... ... colloquial and inappropriate for most college level writing. Scatological terms, used mostly to punctuate spoken language in casual situations, words... ... quality of the writing situation. Generally, students are aware that such terms are inappropriate, and they usually succeed in avoiding them; however... ...ate, and they usually succeed in avoiding them; however, a number of other terms, have come into common use in the vernacular and students should take...

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...sun shines out, the May evening fades; and men ply their useful or useless business as if no Louis lay in danger. Dame Dubarry, indeed, might pray, if... ...onsieur?”— ”Monseigneur,” hastily answered the trembling but adroit man of business, “c’est une titre qu’ils prennent (’tis a title they take).” (Bese... ...ons. The simple young King, whom a Maurepas cannot think of troubling with business, has retired into the interior apartments; taciturn, irresolute; t... ...y own were; the parent of still other Lies? Whereby the latter end of that business were worse than the beginning. So, however, in this world of ours,... ...es’ that will be needed? Alas, far from that: on the very threshold of the business, he proposes that the Clergy, the Noblesse, the very Parlements be... ... this. (Besenval, iii. 360.) To make provision for the passing day, on any terms, will soon be impossible.—On the 16th of August, poor Weber heard, at... ... us; and six feet of earth! What boots it, vamping rotten leather on these terms? Glorious in comparison is the livelihood thy good old Fa- ther earns... ...s a paper through his porthole; the shifty Usher snatches it, and returns. Terms of surrender: Pardon, immunity to all! Are they accepted?—”Foi d’offi... ...pty. The remedy is a Loan of thirty millions; then, on still more enticing terms, a Loan of eighty millions: neither of which Loans, unhappily, will t...

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...moved the office-papers close to him, rapidly looked through two pieces of business, made a few notes with a big pencil, and pushing away the papers, ... ... of his fellow officials, subordinates, and superiors, and all who had had business with him. The principal quali- ties in Stepan Arkadyevitch which h... ...e; and thirdly—the most important point—his com- plete indifference to the business in which he was en- gaged, in consequence of which he was never ca... ... though guid- ing him through dangers. Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with al- most all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by... ...f every secre- tary, of superiority to his chief in the knowledge of their business; he went up to Oblonsky with some pa- pers, and began, under prete... ...old, noble Moscow families, and had always been on in- timate and friendly terms. This intimacy had grown still closer during Levin’s student days. He... ...f Petersburg. I made his acquaintance in Tver when I was there on official business, and he came there for the levy of recruits. Fearfully rich, hands... ...eldom seen in society, when two persons, who remain externally on friendly terms, despise each other to such a degree that they cannot even take each ...

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... passing away of the present order was going to be a much more complicated business than it appears in Wagner’s Siegfried. I have therefore interpolat... ...for the assistance of those who wish to be introduced to the work on equal terms with that inner circle of adepts. 13 Shaw My second encouragement is... ...himself. Wagner escaped to Switzerland: Roeckel and Bakoonin suffered long terms of imprisonment. Wagner was of course utterly ru- ined, pecuniarily a... ...d, describing the mending of the sword, remarks that all he knew about the business was that the broken bits of Nothung would be of no use to him unle... ... until Wotan’s inspiration comes to our governors, and they see that their business is not the devising of laws and institutions to prop up the weakne... ...laws now aim at and miss. The majority of men at present in Europe have no business to be alive; and no serious progress will be made until we address... ...’s conception of The Sleeping Beauty. Whoever does not understand that, in terms of The Ring philosophy, a change from godhead to humanity is a step h... ...et sent to New Caledonia, quite unnecessarily and uselessly. T o put it in terms of Wagner’s allegory, Alberic had got the ring back again and was mar... ...Alberic can never be superseded by a warrior, but only by a capable man of business who is prepared to 80 The Perfect Wagnerite continue his work wit...

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...non balls, swooped away four country people with nosegays, and three men of business with portmanteaus, and fired itself off again, bang, bang, bang!... ... Thomas that when three men want to get to the bottom of a moun tain, their business is to walk down it; and he put this view of the case, not only w... ... Idle Appren tices, crippled in an instant. The situation was now, in plain terms, one of absolute danger. There lay Mr. Idle writhing with pain, the... ...ur was his only son, possessor in prospect of the great estate and the great business af ter his father’s death; well supplied with money, and not to... ...bitter laugh. ‘You have brought a poor devil back into the world, who has no business there. Do I astonish you? Well! I have a fancy of my own for tel... ...ings did he and the ball come to gether on anything approaching to intimate terms. The unnatural activity of body which was necessarily called forth ... ...visible. Something in the air, like an enterprising chemist’s established in business on one of the boughs of Jack’s beanstalk, was all that could be ...

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...r in the plays exhibited on the theater of the world; and, as I made it my business in each matter to reflect particularly upon what might fairly be ... ...ings of peace and where, in the midst of a great crowd actively engaged in business, and more careful of their own affairs than curious about those of... ...ly be ing in existence (I will here, with your permission, freely use the terms of the schools); but, on the contrary, that there was of necessity so... ...is they seem to me to be like a blind man, who, in order to fight on equal terms with a person that sees, should have made him descend to the bottom o...

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...a good and faithful mother and housewife, and thoughtful and cal culating business woman; but in the cozy living room at night they put the plodding ... ...xi eties were too great for further endurance—she being new to the margin business and unhardened, as yet—and she gave her imaginary broker an imagin... ... and secret rebellion; and the said mothers would have further damaged the business by requesting the young mechanics to discontinue their attentions.... ... again—and yet again—and yet once more. T wenty four hundred millions! The business was getting a little confused. It was necessary to take an account... ... it enough?” “It is, Aleck.” “What shall we do?” “Stand pat.” “Retire from business?” “That’s it.” “I am agreed. The good work is finished; we will ta... ... mock thy entreaties with borrowed shapes: yes, I feared to answer thee by terms, in words sin cere and undissembled. O! could I pursue, and you have...

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...e end of a week that Gordon Wright 44 Confidence told him exactly how his business stood with Miss Vivian and what he had reason to expect and hope—a... ...d I suppose you write volumes to each other. But he must have a great many business letters.” “It is very likely,” said Bernard. “And if he has, you m... ..., in fact, seemed to him very long. “I suppose he is always likely to have business,” said Mrs. Vivian. “You may be very sure it is not for his pleasu... ...d, as they walked on— ”after all, you know, I am not like Wright—I have no business.” He walked with the ladies to the door of their lodging. Angela k... ...onfidence sinuation that fortune thinks so poorly of us as to give us easy terms. Misplaced sympathy is the least available of superfluities, and Bern... ...as I have said, when he reached New York. The honeymoon had waned, and the business of married life had begun. Bernard, at the end, had sailed from En... ...out of the window; whereupon Ber- nard remembered that these were just the terms in which, at Baden, after his companion’s absence, he had attempted t... ...g been inflicted by a clever young man with whom she had been on agreeable terms, necessarily added a touch of baseness. In every disadvantage that a ... ...e paid me a bushel of compli- ments, and thanked me in the most flattering terms for my having let him bore me so for a week. ‘You have not bored me, ...

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... Or do him mightier service as his thralls By right of Warr, what e’re his business be 150 Here in the heart of Hell to work in Fire, Or do his E... ...o try once more What thou and thy gay Legions dare against; Whose easier business were to serve thir Lord High up in Heav’n, with songs to hymne... ...tain them fair with open Front And Brest, (what could we more?) propounded terms Of composition, strait they chang’d thir minds, Flew off, and i... ...quick result. To whom thus BELIAL in like gamesom mood. 620 Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force... ...God at last To Satan first in sin his doom apply’d, Though in mysterious terms, judg’d as then best: And on the Serpent thus his curse let fall.... ...us to resigne, and render back All I receav’d, unable to performe 750 Thy terms too hard, by which I was to hold The good I sought not. To the lo... ...y truth, too late, 755 I thus contest; then should have been refusd Those terms whatever, when they were propos’d: Thou didst accept them; wilt t...

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... month bring home your bride, but choose the omens which are best for this business. (ll. 802-804) Avoid fifth days: they are unkindly and ter- rible.... ...s. And she is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hecate and the ... ... reward to tell no one about them. Hermes promised to give it him on these terms, and Battus swore to say nothing to anyone about the cattle. But when...

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...ed vehicles and waved back with smiling faces. Walter loved them immediately. Local authorities made sure that Walter's father could not run his own business for the next ten years because of his involvement with the Nazis. He got a job at a bakery where the son also became a frequent visitor because the bakery owners were caring, friendly people. Sitting at the long kitc...

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...ining was possible and profitable. The Arcus Stream was a kind of swift canal through hyperspace that allowed very fast travel, even for hyperspace terms. Outside the strong wall of the huge spaceship, wavelike trails of misty appearance rushed by. Actually, it was the Ostia that rushed through pas them. She was not only one of the biggest spaceships ever built but also ...

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...that keeps them so contented. Certainly people in my country need both. The media extol the joys and the promises of sex and the street corner busine... ...ay parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, and sweet 16 parties. Wealth is so often thought of as power, We see it in politics, sports, busine... ...e toughest inmate, the power gained from being in the best school or on the best team—the examples are endless. Then there are the political, busine... ...sy to see how power through violence is common among people as is gaining power through having a territory such as owning a car, a house, or a busine... ...ht? Are our instincts really directed by power and not by pleasure, as Freud believed?‖ --―I can certainly see the drive for power in busine... ...ain the several aspects of our personalities as being generated from our instincts through our bodies, Adler believed that we were holistic—in terms ... ...Canada and the US still have coaches practicing sexual harassing and abusive tactics. There are even Olympic level coaches serving long prison terms ... ...al and illegal realms. It can come from celebrity or accomplishments in many areas, such as the political, economic, media or sport areas. In terms ... ... --―Good points. Now let me get back to defining love. One of the problems encountered in defining love is that it is sometimes defined in terms ...

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... know our ABCs, this is a simple, easily mastered procedure. Similarly, business offices use it to file and retrieve their written materials. I... ...e first half of this period. The resulting unstable environment for trade, business, and industry destabilized the rest of civilization as well. ... ...hina that had dazzled Marco Polo. Goldsmith inventor was no businessman Johann Gensfleisch Zur Laden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born abo... ... buyers from all punishments nor grant them salvation. Men of letters and business Pioneer print shop owners doubled as men of letters and men of ... ... role ―God‘s highest act of Grace,‖ he lent dignity not just to the print business but also to commerce and trade in general. ... ... least what it used to mean before the Internet. What does this mean in terms of conclusions? It means that only one person (or less) out of a t...

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...the “war to end war,” and we still did not know clearly how. We thought in terms of treaties and alliances. It is largely the detachment and practi- c... ... no apology therefore, for casting my discussion of it in the most general terms. The idea is the idea of united human effort to put an end to wars; t... ...ething of a Prussian, I would like to insist upon certain brute facts. The business of the League of Nations is to keep the peace of the world and not... ...he peace of the world for ever. Let us keep our grip on that. Peace is the business of the great powers primarily. Steel output, university graduates,... ...ut what I, as a sample common person, am not ignorant of is this: that the business that goes on at the Peace Congress will either make or mar the liv... ...armament industries are now huge inter- ests with enormous powers. Krupp’s business alone is as pow- erful a thing in Germany as the Crown. In every c... ...nd is it not time that we began to discuss in much more frank and definite terms than has hith- erto been done, the nature of the international arrang... ...d—the war goes on. The condi- tions of peace can now be stated, in general terms that are as acceptable to a reasonable man in Berlin as they are to a... ... on our own side— Let us examine the three leading points about this peace business in which this jaded statecraft is most apparent. Let the reader as...

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...e else’s comfort, spiritual or physical? O.M. No. Except on those distinct terms—that it shall What Is Man and Other Essays 14 first secure his own s... ...rouble? The authoress quite innocently and uncon sciously gives the whole business away. The trouble was this: this man merely preached to the poo... ...nish it. He must be nursed, petted, coddled, and kept con tented, let the terms be what they may. Y.M. Training! Oh, what’s the use of it? Didn’t I, ... ... scholar who would not leave his garret and his books to take a place in a business house at a large salary. O.M. He had to satisfy his master—that is... ...to myself, “There, I’ve got it! and I shall die.” Life on these miserable terms was not worth living, and at last I made up my mind to get the diseas... ...r seats in state, and proclama tion was made that the court was ready for business. Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed, and yet no Fri... ...t is your trade? I mean how do you get your liv ing? What is your line of business?” Mark T wain 133 “Well, I hardly know how to answer. I am only a... ...rdly know how to answer. I am only a kind of foreman, on a salary; and the business—well, is a very gen eral kind of business.” “Yes, I understand—ge... ... law to avoid dis playing their ignorance if they venture to employ legal terms and to discuss legal doctrines. “There is nothing so dan gerous,” wr...

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...he most important is to carry out the mission Operation Get Universe at all costs. The World Finance Bank was directed to give heavy loans on easy terms and conditions to Islamic countries in the form of financial help to clench these countries into the ironic hands of World Bank so that they are buried under debts. In this way these countries would become easily blac...

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...s control of the situation, demanding that Macbeth “put/This night’s great business into my dispatch” (1.6. 79-80). This type of behavior from a woman... ...this relation will reverse. Macbeth and his wife clearly exchange roles in terms of the amount of ambition they display. Al- though both characters bl... ...of Banquo: “Not i’ th’ worst rank of man- hood, say’t,/And I will put that business in your bosoms” (3.1. 115-117). Whereas earlier Macbeth was reluct... ... to take immediate action. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth also exchange roles in terms of their expression of guilt. Initially, Lady Macbeth is completely u... ...st chuck’ (III. ii. 45). To evaluate the character of Lady Macbeth both in terms of her expressed intention before the murder of Duncan without regard... ...is Delaware County – English 15 Wings CALVIN COOLIDGE once said, The chief business of the American people is business. This statement is as true toda... ...n Coolidge said it because America is largely defined by the nature of the businesses that drive its economy. One of the major economy driving busi- n... ...ol of what America is all about. Diversity, efficiency, and creativity are terms used to describe America, but now they are being used by the Boeing C... ... conviction. In order to validate one’s convictions (assertions in writing terms) one needs to pro- vide evidence in a highly logical fashion. This in...

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...that of the medieval robber baron, it qualifies men to keep an estate or a business going in its old routine without neces- sarily understanding it, j... ...olicitors and agents, being unable to manage an 7 GB Shaw estate or run a business without continual prompting from those who have to learn how to do... ...o the stomach. As their mechanist theory taught them that medicine was the business of the chemist’s laboratory, and surgery of the carpenter’s shop, ... ...artbreak House lous voluntary organizations for doing what was plainly the business of the civil and military authorities, but actually handed out mon... ...ency was that those who were efficient should give all their time to their business and leave the rabble raving to its heart’s content. Indeed the rav... ...at, you are her husband’s brother. RANDALL. But you seem to be on intimate terms with her. HECTOR. So do you. RANDALL. Yes: but I am on intimate terms...

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...piety he falls off greatly. T rue, he also proposes to repent; but in what terms? “Oui, ma foi! il faut s’amender. Encore vingt ou trente ans de cette... ...Conscience by Donna Elvira. Excommunication has become almost as serious a business as it was in the X century. As a result, Man is no longer, like Do... ... modern London life, a life in which, as you know, the ordinary man’s main business is to get means to keep up the position and habits of a gentleman,... ...o keep up the position and habits of a gentleman, and the ordinary woman’s business is to get married. In 9,999 cases out of 10,000, you can count on ... ... not with nutrition, and to deal with it in a society in which the serious business of sex is left by men to women, as the serious business of nutriti... ... to protect themselves against a too aggressive prosecution of the women’s business, have set up a feeble romantic convention that the initiative in s... ...than the life and death of Mr Badman: all this, expressed by Bunyan in the terms of a tinker’s theol- ogy, is what Nietzsche has expressed in terms of... ...ed in terms of post-Dar- winian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Pari... ...nnie a grown woman. And her father is gone. We don’t as yet know the exact terms of his will; but he often talked it over with me; and I have no more ...

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...Sibylline prices for 9 George Meredith want of forethought. Mr. Parnell’s terms are embodied in Mr. Gladstone’s Bill, to which he and his band have s... ...pplausive audience when he cites the total failure of En- gland to do that business of government, as at least a logical reason for the claim. England... ...epted the Bill of the defeated Minister as final. Its provisions are their terms of peace. They offer in return for that boon to take the bur- den we ... ...ns, that they intended to adopt a more active system of warfare. It is the business of a commander to see that after a victory the fruit of it should ... ...headquarters is too important an incident to be overlooked by people whose business is that of watching the course of events in this country. And it s... ...ave been much better for them, since Archduke Albert spoke in eulo- gistic terms of the king, of his sons, and of his soldiers, while relating the act... ...lliance with Prussia, or to the fidelity of the latter in carrying out the terms of it. I do not know whether this gentleman intended his anecdote to ... ... Italian government in support of the alliance, by making her own separate terms with Austria and leaving Italy subsequently exposed to the vengeance ... ...- sionally encountered in crossing in a diligence from Naples to Foggia on business; and then, speaking of the audacity of brigands in general, he tol...

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... a very humble artist; but not even the terror of eternal fire can teach a business man to 6 Robert Louis Stevenson bend his imagination to such athl... ..., in an age when the spirit of honesty is so sparingly cultivated that all business is conducted upon lies and so-called customs of the trade, that no... ...ce. Even before the lowest of all tribunals,– before a court of law, whose business it is, not to keep men right, or within a thousand miles of right,... ...prospects of mankind as a race turn upon material conditions. The physical business of each man’s body is transacted for him; like a sybarite, he has ... ...redible and most bewildering fact that a man, through life, is on variable terms with himself; he is aware of tiffs and reconciliations; the intimacy ... ...lly and freely entitled to his earn- ings as a sculptor, although the true business of each was not 35 Lay Morals only something different, but somet... ...of righteousness. All that can be done is to present the problem in proper terms, and leave it to the soul of the individual. Now, the problem to the ... ...to hear. He appears, notwithstanding all this, to have been on pretty good terms with his cruel ‘phanaticks,’ as the following extract sufficiently pr... ...with all objectionable matter omitted. This, with pleasing euphe- mism, he terms in a later advertisement, ‘a new and im- proved edition.’ This was th...

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...s and propositions, and are not im posed on by vague, loose, or ambiguous terms. The boasted influence of mathematical studies is nothing to it; for ... ...ties is constrained either to express his meaning to himself in defi nite terms, or to confess that he does not know what he is talking about; the pe... ...nstances; the siege in form which is laid to the meaning of large abstract terms, by fixing upon some still larger class name which includes that and ... ...e the improvement of India, and teach Indian officials to understand their business. If a selection of them were pub lished, they would, I am convinc... ...ections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical conse quences of the theo... ...ect of being rich by inheritance, he had, though ac tively engaged in the business of banking, devoted a great portion of time to philosophic studies... ...on from my immediate superiors, but I soon became well acquainted with the business, and by my father’s in 48 Autobiography structions and the gener... ...er of the opin ions and institutions of my time. Not, indeed, that public business transacted on paper, to take effect on the other side of the globe... ... over nearly the whole subject. These three masses of manuscript it was my business to condense into a single treatise, adopting the one last written ...

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...gth of his imagina- tion amongst the things of this earth, which it is his business to cherish and know, and refrain from call- ing down his inspirati... ...ruth spiritual and intellectual; an accident of—I sup- pose—the publishing business acquiring a symbolic meaning from its negative nature. Because, em... ...and courageous enough to interpret the ultimate experience of man- kind in terms of his temperament, in terms of art. I do not mean to say that he wou... ...ry that their rejection offends, by its uncalled-for scrupulousness, those business-like instincts which a careful Providence has implanted in our bre... ...r he is not immortal—he is only dead. During his life the simple man whose business it ought to have been to climb, in the name of Art, some elevation... ... early this world of the living, which he knew how to set before us in the terms of his own artistic vision? Perhaps he did not lose a great deal. The... ...desty) both true and lovely. Yet no little girl ever wrote to me in kindly terms. And why? Simply be- cause I am not enough of a Vagabond. The dear de... ... wise than the irresponsible talk of strat- egy that never changes, and of terms of peace that do not matter. And above it all—unaccountably persisten... ...archical institutions sooner, perhaps, than any other. It has not been the business of monarchies to be adaptive from within. With the mission of unit...

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...ch to huz as to them? thet’s wot we sy. Ennywys, there ynt naow awm in ahr business. All we daz is hescort, tourist hor commercial. Cook’s hexcursions... ...intelligent, tender and humorous, dressed with cunning simplicity not as a businesslike, tailor made, gaitered tourist, but as if she lived at the nex... ...e of it. BRASSBOUND. Why have you sent for me? RANKIN. We have a matter of business with ye, Captain. 20 George Bernard Shaw BRASSBOUND. Who are “we”... ...these questions, which strike him as somewhat impertinent). Let us come to business, if you please. We are thinking of making a short excursion to see... ...ongue. DRINKWATER (abjectly). Yuss, Kepn. RANKIN. I understood it was your business to provide es- corts, Captain Brassbound. BRASSBOUND. You were rig... ...d growing confidence). Captain Brassbound: you are the man I want. If your terms are at all reasonable, I will accept your services if we decide to ma... ...ions of confidence in people’s eyes and faces. (T o Brassbound) Now, about terms, Captain? BRASSBOUND. Where do you propose to go? SIR HOWARD. I hardl... ...deeply outraged, rising with venerable dig- nity). Sir: do you apply those terms to me? BRASSBOUND. I do. (He turns to Lady Cicely, and adds, pointing...

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...- rors of the vacuum, their substantial forms, and all those im- pertinent terms which not only ignorance had rendered ven- erable, but which had been... ...g up. But that which surprised me most was to read in his work, in express terms, the new attraction, the invention of which is ascribed to Sir Isaac ... ... his time, sev- eral great philosophers had declared, in the most positive terms, what the soul of man is; but as these absolutely knew nothing about ... ...and unprejudiced divine because he did not expressly make use of injurious terms in his dispute with Mr. Locke. That divine entered the lists against ... ...ad been unknown. This so bold edifice is even founded on simple ideas. The business is to measure the diagonal of a square, to give the area of a curv... ...nd bear a crippled carcase through the sky. ’Tis this exalted power, whose business lies In nonsense and impossibilities. This made a whimsical philos... ...ocles; or to exclude from the body of their citizens a set of people whose business is to set off with the utmost grace of speech and action those pie... ... have been made in the most barbarous times. One would con- clude that the business of the most enlightened ages and the most learned bodies, is, to a...

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...). There he is at last. (Point- ing to the inner door.) Go. Attend to your business: the lady is calling you. (He goes to the fireplace and stands wit... ...ual correspondence from Paris, of which you know nothing. LADY (prompt and businesslike). General: let us make a fair division. T ake the information ... ... LADY. And now, whilst you’re waiting, don’t you think you had better make terms with the General? LIEUTENANT. Oh, look here, this is getting frightfu... ...? LIEUTENANT. Oh, look here, this is getting frightfully complicated. What terms? LADY. Make him promise that if you catch my brother he will consider... ...hing on principle. He fights you on patriotic prin- ciples; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you...

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...castle by Ireton, where his brother Thomas capitulated (af- terward making terms with the Commonwealth, for which the elder brother never forgave him)... ...oman to her ladyship in the late lord’s time, and, having her soul in that business, took naturally to it when the Viscountess of Castlewood returned ... ...boxing his ears, and tilting the silver basin in his face which it was his business to present to her after dinner. She hath repaired, by subsequent k... ...indeed, the former was a perfectly-bred gentleman, and it was the latter’s business to agree with everybody. Doctor Tusher and the lady’s-maid, his sp... ...er, how even to forgive in the royal cause” (no doubt it was to that fatal business of losing the place of Groom of the Posset to which her ladyship a... ...stant, and understanding by a hundred signs that some active though secret business employed him: what this was may pretty well be guessed by what soo... ...eart was of very inflammable composition; and the gentleman usher spoke in terms of boundless admiration both of the widow (that most beautiful woman,... ...er sentence, a widow and orphans of those whom in life he held dearest. In terms that might well move a harder-hearted man than young Esmond’s confida... ... again of the younger, and whenever she spoke of my lord’s widow, ’twas in terms by no means complimentary towards that poor lady: the younger woman n...

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... to stay where he was and talk to Mrs. Pontellier. “Well, send him about his business when he bores you, Edna,” in structed her husband as he prepare... ... convey him to the steamer at the wharf. He was returning to the city to his business, and they would not see him again at the Island till the coming ... ... snub Mrs. Belthrop. Why, Belthrop could buy and sell us ten times over. His business is worth a good, round sum to me. You’d better write her a note.... ...let them run things their own way; they’d soon make a nice mess of me and my business.” “Where are you going?” asked Edna, seeing that her husband aro... ... ceremony into her presence. “`Cite can do it as well as I; it is really her business,” she explained to Edna, who apologized for interrupting her. An... ...he knew it was useless to ask Madame Ratignolle, who was on the most distant terms with the musician, and preferred to know noth ing concerning her. ... ...h its warm and scented velvety touch. It pleased him also to get on familiar terms with the big dogs that came about him, rubbing themselves sociably ...

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... all seemed highly amused at the success of the king’s ‘joke.’ “And now to business,” said the prime minister, a very fat man. “Y es,” said the King; ... ...ntenance. By far the greater number of those who went by had a satis- fied business-like demeanor, and seemed to be thinking only of making their way ... ...men of leisure and men actively engaged in affairs of their own—conducting business upon their own responsibility. They did not greatly excite my atte... ... man in Rattleborough, while “Old Charley Goodfellow” was upon as intimate terms with him as if he had been his own brother. The two old gentlemen wer... ...r part of them felt disposed to agree with him, and not make a stir in the business “until something should turn up,” as the honest old gentleman word... ...do so, the worst features of this really exceed- ingly perplexing piece of business.” Mr. Goodfellow went on for some half hour longer in this strain,... ...dvantage. Provided a trade could be effected—a trade of any kind, upon any terms, or under any circumstances—a triumphant smile was seen for many days... ...d peevishly to Mr. Gliddon, and, in a peremptory tone, demanded in general terms what we all meant. Mr. Gliddon replied at great length, in phonetics;... ...maintain that the phrase, “a long poem,” is simply a flat contradiction in terms. I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch...

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..., and the Author of such Philosophy, be brought home, in any measure, to the business and bosoms of our own English Nation? For if new got gold is sai... ...t snore. Thus does Teufelsdr¨ ockh, wandering in regions where he had little business, confound the old authentic Pres byterian Witchfinder with a new... ... ask, How far, in all the several infinitely complected departments of social business, in government, education, in manual, commercial, intellectual f... ...cle? Was it by the humid vehicle of Æsthetic Tea, or by the arid one of mere Business? Was it on the hand of Herr Towgood; or of the Gn¨ adige Frau, w... ...lsdr¨ ockh deport him. He quietly lifts his Pilgerstab (Pilgrim staff), “old business being soon wound up;” and begins a perambulation and circumambul... ...indispens able. In every new era, too, such Solution comes out in different terms; and ever the Solution of the last era has become obsolete, and is ... ...al foreign or domestic? If so, what are those Prize Questions; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where? No printed Newspaper leaf, no f...

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...lways sought for large and harmo- nious rhythm in his deliberate choice of terms, al- ways chose sound, wholesome language, with a 15 Selected Writin... ...mselves to the men as they did to the state of affairs. “It is part of our business, so it must be done,” they said as they drove along; no doubt to a... ...that is all; bad luck, one of those mistakes which happen every day in our business. What could they accuse me of? Whoever would think of accusing me,... ...Paris sufficed to restore me to my equilibrium. Yesterday after doing some business and paying some visits, which instilled fresh and invigorating men... ... of painting, as I would have done to a fellow-artist, using the technical terms common among the devotees of the profession. She listened attentively... ...ess to prevent them. 93 Selected Writings “She was, however, on excellent terms with him, affecting even to be the confidant of his secrets and of hi... ... is more enthusias- tic than I am, the scold, and all the mischief in this business is her fault, as you will see immediately. “I am strong and mild-t... ...in the neighborhood; even the porter’s wife, who has just sent me about my business—she will tell you something about it. 104 De Maupassant “Every da... ...s wheat would not come to the farmyard of its own accord, he agreed to her terms at last: “Very well, then, that is settled; six francs includ- ing ev...

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...man, in vigour, in the gout; Alone, in company; in place, or out; Early at business, and at hazard late; 29 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V o... ...at we meant to do. Behold! if fortune or a mistress frowns, Some plunge in business, others shave their crowns: To ease the soul of one oppressive wei... ... ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last; As weak, as earnest, and as gravely out, ... ...oppression curst, They seek the second not to lose the first. Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, s... ...despair: Seek, and perhaps you’ll find among the fair One that may do your business to a hair; Not e’en in wish your happiness delay, But prove the sc... ...our mind must move, My whole estate shall gratify your love: Make your own terms, and ere to-morrow’s sun Displays his light, by heaven, it shall be d... ...eons en crapeau were a common dish.—P . W. 443 ‘Séve and verdeur:’ French terms relating to wines, which signify their flavour and poignancy.—P . W ....

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...ret: not because I love him better, but because, with him, I am still in a business partnership, and cannot divide interests. Of the papers which make... ...over a woody country; their halting alacrity of move- ment, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulations, their air, giga... ...s more wholesome, but less thoughtful; he gives him- self to games as to a business, striving to excel, but is not readily transported by imagination;... ...tory of the Austrian Empire would seem to answer, no; the far more galling business of Ireland clenches the nega- tive from nearer home. Is it common ... ... a different training; he obeys different laws; he makes his will in other terms, is otherwise divorced and married; his eyes are not at home in an En... ...in a gig along the seaboard road from Pittenweem to Crail, and for all his business hurry, drawing up to speak good-humouredly with those he met. And ... ...ost deservin ’ gentleman.” Again, two of our friends, who were on intimate terms, and accustomed to use language to each other, some- 40 Robert Louis... ...instructed, but fellow-teachers with whom I may wrangle and agree on equal terms. We must reach some solution, some shadow of consent; for without tha... ...sure in dexterity displayed and proved; what they get they get upon life’s terms, paying for it as they go; and once the talk is launched, they are as...