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...han a formality, they will have to delegate a control of their inter-State relations to an ex- tent for which few minds are prepared at present. It is... ... to give to projects for the fundamental recon- struction of international relationships than has any recruit drilling in England, or any captain on a... ...ent organ for the direction and co-ordination of their joint international relationships. It may be a queerly constituted body at first; it may be of ... ...nd naval policy, to keep the peace in the Balkans and Asia, to establish a relationship with China, and organise joint and several arbitration arrange... ...ial, ill-conceived, and unnec- essary operation … Each will be thinking of Labour, wounded and perplexed, returning to the disorganised or nationalise... ...tery, living upon the produce of its own farming and supplying all its own labour, would be least embarrassed amidst the general perplexity. For it wo... ... Great Britain, and has been completely checked in France. The attempts of labour to readjust wages have been partially successful in spite of the elo... ...of prosperous people was perpetually increasing; it did not “pay” to build labourers’ cottages, and the more expen- sive sort of automobile had driven... ...ourse, a continu- ing rise in prices, a continuing writing off of debt. If labour has any real grasp of its true interests it will not resent this. It...

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...ho knew nothing of the letter above mentioned, tries hard to show that the relations between Cervantes and Lope were of a very friendly sort, as indee... ...ry Memoirs from 1672 to 1713.” “Before the appearance in the world of that labour of Cervantes,” he said, “it was next to an impossibility for a man t... ...ene of his chival- ries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally vente... .... But if perchance thou hast a mind To win of idiots approbation, Lost labour will be thy reward, Though they’ll pretend appreciation. They say... ...udent; oft the random jest Recoils upon the jester’s head. Thy constant labour let it be To earn thyself an honest name, For fooleries preserved... ... beginning of books. For I can tell thee, though composing it cost me some labour, I found none greater than the making of this Preface thou art now r... ...affair; I was aghast, Anselmo thunderstruck, her father full of grief, her relations indignant, the authorities all in a ferment, the officers of the ... ...eturned Teresa Panza—for so Sancho’s wife was called, though they were not relations, for in La Mancha it is customary for wives to take their husband... ...n, and he began thus: “In the madhouse at Seville there was a man whom his relations had placed there as being out of his mind. He was a graduate of O...

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...native sagacity, as it is averred by some, or whether it shows an instinct labouring to supply the defi- ciencies of stupidity, according to others, I... ...rey hair fell across his forehead, and it was apparently one of his life’s labours to get it to lie amid the mass, for his hand rarely ceased to be in... ...Letters were pouring upon Steynham from men and women of Romfrey blood and relationship concerning the positive tone of Radi- calism in the commander’... ..., involves the doing of lots of disagree- able things to ourselves and our relations; it ‘s positive. I’m a soldier of the Great Campaign: and who kno... ...ou discipline the trades- man, who’s afraid of losing your custom, and the labourer, who might be deprived of his bread. But the people? It’s put down... ...ormed the candidate that he thought he would no longer detain him from his labours. ‘Just the sort of place wanted in every provincial town,’ Palmet r... ...vow to Cecilia Halkett a tenderness for Nevil Beauchamp, on account of his relations with the Mar- quise de Rouaillout, and notwithstanding the demoni... ...to be harmless: in short, a specimen of old En- glish practical humour. He laboured to express these or corresponding views of it, with tolerably natu... ...f women, excited, awed, and melted her. He had seen the whole truth of her relations with M. d’Henriel!— the wickedness of them in one light, the inno...

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...h reticence in respect to his public functions and conduct, and his social relations. The title of Gentleman in Ordinary to the King, which he as- sum... ...vernor of the Signory’. The court of Muscovy had at that time such limited relations with the 17 Montaigne other powers of Europe, and it was so impe... ... He went to Paris to make arrangements for the publication of his enlarged labours, and a fourth impression in 1588 was the result. He remained in the... ... “My image,” said he (for so he often called her, there being some sort of relationship be- tween them), “since I have been united to you by marriage,... ...sacred duties and rights of friendship, could give an adequate idea of the relations which subsisted between this personage and myself. Moreover, sir,... ...low you to do so, and assure you that, mean- while, we shall not spare our labour, or (if that were neces- sary) our life, to maintain the king’s auth... ... our amorous persuasions, the soul being at that time over-bur- dened, and labouring with profound thoughts; and the body dejected and languishing wit... ...elebrated art of divination amongst the Tuscans took its beginning thus: A labourer striking deep with his cutter into the earth, saw the demigod T ag... ...nate as to endure a battery, hanged every man he found within it for their labour. And again, accompanying the Dauphin in his expedition beyond the Al...

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...ch they lis- tened to him, or the success which might eventually crown his labours. Such little matters of detail never troubled him much. His teachin... ...ers. My uncle at once fastened upon this as the centre of interest, and he laboured at that blot, until by the help of his micro- 15 Jules Verne scop... ...f memory and fancy. There looked down upon me the faithful companion of my labours and my recreations. Every day she helped me to arrange my uncle’s p... ...he hold. My uncle, notwithstanding his hurry, had so well calcu- lated the relations between the train and the steamer that we 40 A Journey to the In... ...tant style, of calcined stones extracted out of the volcanoes by their own labour and at their own expense; in high westerly winds it was manifest tha... ...ve? Foreigners have their librar- ies at home, and the first essential for labouring people is that they should be educated. I repeat to you the love ...

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... on correcting a brief mistake I made, not long ago, in disturbing the old relations between myself and my readers, and departing for a moment from my... ...nto them by a couple of friends; adjusts the rope harness, embossed by the labours of innumerable pigeons in the stables; makes all the horses kick an... ...es the bed stead, in her chamber. One would never have supposed her to be labouring under any complaint, beyond the inconve nience of being miraculo... ...e’s legate, seriously insulted some distinguished ladies of Avignon, whose relations, in revenge, seized the young man, and horribly mutilated him. Fo... ...the better kind of people die, or are at the point of death, their nearest relations generally walk off: retiring into the country for a little change... ...d, though we had remained there until now. It was done at no great cost of labour; but at every pause in the doing, his hands were wound in his hair a... ...atched and cut inscriptions in the blackened vaults. I saw them. For their labour with a rusty nail’s point, had outlived their agony and them, throug... ... newly built; and it is an interesting custom there, to form the chorus of labourers in the marble quarries, who are self taught and sing by ear. I he...

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...His resolution of marriage had been adopted in a fit of indig- nation; the labour of courtship did not quite suit the digni- fied indolence of his hab... ...ule might have been ruinous to a boy of slow understanding, who, feel- ing labour in the acquisition of knowledge, would have alto- gether neglected i... ...to contain a whole ream of closely-written manu- script. They had been the labour of the worthy man’s whole life; and never were labour and zeal more ... ... intersected by a narrow lane leading to the common field, where the joint labour of the villagers cultivated alternate ridges and patches of rye, oat... ...e gained W averley’s consent to lengthen his visit for a few days, than he laboured to remove the grounds upon which he conceived he had meditated a m... ...EWS FROM ENGLAND THE LETTERS which Waverley had hitherto received from his relations in England, were not such as required any particular notice in th... ... entered, therefore, without hesitation, into the resentful feeling of the relations who had the best title to dic- tate his conduct; and not perhaps ... ...k, and most the steel pistol. But these consisted of gentle- men, that is, relations of the chief, however distant, and who had an immediate title to ... ...d punish them? Assure thyself that either they have no charge against your relations on which they can con- tinue their imprisonment, or else they are...

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...an the vast authentic doomsday book of nature, as is elsewhere hinted, our labours have sufficient title to the name of history. Certainly they deserv... ...t, with which, in times of peace, the chambermaid was wont to demolish the labours of the industrious spider. In vulgar phrase, she had taken up the b... ...the uneasiness with which the big muse bears about her burden, the painful labour with which she produces it, and lastly, the care, the fondness, with... ...de from the commonwealth of literature any of those noble critics to whose labours the learned world are so greatly indebted. Such were Aristotle, Hor... ...ideration, restrained her from asking the question. The strange lady now laboured under a difficulty which appears almost below the dignity of histo... ...id, ‘Though politeness had prevented me from com plaining to my husband’s relations of his behaviour, yet they all were very sensible of it, and felt... ...may do some mischief. It is a pity he was not secured and sent home to his relations.” Now some conceits of this kind were likewise lurking in the m... ... indeed it was the opinion of most people, that it was only a trick of his relations to rob the poor man of his right.” “Very likely!” cries the lan... ...acquainted with her likewise. They were, besides, both equally her distant relations. After much consideration, therefore, she resolved to go early ...

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...ho knew nothing of the letter above mentioned, tries hard to show that the relations between Cervantes and Lope were of a very friendly sort, as indee... ...ry Memoirs from 1672 to 1713.” “Before the appearance in the world of that labour of Cervantes,” he said, “it was next to an impossibility for a man t... ...ene of his chival- ries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally vente... .... But if perchance thou hast a mind To win of idiots approbation, Lost labour will be thy reward, Though they’ll pretend appreciation. They say... ...udent; oft the random jest Recoils upon the jester’s head. Thy constant labour let it be To earn thyself an honest name, For fooleries preserved... ... beginning of books. For I can tell thee, though composing it cost me some labour, I found none greater than the making of this Preface thou art now r... ...affair; I was aghast, Anselmo thunderstruck, her father full of grief, her relations indignant, the authorities all in a ferment, the officers of the ... ...eturned Teresa Panza—for so Sancho’s wife was called, though they were not relations, for in La Mancha it is customary for wives to take their husband...

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...- oirs.” The autograph manuscript, still in existence, reveals the immense labour which he put into it. The writing is re- markable for its legibility... ...es in folio. After the author’s death, in 1755, the secret of his lifelong labour was revealed; and the Duc de Choiseul, fearing the result of these f... ... make his invasion into England, he said pub- licly, that he had uselessly laboured all his life to gain the favours of the King, but that he hoped to... ...m the first, that if he attempted to speak to the King upon the point, his labour would be thrown away; he wisely therefore kept si- lence, and went h... ...ous, counselled the King against such a step, to the great vexation of his relations, who were the chief plotters in the conspiracy to overthrow the t... ... rest, and on this occa- sion incited the Princesse d’Harcourt, one of his relations, to act in a manner that scandalised all the Court. Entering the ... ...w her to return. Madame de Chatillon persisted in her attempt, saying that relationship decided the question of precedence on these occasions, and tha... ...nce of Madame de Chatillon; but that in all such cases it was rank and not relationship which decided the point. The dispute was at last put to an end... ...ith a striking and ex- pressive countenance, and much wit and aptitude for labour. He was remarkable for grace, fine manners, and winning ways; but hi...

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...ays together and for miles around the coil of battle terri- fied good people from their labours in the field. Of all this, nothing was heard for a lon... ...uch of a vagabond, and yet he kept by the house, and not only waited upon my wants, but laboured every day in the gar- den or small farm to the south ... ...upon an hour, from a knoll where I was sketching, and all that time Felipe continued to labour undisturbed in the garden. At last, in a very unworthy ... ...is mystery; and when, from the vantage of my knoll, I had seen Felipe pass forth to his labours in the garden, I re- turned at once to the residencia ... ...rly. Before the smoke arose, before the first cart rattled over the bridge to the day’s labour in the fields, he was to be found wandering in his gard... ...leave Paris? Who made me give up cards, and the opera, and the boulevard, and my social relations, and all that was my life before I knew you? Have I ... ...is. Six months in the capital, for a man of the Doctor’s 153 Merry Men antecedents and relations, implied no less a calamity than total ruin. Anastas...

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...me the means of inducing some abler and more worthy (but not more earnest) labourer to enter upon the same field, the riches of which will remain unal... ...to thee repair,— Nor dread me! When suddenly rose a fearful din, Her mad relations came pouring in. My blood still boils in my body! GIPSY. “Oh wh... ...soft glimm’ring lustre, ‘Stead of Phoebus and Aurora, T o enliven my still labours!” Yet they left me in my slumbers, Dull and unrefreshing, lying, An... ...s and many blows. Soon as the spring-sun meets his view, Repose begets him labour anew; He feels that he holds within his brain A little world, that b... ... convey Wherein with eager zeal and lovingly, That I might win thy favour, labour’d I, If on thine ear alone they die away? Therefore, sweet love, thy... ...s ripe, your money, good neighbour! ’T was not for nothing I took all this labour!” And such, methinks, are the author-tribe. The one his pleasures ar... ...member me, and all my friendly assistance, Which I from love, and not from relationship merely have render’d. All your kindness to me, as long as life... ...iss not their daughter.” Other persons now enter’ d, the patient’s nearest relations, Many articles bringing, and better lodgings announcing. All were... ...ealth he said ’twould lead to. Soon are gather’ d there whole races, Their relationship to show him. And as great-grandfather, nobly Stands Jamblika’s...

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...he unwonted dissipa tion of the previous night; Mr. Snodgrass appeared to labour under a poetical depression of spirits; and even Mr. Pickwick evince... ...e our New River Head; and we may be compared to the New River Company. The labours of others have raised for us an immense reservoir of impor tant fa... ...ns as he passed, enjoying the serenity of the evening, and their rest from labour. Many a look was turned towards him, and many a doubtful glance he c... ... feeble and infirm old man, whom he only re membered as a hale and hearty labourer; but they had all forgotten him, and he passed on unknown. ‘The la... ...aning Jingle) ‘was an impudent young fellow:’ a sentiment in which all her relations then and there present thoroughly coincided. It was the old lady’... ...uses in this place. It must not be lost.’ He tapped at the cottage door. A labouring man opened it. ‘Do you know how this stone came here, my friend?’... .... I pitied—yes, I pit ied—the wretched life to which her cold and selfish relations had doomed her. I knew that she could not live long; but the thou... ...d not help thinking that Maria Lobbs must be very particularly fond of her relations, if she paid as much attention to all of them as to this indi vi... ...an. ‘And me,’ interposed his wife. ‘And me, and me,’ said a couple of poor relations at the bottom of the table, who had eaten and drunk very heartily...

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...young, and Mr. Dynevor believed that the marriage had been hastened by her relations making her feel herself unwelcome, and her own reluctance to retu... ...ipping-up of all the an- cient grievances of the married life of their two relations, rendering wider than ever the breach between the houses of Ponso... ...et be soothing and consoling. Some would have thought her letter stiff and laboured, but she had learned to believe that a grave and careful style bef... ...t claims gratitude, you would not have left your mother in her old age, to labour unaided for the support of your brother’s orphans. For our- selves, ... ...ara! I never saw more plainly money given for that which is not bread, and labour for that which satisfieth not. Empty and hollow as the pageant was, ... ...umbered away without revival or suf- fering, as one who did ‘rest from her labours,’ and her eyes had been closed on the previous night. Clara wept as... ...le; but their uncle, without taste to understand it, wishing to forget her labours, and fancying them discreditable to a daughter of the Dynevors, rec... ...ical than having no particular task. Another cloud of mystery was over the relations with Mr. Dynevor and Clara. Isabel baffled all Lady Conway’s inqu... ...deration for his family, that rather inflamed their dislike. They had rich relations enough! It would be only too good for so fine a lady to be brough...

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...at some of the richest people did not disdain it; and not only great men’s relations, but great men themselves, sent their sons to profit by the chanc... ...and every kind of person, in a word, was resting himself after the night’s labours, and, not being on duty, was in bed. His room was hung round with b... ...and with an agitation under which his counsellor had never before seen him labour, told Macmurdo the circumstances of the story. His adviser caught at... ...the Colonel had great need. And during the man’s ab- sence, and with great labour and a Johnson’s Dictionary, which stood them in much stead, Rawdon a... ...reward; constant gentleness and kindness met by cruelty as constant; love, labour, patience, watchfulness, without even so much as the acknowledgement... ... in Bengal. Constant dinners, tiffins, pale ale and claret, the prodigious labour of cutcherry, and the refreshment of brandy-pawnee which he was forc... ...ters even, may remember how uncommonly agreeable gentlemen are to the male relations when they are courting the females; and per- 83 Thackeray haps t... ...deed, Joseph Sedley, affected by the humble position in which he found his relations, and in the expansiveness and overflowing of heart occasioned by ... ...nce or twice a week in Gillespie Street and bullied the ser- vants and his relations there, just as he did in Russell Square. He was always respectful...

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...earned his living with the first work that came to hand—as sailor, as dock labourer on the quays of Genoa, once as a hand on a farm in the hills above... ...a of qualifying for a mining engineer. But this scien- tific aspect of his labours remained vague and im- perfect in his mind. Mines had acquired for ... ...s. Gould, accompanying her husband all over the province in the search for labour, had seen the land with a deeper glance than a trueborn Costaguanera... ...es and churches left by the conquerors proclaimed the disregard of hu- man labour, the tribute-labour of vanished nations. The power of king and churc... ... has a quay-side, a long range of warehouses, and quite serious, organized labour troubles of its own. Nobody had ever heard of labour troubles then. ... ... his heart to his talented god-son, a man of wealth and leisure, with wide relations, and by his parentage and bringing-up worthy of all confidence. “... ... to foreign- ers. It was, indeed, a lucky circumstance for Sulaco that the relations of those imported workmen with the people of the country had been... ...the two days of riot- ing had been taken away already by their friends and relations, but several figures could be seen sit- ting up balancing their b...

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...ed in their hammocks, leaving the working of the pumps and other necessary labours to the officers of the ship, and the soldiers, who had made uncommo... ...so busy burying their particular friends, and making castles with infinite labour which the next tide overthrows, that it is cu rious to consider how... ...leman. He cultivates his ground with his own hands (assisted by one little labourer, who falls into a fit now and then); and he digs and delves from m... ...e other steamer is coming in, and the Custom House prepares, and the wharf labourers assemble, and the hawsers are made ready, and the Hotel Porters c... ...NT I AM NOT USED TO WRITING FOR PRINT. What working man, that never labours less (some Mondays, and Christmas Time and Easter Time excepted) th... ...of blood; but who, after killing incessantly, is in his turn killed by his relations and friends, the moment a grey hair appears on his head. All the ...

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...ears passed on, and they seemed perfectly satisfied with their division of labour,—Mrs. Frost kept school, and Henry played the flute, or shot over th... ..., of the conversation. Some information had been wanted about the terms of labour in the mining districts, and Louis’s visit to Illershall enabled him... ...n aside to her task even while he complimented her with an allusion to the labours of Hercules. It did not seem uncalled-for, when she began by raisin... ...ing deeply, and with earnest thanks, Fitzjocelyn stated the injury both to labourers and employers, caused by their distance from their work; he expla... ... do, unless you pass through this ordeal, and qualify yourself for skilled labour.’ ‘I know that,’ said Clara; ‘but the atmosphere there seems to pois... ...brother!’ ‘I am aware,’ said the Earl, without acknowledging this peculiar relationship, ‘that this may appear very ridiculous, but experience has sho... ... portioned than her half-sisters; and she was one of the nearest surviving relations of her mother’s cousin, Mr. Mansell, whose large comfortable hous... ...e— that Mr. Mansell had been annoyed at connexions formed by others of his relations—but though he had decided on nothing, the dear girl’s choice migh... ...’ ‘That is not my habit.’ ‘Then it is your excuse for avoiding troublesome relations! No, not a word! I know nothing about the secret that occu- pied ...

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...ill not quite spoil my mind for the Service.’ ‘How can you talk of Mamma’s relations in that way, Lizzie?’ said Helen. 7 CHARLOTTE M YONGE ‘I do not ... ...n that way, Lizzie?’ said Helen. 7 CHARLOTTE M YONGE ‘I do not care whose relations they are,’ said Elizabeth; ‘if people will be disagreeable, I mus... ... tions, whether they like them or not. There were some very stupid people, relations of Mr. Staunton’s, near Dykelands, whom Fanny and Jane could not ... ...ner very often, and always made a point—’ ‘Well, if I had any disagreeable relations,’ said Elizabeth, ‘I would make a point of cutting them. I do not... ...ere, till it was difficult to find anything which she had not rectified by labour of head or hand. ‘Well,’ said she, as she brought Helen a fresh supp... ...ice of the beautiful pyramid of cherries which had cost her half an hour’s labour. There was some truth in what Helen said of her cousin, though few w... ...her bonnet, she came to beckon Anne up- stairs. ‘So you have finished your labours,’ said Anne, taking up her work, while Elizabeth sat down to rule a... ...’s spirit grieves Like working like a farmer, 147 CHARLOTTE M YONGE Or labouring like his cousin george, With arms all bare and brawny, Within ... ... wonderful.’ ‘And I am very glad that Lizzie saves her from so much of the labour of teaching now,’ said Lady Merton. ‘I see what you mean,’ said Hele...

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...and in the reforms and improvements in- augurated, which were the work of our Board of Health, as occasion required and means were provided. He was no... ... your letter. It is not the hangman, but the criminal, that brings dishonour on the house. You belong, sir, to a sect – I believe my sect, and that in... ... of his own sepulchre. I shall now extract three passages from my diary at Kalawao. A. “Damien is dead and already somewhat ungratefully re- membered ... ... rugged honesty, generosity, and mirth. Take it for what it is, rough private jottings of the worst sides of Damien’s character, collected from the li... ...an brought reforms, and died to bring them, it was he. There is not a clean cup or towel in the Bishop-Home, but dirty Damien washed it. Damien was no...