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...cute’, to posterity, ex- ceeded his powers, is a trite criticism; like all human enter- prises, his purpose was only imperfectly fulfilled; but this c... ...close them at my death. We suffer before we think; it is the common lot of humanity. I experienced more than my pro- portion of it. I have no knowledg... ...efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never been able to eradica... ...t, but to render my flight agreeable, by some trifling presents, as my own resources would not have carried me far. He gave me among other things, a s... ...t the object of universal veneration? Whoever wishes to honor monuments of human salvation would only approach it on their knees. It was a passage at ... ...thing to gain. This, in my idea, in true philosophy, the surest bulwark of human rectitude; every day do I receive fresh conviction of its profound so... ...e moun- tains, at a distance from my country, without friends, and without resources, everything concurred to make me con- sider my remorse of conscie... ... I was again master of my time and ac- tions, in a great city, abundant in resources, crowded with 70 The Confessions people of fortune, to whom my m... ...ey were to serve less as steps by which I should mount to fortune, than as resources which might enable me to exist without one. He gave me a true pic...

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... sister good advice.” Then the clever trades- man ponderously analyzed the resources which law and cus- tom might offer Augustine as a means of escape... ...t. Initiated into the se- cret of these souls of fire, but bereft of their resources, she was compelled to share their sorrows without sharing their p... ...esignation which in mothers and loving wives transcends in its effects all human energy, and perhaps reveals in the heart of women the existence of ce...

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...ere dull, and her disappearance had made it suddenly clear to him that his resources were growing more and more limited. Much that had once amused him... ...o have been preserved chiefly by an innate scorn of most of the objects of human folly. “Such trash as he went to pieces for,” was her curt comment on... ...hole face of Europe, and according to every code that attempts to regulate human ties. Strefford, too, had his home in this world, but only one of his... ...ace. “What is it that’s agreeing with you, Streffy? I’ve never seen you so human. Y ou must be getting an outrageous price for the villa.” Strefford l... ...ad always admired Strefford’s ruthless talent for using and discarding the human material in his path, but now she began to hope that Nick would not r... ... to the topic always most congenial to him: the humours and ironies of the human comedy, as pre- sented by his own particular group. His malicious com...

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...hich the followers of the Crusade condescended to recruit their diminished resources at the expense of the people of Palestine—he exacted no gifts fro... ...ed his horse, which seemed to watch his motions with the intelligence of a human being, and again rode off. But in the last encoun- ter the Saracen h... ... for glee and pastime to gab, as they term it, of exploits that are beyond human power. [Gaber. This French word signified a sort of sport much used a... ...e- mons, whom the prayers of holy men have driven forth from the haunts of humanity to wander amidst scenes as accursed as themselves.” “Speak not thu... ...before Adam himself had an existence. Here he fed, with daily oblations of human blood, two devouring serpents, which had become, according to the poe... ...oyous feeling which others experi- ence when approaching the land of their human ancestry.” “By my father’s beard, I think thou hast the right,” said ...

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...iercingly, another brushing them like a soft broom. The instinctive act of human kind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right an... ...ve that the consciousness of such majestic speeding is derived from a tiny human frame. Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in t... ...complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man. Human shapes,interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not... ...riding habit, looked around for a moment, as if to assure herself that all humanity was out of view, then dexterously dropped backwards flat upon the p... ... it may be, flows deep and long. Oak belonged to the even tempered order of humanity, and felt the secret fusion of himself in Bathsheba to be burning ... ...s way. She was bewildered too by the prospect of having to rely on her own resources again: it seemed to herself that she never could again acquire en...

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... but with a vague sense that his young experience was not a fair sample of human freedom, and that he was to make a great many discover- ies. When he ... ...n a New England village, without aid or encourage- ment, without models or resources, had found it so easy to produce a lovely work. In the evening, a... ...g the divine flame answered the question. He is made to do the things that humanity is the happier for! I can’t do such things myself, but when I see ... ...d usefulness to my own life to offer him his opportunity.” “In the name of humanity, I suppose, I ought to thank you. But I want, first of all, to be ... ...om the experience of life had conveyed so little reassurance as to her own resources or the chances of things turning out well. Rowland began immediat... ...ar appre- 70 Roderick Hudson hension. If it represented the father of the human race and the primal embodiment of human sensation, it did so in virtu... ...issance used to brag. There was a sensation once common, I am sure, in the human breast—a kind of religious awe in the presence of a marble image newl... ..., immediately after the first sense of pain, “Say then that I am laying up resources for solitude!” But all the accusations were not his. He had been ... ...ith Singleton, who, to his suggestion that separation would multiply their resources, assented with a silent, frightened look which reflected too vivi...

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... Macconochie was chief upon the other side; an old, ill- spoken, swearing, ranting, drunken dog; and I have often thought it an odd circumstance in hu... ...he lockers: myself, one Dutton and one Grady, both resolute men. On deck the rest were got to a pitch of revelry quite beyond the bounds of what is hu... ...hen I expostulated on this childishness, he had an odd remark that I have never forgotten. “I know no better way,” said he, “to express my scorn of hu... ... Henry, turning to him with a huge ap- pearance of surprise. “I see you serve your masters very faith- fully; but I had thought you would have been hu... ...is grave.” I conceived I had best take the bull by the horns. “Mr. Henry,” said I, “I have news to give that will rejoice you ex- ceedingly. In all hu... ... know it when they come to die – Court and camp, the East and the West; I know where to go, I see a thousand openings. I am now at the height of my re...

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...came uncertain and difficult. One might have thought he had never passed a human being before. Still nearer, ten yards now, nine, eight. Would she go ... ...eved among other things that he was always the same consistent intelligent human being, whereas under certain stimuli he became no longer reason- able... ...pening to abso- lute wretchedness and pain, which is the colour of so much human life in modern London. One vivid contrast hung in his mind symbolical... ...roximations. Lewisham had a strong persuasion, an instinct it may be, that human beings should not be happy while others near them were wretched, and ... ...ociety, the political movement, all 82 Love and Mr. Lewisham his work for Humanity…. Why not be resolute—even now?… Why not put the thing clearly and... ...ad not al- lowed for the purchase of a typewriter in his estimate of their resources. It brought their “law” down to twelve or thirteen weeks. They sp...

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...od and no hereafter, and that you must worry along somehow for the good of Humanity. One of its minor tenets seemed to be that the one thing more sinf... ... Board of Works made everything. But in this country, where you really see humanity—raw, brown, naked humanity—with nothing between it and the blazing... ... fifty-rupee cases—both sides perjured to the gullet—advanced the cause of Humanity. At any rate, he worked too much, and worried and fretted over the... ...nd if ever you come across Aurelian McGoggin laying down the law on things Human—he doesn’t seem to know as much as he used to about things Divine—put... ...n, a little disappointed that the scandal had come to nothing. But that is human nature. There could be no two words about The Worm’s acting. It leane... ...arth after the Rains gets into their blood, and calls them to “develop the resources of the Province.” These men are enthusiasts. Pinecoffin belonged ...

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...eeded no very great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity. The bricks of which it was built had originally been a deep dark ... ... their daughters when young men are by. It’s too much. There are bounds to human endurance. So thought Sim Tappertit when Gabriel drew those rosy lips... ...ed face upon his sleeve. ‘Something will come of this. I hope it mayn’t be human gore!’ Whirr r r r r r r r. Chapter 5 AS SOON AS THE BUSINESS of ... ...have gazed much longer, had not his tongue been loosened by compassion and humanity. 51 Charles Dickens ‘You are ill,’ said Gabriel. ‘Let me call som... ...s to the utmost of my power. There is one topic in the whole wide range of human thoughts on which we both agree. We shall act in concert, but apart. ... ...or savoury condiments; lastly, and to crown all, as typical of the immense resources of the establishment, and its defiances to all visitors to cut an... ...d mashed potatoes, or something of that sort.’ Something of that sort! The resources of these inns! To talk carelessly about dishes, which in themselv...

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...s in her eyes a charming man. If this exemplary youth had better known the human heart, he might without risk have allowed himself some flirtations am... ...ls delicious peace, supreme tranquillity. Certainty is the basis for which human feelings crave, for it is never lacking to reli- gious sentiment; man... ...alas! than the emotions of youth. T o believe in a woman, to make her your human religion, the fount of life, the secret luminary of all your least th... ...him- self some supporters, displayed all the faculties of his soul and the resources of his intellect. He entered the room well, with- out awkwardness... ...rds: “You are free. Farewell.” “Purely moral crimes, which give no hold to human jus- tice, are the most atrocious and detestable,” said the Abbe seve...

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...ack claws, for I always feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government in- trig... ...enty-five years.” “And how much is the pension?” “A hundred crowns.” “Poor humanity!” murmured Monte Cristo. “What did you say, sir?” asked the man. “... ...ked Monte Cristo. “Yes, count,” replied Villefort, in a voice now scarcely human. Monte Cristo, seeing that the two persons for whom he had pre- pared... ...which I am de- puted to see you. It is hoped that no ties of friendship or humane consideration will induce you to conceal the truth.” “Provided, sir,... ...sion, for instance, must remain between me and God, and not between me and human justice.” “Do not alarm yourself, monsieur, we will duly respect your... ...e thing, and that is that the relief I give should be entirely from my own resources.” “However” — “My resolution, sir, is unchangeable, but you have ... ...ed, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and account- able only to myself. Remain here? What for? — that ...

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...nd had expected it. Even Mrs. Ar- cher, who was seldom unduly pleased with human events, had been altogether glad of her son’s engagement. (“Especiall... ...ll this frankness and innocence were only an artificial product. Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defe... ... New Y ork society was, in those days, far too small, and too scant in its resources, for every one in it (including livery-stable- keepers, butlers a... ...nal stroll, and the latter had asked himself, with a little shiver, if the humanities were so meanly housed in other capitals. Madame Olenska’s own dw... ...he wondered, puzzled by the effort to reconcile his instinctive disgust at human vileness with his equally instinctive pity for human frailty. For the... ... artists, musicians and “people who wrote.” These scat- tered fragments of humanity had never shown any desire to be amalgamated with the social struc...

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...er day in my mother’s desk, folded over the case of the medal of the Royal Humane Soci- ety, which Griff affected to despise, but which, when he was w... ...come, and encouraged me in studies of coins and heraldry, which were great resources to me, so that I used to spend hours there, and was by no means w... ...inst each crevice to endeavour to silence the wails; but these became more human and more distressful. Presently Clarence exclaimed, ‘There!’ and on h... ...ut right and left to endeavour to get horses to take her away. In com- mon humanity, and for old acquaintance sake, it was impos- sible not to help he... ...art from all his anxiety and sorrow, he had pined in foreign parts for his human flock, as well as his bullocks and his turnips. He had also read, tho... ... cried, after her first sight of him. He was a wretched, pinched morsel of humanity, though mamma and Emily detected wonderful resemblances; I never s... ... to let him undertake the building of the required cottages out of his own resources, on principles much more wholesome than were likely to be employe...

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...d than was really the case. In one instance alone this very prudential and humane line of conduct was departed from, and the event seemed to confirm t... ...by an impatient ‘pshaw!’ and was about to ride off, and leave me to my own resources when I implored him to complete his work of kindness by directing... ...of the secluded and unsocial master of the dwell- ing, who seemed to avoid human society, and to remain un- perturbed amid the elemental war, it seeme... ...y hamlets and villas, from which thin clouds of smoke already gave sign of human life and human industry. My conductor had extended his arm, and was p... ...iend, ‘in wishing thee a better employment for thy grave hours, and a more humane amusement (if amusement thou must have) for those of a lighter chara... ...most as he could cast his line; and I own, in spite of Joshua’s lecture on humanity, I could not but envy his adroitness and success, so natural is th...

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...lone telling her,—I could have managed her alone;—but there! it was not in human nature not to tell such a story, and it did not much matter how it wa... ...relation of Miss Standaloft, was much more smooth and deferential, full of resources, which seemed to come from Mrs. Martindale her- self; and though ... ...r. There were no savings left, and she made up the deficiency from her own resources. A third party was impending, and she strove more resolutely for ... ...illow! What were her feelings when she heard Violet was out of danger? For humanity’s sake and for Arthur’s, she rejoiced; but it was the downfall of ... ... lead our poor young sister to what alone can support her? I must try—mere humanity demands it. Yes, Helen, you would tell me I have lived within myse... .... I am not anxious about him. He has L300 a year of his own, and plenty of resources,—besides, the baronetcy must come to him. He can afford to do as ... ...e out, though, on the whole, I do not regret what threw me early on my own resources. It has made me what I am.’ Violet was rather surprised, but took... ...hen stopping at the lodge on his way, had shown what she thought tolerable humanity. He had shared her concern, consoled her despair, suggested asking... ...leep thinking what drops of various natures make up the roar of that great human cata- ract, and wake up dreaming of the Rhine falls. “Bright volumes ...

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...having added to his natural kingly and commanding qualities the gentle and humane feelings of a citizen. While he was yet a boy, bred up in one of wha... ...and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very strict and too exquisitely regular diet, ... ...mpey received the distressed cities into favor, and treated all with great humanity, except the Mamertines in Messena; for when they protested against... ...d oiling each his skin. So inconsiderable a thing is fortune in respect of human na- ture, and so insufficient to give content to a covetous mind, tha... ...n collision with itself, offered plain proof how blind and how mad a thing human nature is, when once possessed with any passion; for if they had been... ... till he had first exercised his power here and made himself secure of the resources of these provinces. While he was thus deliberating what to do, it... ... and most skill- ful combatant, so Antigonus, coming to the war with great resources to spend from, wore out Cleomenes, whose pov- erty made it diffic... ... not denying that he was sorry he had come, by his depreciat- ing Pompey’s resources, finding fault underhand with his counsels, and continually indul...

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...rejudice JANE AUSTEN 1813 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents I 1 I 3 II 6 III 8 IV 12... ...he world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.” “I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any... ...ll that I have ever read, I am con vinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few o... ...d Elizabeth. They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire, and some new observa... ...m his father had promised to provide for. — It is impossible. No man of common humanity, no man who had any value for his character, could be capable ... ...ssatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on th...

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... the day, And shrilled his tinselled shaft. —Tennyson. IF TIMES DIFFER, human nature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking b... ... have finished your chapter; I might not be so frightened then.” In common humanity Mrs. Aylward could not refuse, and Aurelia sat silently grasping t... ...ht.” Jumbo came at the mention of his name. Somehow he was so unlike other human beings, and so wholly devoted to his master, that it never seemed to ... ...than they are to per- sons of an age to resent inquiry , and who have more resources of conversation. In truth, Aurelia was in the eyes of the T refor... ...e verse sang in her ears “Love is strong as death.” Whether Love Divine or human she did not ask herself, but with the sense of soothing upon her, she... ...s in itself was a disappointment, 223 Yo n g e for at least she brought a human voice and a pitying counte- nance which, temptress though she might b...

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...helieu, and to the King, but with no good effect. La Capelle, left without resources, fell like the places around. As I have said before, Louis XIII. ... ...al honour, secretly of corrupt manners, with only outside probity, without human- ity even; in one word, a perfect hypocrite; without faith, 42 Saint... ... pitied her, and the King at last interfered, and commanded him to be more humane. Cavoye went to the army; the poor Coetlogon was in tears until his ... ...e learnt his fate in a moment which would have overwhelmed a man with less resources in himself. He was on the point of mounting into the pulpit: he w... ...time before this, the King resolved to show all Europe, which believed his resources exhausted by a long war, that in the midst of profound peace, he ... ... kept autograph copies. Monsieur had never been able to bend her to a more human way of life; and lived decently with her, without car- ing for her pe... ...de itself felt so much at this time, that the King was obliged to seek for resources as a private person might have done. A mining speculator, named R... ...e away with him. Instead of the success she expected from a proposition so humane and ingenious, M. le Prince was so horror-struck, that he warned the... ...ll these things, I say, went for nothing. Less than a month sufficed these humane com- missioners to render an account of this gentle project to the C...