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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

... of English elegance with a personal satisfaction little understood by the people of Alencon. The world owes a great deal to persons who take such pai... ...istened pa- tiently (by the help of the Princess Goritza) to the many dull people who related to him the petty miseries of provincial life,—an egg ill... ...leman whom the liberals calumniated. Luckily for shrewd players, there are people to be found among the spec- tators who will always sustain them. Ash... ...at this windfall for Monsieur de Valois, who went about consulting moneyed people as to the safest manner of investing this fragment of his past opule... ...e much pain, — harm, because you would prevent my marriage in a town where people cling to morality; pain, because if you are in trouble (which I deny... ...f in all her glory, Mademoiselle Cormon told Jacquelin to serve coffee and li- queurs in the salon, where he presently set out, in view of the whole c...

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A House of Gentlefolk

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...l, English well, and Ger- man badly; that is the proper thing; fashionable people would 11 be ashamed to speak German well; but to utter an occa- sio... ...o being liked by every one, old and young, and imagined that he understood people, especially women: he certainly understood their ordinary weaknesses... ... partly mort- gaged his estate, and demoralised his servants. All sorts of people of low position, known and unknown, came crawl- ing like cockroaches... ...s from all parts into his spacious, warm, ill-kept halls. All this mass of people ate what they could get, but always had their fill, drank till they ... ...it off afterwards; but to pay visits without pow- der was quite impossible—people would be offended. Ah, it was a torture!” She liked being driven wit... ...d home Varvara 141 Pavlovna bounded lightly out of the carriage—only real li- onesses know how to bound like that—and turning round to Gedeonovsky sh...

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A Treatise on Government Translated from the Greek of Aristotle

By: William Ellis A. M.

... rigid constitutions, and the constitution was only changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one. Such was the p... ...re- scribe for an ailing constitution. So Herodotus recounts that when the people of Cyrene asked the oracle of Delphi to help them in their dissensio... ... represents one of the persons of the dialogue as having been asked by the people of Gortyna to draw up laws for a colony which they were founding. Th... ...experts. We think more naturally of law-making as the special right of the people and administration as necessarily confined to experts. Aristotle’s P... ...prehension than we can have of the de- pendence of a constitution upon the people who have to work it. Such is in brief the attitude in which Aristotl... ...stocratical, the free states, and shown the three excesses which these are li- able to: the kingly, of becoming tyrannical; the aristocratical, oligar... ... acquired, will not be content with their former equality. A state is also li- able to commotions when those parts of it which seem to be opposite to ...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ... immediate juxta- position with the grossness of manners, and the careless li- cense of language incident to the fathers and brothers of the house. An... ...t now arose a serious question as to the future mainte- nance of the young people. John Shakspeare was depressed in his circumstances, and he had othe... ...se owners who had occasion to sign their names frequently, and by literary people, whose attention was often, as well as consciously, directed to the ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

... what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his braves wanted t... ...he wisdom of the Elders, nor would he give the white man cause to slaughter his people. Yes, tomorrow he would sign the Treaty. His people must be k... ...for the years that he lived, they gave him the wisdom he would need to save his people. The Great White Chief, called Franklin Pierce, promised the ... ...ide those boundaries, or, as the blue-coated General put it, "We will kill your people like hunting deer." Seattle tried to visualize a land with im... ... to sign a memorable Treaty that will establish a reservation for the Suquamish people. This Treaty has been approved by the Congress, and the Presi... ... and it back-fired." "All speculation, Robert." The Director walked over to the li­ quor cabinet and poured himself an ounce of Bourbon. "How­ ever, ... ...es. "Our next two witnesses will be Mr. Burton Jones, Director of the Nuclear lI •• Johnathan Cross Regulatory Commission, and Ms. Allison Reynold... ...f yours are growing into the size of watermelons." He walked over to the hidden li­ quor cabinet but caught himself, and then cursed Brent silently. ...

...d States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard ...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...isest and best plan of general government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representat... ...entary, like those of Paul, was written for the benefit of all nations and people and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance... ...ty.*** Innkeepers are forbidden to furnish more than a certain quantity of li- quor to each consumer; and simple lying, whenever it may *Adultery was ... ... to deny that the social condition which I have been describing is equally li- able to each of these consequences. There is, in fact, a manly and lawf... ...cessary expendi- ture for its schools or to name a school-committee, it is li- able to a heavy fine. But this penalty is pronounced by the Supreme Jud... ...rective to certain inveterate diseases to which democratic communities are li- able. War has great advantages, but we must not flatter our- selves tha...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ... mediately through the intervening tribes (all habitually cruel), from the people on the Tigris to those on the Jordan, I feel convinced that Moses mu... ...ich threatened in- stant death, in a shape the most terrific, to two young people, whom I had no means of assisting, except in so far as I was able to... ...fected, if limited, and too often interrupted, by defective knowledge. The li- brary was dispersed through six or seven small rooms, lying between the... ...d occasion to say through rainy weeks, what a delightful resource did this li- brary prove to both of us! And one day it occurred to us, that, whereas... ..., to profuse expendi- ture. Regularly, and by law, a Gentleman Commoner is li- able to little heavier burdens than a Commoner; but, to meet the expect...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ... It adds a new world to one’s own, it increases one’s ac- quaintance among people who think, it gives intimate companionship with a great and friendly... ...rst 22 Boswell’s Life of Johnson notice of Heaven, ‘a place to which good people went,’ and hell, ‘a place to which bad people went,’ communicated to... ...d learning and wit too much, to offend Johnson by sallies of infidelity or li- centiousness; and Johnson delighted in the good qualities of Beauclerk,... ...s time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a li- brary to make one book.’ We spoke of Rolt, to whose Dictionary of Com- ... ...g, supposing me to be the watch- man. I perceived that she was somewhat in li- quor.’ This, if told by most people, would have been thought an inventi... ...f him in my notes, but that when I mentioned that I had seen in the King’s li- brary sixty-three editions of my favourite Tho- mas a Kempis, amongst w...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ...ount justified in seizing them, is now a matter of his- tory; but that the people of the loyal States should re- joice in their seizure, was a matter ... ...They are elected, and sit for six years. Their election is not made by the people of their States, but by the State legislature. The two Houses, for i... ...x from every cobbler’s stall in the country? And then tradesmen are to pay li- censes for their trades—a confectioner £2 a tallow-chan- dler £2, a hor...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...lasses, and goes through life believing that he and his friends are kindly people, because they have no wish to injure those toward whom they enter- t... ...e certain of him. The last part of this statute provides that certain poor people may be employed by a place or by persons, who are willing to give th... ...means of production of combined, socialized labor, the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world-market, and with this, the international ch... ...ruments suffi- ciently powerful to force the State into the service of the people. The modern State, says Sorel, “is a body of intellectu- als, which ... ...egard government of the empire from quite a dif- ferent point of view. The people have certain natural instincts:—to weave and clothe themselves, to t... ...e, whose business it shall be to judge the work of young men, and to issue li- censes to those whose productions find favor in their eyes. A licensed ...

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Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay : An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government

By: John Locke

... that is common in England or any other country, where there are plenty of people under government who have money and commerce, no one can enclose or ... ...part of the world which was first inhabited, and therefore like to be best peopled, even as low down as Abraham’s time, they wandered with their flock... ... comforts of life; whom Nature, having furnished as liberally as any other people with the materials of plenty i.e., a fruitful soil, apt to produce ... ...; and though afterwards, in some parts of the world, where the increase of people and stock, with the use of money, had made land scarce, and so of so... ...consent of the use of their common money, lie waste, and are more than the people who dwell on it, do, or can make use of, and so still lie in common;... ...te or perpetual jurisdiction from which a man may withdraw himself, having li cence from Divine authority to “leave father and mother and cleave to h...

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Summer

By: Edith Wharton

...ed a little, and the shrinking that some- times came over her when she saw people with holiday faces made her draw back into the house and pretend to ... ...r in a familiar place. What, she won- dered, did North Dormer look like to people from other parts of the world? She herself had lived there since the... ...mer church, had proposed, in a fit of mission- ary zeal, to take the young people down to Nettleton to hear an illustrated lecture on the Holy Land; a... ...tude, she pitied him because she was conscious that he was superior to the people about him, and that she was the only being be- tween him and solitud... ...’s taking-off, and promised to do what she could. But of course there were people she must consult: the clergyman, the selectmen of North Dormer, and ... ...essing her hand and waving a farewell to Mamie Targatt. He went out of the li- brary, and Harney followed him. Charity thought she detected a look of ...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...a grinder.’ ‘No, no, Mr. Pickwick,’ said Jackson, in conclusion; ‘Perker’s people must guess what we’ve served these subpoenas for. If they can’t, the... ... thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ‘You haven’t made me out that little list of the fees that I’m in y... ...ad that dull looking, boiled eye which is often to be seen in the heads of people who have applied themselves during many years to a weary and labori ... ...ps, Sir, you’ll confine yourself to breaking the arms and legs of the poor people in the hospitals, and keep yourself to yourself, Sir, or there may ... ...to be treated in this way by a parcel of young cutters and carvers of live people’s bodies, that disgraces the lodgings (another sob), and leaving her... ...ever have waited upon him, on such an errand. Charles Dickens 301 CHAPTER LI IN WHICH Mr. PICKWICK EN COUNTERS AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE—TO WHICH FORTUNA...

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... both his eyes and ears open, and soon began to gain a general idea of the people among whom he found himself. As in all other places of resort, one t... ...he found himself. As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibili... ...is not one of them that has not been grossly and untruthfully over- rated. People trifle with love. Now, I deny that love is a strong passion. Fear is... ... door, but this time of his own accord, and battling against the stream of people which was now moving in a contrary direction. Perhaps this prolonged... ...der, “as you confess yourself accustomed o this tragical business, and the people to whom you recommend me are your own former associates and friends,... ...in the house, as he well knew. The bottomless extravagance and the unknown li- abilities of the wife had long since swallowed her own for- tune, and t...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... most obscured by controversy; and in both cases that will be the one most li- able to strained and sophisticated reading. In a biography, this and th... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...whole book with astonishing consis- tency and strength. And then, Hugo has peopled this Gothic city, and, above all, this Gothic church, with a race o... ...tter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People are all glad to shut their eyes; and it gives them a very simple ple...

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