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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

... that may be found there is only the logic of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to percei... ...t is the most potent and effective force at our disposal on which rest the labours of a solitary man in his study, the rock on which have been built c... ...t their prudent fears and their small artifices; he does not despise their labours. It seems to me that he looks with an eye of profound pity upon the... ...ern seas. At the age of eighty-four his high stature was bowed by his long labours, but his sin- ewy arms preserved their vigour and his rude elo- que... ...me hopes these innocent birds received the curse of original sin, with the labours, the miseries, the pas- sions, and the weaknesses attached to the f... ...uation were not the main characteristic of the management of international relations. A glance back at the last hundred years shows the invariable, on... ...for addressing each other as “brother” in au- tograph communications, that relationship was at least as effective as any form of brotherhood likely to... ...et our moral sense. Oppression, not merely political, but affecting social relations, family life, the deepest affections of human nature, and the ver... ...n, establishment, and preservation of the most correct method of political relations with neighbours to whom Poland’s existence is bound to be a humil...

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

By: John Locke

...etimes together in the same man, if he be considered under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from another, an... ...rty” in his own “person.” This nobody has any right to but him self. The “labour” of his body and the “work” of his hands, we may say, are properly h... ...t of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby mak... ... by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the com mon right of other me... ...ing annexed to it that excludes the com mon right of other men. For this “labour” being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he ca... ... plain, if the first gathering made them not his, nothing else could. That labour put a distinction between them and common. That added something to t... ... Let us therefore consider a master of a family with all these subordinate relations of wife, children, ser vants and slaves, united under the domest...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relations sprang up between citizen and citizen, and be- tween rulers and s... ... the religious peace of Augsburg, and afterwards, in the Council of Trent, laboured assiduously, 28 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War though vain... ...considerations, greatly strengthened by the persuasions of his friends and relations, and the promises of several German courts, deter- mined the elec... ...sen elec- 48 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War tor, whom his Bavarian relations and the Span- iards from the Netherlands supported with the utmos... ...f civil war, fomented and supported by this very Austria! Every great mind labours for eternity; and what security had Henry for the endurance of that... ...wer of the Estates, was still farther lessened by the encroachments of his relations. Sickly and childless he saw the attention of the world turned to... ... Empire. But the same cabal which opposed him in his hereditary dominions, laboured also to counteract him in his canvass for the imperial dignity. No... ...and his political interests; not the slavish dependent of Austria, who was labouring for his advancement, and trembled before her powerful protector, ... ... augment his military force. The courage of the Palatine re- vived, and he laboured assiduously to renew the Protestant Union. It was now time for Til...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...shop had been most success- fully veiled, and he knew not of Pluto’s close relationship to his lovely spouse. The marriages had happened in this way. ... ...he is a gentleman at once!’ they said, like those who see the end of their labours. Strike basely pretended to second them. It would have been delight... ...ng him when he pleased with a familiar ‘Ah, brother!’ and prating of their relationship everywhere. Strike had been a fool: in revenge for it he laid ... ...n do,’ continued: ‘For over here, in England, we are almost friendless. My relations—such as are left of them—are not in high place.’ She turned to Mr... ...ok sanctuary under her apron. Mrs. Mel glanced at the pair, continuing her labour. ‘Oh, aunt, aunt!’ cried Mrs. Fiske, ‘why didn’t you put it off for ... ... civility, and to tell him partly the reason why. On hearing the potential relations in which they stood to- ward the estate of his father, Evan hasti... ...titude, copied accurately from the workmen of the estab- lishment at their labour with needle and thread. Growing cognizant of the infamy of his postu... ...r late behaviour toward her dead parent. The Countess saw through her, and laboured to be friendly with her, while she rendered her disagreeable in th... ...nd that it was easy to tell at a glance that the complaint the young woman laboured under was one common to the daughters of Eve. He added that, shoul...

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Arms and the Man

By: George Bernard Shaw

... He finds out what to do; draws up the orders; and I sign ‘em. Division of labour, Major. (Bluntschli passes him a paper.) Another one? Thank you. (He... ...accept me as your affi- anced husband behind his. Bluntschli: you knew our relations; and you deceived me. It is for that that I call you to account, ...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

... The question is one which ought to be studied. “I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the... ...overflow of light. There is an instinct 17 Friedrich Nietzsche for rhythmic relations which embraces wide areas of forms (length, the need of a wide-... ...erman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going. I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, an... ...till faster with their chains and gifts!— And ye also, to whom life is rough labour and disquiet, are ye not very tired of life? Are ye not very ripe ... ... of life? Are ye not very ripe for the sermon of death? All ye to whom rough labour is dear, and the rapid, new, and strange—ye put up with yourselves... ...nt; and I flew away when the skel- eton ogled at me. Rather would I be a day-labourer in the nether-world, and among the shades of the by-gone!—Fatter... ...d brown? What was it fell last night from the evil moon? In vain was all our labour, poison hath our wine be- come, the evil eye hath singed yellow ou... ... to childhood. Nietzsche, the supposed anarchist, here plainly disclaims all relationship whatever to anar- chy, for he shows us that only by bearing ... ...ed could be more undignified?—it is with those who would destroy the natural relationship between the sexes, by modifying either the one or the other ...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...ion of the distribution of justice in California. In their domestic relations, these people are no better than in their public. The men are ... ...of the captain, it is said,—men who know him in his business and domestic relations, and who knew him in his early youth. They are also men of the ... ...rs Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana toil of uninteresting, forced manual labour. The breeze freshened as we stood out to sea, and the wild w...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...d immodest. That you should continually try to establish human and serious relations, that you should actually feel an interest in John Bull, and desi... ...end, one to smoke cigars about a water- ing-place, the other to resume the labours of the field beside his peasant family. The first muster of a colle... ...hank God, securely enough shut; but when a young man sacri- fices sleep to labour, let him have a care, for he is playing with the lock. 20 Robert Lo... ...ral, told me of his acquaintance with the birds that still attended on his labours; how some would even perch about him, waiting for their prey; and i... ...ed be something different from human if his soli- tary open-air and tragic labours left not a broad mark upon his mind. There, in his tranquil aisle, ... ...th the other hand pointed through the window to the scene of his life-long labours. “Doctor,” he said, “I ha’e laid three hunner and fower-score in th... ...n almost any state of health. The spice of life is battle; the friendliest relations are still a kind of contest; and if we would not forego all that ... ...enjoy that amicable counter-assertion of personality which is the gauge of relations and the sport of life. A good talk is not to be had for the askin... ...d-natured barbarians – are all painful ingredients and all help to falsify relations. It is not till we get clear of that amusing artificial scene tha...

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