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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...n- cluded them to be man and wife, and folks of quality too; and with much discrimination, as well as sympathy, led them through the public kitchen to...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...await me. I am afraid I had at stray moments wasted time in wondering what discrimination against the freedom of the needle and the sponge would be ab... ...se, you see, I speak French,” he had said; intimating thus that there were discriminations, doubtless of the invidious kind, for which that language w... ...’s real, precisely, rather keeps people in.” He had been interested in his discrimination, which amused him. “No, it’s his way. It belongs to him.” Bu... ... it, giving him, as it did, a glimpse, distinctly pleasing, of the kind of discriminations she would in general be governed by—which were quite such a... ... she looked even more in the fashion of the hour than she desired. Full of discriminations against the obvious, she had yet to accept a flagrant appear... ...htness and brightness only from knowing that the Prince was also there—the discrimination of but a moment, yet which let him take her in still better ... ...well, Amerigo’s very discretions were his way of taking account of it. His discriminations in re spect to his heir were in fine not more angular than ... ...k one as vivid, in any case, when Mr. Gutermann Seuss, with a sharpness of discrimination he had at first scarce seemed to promise, invited his eminent... ...otion of course that she gave a glimpse of but few of her grounds for this discrimination—indeed of the most Book III, Chapter 1 135 evident alone; y...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...ely objects may be discriminated in themselves, and however accurately the discrimination may be considered, the definition of them may be rendered in... ... the House of Representatives from making legal 257 The Federalist Papers discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the societ... ...s of that sort; a consider- ation which alone ought to satisfy us that the discrimination apprehended would never be attempted. For what induce- ment ... ...capricious partiality in the national councils? Is it to be exercised in a discrimination between the different departments of industry, or between th... ...nsult brevity in discussing the probability of a preference founded upon a discrimination between the dif- ferent kinds of industry and property, beca... ... as far as I un- derstand the meaning of the objectors, they contemplate a discrimination of another kind. They appear to have in view, as the objects... ...ght of suffrage in the choice of that body. But upon what principle is the discrimination of the places of election to be made, in order to answer the... ...result from the immense difficulty, if not impossibility, of a practi- cal discrimination between the cases of one complexion and those of the other. ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...Mr. Norris, for example, never figured to himself a great wave of critical discrimination sweeping through the ranks of the various provision trades a... ...nd driven men glorify “push” and impatience, and despise fin- ish and fine discriminations as weak and demoralising things. These three, the Serf, the...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

...t hitherto been accustomed to be controlled by it; and this with very little discrimination as to whether the matter is, or is not, within the legitim... ...easoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self cont...

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

By: Kate Chopin

... hung at doors and windows. There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls. The cut glass, the silver, the heavy dama... ...y select, in so much as the guests in vited were few and were selected with discrimination. She had counted upon an even dozen seating themselves at ...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...mulated or mock problems. The fol- lowing questions may aid in making such discrimination. (a) Is there anything but a problem? Does the question natu... ...ng and food. But if he makes a scientific investigation of the act, such a discrimination is the first thing he would effect. He would examine on the ... ...itigated by a recognition of certain mental faculties, like discernment or discrimination, compari- son, abstraction, and generalization which work up...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...e can talk, it is true, of God’s pow- ers, acts, and attributes, but these discriminations are only “virtual,” and made from the human point of view. ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ... apart on their stations up the moun- tain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of dis- regarding the Middlemarch discrimination of ranks, and al- ways told his mother that Mrs. Garth was m... ... was something distinct from his own rectitude of con- duct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ...ed apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of disregarding the Mid dlemarch discrimination of ranks, and always told his mother that Mrs. Garth was mor... ...se was something distinct from his own rectitude of conduct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

..., providing political and civil equality for the black man, and forbidding discrimination on railroads, in hotels, restaurants, theatres and all publi...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

..., of the case. I have great reliance, however, on that extreme delicacy of discrimination, in matters appertaining to the rules of etiquette, for whic...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...ot to be supposed that the restaurateur would lose sight of that intuitive discrimination which was wont to characterize, at one and the same time, hi...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

... may be called, roughly, not fine; a conscience, less troubled by the nice discrimination of shades of conduct. A fine conscience is more con- cerned ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...d and narrow circle, how much, and that how exquisite, was contained! What discrimination, what wit, what delicacy, what fancy, what lurking spleen, w...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

... the moral sentiments of the community, both in respect of strength and of discrimination. Such a mode of levying the taxes as does not impede the ind...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ne until one had boarded. Primarily because of concern regarding potential discrimination and the impact on passenger throughput, “selectees” were no ... ...other pas- sengers were selected at random, both to address concerns about discrimination and to deter terrorists from figur- ing out the algorithm an...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...(to bracket works of very different value) The Scarlet Letter; and by what discrimination are you to open your doors to 119 Memories and Portraits Th...

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