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...of steamboating, which seems to me to warrant full examination—the marvelous science of piloting, as dis played there. I believe there has been nothi... ...preceded this may possibly wonder that I deal so minutely with piloting as a science. It was the prime pur pose of those chapters; and I am not quite... ...t. I wish to show, in the most patient and painstaking way, what a wonderful science it is. Ship channels are buoyed and lighted, and therefore it is ... ...d miles of villainous river. * I feel justified in enlarging upon this great science for the reason that I feel sure no one has ever yet written a par... ...appears in the previous chap ters, some of the peculiar requirements of the science of pi loting. First of all, there is one faculty which a pilot m... ...S PAST LIFE) & running me off the job the next morning he called me into the library & gave me another square talk, & advised me to study some every d... ... there are ample fair grounds, a well kept park, and many attractive drives; library, reading rooms, a couple of colleges, some handsome and costly ch... ... Mark T wain 310 every weak place in their land with a school, a college, a library, and a newspaper; and they live under law. Solicitude for the fut...

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...the mass of mankind is concerned, though they must always form part of the library of the politician and the historian. One prefers to turn to the man... ...summer of 1719, the following winter was differently employed. My mother’s library being quite exhausted, we had recourse to that part of her father’s... ...lignity in what I say; it is unnecessary I should furnish still more by my science. My money was all gone, even that I had secretly received from Mada... ...sing a piece for his concerts, as boldly as if I had really understood the science. I had the constancy to labor a fortnight at this curious business,... ... I received a deputation to thank me for some books I had presented to the library of that city; the Swiss are great speakers; these gentlemen, ac- co... ...anist, and had he not died young, might have acquired as much fame in that science as he deserved for being an honest man. Serious even to gravity, an... ...le me. To conquer this difficulty, I purchased books which treated on that science, and learned well, for I now studied alone. Practical arithmetic ex... ...tenth page of what I was studying, found it necessary to turn over a whole library. I was so attached to this ridiculous method, that I lost a prodigi... ...t Chambery, became acquainted at their convent, and had free access to the library . The remembrance of that happy time is so connected with the idea ...

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... Thackeray “I shouldn’t like to sleep in this yeer bed without a good con- science, Miss,” said the old woman. “There’s room for us and a half-dozen o... ...ll doors with stags’ heads.over them, leading to the billiard-room and the library, and the great yellow saloon and the morning-rooms. I think there a... ...– V olume One eldest was rather fond of books, and as there was in the old library at Queen’s Crawley a considerable provision of works of light liter... ...shion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And though he belonged to the household troops, who, as it was th... ...l; in dancing, without the aid of a master; and in the elements of natural sciences. In the use of the globes both are proficients. In addition to the... ...s Crawley solaced herself with the most senti- mental of the novels in her library. Little Sharp, with her secret griefs, was the heroine of the day. ... ...will be instructed by the ex- ecutors, to offer to public competition, the library, furniture, plate, wardrobe, and choice cellar of wines of Epicurus...

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...ON INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION NO LIBRARY OF COURT documents could pretend to be repre- sentative which ignor... ...e the acqui- sitions she laid stress on; but my aptitude for study and the sciences did not come up to my desire to succeed in them. However, I had an... ...e Prince of Orange (William III. of England) had unavailingly used all his science to dis- lodge the Duc de Luxembourg; but he had to do with a man wh... ...s and the Molinists; enough has been written on both sides to form a whole library. It is enough for me to say that the Molinists were so called becau... ...ment. Some wrote, some gathered youths around them, and instructed them in science and piety. The finest moral works, works which have thrown the most... ...y. The finest moral works, works which have thrown the most light upon the science and practice, of reli- gion, and have been found so by everybody, i... ...a sepa- rate place, near, though not on the same floor, and resem- bling a library, the bodies of children, and of queens who have had no posterity, a... ... Madame his wife, but taking Madame de Saint-Simon with him, went into his library, and shut himself up alone there with her. Throwing himself into an... ...and-altar and the sacristy wearied my eyes, by their immense opulence. The library did not satisfy me, and the librarians still less: I was received w...

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...come earlier to see him and he to allude to her, he would have had my con- science on his side, and that is what a scrupulous man takes care to preven... ... sang. Then Mr. Pollingray read an amusing essay to us, and retired to his library. Miss Pollingray sat and talked to me of her brother, and of her ne...

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...ers meet- ing beneath his chin, seemed strings wherewith to tie it on, ere science had rendered them unnecessary by her patent invisible springs. ‘Din... ...a permanent engagement at a fashionable haircutter’s; hairdressing being a science to which he had frequently directed his attention. In this situatio... ...e. On the present occasion, this talented individual was seated in a small library at a table covered with papers, doing nothing, but trying to look b... ...claimed that most romantic of all ro- mantic young ladies, as the light of science seated him- self beside her, ‘Oh, Edward, is it you?’ Mr. Theodosiu... ... of the ball, Cornelius Brook Dingwall, Esq., M.P., was seated at the same library- table, and in the same room, as we have before described. He was a... ...ourney, that he distinctly under- stood they were all to meet again at the library in the evening. The library was crowded. There were the same ladies... ... for six weeks. Sands in the morning—donkeys at noon—pier in the afternoon—library at night—and the same people ev- erywhere. On that very night six w... ...rket-place—a cage—an assembly-room—a church— a bridge—a chapel—a theatre—a library—an inn—a pump—and a Post-office. Tradition tells of a ‘Little Wingl...

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...e might not as well carry on his profession at the Astor 148 The Bostonians Library, where, in his spare hours and on chance holidays, he did an imme... ...ways the way.’ With this light philosophy Verena beguiled the transit to the library, into which she introduced her companion with the air of a person... ...ed, was working on the catalogue, and whom she had asked for on entering the library, at a desk where another young lady was occupied. Miss Catching, ... ...ioned that to Verena yet; she hesitated a little, having a slightly bad con science about the concessions she had already obtained from her friend. V... ...neral ideas; that she was simply shut up to petty questions of physiological science and of her own professional activity. She would never have invite...

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...fanatic about music. All the energies that might have gone into languages, science, or literature, that might have made her friends, or shown her the ... ... drawing no reply from Hewet, he pro- ceeded to think about himself, about science, about Cam- bridge, about the Bar, about Helen and what she thought... ...awn out to stand by the arm-chair on which were two separate heaps of dark library books, in which there were many slips of paper sticking out at diff...

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...precaution than holding her breath and walking on tiptoe as she passed the library door, she went straight to Emma’s room as a privi leged visitor. I... ... her good bye, and tripping lightly down the stairs arrived at the dreaded library door, and was about to pass it again on tiptoe, when it opened, and... ...horrors were connected in her mind, he led her by a private stair into his library, where Emma was seated in a window, reading. The young lady, seeing... ...to part from such a missis, but she could meet any suffering when her con science told her she was in the rights, and therefore she was willing even ... ...and worse than all, because nothing could replace this loss, the great Law Library, on almost every page of which were notes in the Judge’s own hand, ... ...ould make a very handsome preparation in Surgeons’ Hall, and would benefit science extremely. I hope they have taken care to bespeak him.—Peak, I am n...

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...ny artist is made wel- come, through whatever medium he may seek expression; science is respected; even the idler, if he prove, as he so rarely does, ... ...ks the less shall we be apt to love the literal in our pro- ductions. In all sciences and senses the letter kills; and to- day, when cackling human ge... ...his knowledge grew and his glib, random criticism took a wider range. But my library was not the first he had drawn upon: at our first encounter, he w... ... and wince, and hurry on. And truly there is nothing that can shake the con- science like a beggar’s thanks; and that polity in which such protestatio... ...s and are dis- appointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of con- science, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frail- ties are i... ...but moss and fungus, more ancient still. I OF THE KOSMOS in the last resort, science reports many doubt- ful things and all of them appalling. There s...

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...resting, such as the “Hume and Smollett” and “Gibbon” of her grandfather’s library and her own school books, from which she hoped to teach Thekla. Her... ... be tolerated for one’s own good. There had been a development of the con- science and soul even in this first term that made her regard her elder sis... ... table. As if we were little babies!” “She won’t let us order books at the library, but gets such awfully slow ones,” chimed in Paula, “or only baby s... ...rroundings were “so very clever.” “They did want such books ordered in the library.” Magdalen laughed, and said her only chance of seeing a book she w... ...ns requiring some research in books, either Magdalen’s or at the Rock Quay library, Vera dawdled and sighed over them; and when the more zealous Magda... ...the caste to which her instincts belonged—very superior in nature and con- science to him to whom his blinded vanity was now giving his beautiful niec... ...ent in the moulding of the fourteenth century! Paula dutifully went to the library, looked out and traced two or three examples, French and English. N... ...ND BEAR CHAPTER XXII—ANGEL AND BEAR CHAPTER XXII—ANGEL AND BEAR “Enough of science and of art! Close up those barren leaves, Come forth, and bring wit... ...by Felix, as Lance explained, as a token of the faith to which all hu- man science and learning should be subordinated. “ A declaration of the Pursuiv...

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...n Osterman. “He don’t have to go into this thing, if it’s against his con- science. That’s all right. Magnus can stay out if he wants to, but that won... ...g a business engagement, but Magnus and his younger son had retired to the library of the club on the floor above. It was almost deserted. They were d... ...the soprano chatter of a multitude of women, found its way to the deserted library. “I believe it’s worth looking into, Governor,” asserted Harran. Ma... ...ted Harran. Magnus rose, and, his hands behind him, paced the floor of the library a couple of times, his imagination all stimu- lated and vivid. The ... ... a few cigarettes, vainly attempted to read from a volume of essays in the library, and at last, nervous, distraught, exhausted, retired to his bed. B...

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... evil, we, the best of whom are vicious, ought also to say the same of the science of distinguishing betwixt vice and vice, without which, and that ve... ... concealed and unknown, but the revenging fury of con- 44 Book the Second science caused it to be discovered by him himself, who was to suffer for it... ...orm it. I know not where I had this story, but it exactly matches the con- science of our justice in this particular. A country-woman, to a general of... ... I do not think it a fault, if, as others do by other much less profitable sciences, I communicate what I have learned in this, though I am not very w... ...; it never was the reward of a valiant soldier but of a great captain; the science of obeying was not reputed worthy of so honourable a guerdon. There... ... what he did by nature and accident, he cannot so exactly do by design. My library, which is a fine one among those of the village type, is situated i... ...te.”—Persius, Sat., v. 19.] 188 Book the Second ’tis for some corner of a library, or to entertain a neighbour, a kinsman, a friend, who has a mind t...

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...obliged to summon her boys and their books. It was not an extensive school library—a Latin grammar an extremely dilapidated spelling-book, and the fou... ...augh; and she gathered herself up to answer, “Naming and collecting is not science.” “And masonry is not architecture, but you can’t have ar- chitectu... ...was holding with young Mr. Keith upon—of all subjects in the world—lending library books, and finally repaired to the piano, where Grace was playing h... ... on the platform, but sat in the carriage reading the report of the Social Science Congress, until the travellers began to emerge, and Captain Keith (... ...ng all that is possible for their welfare, interesting himself about their library, and the regimental school and all. The colonel said he wished only... ... discreet youth; but to be connected with such a union of learning, social science, and homeaopathy, soared beyond my utmost ambition. I suppose the w... ... she recognised some distinguished names of per- sons interested in Social Science. She would not wound his feelings by too close an inquiry, but she ... ...otropes sor- rowful, strip the fig-trees, and shut Colonel Keith up in the library. Then came the rain, and the result was that the lawn of Myrtlewood... ...ise extended along the end of the entrance hall and dining-room. The small library, where Colonel Keith usually sat, became the cloak-room, and contai...

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...l donkey-engine. The cylinder-cover was hardly steam-proof, and the eye of science might have seen in the connecting-rod a flexure something like that... ... an hour these five miles. Baths, I’ve heard; barber’s shop; ticker; and a library and the, rest to match. Y es, sir; seventy-five an hour! But he’ll ... ...w school backed this idea with enthusiasm, and he and Cottar accumulated a library of military works, and read and argued and disputed far into the ni...

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... renew: His mother was a learned lady, famed For every branch of every science known In every Christian language ever named, With virtues ... ...ory so fine as That which adorn’d the brain of Donna Inez. Her favourite science was the mathematical, Her noblest virtue was her magnanimity,... ...s our glories By contrast, which is what we just were wishing all: And science profits by this resurrection — Dead scandals form good subjects... ...dies she inquired, And so they were submitted first to her, all, Arts, sciences, no branch was made a mystery To Juan’s eyes, excepting natura... ...es, excepting natural history. The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as ... ... That awful yawn which sleep can not abate. The elderly walk’d through the library, And tumbled books, or criticised the pictures, Or saunter’...

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...rles, delighted. ‘His heart was set on training these birds. He turned the library upside down in search of books on falconry, and spent 12 The Heir ... ...lk. ‘No; it was just before dinner. I had been shooting, and went into the library to tell him where I had been. He was well then, for he spoke, but i... ...tness that compensated for want of knowledge, the gentle- men with greater science and discrimination; indeed, Philip, as a connoisseur, could not but... ...co Polo, and Sir John Mandeville; and Guy , who knew both the books in the library at Redclyffe, grew very eager in talking them over, and tracing the... ...you setting him to do?’ ‘To make you read all the folios in my uncle’s old library,’ said Charles. ‘ All that Margaret has in keeping against Philip h... ... hope it is not in the ball-room,’ said Guy. ‘No said Laura, ‘it is in the library.’ Charlotte, whose absence had become perceptible from the general ... ...tain Wellwood whose death had weighed so heavily on his grandfather’s con- science, feeling almost as if it were his duty to ask forgive- ness in his ... ...ce. You were always too young, and Laura too much addicted to the physical sciences to get on together.’ ‘A weak, silly mother, sighed Mrs. Edmonstone... ... could be together without apprehension, or playing tricks with their con- sciences; but she had as yet scarcely been able to spend any time with him;...

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...could discuss manners and polite deportment, or en- gage in some branch of science, and so stimulate one’s wits. For that sort of thing gives one’s in... ... of the overtaxed peasant, or, worse still, at that of the con- 177 Gogol science of her neighbour. Yes, we all know why bribes are accepted, and why... ...hough, later, he tried to excuse his mistake by saying that in England the science of mechanics had reached such a pitch that wooden legs were manufac... ...d”—good-hearted souls whom the wear and tear of their efforts on behalf of science, civilisation, and the future emancipation of man- kind had ended b... ...fe bred in a man a capacity for high thinking. Lastly, as he inspected the library and dilated on books in general, he contrived an opportunity to obs... ...d been. Yet, inasmuch as he accounted genealogical research no part of the science of estate-management, but a mere superfluity, he looked upon himsel... ...on. Also, the better to lose no time, may I humbly beg you to step into my library, where you will find note- books, paper, pens, and everything else ... ...What good can they do to any one? Even if a landowner of the day sets up a library, he never looks at a single book in it, but soon relapses into card...

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... for, said he, they wound us with our own weapons, and with our own arts and sciences they overcome us. And indeed the Christians were put so to their... ...e two Apollinarii were fain, as a man may say, to coin all the seven liberal sciences out of the Bible, re ducing it into divers forms of orations, p... ...decree, consisting most of practical traditions, to the attainment whereof a library of smaller bulk than his own Dialogues would be abundant. And the... ...human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of go... ...Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to con science, above all liberties. What would be best advised, then, if it be ...

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... not before he ventures his money, and he can do that by going to a public library and examining the London Saturday Review of October 8th, which cont... ...ade is financed mainly from the graveyards. Bequests, you understand. Con science money. Confession of an old crime and deliberate perpetration of a ... ...e public pawnbroker’s office, the plants garden’s, the money office’s, the library. That it shall be for another day; we are tired. DIALOGUE 17 To Inf... ...e idea, though I think it is a mistake. It would be an irreparable loss to science if they should get away. The old one is tamer than it was and can l...