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...pse of bad carbon prints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small wo... ...air trotted from the house. She was twanging a Swedish patois—not in mono- tone, like English, but singing it, with a lyrical whine: “Pete he say you ... ...nd help?” “What poet do you take up today?” demanded Carol, in her library tone of “What book do you wish to take out?” “Why, the English ones.” “Not ... ...helves, her neat black shoes firm on a rag-rug, herself as correct and low-toned as her background, Mrs. Warren listened without comment till Carol wa... ... Lincoln, to the gaiety of settlers dancing in a saw-mill. She read in the records of the Minnesota Territorial Pio- neers that only sixty years ago, ... ...ad all wat you tink? Well i haven ben tacking aney ting for about one & 1/ 2 Mont but i dont get better so i like to heir Wat you tink about it i feel... ...after eating and dat Pain around Heard and down the arm and about 3 to 3 1/2 Hour after Eating i feel weeak like and dissy and a dull Hadig. Now you g... ...hool entertain- ment” catalogues as: Riproaring knock-out, 5 m. 3 f., time 2 hrs., interior set, popular with churches and all high-class occasions. C... ...-cream soda to the same young woman with the same magazines and phonograph records under her arm. Not till he had climbed to his office and found anot...

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...raver and much less garrulous man. His face is weakly handsome and done in tones of grey, he is fairish and grey-eyed, and you would suspect him of dy... ...t Utopian pre- cedents, we may take with existing fact. We assume that the tone of public thought may be entirely different from what it is in the pre... ...the past, and to evade, initiate, endeavour, and overcome. S S S S Section 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 There are very definite artistic limi... ...y fall upon him as penalties incurred. 26 A Modern Utopia S S S S Section 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 What prohibitions should we be under,... ...a, has still not passed beyond money and the use of coins. S S S S Section 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 Now if this Utopian world is to be in... ...m wage,” which threw a chance light on the labour prob- lem—by perforating records for automatic musical ma- chines—no doubt of the Pianotist and Pian... ...ntains to lecture in Saxony, lecturing on the way, to perforate a lot more records, lecturing the while, and so start out lecturing again. He was undi... .... “Yes,” I say, with an engaging smile and trying to keep up a good social tone. “It’s queer, isn’t it? We’ve both forgotten.” “You’re joking,” she su... ...edigree, to a place of greater quiet, to the ever-growing galleries of the records of the dead. Such a record is inevitable if a Modern Utopia is to b...

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...them daily trouble and disputes. This evidence respected London only. But (2)— 6 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater which will possibly surprise t... ...degree of sympathy which is necessary in any case to an author’s purposes. 2. As furnishing a key to some parts of that tremendous scen- ery which aft... ...lish Opium-Eater partment of thought with the recent illustrious exception 2 of David Ricardo) but also on such a constitution of the moral faculties ... ... a devotee from his patron saint. Whilst I was yet gazing upon it the deep tones of—clock proclaimed that it was four o’clock. I went up to the pictur... ...ot to know them, argues one’s self unknown.” Their manners take a suitable tone and colouring, and for once they find it necessary to impress a sense ... ... that this indulgence in wine contributed to strengthen my malady, for the tone of my stomach was apparently quite sunk, and by a better regimen it mi... ... her face 10 in her robe. But these troubles are past; and thou wilt read records of a period so dolorous to us both as the legend of some hideous dr... ...d lain weeks or even months on my writing-table. Without the aid of M. all records of bills paid or to be paid must have perished, and my whole domes-...

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...one whatever!” replied Aylmer, starting; but then he added, in a dry, cold tone, affected for the sake of con cealing the real depth of his emotion, ... ...urnace room giving directions to Aminadab, whose harsh, uncouth, misshapen tones were audible in response, more like the grunt or growl of a brute tha... ...aken into communion.” “Mighty well, Deacon Gookin!” replied the solemn old tones of the minister. “Spur up, or we shall be late. Nothing can be done, ... ...min de Fer,” 3 tom., 1838; “Le nouveau Pere Adam et la nouvelle Mere Eve,” 2 tom., 1839; “Roderic; ou le Serpent a l’estomac,” 2 tom., 1840; “Le Culte... ...is life attained to a dignified station in the church, being remembered in records and traditions as Deacon Drowne, the carver. One of his productions...

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...bstantial sense. Here, at home, they may be regarded as still unpublished. 2 But, in such a case, why were not the papers at once detached from the j... ... its way, at such a period, into the hands of any poor hunted Christian. 4 2. THE CAESARS.—This, though written hastily, and in a situation where I ha... ... adopted by France as the author; and other local saints by other nations. 2 At the same time it must not be denied, that, if you lose by a journal i... ...in life. 1 Any expression of personal vanity, intruding upon impas- sioned records, is fatal to their effect—as being incompat- ible with that absorpt... ...y the record of name, of sex, of age, and the day of departure from earth— records how shadowy! and dropped into darkness as if mes- sages addressed t... ...og fighting, and fighting our Jack.” “But,” said another in a propitiatory tone, “perhaps he’ll not do so any more.” I was touched by the kindness of ... ...iew of the factory, he would shake his fist at it, and say, in a ferocious tone of voice, “Delenda est Carthago!” And certainly, I thought to myself, ... ...and where disgust has once rooted itself, and been habitually expressed in tones of harshness, the mere sight of the hateful object mechanically calls... ..., and for many years employed by the Admiralty as a confidential binder of records or journals containing secrets of office, &c. Through this connecti...

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...on.* The first series, we perceive, had even gone to a second edition. The tone, wherever one timidly glances into this extinct cockpit, is trenchant ... ...June, 1815, at Queen Square, in his fourth year (John being now nine). (2.) Elizabeth died, 12th March, 1818, at Blackfriars Road, in her second ye... ...little Edward, his next younger, who died now at the age of nine, Mr. Hare records that John copied out, in large school-hand, a History of Valentine ... ...ic, elo- quent utterance, and noble generosities and pieties of his pupil;—records in particular how once, on a sudden alarm of fire in some neighbori... ...sage was ardently, if fitfully, continued to the end: but the methods, the tone and dialect and all outer conditions of uttering it, underwent most im... ...e ways had; piercing radiances of a most subtle insight came at intervals; tones of noble pious sympathy, recognizable as pious though strangely color... ...ing was married: “at Christchurch, Marylebone, 2d November, 1830,” say the records. His blooming, kindly and true-hearted Wife had not much money, nor... ... mark the directions of the two roofs; e is the room in which we were, and 2 is a plan of it on a larger scale. Look now at 2: a is the bed; c, c the ... ...sed all the people in St. Peter’s, including performers and spectators, at 2,000; where 20,000 would hardly have been a crushing crowd. Mass was perfo...

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...mind to bear upon the whole of his observation, and then made answer, in a tone which seemed to imply that the moon was peculiarly his business and no... ...hanged his attitude when the house was first mentioned, replied in a lower tone: ‘The owner’s name is Haredale, Mr Geoffrey Haredale, and’—again he gl... ... his pipe, which was going out, and then proceeded—at first in a snuffling tone, occasioned by keen enjoyment of the tobacco and strong pulling at the... ...March in some year, sooner or later, that man will be discovered.’ Chapter 2 ‘A STRANGE STORY!’ said the man who had been the cause of the narration... ...thick stone walls shut out the hum of life, and made a stillness which the records left by former prisoners with those silent wit nesses seemed to de...

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...us. Shall I take him aboard, pardner?’ ‘No,’ said the other. In so surly a tone that the man, after a blank stare, acknowledged it with the retort: ‘—... ...n a sightless face; but Gaffer was no neophyte and had no fancies. Chapter 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE MR AND MRS VENEERING were bran-new people in a bra... ...room near the conservatory door, and through his ears informing him in the tones of Mrs Veneering that the same large man is to be baby’s godfather. ‘... ...he stipulation at once in a conciliatory, complimentary, and argumentative tone—’as I am sure you will agree, my love—from a fellow- creature point of... ... figures of - 1, Getting up at eight and shaving close at a quarter past - 2, Breakfasting at nine - 3, Going to the City at ten - 4, Coming home at h... ... of an orphan’s rise in the market was not to be paralleled by the maddest records of the Stock Exchange. He would be at five thousand per cent discou...

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...ht in the same manner, without the necessity of the grave face, deliberate tone of recital, and devout atten- tion, hitherto exacted from the well gov... ... in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring. So far was Edward Waverley from expecting general sympa... ...al T entamina were extracted, when the volume itself, with other authentic records of the Waverley family, were ex- posed to the inspection of the unw... ... Titus Livius, which he had forgot in the hurry of his es- cape. [See Note 2.] The simplicity of this anecdote struck the gentleman, who, as we before... ...e commanded him, by the name of Davie Gellatley, in a 55 Sir Walter Scott tone which admitted no discussion, to look for his honour at the dark hag, ... ...ighlanders to benefit by its tender mer- cies—they will blot it from their records, as levelling them with a nation of cannibals. The mummery, too, of... ...given a picture with striking and impressive fidelity; and the traditional records of the respectable and ingenious Mrs. Grant of Laggan, are of a nat... ... circulated, and sometimes perhaps rather hastily cred- ited at home. NOTE 2.—TITUS LIVIUS The attachment to this classic was, it is said, actually di...

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...urgent solicitation for such a work: ROCHESTER, N. Y. July 2, 1855. DEAR FRIEND: I have long entertained, as you very well know, a som... ... the feet and support the hands of re- formers, the gentlewomen of England 2 were foremost to encourage and strengthen him to carve out for himself a... ...ndmen! know ye not Who would be free, themselves mast strike the blow? 2 One of these ladies, impelled by the same noble spirit which carried Mis... ...fight, a l’outrance, to all comers. It was given out in the clear, ringing tones, wherewith the hall of shields was wont to resound of old, yet neithe... ... the months of the year, nor of the days of the month. They keep no family records, with marriages, births, and deaths. They measure the ages of their... ...what was expected of us, the old gentleman, in any other than a devotional tone, com- manded us to kneel down. This done, he commenced tell- ing us to... ... sometimes did—patting me on the head, speak- ing to me in soft, caressing tones and calling me his “little Indian boy,” he would have deemed him a ki... ...e—the proper study of man through all time—the open book, in which are the records of time and eternity. Of the existence and power of the anti-slaver...

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...rs, and would read to you from this piece of paper. I must confess that to me, as one of an uninstructed audience, they did not appear particularly ed... ...o show him up, and testify to The Uncommercial Traveller 37 the multitude that each of those points was a clincher. But, in respect of the large Chri... ...ly Nan; but they were all waiting for Jack, and were all frightfully disap- pointed to see us. ‘Who have you got up-stairs here?’ says Sharpeye, gener... ..., be hinted to those who are put in authority over us. Any animated description of a modern battle, any private soldier’s letter published in the news... ...ravels, Popular Biography, and mere Fiction descriptive of the aspirations of the hearts and souls of mere human creatures like themselves; and such a... ...he sun descended, and walked along the dusty, dusty road. I had not walked far, when I encountered this procession: 1. Mr. Kindheart, much abashed, on... ...beginning with the words: ‘I give and be- queath.’ Will it seem exaggerative to state my belief that the most honest, the most modest, and the least v...

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...for me. Here ends the book of Master Wace; let him continue it who will.” 2 Some twenty years earlier, in 1155, Wace had completed the Roman de Brut... ...ng French octo syl labic couplet, which alone gives an entirely different tone to 1 i.e., Paris, in the Ile de France. Vs. 10440 ff. 2 Vs. 16530 ff... ...rely different tone to 1 i.e., Paris, in the Ile de France. Vs. 10440 ff. 2 Vs. 16530 ff. 6 Arthurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut the narrative from t... ... parallels early Celtic sto ries of banquet fights, and has so barbaric a tone, as to make it evident that he is here recounting a folk tale of pure ... ...ong the Britons by the beginning of the twelfth century, does not in early records appear clothed in any definite narrative form. In later sources it ... ...and romantic tradition have combined to produce the ver sion that Layamon records. Geoffrey of Monmouth (xi. 2), writing in the mock role of serious ... ...d to produce the ver sion that Layamon records. Geoffrey of Monmouth (xi. 2), writing in the mock role of serious historian and with a ten dency to ...

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... the First to superstition, rather than to the other extreme.”[Essays, ii. 2.] Pierre Eyquem bestowed great care on the education of his children, esp... ...ctive and inquiring spirit, and, above all, possessing a sound and healthy tone of mind, Mademoiselle de Gournay had been carried from her childhood w... ...eller (Mr. St. John).’—[“Montaigne the Essayist,” by Bayle St. John, 1858, 2 vols. 8vo, is one of most delightful books of the kind.]— and was then in... ...ty in it if there were a rule and a truth of always lying. Besides, nobody records their flimflams and false prognostics, forasmuch as they are infi- ... ...n the air. Another was choked with a grape-stone;—[Val. Max., ix. 12, ext. 2.]—an em- peror killed with the scratch of a comb in combing his head. AEm... ...ce. After which, remaining for some time silent, he began again, in louder tones, and exclaimed against himself, say- ing: “Why livest thou, if it be ... ...versing with men, I mean also, and principally, those who only live in the records of history; he shall, by reading those books, converse with the gre...

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...f them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. CHAPTER 2 The Carpet-Bag I STUFFED A SHIRT OR TWO into my old carpet-bag, tucked i... ... ing and praying at the bottom of the sea. This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at... ...ual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog—in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towa... ...s; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records. At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with ... ...ad,” said Peleg, “he wants to ship.” “Dost thee?” said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me. “I dost,” said I unconsciously, he was so in... .... 550,000 lbs. of biscuit. 72,000 lbs. of soft 427 Herman Melville bread. 2,800 firkins of butter. 20,000 lbs. Texel & Leyden cheese. 144,000 lbs. ch...

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...on had been that it emptied into the Atlantic, or Sea of Vir ginia. Chapter 2 The River and Its Explorers LA S ALLE HIMSELF SUED FOR CERTAIN HIG... ... about!” and leave the rest to the cub, who instantly cries, in his sternest tone of command, “Ease starboard! Strong on the larboard! Starboard give ... ...’t get bottom there with a church steeple.” “You think so, do you?” The very tone of the question shook my confidence. That was what Mr. Bixby was exp... ...O LOUISVILLE—1,440 MILES D. H. M. 1815 Enterprise made the run in 25 2 40 1817 Washington “ “ 25 1817. Shelby “ “ 20 ... ...ISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS 750—MILES D. H. M. 1843 Congress made the run in 2 1 1854 Pike “ “ 1 23 1854 Northerner “ “ ... ...ales, writing in 1837, three years after Mr. Murray— “Never, perhaps, in the records of nations, was there an instance of a century of such unvarying ... ...ried it again and relocked the trunk. Drop ping his voice to a cautious low tone, he continued, ‘She’s all there—a round ten thousand dollars in yell...

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...r of humour. The three first are but infants to the three second; and yet each, in a particular point of literary art, excels his superior in the whol... ...up- ported) on their way to what is true and right. And if, in any degree, it does so now, how much more might it do so if the writers chose! There is... ...idealist, his eye singly fixed upon the greater outlines, loves rather to fill up the interval with detail of the conventional order, briefly touched,... ...n some death.’ ‘Yes, the lamentable deaths of my lord Durrisdeer and his brother, the Master of Ballantrae (attainted in the troubles),’ said Mr. Thom...

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...he dreams were noble in their imagery, and Cæsarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, for example, the night before he was assassina... ...ambitious amongst the Roman nobles, gave a popu- 29 Thomas de Quincey lar tone of ferocity and of personal risk to the course of such contests; and e... ...t read- ers. Under the modest title of Commentaries, he meant to offer the records of his Gallic and British campaigns, simply as notes, or memoranda,... ...hem equal, but running through every gradation of guilt. But the elogia or records of their commitment, he would not so much as look at. With such ino... ...d forging of wills, which then laid waste the domestic life of the Romans. 2. A second source of the universal depravity was the grow- ing inefficacy ... ...position as was Marcus Aurelius.” What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true. Marcus was raised to divine honors, or canonized* ... ...the most thoroughly human and practical. In evidence of which, one body of records is amply sufficient, which is, the very extensive and wise reforms ...

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... important an ingredient in the analysis of his his- tory, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this ... ...s in style. He appears as the enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read P... ...nd Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove! 2 Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour 3 Sprung the fierce strife, from ... ...et still they heard him speak. Sharp was his voice; which in the shrillest tone, Thus with injurious taunts attack’d the throne. “Amidst the glories o... ...ogs and to all kinds of birds. But all kinds of birds are not carnivorous. 2 i.e. during the whole time of their striving the will of Jove was being g... ...like Æneas, had always been favourable to the restoration of Helen. Liv 1. 2. 76 “His lab’ring heart with sudden rapture seized He paus’d, and... ...d’eleeinoteros per, and the apusato Æcha geronta, are not exactly like the tone of the earlier parts of the Iliad. They are almost too fine and pathet...

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.......................................................................... 55 2.—KISSING HELENA. ........................................................... ...night, unseen by Gods or Men, And white-armed Juno slumbered sweetly then. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Now, when the joy of Jove had its fulfilling, And Heaven’s t... ...f my counsel be but minded. SEMICHOR SEMICHOR SEMICHOR SEMICHOR SEMICHORUS 2: US 2: US 2: US 2: US 2: Happy thou made odorous ... ...ng Beneath the vault of Heaven is blown! Sweet notes of love, the speaking tones _55 Of this bright day, sent down to say... ... _110 109 Shelley And the clear silver tones, As thus she spoke, were such As are unheard by all but gifted ear. F... ...r from the stores of reason drew Science and truth, and virtue’s dreadless tone, _150 Were but a weak and inexperienced boy, Prou... ...se laws of whose government alone we have any knowledge or experience. The records of all nations afford innumerable instances of men deceiving others... ...inceps (1820), except in the places indicated in the following list, which records in each instance the pointing of 1820:— Act 1.—empire. 15; O, 17; G... ...ces where our pointing departs from that of the standard text of 1821, and records in each instance the pointing of that edi- tion:— Act 1, Scene 2:—A...

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... have any human being with me in my sorrow. ’ 11 Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 2 Lady Mary Palliser It may be said at once that Mrs Finn knew something of... ...y Mary was very like her mother, especially in having exactly her mother’s tone of voice, her quick manner of speech, and her sharp intelli- gence. Sh... ... all about that, ’ said Lady Mary, with something almost like scorn in her tone. ‘Of course I have to be— delicate. I don’t quite know what the word m... ...And especially so with Lady Mary?’ This she said in her sweetest possible tone, and with a most gracious smile. ‘Especially so with Lady Mary, ’ he r... ...ust as he was parting with her. CHAPTER 32 Miss Boncassen’s River-Party No.2 Lord Silverbridge made up his mind that as he could not dance with Miss B... ...y of Grex of Grex was about the oldest in Great Britain of which authentic records were in existence. Then there came an- other note from Lady Mabel t...