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...reactionary desire here, in the midst of the Arcade and of the most cultured society, not two paces from the hall where at this very minute Mr. Lavrov... ... will speak in my own name, as a private person, as though I were asking for information. And meanwhile, you find out indirectly, unofficially, how mu... ...e that all the most cultivated people in the capital, the ladies of the best society, the foreign ambassa dors, the leading lawyers and so on, will a... ...dings of our vast metropolis. A certain well known bon vivant of the highest society, probably weary of the cuisine at Borel’s and at the X. Club, wen...

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...reat sanc- 12 Autobiography tion to civil morality, is of use for keeping society in order, at least the lower classes, who have not the feeling of H... ...component parts of the empire, and of various imperial officials, made the society a pleasant and lively one. Goethe soon found friends. His fa- vorit... ...eland to instruct the elder, and Knebel to instruct the younger. Upon this society Goethe rose like a star. From the mo- ment of his arrival he became... ... poet’s biographers. Where it ought to be the most trust- worthy source of information, it is most misleading. Once more in his old age Goethe came un... ...en we found this impossible, and softly slipped from our beds, to seek the society of the servants and maids, our father, with his dressing-gown turne... ...eadily and frequently repeated the story , and imparted to us some general information on electricity, we children found the thing very plausible, and... ...ristic cough and chuckle: and, although he carefully avoided giving me any information that might have compromised himself, my importunity was not rel... ...nigsthal had deliberated, partly for our exercise and partly for their own information. And certainly this was of peculiar advan- tage to me; as I was... ... herself, might have attempted to write to me, either to give or to obtain information. In addition to my sorrow, I was now more cross than hitherto, ...

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... Crimean campaign, to be wel comed by the elite of letters and courted by society. A few years before he would have been delighted with such a recept... ...Switzerland, and there, among beau tiful natural surroundings, and in the society of friends, he enjoyed a respite from mental strain. A fresh, sweet... ...nd extent of female influence appears incidentally in the sketches of high society in those two masterpieces as well as in the eloquent closing passag... ...stituted. Monopolies would cease without violently and unjustly disturbing society with confiscation and redistribution. No one would keep land idle i... ...a 23 The Forged Coupon and other stories thy to the women who sought his society, appealing to him for guidance. One of these (an American, and her ... ...kolaevich pretending to ask for employment, but really in order to get the information he wanted. He took precautions to make sure that the watchman w... ...thought. He must ar range a well prepared plan, and after getting all the information he wanted, carry out his purpose so as to avoid detection. 61 ...

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...ed a degree of order sufficient at least for the tem porary preservation of society. The Confederation which was early felt to be necessary was prepa... ...wer or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence. In the midst of these pleasing ideas we sho... ...n in fluence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes, and of society in all its forms, but as the only means of preserving our Constit... ...gement of ag riculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffu sion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason... ...ntain their place in existence and to prepare them in time for that state of society which to bodily comforts adds the improvement of the mind and mor... ...; to favor in like manner the advancement of science and the diffu sion of information as the best aliment to true liberty; to carry on the benevole... ...ment common to all and to violate the sacred title which every member of the society has to its protection. I need not call into view the unlawful ne... ...ticle in the Constitution making it the duty of the President to communicate information and authorizing him to recommend measures was not intended to... ... treaties and to appoint ambassadors and other officers; to give to Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend such measures as he s...

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...eaties. At last, he announced that he was going to the prefect himself for information, and would let her know everything on the following Sunday, bet... ...n those days, Trouville was not greatly patronised. Madame Aubain gathered information, consulted Bourais, and made prepara- tions as if they were goi... ...ist informed her that Victor’ s vessel had reached Havana. He had read the information in a newspaper. Felicite imagined that Havana was a place where... ...bird which would not talk when people watched him! Nevertheless, he sought society; for on Sunday, when the ladies Rochefeuille, Monsieur de Houppevil...

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... gai ety, he was exceedingly reserved, punctilious, and even severe; but in society he was often amusing and witty, and always good natured, correct ... ... in clean linen, with French phrases, and above all among people of the best society and consequently with the approval of people of rank. So Iva... ... pleased. Ivan Ilych settled down very pleasantly in this new town. The society there, which inclined towards opposition to the governor was frie... ...sy, agreeable, gay and always decorous character of his life, approved of by society and regarded by himself as natural, but would even improve it. Bu... ...order to perform one’s duty, that is, to lead a decorous life approved of by society, one must adopt a definite attitude just as towards one’s officia... ... then only on official grounds. A man would come, for instance, wanting some information. Ivan Ilych, as one in whose sphere the matter did not lie, w...

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...ough, vulgar, coarse fellow were to offer to take his part in aristocratic society, and be snubbed 17 Shaw into the knowledge that only as a milliona... ... the knowledge that only as a millionaire could he ever hope to bring that society to his feet and buy himself a beau- tiful and refined wife. His cho... ...ness and mastered by the policeman’s baton, shall become the foundation of society; and when nothing shall escape ruin except such pretty places and p... ...out such contrivances as our codes and churches than a fellow of the Royal Society will touch his hat to the squire and listen to the village curate’s... ... crafty fool, desiring only to detect ignorance in his guest, asks him for information on the three points on which he is proudest of being thoroughly... ...and scientifically to the task of producing trustworthy human material for society. In short, it is necessary to breed a race of men in whom the life-... ...osely introduced the ordinary title in the sentence above for the reader’s information. Why He Changed His Mind WAGNER, however, was not the man to al...

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...ve Gilbert NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth. A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...ve Gilbert NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth. 1850 NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH ... ...e had chosen as worthy the wealth of her love and confidence, and in whose society her young heart had calculated on a happiness, purer and more eleva... ...return. They expressed some surprise, and asked her where she obtained her information. She replied, that no one had told her, but she felt that he wo... ...r Jack- son is dead. He died within two days’ sail of Otaheite, one of the Society Islands. The Peter Jackson that used to live at Laterett’s; he died... ...lities of the case, a young woman of fine appearance, and high standing in society, the pride of her husband, and the mother of an infant daughter, on... ...ured the good will of Isabella, and we may supposed obtained from her some information in relation to Mr. Pierson, especially that Mrs. Pierson declar... ...omestic and the equal, and the depositary of very curious, if not valuable information. To this ob- ject, even her color assisted. Persons who have tr... ... sur- rounded by an assemblage of people, collected from the very dregs of society, too ignorant and degraded to un- derstand, much less entertain, a ...

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...losophy shall have traversed the earth, and reorga- nized the structure of society. But, finally, and (as regards extent, though not as regards intens... ... popular state had become impos- sible, from changes in the composition of society. Here, and in all other critical periods of ancient republics, we s... ...e heart of man, or a polity more symmetrical with the structure of English society. Once having unfolded from philosophic grounds the primary conditio... ...e. Endless are the variations of the con- ditions that new combinations of society would bring for- ward; endless would be the virtual restorations of... ...ne of Christian truth. Christianity utters some truth widely applicable to society. This truth is caught up by some influential organ of social life—i... ...ist, we learn from a Father of the Christian Church, who had good personal information as to its condi- tion, that it was then become a solitude, but ... ...rd as a witness, but, if not revealed, he must de- nounce—he must lodge an information, and that instantly, else even in law, without question of mora... ...the vast ex- tent to which this case occurs. We are well assured, (for our information comes from quarters judicially conversant with the question,) t... ...hat road the fleeing party had fled, that person is bound to give him true information. And you are at liberty to suppose this third person a wife, a ...

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...compliment. “The odd part is that she was quite eager—always asking me for information; and of course I was very glad to give it. I admit she is a Phi... ...!” she had cried. “Philip laughs at everything—the Book Club, the Debating Society, the Progressive Whist, the bazaars. People won’t like it. We have ... ...ceed. She was not one to detect the hidden charms of Baedeker. Some of the information seemed to her unnecessary, all of it was dull. Whereas Philip c... ...will stop.” “Oh, no, please; not at all. I am here—my own idea—to give all information which you very natu- rally—and to see if somehow—please ask any... ...t him by adding, “He is the son of a dentist. Why not?” “Thank you for the information. I know everything, as I told you before. I am also aware of th... ... mean the life. Those Herritons are very well connected. They lead Sawston society. But what do I care, so long as I have my silly fel- low!” She alwa... ...lly. Go and see your friends, and bring them to see me. We both of us like society.” 36 Where Angels Fear to Tread He looked puzzled, but allowed him... ...her rather hopelessly. “Well, who are the principal people here? Who leads society?” The governor of the prison, he supposed, and the officers who ass... ... the stars. Lilia gathered somehow from this conversation that Continental society was not the go-as-you-please thing she had expected. Indeed she cou...

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...rs, forgot- ten the insult done her. All that time she was obtaining exact information as to her Sofya’s manner of life, and hearing of her illness an... ...ent tears and wiped them away with her handkerchief. She was a sentimental society lady of genuinely good disposition in many respects. When the el- d... ... set up as the direct and chief aim of the future development of Christian society!” “Perfectly true,” Father Paissy, the silent and learned monk,... ...rom a mechanical cutting off of its tainted member for the preservation of society, as at present, into completely and honestly adopt- ing the idea of... ...inually on the increase. You must admit that. Consequently the security of society is not preserved, for, although the obnoxious mem- ber is mechanica... ...o take his place at once, and often two of them. If anything does preserve society, even in our time, and does regenerate and transform the criminal, ... ...chen, where he already had a footing. He had a footing everywhere, and got information about everything. He was of an uneasy and envious temper. He wa...

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...er showed Pierre the change of attitude toward him that had taken place in society. 7 Tolstoy Formerly in Anna Pavlovna’s presence, Pierre had always... ...ith her the least worldly of men would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don’t you think so? I only wanted to know your opinion,” and Anna ... ...f her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently digni- fied in society. The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seem... ...!” Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy and h... ... followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having re- ceived this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose chatteri... ...eal its sunken and faded outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some... ...n toward the valley and disappearing one after another into the mist. From information he had received the evening before, from the sound of wheels an...

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...ions. Still less did she pretend that nothing had happened, as a competent society host- ess would have done. She said: “Miss Schlegel, would you take... ...- esthetic atmosphere that reigned at the Schlegels. Margaret received the information calmly, and did not agree that it would throw a cloud over poor... ...he habit on Helen’s account, and it still clung to her. She asked for more information about Miss Dolly Fussell that was, and was given it in even, un... ...wards End CHAPTER IX MRS. WILCOX cannot be accused of giving Margaret much information about life. And Margaret, on the other hand, has made a fair sh... ...three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. In Margaret’s eyes Mrs. Wi... ...h, and Margaret prepared one, too, for they were going out to a discussion society on the morrow. But her thoughts were poisoned. Mrs. Lanoline had ri... ...llionaire’s eldest son,” and implored her expiring parent not to dislocate Society by allowing such vast sums to pass out of the family. Money was the... ...e paper. “You are here, I understand, to advise me in the interests of the Society for the Preservation of Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beau... ...oots and made him look ridiculous. “You were picking my brain for official information—I can prove it—I—” He blew his nose and left them. “Can I help ...

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...ive, that’s certain,” assented Dolly. “Then he occupies such a position in society that he has no need to look for either fortune or position in his w... ... only far from being worldly, but had an unmistakable distaste for worldly society, and at the same time she knew the world, and had all the ways of a... ... same time she knew the world, and had all the ways of a woman of the best society, which were absolutely essential to Sergey Ivanovitch’s conception ... ...han yours,” he said with a subtle smile. “One all movement, only living in society, like a fish in water; the other our Kostya, lively, alert, quick i... ...er our Kostya, lively, alert, quick in everything, but as soon as he is in society, he either sinks into apathy, or struggles help- lessly like a fish... ...he had never spoken to her before. But, to his surprise, Anna accepted the information with great composure, and merely asked when he would be back. H...

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...yway you look at it. Undeserving poverty is my line. Taking one station in society with another, it’s—it’s— well, it’s the only one that has any ginge... ...d means. The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgin... ...l Eliza comes? MRS. HIGGINS. Henry: you are the life and soul of the Royal Society’s soirees; but really you’re rather trying on more commonplace occa... ...now fantastically disclassed, had become extremely popular in the smartest society by a social talent which triumphed over every prejudice and every d... ...on with the Earlscourt green grocer’s daughter. It had led her to seek the society of her mother’s class; and that class simply would not have her, be... ...ho read an article on China and an article on Metaphysics and combined the information. He suggested that they should combine the London School with K...

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...a com- paratively small amount of cultivation to make him an orna- ment to society and a blessing to his race—by the law of the land, by the voice of ... ...ds, especially by the late General Agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Mr. John A. Collins, whose judgment in this instance entirely coin... ...er the auspices either of the American or the Massachu- setts Anti-Slavery Society. In labors he has been most abun- dant; and his success in combatin... ...not be wielded with destructive sway! Skeptics of this character abound in society. In some few instances, their incredulity arises from a want of ref... ... Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society? The effect of a religious profession on the conduct of south- ern ... ...ing-time, harvest-time, cherry- time, spring-time, or fall-time. A want of information con- cerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even duri... ...ederick Douglass master’s son-in-law, Captain Thomas Auld. I received this information about three days before my departure. They were three of the ha... ...n a “scrape,” and that I was to be examined before my master; and if their information proved false, I should not be hurt. In a few moments, they succ...

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...d from any disaffection to our present Reverend Pas tor, or the Christian Society with whom we have taken such sweet counsel together, and walked unt... ... his native gods, and is admitted from time to time to a rare and peculiar society with Nature. He has glances of starry recognition to which our salo... ...ed with the dazzling but ineffectual and short lived blaze of candles. The Society Islanders had their day born gods, but they were not supposed to be... ... in this all offenders against the sanctity of the Sabbath were confined.” Society has relaxed a little from its strict ness, one would say, but I pr... ... shone, like to the lightning of aegis bearing Zeus.” He conveys the least information, even the hour of the day, with such magnificence and vast expe... .... Every visit to its sum mit would, as it were, generalize the particular information gained below, and subject it to more catholic tests. I was up e... ...conspicuous. He is a traveller who does not exaggerate, but writes for the information of his readers, for science, and for history. His story is told... ... him to the woods. The English boy struck the Indian who had given him the information, on the temple, as he had been directed. They then collected al... ...—I am not without hope that we may, even here and now obtain some accurate information concerning that OTHER WORLD which the instinct of mankind has s...

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...ion with the cause—a late supper with bachelor friends. Relations with the society of the place—foreign and Russian—were equally out of the question o... ..., since he has talent; but it annoys him that a wealthy man of the highest society, and a count, too (you know they all detest a title), can, without ... ...eeling, who would feel for him, not as a high official, not as a member of society, but simply as a suffering man; indeed he had not such a one in the... ...ted 92 Anna Karenina – Part Five relations with the court and fashionable society. But from the time that after Karenin’s trouble she took him under ... ... young adjutant, an acquaintance of Vronsky, through whom she obtained her information, and who hoped through Countess Lidia 93 Tolstoy Ivanovna to o... ...range misapprehension. One would have thought he must have understood that society was closed for him and Anna; but now some vague ideas had sprung up...

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...s stronger than he will be bound unwillingly to obey him. In this manner a society can be formed without any violation of natural right, and the coven... ...body politic of this kind is called a Democracy, which may be defined as a society which wields all its power as a whole. The sovereign power is not r... ...as no further voice in affairs, he only hands it over to the majority of a society, whereof he is a unit. Thus all men remain as they were in the stat... ...sors to the captains of each tribe; on this point I can gather no positive information in Scripture, but I conjec- ture that as the tribes were divide... ...each individual should cede his natural right, and trans- fer it either to society as a whole, or to a certain body of men, or to one man. Then, and n...

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...ng fortunately been res- cued by his humble station from the contaminating society of 13 V olume One the “Best models,” wrote well and naturally from... ... his shrewd and natu- rally unamiable character. Still, though he regarded society as composed altogether of villains, the sharpness of his intellect ... ...t he would erase a passage colored too highly with his resentments against society and mankind, he readily and cour- teously assented-far more yieldin... ...der to get the means of taking the first step, I propose to lecture at the Society Li- brary, on Thursday, the 3d of February, and, that there may be ... ... or by a Frenchman of somewhat similar name. I had some little tincture of information on matters of this nature, and soon became more and more absorb... ...irected my wife to make up as soon as possible, and gave her all requisite information as to the particular method of proceed- ing. In the meantime I ... ...s Hotel;’ for, of course, I dropped the obsolete word ‘hostel.’ Gaining no information on the subject, 105 V olume One I was on the point of extendin... ...s. So, perhaps, do his companions; and the difference in the extent of the information obtained, lies not so much in the validity of the inference as ... ...Oh! I will tell you. My re- ward shall be this. Y ou shall give me all the information in your power about these murders in the Rue Morgue.” Dupin sai...