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...ket, he smokes, drinks, wears a profusion of trinkets, overawes the common people, passes for a lord in the villages, and never permits himself to be ... ...x, is nine tenths of the ways and means of our business.” To talk, to make people listen to you,—that is seduction in itself. A nation that has two Ch... ...is cigar and says, with a glance at some town, “I’ll go and see what those people have got in their stomachs.” When buckled down to his work he became... ...n- abled him to understand its interior: he had capped and crowned so many people, he was always flinging himself at their heads, etc. His jokes about... ...public which refuses to pay the Parisian imposts and the tax-gatherer who, living by his receipt of custom, lards the public with new ideas, turns it ... ...the moral qualities with which you are en- dowed, and which are, Monsieur, living forces,—as living as a cataract, as a steam-engine of three, ten, tw... ...all the mathematics of thought. Instead of being, as you are, a proprietor living upon your income, let us suppose that you are painter, a musician, a... ...ling into position. “Man’s spoliation of man—by which I mean bodies of men living upon the labor of other men—ought to have ceased with the coming of ... ...suits me very well: a fine idea! intellectual prod- uct, child. That’s man living upon man, hein?” “You’ve hit it, Monsieur,” said Gaudissart. “I’ve h...

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... see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fiel... ...h, would you like to go to them?” I reflected. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, ... ... was synonymous with degradation. “No; I should not like to belong to poor people,” was my reply. “Not even if they were kind to you?” I shook my head... ... even if they were kind to you?” I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn to speak like them, t... ...ond his interference than he imagined. He scrutinised the reverse of these living medals some five minutes, then pronounced sentence. These words fell... ...the cat on her knee; “I am so glad you are come; it will be quite pleasant living here now with a companion. To be sure it is pleasant at any time; fo... ...to conceal her features. But my mind had been running on Grace Poole— that living enigma, that mystery of mysteries, as I considered her. I had never ... ... Nights ranged just above. The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition. T wo young ladies appeared befo... ...rth. Y ou had no right to be born, for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek on...

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... evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the reb...

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... question whether any govern- ment not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cie... ...to Lincoln as the vicious and unpatriotic themselves. His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because other- wise adherence to rig... ...f great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American statesman... ...aham Lincoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown him... ...ren, constantly look- ing for a new piece of land on which he might make a living without much work; his mother, in her youth hand- some and bright, g... ...e was taught only reading, writing, and elementary arith- metic. Among the people of the settlement, bush farmers and small tradesmen, he found none o... ...sionate impulse to help he felt not only for human be- ings, but for every living creature. As in his boyhood he angrily reproved the boys who torment... ...that only superhuman patience could have endured it all. There are men now living who would to-day read with amazement, if not regret, what they ventu... ...r of the nation in its most trying hour. Those who believe that there is a living Providence that overrules and conducts the affairs of nations, find ...

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...rom her own property as from her husband’s savings. Her two daughters were living with her; her son was being educated in one of the best government s... ...l, English well, and Ger- man badly; that is the proper thing; fashionable people would 11 be ashamed to speak German well; but to utter an occa- sio... ...o being liked by every one, old and young, and imagined that he understood people, especially women: he certainly understood their ordinary weaknesses... ... partly mort- gaged his estate, and demoralised his servants. All sorts of people of low position, known and unknown, came crawl- ing like cockroaches... ...s from all parts into his spacious, warm, ill-kept halls. All this mass of people ate what they could get, but always had their fill, drank till they ... ...bensky, whom Monsieur Courtin had by that time deserted, but who was still living, in order to make up in some way to her nephew for having wronged hi... ...tap with his stick by way of intimidating him, but Ivan Petrovitch went on living abroad and apparently did not care a straw. “Be silent! I dare you t... ...e, he decided to remove to Moscow for the sake of the greater cheapness of living, and took a tiny low-pitched house in the Old Stables Road, with a c... ...emed to him that now for the first time he understood what made life worth living; all his pre- vious assumptions, all his plans, all that rubbish and...

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...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...o the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy now, I am afraid many people will choose to understand that I refer to what is often spoken of as... ...almost all the great variety of creeds professed among us English-speaking peoples prescribe certain gen- eral definitions of what is righteous and wh... ...ill have most in mind. This is not human life merely, it is all life. This living world, 11 H G Wells as the New Republican will see it, is no more t... ...of the average birth? This speculation is as old at least as Plato, and as living as the seven or eight babies born into the English-speaking world si... ...is to be made of him, wise contrivance must sur- round him. The soft, new, living thing must be watched for every sign of discomfort, it must be weigh... ...ort and equipment, and it is manifest the mother cannot be earning her own living before and about the time of the child’s birth, nor, unless she is g... ...opment. They are born of mothers preoccupied by the necessity of earning a living or by vain occupations, or already battered and exhausted by 54 Man...

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...and normal type of constitution, but if you will not have it and insist on living under a perverted form, you may as well know how to make the best of... ... rigid constitutions, and the constitution was only changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one. Such was the p... ...re- scribe for an ailing constitution. So Herodotus recounts that when the people of Cyrene asked the oracle of Delphi to help them in their dissensio... ... represents one of the persons of the dialogue as having been asked by the people of Gortyna to draw up laws for a colony which they were founding. Th... ...experts. We think more naturally of law-making as the special right of the people and administration as necessarily confined to experts. Aristotle’s P... ...s excellence in proportion as he becomes a slave,” and the slave is only a living instrument of the good life. He exists for the state, but the state ... ...test good; for as by the completion of it man is the most excellent of all living beings, so without law and justice he would be the worst of all, for... ...ant is as an instrument in many arts. Thus property is as an instrument to living; an estate is a multitude of in- struments; so a slave is an animate... ...dently show the marks of governing and governed; and this is true of every living thing in all nature; nay, even in some things which partake not of l...

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... narrative; in the age of Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living on the glories of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in pan... ...the Phaedrus is to be attributed to Socrates. The address of the dead to the living at the end of the oration may also be com- pared to the numerous a... ... day do I come to my senses and know where I am; in the meantime I have been living in the Islands of the Blest. Such is the art of our rhetori- cians... .... A word is needed which will duly praise the dead and gently admon- ish the living, exhorting the brethren and descendants of the departed to imitate... ...their valour, and their death they gave in exchange for the salvation of the living. And I think that we should praise them in the order in which natu... ...t hereditary and then elected, and au- thority is mostly in the hands of the people, who dispense offices and power to those who appear to be most des... ...m speaking happened not long ago and we can all of us remember how the chief peoples of Hellas, Argives and Boeotians and Corinthians, came to feel th...

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... never quite at ease before genius of the gigantic kind, either in dead or living. Whether he did not like to have to look up too much, or was actuall... ...alled moral delinquen- cies, this attitude was so decided as to shock some people even in those days, and many in these. Just when the first sheets of... ...firmity, or poverty, as ridiculous in themselves: nor do I believe any man living, who meets a dirty fellow riding through the streets in a cart, is s... ...it is sufficiently certain that he had as many ances- tors as the best man living, and, perhaps, if we look five or six hundred years backwards, might... ...Joseph Andrews writ a letter to his sister Pamela. “To MRS PAMELA ANDREWS, LIVING WITH SQUIRE BOOBY. “DEAR SISTER,—Since I received your letter of you... ...ock my ears with your beastly language.” “Marry-come-up,” cries Slipslop, “people’s ears are sometimes the nicest part about them.” The lady, who bega... ...le more: by which charitable methods, together with lending money to other people, and even to his own master and mistress, the honest man had, from n... ...g words: “Sure never was such a fool as my husband; would any other person living have left a man in the custody of such a drunken drowsy blockhead as... ...eld or Wesley, or some other such great man, as a bishop, or those sort of people, I don’t care to touch; unless now it was a sermon preached on the 3...

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...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...isest and best plan of general government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representat... ...to inspire men with a scorn of mere temporal advan- tage, to give birth to living convictions, and to keep alive the spirit of honorable devotedness; ... ..., provided of- fences be diminished in the same proportion; if, instead of living in the midst of a brilliant state of society, you are con- tented to... ...Democracy in America sprouted afresh; the very props were intertwined with living verdure, and his cabin was transformed into a bower. In the midst of... ...and the turf beneath which his forefathers sleep; in short, to abandon the living and the dead in quest of fortune. At the present time America presen... ...ding judge remarked that he had not before been aware that there was a man living who did not believe in the existence of God; that this belief consti...

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...nt gained. But, so far, Congress only had acted, and an indorsement by the people, real or apparent, was indispensable to save the point already gaine... ...to any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there- from, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic instituti... ...tion members, “let us amend the bill so as to ex- pressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude slavery.” “Not we,” said the friends of... ...the leading advocate of the Nebraska Bill to state his opinion whether the people of a territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limit... ...nd that the largest of us are very small ones. Let this be granted. But “a living dog is better than a dead lion.” Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, ... ...friend the Judge is not only, as it turns out, not a dead lion, nor even a living one,—he is the rugged Russian Bear! But if they will have it—for he ... ... other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were... ...overeignty” might duly descend from the dying man and settle upon him, the living and most worthy successor. He could do no less than promise that he ... ... between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it be...

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...He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,”... ...1; then a collection of verse, “Life’s Handicap, being stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then fol... ... men with an acquaint-ance who had access to the house- hold gods of these people. He returned to England in August, 1896, and did not visit America a... ... Francisco is a mad city—inhab- ited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Contents At the Golden Gate... ...entured to suggest that the interior economy of a paper most concerned the people who worked it. “That’s the very thing that interests us,” he said. “... ... reel and the yells of Califor- 33 Rudyard Kipling nia, and three feet of living silver leaped into the air far across the water. The forces were eng... ..., nearly tumbling into that wild river. * * * Then out and away to Livingstone once more. The maiden from New Hampshire disappeared, papa and ...

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...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ...s to soldiers and other creditors of small sums, and would furnish; to the people a currency as safe as their own government. Entertaining these objec... ... enabled to realize the hopes and expectations of the govern- ment and the people. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. A. DIX. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ... ...e to us both, as I think. Y our race suffer very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we suffer... ...ate the length of time. They will feel that it gives too little to the now living slaves. But it really gives them much. It saves them from the vagran... ...as to increase prices be- yond real values, thereby augmenting the cost of living to the injury of labor, and the cost of supplies to the injury of th...

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... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ... mediately through the intervening tribes (all habitually cruel), from the people on the Tigris to those on the Jordan, I feel convinced that Moses mu... ...m the same cause—want of energy to face the difficulty of mastering a real living idiom. This defect in lan- guage, however, I cite only as one featur... ...r saw her, but through the reports of her many friends) an intrepid lady,* living in the city of London (that is, technically the city, as opposed to ... ...own his wild oats; that unhappy pony of eighteen (now, alas! sixty-two, if living; ah! vener- able pony, that must (or mustest) now require thy oats t... ...uld seem to have been worked in vain. Unquestionably, my uncle’s system of living was under no circumstances a self-denying one. To enjoy, and to make... ...power—I owe thee nothing! Of thy vast riches I took not a shilling, though living amongst multitudes who owed to thee their daily bread. Not the less ...

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...f all advice My strength can give you: then no more remains, But that to your sufficiency as your Worth is able, And let them work. The nature of our people, Our city?s institutions, and the terms For common justice, you?re as pregnant in As art and practice hath enriched any That we remember....

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....................as your Worth is able, And let them work. The nature of our people, Our city’s institutions, and the terms For common justice, you’re... ...As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand: I’ll privily away. I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes: Through it do well, I ... ... I do fear, too dreadful: Sith ’twas my fault to give the people scope, ’Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them For what I bi... ...d his sway, I will, as ‘twere a brother of your order, Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee, Supply me with the habit and instruct me Ho... ...ers with FROTH and POMPEY .] ELBOW: Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common hou... ...astly touches I drink, I eat, array myself, and live. Canst thou believe thy living is a life, So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend. POMPEY: Ind...

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...vice of extreme unction followed. The monks assembled and the cell was gradually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began coming from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of everyone. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors withdrew to make room for others. Alyosha stood beside the...

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...ually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began com- ing from the monastery. After the service was over the el... ...d Father Zossima, as far as Alyosha could remember afterwards. “Love God’s people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we... ... that I make this prayer, O Lord, for I am lower than all men…. Love God’s people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your s... ...ll come from all sides and draw away your flock. Expound the Gospel to the people unceasingly… be not ex- tortionate…. Do not love gold and silver, do... ...answered sternly, forbidding her to do so, and saying that to pray for the living as though they were dead was a kind of sorcery . He afterwards forga... ...revail against it. Has it not lasted nineteen centuries, is it not still a living, a moving power in the individual soul and in the masses of people? ... ...the individual soul and in the masses of people? It is still as strong and living even in the souls of athe- ists, who have destroyed everything! For ... ...sk for money, it’s true, but yet he won’t get a farthing from me. I intend living as long as possible, you may as well know, my dear Alexey Fyodorovit... ...happy family of sick children, and, I believe, an insane wife. He has been living here a long time; he used to work as a copying clerk, but now he is ...

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...nnot act otherwise. Wherefore among men, so long as they are considered as living under the sway of nature, he who does not yet know reason, or who ha... ... that previous to the law – that is, so long as men are consid- ered of as living under the sway of nature, there is no sin. The natural right of the ... ...re has given them no other guide, and has denied them the present power of living according to sound reason; so that they are no more bound to live by... ...is by the necessity of this alone that all individuals are conditioned for living and acting in a particular way. If any- thing, therefore, in nature ... ...till less to be feared: for it is almost impossible that the majority of a people, espe- cially if it be a large one, should agree in an irrational de... ...oes himself no good: but in a state or kingdom where the weal of the whole people, and not that of the ruler, is the supreme law, obedience to the sov... ...n power; and will be bound so to do so long as the king, or nobles, or the people preserve the sovereign power which 10 A Theologico-Political Treati... ...y by its authority: for when a man has transferred to another his right of living as he likes, which was only limited by his power, that is, has trans... ...ks and heathen, and to give orders to their subjects who settle among such peoples not to assume more freedom, either in things secular or religious, ...

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...possibly be put on it. But he had selected quotations so adroitly that for people who had not read the book (and obviously scarcely anyone had read it... ...es, beer, restaurants—everything testified to sym- pathy with the Slavonic peoples. From much of what was spoken and written on the subject, Sergey Iv... ...society with an object and an occu- pation. He saw, too, that a great many people were tak- ing up the subject from motives of self-interest and self-... ... Servians and Montenegrins struggling for a great cause begot in the whole people a longing to help their brothers not in word but in deed. But in thi... ...halovna, to the nurse, to his grandfather, to his father even, Mitya was a living being, requiring only materiel care, but for his mother he had long ... ... From that moment, though he did not distinctly face it, and still went on living as before, Levin had never lost this sense of terror at his lack of ... ... him was the thought how much easier it was to believe in a still existing living church, embracing all the beliefs of men, and having God at its head... ...elf. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living. Chapter 10 When Levin thought what he was and what he was liv- ing ... ...about it. It seemed as though he knew both what he was and for what he was living, for he acted and lived resolutely and without hesitation. Indeed, i...

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...cerned with the produc- tion of some object, and objects may be divided into living and lifeless, and rulers into the rulers of living and lifeless ob... ...master-builder, concerned with lifeless matter, but has the task of managing living animals. And the tending of living animals may be either a tend- i... ...was framed; for mankind were left to themselves, and ordered their own ways, living, like the universe, in one cycle after one manner, and in another ... ...a- tion to the art which was concerned with command- 15 Plato for-self over living creatures, when we called it the ‘feeding’ of animals in flocks. T... ... far country , is he to be prohibited from altering his own laws? The common people say: Let a man persuade the city first, and then let him impose ne... ...Examples are akin to analogies, and have a reflex influence on thought; they people the vacant mind, and may often originate new directions of enquiry... ...ies that the subject has a previous knowledge of the rules under which he is living. There is a fallacy , too, in comparing unchange- able laws with a... ...o builds his hope upon the ar- istocracy , upon the middle classes, upon the people, will probably, if he have sufficient experience of them, conclude... ... or the French Revolution, when the same inspiration has taken hold of whole peoples, and permanently raised the sense of freedom and jus- tice among ...

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...s of the recent past. He is one of the representatives of a generation still living. In this fragment, entitled “Underground,” this person introduces ... ...anybody unhappy. I almost did succeed. For the most part they were all timid people—of course, they were petitioners. But of the uppish ones there was... ... neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and us... ...e whole world that to its face! I have a right to say so, for I shall go on living to sixty myself. To seventy! To eighty!… Stay, let me take breath... ...seases and even swagger over them? Though, after all, everyone does do that; people do pride themselves on their diseases, and I do, may be, more than... ...ies I endured in that struggle! I did not believe it was the same with other people, and all my life I hid this fact about myself as a secret. I was a... ... have spoken of this because I keep wanting to know for a fact whether other people feel such enjoyment? I will explain; the enjoyment was just from t... ...ity already in my voice. “Oh, I don’t know.” “But how nice it would be to be living in your father’s house! It’s warm and free; you have a home of you... ...ou! One can only come here when one is drunk. But if you were anywhere else, living as good people live, I should perhaps be more than attracted by yo...

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...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ...se, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple- hearted than we su... ...n his mother’s side forgot him too at first. His grandfather was no longer living, his widow, Mitya’ s grandmother, had moved to Moscow, and was serio... ...ent case. This habit, however, is characteristic of a very great number of people, some of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch. Pyotr Al... ... at once to Paris, he left the boy in charge of one of his cousins, a lady living in Moscow. It came to pass that, settling perma- nently in Paris he,... ...though far from timid boy. At ten years old he had realised that they were living not in their own home but on other people’s charity, and that their ... ...by a teacher of genius. But neither Y efim Petrovitch nor this teacher was living when the young man finished at the gymnasium and entered the univers... ...And here the young man was staying in the house of such a father, had been living with him for two months, and they were on the best possible terms. T...