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... on slavery. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and... ...zed to learn and to better itself. In due time, it will dwindle and die. Acquire a wall of "defensive" patents to deny competitors access to the la... ... we safely maintain our sense of moral supremacy and self-righteousness even as we wallow in the minutest details of the vilest crimes. Existence ... ...y, of the Royal Institute of British Architects describe smaller flats with movable walls as a probable response to over-crowding. Home systems will... ...ontractors which provide cheap labor in offshoring or outsourcing deals. Acquire a wall of "defensive" laws, regulations, court precedents, and pol... ...l bisexual to a certain degree. As early as 1910, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld argued, in Berlin, that absolute genders are "abstractions, invented extrem... ...ion. The reluctant allies first confronted Germany and Stalinist Russia with which Berlin had a non-aggression pact. When Hitler then proceeded to ...

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... to an end? Or, if you ever find an end, how is it? A hundred miles high wall... and thick? A precipice, a chasm? Or the universe is circular, and... ...omists and Epicurus", Russell & Russell, Inc., New York, 1964. 84 [ 4] Berlin, Isaiah (ed.), "The Empiricists: John Locke, George Berkeley, David ... ... yellow and red as well if a continuum spectrum of colors is painted on a wall imperceptibly changing from one into another. We would be able to say...

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...arpet, and examined the boards with the microscope.” “And the paper on the walls?” “Yes.” “Y ou looked into the cellars?” “We did.” “Then,” I said, “y... ... as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shin- ing, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degre... ...rboard arose the world of ocean we had left. It stood like a huge writhing wall between us and the horizon. “It may appear strange, but now, when we w... ...ave already described, streamed in a flood of golden glory along the black walls, and far away down into the inmost recesses of the abyss. “At first I... ... This mist, or spray, was no doubt occasioned by the clashing of the great walls of the funnel, as they all met together at the bottom—but the yell th... ...ficious- ness, stepped he in between me and my ambition! At Vienna, too—at Berlin—and at Moscow! Where, in truth, had I not bitter cause to curse him ...

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...uld see men standing about, spitting, smok- ing, leaning against clapboard walls. Some of the men in line could hear their watches ticking in their po... ... John Andrews stood naked in the center of a large bare room, of which the walls and ceiling and floor were made of raw pine boards. The air was heavy... ... spat again, and climbing down from his ladder waited, leaning against the wall, until Andrews should finish soaping his window. “I’ll go crazy if I s... ...older than me, ain’t yer?” “I’m twenty-two.” They were leaning against the wall of their barracks, look- ing up at the brilliant starry night. “Say, i... ... of that?” Everybody laughed. “How’d that do? I’ll start an Irish House in Berlin, I will, and there’ll be O’Casey and O’Ryan and O’Reilly and O’Flarr... ...ume?” “Yes,” said Fuselli sullenly, dragging one of the cots away from the wall. 48 Three Soldiers “Parla Italiano?” “You mean, do I speak Eyetalian?... ...ng were you at the front, buddy,” asked Cohan coolly. “I guess you been to Berlin already, ain’t yer?” “I say that any man who says an American’ld let... ... have pulled off? They’ve bombarded Frankfort; now if they could only wipe Berlin off the map.” “Say, d’you hate ‘em awful hard?” said Andrews in a lo... ... waiting for the word, if necessary, to continue their glorious advance to Berlin. For I am sorry to say, boys, that the Germans have not undergone th...

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...ed from the door to toss them under the form, so that they hit against the wall and made a lot of dust: it was “the thing.” But, whether he had not no... ... he came back from the hospital, while he sat kicking his feet against the wall. After this he had to run off to lectures, to the operation-room, to t... ... his letter, watched his comings and goings, and listened at the partition-wall when women came to consult him in his surgery. She must have her choco... ...standing near the bed, held the light. Madame in modesty had turned to the wall and showed only her back. This letter, sealed with a small seal in blu... ...ere foraging on the top of it. The sheepfold was long, the barn high, with walls smooth as your hand. Under the cart-shed were two large carts and fou... ... all dislike his company . He had knocked about the world, he talked about Berlin, Vienna, and Strasbourg, of his soldier times, of the mistresses he ...

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...ure had been French. Even now German writers found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves... ...ces or knights interfered with the city’s right of chase out- side, or the walls were encompassed or besieged by an enemy. This pleased us much, and w... ...lmost immea- surable extent of neighboring gardens, stretching to the very walls of the city. But, alas! in transforming what were once public grounds... ...cious out-houses and large gardens to them- selves, while a tolerably high wall shut us out from these ad- jacent paradises. On the second floor was a... ..., but somewhat sentimental, retreat. Over these gardens, beyond the city’s walls and ramparts, might be seen a beautiful and fertile plain, the same w... ...red with wearisome tasks and studies, the passages they had played in, the walls which had always been kept so carefully clean, all falling before the...

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...uld not stand in quiet; I threw the book from me with violence against the wall; I began to hurry backwards and forwards in a short uneasy walk, when ... ...Agnes should, in her desolation and solitary confinement to these wretched walls, find her frail strength give way—should the moral horrors of her sit... ...opened she was dis- covered sitting at a table placed against the opposite wall, her head pillowed upon her arms, and these resting upon the table. He... ...a little, and then told us that he could himself put us outside the prison walls, and would do it with- out fee or reward. ‘But we must be quiet, or t... ...han that of captivity, their parents having passed many years within these walls, under confinement for debt. The sculptures were not remarkable, bein... ...ank, wit, or knowledge, that Prussia afforded! A distinguished person from Berlin, who had called upon him during the preceding summer, was greatly sh...

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...is natural; those of them who are so unfortunate as to serve as waiters in Berlin call the Anhalt Bahnhof the Stazione d’Italia, because by it they mu... ...ng, I felt for a moment that the whole Wilcox fam- ily was a fraud, just a wall of newspapers and mo- tor-cars and golf-clubs, and that if it fell I s... ... 33 EM Forster events, she had felt the same, and had seen the reli- able walls of youth collapse. Panic and emptiness! Panic and emptiness! The gobl... ...der can—and say 38 Howards End straight off what they feel, all round the wall. I never could do that. But music is so different from pictures, to my... ...m, at all events. Only the majolica plate—and that is so firmly set in the wall. I am really distressed that he had no tea.” For that little incident ... ...two other chairs, a piano, a three-legged table, and a cosy corner. Of the walls, one was occupied by the window, the other by a draped mantelshelf br...

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...et treatise on Speculative Astronomy, written either by Professor Encke of Berlin or by a Frenchman of somewhat similar name. I had some little tinctu... ...ess of his temper by any comment. Presently he took from his coat pocket a wallet, placed the paper care- fully in it, and deposited both in a writing... ...one at a great distance. His eyes, vacant in expression, regarded only the wall. “That the voices heard in contention,” he said, “by the party upon th... ...The police have laid bare the floors, the ceilings, and the masonry of the walls, in every direction. No secret issues could have escaped their vigila... ...th about half open—that is to say, they stood off at right angles from the wall. It is probable that the police, as well as myself, examined the back ... ...ng to the window at the head of the bed, would, if swung fully back to the wall, reach to within two feet of the lightning-rod. It was also evident th...

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...telephone. Portraits of past May- ors, in robes and gold chains, adorn the walls. An elderly clerk with a short white beard and whiskers, and a very r... ...y ushering a very attrac- tive lady, brilliantly dressed. She has a dainty wallet hanging from her wrist. Augustus hastily covers up his toilet appara... ...-god riding on a tidal wave, you suddenly sprang over the top shouting “To Berlin! Forward!”; dashed at the Ger- man army single-handed; and were cut ... ...ur name on it. Fortunately I have some letters of my own here [opening her wallet.] Why not hide it in one of my en- velopes? then no one will dream t... ...pares the two to see that they look exactly alike: whips the list into her wallet: and substitutes the facsimile for it. Then she listens for the retu... ...USTUS. Your bet! THE LADY [into the telephone]. Yes: I have the list in my wallet .... AUGUSTUS. Nothing of the kind, madam. I have it here in my pock...

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...ugh). THE EMPEROR (standing on a chair inside his box and looking over the wall). Sorcerer: I command you to put that lion to death instantly. It is g... ... Ro- man lions and spectators used to do. It was currently reported in the Berlin newspapers that when Androcles was first performed in Berlin, the Cr...

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...elf to take any sleep, save what she could get resting herself against the wall, fearing that if she sat down, she would sleep too long. These extra e... ...he branches of the shrubs from the centre, and weaving them together for a wall on the outside, forming a circular arched al- cove, made entirely of t... ...cries, was caught up by a white man, who dashed its brains out against the wall. An Indian (for Indians were plenty in that region then) passed along ... ...y to another. Matthias admitted the call of Mr. Pierson, in the omnibus in Wall street, which, on this occasion, he gave in these words:—’Thou art Eli... ...and many were the tears they shed at the loss of her. But when she reached Berlin, Conn., she wrote to them by amanuensis, informing them of her where... ...n New York, where she saw a great many enigmatical pictures hanging on the wall, which she could not understand, and which, being out of the reach of ...

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...nisov, shak- ing his orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. “Denisov, let him alone, I know who has taken it,” said Rostov, going... ...me of the meeting between the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and ther... ...bout politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these two. “The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began Hippolyte gazin... ...each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied faces, the wall of soldiers bur- dened with knapsacks and muskets marched in step, and...

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...thinker they look at me as a policeman looks at a midnight prowler or as a Berlin bourgeois looks at a suspicious foreigner. They ask “Do you believe ... ...ers her with her long warshield; summons Loki, who comes in the shape of a wall of fire surrounding the mountain peak; and turns his back on Brynhild ... ...- men: he must create towns and govern markets. In the mean- time, Fafair, wallowing in dividends which he has done noth- ing to earn, may rot, intell... ...more or less mechanically to fill up the pattern, an air being very like a wall-paper design in this respect. Thus the second stave is usually a perfe... ...us results; and the opera, like the tragedy, is conventionally made like a wall paper. The theatre seems doomed to be in all things the last refuge of...

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...ay he ordered such and such 85 Tolstoy papers to be written to Vienna, to Berlin, and to Petersburg; tomorrow such and such decrees and orders to the... ...an solve this question, are like plasterers set to plaster one side of the walls of a church who, availing themselves of the absence of the chief supe... ... of zeal plaster over the windows, icons, woodwork, and still unbuttressed walls, and should be delighted that from their point of view as plasterers,...

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...fered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the Emperor Alexander’s visit to Pot... ... tall, fair-haired General Buxhowden stood, lean- ing his back against the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen or even ... ...ping descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a wall. On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostov could not at all ma...

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...th group that he was prepared to die with the city train bands un- der the walls of the capital, but that he still could not help regret- ting having ... ...e the rich educated people who knew quite well that Vienna 17 Tolstoy and Berlin had remained intact and that during Napoleon’s occupation the inhabi... ... knees be- fore the icons that had been left here and there hanging on the wall. (The most precious ones, with which some family tradi- tion was conne... ...ting in the carriage beside the countess and gazing at the slowly receding walls of forsaken, agitated Moscow. Occa- sionally she leaned out of the ca... ... that meet the bee- keeper are not the same. To the beekeeper’s tap on the wall of the sick hive, instead of the former instant unanimous hum- ming of... ...riveled bees crawl about separately in various directions on the floor and walls of the hive. Instead of a neatly glued floor, swept by the bees with ... ...mained in it. Moscow when occupied by the enemy did not remain intact like Berlin, Vienna, and other towns, simply because its inhabitants abandoned i... ...u civilized people, you ought to know us better than that. We took Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Naples, Rome, Warsaw, all the world’s capitals…. We are fea...

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...nd on the brow say of Belshazzar when the apparition of the writing on the wall disturbed his impious feast, that it would seem more ideal and more ma... ...whom want of grace Has made the father of a nameless race, Shoved from the wall perhaps, or rudely press’d By his own son, that passes by unbless’d: S... ... Chartreux stands the good old Hall, Silence without, and fasts within the wall; No rafter’d roofs with dance and tabor sound, No noontide-bell invite... ...worst inn’s worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair’d with... ...ler saw tenants break, and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger’s power; For very want he could not p... ...ur verses sterling, Though with a golden pen you scrawl, And scribble in a berlin: 3 For not the desk with silver nails, Nor bureau of expense, Nor st...

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...plest style. But the ornamental part of the interior is most peculiar. The walls of the building are covered with a double row of wax statues, of life... ...ful piece of art—for so it was—a Venetian mirror of Murano. It hung on the wall inside the village draper’s shop, and was readily 43 George Meredith ... ...nc- ing in the Italian Tyrol, while the Austrians wait for them behind the walls of Landaro and Ampola. The Garibaldians’ advanced posts were, by the ... ... connected with that embassy, plainly indicated the disappointment felt at Berlin at the rather inefficacious nature of the diversion made in V enetia...

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...crumb boiled in milk), and eat it out of doors. On the coping of the Orchard wall, which I could reach by climbing, or still more eas ily if Father A... ...ughtful, almost poetical. Thus, to say nothing of his Suppers on the Orchard wall, and other phenomena of that earlier period, have many readers of th... ... if both leader and led simply—sit still? Had you, anywhere in Crim Tartary, walled in a square enclosure; furnished it with a small, ill chosen Libra... ...; or, in mad exasperation, must rush to and fro, leaping against sheer stone walls, which he cannot leap over, which only lacerate and lame him; till ... ...rsting the heart in pieces (which were Death); or at best, bursting the thin walls of your “reverberating furnace,” so that it rage thenceforth all un... ...t Events, also, have not I witnessed? Kings sweated down (ausgemergelt) into Berlin and Milan Customhouse Officers; the World well won, and the World w... ...tly after, as Ew. Wohlgeboren knows, was the public tranquillity here, as in Berlin, threatened by a Sedition of the Tailors. Nor did there want Evil ...

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... of the Empire. — Of Europe. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his own expense. — The King of Denma... ...eld. — Edict of Restitution in 1628. — Diet at Ratisbon. — Negociations. — Wallenstein deprived of the Command. — Gustavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. —... ... Bohemia, and takes Prague. — Distress of the Emperor. — Secret Triumph of Wallenstein. — He offers to Join Gustavus Adolphus. — Wallenstein re-assume... ...n Gustavus Adolphus. — Wallenstein re-assumes the Com- mand. — Junction of Wallenstein with the Ba- varians. — Gustavus Adolphus defends Nuremberg. — ... ...ein with the Ba- varians. — Gustavus Adolphus defends Nuremberg. — Attacks Wallenstein’s Intrenchments. — Enters Saxony. — Goes to the succour of the ... ...o renounce the Danish alliance. Wallenstein’s formidable appearance before Berlin reduced the Elector of Brandenburgh to submission, and compelled him... ...o give weight to this declaration, he appeared with his whole force before Berlin. “I will not be worse treated than the imperial generals,” was his r...

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...n to a corner of the room and threw himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. Pierre hid his face, from which a faint smile forgot to fade though h... ...ed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large V enetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs. “... ...room, stopping occasionally at a cor- ner to make menacing gestures at the wall, as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely ... ...tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other men of the same ki... ...bout politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these two. “The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alli- ance,” began Hippolyte gaz... ...fered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the Emperor Alexander’s visit to Pot... ... go away were the rich educated people who knew quite well that Vienna and Berlin had remained intact and that during Napoleon’s occupation the inhabi... ...mained in it. Moscow when occupied by the enemy did not remain intact like Berlin, Vienna, and other towns, simply because its inhabitants abandoned i... ...u civilized people, you ought to know us better than that. We took Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Naples, Rome, W arsaw, all the world’s capitals.... W e are...

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...ical students of that period, he became a Hegelian, and in 1840 he went to Berlin to continue his studies, in the hope of ulti- mately becoming a prof... ...d fetters on hands and feet, and in one of them he was even chained to the wall by the belt. There seems to have been some peculiar pleasure to be der... ...e than geographi- cal. The legislators live in comfort, protected by thick walls and innumerable policemen from the voice of the mob; as time goes on ... ...e who do think find themselves con- fronted with an even more impenetrable wall of unreflecting conservatism than that which confronts them at present...

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...Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie—for example, the taint of van- ity, any... ... break the bounds that, though often tried before, had long been veritable walls about my life, too high to climb. I began to read and walk as I had n... ...o used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undersh... ...oken by his brother were like the light push of a finger against a leaning wall already about to tumble by its own weight. These 177 William James wo... ... that once I nursed as a heritage of humanity than a fop would voluntarily wallow in a filthy gutter. “There is no doubt in my mind that pure Christia... ... that Thomas Carlyle put him into his bath-tub every morning of a freezing Berlin winter, he pro- claimed one of the lowest grades of asceticism. Even... ...1. [245] I follow the account in C. F. Koeppen: Die Reli- gion des Buddha, Berlin, 1857, i. 585 ff. 390 The V arieties of Religious Experience cal tr...

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... of streets and buildings; the quaint, venerable age of many, and the thin walls and warm colouring of all. We have, in Scot- land, far fewer ancient ... ... sparingly used in their construction; the window-frames are sunken in the wall, not flat to the front, as in England; the roofs are steeper-pitched; ... ..., or the Forty-five were still either failures or defeats; and the fall of Wallace and the repeated reverses of the Bruce combine with the very smalln... ...ng bedside the minister was summoned. He dwelt in a cottage built into the wall of the church-yard; and through a bull’s- eye pane above his bed he co... ...ith fire and candle, like some goodly dining-room; a passage-like library, walled with books in their wire cages; and a corridor with a fireplace, ben... ...rns; and in that kind of work I never made anything but a kettle-holder in Berlin wool, and an odd garter of knitting, which was as black as the chimn...