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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ty of talk for the others, however, and he appeared to eat his luncheon with discrimination and appetite. Miss Molyneux, who had a smooth, nun like fo... ...ave been to close that rare volume for ever. But Lily knew nothing of these discriminations, and could only pronounce her sister’s career a strange a... ...n of the mustiest relics of its old society. In all this there was much less discrimination than in that desire for comprehensiveness of development o... ...here was something irritating—there was almost an air of mockery—in her neat discriminations and clear convictions. In Isabel’s mind to day there was ...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ent without saying. Aaron’s soul felt rather tired. But she had a touch of discrimination also. He rose and went to the drawing-room. It was a large, ... ... once that they can hire your services. It doesn’t do. They haven’t enough discrimination for that. Much best make rather a favour of it, than sort of...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

...!” he said. “Ever!” and feigned to be selecting a place to kiss with great discrimination. “Come here,” he said, and drew her to him. “Be careful of m...

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

...on education: to a certain degree their instinct takes the place of acquired discrimination. But they set a greater store on it than any other races b... ...the same level of education as those of the cinema halls enjoying with keen discrimination a tragedy by Racine or a drama of Victor Hugo’s. In Americ...

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Why We Are at War

By: Woodrow Wilson

...been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide fo...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... may not this tend to the encouragement of suicide in general, and without discrimination of its species? No: Donne’s arguments have no prospective re...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... degree of Systimenoi, or bach- elors, who were selected with more anxious discrimination, were informed that this design was to move towards its ob- ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...Mr. Norris, for example, never figured to himself a great wave of critical discrimination sweeping through the ranks of the various provision trades a... ...nd driven men glorify “push” and impatience, and despise fin- ish and fine discriminations as weak and demoralising things. These three, the Serf, the...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ... apart on their stations up the moun- tain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of dis- regarding the Middlemarch discrimination of ranks, and al- ways told his mother that Mrs. Garth was m... ... was something distinct from his own rectitude of con- duct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ...ed apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of disregarding the Mid dlemarch discrimination of ranks, and always told his mother that Mrs. Garth was mor... ...se was something distinct from his own rectitude of conduct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

... may be called, roughly, not fine; a conscience, less troubled by the nice discrimination of shades of conduct. A fine conscience is more con- cerned ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ne until one had boarded. Primarily because of concern regarding potential discrimination and the impact on passenger throughput, “selectees” were no ... ...other pas- sengers were selected at random, both to address concerns about discrimination and to deter terrorists from figur- ing out the algorithm an...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...(to bracket works of very different value) The Scarlet Letter; and by what discrimination are you to open your doors to 119 Memories and Portraits Th...

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