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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...t in set phrases, each with a special and almost a slang signification. Some international obscurity prevailed between me and the coloured gentleman a... ... Mexicans although in the State are out of it. They still preserve a sort of international independence, and keep their affairs snug to themselves. On... ... arrival had to feel the pulse of the society; and a breach of its undefined observances was promptly pun- ished. A man might be as plain, as dull, as...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...all very well to whisper that he had been “helped” to leave England by the international banking- house in which he had been employed; he carried off ... ...ing clothes, or in both. Winsett himself had a savage abhorrence of social observances: Archer, who dressed in the evening because he thought it clean... ...d house and the density of the W elland atmosphere, so charged with minute observances and exactions, that always stole into his system like a narcoti... ...placidly observed that by that time he would have to be practising for the International Polo match. But Mr. Selfridge Merry had caught the phrase “ro...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...f-like platforms of the dock railway-line. She had been named, with proper observances, on the day she came off the stocks, no doubt, but she was very... ... nowa- days in every social sphere) a “syndicate” owning the Tremolino: an international and astonishing syn- dicate. And we were all ardent Royalists...

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Tales and Fantasies

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e voices from within; and, to John, this was like the end of all Christian observances, for he was now to be a wild man like Ishmael, and his life was... ...se was Mr. Peter Van Tromp, an English- speaking, two-legged animal of the international genus, and by profession of general and more than equivocal u...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

... accepted thing. The existing order dominated her into a worship of abject observances. It had bent her, aged her, robbed her of eyesight so that at f... ... link the comet with the end of the world. He had got that jumbled up with international politics and prophecies from the Book of Daniel. I stopped to... ... a few acci- dentally conspicuous individuals. In one of the last of these international epileptic fits, for example, the English, with much dysentery...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

... cumbersome way, luxurious. But the waste of life of it, the servants, the observances, all concentrated on the mere detail of existence? There came a... ...uled this land and made a sort of or- der that the incalculable chances of international politics might at any time shatter. Benham was drawing near n... ...arable from monarchy, were bound to precipitate catastrophe, unless a real international aristoc- racy could be brought into being to prevent it. In t... ...is one’s outlook and the more alert one is to see the risks and dangers of international dissensions. T ravel and talk to foreigners open one’s eyes t... ... the nature of things that social- ists and labour parties should minimize international obli- gations and necessities, and equally so that autocracie...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

... remittance of 294£. 13s. 6d., without being aware that the payment was an international concern, and, indeed, would probably have forgot the circumst... ...father’s eye. Her con- stant liveliness, her attention to all those little observances most gratifying to those who would never think of exacting them...

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An Unsocial Socialist

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ng that about, their fellow slaves all over the world must unite in a vast international association of men pledged to 70 An Unsocial Socialist share... ...ggerel. We must educate them out of that, and, meanwhile, push forward the international association of laborers diligently. I am at present occupied ... ...pirits. “Besides, what a precious fool I should be if I were working at an international association of creatures only fit for destruction! Hi, lady! ... ...usis impatiently. “Do you suppose my feelings are a trumpery set of social observances, to be harrowed to order and exhibited at funerals? She has gon... ...f labor, and had asked a young 119 GB Shaw working mason, a member of the International Association, to design a monument for the gratification of Ja... ... an advocate of thrift, temperance, and steady industry, and quit- ted the International Association, of which he had been an enthusiastic supporter w...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...nnot be, for nothing good is in compatible with justice; there must be an international ar rangement in this respect: England has done her part, and... ...ifference between us, I would beg leave to whisper in your ear two words: International copyright . I use them in no sordid sense, believe me, and th... .... SPEECH: THE OXFORD AND HARVARD BOAT RACE. SYDENHAM, AUGUST 30, 1869. The International University Boat Race having taken place on August 27, the Lon... ... so, for instance, to rise superior to the little shackling prejudices and observances perchance exist ing in his trade when they will not bear the t...

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

By: H. G. Wells

...olitics and legislation unorganised and ineffective. Most of the forces of international finance and interna- tional business enterprise will be with ... ...ny. The old game will be over and a quite different new game will begin in international relations. During these last few years of worry and bluster a... ..., we shall find India resuming its former central position in our ideas of international politics. With India we may pursue one of two policies: we ma... ...ormity but in his incidental scepti- cism, in the fact that underlying the observances and recognised rules and limitations that give the texture of h...

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...way of reprisals for the violation of the T reaty of Amiens, an outrage of international law perpetrated by the Court of St. James. These prisoners, c... ... her father’s creed of philosophism, and practised no 73 Balzac religious observances. A priest, to her way of thinking, was a civil servant of very ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...c in London than in Paris; and causes bets and lawsuits. Beautiful days of international communion! Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands a... ...ve help and countenance. A Decree much noised of by Diplomatists, Editors, International Lawyers; such a Decree as no living Fet- ter of Despotism, no... ...thered together, there are formed modes of existing to- gether, habitudes, observances, nay gracefulnesses, joys! Citoyen Coitant will explain fully h...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ot now of your ordinary religious believer, who follows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammeda... ... degree. The most important consequence of having a [123] Published in the International Scientific Series. 230 The V arieties of Religious Experienc...

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