...scholarship which was the characteristic of the highest education of their day, their boyhood and youth were full of the unstained mirth that gives su... ...diately after breakfast, Lady Patteson read the Psalms and Lessons for the day with the four children, and after these a portion of some book of relig... ...amend it, if the birching did not do, he should not let me go home for the holidays; but I will not catch the birching... —‘So believe me your dear So... ...838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. AFTER the Christmas holidays of 1837-8, when Coley Patteson was nearly eleven years old, he was... ... and there were 5,000 lamps hung on it. Throughout the whole day we all of us wore large white bridal favours and white gloves. Towards evening the cl... ...p behind the Queen’s carriage, but a dragoon with his horse almost knocked us over. So we ran by the side as well as we could, but the crowd was so im... ...gher than that of most men: his nature was prone to introspection, and his constitutional inertness rendered it so difficult for him to live up to his... ... the Matins were daily, and followed by a lecture. At this time Patteson’s constitutional shrinking from gen- eral society was in full force, and he a... ...folk Islanders, and quietly fall into a less responsible position and be a moveable clergyman in Fiji or anywhere else, as long as my strength lasts. ...

... Charlotte Brontë T H E P R O F E S S O R CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY THE OTHER DAY, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a ... ...Charles, “I think when you and I were at Eton together, we were neither of us what could be called popular characters: you were a sarcastic, observant... ... since I saw you. Chancing to take up a newspaper of your county the other day, my eye fell upon your name. I began to think of old times; to run over... ...ed myself with an inward speculation on the differences which exist in the constitution of men’s minds. I do not know what infer- ence Mr. Crimsworth ... ...o a great paved yard, and we were in Bigben Close, and the mill was before us, vomiting soot from its long chimney, and quivering through its thick br... ...aitresse similarly elevated. At the back of the estrade, and attached to a moveable partition dividing this school- room from another beyond, was a la... ...the river, and then he speaks. “It is Christmas Eve,” says he, “I mark the date; here I sit alone on a rude couch of rushes, sheltered by the thatch o... ...ult to pay him back in his own coin. The crisis drew on. No sooner had the holidays commenced 155 Charlotte Brontë than note of preparation for some ... ... of mourn- ing for her aunt. One January morning—the first of the new year holidays—I went in a fiacre, accompanied only by M. Vandenhuten, to the Rue...

...n a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to to... ...rs Dombey , and his grandfather’ s! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,’ said ... ...eferred. That hope deferred, which, (as the Scripture very correctly tells us, Mr Dombey would have added in a patronising way; for his high- est dist... ... Mr Pilkins who, from his position, is best acquainted with the patient’ s constitution in its normal state (an acquain- tance very valuable to us in ... ...nt’ s constitution in its normal state (an acquain- tance very valuable to us in forming our opinions in these occasions), is of opinion, with me, tha... ...HAPTER 14. PAU L GROWS MORE AND MORE O LD-FASHIONED, AND GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WHEN THE MIDSUMMER vacation approached, no indecent manifestations... ...had a dreadful Uncle, who not only volunteered examinations of him, in the holidays, on abstruse points, but twisted innocent events and things, and w... ...ps, in the high places. Her mother’s picture was gone with the rest of the moveables, and on the mark where it had been, was scrawled in chalk, ‘this ... ...as transformed into a species of land-cabin, adorned with all the choicest moveables out of the parlour, inclusive even of the Tartar frigate, which t...

...nd Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new....

...the law’s against me. She’s crazed: you’ve made her mad; she knows none of us, not even her boy. Be off; you’ve done your worst; the light’s gone clea... ...me, sir? Her reason unseated! and can you pretend to the right of dividing us? If this be as you say—Oh! ten thousand times the stronger my claim, my ... ...t any cost to know and love your papa. If I call for you to-morrow or next day they will have played tricks with Harry Richmond, and hid him. Mr. Belt... ..., I accept your promise— that I shall, at my demand, to-morrow or the next day, ob- tain an interview with my wife.’ The squire coughed out an emphati... ... father’s princely reputation in the school. At times, especially when the holidays arrived and I was left alone with Julia, I had fits of mournfulnes... ...hat Heriot would have to shoot 51 George Meredith or scourge him when the holidays came. Mr. Rippenger con- cluded his observations by remarking that... ...penger’s rod. He remarked justly that I grew an impenetrably sullen boy, a constitutional rebel, a callous lump: and assured me that if my father woul... ...porary cloud, and the blessing of heaven has endowed me with a magnificent constitution. Heaven forefend that I should groan for my- self, or you for ... ... his accustomed forethought. ‘House and town and fortress provisioned, and moveable at will!’ the margravine interjected repeatedly. The princess was ...

...d across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening... ...f Caesar, crying to the inheritor of an invading name to lead them against us, as the origin of his title had led the army of Gaul of old gloriously, ... ...the renown of England to the next generation, and a wonderful Press, and a Constitution the highest reach of practical human sagacity. But where were ... ...onal penny or two wanted of him, that we may be a step or two ahead of the day we live in, unless he is frightened. But scarcely anything less than th... ... seer, I must try to paint for you what is, not that which I imagine. This day, this hour, this life, and even politics, the centre and throbbing hear... ...sue. He took his leave of Mrs. Elizabeth Beauchamp, respecting her for her constitutional health and brightness, and regretting for the sake of the co... ...esought him to give way for Piety’s sake. He, courteous, colossal, and im- moveable, waved them homeward. They returned and were hooted for belying th... ...k to no absolution of evil acts.’ The school was a hard one. It denied him holidays; it cut him off from dreams. It ran him in heavy harness on a roug... ... or a galvanized (sweet to the writer, either of them, as to the reader—so moveable they are!) would have seen her business at this point, and have gl...

...hrowing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

.................................................... 113 Chapter 1.5.V . Give us Arms. ..................................................................... ................................................. 134 Chapter 1.6.I. Make the Constitution. ................................................................ .......................................................... 176 VOLUME II. THE CONSTITUTION ................................................................. ..................................................... 249 Chapter 2.3.V . The Day of Poniards. ............................................................. ..................................................... 333 Chapter 2.6.II. Let us march. .................................................................... ... not. At most, in the immeasurable tide of French Speech (which ceases not day after day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of... ...Letter: Condorcet, Vie de Turgot (Oeuvres de Condorcet, t. v.), p. 67. The date is 29 Thomas Carlyle 24th August, 1774.) It is true, as King Louis ob... ... defend it. They are heaping tabourets (stools of honour), benches and all moveables, against the door; at which the axe of Insurrection thunders.— Bu... ...ing: “Sire, these are your faithful Lorrainers.” Cheerier verily, in these holidays, is this ‘skyblue faced with red’ of a National Guardsman, than th...

...on), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost in- dustry , make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty . But in the way in which this bus... ... they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound up- wards of four thousand pins of a middling siz... ...of the sailor, the mill of the fuller, or even the loom of the weaver, let us consider only what a variety of labour is requisite in order to form tha... ...er. Another excels in making the frames and covers of their little huts or moveable houses. He is accus- tomed to be of use in this way to his neighbo... ...uire by the toil of our own body. That money, or those goods, indeed, save us this toil. They contain the value of a certain quantity of labour, which... ...g poor are fast decaying. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mer... ...e piece, are very apt to overwork themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years. A carpen- ter in London, and in some other pla... ... than in France, the labouring poor seldom eat butcher’s meat, except upon holidays, and other extraordinary occasions. The money price of labour, the... ...vented their being broke into small parcels by alienation. When land, like moveables, is considered as the means only of subsistence and enjoyment, th...

...scussing certain topics which had formed matter for con- versation between us at an earlier period of the evening; I mean the affair of the Rue Morgue... ...wn again, without doing so, upon G.’s saying that he had called to consult us, or rather to ask the opinion of my friend, about some official business... ...ngerous extent. The personage robbed is more thor- oughly convinced, every day, of the necessity of reclaiming her letter. But this, of course, cannot... ...that letter. The fact is, it is becoming of more and more importance every day; and the reward has been lately doubled. If it were trebled, how- ever,... ...g facts, are seldom so particular as Mr. Kissam seems to be, about day and date and precise location. Besides, if Mr. Kissam actually did come upon th... ... The only consideration which restrains us is our conception of its atomic constitution; and here, even, we have to seek aid from our notion of an ato... ... minuteness, solidity, palpability, weight. Destroy the idea of the atomic constitution and we should no longer be able to regard the ether as an enti... ... touch him to be sure that he was not. He had directed, in great part, the moveable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great ... ...htly sum- mons to bed; the connings, the recitations; the periodical half- holidays, and perambulations; the play-ground, with its broils, its pastime...