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...ror is not having studied the structure of the book itself, which I hold to be the only defence against the spirit of system, and the subtle ingenuit... ...ther in the scale compared with the evil effect of the books which have been written in defence of the Christian religion. The book we most Coming ... ... to the sense or to the understanding it seemeth to me there is no deliverance now, nor defence at an time, but by betaking ourselves to that prophe... ...ural man, and can present a stronger pleading to his mind, and to his heart, and to his social affections, and to his political well-being, than any... ... hyssop that groweth on the wall: and the mystery of that mighty ocean of political and social wisdom, which is recorded in the book of the Proverbs;... ...nd when we tired we refreshed ourselves with prayer, which also we regarded as our main defence against Satan. This diet also we closed with an offe... ...ing them, they went to the divine scripture to search therein for some confirmation, or defence of them, out of a spirit of mere malignity, of emula...

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... all more solicit him than to recognise fifty reasons for her national and social status. She should be the last fine flower—blooming alone, for the f... ...cautioned and stayed? The young man’s situa- tion, personal, professional, social, was to have been so decanted for us that we should get all the tast... ...relative for the young Croys—apart from giving them their fixed measure of social greatness—had struck them as being to form them to a conception of w... ... neither threatened nor appealed. Her arms of aggression, her weap- ons of defence, were presumably close at hand, but she left them untouched and unm... .... The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been nursed in the inner sanctuary a... ...explained, “to find out from her what sort of queer creature, what sort of social anomaly, in the light of such conventions as hers, such an education... .... It passed the time in a manner; but it seemed already the second line of defence, and this notwithstanding the pattern, so unmistakeable, of her cou... ...u ap- parently have.” 330 The Wings of the Dove Well, it threw her on her defence—a defence that she felt, however, especially as of Kate. “We’re ver...

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...expenses; and the fellows were to laugh at kicks and learn the art of self-defence—train to rejoice in whipcord muscles. The son of a tradesman, if a ... ... Murat had done it! These illogical boys fought for Matey Weyburn in their defence of Lord Ormont. Somewhere, they wee sure, old Matey was hammering t... ...a gratuitous Coriolanus haughtiness as well, new among a people accustomed socially to bow the head to their nobles, and not, of late, expecting a kic... ...sted savour. They enjoyed the pecu- liar novel relish of it, coming from a social pressman and a dame of high society. The different hemispheres becam... ... brother that did it. His look at Lady Charlotte glistened. She raised her defences against the basilisk fascinating Philippa; and with a vow to keep ... ... lighten again, in the way peculiar to him, when she, quite forgetting her defence of Philippa, disburdened herself of her antagonisms and enthusiasms... ...eral a great man. He now regarded him as a mere soldier, a soured veteran; socially as a masker and a trifler, virtually a callous angler playing his ... ...y field, that has not yet spoken audible thunder: the terrible aggre- gate social woman, of man’s creation, hated by him, dreaded, scorned, satirized,... ...advantage of his absence to make the clever push for an establishment, and socially force him to legalize their union on his return. The deeds of the ...

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... it would seem the world is growing accustomed to a steady glide to- wards social disintegration, and thinks that that too can go on continually and n... ...labour internationalism is closely bound up with conceptions of a profound social revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter-... ...r- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest social and economic reconstruction and by pass- ing through a phase of revo... ...ged through a long period, and may in the end fail to achieve anything but social destruction. Nevertheless, the fact re- mains that it is in the labo... ...t in houses and made his way easier by paths and roads. He complicated his social relationships and increased his effi- ciency by the division of labo... ...ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN of the Allies assigned the defence of the lower Meuse to the English, and the troop-trains were run di... ...and cus- tom and tradition ensured a perpetual vigilance and a per- petual defence against the beleaguering sea. For more than two hundred and fifty m... ...rushed, it must be remembered, through nearly incandescent gaps in the sea defences, and this vast uprush of vapour soon veiled the flaring centres of...

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... he, ‘is worth ten in the morning. It’s all formality in the morning; real social talk never begins till after dinner. That’s why I dine early so as t... ... mean to oppose him; it is he who opposes me; if anything is to be done in defence, I suppose Chadwick will do it. I suppose—’ ‘Oh, the archdeacon wil... ...ons; and the other, loose for action, was ready to fight if need be in her defence; and, below these, the decorous breeches, and neat black gaiters sh... ...en decided, the archdeacon advising, that no remonstrance, explanation, or defence should be addressed from the Barchester conclave to the editor of T... ...d her ground against him, hardly allowing him to open his mouth in his own defence. But such is the tact and talent of women! And now let us observe t... ...Abraham, the justice of the old men’s claim or the justice of Mr Harding’s defence were ideas that had never presented themselves. A legal victory ove...

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...unarmed 7 H G Wells discredited man, at a small writing-table in a little defenceless dwelling among the vines, and no human being can stop my pen ex... ...dication of all those I burnt last night, was to no single man, but to the socially constructive passion—in any man… . There is, moreover, a second gr... ...isation arose. I have long since come to believe it necessary that all new social institutions should be born in confusion, and that at first they sho... ...of men after a day or so of disregard, talking to me of history perhaps or social organisation, or summarising some book he had read. He talked to me ... ...he ever used that word, I suppose many people nowadays would identify with Socialism,—as the Fabians expound it. He was not very definite about this S... ... strung out on the London and Dover Road, a little mellow sample unit of a social order that had a kind of com- pleteness, at its level, of its own. A... ...st after I went up to T rinity, Gates, our Head, wrote a review article in defence of our curriculum. In this, among other indiscre- tions, he asserte... ...ss 61 H G Wells of that only once. All the way down to Margate we schemed defences and assailed and fought them as we came back against the sunset. A... ...ul person, modestly unconscious of his doubly- earned V. C. and the plucky defence of Kardin-Bergat that won his baronetcy. He was that excellent type...

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...easure therein. Now, in humble deference to his honour, and in justifiable defence of my friend deceased, I reply to this charge, that howsoever the f... ...ous, and planted many rowans (mountain ashes) around his hut, as a certain defence against necro- 13 mancy. For the same reason, doubtless, he desire... ...o the family parlour, or rather hall; for the place having been a house of defence in former times, the sitting apartment was a vaulted and paved room... ... projected over the walls on every side, and afforded farther advantage of defence by its niched parapet, within which arose a steep roof, flagged wit... ...ed bars of iron, and studded full of broad-headed nails. Besides all these defences, they were by no means confident in the truth of the old dame’s as... ...n whose vanity was gratified by holding even this subordinate space at the social board, while the distinction observed in ranking them was a salve to...

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...his ‘handsome, lively, witty’ apparition as a woman having po- litical and social views of her own, he would not, one fan- cies, have been so stingles... ...lent gen- eral manager, if no genius in statecraft. But he was careless of social opinion, unbuttoned, and a laugher. We know that he could be chivalr... ...educed her to think so positively. Her main personal experience was in the social class which is primitively venatorial still, canine under its polish... ...y by the worrying, stood in braced preparation for the English attitude of defence. His tormentor drew closer to him. ‘Mind, I give you warning, if yo... ... ancestral plea of ‘the pas- sion for his charmer’ had not been altogether socially quashed down among the provinces, where the bottle maintained a so... ...quick-witted and had a talkative hus- band; she knew a little of the upper social world of her time. She was heartily glad to have Diana by her side a... ...fangs and teeth, with the eyes burning over them, sufficed for the work of defence. ‘The man who swore loyalty to Emma!’ Her reproachful re- pulsion o... ...k, the green, the mixtures; each think- ing of the attack to come, and the defence. Meantime, the cut bread and butter having flown, Redwerth attacked... ...er service by never tak- ing aim abroad. They are the woman’s arts of self-defence, as legitimately and honourably hers as the manful use of the fists...

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... were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring... ...rding to abil- ity, at all hazards; nay, it was partly with a view to such defence that he engaged in this undertaking. To stem, or if that be impossi... ...nead and publish was other than medicinal and sacred. In such environment, social, domestic, physical, did Teufelsdrockh, at the time of our acquainta... ...arms, save the ball of heavy Flint, to which, that his sole possession and defence might not be lost, he had attached a long cord of plaited thongs; t... ...d shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity; Clothes have made Men of us; they are threatening to make Cl... ...o make of such sentences as the following? 32 Sartor Resartus “Aprons are Defences; against injury to cleanliness, to safety, to modesty, sometimes t... ...rand Electric Battery, and Fountain-of-motion, from which and to which the Social Activities (like vitreous and resin- ous Electricities) circulate, i... ... of folly is over, or altered, and thy clothes are not for triumph but for defence, hast thou always worn them perforce, and as a consequence of Man’s... ...homas Carlyle master-organ, soul’s seat, and true pineal gland of the Body Social: I mean, a purse?” Nevertheless it is impossible to hate Professor T...

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...opened his mouth in a silent laugh. It was having a decent cut did it. His social superiority had been so evident that even a man like that noticed it... ...was in the world of Romance and Knight-errantry, divinely forgetful of his social position or hers; forgetting, too, for the time any of the wretched ... ...the for- tified towns that spread like a map away there, the inner line of defence like toy fortifications, a mile off perhaps ; and beyond that a few... ...tablished order. Bernard Shaw, you know, has explained that with regard to Social- ism. We all know that to earn all you consume is right, and 110 Th... ...st add, implicated Mr. Hoopdriver. It indicated an entire disbelief in his social standing. At a blow, it shattered all the gorgeous imaginative fabri... ...society and among gentlemen’s servants) the good old tradition of a brutal social exclusiveness is still religiously preserved. He had an almost intol... ...rital novel, Jessie had speedily seen through that amiable woman’s amiable defences. The variety of pose necessitated by the corps of ‘Men’ annoyed he... ...ling herself of the interruption. “The point is,” said Mrs. Milton, on her defence, “that in my books—” “All I want to do,” said Jessie, “is to go abo...

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...or the ob- vious, no matter how startling, how terrible or men- acing, yet defenceless as a child before the shadowy impulses of his own heart; what c... ...ility of any violence being offered to people of our posi- tion. It is the social aspect of such an incident I am desirous of criticising.” Here d’Alc... ...she reflected. She was frank with herself. She con- sidered him apart from social organization. She dis- covered he had no place in it. How delightful... ... puff came in a free rush as if, far away there to the northward, the last defence of the calm had been victoriously carried. The flames borne down st... ...t credit you with the possession of feelings ap- propriate to your origin, social position, and the ideas of the class to which you belong. It was the... ...you for the serious side of life, for the ideas and the ambi- tions of the social sphere to which you belong.” He stopped because his wife had clasped... ...red positions. I don’t remember you ever admiring frankly any political or social success. I ask myself what after all you could possibly have expecte... ...even to her- self she looked like an apparition without rights and without defence and that must end by surrendering to those forces which seemed to h... ...orgenson as left alone on board the Emma with a few Malay spearmen for all defence. For a moment Lingard thought of picking up the pistols he had take...

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...tch at epithets, and any low contention of this kind obscured for them the social summit they hoped to attain; the dream whereof was their prime nouri... ... common shot that exploded a magazine; and for a time it quite upset their social policy, causing them to act like simple young ladies who feel things... ...ngs and the Fine Shades play a principal part in our human development and social history. I dare not say that civilized man is to be studied with the... ...art, beyond genius, beyond any special cleverness; and that was, the great social quality of taking, as by nature, without assumption, a queenly posit... ...hy merchant’s conscious- ness of his identity was vanishing under the iron social rule of the ladies. His perishing individuality prompted the inex- p... ...on- tinuing to strike the harp-frame while Emilia clutched it, in a feeble defence, against her bosom, he caught a thick stick from a neighbouring han... ...n accustomed to them; and now, if they bewilder us, our judgement, in self-defence, is compelled to set them down lunatic.” Cornelia bowed her stately... ... They posture admirably. In dumb show they are equally good for attack and defence. But this is not the case in speech. So, when Arabella explained th... ...ilt? Mrs. Chump fanned her cheek, in complete ignorance of the offence and defence. Chump, deceased, in amorous mood, had praised her management of th...

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...emocracy there are human differences, and that Ameri- can life was full of social distinctions, of delicate shades, which foreigners often lack the in... ...t was in the highest degree typical; it 13 Henry James placed them in the social scale if other evidence had been wanting; you could tell that a girl... ...ailway, the telegraph, the discovery of dynamite, the Chassepot rifle, the Socialis- tic spirit: it was one of the complications of modern life. It wo... ...mething in her air and port that matched such a pronouncement. “What’s her social position?” he inquired of Mrs. Dangerfield the next day. “I can’t ma... ...t. Yet her parents are complete little burghers. That’s easily seen.” “Oh, social position,” and Mrs. Dangerfield nodded two or three times portentous... ... gay familiarity which evidently ranked with her but as one of the arts of defence. “You’ll see what mission it is when it comes out. But I’ll speak t...

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...ndlier feeling. ‘The very same,’ said John. And the old butler removed his defences, remarking only ‘I thocht ye were that man.’ But his master was no... ...did, as near as I can see the matter, what you downright had to do in self-defence. Suppose I got into trouble, where would you be? This second little... ...r ears. Followed as he followed it, with a skilful reticence, in a kind of social chiaroscuro, it was still possible for the polite to call him a prof...

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...e they blindly trod; The state of nature was the reign of God: Self–love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man. Prid... ...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here sub... ...ll join to guard what each desires to gain. Forc’d into virtue thus, by self–defence, Ev’n kings learn’d justice and benevolence: Self–love forsook th... ... whole. Thus God and nature link’d the gen’ral frame, And bade self–love and social be the same. EPISTLE IV OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPEC... ...nce is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king, In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend: Heav’n ... ... be blest, And strongest motive to assist the rest. Self–love thus push’d to social, to divine, Gives thee to make thy neighbour’s blessing thine. Is ... ...s right; That reason, passion, answer one great aim; That true self–love and social are the same; That virtue only makes our bliss below; And all our ...

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...t she!— it’s terrible! Y ou place women in the front ranks—girls! What can defenceless creatures do? Would you let the van-regi- ment in battle be the... ...hading straw rim had shaken once during the collo- quy. It was now a fixed defence. “What is her new name?” Mrs. Sedley inquired. “That I cannot tell.... ... apostrophes to Barto left it one of the ironical, veiled Republican, semi-socialistic ballads of the time, which were sung about the streets for the ... ...was enabled to plant a sturdy hind-foot, daring her foes as from a rock of defence. A group of officers, of the cavalry, with a few infantry uni- form... ...h per- haps that additional savour of a robust immorality which a Viennese social education may give. The rounded ball of the brilliant September moon... ...g dialogue, but her first charming readiness had af- fected the proficient social gentleman very pleasantly, and with fascinated eyes he hummed and bu... ... he would have scorned another for so miserable a form either of attack or defence. Vittoria beheld Angelo circling round the point, which met him eve... ...be in England as over here,” said Anna. “We have to submit to these little social scourges.” Lena whispered to Adela, “An angry woman will think the w... ...already done much for her; for if what he had done were known, his career, social and military, was ended. This idea being accompanied by a sense of s...

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...ch regarded Napoleon), the country seemed in so perfect a state of orderly defence, and the help at hand in case of need so near and overwhelming, tha... ...es with her wit. But, as we have said, she. was growing tired of this idle social life: opera-boxes and restaurateur din- ners palled upon her: nosega... ...ord of the Powder Closet, and one of the great dignitaries and illustrious defences of the throne of England, and came up with all his stars, garters,... ...tless and perfectly irreproachable lady by even hinting that it requires a defence. Y ou will be pleased to receive her with the utmost cordiality, as...

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...18 The Research Magnificent ence, and the other that fear is essentially a social instinct. He set himself upon these lines to study—what can we call ... ...an infantile characteristic. The fear felt by a tiger cub is cer- tainly a social emotion, that drives it back to the other cubs, to its mother and th... ...d can be replaced in a man’s imagination, how far some substitute for that social backing can be made to serve the same purpose in neutralizing fear. ... ...sterday and must be extinguished to-morrow. There can be no courage beyond social courage, the sustaining confi- dence of the herd, until there is in ... ...assionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pres- sures, a mere dressing up of the crowd’s will i... ... of Ass. He was judge and jury and prosecutor, but rather inexplicably the defence was conducted in an irregular and undignified way by some inferior ... ...ar and undignified way by some inferior stratum of his being. At first the defence contented itself with arguments that did at least aim to rebut the ... ... the Tories right in their criti- cism of Home Rule? And then suddenly the defence threw aside its mask and insisted that Benham had to take this pres... ...ssible for him. “Better die with the Excelsior chap up the mountains,” the defence interjected. Than what? Consider the quality Benham had already bet...

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...otteau must be regarded as a great child, to whom most of the practices of social life were utterly unknown. And yet, the natural selfishness of all h... ... him to understand the bitterness that the sense of being kept outside the social pale puts into the heart of an old maid; he therefore calculated his... ...e intermingling of their interests was so obvious that many persons of her social sphere believed that the Abbe Troubert had designs on the old maid’s... ...fficient reasons of events which take place in the very highest spheres of social life. Mademoiselle Gamard spent her evenings by rotation in six or e... ...xcuse the tendency we all have, more or less, to gossip. It is so natural, socially speak- ing, to laugh at the failings of others that we ought to fo... ... the upsetting of all his ideas, by the rapidity of events which found him defenceless, by the ease with which his friends were settling the most cher... ...u may find that I am the only person in T ours bold enough to take up your defence; for I know the provinces and men and things, and, better still, I ...

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...moved apparently by a paternal inclination to provide this young lady with social diversion. She was standing with her mother, in one of the paths, lo... ...o an intimation that what she valued least in boarding- house life was its social opportunities. She had placed herself near a lamp, after carefully s... ...retend I said it in jest. I feel it too much. We have been having a little social discussion,” she said to her daughter. “There is still so much to be... ...ess submissive to her mother than she has to pretend to be. That’s in self-defence; it’s to make her life possible.” “She wishes to get away from her ... ...and had a charming little passion in her eye—”your mother has a great many social relations all over the Continent.” “She thinks so, but half the peop... ...n on the look-out. Sometimes it has been a valued friendship, a delightful social tie.” “Here comes the ‘European society, ’ the poor daughter’s bugbe...