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...alk of raising implies a classification I doubt. I find it hard to fix any standards that will determine who is above me and who below. Most people ar... ...nicate and half display to me. My “inferiors,” judged by the common social standards, seem 60 First and Last Things indeed intellectually more limite... ...imagine no reason to prevent any women who are in agreement with the moral standards of the “Woman who Did” (standards I will not discuss at this pres... ...world, is that it does not threaten to overwhelm; that at the worst, by my standards, it maintains its way of thinking instead of assimilating mine. 3... ...er it is the body which possesses and administers Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, or the bodies claiming to represent purer and finer or m... ...o- lic teaching which have erected that new Byzantine-looking cathedral in Westminster, or Whitfield’s Tabernacle in the T ottenham Court Road, or a h... ...r than any lies. I class secrets with lies and cannot comprehend the moral standards that exonerate secrecy in human affairs. To all these things one ...

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...ituation is OK, in another it is not. ―People talk about ‗ethical standards‘ but they are talking about their own ethics. There are few univ... ... talking about their own ethics. There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason against one‘s country is one. Murder of a person in you... ...n. It wasn‘t officially ended until the mid-Nineteenth Century. By modern standards of Christian justice the methods of accusation and punishment we... ... sinning. The Ten Commandments give us a good basis for setting our moral standards. Then Pope Gregory the Great enumerated the seven deadly sins in ... ...ir populations who say they are atheists. This is fairly high by European standards. The European youth did drink alcohol and smoke more often than y... ... ----―Which animals might qualify?‖ —―Perhaps the winners of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, or a p...

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...g by himself at Gatti’s, and since he had nothing to do afterwards went to Westminster Abbey for the afternoon service. The streets were almost empty ... ...nd mak- ing merry; so he went back to Waterloo, and on his way through the Westminster Bridge Road bought some ham and a couple of mince pies and went... ...e discerning collected Japanese prints. The old masters were tested by new standards. The esteem in which Raphael had been for centuries held was a ma... ...he idea appealed to Hayward, and they jumped into a cab which took them to Westminster Bridge. They got on the steamboat just as she was starting. Pre... ...ead. It was Burton’s Jour- ney to Meccah, which he had just got out of the Westminster Public Library; and he read the first page, but could make no s... ...oms. He hunted about the streets that led out of the 492 Of Human Bondage Westminster Bridge Road, but their dinginess was distasteful to him; and at... ...which was difficult to follow, the point of view had to be shifted and old standards had to be altered before one could understand that such a 675 W....

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...three months before Everingham was all that it is now. My plan was laid at Westminster, a little altered, perhaps, at Cambridge, and at one-and-twenty... ....” 180 Mansfield Park “My dear child, commend Dr. Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul’s, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and p... ...r, Fanny. My own sister as a wife, Sir Thomas Bertram as a husband, are my standards of per- fection. Poor Janet has been sadly taken in, and yet ther... ...erest on which he had almost ceased to form hopes, succeeded to a stall in Westminster, which, as affording an occasion for leaving Mansfield, an excu...

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...father took us to London with him, and there Eustace was sent to school at Westminster; while I, with little Berry, had a tutor to teach us Latin and ... ...way to the Queen-Regent with the news of the great victory of Rocroy. More standards taken, more cannon gained, more of the enemy killed and captive t... ... a plea of service to the King which availed at the trial that followed at Westminster. Harry had managed to secure part of the es- tate, as he had li... ...d thus we had to live very frugally in 308 Stray Pearls a little house in Westminster; but as for that, I was far hap- pier marketing in the morning ...

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...great military success, in the power of bring- ing victory to the national standards, and in continued of- ferings on the altar of public vanity. In t... ...he very hills and woods; as once, we remember, upon 113 Thomas de Quincey Westminster Bridge, to a person who proposed bathing in the Thames by way o...

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...iscarded nowadays even in the high- est spheres, and always foreign to the standards of her class. She did not look for courtesies from him. But he wa... ...en rapidly in a han som from the neighbourhood of Soho in the direction of Westminster, got out at the very centre of the Em- pire on which the sun ne...

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...story of the error. But presently we shall teach the Puritan to act by the standards of his religion. All is coming right—must come right. Colney 38 ... ...; doesn’t touch them. But I want my friends to succeed!’ Their coming upon Westminster Bridge changed the theme. Victor wished the Houses of Parliamen...

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...d, too, absolute morality has gradually transformed to become men's double standards. Young men began to acquire sexual experiences, even boast about ... ... The rational West has drifted into an excessively hard, one- sided living standards society, a culture of solitary winners, with return to locality o... ...ties relying on local technology have created ethnic folk cultures: local standards of living, local social institutions, their own tradition, even s... ... to consumer. Adapting to the production society also means that the local standards and values of the community member, his entire self-sufficient w... ...eology of his own professional class and strives towards the international standards of his own consumer group. Objects, services and new technologic... ...Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese. A. Constable, Westminster. Young, Michael 1963 (1958). The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870...

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...r. Suitability—fitness—is, and always has been, the very foundation of French standards. Fitness is only a contraction of fittingness; and if any of our... ...a short stretch of her river front; even so, from the Embankment, whether at Westminster or Chelsea, one looks across at ugliness, untidiness and squa... ...G 21 to discover what becomes of a language left to itself, without accepted standards or restrictions; instances may be found among any savage tribes... ...or restrictions; instances may be found among any savage tribes without fixed standards of speech. Their language speedily ceases to be one, and deteri... ... England is still the language of her great tradition, with perfectly defined standards of taste and propriety. England is England, as France is France... ...constitutional government has long been the model of free nations. England’s standards are all implicit. She does not feel the French need of formulat...

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...tion. Bradley Headstone and Charley Hexam duly got to the Sur- rey side of Westminster Bridge, and crossed the bridge, and made along the Middlesex sh... ...things are not always what they seem. I saw a man examined as a witness in Westminster Hall. Questions put to him seemed the simplest in the world, bu... ...cher?’ ‘Thank you, Mr Headstone. In which direction?’ ‘In the direction of Westminster.’ ‘Mill Bank,’ Miss Peecher repeated in her own thoughts once a... ...assed over London Bridge, and re- turned to the Middlesex shore by that of Westminster, and so, ever wading through the fog, waded to the doorstep of ... ... wonderful godmother to do that deed.’ Thus conversing, and having crossed Westminster Bridge, they traversed the ground that Riah had lately traverse... ...sh of tears. The coolness of M. R. F . is not to be measured by ordi- nary standards.’ ‘T rue enough,’ said Lightwood. ‘That’ s all,’ pursued Eugene, ...

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...one case—what followed, I mean, on the ac- quittal of the seven bishops at Westminster in 1688. At present there was more than passionate enthusiasm. ... ...zed itself, liberated itself from the oppres- sion of life in its ordinary standards, up to a certain height. Why it did not rise still higher, and wh...

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... the short story, and found our- selves measured by all kinds of arbitrary standards. There was a tendency to treat the short story as though it was a... ... follow me, I knew, granted only that in one thing I respected their moral standards. The east and south would trust me as they would trust no other n... ...ividly to- night. I sit recalling his words, his tones, and last evening’s Westminster Gazette still lies on my sofa, containing the no- tice of his d...

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...wo hundred? The drawing-room at the Ocean Hotel, Newport, is not as big as Westminster Hall, but would, I should think, make a very good House of Comm... ... but he is the visitor’s easiest and cheapest guide. In London, the Tower, Westminster Ab- bey, and Madame Tussaud are found by the stranger with- out... ...ew York. But these places are as easily reached as Lambeth is reached from Westminster. Steam ferries ply every three or four min- utes; and into thes... ...owder; where clothes or blankets fit for soldiers can be made, or tents or standards, or things appertaining in any way to warfare, there trade was st...

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... every thing which, in the present times, we can easily form a no- tion of Westminster-hall was the dining-room of William Rufus, and might frequently... ...gh the current coin of the two countries, therefore, were equally near the standards of their respective mints, a sum of English money could not well ... ...our shillings in the pound, amounts to £123,399: 6: 7; that of the city of Westminster to £63,092: 1: 5; that of the palaces of Whitehall and St. Jame... ...al value. In some towns, the whole land tax is assessed upon houses; as in Westminster, where stock and trade are free. It is otherwise in London. In ...

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...any enthusiasm for the Old Man. It is difficult again— by the dinner-party standards—to know how Lord Curzon can be restrained. But we common people d... ...he council go they must be duly elected un- der conditions that are by the standards of the general league satisfactorily democratic. That seems to be... ...n they are in. Only as I was writing this in my flat in St. James’s Court, Westminster, did it occur to me to inquire who was representing me in the c... ...ation that that sort of reasoning represents the average mental quality of Westminster—out- side Parliament, that is. Most of my neighbours in St. Jam... ...is the profound mathematical mystery, that is the riddle beyond the wit of Westminster, which overpowers these fine intelligences and sets them babbli...

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...might stand well with a foolish world. In the then condition of the public standards of honor he could not have been comfortable with the stigma upon ... ... beginning—the taste for tobacco is a matter of superstition. There are no standards—no real standards. Each man’s preference is the only standard for... ...de counterfeit of it gathered from books and from occasional loiterings in Westminster. Richard H. Dana served two years before the mast, and had ever... ... the conveyancer’s office, but of the pleader’s chambers and the Courts at Westminster, nothing short of employment in some career involving con stan... ...r the records of the local court at Stratford nor of the superior Court at Westminster would present his name as being concerned in any suit as an att... ... the conveyancer’s office, but of the pleader’s chambers and the Courts at Westminster.” This, as Lord Penzance points out, “would require nothing sh...