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...illtop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fl... ...ack sliding waters. Carol’s family were self-sufficient in their inventive life, with Christmas a rite full of surprises and tenderness, and “dressing... ...I can’t stand it, this breaking up after four years! The happiest years of life.” She believed it. “Oh, I know! To think that in just a few days we’ll... ...ine, law, religion, and finance—recog- nized as aristocratic; four Yankees democratically chat- ting with but ruling the Ohioans and Illini and Swedes... ...o the bank for a talk, and tell ‘em a few things. I don’t mind their being democrats, so much, but I won’t stand having socialists around. But thank G... ... The children’s parents either laughed at him or hated him. He was the one democrat in town. He called both Lyman Cass the miller and the Finn home- s... ...overing something of her buoyancy, for- get her determination to begin the liberalizing of Gopher Prairie by the easy and agreeable propaganda of teac... ...ay over Carol had decided to use the Thanatopsis as the tool with which to liberalize the town. She had immediately conceived enormous enthusiasm; she... ...held up her hand. Had she actually believed that she could plant a seed of liberalism in the blank wall of mediocrity? How had she fallen into the fol...

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...ciples, as they were, the gov- ernment founded upon them was destined to a life and an influence that would continue while the liberties it was in- te... ...hich was ex- perimental in our plan of government was the question whether democratic rule could be so organized and conducted that it would not degen... ...national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily life, the business, the industries and occupations of the people. “Democrac... ...He beheld, and deplored, the excesses that had attended the genesis of the democratic spirit in France, and while he loved liberty, he detested the cr... ... is apparent that the tendency of his mind was not wholly favorable to the democratic principle, yet those who dissent from his conclusions must comme... ...eates opin- ions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce. The more I advanced in the... ...services whatsoever are remunerated, and the most subordi- nate agents are liberally paid. If this kind of government ap- pears to me to be useful and... ... it for their own descendants. The English aristocracy is perhaps the most liberal which ever existed, and no body of men has ever, uninterruptedly, f... ...nity or kindness its law, but it extolled generosity; it set more store on liberal- ity than on benevolence; it allowed men to enrich them- selves by ...

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...come. Don Jose and the Donna Inez led For some time an unhappy sort of life, Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead; They lived respec... ...t be sure she was a perfect fright; She did this during even her husband’s life — I recommend as much to every wife. Young Juan wax’d in goodlin... ...s fall; The tree of knowledge has been pluck’d all ‘s known And life yields nothing further to recall Worthy of this ambrosial sin, s... ...they wish’d to see: But if it gives them pleasure, be it so; This is a liberal age, and thoughts are free: Meantime Apollo plucks me by the ea... ... Sovereigns may sway materials, but not matter, And wrinkles, the d d democrats! won’t flatter. And Death, the sovereign’s sovereign, though ... ...d the balance of the world? Who reign O’er congress, whether royalist or liberal? Who rouse the shirtless patriots of Spain? (That make old ... ...— Jew Rothschild, and his fellow Christian, Baring. Those, and the truly liberal Lafitte, Are the true lords of Europe. Every loan Is not a ... ...Duke of Dash, who was a—duke, ‘Ay, every inch a’ duke; there were twelve peers Like Charlemagne’s—and all such peers in look And intellect, ... ...the other way, And wax an ultra royalist in loyalty, Because I hate even democratic royalty. I think I should have made a decent spouse, If ...

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...he country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of the esta... ...tive! It is scarcely possible to describe two females of the same class in life who would be less alike, personally, than Elizabeth Temple and the sis... ..., to that asylum of the persecuted an abundance of the good things of this life. He became the master of many thou- sands of acres of uninhabited terr... ... child for his own future maintenance. Major Effingham, in declin- ing the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspic... ...ist and the leech, for Dr. T odd was quite as much on a level with his own peers of the profession in that country, as was Marmaduke with his brethren... ...from an Indian,” It was fortunate for Dr. Todd that his principles were so liberal, as, coupled with his practice, they were the means by which he acq... ...the pillion that I am making for Cousin Bess.” “I thank you, sir, for your liberality, and, I trust, am also thankful for my escape,” returned the str... ...of your Washington’—a very sensible man, I declare, and none of your crazy democrats. Hum, hum—’our gallant navy’—hum, hum—’under our most excellent m...

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...e no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however....

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...es are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been an ticipated by othe... ...an the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call them what they still call themselves) h... ...h, in virtue of its superior comprehensiveness, might be adopted by either Liberal or Conservative without renouncing any thing which he really feels ... ... considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious ... ...on than else where, since the first indispensable requisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in... ...e in which there was scarcely a throne in Europe which was not filled by a liberal and reforming king, a lib eral and reforming emperor, or, stranges... ...y as, without interfer ing materially with the characteristic benefits of democratic government, to do away with these two great evils, or at least t... ...y human contrivance. The common mode of attempting this is by limiting the democratic character of the representation through a more or less restricte... ...ons and injured or menaced interests to lean upon. The great difficulty of democratic government has hitherto seemed to be, how to provide in a democr...

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...34 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ...............................................................

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....................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ......................................................................... ...thousand—three whole thousand! how much of it can we spend, Aleck? Make it liberal!—do, dear, that’s a good fellow.” Aleck was pleased; so pleased tha... ...h their beguiling fanta sies—oh yes, and how soon and how easily our dram life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together tha... ...wdling around in their private yacht. Six days of sordid and plodding fact life at home on the ragged edge of Lakeside and straitened means, the sev ... ...rest. He worked his reli gions hard, and changed them with his shirt. The liberal spendings of the Fosters upon their fancies began early in their pr... ...plete [The foregoing review of the great work of G. Ragsdale McClintock is liberally illuminated with sample extracts, but these cannot appease the ap... ...on is higher than our own. The lord of the group, for instance: a group of peers, a group of millionaires, a group of hoodlums, a group of sailors, a ... ... to be vivid; if it is a crowd of ten thousand—ten thousand proud, untamed democrats, horny handed sons of toil and of poli tics, and fliers of the e...

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... MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom House, and q...

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...l of fence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented ... ... and to my personal friends — an autobio graphical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in ad dressing the public. The first ... ... reader or the intrusive author could imagin — with a description of my way of life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse. And now — because, beyond my... ...firmly on the pedestal of his gallant services; and, himself secure in the wise liberality of the successive administrations through which he had held ... ... brotherhood that the new Surveyor was not a politician, and though a faithful Democrat in principle, neither received nor held his office with any ref... ...uished the many triumphs of my own party as it n ow did that of the Whigs. The Democrats take the offices, as a general rule, because they need them, a... ...hances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren. But who can see an inch into futurity beyond his n... ...pse of time. In no state of society would he have been what is called a man of liberal views; it would always be essential to his peace to feel the pr... ...med to see these foremost men of an actual democracy adopted into the House of Peers, or make the Privy Council of the Sovereign. Next in order to the...

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... for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To the Muse, 11 -- Destruction of the Bastile, 12 -- Life, 14 -- Progress of Vice, 15 -- Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 16 -- An Invocation, 19 -- Anna and Harland, 20 -- To the Evening Star, 21 -- Pain, 22 -- On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius,...

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... . 12 Destruction of the Bastile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Progress of Vice . . . . . . .... ...he Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life . . . . . . . 156 Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the ... .... . . . . . . 357 A Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 What is Life? - v - . . . . . . . . . 359 The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tr... ...and to raise the low. She comes! she comes! the meek-eyed Power I see With liberal hand that loves to bless; The clouds of Sorrow at her presence f... ... Rage Darts through the tear, that glistens in my eye. Is this the land of liberal Hearts! Is this the land, where Genius ne’er in vain Pour’d for... ...who own a Church, And would not leave your mother in the lurch! But when a Liberal asks me what I think — Scared by the blood and soot of Cobbett’s... ...ke a kitten amid rats, Or callow tit in nest of bats, He much abhorr’d all democrats; Yet nathless stood in ill report Of wishing ill to Church an... ...und roll of old Maeonides; But from his mantle’s fold, and near the heart, Peers Ovid’s Holy Book of Love’s sweet smart! O all-enjoying and all-ble...

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...t and complex, beyond the utmost power of such minds as ours. Every day of life drives that conviction further home. And it is possible to maintain th... ...ed religion does supply a trustworthy guide at every fork and labyrinth in life. By my allusion to the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy ... ...ivate judgment has play. No doubt upon certain defined issues of every-day life some religions are absolutely explicit; the Mahomedan religion, for ex... ...ny rate do not believe that it does. I do not believe that he or any other Liberal leader or any Conservative minister has any comprehensive aim at al... ...rn to a simple acceptance again. We are no more disposed to call ourselves Liberals or Conservatives and to be stirred to party passion at the clash o... ... popular bishops, and popu- lar anthropologists vied with titled ladies of liberal outlook in the service of this conception. There was much therein a... ... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...e country was drifting 149 H G Wells slowly towards the constitution of a democratic republic. In those days it was that there came into being a theo...

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...sily have been less than that, he was the most devoted of cousins, and the liberal expenditure of his native eloquence for the furtherance of Philip’s... ... out of his tangle into the happy open spaces where the romantic things of life are as natural as the sun that rises and sets. There you imagine what ... ...ts and vistas beyond, that shook leaves of recollection of the happiest of life—the sweet things dreamed undesiringly in opening youth. A Caroline awa... ...aliant; they are hospitable to teach the Arab a lesson: I do believe their life is their friend’s at need—seriously, they would lay it down for him: o... ... he’s an En- 78 Celt and Saxon glishman and a member of Parliament, and a Liberal though a landlord, a thorough stout Briton and bulldog for the na- ... ...hose volubility might be encouraged and their affectionateness deserved by liberal wages. The promptitude of Irish blood to deliver the war-cry either... ...es of his footmen for a day’s work, upon the plea that he had never been a democrat. The scene had been described with humanely-moralising pathos in t... ...xt, and English aristocracy received the paean. Lectures were addressed to democrats; our House of Lords was pledged solemnly in reams of print. We we... ... literary brains. They shall be knights, an ornamental body. T o make them peers, and a legislative, has not struck him, for he has not yet imagined t...

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...es: it is a questionable case. Sure only that man is mortal; that with the life of one mortal snaps irrevocably the wonderfulest talisman, and all Dub... ...t cut a cobweb; shrill Fredegonda, shrill Brunhilda have had out their hot life-scold, and lie silent, their hot life-frenzy cooled. Neither from that... ...ing; under which he marches and fights, with victorious assurance, in this life-battle: what we can call his Realised Ideals. Of which realised ideals... ...) It is true, as King Louis objects, “They say he never goes to mass;” but liberal France likes him little worse for that; liberal France answers, “Th... ...wherefrom loyal courtiers may draw,—to the just support of the throne. Let Liberalism and a New Era, if such is the wish, be intro- duced; only no cur... ... Soothing measures, recommended by the Notables; long clamoured for by all liberal men. Oil cast on the waters has been known to produce a good effect... ...all been set on; enlisted, though without tuck of drum,—by Aristocrats, by Democrats, by D’Orleans, D’Artois, and enemies of the pub- lic weal. Nay Hi... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National...

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...es: it is a questionable case. Sure only that man is mortal; that with the life of one mortal snaps irrevocably the wonderfulest talisman, and all Dub... ...cut a cob- web; shrill Fredegonda, shrill Brunhilda have had out their hot life-scold, and lie silent, their hot life-frenzy cooled. Neither from that... ...ing; under which he marches and fights, with victorious assurance, in this life-battle: what we can call his Realised Ideals. Of which realised ide- a... ...) It is true, as King Louis objects, “They say he never goes to mass;” but liberal France likes him little worse for that; liberal France answers, “Th... ...wherefrom loyal courtiers may draw,—to the just support of the throne. Let Liberalism and a New Era, if such is the wish, be introduced; only no curta... ... Soothing measures, recommended by the Notables; long clamoured for by all liberal men. Oil cast on the waters has been known to produce a good effect... ...l been set on; enlisted, though without tuck of drum,—by Aristo- crats, by Democrats, by D’Orleans, D’Artois, and enemies of the public weal. Nay Hist... ...igneurs d’Artois, Conti, Conde (named Court Triumvirate), they of the anti-democratic Memoire au Roi, has not their foreboding proved true? They may w... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ...

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...ed his profession. There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its manu- facturing leviat... ...d a fine old English fortune. As a very young man, Frank Gresham found the life to which he was thus introduced agreeable enough. He consoled him- sel... ...it was with Mr Gresham. His father had been member for Barsetshire all his life, and he looked forward to similar prosperity as though it was part of ... ...ncreased distances. Now there was something low, mean, unprofessional, and democratic in this; so, at least, said the children of AEsculapius gathered... ...a stone. Dr Thorne’s pretensions, mixed with his subversive pro- fessional democratic tendencies, his seven-and-sixpenny visits, added to his utter di... ...d achieved a sort of popularity there and elsewhere by the violence of his democratic opposition to the aristocracy. According to this man’s political... ... five or six pounds apiece will do it; eh, Thorne?’ ‘Oh, yes; that will be liberal I should say. But, Sir Roger, will you allow me to suggest what you... ...be paid for by the candidates, the voters them- selves were certainly very liberal in their mode of bringing themselves to the poll. The election dist... ... ciate the full value of an Englishman’s franchise, he had been a declared Liberal and a friend of Roger Scatcherd’s. In latter days he had governed h...

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... power. Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic ... ... gaining ground. Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest influence. The Republic of P... ...gitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; i... ...e physicians and judges, but also those who would pro fess to have had a liberal education? Is it not disgraceful, and a great sign of want of good... ... to their rulers in other States? Generally they call them masters, but in democratic States they simply call them rulers. And in our State what other... ...s and ambitious, who answer to the Spartan polity; also the oligarchical, democratical, and tyrannical. Let us place the most just by the side of th... ...chical man; and then again we will turn our attention to democracy and the democratical man; and lastly, we will go and view the city of tyranny, and ... ...n all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild beast nature, which peers out in sleep. Pray, consider whether I am right, and you agree with m...

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...going and being twice as bad yourself! I never heard of such a thing in my life.” “‘Thus bad begins; but worse remains behind,’ as the Stan- dard Eloc... ...nday night. “My Dearest: I am off—surfeited with endearment—to live my own life and do my own work. I could only have prepared you for this by coldnes... ...- gible reasons for this step. You are a beautiful and luxurious creature: life is to you full and complete only when it is a carnival of love. My cas... ...hat the season was one at which it be- comes a gentleman to be festive and liberal. “Wot luggage, sir? Hansom or fourweoll, sir?” For a moment T refus... ...ork for use in house property on the Trefusis estate. In a year or two his liberal payments enabled the mason to save sufficient to start as an employ... ...st end of London by assisting them to emigrate.” “I presume you subscribed liberally,” said Erskine. “It was an opportunity of doing some practical go... .... One man whom I sent to America made his fortune, but he was not a social democrat; he was a clerk who had embezzled, and who applied to me for assis... ...filling his glass with water. “Erskine, let us drink to our brother Social Democrat.” Erskine laughed loudly, but not heartily. “What an ass you are, ... ...d estate, and bags of gold invested in railways, calling yourself a Social Democrat! Are you going to sell out and distribute—to sell all that thou ha...

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...ent with her, before his last voyage, had been the one vivid memory of her life, and had taught her at least how to love. Poor child, that happy week ... ...w, though I tried so hard not to spoil her. It is that content with such a life which makes me think that in her 9 Yonge you may have something more ... ..., mother.” “I am afraid it does entail harder work on you, and later on in life, than if you had chosen a person with something of her own.” “Somethin... ...e!” “These were not very grand grandees, only counts, and though they paid liberally, they could not pension one. So 54 Magnum Bonum when I had done ... ..., together with a recipe for the preservation of magnum bonums, and a very liberal cheque in advance for the first quarter of her three pupils, stipul... ...ng even from the picture rods along the wall. Even in the days of the most liberal housekeeper, Ellen had never done more than peep beneath. So she re... ...d.” “Oh, yes,” said Allen, “we all know that you are a regular out-and-out democrat, Janet.” “I confess, without being a democrat,” said his mother, “... ...lucky, since they ascribe her greater religiousness to what it suits their democratic notions to scorn. Not that there is much to com- plain of in Bob... ...Yonge on regular evenings, but no one knew who was coming, from scientific peers to daily governesses, from royal academicians to medical students, fr...

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...he uniform of which he had revelled, and perhaps, for the only time in his life, felt that circumstances had suited him with a perfect fit. How- ever ... ... of his corporals, 19 George Meredith we have an estimate of the domestic life of Major and Mrs. Strike. Among the garrison males, his comrades, he p... ...c and myself, quite comfortably, and that hor- rible De Pel had no idea in life! Eugenia had just said, “This ice sickens me! I do not taste the flavo... ...t he carried a real gentleman behind him; in other words, a purse long and liberal. He judged by all the points he knew of: a firm voice, a brief comm... ...’ exclaimed the frenzied Countess, within her bosom. Alas! it was almost a democratic outcry they made her guilty of; but she was driven past patience... ...orge—the tastes of a gentle- man. I prefer him infinitely to your cowardly democrat, who barks for what he can’t get, and is generally beastly. In fac... ...nd the Harringtons had in the house was Miss Bonner, whom Providence would liberally reward. Then the Countess changed to a dramatic posture, and whis... ...all sorts: town-bred and country-bred: farmers’ daughters and daughters of peers: for this pic-nic, as Lady Jocelyn, disgusting the Countess, would ca... ... ‘Ha!’ went Andrew. ‘Y es. There. Y ou’re a deuced deal prouder than fifty peers. You’re an upside-down old despot!’ No sharper retort rising to Old T...