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...he fireflies at Fiesole. Then he walked back through the evening lights to Westminster. He was oppressed, he was indeed scared, by his sense of the im... ...ng thither from Cairo, and to follow the Nile up to Khartum. Even by later standards, it must have been a very gleeful holiday for a young man, and it... ...e with a very tall and slender campanile and a line of cable bearing metal standards that he could not clear. He stopped his engine abruptly and dropp... ...ower. It was a world extraordinarily limited when one measures it by later standards, and it was now in a state of the direst confusion and distress. ... ...and north-west, they say; and most of the bridges and large areas of dock. Westminster, which held most of the government offices, suffered badly from...

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...pound, at the very same time when the rich parish of Saint George’s, Hanover-square, is rated at about sevenpence in the pound, Paddington at about fo... ... From the dead wall associated on those houseless nights with this too common story, I chose next to wander by Bethlehem Hospital; partly, because it ... ...ll Dreams the insanity of each day’s sanity. By this time I had left the Hospital behind me, and was again setting towards the river; and in a short b... ...; hinting in low whispers what numbers of people they were keeping awake, and how intensely wretched and horrible they were rendering the small hours ... ...ud cry, and such scant sup- ply of wool; such a deal of fleecing, and so little fleece! Hence, in the Arcadian season, I find it a delicious triumph t... ...aly prey,—much impressed me. Suddenly, too, a banner would shiver in the wind, and go about in the most inconvenient manner. This always happened ofte...

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...he rail ran along the ground, where it was dear the rail lifted up on iron standards and passed over- head; its swift, convenient cars went everywhere... ... and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westminster Bridge, and narrowly escaped disaster by running ashore—it was ... ...yre had become deflated, small and indeed negligible accidents by Bun Hill standards, due entirely to the ungentle handling of the delicate machines e... .... The lights were on the ground because as far as pos- sible all poles and standards had been dispensed with to pre- vent complications when the airsh... ...ivate. Bert went back, white and scared, but re- solved by all his Cockney standards upon one thing. He was bound in honour to “go for” the Prince. “G... ...ouragement, and led the way inside. The shop seemed to him by his Bun Hill standards ex- tremely roomy, well lit, and unencumbered. There was a long c...

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...f wisdom, but I think that was a very wise remark. People connected with literature and philosophy are busy all their days in getting rid of second-ha... ...better position at home, with a good bit of money in hand, refer to her own child with a horrid whine as ‘a poor man’s child.’ I would not say such a ...

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...ividly to- night. I sit recalling his words, his tones, and last evening’s Westminster Gazette still lies on my sofa, containing the notice of his dea... ... 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... ...rk the sweep of the Embankment, and above its para- pet rise the towers of Westminster,warm grey against the star- light. The black river goes by with...

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...the Jubilee, Victoria’s Jubilee, because I remember the seats and flags in Westminster, and the row with the cabman at Chelsea.” “The Diamond Jubilee,... ...ight be. His first enquiry simply resulted in a direction to go on towards Westminster. His second led to the discovery of a short cut in which he was... ...answer he could understand. He was two miles from the wind-vane offices in Westminster, but the way was easy to follow. When at last he did approach t... ...hapes below. St. Paul’s he knew survived, and many of the old buildings in Westminster, embedded out of sight, arched over and covered in among the gi... ...us feuds that had robbed the common citizens of educa- tion, robbed men of standards of conduct, and brought the sanctions of morality to utter contem...

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... the benefits from such a warfare, and having suffered too much in his own Westminster experience, he could not judge them from an impartial station; ... ...st half an hour; but at length we reduced the question to a choice between Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral. I know not that we could have c... ... on, until we left the place. The same complaint has been often made as to Westminster Abbey. Where the wrong lies, or where it com- mences, I know no... .... It is certain, however, that, under the counsels of Lord Cornwallis, the standards of public severity were very much lowered, as compared with the p... ...emale drawing rooms of the palace, whilst it was corrupted in the forensic standards and the academic—in the standards of the pulpit and the throne. W...

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...ery awkward conse- quences of a plea before our sovereign lord the king in Westminster. The Baron of Bradwardine, for he was generally so called in Sc... ...d a sum in reimbursement of expenses incurred in the King’ s High Court of Westminster, which, although not quite so formidable when reduced to the En... ...interested, and that he would have grudged the moneys paid to the loons at Westminster much less had they not come from Bradwardine estate, a fund whi... ...y oath, the Sacramentum Militare, by which every of- ficer is bound to the standards under which he is enrolled? Look at Titus Livius, what he says of... ...ive, I am and will be called Habakkuk Gilfillan, who will stand up for the standards of doctrine agreed on by the ance-famous Kirk of Scotland, before... ... the Protesters, and the Whiggamore’s Raid, and the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and the Longer and Shorter Catechism, and the Excommunication ... ...servants and retainers, formed the ad- vanced guard of the army; and their standards, of which they had rather too many in respect of their numbers, w... ... his occasional adherents had been recalled by their several chiefs to the standards to which they most properly owed their alle- giance. The rival ch... ...hall lodge his security; and I should like to see him put to justify it in Westminster Hall!’ ‘Nay, they are already at liberty, upon bail of a more c...

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...act render them invincible. The Gauls gave way, lost seventy-four of their standards, and Vergosillaunus himself was taken a prisoner; and as for the ... ...heir submission, and drawing up his troops in battle array, with the Eagle standards around him, he watched the whole Gallic army march past him. Firs... ...ter into the spirit that preferred death to transgression. He was tried in Westminster Hall, on the 1st of July, and, as he had fully expected, senten... ...ted, he said, ‘before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Ab- bey.’ In the fleet went, through a fierce storm of shot and...

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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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...ge this sense of the round world was so upon you that you faced not merely Westminster, but the icy Atlantic and America, which one could yet fancy wa... ...e. Cambridge had abounded in Indians; and beneath that tall clock tower at Westminster it seemed as though the world might centre. The background of t... ...forehand for any- thing in this filthy sort of life is a fool. You see the standards of the beast. They think of nothing but their dirty little tricks... ...miscellaneous tenderness, Benham? Why grin at it? Why try every one by the standards that suit oneself? We’re savages, Benham, shamefaced savages, sti... ...issionaries from Glasgow, and what doesn’t remind them of these delectable standards seems either funny to them or wicked. I admit the thing is slight...

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... room was very still. It was a room which observed the best Floral Heights standards. The gray walls were divided into artificial pan- eling by strips... ...lly the Sunday School could be organized he learned from an article in the Westminster Adult Bible Class: “The second vice-president looks after the f... ...round to inform folks that get too flip that they got to conform to decent standards and quit shooting off their mouths so free. Don’t it sound like t... ...about it?” Babbitt was uncomfortable. He felt a compulsion back to all the standards he had so vaguely yet so desperately been fleeing. He fumbled: “I... ...ed in be- ing more vigorous and in actually trying to produce the accepted standards which all classes, everywhere, desire, but usually despair of rea...

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...trachordon, had been ridiculed, it would seem, by the divines assembled at Westminster, and others, on account of the hardness of the title; and Milto... ...y one who could bear arms to meet the King’s lieuten- ant, and to join the standards of their respective Chiefs, as they marched towards Inverlochy. A... ...n of being suffered to re- turn to their homes in peace. Arms, ammunition, standards, and baggage, all became the prey of the conquerors. This was the...

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...and, their differences of opin- ion, and puny wranglings, hoistings of two standards, rec- onciliations for the sake of decency, breaches of the truce... ...ra was over: not at his Club, nor at his cham- bers: on one of the bridges—Westminster, he fancied. There was no need for Redworth to run hunting the ... ...ed walking with her daily in the park near her house, on his march down to Westminster dur- ing the session; and who positively went to concerts and s... ...ana’s house, abusing her for her inveterate at- tachment to the regions of Westminster. There she used to receive Lord Dannisburgh; innocently, no dou...

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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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...uential stream. Upon some such scale, and not by a trans- fer of Columbian standards, is the course of our English mails to be valued. The American ma... ...that you fancy;” which is like referring a man for his salle à man- ger to Westminster Hall or Fleet Street. Augustus, in a letter still surviving, te...

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... 36 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo a couple of ragged old standards of one of the English regi- ments, who pursued and conquered in E... ...d), and found it was the prison of the place. The door was as wide open as Westminster Hall. Some prisoners, one or two soldiers and functionaries, an...

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...tly that her appearance was complete and perfect, accord- ing to the first standards, yet she suffered a torture, under her confidence and her pride, ... ... at all, do you?’ he challenged Birkin, censoriously. ‘Standard—no. I hate standards. But they’re necessary for the common ruck. Anybody who is anythi... ...d or not, she signified the real world to him. He wanted to come up to her standards, fulfil her expectations. He knew that her criterion was the only... ...number of ‘em.’ Gudrun turned on him brilliantly. ‘Have you ever been from Westminster Bridge to Rich- mond on one of the Thames steamers?’ she cried.... ...ng herself the measure of everything, making everything come down to human standards. Rupert is quite right, human beings are boring, painting the uni... ... their old cultured milieu. Her convention was not their convention, their standards were not her standards. But theirs were established, they had the...

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...e grounds of rhyme or metre. In the course of an article published in the “Westminster Review” for July, 1870, Miss Mathilde Blind, with the aid of ma... ...ide and vast, Millions there lift at Freedom’s thrilling call Ten thousand standards wide, they load the blast 102 V olume One Which bears one sound ... ...arges, and the wheels Of scythed chariots, and the emblazonry Of trophies, standards, and armorial beasts, Round which death laughed, sepulchred emble... ..., that when London shall be an habitation of bitterns; when St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey shall stand, shape- less and nameless ruins, in the midst... ... the Boscombe manuscript, were given to the world by Miss Mathilde Blind, “Westminster Review”, July, 1870. The poem was, of course, included in the “... ... H OF H OF H OF LIFE. LIFE. LIFE. LIFE. LIFE. Published by Miss M. Blind, “Westminster Review”, July, 1870. Out of the eastern shadow of the Earth, Am...

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... of it; and that he compared the Rialto, greatly to its disadvantage, with Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. I need not add, after what you have sa... ... Bar explained himself to have been quoting Gay. ‘Assuredly not one of our Westminster Hall authorities,’ said he, ‘but still no despicable one to a m... ...Heaven, no! It may be worth thinking of by Fawners of all denominations—in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul’s Ca- thedral put together, on any Sunday ... ...rnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred’s downwards. Mr Baptist had bee... ...ht into their tendernesses and affections, in one week of his rounds, than Westminster Hall and all the circuits put together, in three- score years a... ...uently he was no loss. Bar, who picked up all sorts of odds and ends about Westminster Hall, much as a raven would have done if he had passed as much ...

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...living in the city of London (that is, technically the city, as opposed to Westminster, etc., Mary-le-bone, etc.), who made a point of turning out her... ...but at some period, long subse- quent to this, raised to the Marquisate of Westminster, a title naturally suggesting in itself a connection with the v... ... ugly word was that; but I argued that even at home, even in the courts at Westminster, in the very foun- tains of justice, private fees constituted o... ...ss sufficient to overthrow the apparent equilibrium demanded by the common standards of a just national character, the speculator then proceeds, as in... ... other imperial commanders, but, above all, Holk, had at- tracted to their standards the very refuse of the German jails; and, allowing an unlimited l...

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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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...esentation to be ‘understanded of the people,’ at least by the 6th and 7th standards. On the whole, however, compre- hension seemed to have been bound... ... the little paradises of books and pic- tures in Northumberland Avenue and Westminster Sanctu- ary, and went to Evensong at the Abbey, Mysie’s first s... ...pportunity of seeing the Houses of Parliament to be lost, and the spell of Westminster Abbey was upon Mysie. Cousin Rotherwood was a perfect escort, a...

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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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...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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...gh they did very well for Barchester, would have been almost ridiculous at Westminster. Mrs Proudie determined that her husband’s equipage should not ... ...ceding day. On that occasion, Mrs Proudie had been defeated. That from her standards was a subject of great sorrow to that militant lady; but though d... ...n a throne at Windsor, a cabinet in Downing Street, or even an assembly at Westminster. And on this subject we must not quarrel with Mr Slope, for the... ...remptorily re- fused, and had nothing for it but to while away his time in Westminster Abbey. At length an answer from the great man came. The Mas- te...

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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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...er consideration, I can easily believe that, according to all slaveholding standards, here was a genuine instance of im- pudence. In Nelly there were ... ...veral other friends, I went to Eaton Hall, the residence of the Marquis of Westminster, one of the most splendid buildings in England. On approach- in...

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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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...usiness enterprise will be with it. It will develop its own characteristic standards of art and literature and con- duct in accordance with its new ne... ...But its heart is sound if its judgments fall short of acuteness and if its standards of achievement are low. It needs but a quickening spirit upon the... ...y prepared to subordi- nate all exceptional and surplus lives to the moral standards and limitations that arise naturally out of the Normal Social Lif... ...art nowadays must steer its way between the rocks of trivial and degrading standards and the whirlpool of arbitrary and irrational criti- cism. Whenev... ...that is essentially the novel, Laurence Sterne…. The confusion between the standards of a short story and the standards of the novel which leads at la... ...tandards of the novel which leads at last to these—what shall I call them?—Westminster Gazettisms?—about the cor- rect length to which the novelist sh... ...other in Canada, several in Brazil, an electric power plant in the City of Westminster, and so on, and I use these stocks and shares as a sort of inte...

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...than Jesus did, and can do things he could not do. I am by all Barabbasque standards a person of much better character and standing, and greater pract... ... of human rights, he does so because he has no right to impose eccen- tric standards of expenditure and unsocial habits on her, and because these cond... ... of fundamental assumptions drawn up in the thirty-nine articles or in the Westminster Confes- sion are wildly impossible as political constitutions f...

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...ot such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowle... ...h one while in the old Convocation house, and another while in the Chapel at Westminster; when all the faith and religion that shall be there can Are...

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...r side, should reconcile itself, both verbally and in spirit, with ancient standards. But if Phil. is eclectic, then I will be eclectic; if Phil. has ... ...h had been met in Greenwich Park, or at Nonsuch, on May-day of 1603, or in Westminster, two years after, by the Lord Cham- berlain when detecting Guy ... ... inquire; as to its moral prin- ciples, they went so far ahead of European standards, that we were neither comprehended nor believed. The perfection o... ... by law within one generation, if there’s a law to be had in the courts of Westminster.’ The Scriptures have left word—that, if any man should come to...

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...ons? And he will be much more afraid to question those prin- ciples, when he shall think them, as most men do, the standards set up by God in his mind... ...nce, or with what others they came there, the un- derstanding lays up (with names commonly annexed to them) as the standards to rank real existences i... ...of time, do not at all alter the notion of duration, which is the thing to be measured; no more than the different standards of a foot and a cubit alt... ...the bigness of several species of things from those we have been most accus- tomed to, we make them as it were the standards, whereby to denominate th... ...gh in things called true, even in that sense, there is perhaps a secret reference to our ideas, looked upon as the standards of that truth; which amou... ...standings, I think nobody, who has had any conversation with his neighbours, will question: though he never was at Westminster-Hall or the Exchange on...

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...eventually he died in magna miseria in sanctuary at St. Martin’s le Grand, Westminster. His son John renounced the pretended claim, and very generousl... ...on her nose, And apron of blue check. Ah, then were no inspection days, No standards then were known, Children could freely make dirt pies, And learni...

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...n- fided to Harry his love for a vintner’s daughter, near to the Tollyard, Westminster, whom Dick addressed as Saccharissa in many verses of his compo... ...he right season and anon. The lords being tried then before their peers at Westminster, according to their privilege, being brought from the Tower wit... ...ect of the quays, wharves, and buildings by the river, Somerset House, and Westminster (where the splen- did new bridge was just beginning), Lambeth t... ...ey called her) was proclaimed by trumpeting heralds all over the town from Westminster to Ludgate Hill, amidst immense jubilations of the people. Next... ...ssipati sunt. The French army of Flanders was gone, their artillery, their standards, their treasure, provi- sions, and ammunition were all left behin... ...ondon by nightfall, leaving their horses at the Posting-House over against Westminster, and being fer- *The managers were the Bishop, who cannot be hu...

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...ediate apoplexy was apprehended; but Mr. Macann, the celebrated surgeon of Westminster, was luck- ily passing through Bond Street at the time, and bei... ...valry had joined us. 150 Thackeray Up they came, five thousand men, their standards flapping in the air, their long line of polished jack-boots gleam... ...; and so be with the King before his wife knew that he was out of sight of Westminster Hall. “Suppose your honor says you are going as your honor woul... ...ld have been throttled in that dreadful grasp! Three hundred and forty-two standards, seventy-nine regi- ments, their baggage, ammunition, and treasur...

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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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...e three months before Evering ham was all that it is now. My plan was laid at Westminster — a little altered perhaps at Cambridge, and at one and twe... ...eryman and the poulterer.” “My dear child, commend Dr. Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul’s, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman a... ... ever, Fanny. My own sister as a wife, Sir Thomas Bertram as a husband, are my standards of perfection. Poor Janet has been sadly taken in; and yet th... ... interest on which he had almost ceased to form hopes, succeeded to a stall in Westminster, which, as affording an occasion for leaving Mansfield, an e...

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... founda- tions of London, none of them is in the naked condition of Rugby. Westminster, St. Paul’s, Merchant T ailors’, the Char- ter-House, &c., are ... ...n, already, perhaps, somewhat colored and distorted to meet the Pari- sian standards of sentiment, yet, as respects Goethe and his reputation amongst ...

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...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ... of it; and that he compared the Rialto, greatly to its disadvantage, with Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. I need not add, after what you have sa... ... Bar explained himself to have been quoting Gay. ‘Assuredly not one of our Westminster Hall authorities,’ said he, ‘but still no despicable one to a m... ...Heaven, no! It may be worth thinking of by Fawners of all denominations—in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul’s Ca- thedral put together, on any Sunday ... ...rnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred’s downwards. Mr Baptist had bee... ...ht into their tendernesses and affections, in one week of his rounds, than Westminster Hall and all the circuits put together, in three- score years a...

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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 ...