... can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now ca- pable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of league... ...ulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady. We... ...nd aft. We were the same, and animals into the bargain. That is all we got from Science. Art is the specific. We have little to learn of apes, and the... ...numerous when the fifth head of the race was the hope of 8 The Egoist his county. A Patterne was in the Marines. The country and the chief of this fa... ...th tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride we are a queer people; and you may be ordering butcher’s meat of a T udor, sitting on the ... ...he was to hit the mark that rang the bell; and away her word went over the county: and had she been an unchari- table woman she could have ruled the c... ...d of caricature, so sharp was her touch. A grain of malice would have sent county faces and characters awry into the currency. She was wealthy and kin... ...had been strictly sagacious. “Patternes marry money; they are not romantic people,” she said. Miss Durham had money, and she had health and beauty: th... ...ughby and Miss Dale. It was a pleasant and romantic story, and it put most people in good humour with the county’s favourite, as his choice of a porti...

...BY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens ... ...BY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens ... ... AT LAST!’ cried Nicholas, throwing back his great- coat and rousing Smike from a long nap. ‘It seemed to me as though we should never reach it.’ ‘And... ...ing lights, and illuminated besides with the brilliant flood that streamed from the windows of the shops, where spar- kling jewellery, silks and velve... ...rnament, succeeded each other in rich and glittering profusion. Streams of people apparently without end poured on and on, jostling each other in the ... ...assed before the eye. Emporiums of splendid dresses, the materials brought from every quarter of the world; tempt- ing stores of everything to stimula... ...eaming to those ahead to clear the way. He was con- scious of a torrent of people rushing quickly by—looking up, could discern the cabriolet whirled a... ...onths, and four.’ ‘I’ll do them for you—mind, for you; I wouldn’t for many people—for five-and-twenty pounds,’ said Ralph, deliberately . ‘Oh demmit!’... ...e, with six grown-up and most lovely daughters, and the finest park in the county.’ ‘My dear mother,’ reasoned Nicholas, ‘do you suppose that the unfo...

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...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...w the inclinations of our appetite, be it to the left or right, upwards or downwards, according as we are wafted by the breath of occasion. We never m... ...hat use are colours to him that knows not what he is to paint? No one lays down a certain design for his life, and we only deliberate thereof by piece... ...how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of... ...city of Epirus being reduced by the Romans to the last extremity, gave the people counsel uni- versally to kill themselves; but, these preferring to g... ... rather than await the stroke of justice, told him that it was to do other people’s business to preserve his life to put it after into the hands of th... ...both parties found that they had important business to transact in another county—both just barely escaped assassination at the hands of the disappoin...

...QUINTIN, AND SHURLAND; LORD PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; AND LORD LIEU- TENANT OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS, AND OF SOUTH WALES... ...ch or common methods, that your allowance and approbation of the design of this Treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned without readin... ...th some of those large and comprehensive discoveries you have made of truths hitherto unknown, unless to some few, from whom your lordship has been pl... ...gh, if your lordship permit me to boast, that here and there I have fallen into some thoughts not wholly different from yours. If your lordship think ... ...our first inquiry. Some hasty and undi- gested thoughts, on a subject I had never before con- sidered, which I set down against our next meeting, gave... ...very one not be able to receive it with that seasoning; and it must be dressed another way, if you will have it go down with some, even of strong cons... ...edge of this maxim, “That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?” And a great part of illiterate people and savages pass many years,... ...innate, they must needs exert themselves with most force and vigour. For children, idiots, savages, and illiterate people, being of all others the lea... ...n set at liberty from punish- ment and censure. Have there not been whole nations, and those of the most civilized people, amongst whom the exposing t...

...y faint means would grant continuance: Nor do I now make moan to be abridged From such a noble rate; but my chief care Is to come fairly off from the ... ...th left me gaged. To you, Antonio, I owe the most, in money and in love, And from your love I have a warranty To unburden all my plots and purposes Ho... ... And she is fair, and, fairer than that word, Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages: The Merchant of Ven... ...rd my lady his mother played false with a smith. NERISSA: Then there is the County Palatine. PORTIA: He doth nothing but frown, as who should say ‘I... ...an, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once u... ...ll, on your left; marry, at the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn down indirectly to the Jew’s house. GOBBO: By God’s sonties, ‘twill be a... ...ive. Like one of two contending in a prize, That thinks he hath done well in people’s eyes, Hearing applause and universal shout, Giddy in spirit, sti... ...Madam, with all my heart; I shall obey you in all fair commands. PORTIA: My people do already know my mind, And will acknowledge you and Jessica In p... ...es possess’d of. LORENZO: Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. PORTIA: It is almost morning, And yet I am sure...