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...is life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo’s words came true, and Mowgli ... ...ue boulders in the bed of the stream. The birds and the monkey-people went north early in the year, for they knew what was coming; and the deer and th... ... now all that life-and-death fun was ended, and the Jungle People came up, starved and weary, to the shrunken river,—tiger, bear, deer, buffalo, and p... ...ading into the water and looking across at the lines of clicking horns and starting eyes where the deer and the pig pushed each other to and fro. “Goo... ...g made foolish by the scent of the blood, ran away into the marshes of the North, and we of the Jungle, left without a judge, fell to fighting among o... ... the Tigers was not with us, for he was still hidden in the marshes of the North, and when word was brought to him of the Thing we had seen in the cav... ...hing no Englishman would have dreamed of doing; for, so far as the world’s affairs went, he died. The jewelled order of his knighthood went back to th... ...Indian Government, and a new Prime Minister was appointed to the charge of affairs, and a great game of General Post began in all the subordinate appo... ...l knives, tin kettles that cooked food much better than the old soap-stone affairs, flint and steel, and even matches, as well as coloured ribbons for...

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...eception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other treatme... ...d Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping 12 Thomas Carlyle the stars? Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism. Worship is transc... ... look what perennial fibre of truth was in that. To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will o... ... sprang, we may say, out of many roots: every admira- tion, adoration of a star or natural object, was a root or fibre of a root; but Hero-worship is ... ...gleaming beauty in summertime; tow- ering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid... ...st, had Iceland not been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund... ...c, with the commentaries, Icelan- dic or not, which go on zealously in the North to this day, it is possible to gain some direct insight even yet; and... .... In Luther’s own country Protestantism soon dwindled into a rather barren affair: not a religion or faith, but rather now a theological jangling of a... ...he Government of men. Witenagemote, old Parliament, was a great thing. The affairs of the nation were there deliberated and decided; what we were to d...

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...ve guessed.” They now walked to that part of the hill which looks to the north west, and which hangs a vast and extensive wood. Here they no sooner ... ... a little to his satisfaction, this very person to be no other than ensign Northerton. Nor had the ensign forgotten his former antagonist, whom he kne... ...t I conceive his pleasure was rather less on this occasion. Jones helped Northerton upon his legs, and then looking him stedfastly in the face, “I f... ...he affront, of which he conceived some part at least fell to his share. He started therefore from his seat, and, advancing to the ser jeant, swore he... ... retired to the arms of the fond expecting hostler. In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post. He immediately alig... ...ny lady in the house? The hour of night, and the behaviour of the man, who stared very wildly all the time, a little surprized Susan, so that she hesi... ... which was so very richly laced, that Partridge and the post boy instantly started from their chairs, and my landlady fell to her courtsies, and her l... ...the landlord, he conceived they should be al together safe, whatever turn affairs might take; as Jones, he imagined, would have friends enough on one... ...vili ties, which are by custom due to the waiting gentlewoman in all love affairs, and more especially in those of a clandes tine kind. This we impu...

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...this communication as soon as possible by extending your right-wing to the north of Richmond. It is believed that this communication can be safely est... ... It is believed that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to pre... ...e confronting you at Richmond. By land he can reach you in five days after starting, whereas by water he would not reach you in two weeks, judging by ... ...Could you not send scouts from Winchester who would tell whether enemy are north of Banks, moving on Winchester? What is the latest you have? A. LINCO... ...-GENERAL McCLELLAN: Y our three despatches of yesterday in relation to the affair, ending with the statement that you completely succeeded in making y... ...nate form of expression rather than a substantial objection in this. It is startling to say that Congress can free a slave within a State, and yet if ... ...nd, 18th of July, 1862, is received. The moral effect was the worst of the affair before Richmond, and that has run its course downward. We are now at... ...e, for you free colored people to remain with us. Now, if you could give a start to the white people, you would open a wide door for many to be made f... ...ed un- less we try, and we think with care we can succeed. The po- litical affairs in Central America are not in quite as satisfactory a condition as ...

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...nfinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assur- ance of their empire over matter. It is pos... ...t its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with wa... ...et—it is odd, by-the-bye, that for count- less centuries Mars has been the star of war—but failed to interpret the fluctuating appearances of the mark... ...the tele- scope, the little slit in the roof—an oblong profundity with the stardust streaked across it. Ogilvy moved about, invisible but audible. Loo... ... cor- don. Later a second company marched through Chobham to deploy on the north side of the common. Several officers from the Inkerman barracks had b... ...rtsey road, Woking, saw a star fall from heaven into the pine woods to the northwest. It had a greenish colour, and caused a si- lent brightness like ... ... widow”; and in the end I agreed to go with him, under cover of the woods, north- ward as far as Street Cobham before I parted with him. Thence I woul... ...sting them up, we’ve got to fix ourselves up according to the new state of affairs. That’s how I figure it out. It isn’t quite according to what a man... ...ying, hurrying—puffing and blowing and hoot- ing to their other mechanical affairs? Something out of gear in every case. And swish, bang, rattle, swis...

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...m some far land, Sighing softly close at hand, Now of joy, and now of woe! Stars are wont to glimmer so. Sooner thus will good unfold; Children young ... ...nothing My thoughts were bent. I saw i’ the shadow A flower stand there As stars it glisten’ d, As eyes ’twas fair. I sought to pluck it,— It gently s... ...sever’ d from her sight. Powers eternal, distance, time, Like the might of stars sublime, Gently rock the blood to rest, O’er my senses softness steal... ... smile and true, It cheers me, like the stars eterne that gleam Across the northern-lights’ far-flick’ring beam. 1789.* Proximity. I KNOW not, wherefo... ... the path of life, My love I follow’d, as she onward moved, With stars and northern lights o’er head in strife, Going and coming, perfect bliss I pro... ...dithyrambs composed by him at a period of great unhappiness, when the love-affair between him and Frederica had been broken off by him. He used to sin... ...e tombs Of holy bygone times Is passing, T o a kind sheltering place, From North winds safe, And where a poplar grove Shuts out the noontide ray! And ... ...ed by his unexpected dissembling. Speak then, honour’d Sir! for to you the affair I confided; Heap not up pain and annoyance, but rather complete the ...

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...former into a conception of love and to vest the latter with the beauty of stars and flowers and the dignity of inexorable justice. There could be no ... ...tive theology in this distinction between the Being of Nature (cf. Kant’s “starry vault above”) and the God of the heart (Kant’s “moral law within”). ... ...he theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to the starry universe. The latter is a question for the theologian, the former fo... ...ere has dropped upon the table as I write a modest pe- riodical called The Northern British Israel Review, illustrated with portraits of various clerg... ...weather against the Germans. He points out that the absence of mist on the North Sea was of great help to the British in the autumn of 1914, and decla... ...orship. Kings, owners, and all who claim rule and decisions in the world’s affairs, must either show themselves clearly the fellow-servants of the bel... ...ust deal with like a zealous public official. And if he perceives that the affair could be better administered by other hands than his own, then it is... ...eliever is to do the work for which he is best fitted, and since all state affairs are to become the affairs of God’s kingdom it is of primary importa...

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...ce of all those who are in con- trol, or interested in the control, of the affairs of sovereign States of the world as they are at present; the resist... ...onscience—international law. Pacificists in their search for some definite starting-point, 11 H G Wells about which the immense predisposition for pe... ...e so vast a thing as the creation of a world authority. One other possible starting-point has been suggested. It is no great feat for a naive imaginat... ...rica. President Wilson, for example, is quite sufficiently occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interfere... ...ctors, loan mongers, sensational journalists—follow up their interests and start and sustain war. There lies the paradoxical reality of this question.... ...these characteristics. By doing so it may presently bring about a state of affairs that will supply just the lacking elements that are needed for the ... ...he Allies retreated out of the west of Bel- 19 H G Wells gium, out of the north of France, and for rather over a month there was a loose mobile war—a... ... is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run from the south side to the north and lie t... ... must run from the south side to the north and lie there. It does, and the north side has recently met the trouble by putting down raw flints, and so ...

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...ere walking together in the sunshine on the boulevard des Italiens,—he was startled to learn the suc- cess of a man endowed apparently with less gifts... ...hen they entered together the rue Massilon, which is opposite to the small north portal of the cathedral, and turned together into the rue Chanoinesse... ...the Cite, crowded between the flank of Notre-Dame and the river, faces the north, and is always in the shadow of the cathedral. The east winds swirl t... ...ed gray. The plastered ceiling, divided in two parts by a heavy beam which started from the fireplace, seemed a concession tardily made to luxury. Arm... ...th Madame Mongenod, the mother, who was sitting there, and to whom all the affairs of the bank were confided. For over thirty years this woman had giv... ...e seen of others that all the world concern themselves in their neighbors’ affairs, and when pri- 24 The Brotherhood of Consolation vate life will so... ...ouffetard,” said Madame de la Chanterie to Monsieur Nicolas; “that is your affair.” “The fish gets away more than once before it is caught,” said Mons... ...also some dessert, coffee, and liqueur of the Iles. Mongenod, who had been starving for two days, was fed up. We were so interested in talking about o... ... to buy a house; and I mean to open a banking busi- ness between Paris and North America, so as to leave it to this fellow here,’ he added, showing me...

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...d,—oh, here comes little Quiz, mamma’s little Maltese—Quiz, Quiz.’ Dolores started, she did not like either dogs or cats; and the little spun-glass lo... ... people in it; we think it was the Dean; and they looked down the lane and stared, so sur- prised to see what great mind to call out, ‘Fee, faw, fum.’... ...thern States got out of order, and as all the machinery people were in the north, the poor ladies didn’t know what to do, and couldn’t work without th... ...all sunflowers last year, but they are a little gone out now, and are very staring besides, and I think she will have some nymphs dancing among almond... ...eadbitter, fatherly and prosy;—a paper read by the Branch Secretary, about affairs in general; and a very amusing speech by Miss Mohun, full of anecdo... ...nowledge of the post-office under the cushions at church, and other little affairs of that sort. ‘It is her uncle,’ said Constance. ‘Her mother, it se... ...joyed and abetted him. These three had all been against her ever since the affair of the arrow; but Wilfred had not many opportunities of tormenting h...

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...k Three posed the garden at Lille, when my Lord Mohun and Esmond had their affair, was an Irishman too, and as brave a little soul as ever wore a swor... ...and gallant soldier—and even that he had been hardly used in the Wynendael affair. He took his revenge in talk, that must be confessed; and if Mr. Add... ...r, and whenever I opened them beheld hers (and very bright they are) still staring at me. I fell in with her afterwards at Court, and at the playhouse... ...inging the door open, announced his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and Esmond started back with some- thing like an imprecation on his lips, as the noble... ... imprecation on his lips, as the nobleman entered, looking splendid in his star and green ribbon. He gave Mr. Esmond just that gracious bow which he w... ...soil, and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island f... ...e others drank plentifully, and scarce said a word. The talk was about the affairs of the day, or rather about persons than affairs: my Lady Marlborou... ...ur place knows us not. Esmond thought of the courier, now galloping on the North road to inform him, who was Earl of Arran yesterday, that he was Duke... ...ee if the door leading to my lady’s rooms,” (so we called the rooms at the north-west angle of the house,) “see if the door is barred as he saith.” We...

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...souls come to be stripped of their wicked deceiving bodies, and turned out stark naked as they were before they were born— what a strange startling si... ...a high- minded nation like the French—at the very moment when the Egyptian affair and the balance of Europe had been settled in this abrupt way—to fin... ...cois woke me at a very early hour on this eventful morning, while the keen stars were still glittering overhead, a half-moon, as sharp as a razor, bea... ... a half-moon, as sharp as a razor, beaming in the frosty sky, and a wicked north wind blowing, that blew the blood out of one’s fingers and froze your... ...d have given way. A king, Sire, is, you know, the greatest of slaves—State affairs of consequence—his Majesty the King of Naples is detained no doubt.... ...s—and not their deeds of arms alone, pardi, but their coats of arms too. O stars and garters! but this is too much. What was Ney’s paternal coat, prit...

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...ff by an immeasurable gulph from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs—locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sens... ...; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers,—like frost and snow, rain and dew, hail-storm and th... ... effects. But another thing, which seems to me still more funny about this affair is, that if these Friezland hounds had been “game,” we should have n... ...ent; be assured that you greatly overrate my poor talents; Mrs. Ruscombe’s affair was far beyond my slender abilities. But I came to know who the arti... ...e F ne of the Fine A ine A ine A ine A ine Ar r r r rts ts ts ts ts DOCTOR NORTH: You are a liberal man: liberal in the true classical sense, not in t... ...I am sure that you will sympathize with my case. I am an ill-used man, Dr. North—particularly ill used; and, with your permission, I will briefly expl... ...of hav- ing dabbled a little in our art; some said not without merit. What startled me, however, was, that he supposed this art to be part of his regu... ...nd shape as cherry to cherry. In short, M. Michelet thinks us, by fits and starts, admirable, only that we are de- testable; and he would adore some o... ...miliar to mail-coach trav- ellers, where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles ...

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...most of our professors live on Germany, on England, on the East, or on the North, as an insect lives on a tree; and, like the insect, become an integr... ...hus- band!” Madame Hulot looked at this vulgar intriguer with such a fixed stare of terror, that he thought she had gone mad, and he stopped. “You ins... ...d a husband nowadays if she is penniless,” Crevel re- marked, resuming his starchiest manner. “Your daughter is one of those beauties who rather alarm... ..., obtained from Baron Hulot a capital of ten thousand francs with which to start a small business as forage-dealer at Versailles, under the pa- tronag... ...n any women but the washed out, 41 Balzac pale things they all are in the north, and a slender, brown, youthful thing like me warmed his heart.—But, ... ... cast by the lofty build- ings of the Louvre, darkened on that side by the northern blast. Darkness, silence, an icy chill, and the cavernous depth of... ...him pining, fading away in his attic. The causes of this wretched state of affairs may be eas- ily imagined. The peasant woman watched this son of the... ...effe got a fortnight’s leave, to be taken a month hence for urgent private affairs in the country, and a present in money; he promised himself that he... ...d death, you and I,” said Mademoiselle Fischer. “Yes, if you have any love affairs, to me they are sacred. Y our vices will be virtues in my eyes.— Fo...

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...adoc, who gave battle to the Romans, with his army, among the mountains of North Wales. ‘This day,’ said he to his sol diers, ‘decides the fate of Br... ...were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the be... ...cots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the So... ... to expiate her guilt. As if a church, with a steeple reaching to the very stars, would have been any sign of true repentance for the blood of the poo... ...lds; preventing the seed from being sown in the ground; causing famine and starvation; leaving only heaps of ruin and smoking ashes, where they had fo... ...ey to foreigners on his journey; but he took it from the English before he started. On the whole, however, he certainly became a far better man when h... ...e, to try the tempers of their favourites rather severely. Even the little affair of the crimson cloak must have been anything but a pleasant one to a... ...hter. We shall hear again of pretty little Arthur by and by. This Sicilian affair arranged without anybody’s brains being knocked out (which must have... ...e besieging his grandmother, and his uncle besieging him! This position of affairs did not last long. One summer night King John, by treachery, got hi...

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... man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage from London on a principal north road), encum- bered with a quantity of plate. How he came by it, or w... ...iod in Spanish America, that a reader the most credulous would at times be startled with doubts upon what seems so unvarying a tenor of danger and law... ...o undeniable that a reader the most obstinately sceptical would be equally startled in the very opposite direction, on remarking that the incidents ar... ...entioned in the “Autobiographic Sketches,” through Stamford to Laxton, the Northamptonshire seat of Lord Carbery. From Stamford, which I had reached b... ...ogress, we excelled in that; it was our forte; we could have backed to the North Pole. That might be the way to glory, or at least to distinction—sic ... ...s has been so disordinately collected that he cannot pursue a subject once started. Now, at Laxton, the books had been so judiciously brought together... ...d ever create such a privilege. The Duke of W——had two sons at Oxford. The affair is now long past; and it cannot injure either of them to say, that o... ...cated 139 Thomas de Quincey that, whatsoever street was concerned in that affair, Oxford- street was not; and it is remarkable enough, as illustratin... ...trava- ganza had made his own obsolete, had not one ugly turn in political affairs given so smashing a refutation to his practi- cal conclusions, and ...

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... Sir, My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I Arrest thee of high treason, in the name Of our most sover... ...n, and furnished. They were young and handsome, and of the best breed in the north. When they were ready to set out for London, a man of my lord card... ... speaks ‘em, And every true heart weeps for’t: all that dare Look into these affairs see this main end, The French king’s sister. Heaven will one day ... ...o to; I’ll make ye know your times of business: Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha? [Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS, with a commiss... ...I do not like their coming. Now I think on’t, They should be good men; their affairs as righteous: But all hoods make not monks. [Enter CARDINAL WOLSE... ...observing him: some strange commotion Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground, Then lays his finger on... ...roduce the grand sum of his sins, the articles Collected from his life. I’ll startle you Worse than the scaring bell, when the brown wench Lay kissing... ...he rest are countesses. Second Gentleman : Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed; And sometimes falling ones. First Gentleman : ... ...IFFITH: Well, the voice goes, madam: For after the stout Earl Northumberland Arrested him at York, and brought him forward, As a man so...

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...perty, pity for a neighbor’s calam- ity checks us at first in treating the affair as a scenic spec- tacle. But perhaps the fire may be confined to pub... ...ld- ings. And in any case, after we have paid our tribute of regret to the affair, considered as a calamity, inevitably, and with- out restraint, we g... ...ected to know correctly), let me pass to the circumstantial details of the affair. Yet, first of all, one word as to the local scene of the mur- ders.... ...he direct course, naturally she got bewildered. The purpose with which she started, had by this time become hopeless. Noth- ing remained for her now b... ... abolition of con- sciousness. The murderer’s plan and rationale of murder started systematically from this infliction of apoplexy, or at 24 The Note... ...ets, fast flying Upon the wings of fear:—From his dull madness The starveling waked, and died in joy: the dying, Among the corpses in stark ... ... stepped on a day of October, 1797, into that same suite of rooms at Bath (North Parade) from which, six hours before, the great man had been car- rie... ... was exclusive of the troops in garrison—of the forces left by Monk in the North—and above all of the entire army in Ireland,—it can- not be doubted t...

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..., and drag your trout stream for you on a Thursday evening.” “Monstrous! and starve us on fast day,” said the little friar. “But that is not the game ... ...n on the other.” (The reader will please to remember that Rubygill Abbey was north of T rent.) “His mettle will be tried,” said Sir Ralph. “There is m... ... to outweigh the severity of my fortune.” As she spoke the last words, tears started into her eyes, which, as if ashamed of the involuntary betraying ... ...and, the friar seized it cordially, and they drowned all recollection of the affair by pledging each other in a cup of canary. The friar, having staye... ...wd, watch and ward is my word: if you can, is yours. The mark is set, and so start fair.” The baron would have gone on in this way for an hour; but th... ...n hand when it showed mettle and seemed inclined to rear and plunge. But the affair at Gamwell feast threw many additional difficulties in the way of ... ...m Palestine, and travelling from the sea coast of Hampshire to their home in Northumberland. By dint of staff and cockle shell, sandal and scrip, they... ...with intelligence that Prince John had been compelled, by the urgency of his affairs in other quarters, to disembar rass Nottingham Castle of his roy...

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...whereby I was to go with him and he was not to hurt me. I came down, and we started away, I walking by the side of his horse. We marched comfortably ... ...no attention to her; didn’t even seem to see her. And she — she was no more startled at his fantastic make up than if she was used to his like every... ...ent her hands, and she was turned to stone; her mouth dropped open, her eyes stared wide and timorously, she was the picture of astonished curiosity t... .... Then I gave public notice by herald and trumpet that I should be busy with affairs of state for a fortnight, but about the end of that time I would... ...d for a delay of a day or two; I should have explained that I was busy with affairs of state yet, and the people must wait. Of course, we had a blazi... ... known what to do with it if he had run across it. You see, it was just the Northwest Passage of that day, as you may say; that was all. Every year e... ...hts took one of these three damsels up behind him on his horse, and one rode north, another east, the other south, to seek adventures, and meet again ... ...k to get up muscle for my trip, and had climbed the ridge which bordered the northern extremity of the valley, when I came upon an arti ficial openi... ...ision: “T ruly I find small difficulty here, the matter being even a child’s affair for simpleness. An the young bride had con veyed notice, as in du...