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... unless the whole is well.’ For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates, as he declared, in the soul, and overflows from... .... For this,’ he said, ‘is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.’ And he add... ... Plato 7 Yes, I said. Then let me tell you that he is the most temperate of human beings, and for his age inferior to none in any qual ity. Y es, I ... ... does the scribe write or read, or teach you boys to write or read, your own names only, or did you write your enemies’ names as well as your own and ... ... for I am no stranger to the endless distinctions which Prodicus draws about names. Now I have no objec tion to your giving names any signification w... ...– Plato 28 But that science is not wisdom or temperance, but a sci ence of human advantage; not a science of other sciences, or of ignorance, but of... ...y defeated, and have failed to discover what that is to which the imposer of names gave this name of temperance or wisdom. And yet many more admission...

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...olemn responsibilities, grave uncer- tainties, and mysterious destinies of human nature. And so, too often, did their poet. Pope’s special faculties a... ...litter all over with the polish of profound malig- nity . His knowledge of human nature, particularly of woman’s heart, is great, but seems more the r... ...uch of an unconscious outflow, and partakes too much of the genial and the human nature for him. His fancy is lively and copious, but its poetical pro... ... was to have consisted of the same number:— 1. Of the extent and limits of human reason. 2. Of those arts and sciences, and of the parts of them, whic... ... considered in all the circumstances, orders, professions, and stations of human life. The scheme of all this had been maturely digested, and communic... ...With gentle Budgell, 79 and with gentle Carey. 80 Or if in ranging of the names I judge ill, With gentle Carey, and with gentle Budgell, Oh! may all ... ... VERSES ON WOMEN WITS, IN ‘THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.’ In vain you boast poetic names of yore, And cite those Sapphos we admire no more: Fate doom’d the fa... ...t all, No more than of Sir Har—y or Sir P——. 97 20 Whose names once up, they thought it was not wrong To lie in bed, but sure they l... ... aggravates very much the guilt of the accusers; I mean by authors without names; then I thought, since the danger was common to all, the concern ough...

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...f government are assimilated to any other expedients for the attainment of human objects. They are regarded as wholly an affair of invention and contr... ...nored) are the work of men—owe their origin and their whole ex istence to human will. Men did not wake on a summer morn ing and find them sprung up.... ...ep ing.” In every stage of their existence they are made what they are by human voluntary agency. Like all things, there fore, which are made by men... ...tself. Every thing which can be said by way of disparaging the efficacy of human will and pur pose in matters of government might be said of it in ev... ...y other of its applications. In all things there are very strict limits to human power. It can only act by wielding some one or more of the forces of ... ...efore provided that an elector may deliver a voting paper containing other names in addition to the one which stands foremost in his preference. His v... ...is list to a greater number in the order of his preference, so that if the names which stand near the top of the list either can not make up the quota... ...iles itself to a great alteration in substance than to a very small one in names and forms. But unfamiliarity is a disadvantage which, when there is a... ...e another in the sums they expend to be enabled to write M.P . after their names? Is it likely he will suppose that it is for his interest they incur...

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... Word and covenant, no less than true reli- gion, is Divinely inscribed in human hearts, that is, in the human mind, and that this is the true origina... ... apostles in person among them, any better than the people of to-day. (12) Human nature, Jew as well as Gentile, has always been the same, and in ever... ... Chap. IV .; in other words, religion, universal and catholic to the whole human race, as Isaiah describes it (chap. i:10), teaching that the true way... ...rder, to covet no man’s goods, &c. (67) Precepts, I repeat, such as these, human malice and the lapse of ages are alike powerless to destroy, for if a... ...tect in the Bible mys- teries so profound that they cannot be explained in human lan- guage, and who have introduced so many philosophic specu- lation... ...hat the rest of the words used are merely titles; and, in truth, the other names of God, whether they be substantives or adjectives, are merely attrib... ... writer of the Pentateuch did not always speak of things and places by the names they bore in the times of which he was writing, but by the names best...

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...ut once stooping his body; but there appeared more politeness in the open, humane air of his countenance, than in the custom of drawing one leg behind... ...s though he had been inspired, to prove that the sacraments were merely of human invention, and that the word “sacrament” was not once mentioned in th... ...ay, were by them looked upon as so many animals beneath the dignity of the human species. The Com- mons in those ages were far from sharing in the gov... ... sold with the land. Many ages passed away before justice could be done to human nature—before mankind were conscious that it was abominable for many ... ... useful inventions, are not those which reflect the greatest honour on the human mind. It is to a mechanical instinct, which is found in many men, and... ..., who may be called their Moliere, and several other eminent persons whose names I have forgot; all these would have raised the glory of that body to ... ...grace to their country; and so much ridicule is now attached to their very names, that if an author of some genius in this age had the misfortune to b...

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... Economy rich themselves and the country. This object, under the vary- ing names of an extensive demand, a brisk circulation, a great expenditure of m... ...abour and expenditure, of which the direct effect and object are, to endow human or other animated beings with faculties or qualities useful or agreea... ... that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is just; and the first principles of all scienc... ...he three laws of motion, and the law of gravitation, are common, as far as human observation has yet extended, to all matter; and these, therefore, as... ...ly distinct branches of knowledge. 3. If we contemplate the whole field of human knowledge, attained or attainable, we find that it separates itself o... ...they are concerned with different subject-matters—namely, the one with the human mind, the other with all things whatever except the mind; this distin...

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... so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature and to be a nox ious creature, there is commonly injury done,... ...ng to subdue, gave authority so far to appropri ate. And the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily int... ...re they come to our use, and see how much they receive of their value from human industry. Bread, wine, and cloth are things of daily use and great pl... ...ent criti cism in a discourse of this nature to find fault with words and names that have obtained in the world. And yet possibly it may not be amiss... ...on only was not placed in one, but two persons jointly. But to let this of names pass. 54. Though I have said above “That all men by nature are equa... ...hastising them go along with it, yet God hath woven into the principles of human na ture such a tenderness for their offspring, that there is little ... ...t it is far different from a politic society. 85. Master and servant are names as old as history, but given to those of far different condition; for... ...t thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be co... ...e exercise of their power, the legislative is truly altered. For it is not names that constitute governments, but the use and exercise of those powers...

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... her eyes, while a tear was gathering in his own. How strange that gush of human feeling from the frozen bosom of a corpse! He wiped away the tears ev... ... a comely youth uprose the head and branching antlers of a stag; a second, human in all other points, had the grim vis- age of a wolf; a third, still ... ...l bear of the dark forest, lending each of his fore paws to the grasp of a human hand, and as ready for the dance as any in that circle. His inferior ... ...ck surrounding woods. But some of these black shadows have rushed forth in human shape. Yes, with the setting sun, the last day of mirth had passed fr... ...it, inaudible except to the soul, and not to be controverted on grounds of human wisdom, was made a plea for most indecorous exhibitions, which, abstr... ...ife’s affection. Her name was Hannah and her husband’s Matthew; two homely names, yet well enough adapted to the simple pair, who seemed strangely out... ...ar with the successive rulers of the prov- ince, were heard to whisper the names of Shirley, of Pownall, of Sir Francis Bernard, and of the well-remem... ... of the tea ships on the waves, and gained a place in history, yet left no names. But superstition, among other legends of this mansion, repeats the w... ... Peter Goldthwaite, who died sev- 187 Hawthorne enty years ago, and whose namesake I am, leave treasure enough to build twenty such?” “I can’t say bu...

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...ll as just causes of war. It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human na- ture, that nations in general will make war whenever they 17 The... ... to form them so at first; but, admitting that to be practicable, yet what human contrivance can secure the con- tinuance of such equality? Independen... ...es in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uni- form course of human events, and to set at defiance the accu- mulated experience of ages. ... ...ollect a variety of instances; and those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights to form their opinion ei... ...ons, and immediate interest, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility or j... ...ent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy. Under the confusion of names, it has been an easy task to transfer to a republic observations appl... ...hey have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge o... ...ration of the reasoning which I have employed. First. It appears, from the names of the gentlemen who composed the council, that some, at least, of it... ...ever unimportant in themselves, or un- connected with each other, the same names stand invariably 230 The Federalist Papers contrasted on the opposit...

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...conceived and brought forth an Ethiopian. I will not trouble you with more human testi- monies, but conclude with a stronger warrant. We read (Gen. xx... ...ned to that kingdom, in which men to each other were more like brutes than human creatures. There was a monster born at Nazara in the year 1530. It ha... ... men; when we are taught to believe that not any was ever begotten without human seed, except the Son of God. The devil then being a spirit and having... ...reation belongs to God only. Again, if the devil could assume to himself a human body and enliven the faculties of it, and cause it to generate, as so... ...orn. Yet, it is not denied, but the devils, trans- forming themselves into human shapes, may abuse both men and women, and, with wicked people, use ca... ...baptized in the name of a man or a woman? A. In the name of a man, because names are given ad placitum, and therefore he should be baptized, according...

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... Andreyevna grieved hopelessly , shed tears, called Natasha by the fondest names before me, bitterly complained against Nikolay Sergeyitch, and began ... ...e I keep kissing it as though I were kissing her, herself. I call her fond names, and make the sign of the cross over it every night. I talk aloud to ... ...t was incoherent. Nothing but exclamations; he called you by the tenderest names; he called for you.” “Called for me?” “Yes.” She wept quietly. “Poor ... ... be a difficult position. He touched and stirred the noblest chords in the human heart—the power of forgiving and repaying good for evil. He surrender... ...e door, and all this time not a word! It’s quite uncanny; she’s not like a human being. But how did she come here? I suppose she came to see her grand... ...t that base and crafty man triumph, and secondly, from a common feeling of humanity. If she’s no longer my daughter she’ s a weak creature, defenceles... ... She talked of duty , of our mission in life, of how we all ought to serve humanity and, as we thoroughly 177 Dostoevsky agreed, after five or six ho... ... Borinka’s. They’re all fresh young people filled with ardent love for all humanity. We all talked of our present, of our future, of sci- ence and lit... ... somewhere by T olstoy: two people promise to call each other by their pet names, but they can’ t do it and keep avoiding using any name at all. Ach, ...

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...orn; who would then have remembered that England raised up this scourge to humanity not for the evil’s sake, but because some body had offered an ins... ...by one person over others; which has no moral repugnance to the thought of human beings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of... ...ricultural system; which cannot be done without treat ing the slaves like human beings, nor without so large an employment of skilled, that is, of fr... ...; nor do I believe that any person, accustomed to reflect on the course of human affairs in troubled times, can expect any thing else. Those who have... ...emphasis he now continually reiterates it. In one of his recent letters he names the end of next sum mer as the period by which, if the war has not s... ... they could, universally. When it is wished to describe any portion of the human race as in the lowest state of debase ment, and under the most cruel...

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...ited States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table of Names 431 Appendix C: Commission Hearings 439 Notes 449 vii Final FM.1pp 7... ... civilian.As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.” Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of sur... ...e Western practice of the consistent use of surnames. Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the ... ...er, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of th... ... prophets stretching from Abraham through Jesus, complete God’s message to humanity.The Hadith, which recount Mohammed’s sayings and deeds as recorded... ...rior to the rev- elations given to the Prophet Mohammed). Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya. Second, he warned that ... ...ation reflected a strong cultural preference for technical fields over the humanities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to st... ...urder those with whom they dis- agree. Beyond the theology lies the simple human fact that most Muslims, like most other human beings, are repelled by... ... the plan did not succeed. 21 First, the plan did not obtain the necessary human resources. Despite des- 76 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7...

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...tion brought into the ship’s life at a moment of exceptional stress by the human element be- low her deck. Neither was the story itself ever enlarged ... ... whole thing was like. The financial difficulty of it, pre- senting also a human problem, was solved by a mind much too 4 Typhoon simple to be perple... ... be, within the limits of the visible world and within the bound- aries of human emotions. I may safely say that Falk is absolutely true to my experie... ...me icebergs.” The old people ultimately became acquainted with a good many names of ships, and with the names of the skippers who commanded them — wit... ...of ships, and with the names of the skippers who commanded them — with the names of Scots and English shipowners — with the names of seas, oceans, str... ... — with the names of seas, oceans, straits, promontories — with outlandish names of lumber-ports, of rice-ports, of cotton- ports — with the names of ... ...hrieks seemed to take on, in the emptiness of the bunker, something of the human character, of human rage and pain — being not vast but infinitely poi... ...comprehen- sible guttural hooting sounds, that did not seem to belong to a human language, penetrated Jukes with a strange emotion as if a brute had t...

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...ERTAIN MORAL PHILOSOPHERS, with a due disdain of the flimsy foundations of human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from a million ... ...on thrones these thousand years. While our family has followed the general human law in the matter just mentioned, it forms a marked exception to the ... ...ings and the works of his hands. To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unn... ...e Temps, a journal then recently established, in the supposed interests of human freedom. Each of these indi- viduals got a paper at a certain hour, w... ...ess would have had the hysterics on our account. Little did she understand human na- ture, for the nouveaux riches, who are as certain to succeed an o... ...of fact, the men were dead, and the females were grandmothers with English names, and were almost ignorant of any such persons as the de la Rocheaimar...

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...t I understand what two words you mean.” “Y ou do understand. What are the names they have given my poor baby? I ask no more than that. I have read of... ...r. “I know which is Walter Wilding, but it is not my place, ma’am, to tell names to visitors.” “But you can show me without telling me.” The lady’s ha... ... Joey Ladle in question. A slow and ponderous man, of the drayman order of human ar- chitecture, dressed in a corrugated suit and bibbed apron, appare... ...hem to inquire for Lime-Tree Lodge. Everywhere, the nearest and dearest of human rela- tions showed itself happily in the happy light of day. Every- w... ...ents, ranged in their respective iron boxes, with their respective owners’ names outside, on iron tiers in his consulting-room, as if that legal sanct... ... and above the line and below the line, dear, dear! Poor restless heart of humanity! To think that the men who were mummies thou- sands of years ago, ... ... friend’s figure was fat. His age was suggestive of the autumnal period of human life. In the course of the evening he developed two extraordinary cap... ...er, and wine, and after-conference resounding, with guides and drivers. No human creature had come across the Pass for four days. The snow above the s... ...ribed on their fronts (for the most part in fanciful coloured letters) the names of the notary’s clients. Maitre V oigt lighted a taper, and led the w...

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...ad enough to have her go. She’d have given her to anybody. They ain’t half human up there. I guess the mother’s dead by now, with the life she was lea... ...at she was the child of a drunken convict and of a mother who wasn’t “half human,” and was glad to have her go; and she had heard this history of her ... ...erson has collected some really remarkable impressionist pictures....” The names he cited were unknown to Charity. “Yes; yes; the Schaefer quartette p... ...verhauling.” He was always careful to remember his parishioners’ Christian names, and at the right moment he bent his benignant spec- tacles on the Ta... ...; but something kept her from moving. It was not the fear of any sanction, human or heavenly; she had never in her life been afraid. It was simply tha... ...cep- tionally well built, for the little rooms had kept something of their human aspect: the wooden mantels with their neat classic ornaments were in ... ...mpse of the group of girls deep in their pretty preparations. “All the old names…all the old names….” Miss Hatchard 80 Summer would be heard, tapping... ... a frozen gasp above the broken teeth. There was no sign in it of anything human: she lay there like a dead dog in a ditch Charity’s hands grew cold a...

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...nt points are still ob- scure, and the most odious calumnies still rest on names that ought to be respected? And let me remark, in passing, that Hanni... ...en at the age of forty- six was discovered by the author of the “Comedy of Human Life” at Heidelberg, was born at Caux in Normandy. He was the author ... ...n harmony with the nature of things. It is, assuredly, beyond the reach of human power to pre- vent the liberty of thought; and no sovereign can inter... ...id of the opposition be- gun by the Vaudois and the Albigenses. As soon as human thought, instead of condensing itself, as it was formerly forced to d... ...dently derived from some rich furrier’s counter, for most of our burgher’s names began in some such way. This digression will explain, not only the lo... ...es and glowing with all the arts of that unique period of the splendors of humanity, are now denuded and white- washed! Reformers and Catholics were p... ...e chateau, while devoting the memory of Catherine to the execration of the humanity of our day, shows at the base of these panels and close to the flo... ... wife, Calonne, Beaumarchais, the two strange men, two pretty women, whose names I will not give here, a fermier- general, Lavoisier, and myself. Out ...

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...er own family. Her father and mother, herself, and her child, that was the human trinity for her. Her husband—? Yes, she loved him still. But that was... ...n almost barbaric sense of duty and of family. Till she married, her first human duty had been towards her father: he was the pillar, the source of li... ...nt through every fibre of her, till extinction came. But it is the fate of human beings to live on. And it is the fate of clouds that seem nothing but... ...d at him, with her clear, unreasoning eyes, just like the eyes of some non-human creature. ‘I’ll ask mother,’ she said. Her voice was soft-breathing, ... ... didn’t call it anything, as I know of. It’s no good calling things by any names whatsoever, as I know of.’ She watched him in his actions. There was ... ...er. His great-coat hung open, so that she could see his figure, simple and human in the great husk of cloth. She stood nervously with her hands behind...

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...eir lives, or from his own blindness and belief in the per- fectibility of human nature, that the sun of that autumn evening shone upon any two men in... ...fore you, at this moment, two other living beings who bear these venerated names! My boys, stand forward! Look here, sir: these children have been res... ...r our late sovereign and the husband of our present Queen.” “And very good names too, sir; ay, and very noble little fel- lows too; and I propose that... ... Mr. Brock gained by this manoeuvre was very great; but with regard to the names of the horses and children, which coincided so extraordinarily, it is... ... out on the green, and to bestow on the two horses those famous historical names which we have just heard applied to them. Mr. Brock’s diplomacy was, ... .... For it is my opinion, madam, that love is a bodily infirmity, from which humankind can no more escape than from small-pox; and which attacks every o... ...it to answer, as she would have done the day before, when an oath from any human being would have brought half-a-dozen from her in return; or a knife,... ...el-writers make a great mis- take in divesting their rascals of all gentle human qualities: they have such—and the only sad point to think of is, in a... ...ago, having rid like a horse- jockey ever since; as in the sacred cause of humanity, curse me, every man should.” As Hayes’s house was seventy miles f...

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...nciled to religion and principle any more than it can be to generosity and Human- ity, but I may speak of that again. I am speaking now of people made... ...bout. These men were guilty of many extravagances, such as one would think human nature should have trembled at the thoughts of at such a time of gene... ...r’s goods, I might lose my own life; so I contented myself with taking the names and places where some of them lived, who were really inhab- 80 Journ... ...t account of themselves anybody could desire of them, and to give in their names and places of abode, that so they might be called to an account for a... ...hemselves. Upon all these considerations John, their captain, in all their names, went back to their good friend and benefactor, who had relieved them... ...served by him before. Others placed it to the account of the corruption of human nature, who cannot bear to see itself more miserable than others of i... ...onable person that as it was not in the power of the magistrates or of any human methods of policy , to prevent the spreading the infec- tion, so that... ...sible in a visitation to prevent the spreading of the plague by the utmost human vigilance: viz., that it is impossible to know the infected people fr... ...stands the parish church of St John’ s at W apping, both which had not the names of parishes at that time, but were belong- ing to Stepney parish. I c...

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...und by long Experience was the best State in the World, the most suited to human Happiness, not exposed to the Miseries and Hardships, the Labour and ... ... on Foot to Yarmouth, where, as unfor tunate Men, we were used with great Humanity as well by the Magistrates of the Town, who assign’d us good Quart... ...r but we should be devour’d by savage Beasts, or more merciless Savages of humane kind. But as soon as it grew dusk in the Evening, I chang’d my Cours... ...ad killed, and prepared to go on our Way, having seen no Foot steps of any humane Creature in that part of the Country. As I had been one V oyage to t... ...I will bring you the Produce of them, God willing, at my Return; but since human Affairs are all subject to Changes and Disasters, I would have you gi... ...een of before, and many of them very good Meat; but such as I knew not the Names of, except those call’d Penguins. I could have shot as many as I plea... ...of them that I had done with him. I had also several tame Sea Fowls, whose Names I know not, who I caught upon the Shore, and cut their Wings; and the... ... I led in this Place; Friday began to talk pretty well, and understand the Names of almost every Thing I had occasion to call for, and of every Place ... ...told me all he knew with the greatest Openness imaginable; I ask’d him the Names of the several Nations of his Sort of People; but could get no other ...

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...ing bears and bulls and swords and goats where, as it seems to me, no sane human being can see anything but stars higgledy-piggledy. Next to the trans... ...ous on the assumption that he was to me a mere name among the thousands of names in the British Museum catalogue. Therefore I make it clear that I had... ...s mother. I do not at all be- little such sailors. They are the emblems of human generos- ity; but Shakespear was not an emblem: he was a man and the ... ...cheap pessi- mism which is thrown into despair by a comparison of ac- tual human nature with theoretical morality, actual law and administration with ... ...only one place in Shakespear’s plays where the sense of shame is used as a human attribute; and that is where Ham- let is ashamed, not of anything he ... ...ll?” he is expressing the natural and proper 15 GB Shaw sentiments of the human race as Shakespear understood them, and not the vindictiveness of a s... ...f-possession] Bad? Oh no. Human, Master Warder, human. We call one another names when we are offended, as children do. That is all. THE BEEFEATER. Ay ...

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... making bread all day with uncouth gesticulations, their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest... ...- easy, vulgar, and immodest. That you should continually try to establish human and serious relations, that you should actually feel an interest in J... ...ils, putting these uncouth, umbra- geous students at their ease with ready human geniality . Thus, 12 Robert Louis Stevenson at least, we have a heal... ...d is but a fallen Univer- sity; it has doubtless some remains of good, for human insti- tutions decline by gradual stages; but decline, in spite of al... ...t part I went there solitary and, with irrevo- cable emotion, pored on the names of the forgotten. Name after name, and to each the conventional attri... ...oted countenances of the city street, and to divine in others the throb of human agony and hope. In the meantime he will avoid the hospital doors, the... ...d throwing wide the grating; and they carried in their minds a calendar of names and dates. It would be “in fifty-twa” that such a tomb was last opene... ...he Vanity of Knowledge; and as I had neither morality nor scholarship, the names were apt; but the second part was never attempted, and the first part... ..., and not yet begin to be breathed; Shearer’s Knowe and Halkerside are but names of adjacent cantons on a single shoulder of a hill, as names are squa...

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...could be perfectly prepared to deal with so many and such various sides of human life and manners. T o pass a true judg- ment upon Knox and Burns impl... ...aste to rejoice with the rejoicers over what is imperishably good, lovely, human, or divine, in his extraordinary poems. That was perhaps the right ro... ...a bad fel- low. Others still think well of him, and can find beautiful and human traits where I saw nothing but artistic evil; and by the principle of... ...iently remembered. What that period was, to what a blank of imbecility the human mind had fallen, can only be known to those who have waded in the chr... ...one to break the tomb and bring him forth, alive again and breathing, in a human book. With the best intentions in the world, I have only added two mo... ...field 37 Familiar Studies of Men & Books herding cattle, to teach her the names of grasses and wild flowers, or to sit by her side when it thundered.... ...find that two of the can- ons of Saint Benoit answered respectively to the names of Pierre de Vaucel and Etienne de Montigny, and that there was a hou... ... Nicolas. Without going so far, it must be owned that the approximation of names is significant. As we go on to see the part played by each of these p... ...e clearly at every page that we are to read our poet liter- ally, that his names are the names of real persons, and the events he chronicles were actu...

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...but never proceeded far in that science. And I read about this time Locke On Human Understanding, and the Art of Think ing, by Messrs. du Port Royal.... ...dering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I made him give me three penny worth of any sort. He ... ...s of one Lyons, a surgeon, author of a book entitled “The Infallibil ity of Human Judgment,” it occasioned an acquaintance The Autobiography of Benja... ...is uncertain, as the preacher tells us; and what will the world say if kind, humane, and benevo The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 66 lent Ben. ... ...he writings of Caesar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society. But these, sir, are small reasons, in my opinio... ...to become wise. When we see how cruel states men and warriors can be to the human race, and how absurd distinguished men can be to their acquaintance... ...mbition. I propos’d to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex’d to each, than a few names with more ideas... ...x’d to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of vir tues all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or d... ...short precept, which fully express’d the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to du...