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... and many are born to the depression of knowing that this finest flower of social life refuses to bloom where the English tongue is spoken. The explan... ...t to be out. He had in short accepted the truth which many dabblers in the social art are slow to learn, that you must really, as they say, take a lin... ...- cumstances, a long-established and celebrated business; he was a kind of social executor or liquidator. But his manner seemed to testify exclusively... ...n. I felt indeed each time as if I were attending the last coucher of some social sovereign. He was royally whimsical about his suf- ferings and not a... ... were in intellectual sympathy—we felt, as regards each other, a degree of social responsibility. In short we had been in Arcadia together, and we had... ... la porte.” “You’ve never seen them; they’re awfully good”—I flew to their defence. “Not seen them? Why all this recent work of yours drops to pieces ... ...position with a rush, but that, as always after an interval, her visitor’s defences really loomed—and quite, as it were, to the material vision—too la...

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...r of ‘Diable Amoureux, ’ seized, saved for a time by his daughter. CERCLE, Social, of Fauchet. CERUTTI, his funeral oration on Mirabeau. CEVENNES, rev... ...Duke de, a sinecurist. COMMISSIONERS, Convention, like Kings. COMMITTEE of Defence, Central, of Watchfulness, of Public Salvation, Circular of, of the... ..., at siege of Bastille, his Te-Deums, his harangue on Franklin, his Cercle Social, in First Parliament, motion by, doffs his insignia, King’s death, l... ...GNOL, in September Massacre, in La Vendee. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, Contrat Social of, Gospel according to, burial-place of, statue decreed to. ROUX, M... ...TANNERY of human skins, improvements in. TARGET, Advocate, declines King’s defence. TASSIN, M., and black cockade. TENNIS-COURT, National Assembly in,...

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...ith gen- eral politics (meaning by general not personal politics) and with social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Pol... ...e original quarto edition, with all its virus as yet undiluted of raw anti-social Jacobinism. At Laxton it was that I first saw the entire aggregate l... ...r philosophic inference. One hundred years ago, such was the difficulty of social intercourse, sim- ply from the difficulty of locomotion (though even... ... are in the last degree fabulous distinc- tions, pure fairy tales; and the social economist or the histo- rian who builds on such phantoms as that of ... ...f culture as to intellect, of polish as to manners, and of interests as to social objects, a notion at all times false as a fact, now at length became... ...- ate, who replied to the assailants, was so much taken by sur- prise; the defence might have been made triumphant. With regard to oaths incompatible ... ...m the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defence. These were called Armatoles (or Gendarmerie); their available stre... ...ntation be- came universal; and the T urks of Patrass hastily prepared for defence. By the twenty-fifth, the Greeks had purchased all the powder and l... ...o hear that the Argives were drawn up behind a wall originally raised as a defence against the deluge of Inachus. 225 Thomas de Quincey fire till nig...

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...ar. But its own class did not ordinarily occupy that position in regard to social influence which could en- able them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge... ...en- able them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge of a writer. A reader whose social standing is moderate may communicate his views upon a book or a writ... ...ion, would fill him with twofold astonishment, as interpreting equally the social valuation of the English merchant, and also the social valuation of ... ... children of the house, stood, in fact, upon the very happiest tier in the social scaffolding for all good influ- ences. The prayer of Agur—“Give me n... ...lture, and of elegant enjoyment, on the other hand, we knew nothing of its social distinctions. Not depressed by the consciousness of priva- tions too... ... of protestation that ascended forever to thy throne from the tears of the defenceless, and from the anger of the just. And lo! we—I thy servant, and ... ... for he was one of those who never think of Christianity as the subject of defence. Could sunshine, could light, could the glo- ries of the dawn call ... ...nce. Could sunshine, could light, could the glo- ries of the dawn call for defence? Not as a thing to be de- fended, but as a thing to be interpreted,... ...she 129 Autobiographic Sketches was suddenly asked by the counsel for the defence whether she believed in the Christian religion? Her answer was brie...

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... and his eyes turned to the sky, as if asking of heaven the reason of this social up- heaval. No one but Chesnel could understand the profound anguish... ...ration of the great and little noblesse, of the aristocratic and bourgeois social elements, which had been united for a little space by the heavy weig... ...d come to be one of the commonest as well as one of the worst types from a social point of view—a consistent egoist. The aristocratic cult of the ego ... ...onal wrong. The monster Equality was swallowing down the last fragments of social distinction in the Restoration. Having made up his mind on this head... ...sion, magistrates, commissaries, police- men, and other representatives of social order. Like most guilty creatures, Victurnien had forgotten everythi... ...sure to take care that after the challenges from the prosecu- tion and the defence, the jury to a man will be for an acquit- tal.—My advice would be t... ...he astonished eyes of the ignorant those thick leaves bristling with spiny defences which seem to be due to some plant disease. It was a plain-looking...

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...irl of its wings must have seemed weirdly unbirdlike. The instinct of self-defence, I fancy, 24 The Food of the Gods mingled with long habit, when, a... ...ue, but he continued speaking. “If you try and assault us I shall, in self-defence, let fly at your legs. The horses are going on.” He treated the inc... ...ffed arm-chair, covered by a grubby antimacassar that had given a touch of social distinction to the Skinners’ sitting-room for many years. His unaccu... ...high, who won’t be able to get inside a church, or a meeting-house, or any social or human institution. But for all that they’re not so easy in their ... ...and led her to the sofa, while he tried to think of a satisfactory line of defence. “It’s all right, my dear,” he said; “it’s all right. You’re only a... ...Food strange and predominant, scarred and blackened ar- eas, big unsightly defences and preparations, barracks and arsenals that this subtle, persiste... ...eing clearly, which he was never to see clearly. It was the whole gigantic social side of this lonely dumb monster crying out for his race, for the th... ...mpleton, nothing of trade, nothing of the complex pretences upon which the social fabric of the little folks was built. He needed, he needed—Whatever ...

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...the Fadden Art School and a bright, event- ful life of art student dances, Socialist meetings, theatre gal- leries, talking about work, and even, at i... ... beautiful, safe, and sheltering home, going about with hatless friends to Socialist meetings and art-class dances, and displaying a dis- position to ... ...live, you do exist! You have this home. You have friends, ac- quaintances, social standing, brothers and sisters, every ad- vantage! Instead of which,... ...ily, and distantly re- lated to Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. She was the social leader of Morningside Park, and in her superficial and euphuistic wa... ...d to me. My politics in that matter wouldn’t be to give women votes. I’m a Socialist, Miss Stanley.” “What?” said Ann Veronica, startled. “A Socialist... ...atre. Ann Veronica intervened a little in the novel- ist discussion with a defence of Esmond and a denial that the Egoist was obscure, and when she sp... ...nt hockey player and had had a course of jiu-jitsu in the High School. Her defence ceased rapidly to be in any sense ladylike, and became vigorous and... ... to the very portal of that centre of distur- bance. And through all these defences and into Old Palace Yard, into the very vitals of the defenders’ p...

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...ived on his target, but instead of using his sword in cutting down his now defenceless antago- nist, he employed it in parrying the blow of a Lochaber... ... hornworks, and covered ways; but my two protectors shelled him out of his defences, and I was at length a free man, at liberty to go or stay wheresoe... ... inaccessible character of the coun- try, which had seemed to promise them defence and protec- tion. [See Note 8.—Battle betwixt the armies of the Bru... ...ich he excelled, and to find, at the same time, the means for mak- ing one social meal with his mother on something better than their ordinary cheer. ... ...of Chatham prided himself on the scheme, by which he drew together for the defence of the colonies those hardy Highlanders, who, until his time, had b... ... his countrymen required to be powerfully restrained by the strong curb of social law. But still he mourned over the individual victim. Who may ar- ra... ... and whose good sabres, in our own time, are her cheapest and most assured defence. His mirth was readily excited; for, strong in limb and consti- tut...

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...or the ob- vious, no matter how startling, how terrible or men- acing, yet defenceless as a child before the shadowy impulses of his own heart; what c... ...ility of any violence being offered to people of our posi- tion. It is the social aspect of such an incident I am desirous of criticising.” Here d’Alc... ...she reflected. She was frank with herself. She con- sidered him apart from social organization. She dis- covered he had no place in it. How delightful... ... puff came in a free rush as if, far away there to the northward, the last defence of the calm had been victoriously carried. The flames borne down st... ...t credit you with the possession of feelings ap- propriate to your origin, social position, and the ideas of the class to which you belong. It was the... ...you for the serious side of life, for the ideas and the ambi- tions of the social sphere to which you belong.” He stopped because his wife had clasped... ...red positions. I don’t remember you ever admiring frankly any political or social success. I ask myself what after all you could possibly have expecte... ...even to her- self she looked like an apparition without rights and without defence and that must end by surrendering to those forces which seemed to h... ...orgenson as left alone on board the Emma with a few Malay spearmen for all defence. For a moment Lingard thought of picking up the pistols he had take...

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...s might be made of great utility to his purpose of writ- ing a poem on the social position of Hellas, and, as a collec- tion, he published these lays,... ...at in the council, glorious in the field. Generous he rises in the crown’s defence, T o curb the factious tongue of insolence, Such just examples on o... ...e the daring wound! Behold the deed of haughty Diomed! ’T was in the son’s defence the mother bled. The war with T roy no more the Grecians wage; 131... ... darken’d field: Pleased with his charge, and ardent to fulfil, In T roy’s defence, Apollo’s heavenly will: Soon as from fight the blue-eyed maid reti... ... awful goddess! ever-dreadful maid, 152 The Iliad of Homer T roy’s strong defence, unconquer’d Pallas, aid! Break thou Tydides’ spear, and let him fa... ...r, And trembling met this dreadful son of war. Sit thou secure, amidst thy social band; Greece in our cause shall arm some powerful hand. The mighties... ...due, Amidst the greedy flames Patroclus threw; Then each, indulging in the social feast, His thirst and hunger soberly repress’d. That done, to Phœnix... ...won, And gave Amphidamas; from him the prize Molus received, the pledge of social ties; The helmet next by Merion was possess’d, And now Ulysses’ thou... ...s bleeding breast he lay, The monarch’s falchion lopp’d his head away: The social shades the same dark journey go, And join each other in the realms b...

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...tch at epithets, and any low contention of this kind obscured for them the social summit they hoped to attain; the dream whereof was their prime nouri... ... common shot that exploded a magazine; and for a time it quite upset their social policy, causing them to act like simple young ladies who feel things... ...ngs and the Fine Shades play a principal part in our human development and social history. I dare not say that civilized man is to be studied with the... ...art, beyond genius, beyond any special cleverness; and that was, the great social quality of taking, as by nature, without assumption, a queenly posit... ...hy merchant’s conscious- ness of his identity was vanishing under the iron social rule of the ladies. His perishing individuality prompted the inex- p... ...on- tinuing to strike the harp-frame while Emilia clutched it, in a feeble defence, against her bosom, he caught a thick stick from a neighbouring han... ...n accustomed to them; and now, if they bewilder us, our judgement, in self-defence, is compelled to set them down lunatic.” Cornelia bowed her stately... ... They posture admirably. In dumb show they are equally good for attack and defence. But this is not the case in speech. So, when Arabella explained th... ...ilt? Mrs. Chump fanned her cheek, in complete ignorance of the offence and defence. Chump, deceased, in amorous mood, had praised her management of th...

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...eton. He meant her (thanks to his enlightening companionship) to develop a social tact and readiness of wit enabling her to hold her own with the most... ...regrettable in the Beaufort past. Mrs. Archer, who was fond of coining her social philosophy into axioms, had once said: “We all have our pet common p... ...eature whose soul’s custodian he was to be. That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothi... ...Age of Innocence riages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hy- pocrisy... ...ned human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this cre... ...uld uncle Egmont have said of Lawrence Lefferts’s pronouncing on anybody’s social position? It shows what Society has come to.” “We’ll hope it has not... ...sensitive and aloof would yet, from the force of circumstances, from sheer defencelessness and loneli- ness, be drawn into a tie inexcusable by conven... ... me.” “I didn’t need any asking.” “Y ou mean—I’m so evidently helpless and defenceless? What a poor thing you must all think me! But women here seem n... ...or the social advantages of dress. “It’s their armour,” he thought, “their defence against the un- known, and their defiance of it.” And he understood...

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...emocracy there are human differences, and that Ameri- can life was full of social distinctions, of delicate shades, which foreigners often lack the in... ...t was in the highest degree typical; it 13 Henry James placed them in the social scale if other evidence had been wanting; you could tell that a girl... ...ailway, the telegraph, the discovery of dynamite, the Chassepot rifle, the Socialis- tic spirit: it was one of the complications of modern life. It wo... ...mething in her air and port that matched such a pronouncement. “What’s her social position?” he inquired of Mrs. Dangerfield the next day. “I can’t ma... ...t. Yet her parents are complete little burghers. That’s easily seen.” “Oh, social position,” and Mrs. Dangerfield nodded two or three times portentous... ... gay familiarity which evidently ranked with her but as one of the arts of defence. “You’ll see what mission it is when it comes out. But I’ll speak t...

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...y fingers were all thumbs. Some at least of the others I possessed; and finding much entertainment in our commerce, I did not suffer my advantages to ... ...by my defect; and as soon as the signal should be given, to throw myself down and lunge at the same moment. It was to play my life upon one card: shou... ...share was exceedingly agile and ex- pert with his weapon; had and held me at a disadvantage from the first assault; forced me to give ground continu- ... ... barred the main gates of the citadel; but unhappily we had left open the bath-room sally-port; and here we found the voice of the hostile trumpets so... ...ervices I may have rendered you in that time. It would be a position too odious. Your lordship knows me too well to suppose I could stoop to such igno... ...s if you was to give me a ‘and up with them at the start.’ ‘And I would see you far enough before I allowed you to try, Mr. Rowley!’ I cried. ‘Why, yo...

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... ing poor themselves. That many who sought to do some little to repair the social wrongs, inflicted in the way of pre ventible sickness and death upo... ...s, ropes and rings, undermost parts of posts and piles and confused timber defences against the waves, lie strewn about, in a brown litter of tangled ... ...ave never overheard at street corners such lunatic scraps of political and social discussion as among these dear countrymen of ours. They believe ever... ...or ready made? Moses and son are on my track. Did I ever aim a blow at a defenceless fellow creature’s head? That head eternally being measured for ... ...a great concern in the state of the wind. The trees blown all one way; the defences of the harbour reared highest and strongest against the raging poi... ...eing given, a certain evening was appointed with a certain Inspector for a social conference be 113 Charles Dickens tween ourselves and the Detectiv... ...he Old Bailey, when their trials came on, Mr. Clarkson was engaged for the defence, and he couldn’t make out how it was, about the Butcher. He though... ...new device that perverted inge nuity can invent, for which this important social branch of the public service is remarkable! For ever on the watch, w... ...taught the more advanced among us hornpipes (as an accomplishment in great social demand in after life); and there was a brisk little French master wh...

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...d, when the home party cast longing, lin- gering recollections back to the social intercourse, lamp-lit streets, and ready interchange of books and ot... ... dog—indeed I fancy she did, for there was a howl, and Griff sprang to his defence with— ’Don’t hurt my dog, I say! He hasn’t touched the brute! She c... ...et drooped at one moment, and was raised the next in eager remonstrance or defence. At last he flung angrily away from her, and went off to the stable... ...e with- drawn, down came the mob in fresh force, so desperate that all the defences were torn down, and they swarmed in so that there was nothing for ... ...young man of position and estate. On the other indict- ment he scorned any defence, and the two had parted in mutual indignation. He had, however, sho... ... to Ellen and Hillside, which made us rush into the breach with incoherent defence. ‘I know how it was,’ said Clarence. ‘His acting is capital, and of...

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...eset him, my art cannot discover.” “Your knowledge, then, can afford us no defence,” said the anxious father, “against the threatened evil?” “Pardon m... ...s of invasion or civil war, they might. communi- cate by signal for mutual defence and protection. Ellangowan castle was by far the most extensive and... ...rophe related in the fast chapter, that, during a cold and stormy night, a social group had closed around the kitchen fire of the Gordon Arms at Kippl... .... Wise men say, that we resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence, only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us. Wh... ...n of the contents of his purse, supposing the said Arthur has not means of defence, or the skill and courage to use them, the assizes at Lancaster or ... ...shall say noth- ing, until I end a reverend divine who shall condemn self- defence in the article of life and property. If its propriety in that case ... ...f a liberal pro- fession, and good society, should choose such a scene for social indulgence. Besides the miserable entrance, the house itself seemed ... ...oddo.] I love the caena, the supper of the ancients, the pleasant meal and social glass that wash out of one’s mind the cobwebs that business or gloom...

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...ss; and had they not been, neither their previous habits, nor their actual social positions, would have accustomed them to many of the luxuries of ran... ...s scarcely to enter into the estimate of the engineers who had planned the defences. There were bastions of earth and logs, a dry ditch, a stockade, a... ...th it were a few huts of logs, which, as they could not interfere with the defence of the place, had been erected along the strand for the purpose of ... ...vor of the first, while their cornpanion grew sturdier and sturdier in his defence of the accused, and still more fixed in his opinion of his being un... ...e. The logs were bullet-proof, squared and jointed with a care to leave no defenceless points; the windows were loop-holes, the door massive and small... ...e or less, concealed the base of the wooden tower. The object being purely defence, care had been taken to place the blockhouse so near an opening in ... ...ad gradually been accustoming themselves to the blandishments and wants of social life; particularly as the last were connected with the domestic affe...

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... and dim; the thick London fog had oozed into it even through its superior defences. It was full of dusky, massive, valuable things. The old lady sat ... ...had there been anybody she could have shown her to. But in the poor lady’s social void there was no one; she had after all her own correctness and she... ...priate field was neither the army nor the church, but simply the world—the social, successful, worldly world. If he had a sword in one hand and a Bibl... ...were his talent and his courage if he were so miserably afraid of trumpery social penalties? Rose’s heart sank when she reflected that a man supposed ... ...n to places one hates. Every one does that.” “Oh, what I go through!” this social martyr cried. Then she laid a persuasive hand on the girl’s arm. “Le... ...eaks to us, no one looks at us.” “Really?” stared the young man. “We’ve no social existence, we’re utterly despised.” “Oh, Miss Tramore!” Captain Jay ...

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...ndlier feeling. ‘The very same,’ said John. And the old butler removed his defences, remarking only ‘I thocht ye were that man.’ But his master was no... ...did, as near as I can see the matter, what you downright had to do in self-defence. Suppose I got into trouble, where would you be? This second little... ...r ears. Followed as he followed it, with a skilful reticence, in a kind of social chiaroscuro, it was still possible for the polite to call him a prof...