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...ecious formulas of Dispute. He convoked the various antagonistic worlds of philosophy and religion, and they all appeared, in the guise of a fleshless... ...in- ciple of things. Let us leave aside the fruitless discussions of false philosophy. The spiritualist generations made as many 79 Balzac and as vai... ...of your own feeble word, and that without that word you would resemble the African gorilla, the nearest approach to man, the Negro. You believe firmly...

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...By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to apply to the who... ...an or woman in whose veins there can have been presumed to be any taint of African blood. In Jamaica they are daily to be found in society. Every Engl... ...ever, gradually adopted the policy of Jefferson—his policy rather than his philosophy. 190 North America V ol. 2 tained the consent of the people, wa... ...willingly join my lot with theirs. I do not wish to have dealings with the African negro, either as a free man or as a slave, if I can avoid them, bel... ... other mode of protestation I may to guard myself. In thus speaking of the African negro, I do not venture to despise the work of God’s hands. That He... ... up to the “Civilization.” As a rule, they are generally up to “Proverbial Philosophy,” and this, perhaps, may have had something to do with the great... ...you like our institutions, sir? Do you find that philan- thropy, religion, philosophy and the social virtues are cul- tivated on a scale commensurate ...

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...offee berry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Vol... ...a sofa. Mrs. Jellyby had very good hair but was too much occupied with her African duties to brush it. The shawl in which she had been loosely muffled... ...“you find me, my dears, as usual, very busy; but that you will excuse. The African project at present em ploys my whole time. It involves me in corre... ..., dictating, “‘to inform him, in reference to his letter of inquiry on the African project—’ No, Peepy! Not on my account!” Peepy (so self named) was ... ...am of them. I can lie down on the grass—in fine weather—and float along an African river, embracing all the natives I meet, as sensible of the deep si... ...n’t want to look about him.” This appeared to Mr. Skimpole to be the drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good phi losophy, always supposing th... ...; he had accepted himself with all his fail ings and had thought it sound philosophy to make the best of the bargain; and he hoped we would do the sa... ... out of it, there is consid erable excitement too, for men of science and philosophy come to look, and carriages set down doctors at the corner who a...

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...- eral politics (meaning by general not personal politics) and with social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political ... ...d from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and of that century... ...anch of study, the points are so many at which theol- ogy inosculates with philosophy, and with endless casual and random suggestions of the self-prom... ...o some new mode of hope- ful existence, through intercourse with religious philosophy. What vast revolutions (vast for the individual) within how narr... ...ot entirely neglected even as regarded sportsmanship; that great branch of philosophy being con- fided to one of the keepers, who was very attentive t... ... of Cyrene, so memorable as the first ground of Greek intercourse with the African shore of the Mediterranean, never consulted the Delphic Oracle in r...

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...impossible to develop a new college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and... ...whom he waged a fierce obscure war… . It was Codger’s function to teach me philosophy, philoso- phy! the intimate wisdom of things. He dealt in a vari... ... to the ideas of collective action and mutual consider- ation as a Central African negro. There are hordes of such men as he throughout all the modern... ...t isn’t a very curable difference,—once people have grown up. Theirs was a philosophy devoid of finesse. T emperamentally the Baileys were specialised... ... pupil. In the life of the individual it takes the role that the growth of philosophy, science, and creative literature may play in the development of... ...will be quick to learn when we are beaten. Then they will repeat our South African diplomacy, and ar- range for some settlement that will abandon the ... ... easy gesture. “Love and fine thinking. Two things don’t go to- gether. No philosophy worth a damn ever came out of ex- cesses of love. Salt Lake City...

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...ourse (not an absolute novelty, to the best of my remembrance of my reading), who had been personally known to the preacher, and had been quite a Cric... ...ates in a mock battle-rush, from which many of the squaws are borne out, much dilapidated. I need not observe how unlike this is to a Drawing Room at ... .... Let me halt on my Uncommercial road, to throw a pass- ing glance on some funeral solemnities that I have seen where The Uncommercial Traveller 271 ... ... solemnities are sufficiently hideous, but are few and cheap. The friends and townsmen of the departed, in their own dresses and not masquerading unde... ... coat and trousers, white waistcoat, very large shirt- front, very large shirt-collar, and very large white tie and wristbands, which constitute the d... ...eantime, I parted from my two frank conductors over the mills, by telling them that they had nothing there to be concealed, and nothing to be blamed f...

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...ved to discriminate firmly between what was worth it and what wasn’t. This philosophy had at first enchanted Lansing; but now it began to rouse vague ... ..., remembering that Nick had; and the remembrance made Strefford’s sneering philosophy seem less unbearable. Why should she not lunch with him, after a... ...commentary on life had always amused Susy because of the shrewd flashes of philosophy he shed on the social antics they had so often watched together.... ...of Ptolemaic mummies, now at the excavation of Delphic temples or of North African basilicas. The beginning of winter usually brought the Prince and h... ...ering red-hot in their ashes! What was the use of any self-discipline, any philosophy, any experience, if the lawless self underneath could in an inst...

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...it for your child if she could get the same pay . Y.M. This is an infernal philosophy of yours. O.M. It isn’t a philosophy, it is a fact. Y.M. Of cour... ... same machine, but of unequal capacities—like yours and Edison’s; like the African pygmy’s and Homer’s; like the Bushman’s and Bismarck’s. Y.M. How ar... ...f Commons and in the courts of law, he still found leisure for letters and philosophy. The noble treatise on the Advancement of Leearning, which at a... ... have taken all knowledge to be my province.” Though Bacon did not arm his philosophy with the weap ons of logic, he adorned her profusely with all t...

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... A Wice. T ools. Bones, warious. Skulls, warious. Pre- served Indian baby. African ditto. Bottled preparations, warious. Everything within reach of yo... ...o shakes a momentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green g... ...in!’ Mrs Boffin pulled his nearest ear, in acknowledgment of this piece of philosophy , and then said, gradually toning down to a motherly strain: ‘La... ...t why didn’t it come before?’ asked Mrs Boffin. This draft on Mr Boffin’ s philosophy could only be met by that gentleman with the remark that everyth...

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...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...e? One could admit science in that larger sense that sweeps in History, or Philosophy. Beyond that whatever work there is is work for which men are pa... ...ter a large and serious movement through his mind he came back to Science, Philosophy or Politics as the sole three justifications for the usurpation ... ...e for any departmentalized subject, and equally he felt no natural call to philosophy. He was left with politics…. “Or else, why shouldn’t I go down t... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat... ...ulling down and try- ing again. Hope and disappointments and much need for philosophy…. I see myself now for the little workman I am upon this tremend...

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... wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. ... ...that in this struggle against the spread of slavery he had right, justice, philosophy, the enlightened opinion of mankind, history, the Constitution, ... ...Pilgrim Fathers upon Plymouth Rock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period th...

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... deck, with a little table by her side on which lay open a black volume of philosophy. She chose a thread from the vari-coloured tangle that lay in he... ...to work of arrears of business; and Rachel—Helen, between her sentences of philosophy, wondered sometimes what Rachel _did_ do with herself? She meant... .... Mr. Dalloway wished to look at certain guns, and was of opinion that the African coast is far more unsettled than people at home were inclined to be... ...iritual outlook we may admit will be affected. If I may pick holes in your philosophy, Miss Vinrace, which has its merits, I would point out that a hu... ...rs. Ambrose,” he protested. “May I ask how you’ve spent your time? Reading—philosophy?” (He saw the black book.) “Meta- physics and fishing!” he excla... ...d there he sits hour after hour with his toes on the fender, talking about philosophy and God and his liver and his heart and the hearts of his friend...

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...an Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself. His language has the richness and sente... ... that it is tumbling over them at this very moment.” If unsatisfied by the philosophy of his companion, the Indian was far too dignified to betray his... ...posed his own rugged and earnest countenance to the gaze of the Huron, the philosophy of the latter was so far mastered as to permit him to utter the ... ...a- ture of the surprise had nearly proved too much for—we will not say the philosophy—but for the pitch and resolution of David. He fumbled for his pi... ..., at some future day, ag’in these imps, the Mingoes. Y ou may here see the philosophy of an Indian fight. It consists mainly in ready hand, a quick ey... ...eatures of his friend, with something like his own self-command, but whose philosophy could endure no longer; “no, Sagamore, not alone. The gifts of o...

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...offee berry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Dic... ...a sofa. Mrs. Jellyby had very good hair but was too much occupied with her African duties to brush it. The shawl in which she had been loosely muffled... ...“you find me, my dears, as usual, very busy; but that you will excuse. The African project at present em ploys my whole time. It involves me in corre... ..., dictating, “‘to inform him, in reference to his letter of inquiry on the African project—’ No, Peepy! Not on my account!” Peepy (so self named) was ... ...am of them. I can lie down on the grass—in fine weather—and float along an African river, embracing all the natives I meet, as sensible of the deep si... ...n’t want to look about him.” This appeared to Mr. Skimpole to be the drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good phi losophy, always supposing th... ...; he had accepted himself with all his fail ings and had thought it sound philosophy to make the best of the bargain; and he hoped we would do the sa... ... out of it, there is consid erable excitement too, for men of science and philosophy come to look, and carriages set down doctors at the corner who a... ...hat. I am above the rest of mankind in such a case as that. I can act with philosophy in such a case as that. I am not warped by prejudices, as an Ita...

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...American Notes – Dickens 56 like one, has its root in the true wisdom or philosophy of the matter. I hope I may not be misunderstood on this subject... ...es with surprise and fear, like the countless repetition of one astonished African face in some strange mirror. Mount up these other stairs with no le... ...o matter of relief or self congratulation to the driver, for his immovable philosophy is perfectly undisturbed by anything that happens in the coach. ...

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... plode and flow according to Girondin Formula and pre- established rule of Philosophy? If so, for our Girondin friends it will be well. Meanwhile were... ... Necessity environing Freewill! The weapons of the Girondins are Political Philosophy, Respectability and Eloquence. Eloquence, or call it rheto- ric,... ...nnals: or is there, that thou wottest of, one shabbier? Mumbo-Jumbo of the African woods to me seems venerable beside this new Deity of Robespierre; f...

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... matters of detail never troubled him much. His teaching was as the German philosophy calls it, ‘subjective’; it was to benefit himself, not others. H... ...of domes placed in close array like the round, thatched roofs of a central African city. Yet I wanted to penetrate farther underneath, though a chill ...

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...ker overhead when her warm blood had drawn her to some ac- ceptance of the philosophy of existence, in a savour of gratifi- cation at the prospect of ... ...they can,’ said mademoiselle. Nesta transformed herself into a disciple of Philosophy on the spot. ‘Yes, all these feelings of ours are moth-dust! One... ... com- monly when our difficulty lies in the exercise of thinking. Victor’s African room, containing large wall-maps of au- riferous regions, was inspe... ...nkind has informed us, we were led up to our civilization by the nose. But Philosophy warns us on that eminence; to beware of trusting exclusively to ...

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... A Wice. T ools. Bones, warious. Skulls, warious. Pre- served Indian baby. African ditto. Bottled preparations, warious. Everything within reach of yo... ...o shakes a momentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green g... ...in!’ Mrs Boffin pulled his nearest ear, in acknowledgment of this piece of philosophy , and then said, gradually toning down to a motherly strain: ‘La... ...t why didn’t it come before?’ asked Mrs Boffin. This draft on Mr Boffin’ s philosophy could only be met by that gentleman with the remark that everyth... ...ved the girl. ‘I don’ t know whether you happen to have read many books of African T ravel, Mr Rokesmith?’ said R. W . ‘I have read several.’ ‘Well, y... ...ing gleams here and there upon the dark greasy walls; the Hindoo baby, the African baby, the articulated English baby, the assortment of skulls, and t... ...iously fallen into the hands of some of the Christians, I can bear it with philosophy.’ ‘I have had an interview to-day, Eugene, with a Jew, who seems...

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... women with a grievance. She could as yet, before the task of evolving the philosophy of rebellious action had affected her intuitive sharp- ness, per... ...hy, sunburnt complex- ion, thin nose and his lean head there was something African, something Moorish in Captain Anthony. His neck was bare; he had ta... ...ng his eyes off the old gentleman noticed Cap- tain Anthony, swarthy as an African, by the side of Flora whiter than the lilies, take his handkerchief...