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...orts, most of them of very doubtful necessity, have been con- structed for defence; but no attack having ever been contemplated, or , if contemplated,... ...sitions perhaps that they are not always exactly qualified to fill. Of all social 7 James Fenimore Cooper usurpations, that of mere money is the leas... ...might enact their own laws, and the popu- lar principle be brought to bear socially on the us- ages of the town—referring fashion and opinion al- toge... ...But after a country has rounded its territory , con- structed its lines of defence, established its system of custom-houses, and made all the other pr... ... respect to many of the plainest and most impor- tant of the principles of social integrity that have ever been received among men. Anyone familiar wi... ...as our condition is rapidly getting to be, strong as are the tendencies to social disso- lution, and to the abuses which demand force to subdue, that ... ...ely into the ordinary action of every form of government or combination of social organization that the accidents of history have produced, or the sag... ...se who felt an interest in its preservation would not fail to rally in its defence. It is precisely on this principle that in the end property will pr...

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... which appeals to the indi- vidual mind to perceive and participate in the social. We have splendid tragedies, we have the most beautiful of poetic pl... ... to this mutual likeness; he is for saying that when they draw together in social life their minds grow liker; just as the phi- losopher discerns the ... ...ay be accepted as a version of the ordinary worldly under- standing of our social life; at least, in accord with the current dicta concerning it. The ... ...ivilization where Comedy is not possible; and that comes of some degree of social equality of the sexes. I am not quot- ing the Arab to exhort and dis... ... clearest vision abroad and at home. They will see that where they have no social freedom, Comedy is absent: where they are household drudges, the for... ...cannot take root in its ever-shifting soil. It is besides addicted in self-defence to gabble exclusively of the affairs of its rap- idly revolving wor... ...es and courtesies. The German is Orson, or the mob, or a marching army, in defence of a good case or a bad—a big or a little. His irony is a missile o...

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...d her daughter assassinated, and she blamed the young men for their heroic defence and compelled them to desist. It was Laurence who opened the door s... ...Cinq-Cygne became that of the younger branch of the Chargeboeufs after the defence of a castle made, during their father’s absence, by five daughters ... ...s. Nevertheless he would have let himself be arrested without an effort at defence, and would have gone to the scaffold quietly. His annuity of three ... ... specify in language the varieties of those who compose this dispensary of social remedies so essential to all governments— the spy has this curious a... ...n society, in the body politic, in the family, meant the subversion of the social sys- tem. In these days we are so far removed from this theory of pr... ...h magistrates. Monsieur de Grandville, for that was his name, accepted the defence of the four young men, be- ing glad of an opportunity to make his f... ... Law is not bilat- eral. The defence, without spies or police, cannot call social power to the rescue of its innocent clients. Innocence has nothing o... ...ds,—fanatical sym- pathies wrapped in a shroud of mystery. She now saw all social forces full-armed against her cousins and herself. There was no taki... ...guilt. All was dull and vulgar. The para- phernalia so necessary to excite social interest is perhaps a consolation to criminals. On this occasion the...

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...e they blindly trod; The state of nature was the reign of God: Self–love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man. Prid... ...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here sub... ...ll join to guard what each desires to gain. Forc’d into virtue thus, by self–defence, Ev’n kings learn’d justice and benevolence: Self–love forsook th... ... whole. Thus God and nature link’d the gen’ral frame, And bade self–love and social be the same. EPISTLE IV OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPEC... ...nce is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king, In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend: Heav’n ... ... be blest, And strongest motive to assist the rest. Self–love thus push’d to social, to divine, Gives thee to make thy neighbour’s blessing thine. Is ... ...s right; That reason, passion, answer one great aim; That true self–love and social are the same; That virtue only makes our bliss below; And all our ...

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...f the Dean with that fluttered attention to the ampler clergy ten years of social ascent and ascendency had not cured in her; and the Lady Mary watche... ...his confidence to the pitch of voluntary speech. In that endeavour I had a social advan- tage. Being a person of affability and no apparent employ- me... ... natu- rally classed as an artist in Bignor, and in the remarkable code of social precedence prevalent in Bignor an artist ranks considerably higher t... ...y business to,’ I said in a quiet voice. “‘I’m a ghost,’ he said, as if in defence. “‘That may be, but you haven’t any business to haunt here. This is... ... might crouch and take a closer view of this gaping breach in the domestic defences, the open window. For a while Mr. Ledbetter was as still as the ni...

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...arply as he threw him on his horse, and wrapped his cloak about him—a poor defence, spite of the ermine lining, against the frost of the December nigh... ... take thought for her, and finish this long term of tossing about and self-defence. Was not the patience with which he kept his eyes away from her alr... ...r rebel subjects as prisoners of war.’ ‘I did not know that I was saving a defenceless man from the flames to be used like a dog. I never offered my a... ..., or in the licensed sports, or on the river; fresh studies, chapel, and a social but quiet evening over the supper in the hall. All this was varied b... ...m by the 248 The Caged Lion arm, led him, followed by Lilias, through the defences and into the court of the castle, then to a side-door, where, boun... ...day, in utter fearlessness of earthly justice, and defiance of Heaven. The defence that the prisoner seemed to have been prepared to us?—that those wh...

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... law courts to unmask and decompose their true object The obstinacy of the defence betrayed the real animus of the attempt. It was an attempt which, i... ...vil which acts through opinion, it acts by a machinery, viz. the press and social centralization in great cities, which in these days is perfect. Righ... ...an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the Free Church lies in pleading a spiritual ... ...middle ages. It would be absurd, however, seriously to pur- sue these anti-social chimeras through their consequences. Stern remedies would summarily ... ...nchristian conspiracy. Meantime, next after this fact, it is the strongest defence which we can offer for the duke—that in a day or two after this cha... ...traint. For no journal has entered so powerfully or so eloquently into the defence of the general principle involved in the Seces- sion (although ques... ..., in no other way, been able to evade the double mischief of undertaking a defence for the indefensible, and at the same time of losing the land irret... ...hat it should be exhibited as the antagonist pole to the sin and misery of social man. Such is the covert philosophy which governs Milton’s prac- tice... ...ndispensable, amongst a thousand other great uses, to the very elements of social distinctions and social rights, But for the endless circum- stances ...

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...itor of the Radiator. Mrs. Dresham was a lady who had rescued herself from social obscurity by assuming the role of her husband’s exponent and interpr... ...anding up for the publication of the letters as though Glennard needed his defence? … Glennard turned his head and saw that Flamel had drawn a seat to... ...scrutiny was only a shade less humiliating than to reckon on his wife as a defence against Flamel. He felt a contradictory movement of annoyance at th... ... there a reaction of defiance set in. What had he done, after all, to need defence and explanation? Both Dresham and Flamel had, in his hearing, decla... ... discussed them with critical reservations; to have read them had become a social obligation in circles to which literature never penetrates except in... ...pear hurried, showed the smiling abstraction of a pretty woman to whom the social side of married life has not lost its novelty. Glennard, with the re... ...” “A reason?” “For not going. A woman who gives reasons for getting out of social obligations is sure to make herself unpopular or ridiculous. 47 Edi... ...for the consequences, he could at least acquit himself of speaking in self-defence. What he wanted now was not immunity but castigation: his wife’s in... ...but he had enough imagination to per- ceive that, in respect of the wife’s social arts, a husband nec- essarily sees the wrong side of the tapestry. I...

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... of 6 Democracy in America the people, of all races and conditions, their social and reli- gious sentiments, their education and tastes; their indust... ...cibly than the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are... ...now search for a law that would negative this provision in its effect upon social equality, he would fail to find it. But he would find it in the unwr... ...n committed in its name. Belonging neither to the class which regarded the social revo- lution as an innovation to be resisted, nor to that which con-... ...ccess to talent; science became a means of government, intelligence led to social power, and the man of letters took a part in the affairs of the Stat... ...fficers, and was to hold itself at all times in readiness to march for the defence of the country.**** In the laws of Connecticut, as well as in all t... ...very principle, by forbidding or preventing society from acting in its own defence under certain circumstances. To weaken authority in this manner is ... ...self- preservation. Nor can the prodigious exertions made by tribes in the defence of a country to which they did not belong be ad- duced in favor of ... ...ght. The President, on the other hand, is ab- sorbed by the cares of self- defence. He no longer governs for the interest of the State, but for that o...

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...ved for reply a thrust, which he caught in his target. The officer was now defenceless, and the battle-axe of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Inv... ...w from the glance of his mother’s eye, that the purpose of his desper- ate defence was attained. Ah! I remember,’ she continued, ‘I remember well to h... ...arshalsea; and it was his solicitor and ordinary counsel who conducted the defence of some of these unfortunate gentlemen at their trial. It was gener... ...anecdote struck the gentleman, who, as we before observed, had managed the defence of some of those unfortunate persons, at the expense of Sir Everard... ... might take the life of a young man who perhaps respectably discharged the social duties, and render his family miserable; or he might lose his own;—n... ...it.] while we are not allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue.’ Bailie Macwheeble entered immediately afterwards, and b... ...ection of their foolish quarrel for the pleasure of enjoying once more the social intercourse of question and answer, from which he had been so long s... ... ought only to be consecrated to elegant or amusing study, and relieved by social or youthful frolic. Now, how changed! how saddened, yet how elevated...

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...me to time directly, like a besieged commander pleased to verify the good estate of his defences. But in truth he was at peace. The rain falling in th... ...hed to leave Paris? Who made me give up cards, and the opera, and the boulevard, and my social relations, and all that was my life before I knew you? ... ...en his tongue out. He fore- saw what was coming, and prepared his mind for a vigor- ous defence. ‘Did you ever steal yourself?’ asked Casimir, turning...

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...t she!— it’s terrible! Y ou place women in the front ranks—girls! What can defenceless creatures do? Would you let the van-regi- ment in battle be the... ...hading straw rim had shaken once during the collo- quy. It was now a fixed defence. “What is her new name?” Mrs. Sedley inquired. “That I cannot tell.... ... apostrophes to Barto left it one of the ironical, veiled Republican, semi-socialistic ballads of the time, which were sung about the streets for the ... ...was enabled to plant a sturdy hind-foot, daring her foes as from a rock of defence. A group of officers, of the cavalry, with a few infantry uni- form... ...h per- haps that additional savour of a robust immorality which a Viennese social education may give. The rounded ball of the brilliant September moon... ...g dialogue, but her first charming readiness had af- fected the proficient social gentleman very pleasantly, and with fascinated eyes he hummed and bu... ... he would have scorned another for so miserable a form either of attack or defence. Vittoria beheld Angelo circling round the point, which met him eve... ...be in England as over here,” said Anna. “We have to submit to these little social scourges.” Lena whispered to Adela, “An angry woman will think the w... ...already done much for her; for if what he had done were known, his career, social and military, was ended. This idea being accompanied by a sense of s...

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...ch regarded Napoleon), the country seemed in so perfect a state of orderly defence, and the help at hand in case of need so near and overwhelming, tha... ...es with her wit. But, as we have said, she. was growing tired of this idle social life: opera-boxes and restaurateur din- ners palled upon her: nosega... ...ord of the Powder Closet, and one of the great dignitaries and illustrious defences of the throne of England, and came up with all his stars, garters,... ...tless and perfectly irreproachable lady by even hinting that it requires a defence. Y ou will be pleased to receive her with the utmost cordiality, as...

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... at lunch-time, or squeezed in a visit to a picture gallery, balancing his social work with an ardent culture of which he was secretly proud, as Mary ... ...ith scarcely any resistance from powers exhausted by their first effort at defence. He took his way languidly along the river embankment, away from ho... ...tway was one of the people for whom the great make-believe game of English social life has been invented; she spent most of her time in pretending to ... ...at she was a dignified, im- portant, much-occupied person, of considerable social standing and sufficient wealth. In view of the actual state of thing... ...y to take from her even this hour of solitary study, even this poor little defence against the world. And, as she smoothed down the sheet of blotting-... ...h, her fantastic method of life struck her as purely frivolous; now it was socialism, now it was silkworms, now it was music—which last she supposed w... ...don’t defend myself.” “No,” said Katharine, “I should hope not. There’s no defence that I can think of. If any conduct is wrong, that is.” She spoke w... ...on and force. The training of a life of thirty-five years had not left him defenceless; he was still master of his dignity; he rose, with a mind made ... ...m. Not that Mr. Basnett, giving his days to commerce and his spare time to social reform, would long carry about him any trace of his possibilities of...

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...re justifies, and without which, we should be inca pable of discharging the social duties of life, or enjoy ing the felicities of it. I mean not to ... ...mage in our hearts. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals. The social compact would dis solve, and justice be extirpated the earth, or ... ...ard, though her complement of men was upwards of two hundred. A few able and social sailors will soon instruct a suffi cient number of active landmen... ...ything else. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. And history sufficiently informs us, that the bravest achieve m... ... whose ALL is ALREADY gone, and of the soldier, who hath quitted ALL for the defence of his country. If their ill judged moderation be suited to their... ...ade good, our public debts (contracted “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 69 for defence) discharged; otherwise, we shall be mil lions worse than we were... ... en emies in the character of Highwaymen and House breakers, and having no defence for ourselves in the civil law, are obliged to punish them by the... ...ust be more so, by all the difference between wilful attack, and unavoidable defence. Wherefore, if ye really preach from conscience, and mean not to ...

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...mankind. For the first time I began to realize an odd conse- quence of the social effort in which we are at present en- gaged. And yet, come to think,... ...f putrefaction and de- cay had been profoundly affected by these changes. ‘Social triumphs, too, had been effected. I saw mankind housed in splendid s... ...ad found them engaged in no toil. There were no signs of struggle, neither social nor economical struggle. The shop, the advertisement, traffic, all t... ... It was natural on that golden evening that I should jump at the idea of a social paradise. The difficulty of increasing population had been met, I gu... ...es which I have read, there is a vast amount of detail about building, and social arrange- ments, and so forth. But while such details are easy enough... ...tle now. I had in my possession a thing that was, perhaps, the best of all defences against the Morlocks—I had matches! I had the camphor in my pocket...

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...hey listen to the plea of reason who had groaned under the calamities of a social state according to the provisions of which one man riots in luxury w... ...mending also a great and important change in the spirit which animates the social institutions of man- kind, I have avoided all flattery to those viol... ...and death and pain thus trebly mailed, And blending, in the smiles of that defence, The Serpent and the Dove, Wisdom and Innocence. 20 20 20 20 20. ‘T... ...er of a grassy hill, And ever still our comrades were hewn down, And their defenceless limbs beneath our footsteps strown. _2415 10. 10. 10. 10. 10.... ...ithout remorse, And now that dreadful chief beneath my hand _3875 Defenceless lay, when on a hell-black horse, An Angel bright as day, waving... ...t is on his own hopes and affections only that he seems to trample, for in social life no human being can be more gentle, patient and unassuming than ... ... _465 Bestowed on me her choicest workmanship) Shall not be thy defence...for since thy lip Met mine first, years long past, since thine ey... ...o suppose, the companions and forerunners of some unimagined change in our social condition or the opinions which cement it. The cloud of mind is disc... ...l triumph of the Greek cause as a portion of the cause of civilisation and social improvement. The drama (if drama it must be called) is, however, so ...

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...ind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down. The file of mules, jaded by thei... ...dow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s communication of this idea to her clerical and ... ...stress, and a very hard one— and would be taken all over the strange city. Social people in other gondolas began to ask each other who the little soli... ...er consideration was accredited to a family so conspicuously niched in the social temple as the family of Dorrit. At this remark the face of Mr Dorrit... ...ut in the way of this class of culprits; but that was only reasonable self-defence in the powers, since How to do it must obviously be regarded as the... ...arm to Mrs Plornish’s corner. Mr Pancks’s object was not professional, but social. He had had a trying day, and wanted a little brightening. By this t... ...irably stabled. Nor did his be- nevolence stop here. He took pains, on all social occasions, to draw Mr Sparkler out, and make him conspicuous before ... ...re, putting on a battlement there, looking to the walls, strengthening the defences, giving ornamental touches to the interior, making in all respects... ...e anxieties than one, was among this devoted band. Having rescued the most defenceless of his compatriots from situations of great extremity, he now w...

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...protected in the heart of the city and the heart of the country; the whole social order favourable to their hy- gienic idleness had to be protected ag... .... Mr V erloc was not devoid of intelligence—and at the notion of a menaced social order he would perhaps have winked to himself if there had not been ... ...trouble his head about it, his mission in life being the protection of the social mechanism, not its perfectionment or even its criticism. It was so e... ...rofession. Y ou—a member of a starving proletariat—never! Y ou—a desperate socialist or anarchist—which is it?” “Anarchist,” stated Mr V erloc in a de... ...t, observed him in the glass over the mantelpiece. “I daresay you have the social revolutionary jargon by heart well enough,” he said contemptuously. ... ...she had often faced with blazing eyes the irascible licensed victualler in defence of her brother. Noth- ing now in Mrs V erloc’s appearance could lea... ...raid of you; slaves of it as much as the very police that stands up in the defence of that convention. Clearly you are, since you want to revolutionis... ...th of that man aroused through the length and breadth of a realm for whose defence, welfare, and glory men die every day as matter of duty, an outburs... ... Chief Inspector Heat was saying to Mr V erloc, the secret agent: “So your defence will be practically a full confession?” “It will. I am going to tel...

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...rgin throng. And here, assembled cross legg’d round their trays, Small social parties just begun to dine; Pilaus and meats of all sorts met th... ...he nightingale; they were Unfit to mix in these thick solitudes Call’d social, haunts of Hate, and Vice, and Care: How lonely every freeborn c... ... Kindness, destroys what little we had got: To feel for none is the true social art Of the world’s stoics— men without a heart. ’ Just now a b... ...partan, had the cause Been one to which a good heart could be partial Defence of freedom, country, or of laws; But as it was mere lust of pow... ...d very little space, Have been obliged to slay a freeborn native In self defence: this made him meditative. He from the world had cut off a grea... ... I could send forth my mandate like a primate Upon the rest of Europe’s social state; But thou art the most difficult to rhyme at, Great Br... ...ave known, had not his senses By last night’s ghost been driven from their defences. But what was bad, she did not blush in turn, Nor seem emb...