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...utline of a romance laid in En gland, and having for its hero an American who goes thither to assert his inherited rights in an old manor house posse... ... edition calls it. “I have not found it possible,” he wrote to Mr. Bridge, who remained his confidant, “to occupy my mind with its usual trash and non... ...horeau’s telling me that it was inhabited a generation or two ago by a man who believed he should never die.” It was this legendary personage whom he ... ...pened them), brown, brittle, sapless; so even the thoughts, which when the writers had gathered them seemed to them so brightly colored and full of li... ...se; offences against public morality, female license, are more nu merous; suicides, murders, all ungovernable outbreaks of men’s thoughts, embodying ... ..., and which seem to intimate great distrust of those to whom the funds are committed. Indeed, there might be a shrewd suspicion that some ancient chur...

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... parts of Europe, women deprived of all human ties, sighing after the long suicide accomplished in the breast of God. No convent, indeed, was so well ... ...Gothic. The larger part of the nave and aisles was left for the townsfolk, who came and went and heard mass there. The choir was shut off from the res... ... whose life had been, as it were, but one series of poems in action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instea... ...oyal authority was re-established there. Some few Constitutional Spaniards who had found their way thither after the fall of Cadiz were allowed to cha... ...ey needed its support. While Lamartine, Lamennais, Montalembert, and other writers were putting new life and elevation into men’s ideas of religion, a... ...ldly; “thank you, Armand. Y ou have given me timely warning of imprudence; committed quite uncon- sciously, believe it, my friend. You know how to end... ...Yes or No!” His direct question dismayed the Duchess more than a threat of suicide could have done; indeed, the woman of the nineteenth century is not... ...indeed, that it was past the bounds of reason. You played with it, and you committed a crime. Every woman has a right to refuse herself to love which ...

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...ion of their meaning. When I hint a dislike of nunner ies for young girls who abjure the world before they have ever proved or known it; or doubt the... ..., 5 Charles Dickens to compare impressions with some among the multitudes who will hereafter visit the scenes described with interest and delight. An... ...hief; and not the radiant embodiment of good 6 Pictures from Italy humour who sat beside me in the person of a French Cou rier—best of servants and ... ... portion of the great scheme of Retribution, that the cruel deed should be committed in this place! That a part of the atrocities and monstrous instit... ... must shut up all the windows, or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide. So at this time of the year, you don’t see much of the prospect wi... ...arriages on the Chiaji, or walking in the Public Gardens; and quiet letter writers, perched behind their little desks and inkstands under the Portico ...

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...er forty years had been spent in a street. She knew how to read the people who were pass- ing her; there were the rich who were running to and from ea... ...d workers driving in a straight line to their offices; there were the poor who were unhappy and rightly malig- nant. Already, though there was sunligh... ... mon- strous outline of the Tower Bridge. Mournfully Helen re- garded him, who was putting water between her and her children. Mournfully she gazed at... ...n’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, edi... ..., white with just one black spot, belonging to an uncle of hers, which had committed suicide. “Ani- mals do commit suicide,” she sighed, as if she ass... ...th just one black spot, belonging to an uncle of hers, which had committed suicide. “Ani- mals do commit suicide,” she sighed, as if she asserted a pa... ...she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, or if there were, that any one she... ...dering whether they will survive him, or he will survive them? Thoughts of suicide cross his mind. He has a friend, too, a man who somehow subsists up... ...ith a revolver. He writes to Evelyn daily that he’s thinking of committing suicide. I’ve assured her that he’s never been so happy in his life, and, o...

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...the greater part heeded them not at all. Yet they were of the blood of him who had first dreamt of attacking the mammoth; every one of them was of his... ...ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 SUCH A MAN was that Leonardo da Vinci, who went about the court of Sforza in Milan in a state of dignified abstrac... ...f his kindred. Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundred years before it was first b... ...crap the mint, you fellows, come and scrap the mint!’ In the year 1955 the suicide rate for the United States of America quadrupled any previous recor... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ... his return his father, who was a widower, an- nounced himself ruined, and committed suicide by means of an unscheduled opiate. 42 The World Set Free... ...n his father, who was a widower, an- nounced himself ruined, and committed suicide by means of an unscheduled opiate. 42 The World Set Free At one bl... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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... the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, t... ...rful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual reve... ...bittered one, he gathers experience round his theme as only the artist can who has enriched leis art by having outlived his youth without forgetting i... ...ejdanov and not Solomin; the part is cast in the woman’s figure of Mariana who broke the silence of “anonymous Russia.” Ivan T urgenev had the underst... ...cobins, “of whom there could hardly be any in Servia,” but might have been committed by some of the followers of the Karageorgievsky party, enemies of... ...ples set by men such as Quintin Johnson, Karrelius, Sverlitskov, and other writers and statisticians. Then he went on to talk of himself again, of his... ...e sure whether to thank or arrest him. He gave them all the details of the suicide, regaled them with Swiss cheese and Madeira, but as for the whereab... ...ana and hide for a time. Nothing was revealed by the inquiry held over the suicide. The body was buried. Sipiagin gave up searching for his niece. Nin...

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...s utmost; and after all, require allowances. He had been a wise Frenchman, who, looking, close at hand, on this waste aspect of a France all stirring ... ...ry convenient. For the rest, that our busy Brissots, rigorous Rolands, men who once had authority and now have less and less; men who love law, and wi... ...ever so insignificant in- trinsically, have for most part plenty of Memoir-writers; and the curious, in after-times, can learn minutely their goings o... ...ies hidden in some garret ‘in Aubry-le-boucher Street, with a poor surgeon who had known me;’ Dame de Stael has secreted her Narbonne, not knowing wha... ...! Of the poor Queen’s Friends, who had followed her to the Temple and been committed elsewhither to Prison, some, as Governess de Tourzelle, are to be... ..., p. 61. &c. Felix, with due love of the miraculous, will have it that the Suicide in the inn was not Paris, but some double- ganger of his.)—Robespie... ...nt. Consider it well, there is a shade of the truth in it. For a man, once committed headlong to republican or any other Transcendentalism, and fighti... ...rance accept her New Constitution: the most Demo- cratic Constitution ever committed to paper. How it will To the number of the day in Add day in We h... ... no mercy; he has perished in the Place de la Revolution, after attempting suicide in Prison. And Gener- als Biron, Beauharnais, Brunet, whatsoever Ge...

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...estial city. This is by no means the case, fortunately for those per- sons who take an interest in modern Gaul, and yet are still left vaguely unsatis... ...aids are trying to pacify you in advance. There was one waiter in especial who was the most ac- complished social being I have ever encountered; from ... ... of his vision, took in more of human life than any one, since Shakspeare, who has attempted to tell us stories about 8 A Little Tour in France it; a... ...umn evening, the body of the young Marc- Antoine Calas, whose ill-inspired suicide was to be the first act of a tragedy so horrible. The fanaticism ar... ...e over to the door-keeper of the citadel. I should add that I was at first committed to the wife of this functionary, a stout peasant-woman, who took ... ...d. I was unable to trace the configuration of the castle as plainly as the writers who have described it in the guide-books, and I am ashamed to say t...

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.... By the end of the campaign experience will have taught him that not all who go into battle get hurt—an outside influence which will be helpful to h... ...stance? Y.M. Take that noble passion, love of country, patrio tism. A man who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pleasant home and his weeping f... ...at independent Sovereign, that insolent abso lute Monarch inside of a man who is the man’s Master. There are all kinds of consciences, because there ... ... first for the good deed’s sake, no man would ever do one. O.M. Have you committed a benevolence lately? Y.M. Yes. This morning. O.M. Give the parti... ...has got his fortune and lost it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide’s coffin. Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can g... ...ich history is littered are the most excusable misdemeanors which men have committed. To usurp a usurpation—that is all it amounts to, isn’t it? A pri... ...vity contains either What Is Man and Other Essays 154 wit or information. Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the m... ...y with a crime, and is punished for it thirty years later; meantime he was committed a million other crimes: no matter, Henry can pick out the one tha... ...plined service. Over and over again, where such knowledge is unexampled in writers unlearned in the law, Shakespeare appears in perfect possession of ...

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...e as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to him who proposes to glance through my pages just to see if I agree with him, or... ...ch appeals most readily to what is called the “serious” reader, the reader who is often no more than the solemnly impatient parasite of great question... ... of the matter, is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible au- thor who fathers these pages. You have to clear your mind of any preconceptions ... ... seems the case in the “No- where” of Morris also. Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separa- tion, a... ...e most brilliant of modern discoveries by a certain school of sociological writers, who seem totally un- able to grasp the modification of meaning “sp... ...- sions is so imperfect and discontinuous that in another pas- sage I have committed myself to a short assertion of the ex- ceptionally noble quality ... ...es in the fact that there are no “natural” masters. Power is no more to be committed to men without discipline and re- striction than alcohol. The tru... ... the Tasmanians; or you can maintain such conditions as con- duce to “race suicide,” as the British administration does in Fiji. Suppose, then, for a ...

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...red from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong fro... ...e Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of it at V erona in 1731, which he afterwards repu... ...n the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a liquor shop aud was an inveterate drunk ard. 5 Bleak House – ... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...h her documents; the empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it,... ...a miserable condition that they would be sufficiently punished if they had committed an enormous crime in having money left them, and the will itself ... .... If you think you have any evidence to lead you to the conclusion that he committed suicide, you will come to that conclu sion. If you think it is a... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

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... seen in the disposition to idol- ize those great lawgivers of man’s race, who have given ex- pression, in the immortal language of song, to the deepe... ...ted more to the intellectual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise... ... to the intellectual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise to a bo... ...s as the enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we ... ... enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we think we... ... Mr. Mackenzie has given three brief but elaborate papers on the different writers on the subject, which deserve to be consulted. See Notes and Querie... ...Kallinus, Tyrtæus, Xanthus, and the other early elegiac and lyric po- ets, committed their compositions to writing, or at what time the practice of do... ... writing. But the songs of a nation are probably the last things which are committed to writing, for the very reason that they are remembered.”— Ancie... ...ld be able to make a guess at the time when the old epic poems were first committed to writing. Now the period which may with the greatest probabilit...

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...tinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys... ... the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for w... ...e were petticoats under them. The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow boy hats, grea... ...cause he was acrewk’d, a regular lamiter he was, an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on ... ...as acrewk’d, a regular lamiter he was, an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on his life. ... ...d I cannot leave it, and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide.” “That won’t harm ye, my pretty, an’ it may make poor Geordie ... ...en one. There is no evidence to adduce, and whether or not the man him self committed the murders there is now none to say. The folk here hold almost... ... room, I wonder what he would say if he saw her now. Some of the ‘New Women’ writers will 110 Chapter 8 some day start an idea that men and women sho... ...ell home, the place un hallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can only change when the time c...

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...ly along- side. ‘In luck again, Gaffer?’ said a man with a squinting leer, who sculled her and who was alone, ‘I know’d you was in luck again, by your... ...out.’ He spoke in a dropped voice, and with more than one glance at Lizzie who had pulled on her hood again. Both men then looked with a weird unholy ... ...l astern. Lizzie’s father, composing himself into the easy attitude of one who had asserted the high moralities and taken an unassailable position, sl... ...n murder was all over the town, and people were specu- lating on its being suicide, I dare say those impudent wretches at the clubs and places made jo... ...?’ asked Mr Wegg, holding on. ‘Not a proper jail, wot you and me would get committed 56 Our Mutual Friend to,’ returned his escort; ‘they giv’ it the... ...d better drop it!’ turned the disadvantage on Boffin, who felt that he had committed himself in a very painful manner. Then, Mr Wegg, in a dry unflinc... ...ch a fool as to take me to so great an extent upon trust. But the folly is committed on both sides. I cannot get rid of you; you cannot get rid of me.... ...g my ear quite close.’ ‘Will you send it, my dear?’ ‘Will I send it to the writers? Is that your wish? Yes, cer- tainly.’ 510 Our Mutual Friend ‘You’... ...ad begun undressing on the grass. For a moment it had a suspicious look of suicide, arranged to counterfeit accident. ‘But you wouldn’ t have fetched ...

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...most mastered by this white passion of statecraft, and in nearly every one who reads and thinks you could find, I suspect, some sort of answering resp... ...se correspondence with Dionysius of Syracuse has perished; or to Confucius who travelled China in search of a Prince he might instruct, with lapses an... ...o the Emperor William, to Mr. Evesham, to a certain news- paper proprietor who was once my schoolfellow at City Mer- chants’, to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller... ...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...at—or if things drift to dissolution I shall stand again.” “It’s political suicide.” “Not altogether.” “I can’t imagine you out of Parliament again. I... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ... ...” “She’s too little to be seen,” she said. “Can you see the sins they once committed?” “I can only see you here beside me, dear—for ever. For all my l...

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...ular mind has decided that of all these thousands, one man, and that a man who never flew, should be chosen as the discoverer, just as it has chosen t... ...and tragically honoured as poor Filmer’s, the timid, intellectual creature who solved the prob- lem over which the world had hung perplexed and a litt... ...had hung perplexed and a little fear- ful for so many generations, the man who pressed the button that has changed peace and warfare and well-nigh eve... ...equate advertisement may be obtained—had paid. The latter was one of those writers who can throw a convincing air of unreality over the most credible ... ...Pa- per, proclaimed the “Entire Failure of the New Flying Ma- chine,” and “Suicide of the Impostor.” But in the district of North Surrey the reception... ..., so I desisted from this as- pect of his lesson. “And then,” said I, “you committed the sin of euphuism. You called it not Fat, which is just and ing... ...thought, he was composing a lucid apology for “this technical crime I have committed,” to be delivered be- fore sentence in the dock, when the stout g... ...stead Road, and an atrocious assault upon a woman. All these outrages were committed between half-past twelve and a quarter to two in the morning, and...

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... has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the m... ... and sane! 10 Thomas Carlyle You remember that fancy of Plato’s, of a man who had grown to maturity in some dark distance, and was brought on a sudde... ...All was Godlike or God:”—Jean Paul still finds it so; the giant Jean Paul, who has power to escape out of hearsays: but there then were no hearsays. C... ...frage, and make his own suffrage serve, he is a poor eye-servant; the work committed to him will be misdone. Every such man is a daily contributor to ... ...complaint, as we all know. But perhaps if we look at this of Books and the Writers of Books, we shall find here, as it were, the summary of all other ... ...which all other confusion circu- lates in the world! Considering what Book writers do in the world, and what the world does with Book writers, I shoul... ...ally to learn it!—Doubtless there is still peculiar virtue in Speech; even writers of Books may still, in some circumstances, find it convenient to sp... ...might accept it or not; but Puritan England was, in real truth, saved from suicide thereby!—I believe the Puritan People did, in an inarticulate, grum...

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...red from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong fro... ...e Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of it at V erona in 1731, which he afterwards repu... ...n the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a liquor shop aud was an inveterate drunk ard. 5 Bleak House – ... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...h her documents; the empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it,... ...a miserable condition that they would be sufficiently punished if they had committed an enormous crime in having money left them, and the will itself ... .... If you think you have any evidence to lead you to the conclusion that he committed suicide, you will come to that conclu sion. If you think it is a... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

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...tch of time which they rep resent. To say that De Soto, the first white man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which sta... ... joust and the tournament were the frequent pastime of titled fine gentlemen who could fight better than they could spell, while religion was the pass... ... river contained a demon ‘whose roar could be heard at a great distance, and who would engulf them in the abyss where he dwelt.’ I have seen a Mississ... ...I only fled. The awful crash was imminent—why didn’t that villain come! If I committed the crime of ringing a bell, I might get thrown overboard. But ... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc... ...avy stool, and I hit Brown a good honest blow which stretched him out. I had committed the crime of crimes—I had lifted my hand against a pilot on dut... ...hat he would do to a cub pilot who had been guilty of such a crime as mine, committed on a boat guard deep with costly freight and alive with passen ... ...d probably doing it by accident, being drunk. Well, would it be murder?” “No—suicide.” “No, no. I don’t mean his act, I mean yours: would you be a ...

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...L OL OL OLOGUE OGUE OGUE OGUE OGUE THE MAN THE MAN THE MAN THE MAN THE MAN WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WR WR WR WR WRO O O O OTE IN TE IN TE IN TE IN TE IN TH... ...resentful sigh—“ah! you, work, you! how you gratify and tire me!”—of a man who has been writing to his satisfaction. “What is this place,” I asked, “a... ... has been writing to his satisfaction. “What is this place,” I asked, “and who are you?” He looked around with the quick movement of surprise. “What i... ...there were for sticking to my place, and I got home that night irrevocably committed to a spirited—not to say a defiant— policy with my employer. “I c... ...hange was altogether insignificant. (But an excitable young man in Austria committed suicide when at length the Transvaal ceased to be a “nation.”) Me... ...altogether insignificant. (But an excitable young man in Austria committed suicide when at length the Transvaal ceased to be a “nation.”) Men went thr... ...ence to be found in the “Twentieth Century Gar- ner” from the pens of such writers, for example, as Sidney Low. But a picture of them as a whole is wa...