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...e 29th of February, the Reverend John Campbell, a man of obvious sense and human value, but hateful to the present biographer, because he wrote so man... ...s ert bring down the map from Edinburgh; and it will be a good exercise in geography for the young folks to trace my course. I hope they have entered ... ... language, his excellent good sense, his unfeigned, unstained, unwea- ried human kindliness, would seem to her, in a compari- son, dry and trivial and... ...nly in that narrow horizon, life-sized appari- tions. For these no bond of humanity exists, no feeling of kinship is awakened by their peril; they wil... ...for days with the dead body. These usually pass their time by the pleasant human expedient of quarrelling; and sometimes, I am assured, not one of the... ...ge.’ This man received a hun- dred a year! It shows a different reading of human nature, perhaps typical of Scotland and England, that I find in my gr...

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...sin from me, I may be able to show you something out of the common here on Human Earth. You certainly deserve it.’ ‘What’s taking seisin?’ said Dan, c... ...at that. Don’t you like it?’ ‘How would you like to be called “mortal” or “human be- ing” all the time?’ said Puck; ‘or “son of Adam” or “daughter of ... ...s Weland himself. I was so astonished that I jumped out and said: “What on Human Earth are you do- ing here, Weland?”’ ‘Poor Weland!’ sighed Una. ‘He ... ...od in my Day and my Time and my Power. I shall never be released till some human being truly wishes me well.” “‘Surely,” said I, “the farmer can’t do ... ... it be round?’ ‘Wasn’t it in your books?’ Dan suggested. He had been doing geography at his last lesson. ‘I can neither write nor read,’ he replied. ‘...

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... many years, even occurred to the owner. Yet I will pledge myself, that in humanity and good feeling he was superior to the common run of men. It may ... ...d is often marked by crosses, in the place of milestones, to signify where human blood has been spilled. On the evening of the 23rd we arrived at Rio,... ...hardly be neglected by any one, although merely considering the physi- cal geography of the country. Having crossed the 86 The V oyage of the Beagle ... ...every one. They live *See Humboldt, Fragments Asiatiques, p. 386: Barton’s Geography of Plants: and Malte Brun. In the latter work it is said that the... ...tions, with respect to each other, somewhat propor- tional to those of the human face; and thus we ob- tain a scale of hideousness. Amongst the Batrac... ...le can be of any service. Animals are so abundant in these countries, that humanity and self-interest are not closely united; 169 Charles Darwin ther... ...ion may be asked with respect to these barbar- ians! At night, five or six human beings, naked and scarcely protected from the wind and rain of this t... ...ain Fitz Roy dur- ing the last voyage, is a most remarkable feature in the geography of this, or indeed of any other coun- try: it may be compared to ...

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... seventy-eight years old. There were two books lying on the table, a short geography and the New T estament in the Russian translation, pencil-marked ... ... be a difficult position. He touched and stirred the noblest chords in the human heart—the power of forgiving and repaying good for evil. He surrender... ...e door, and all this time not a word! It’s quite uncanny; she’s not like a human being. But how did she come here? I suppose she came to see her grand... ...t that base and crafty man triumph, and secondly, from a common feeling of humanity. If she’s no longer my daughter she’ s a weak creature, defenceles... ... She talked of duty , of our mission in life, of how we all ought to serve humanity and, as we thoroughly 177 Dostoevsky agreed, after five or six ho... ... Borinka’s. They’re all fresh young people filled with ardent love for all humanity. We all talked of our present, of our future, of sci- ence and lit... ...father often. Mother told me to. Grandfather bought a New T estament and a geography book, and began to teach me; and sometimes he used to tell me wha...

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...guage, of the sublime style, to describe these grand and edifying moments of human life, which seem cre ated expressly to prove that virtue sometimes... ... had the effrontery to repeat the shameful joke of the morning. The limit of human patience was exhausted. He had just hidden in his pocket the ha... ...plishments, such as playing the piano some times, speaking French, history, geography, scripture and arithmetic, that’s the truth of it! And that’s a...

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...o do that, Chris, an’ not wake up till the war was over and you could be a human being again.” Andrews bit into the green seed capsule he held in his ... ...ews. “Chris, come away from those stinking uniforms and you’ll feel like a human being with the sun on your flesh instead of like a lousy sol- dier.” ... ... any right to say that, young feller,” said the undertaker angrily. “I’m a humane man. I won’t never be at home in this dirty butchery.” The nurse was... ...Where?” interrupted Applebaum, laughing. “Tilletsville; don’t you know any geography?” “Go ahead, tell us about Tilletsville,” said Andrews sooth- ing... ...joyed hating! At that rate it was better to be at the front. Men were more humane when they were killing each other than when they were talking about ... ...nd fear filled with more and yet more pain the already unbearable agony of human life. As soon as he got out of the hospital he would desert; the dete...

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... the legends connected with them, and probably showed how these influenced human affairs or might be used as guides. The Precepts of Chiron was a dida... ... universe between them, like 16 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica a human estate. Two events mark the early reign of Zeus, the war with the Tit... ... haste and mix earth with water and to put in it the voice and strength of human kind, and fashion a sweet, lovely maiden-shape, like to the immortal ... ...) Of Miletus, flourished about 520 B.C. His work, a mixture of history and geography, was used by Herodotus. (16) The Hesiodic story of the daughters ... ...to Hades to chilly T artarus. And when they had satisfied their souls with human blood, they would cast that one behind them, and rush back again into... ... are here conceived as 211 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica having human heads and breasts with the bodies and wings of bees. See the edition ...

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... the fancier’s eye: he perceives extremely small differences, and it is in human nature to value any novelty, however slight, in one’s own possession.... ...shape of their kidneys. Others believe that the shape of the pelvis in the human mother influences by pressure the shape of the head of the child. In ... ...strument has been perfected by the long-continued efforts of the high- est human intellects; and we naturally infer that the eye has been formed by a ... ...osition of consecutive formations, generally implying great changes in the geography of the surrounding lands, whence the sediment has been derived, a... ...es Darwin been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason, but by the accumu- lation of innumerable slight variations, e... ... been so great as to be utterly inappre- 411 Charles Darwin ciable by the human intellect. The number of speci- mens in all our museums is absolutely... ...o their apparent means of immigration, some light can be thrown on ancient geography. The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperf...

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... ‘My dear, ’ she said, ‘there is no duty which any woman owes to any other human being at all equal to that which she owes to her husband, and, theref... ...casionally to another large map which hung against the wall, went into the geography of the matter. ‘We might have found that out from our atlases, I ... ...ee the differ- ence, they have yet got to study the earliest principles of human nature. Lady Lufton called, and Lucy was struck dumb. Fanny was parti... ...ng closer than that?’ ‘Yes, and warmer, and dearer, and more worthy of two human creatures who value each other’s minds and hearts. ’ ‘Some such close... ...dly knew how to break from it. She had seen so much of the blacker side of human nature that blackness no longer startled her as it should do. She had... ...must expect to see their friends fall off from 215 Anthony Trollope them. Human nature cannot stand it. If I want to get anything from my old friend ...

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...arcase, and as soon as they have done it, you shall hear me say my ancient geography, and then we will do a nice bit of T asso; and if we have any tim... ... be- lieve. They asked all manner of out-of-the-way questions— history and geography, what no one expected, and the fellows who read nothing they can ... ...e much evil arise in the best-planned in- stitutions; nay, in what are not human. Don’t you think we ought to do our utmost to have no flaw in the fou... ...ls, as if these defects had been im- planted either by Mrs. Ledwich, or by geography. It must be confessed that the violence of partisanship did not m... ...e. I will not say there are none, for that would be answering too much for human nature, or that they are fanciful—for that would be as little comfort... ... airy form soon caught my eye; Its texture frail, and colour various, Like human hopes, and life precarious. Sudden, my second caught my ear, And fill... .... “I believe!” he repeated. “What—when we go beyond the province of reason—human, a thing of sense after all! How often have I so answered. But Meta, ... ...e most natural and justifiable measure, under the circumstances. “How many human crea- tures do you keep there?” he asked. “Forty-seven to-day,” said ...

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...vent, had received what is called “a good education”; and so knew dancing, geography, drawing, how to embroider and play the piano. That was the last ... ...a of having begotten a child delighted him. Now he wanted nothing. He knew human life from end to end, and he sat down to it with serenity. Emma at fi... ... quite unbearable companions. But from the general background of all these human faces Emma’s stood out isolated and yet farthest off; for between her... ...ntinued the chemist, “it doesn’t concern me. It’ s for your sake, for pure humanity! I should like to see you, my friend, rid of your hideous caudicat... ...easure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to ... ...n for you; but some day, sooner or later, this ardour (such is the fate of human things) would have grown less, no doubt. Lassitude would have come to...

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...easants of the next podere, all the rather shabby but still ever so pretty human furniture of her early time, including the good sisters of the poor c... ...tted, never quite been his refreshment to make out where the many coloured human appeal, represented by gradations of tint, diminishing concentric zon... ...ion of his daughter’s husband as he often did to terms and phrases, in the human, the social connexion, that he had found for himself: it was his way ... ...th them was conceivable, what relation was decent, rudimen tary, properly human, but that of a plain interest in the fairness? His interest, she alwa... ...a figure thus simplified, “generalised” in its grace, a figure with which his human connexion was fairly interrupted by some vague analogy of turn and at... ...vain in the most rudimentary map of the social relations as such. The only geography marking it would be doubtless that of the fundamental pas sions....

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...aternized with the “Yankees” in the pleasantest manner. In fact, under the humane policy of our commander, I ques- tion whether the great majority of ... ...sed the national sport. The sight to me was sickening. I could not see how human beings could enjoy the sufferings of beasts, and often of men, as the... ...dency. The civilized world has learned the conse- quence. Four millions of human beings held as chattels have been liberated; the ballot has been give... ...able, all talk of its abolition ceased where it existed; and naturally, as human nature is constituted, ar- guments were adduced in its support. The c... ...timents, whether Union or Secession. After this, however, I regarded it as humane to both sides to protect the persons of those found at their homes, ... ... and productive grazing and farming lands were there. This territory , the geography of which was not known to us at the close of the rebellion, is no... ...y perfect, of every part of the coun- try are now furnished the student of geography. The war has made us a nation of great power and intelli- gence. ...

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...ad them in my own hands, and no more worthy task can be done than training human beings for their work in this world, so I must be willing to go throu... ...or Miss Rachel; and one night, the excellent Zack ex- cused his failure in geography by saying that Mr. Touchett had thrown away his book, and said th... ... think why they don’t insert it; but in the meantime I will bring down my ‘Human Reeds,’ and show them to you. I have only an hour’s work on them; so ... ... Rachel was as nearly hating Colonel Keith as principle would allow, with “Human Reeds,” newly finished, burning in her pocket, “Military Society” fer... ...lliams’ ear in peace, and came down on her with two fat manu- scripts upon Human Reeds and Military Society, preluding, however, by bitter complaints ... ... given facts that I aim at, as you will understand when you have heard my ‘Human Reeds,’ and my other—dear me, there’s your door bell. I thought that ...

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...ng the brickmakers of Hoggle End—a lawless, drunken, terribly rough lot of humanity— he was held in high respect; for they knew that he lived hardly, ... ...and fresh, and fair, and seemed to be always running over with the milk of human kindness. The other was very thin and very small, and somewhat afflic... ...aching the normal poor, are, no doubt, the severest of the trials to which humanity is subjected. They threaten life—or, if not life, then liberty—red... ...er the folds of an ordi- nary envelope. But though she understood ordinary human nature, it may be that she did not understand Mr Crawley’s nature. Bu... ...ith joyous rapture, his ap- preciation of the glory and the pathos and the humanity also, of the awful tragedy of the story of Oedipus. His very soul ... ...-path to the left as soon as he had got beyond the houses. Not knowing the geography of the place he did not understand that by taking that path he wa...