...res; especially of one controversy he had got into with certain victorious Parliamentary offi- cial parties, while his own party lay vanquished, durin... ...n fact, however splendid and indubitable Sterling’s quali- fications for a parliamentary life, there was that in him withal which flatly put a negativ... ...s- ease might quit the lungs, and direct itself to other quar- ters of the system. But no such result was appointed for us; neither forty-five itself,... ...t of spurious unity, one loses all tendency to idealize the Metropolis and System of the Hierarchy into anything higher than a piece of showy stage-de...

...I consider Hero- worship to be the grand modifying element in that ancient system of thought. What I called the perplexed jungle of Pa- ganism sprang,... ...t is possible to gain some direct insight even yet; and see that old Norse system of Belief, as it were, face to face. Let us forget that it is errone... ...d wonder, on this ever-stu- pendous Universe. T o me there is in the Norse system some- thing very genuine, very great and manlike. A broad simplic- i... ...nd of vacant hugeness, large awkward gianthood, charac- terizes that Norse system; enormous force, as yet altogether untutored, stalking helpless with... ... to do as a nation. But does not, though the name Parliament subsists, the parliamentary debate go on now, everywhere and at all times, in a far more ... ...od one, there is yet a long way. One remark I must not omit, That royal or parliamentary grants of money are by no means the chief thing wanted! T o g... ...there is something far other in it than the clank of spinning-jennies, and parliamentary majorities; and, on the whole, that it is not a machine at al... ...ry was the soul of Government, and that all legislation, ad- ministration, parliamentary debating, and the rest of it, went on, in “order to bring twe... ...shed, of all social procedure whatsoever in this world! Hustings-speeches, Parliamentary motions, Re- form Bills, French Revolutions, all mean at hear...

...on of con- sciousness. The murderer’s plan and rationale of murder started systematically from this infliction of apoplexy, or at 24 The Note Book of... ...ious districts were prevented, for many years, from re- sorting to the new system, in consequence of old contracts with oil-dealers, subsisting throug... ...y days of Christianity should have proclaimed the true theory of the solar system, or that by any chance word or allusion should then, in a condition ... ...stianity should actually have succeeded in carrying through the Copernican system of astronomy, as an article of blind belief, sixteen cen- turies bef... ...rogress of man’s intellect had qualified him for naturally developing that system. What, in such a case, would be the true estimate and valuation of t... ... faction between two infuriated parties. ‘Cato,’ coming from a man without Parliamentary connections, would have dropped life- less to the ground. The... ...m ‘warming- pans,’ are men who occupy, by consent, some official place, or Parliamentary seat, until the proper claimant is old enough in law to assum... ...histories of England assume as a matter of course that the whole period of parliamentary history through those times is to be regarded as a period of ... ...herish the deepest abhorrence and contempt of all who had any share on the parliamentary side in the ‘confusions’ of the period from 1640 to 1660: tha...

...not to mention easier to accomplish) method of obtaining knowledge than the systematic study of outside sources of information in accordance with st... ...vilization. It upholds narcissistic values and penalises alternative value-systems. From an early age, children are taught to avoid self-criticism,... ...en a high enough level of frustration, triggered by recurrent, endemic, and systemic failures in all spheres of policy, even the most resilient demo... ...uthoritarian, but not revolutionary. His regime derives its legitimacy from parliamentary and presidential elections based on a neo-liberal model of... ...onsors as merely a useful and disposable instrument. Like Putin, he had no parliamentary or political experience. Both of them won elections by pro... ...n now - faced a delicate balancing act between the legitimacy conferred by parliamentary liberalism and the need to maintain a police state. When h... ...red Situational Narcissism The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a systemic, all-pervasive condition, very much like pregnancy: either you ... ...ch groups and ideologies with ease (as they do partners, spouses and value systems). In this respect, narcissists are narcissists first and members...

... occu- pied with teaching; and this divides into two great sections, α, A system of ethics so absolutely new as to be untranslat- able* into either o... ...anslat- able* into either of the classical languages; and, [Greek text], A system of mysteries; as, for instance, the mystery of the T rinity, of the ... ...nal part. There might have been interwo- ven with the ritual or worship, a system of economics, or a code of civil prudence, or a code of health, or a... ...ch man may descend below his own capacities of grandeur: the gods, in some systems of religion, have been such and so monstrous by excesses of wickedn... ... there may be, whose essence is evil, that may have an abiding root in the system of the universe not less awfully exempt from change than the mys- te... ...ebra it was that suggested to him his exquisite deciphering skill, and the parliamentary war it was that fur- nished him with a sufficient field of pr... ...other: and all three are wofully deranged by a London life—above all, by a parliamentary life. As to the first point, it is prob- able that any torpor... ...hands through the intervals of their periodical settlings, that during the Parliamentary war multitudes were tempted, by that single cause, into absco...

... kind, not even notes of exclamation,—a fact which tends to undervalue the system of notes and dashes by which modern authors have endeav- ored to dep... ...s, for most of the time he manages to evade what Monsieur le vidame calls “parliamentary investigations.” If monsieur wishes, he could be disposed of ... ...decide hic et nunc; I should require a report.” A report is to the present system of administration what limbo or hades is to Christianity. Jacquet kn... ...death by asphyxia, through the injection of black blood into the pulmonary system,—which settled the matter. The inquest over, and the certificates si...

... there goes a hum of metaphysical divinity; and the whole of two divergent systems is summed up, not merely speciously, in the two first questions of ... ...ed myself many opportunities; acting upon an extensive and highly rational system of truantry, which cost me a great deal of trouble to put in exercis... ...ad more certificates for less edu- cation. One consequence, however, of my system is that I have much less to say of Professor Blackie than I had of P... ...ach other, some- 40 Robert Louis Stevenson what without the bounds of the parliamentary, happened to differ about the position of a seat in the garde... ...dants: Picts who rallied round Macbeth and the old (and highly preferable) system of descent by females, fleers from before the legions of Agricola, m... ...ivance, it is difficult to give it the palm over the much later condensing system, with its thousand possible modifications. The number and the value ...