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......................................................................... 44 POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................. ... foreign financing. I think that some countries are so busy chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists an... ... the long term trends and possible outcomes, you focused on the immediate political interests. Look what it has done to your economy and your intern... ...wing the joys of parenting. Clearly they wanted to use the most effective political techniques to change the minds of the reticent reproducers. ... ...people. Socially we have concerned people who 29 have been loved, and politically we have intelligent citizens. So it‟s a win-win-win situation. ... ...ach? “Our major films show the lives of composers, philosophers, artists and others who show courage and intellect. There is violence in so...

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...er you understand it or you do not. Every true artist and many who are not artists know—they know there is something that shows suddenly—it may be in ... .... In the world of ideas about me, I have found going on a great social and political movement that correlates itself with my conception of a great syn... ...entific in- vestigators, many sociological and philosophical workers, many artists, teachers and the like. Even when such people are fairly prosperous... ... Imperialists and Tariff Reformers, and I suppose that among the prominent political figures of to-day the nearest approach to my New Republi- cans is... ...p of the implica- tions of the propositions under discussion. The ordinary political Socialist desires, as I desire, and as I suppose every sane man d... ... not that our guns and ships are marvellously good, but that our press and political organizations are haphazard 105 H. G . Wells growths entirely in... ...ather like a sheep, emotional, hasty and shallow, the practical outcome of political democracy in all large commu- nities under modern conditions is t...

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...with France or claim to her throne. The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Mo... ...ey foresaw for themselves the bright and cheering prospect of a revivified political existence. An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, n... ...t, I have laid aside even the name of my father, and altogether disown his political principles. He was — nay, probably may still be — a Bonapartist, ... ...I ask is, that Villefort will be firm and inflexible for the future in his political principles. Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourse... ...ready recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharp... ...ed his guest into the salon. The salon was filled with the works of modern artists; there were landscapes by Dupre, with their long reeds and tall tre... ... several fine statues by Thorwaldsen, Bartoloni, and Canova? — all foreign artists, for, as you may perceive, I think but very indifferently of our Fr...

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...nto actual flame, became entirely extin- guished. But in proportion as the political enthusiasm died gradually away among men of ordinary temperament,... ...ther. Yet the fact was that whether the execution of Archibald Cameron was political or otherwise, it might certainly have been justified, had the kin... ...s of disaffection, is in itself sufficiently natural, and, considering his political principles, in no respect dishonourable to his memory. But neithe... ...nderful and the sublime from thy own rich imagination. Didst ever see what artists call a Claude Lorraine glass, which spreads its own particular hue ... ...n, as he had clients and connexions of business among families of opposite political tenets, he was particularly cau- tious to use all the conventiona... ...ungenerous enough to trouble a gentle- man under misfortune, on account of political opinions and disputes which have been long ended by the success o...

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...o Hecataeus. For there was an hereditary feud between them, arising out of political differences, and Eumenes had more than once been known to denounc... ...cret practices in the midst of the people, and countermining Pompey in all political matters of most importance. He himself with his army close about ... ...f all Greece. Thirdly, Pompey’s transgressions of right and justice in his political life were occasioned chiefly by his relations with other people, ... ...rtainments, to carry on which he had a supply of three thousand actors and artists, newly ar- rived out of Greece. But they were soon interrupted by H... ... of the design might outdo the expense, his wishes turned, above all other artists, to Stasicrates, because he al- ways promised something very bold, ... ...s manner of life contrib- uted little by little to create and increase his political influ- ence. His enemies slighted the growth of it at first, pres... ...veral seasons, in just proportions to the whole creation. So it happens in political affairs; if the mo- tions of rulers be constantly opposite and cr... ...a trial of skill between nature and fortune, as there is sometimes between artists, it would be hard to judge, whether that succeeded best in making t...

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...me the most constant of her few admirers. He possessed a head that English artists at home would rave over and paint amid impossible sur- roundings—a ... ...o, because the theory is stated in beautiful En- glish with all the latest political colour. There be other men who, though uneducated, see visions an... ... pulling at the huqa. ‘He returns to a country now full of educational and political reform, but, as the Pearl says, there are many who remember him. ... ...b, where I found him and enquired of him whether it was really true that a political prisoner had been added to the attractions of the Fort. The Sub-a...

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...ng ground) the command of the ship’s deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea de- mands, that he should nominally live apart f... ...el of the mass. Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to i... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might...

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...ng ground) the command of the ship’s deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart fro... ...e 148 Chapter 33 The Specksynder lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to i... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might...

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...tism as strenuously as they had fought the Moors, had been divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen the cities, the free constitution... ...f 1568 to Philip II by the Pope on a mission, partly of condolence, partly political, and on his return to Rome, which was somewhat brusquely expedite... ...d, for example, by the illustrators. To be sure, the great majority of the artists who illus- trated “Don Quixote” knew nothing whatever of Spain. To ...

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...hts burn down to the sconces. The mistress of the house then waylays a few artists, amus- ing people or intimate friends, saying, “Do not go yet; we w... ...- velop—” “Yes,” said de Marsay; “I will tell you about it.” Pretty women, political dandies, artists, old men, de Marsay’s intimate friends,—all sett... ...id de Marsay; “I will tell you about it.” Pretty women, political dandies, artists, old men, de Marsay’s intimate friends,—all settled themselves comf... ...eness of her movements. The enchant- ing deceiver plays off all the little political artifices of her sex so naturally as to exclude all idea of art o... ...d so forth. Then she plunges into some neo-Christian speech sprinkled with political notions which is neither Catholic nor Protestant—but moral? Oh! d... ...o you that the ‘perfect lady’ represents the intellectual no less than the political muddle, just as she is surrounded by the showy and not very lasti...

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...variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V ... ...he other hand, largely to fertilize the many occasions of agitation, which political fermentations are too sure to throw off. Let this chance turn out... ...s adul- terating with her principle, to an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the F... ...onal temper in every stage of their growth; whilst the third abstracts the political or the ethical moral, and unfolds the philosophy which knits the ... ... simply on the ground of its limited extent; contending that in public and political transactions, such as compose the matter of history, human nature... ...olyandrium on the field of battle, would be mea- sured and observed by the artists against the public applica- 133 Thomas de Quincey tion for their s... ...rise; viz. that the leg- endary Hercules was never delineated by the Greek artists as more than an athletic man of the ordinary standard with respect ... ...t the low (but we regret to add—and in all but the very highest) of London artists. Many things, which the wretched Von Raumer said of English art, we... ... evidently assumed, in the adoption of Pope for his subject, that mechanic artists, as a body, are capable of appreciating Pope. I deny it; and in thi...

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...havoc wrought in the mind of our country by the existence of four distinct political sys- tems. I cannot, therefore, place this history under the pro-... ...s by an attracting force quite equal to the repel- ling force which drives artists away from it. We do not suffi- ciently study the social potentialit... ...e the dens of ferocious animals known to the bourgeoisie under the name of artists,—under that of tyro, or rapin, in the studios. Into these dens they... ...ad been teased. The whole scene, in which the rough play and real heart of artists were revealed, and which the boy instinctively understood, made a g... ... like Agathe have a plain common-sense which enables them to perceive such political chicane: the poor woman saw the truth through the lines of her so... ...f for a Titian, and it paved the way for the recognition which the younger artists gave to Joseph’s talent in the Salon of 1823. “Those who know you k... ...er, given by Desroches who boarded his head-clerk, the two lawyers put the political convict in the diligence, and wished him good luck. 203 Balzac C... ...boiled in his veins, was too well aware of the importance of behaving with political prudence—which occasionally resembles cowardice—to take fire like... ...re as a favorite child, for she gave him courage, self-possession, and the political sagacity of a Cesar Borgia. But education had not bestowed upon h...

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... her justification. The product of liberty of will, religious liberty, and political liberty (not, observe this, to be confounded with civil liberty) ... ...where power has no vigor; where election, the fruit of liberty of will and political liberty, lifts to the surface none but commonplace men; where bru... ... of will, ought not to teach the dogma of liberty of conscience, or demand political liberty. But, as no society can exist without guarantees granted ... ...Duc d’Orleans. The record of Marie dé Medici is heavier still. Neither had political genius. It was in the course of these studies that the writer ac-... ...we may clearly see in it the influence of thought. But before entering the political arena, where Catherine will be seen facing the two great difficul... ...of Louis XII., perhaps the naivete of that of the good king will give true artists more pleasure, while at the same time they admire the magnificent s...

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...eman ought to have done. His evenings were occupied. His work was in a way political, he told Winnie once. She would have, he warned her, to be very n... ...he told Winnie once. She would have, he warned her, to be very nice to his political friends. And with her straight, unfathomable glance she answered ... ...ily. “Its deliberations upon international ac- tion for the suppression of political crime don’t seem to get anywhere. England lags. This country is a... ... to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches. And they have the political power still, if they only had the sense to use it for their prese... ...urant or a theatre would suffer in the same way from the suggestion of non-political passion: the exas- peration of a hungry man, an act of social rev... ...to raise the roof. There would be some screaming of course, but from whom? Artists—art critics and such like - people of no account. Nobody minds what... ...s come to all men whose ambition aims at a di- rect grasp upon humanity—to artists, politicians, thinkers, re- formers, or saints. A despicable emotio... ...ully, by position, wit, audacity, fortune or misfortune. Royal Highnesses, artists, men of science, young statesmen, and charlatans of all ages and co...

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...ould have come to enjoy themselves with our Ninon, where we would have got artists together, under pain of death by newspaper articles. Ninon the seco... ...tance, I should have abandoned you to their wrath. “The release, civil and political, which it is so hard to win, which the police is so right to with... ...d too compromising, as if the physician and the writer, the priest and the political student, were not above all suspi- cion. However, a doctor who wa... ...man in the way just when we least expect such an obstacle. However great a political man may be, he always needs a woman to set against a woman, just ... ... mingles the exquisite delights of the soul, which makes him the prince of artists. Then the poet’s passion becomes a fine poem in which hu- man propo... ...oducing into it that which makes it delightful to most people—the stamp of political influence and dominion. You 49 Balzac will be as great as you no... ...usted by King Ferdinand VII., to whom a bishop had recommended him, with a political mis- sion to France. The bishop, the only man who took any in- te... ...e, and if the description of “a little palace” were duly real- ized by the artists commissioned to make the cage worthy of the bird. Every device know...

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...; they were everywhere received with feasting; wore fine clothes; sang, danced, acted; gave ex- 29 Robert Louis Stevenson hibitions of dexterity and ... ... child; all other children, who had a father or a mother in the company of Oro, stood condemned from the moment of conception. A freemasonry, an agnos... ...n art. He sees the limitations of his aim, the defects of his practice; he smiles to be so employed upon the shores of death, yet sees in his own devo... ... on an official visit. In the green court, a very 50 In The South Seas ragged gentleman, his legs deformed with the island el- ephantiasis, saluted u... ...s; but when the door was opened all had disappeared. They were gods from the field of battle. Now these reports have certainly significance; it is not... ...lates, the child stands 182 In The South Seas before him with streaming tears and tremulously copies him in act and sound; it is the Gilbert Island a... ... Makin people had a better thought; and upon a fresh interruption turned and trooped out of 190 In The South Seas the house. We followed them, first ... ...s have been deported are mainly four: cheating Tembinok’, meddling overmuch with copra, which is the source of his wealth, and one of the sinews of hi...

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...hbour on the left during the roast, sweet, and savoury. They talked of the political situa- tion and of golf, of their children and the latest play , ... ... he put into the two words. “Don’t you want fame? It’s something that most artists haven’t been indifferent to.” “Children. How can you care for the o... ...y one way — by success.” “Philistine,” cried Dirk. “But think of the great artists of the past — Raphael, Michael Angelo, Ingres, Delacroix — they wer... ...ace for me to set down what I know of Strickland’s opin- ions of the great artists of the past. I am afraid I have very little worth noting. Stricklan... ...,” I said, smiling. “I made allowances. I have always had a sym- pathy for artists. It is in our blood, you know. But he only remained a few months. W...

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...six teen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as other artists do; which was a great disad vantage to my performance. The king,... ...recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantag... ...proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. I n the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing... ...ed, that there is a strict universal resemblance between the natural and the political body; can there be any thing more evident, than that the health... ...papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, ... ...ll acrostics and anagrams. First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings. Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse;... ...sion of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejec tion, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out...

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...e very remarkable pictures, whereof a few were being copied by hairy faced artists, with little velvet caps more off their heads than on. There is the... ...Monte. In plainer words, these steps are the great place of resort for the artists’ ‘Models,’ and there they are con stantly waiting to be hired. The... ... the people, and stood on tiptoe for a sight of the knife: then went away. Artists, in inconceivable hats of the middle ages, and beards (thank Heaven... ...g their productions to their friends; inscriptions chalked upon the walls; political squibs, advertisements, rough drawings by schoolboys; everything ...