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...f the Ponts at Chausses. As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law, De Balzac AN OLD MAID CHAPTER I ONE OF MANY CHEVALIERS DE VALOIS MOST ... ...ary tribunal. The two sentiments, equal in force, kept her stationary by a law as true in ethics as it is in statics. This state of uncertain expectat... ...ence with which the chevalier had spoken of the evils of education in such schools. What a catastrophe! Unknown to himself, the luckless Athanase had ... ...his is Monsieur le Vicomte de T roisville, the grand- son of one of my old schoolmates; Monsieur de Troisville, my niece, Mademoiselle Cormon.” “Ah! t... ...icism which Walter Scott has made you admire in the puritan soul of Jeanie Deans’ father; if you are willing to 115 Balzac recognize in the Roman Chu... ... stitutional oath. Du Bousquier, whose secret ambition was to lay down the law to the town, wished, as a first proof of his power, to reconcile the mi...

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...Excerpt: Book First; Introduction -- Childhood and School-time -- OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! ...

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...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seve...

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..., Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time . . . . . . . . . . 1 Book Second Childhood and School time (... ... . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from ... ... thus singled out, as it might seem, Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time 3 For holy services. Great hopes were mine: My own voice chea... ... hang on days begun And ended with worst mockery. Be wise, Ye Presidents and Deans, and to your bells Give seasonable rest, for ’tis a sound 425 Hollo... ... objects, melted and reduced 705 To one identity by differences That have no law, no meaning, and no end— Oppression under which even highest minds Mu... ... 200 But though untaught by thinking or by books To reason well of polity or law, And nice distinctions—then on every tongue— Of natural rights and ci... ...ous delight. Yet not the less, Hatred of absolute rule, where will of one Is law for all, and of that barren pride In those who by immunities unjust 5...

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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE I...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 1 BOOK SECOND SCHOOL TIME (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...y 13th, 1850. iv The Prelude of 1850 BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that w... ...s to come. Content and not unwilling now to give INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 3 A respite to this passion, I paced on 60 With brisk and eag... ...own? For (not to speak of Reason and her pure Reflective acts to fix the moral law 85 Deep in the conscience, nor of Christian Hope, Bowing her head bef... ...y hang on days begun And ended with such mockery. Be wise, Ye Presidents and Deans, and, till the spirit Of ancient times revive, and youth be trained... ...ial objects, melted and reduced To one identity, by differences That have no law, no meaning, and no end— Oppression, under which even highest minds M... ...use. But though untaught by thinking or by books To reason well of polity or law, 200 And nice distinctions, then on every tongue, Of natural rights a...

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... INFIDEL ...................................................................................118 CHAPTER V I: AM INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VIII: DUBLIN ........................................................................................................... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION...............................................

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....................118 CHAPTER V I: AM INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VIII: DUBLIN .................................... ...ent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more va... ...I did not. The obstacle in fact had been in part the shifting state of the law which regulated literary property, and especially the property in perio... ... me a sharer in the profits of the publication, called upon to do so by no law whatever, and assuredly by no expectation of that sort upon my part. T ... ... direct them. For this, and other reasons, he had been sent to the Grammar School of Louth, in Lincolnshire—one of those many old classic institutions... ...everest restraint of honorable laws, was in those days a mere necessity of schoolboy life at public schools; and hence the superior manliness, generos... ...ob, that had gathered on the chase as it hurried through the pur- lieus of Deansgate, and all that populous suburb of Manches- ter. From some of these... ...stance, in the case of the young gypsy son of 272 Thomas de Quincey Effie Deans; a change making it impossible to rely upon the very holiest instinct...

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...ndividual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America....

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...ent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more va... ...al prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the prin- c... ...y them on the same principles, not better and not worse, as govern our own schoolboys. Every battle is viewed by the boys as a test applied to the per... ...the collision neared,—all these ele- ments of the scene blended, under the law of association, with the previous and permanent features of distinction... ...t— if there be anything amiss—let the Dream be responsible. The Dream is a law to itself; and as well quarrel with a rain- bow for showing, or for not... ...all again, in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness o... ... dean of the diocese; and, in his quality of college head, he only, of all deans that ever were heard of, is uniformly con- sidered a greater man than...

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...ut out to nurse, and at seven years old was sent to the Oratorian grammar- school at Vendome, where he stayed another seven years, going through, acco... ...ces of Louis Lambert, but making no reputation for himself in the ordinary school course. If, however, he would not work in his teacher’s way, he over... ...her (who after the French fashion, was living with her daughter and son-in-law), ejaculated: “Voila donc comme le college nous renvoie les jolis enfan... ...quarter of the Marais, Honore was sent to divers private tutors or private schools till he had “finished his classes” in 1816 at the age of seventeen ... ..., which were to com- pose Balzac’s appeal. His father destined him for the law; and for three years more he dutifully attended the offices of an attor... ...sily believe it from his books, to have acquired a very solid knowledge of law, especially in bankruptcy mat- ters, of which he was himself to have a ... ...anges, My Uncle Toby, Werther, Corinne, Adolphe, Paul and Virginia, Jeanie Deans, Claverhouse, Ivanhoe, Manfred, Mignon, than to set forth in order fa...

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...ew both his son and his dear friend Mr Harding, the archdeacon’s father-in-law, and would thank them ten- derly for their care and love. Now he lay sl... ...is ingress and egress was as much a matter of course as that of his son-in-law. He was standing close beside the archdeacon before he was perceived, a... ...pretence of a foolish sentiment. But how was he to act while his father-in-law stood there holding his hand? How, without appearing unfeel- ing, was h... ...s to the seclusion of a protestant nunnery. Dr Proudie’s sons are still at school. One other marked peculiarity in the character of the bishop’s wife ... ...o prepare a scheme for the ‘Manufacturing Towns Morning and Evening Sunday School Society’, of which he was a patron, or president, or director, and t... ...e livery stables. ‘Are the arrangements with reference to the Sabbath- day schools generally pretty good in your archdeaconry?’ ‘Sabbath-day schools!’... ...and so the lady rang for lunch. This bishop knew more about cathedrals and deans, and precentors and church services than his wife did, and also more ... ...her as to Dr Trefoil’s successor, and among those named as possible future deans your humble servant is, I believe, not the least frequently spo- ken ... ...e are no positions in which more energy is now needed than in those of our deans. The whole of our enormous cathedral establishments have been allowed...

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...daughter of a coppersmith, a widower, named Champagnac. When his father-in-law died he bought the house in which he had been carrying on his trade of ... ...r; both knew very well, however, that the father was in search of a son-in-law. Old Sauviat went to Monsieur Graslin. Monsieur Graslin, a rich banker ... ...ctation of two hundred and fifty thousand more. Graslin, his chosen son-in-law, would therefore infallibly marry Veronique; and so, as we have seen, i... ...their minds a figure to be compared (though in another sense) with Jeannie Deans, whose piety, grace, 60 The Village Rector modesty and beauty she po... ...se tears put me sometimes into a fury in which I nearly lost my reason. My school days, when boys are usu- 95 Balzac ally so full of misery and hard ... ...orld a political code, left his work incomplete. Before establishing great schools of specialists and regulating the method of recruiting for them, wh... ...medical observations, then the system practised in France in her technical schools is a fatal impairment and mutila- tion (in the style of La Quintini...

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...eeper’s eyes. Others affirmed he had a humour to pick the worms out of the schoolmen, and swallow them fresh and fasting, whereof some fell upon his s... ...hildren grow wiser than their parents, by me beaux become politicians, and schoolboys judges of philosophy; by me sophisters debate and con clude upo... ...far before ‘em, Deus est anima brutorum . Whoever knew an honest brute, At law his neighbour prosecute, Bring action for assault and battery, Or frien... ...in the brain. He that would thus refine on thee, And turn thy stage into a school, The jest of Punch will ever be, And stand confessed the greater foo... ...gil ( vide Dido’s case); As for Tibullus’s reports, They never passed for law in Courts: The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 46 ... ... On whom the queen of love was bent To try a new experiment. She threw her law books on the shelf, And thus debated with herself: “Since men allege t... ...told. But to say truth, such dulness reigns Through the whole set of Irish Deans; I’m daily stunned with such a medley, Dean W , Dean D l, and Dean S ...

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...l in the service of the Repub- lic. With her lived Victorine T aillefer, a schoolgirl, to whom 10 Father Goriot she filled the place of mother. These... ...them in default of better. At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law stu- dent, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a lar... ...he seven inmates thus enumerated, taking one year with another, some eight law or medical students dined in the house, as well as two or three regular... ...e knew all about ships, the sea, France, foreign countries, men, business, law, great houses and prisons,—there was nothing that he did not know. If a... ...ments out of which a complete society might be con- structed. And, as in a school, as in the world itself, there was among the eighteen men and women ... ...but those of good cheer; in this matter, in fact, he was a gourmand of the schools of Louis XVIII. and of the Duc d’Escars, and luxury was supplemente... ...eces—the Alceste of Moliere, and, in our own day, the characters of Jeanie Deans and her father in Sir Walter Scott’s novel. Perhaps a work which shou...

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... could change their sex, and flaunt With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair. I think they should n... ... clubs, of art, of politics; They lost their weeks; they vext the souls of deans; They rode; they betted; made a hundred friends, And caught the bloss... ...; wrought to the life; She rapt upon her subject, he on her: For there are schools for all.’ ‘And yet’ I said ‘Methinks I have not found among them a... ...ed More breadth of culture: is not Ida right? They worth it? truer to the law within? Severer in the logic of a life? Twice as magnetic to sweet infl... ...Amazed am I to her Y our Highness: but your Highness breaks with ease The law your Highness did not make: ’twas I. I had been wedded wife, I knew ma... ...r on one side arose The women up in wild revolt, and stormed At the Oppian Law. Titanic shapes, they crammed The forum, and half-crushed among the re... ...anger than our own; Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboys’ barring out; Too comic for the serious things they are, Too sol...

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...attached to the liberal professions there, have been educated at this same school. Whatever the defects of American universities may be, they dissemi ... ...ned it about its mimic eyes. She was seated in a little enclosure, made by school desks and forms, writing her daily journal. But soon finishing this... ... furniture for a pau per doll’s house. I can imagine the glee of our Poor Law Commissioners at the notion of these seats having arms and backs; but s... ...blishments for boys in this same neighbourhood. One is called the Boylston school, and is an asylum for neglected and indigent boys who have committed... ... accustomed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American Court of Law is as odd a sight as, I suppose, an English Court of Law would be to an... ... and had no ‘junior,’ I quickly consoled myself with the re flection that law was not quite so expensive an article here, as at home; and that the ab... .... I hope we shall continue to do so; and that in the fulness of time, even deans and chapters may be converted. In the civil court an action was tryin...

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...er, with much condescension to Mr. Sedley, who asked news about his son-in-law, and about Jos’s carriage, and whether his horses had been down to Brig... ...st an- other is led by a deer, George said with respect to his brother- in-law, that his regiment marched with an elephant. Since Amelia’s introductio... ...in? But where was it he learnt his art? In India, my boy! The jungle’s the school for a general, mark me that. I knew him myself, too, Mrs. O’Dowd: we... ...rce of pride, time out of mind, amongst men in V anity Fair, or how should schoolboys brag of their amours, or Don Juan be popular? So Mr. Osborne, ha... ... large, and his own opinion of his knowingness great, he was as green as a schoolboy? that Rawdon was making a victim of him as he had done of many be... ...rting with his wife, to think of taking leave of his slumbering brother-in-law—it was not George, we say, who interposed between Jos Sedley and sleep,... ...so hospitable; that he was so civil to oratorios and hospitals; so kind to Deans and Chapters; so generous in giving and ac- cepting dinners; so uncom...

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...had earned a good name in Barchester; they had lived respected by bishops, deans, canons, and precentors; they had been buried in the precincts of the... ... mildly but seriously dissuaded him from it; and his strong-minded son-in- law, the archdeacon, the man of whom alone Mr Harding stood in awe, had urg... ...blisher, and the Rev. Theophilus Grantly, who allows none of his father-in-law’s extravagances to escape him. Then he is generous to his daughter, for... ...on Theophilus Grantly, for he is always more or less in debt to his son-in-law, who has, to a certain extent, assumed the arrangement of the precentor... ...pent his holidays, and afterwards his Christmas vacation when he went from school to study surgery in the London hospitals. Just as John Bold was enti... ... a happy, thriving family. There were, first, three boys, now at home from school for the holidays. They were called, respectively, Charles James, Hen... ...me miles of Barchester Cathedral, and also at Westminster, where he was at school, that young Henry could box well and would never own himself beat; o...

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...ed a copy of “Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, t... ...t conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary. Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyar... ... how to act. She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at leaving school. For three days before, little Laura Martin, the orphan, followed he... ...usly rich.” “I believe he has a very large income.” “And is your sister-in-law a nice pretty woman?” “La! Joseph is not married,” said Amelia, laughin... ...hange every day. It’s a mercy he did not bring us over a black daughter-in-law, my dear. But, mark my words, the first woman who fishes for him, hooks... ...id, and of the presents which she should make to her nice little sister-in-law, and of a subse- quent ceremony in which she herself might play a princ... ...so hospitable; that he was so civil to oratorios and hospitals; so kind to Deans and Chapters; so generous in giving and ac- cepting dinners; so uncom...

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...n the hall the doctor stopped. “ Y ou’ve sent for Mrs. Carey’s brother -in-law , haven’t you?” “ Y es, sir. ” “D’you know at what time he’ll be here?”... ... great ease in expressing him- self. When the news came that his sister-in-law was dying, he set off at once for London, but on the way thought of not... ...l boy who might be noisy and rough. He had never much liked his sister -in-law. “I’m going to take you down to Blackstable tomorrow ,” he said. “With ... ...id. “Y ou’re too old to have a nurse now. We must see about sending you to school.” “I want Emma to come with me,” the child repeated. “It costs too m... .... He kept the parish accounts, ar- ranged the treats for the choir and the schools; though there was no organ in the parish church, it was generally c... ...ted his uncle was apt to grow restless and say it was high time he went to school. Mrs. Carey thought Philip very young for this, and her heart went o... ...m the monastic order it had trained especially men of the church, bishops, deans, canons, and above all country cler - gymen: there were boys in the s...

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...hing—and the longer he could put that off the better. But the Rev. Morrice Deans had promised to get together three or four prominent labour leaders f... ...at the morning’s talk had evoked. The three labour extremists that Morrice Deans had as- sembled obviously liked the bishop and found him pictur- esqu... ...oses to speak in riddles,” said the ratio- nalist. “Symbols,” said Morrice Deans, “need not be riddles,” and for a time the talk eddied about this min... ...s given her these ideas?” Lady Ella did not know. She could have thought a school like St. Aubyns would have been safe, but nowadays nothing was safe.... ...et.” 30 The Soul of a Bishop “I wonder if college can be much worse than school…. She’s eighteen—? But I will talk to her….” 10 10 10 10 10 All our ... ...ned?” “Yes,” she said to the fire. A pause followed. If they had been in a law-court, her bar- rister would have said, “That is my case, my lord.” The... ...f habit, to repeat and he repeated with a scowling face and the voice of a schoolmaster: “Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run... ...as, of material organization against rational freedom, of violence against law; it was a war more copiously discussed than any war had ever been befor... ... to this militant and imminent God, to this immortal Captain, this undying Law-giver, that you devote yourselves to-day. “For he is imminent now. He c...

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... (cf. Kant’s “starry vault above”) and the God of the heart (Kant’s “moral law within”). The idea of an antagonism seems to have been car- dinal in th... ...than have the theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to the starry universe. The latter is a question for the theologian, th... ...e Faith and the War,” a volume in which the curious reader may contemplate deans and canons, di- vines and church dignitaries, men intelligent and enq... ... Church of En- gland, and of ladies and gentlemen who belong to the little school of thought which this magazine represents; it is, I should judge, a ... ...ions on the Palatine and the Pincian, in the Museum at Alexandria, and the schools which Omar Khayyam frequented, in the straw-strewn schools of the M... ...often and deeper I dwell on them— the starry vault above me, and the moral law within me.” From that discussion, Dr. Chalmers Mitchell presently comes... ...most se- vere and conscientious Atheists. Now, the Stoics, like many other schools of thought, drew an argument from this con- sensus of all mankind. ...

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...in- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, I have termed Jeanie Deans. The circumstance of her refusing to save her sister’s life by an act... ... Sir Walter Scott and an acute critic, [James Chalmers, Esq., Solicitor at Law, London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of the... ...th appropriate personification. The first thing a child does is to ape his schoolmaster by flogging a chair. The assuming a character ourselves, or th... ... will be pleased to understand that I am a a Scottish gentleman of the old school, with a fortune, tem- per, and person, rather the worse for wear. I ... ...naccessible to those meta- 43 Sir Walter Scott physical persons, whom the law of the neighbouring coun- try terms John Doe and Richard Roe. In short,... ... excursion across, were it only for a few yards, and felt the triumph of a school- boy, who, trespassing in an orchard, hurries back again with a flut... ...rather had been freed by my friends, from the brambles and thickets of the law; but, as befell the sheep in the fable, a great part of my fleece was l...

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...ave hung across the streets, and no man would have touched one. He founded schools; he patiently heard causes himself in his Court of Justice; the gre... ...s; the Saxon blood remains unchanged. Whereso ever that race goes, there, law, and industry, and safety for life and property, and all the great resu... ...ld Earl and his sons (except Sweyn, who had com mitted crimes against the law) were restored to their possessions and dignities. Editha, the vir tuo... ...future all priests found guilty before their Bishops of crimes against the law of the land should be considered priests no longer, and should be deliv... ...with artful people, and inducing him to recant to the unreformed religion. Deans and friars visited him, played at bowls with him, showed him various ... ... the unhappy people. This infamous law, by forbidding them to teach in any school, or to come within five miles of any city, town, or village, doomed ...

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...re could not save him from an attack on the chest, that settled his public-school education for ever, to his severe mortifica- tion, just when Tom’s s... ...ters took up their employments— Ethel writing to the New Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of a New Zealand letter ... ...ave stuck to old Axworthy’s place in Minster Street—daughter at that grand school, where she cost more than the whole half-dozen of you put together.’... ... a household of convalescents in the stage for kitchen physic. Passing the school, still taking its enforced holiday, the fa- ther and daughter traver... ...uperintendent’s eye and query, ‘You know it, sir!’ ‘I do. It was my son-in-law’s present to him. I wonder where he kept it, for the ruffians to get ho... ... to convict on circumstantial evidence, and on the saying that the English law had rather acquit ten criminals than con- demn one innocent man. 202 T... ...re, but he ended by very hearty wishes that these were the times of Jeanie Deans; if the pardon depended on our own good Queen, he should not doubt of... ...ly there was no one in the whole world whom poor Averil envied like Jeanie Deans. So member and mayor went to London together, and in- tense were the ...

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...letter. He’ll soon come,’ said she, with the rapid ill-assured manner of a school-girl receiving her mamma’s visitors. ‘Don’t let me interrupt you,’ s... ...ought not to have brought you this steep way. Matilda says I skurry like a school-girl.’ He saw it would console her to let her think herself of servi... ...ure as could be seen, one that any man might be proud of for a daughter-in-law; and to his mind it was better than leaving the poor girl to break her ... ...room.’ It was a cheerful apartment, hung with prints, with some- what of a school-room aspect, and in much disorder. Books and music lay confused with... ...thur, it would be by raising her.’ ‘T rying to educate a married sister-in-law! No, thank you!’ ‘I don’t see what is to become of them,’ said John, sa... ... consisted only of the other ingredient, hot water, after which I took the law into my own hands for our mutual benefit. Pray what became of him after... ... more—calm it had always been, reminding me of the de- scription of Jeanie Deans’ countenance—I cannot tell you what it was then! I see a little dawni...

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...lies taken from 7 Balzac their medical studies by the recent conscription law due to General Jourdan, had naturally preferred to continue their studi... ...have not killed a man! I remember my dreams. I was playing at base with my schoolmates. I couldn’t have cut off the head of a man while I dreamed I wa... ...aternal love begun when we were only five years old, and continued through school and college? Where is Frederic?” He wept. Can it be that we cling mo... ... on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The lawyer rose, and said:— “In law, the case submitted to us presents no difficulty. Monsieur le duc is ri... ...to sanction it! How shall I solve that problem?” “Where does the father-in-law live?” asked one my school- friends, heedlessly, being less sophisticat... ...l I solve that problem?” “Where does the father-in-law live?” asked one my school- friends, heedlessly, being less sophisticated than the others. “The... ...” The honest man, that species of puritan not unlike the father of Jeannie Deans, of whom I have already told you, and who, up to the present moment h...

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...might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of the Bride of Lamme...

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...ies. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law’s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq.,... ...pertinacity equal to his own. She particu- larly insisted on the Levitical law, which declares that a woman shall be free of a vow which her parents d... ...r rank; and strange things sometimes took place there, into which even the law did not scrupulously inquire. The credulous Mr. Law says, generally, th... ... not a hundred similar instances on record, the rate of my poor friend and school-fellow, Dick Tinto, would be suf- ficient to warn me against seeking... ...outhful genius of his son to forsake its natu- ral bent. He fared like the school-boy who attempts to stop with his finger the spout of a water cister... ...an of Charles the Second, and the bellman of Gandercleugh in that of David Deans. But while he thus proposed to unite his own powers with mine for the... ...ade and T eniers were then termed, with one good paint- ing of the Italian school. There was, besides, a noble full- length of the Lord Keeper in his ...

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...egacy of two thousand livres for purchase of books. He wrote in his lively school- days a tragedy that afterwards he burnt. At the age of seven- teen ... ...been taught nothing but Latin and the Stupidities. He was then sent to the law schools, and saw life in Paris as a gay young poet who, with all his br... ... taught nothing but Latin and the Stupidities. He was then sent to the law schools, and saw life in Paris as a gay young poet who, with all his brilli... ...end to inform a lover of his mistress’s faults, no more than one who is at law, of the badness of his cause; nor attempt to win over a fanatic by stre... ...are obliged to appear before a magistrate upon other people’s account (for law-suits are unknown among the Friends), we give evidence to the truth 10... ...e of the Church of England as by law established. There are few bish- ops, deans, or other dignitaries, but imagine they are so jure divino; it is con... ...ts, and accordingly eloped from them with as much joy as a youth does from school. A Church of England minister appears as another Cato in presence of...

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...a doctrine. As regards our parliament, that is probably the best Brit- ish school of foreign politics, seeing that the subject is not there often take... ... own, had also her own carriage. These carriages were always open, and the law of the land imperatively de- mands that the occupants shall cover their... ...f this nature. Such an arrangement partakes of all the vice of a sumptuary law, and sumptuary laws are in their very essence mistakes. It is well that... ...o Mr. Neal Dow, the Father Matthew of the State of Maine, the Maine liquor law is still in force in that State. There is nothing to drink, I should sa... ...own with their hands in their pockets—had they done as second-rate boys at school will do, declare that they had been licked, and then feel that all t... ... of its scenery. It is the Sandhurst of the States. Here is their military school, from which officers are drafted to their regiments, and the tuition... ...s, and no common rooms. There are no proctors, no bulldogs, no bursers, no deans, no morning and evening chapel, no quads, no surplices, no caps and g...

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...here to it, and never to forsake the end I had in view. Not untried in the school of affliction, in the death of those we love, I thought what a good ... ...nt to the heart of every man who heard him, that, if there had existed any law in this respect, Scott might not have sunk beneath the mighty pressure ... ...round him the phantoms of his own imagination—Waverley, Ravenswood, Jeanie Deans, Rob Roy, Caleb Balderstone, Dominie Sampson—all the famil iar thron... ...ff of masters and officers, amounting to half a hundred in themselves; its schools, con veying every sort of instruction, high and low, adapted to th... ...eting held here some short time since, in aid of the formation of a girls’ school in connexion with this institution. This is a new and striking chapt... ...regarious in good citizenship as well as in other things, and that it is a law in nature that there must be a centre of attrac tion for particles to ... ...cted by patent, and that at that time the minor theatres were condemned by law to the representation of the most prepos terous nonsense, and some gen...

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...on between the values of gold and silver money was not fixed by any public law or proclama- tion, but was left to be settled by the market. If a debto... ... found convenient to ascertain this proportion, and to declare by a public law, that a guinea, for example, of such a weight and fineness, should ex- ... ... The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily: and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations... ...er, among the inferior ranks of people, is often afraid to send her son to school at a sea-port town, lest the sight of the ships, and the conversatio... ...ithstanding, to return to Ath- ens, in order to resume the teaching of his school. T eachers of the sciences were probably in those times less common ... ..., might derive still greater benefit from it, if the constitution of those schools and colleges, in which edu- cation is carried on, was more reasonab... ... in the disposal of the great benefices of the church; by procuring to the deans and chapters of each diocese the restora- tion of their ancient right...

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...are the Courts of Justice; and at stated times are heard their tri- als in law, or concerning the king’s patrimony, or in chancery, which moderates th... ...ng’s patrimony, or in chancery, which moderates the severity of the common law by equity. Till the time of Henry I. the Prime Court of Justice was mov... ...iefly in the study of physic, for very few apply themselves to that of the law; they are allowed a very good table, and silver cups to drink out of. O... ... entirely abhor all difference in rank among Churchmen, such as bish- ops, deans, &c.; they were first named Puritans by the Jesuit Sandys. They do no... ...uke of Gloucester, that great encour- ager of learning, built the Divinity School very splendidly, and over it a library, to which he gave an hundred ... ...ollege, built by Hugh Price, Doctor of Laws. That fine edifice, the Public Schools, was entirely raised by Queen Mary, and adorned with various inscri... ... are joined by a bridge of wood, is Eton, a well-built College, and famous school for polite letters, founded by Henry VI.; where, besides a master, e...

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...is even a sort of loyalty in it, like that of the brigand who breaks every law and yet claims to be a patriotic subject of the king who makes them. We... ...decay, and Kant’s two wonders of the starry heavens above us and the moral law within us, that we conclude that somebody must be doing it all, or that... ... called sacrifices, and flatteries, called praises. Then the Kantian moral law within you makes you conceive your god as a judge; and straightway you ... ...educated, not to say sophisticated mystic, different both in character and schooling from the simple and downright preacher of Mat- thew and Mark, and... ...ble Bede and Piers Plowman and the divine doctors of the Aquinas-Aristotle school, who were certainly no stupider, and had the same facts before them.... ...should be given to him, not to enable him to live, but as a sort of Sunday School Prize for good behavior. And this folly is complicated by a less rid... ...rous life is to disgrace it so vitally that all the moralizings of all the Deans and Chapters cannot reconcile our souls to its slavery. The unmarried...

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...subject from the point of view of principle. From the point of view of the law, theft is the same whether a man is hungry or not.” “Yes, yes. . .” mut... ...” “I have no secrets. Any one may see. Look.” On the table lay five or six school exercise books, several sheets of notepaper covered with writing, a ... ... and always take your stand on your legal rights, and so you are always at law with the peasants and your neighbours. Y ou have had twenty bushels of ... ...rights and in the interests of morality, you refuse to give me a passport. Law and morality is such that a self-respecting healthy young woman has to ... ...: “V ery glad to meet you. There was a Ryabovsky in my year at the medical school. Was he a relation of yours?” II OLGA I VANOVNA WAS twenty-two, Dymo... ...Katya lived with us as one of the family , then she was sent to a boarding-school, and only spent the summer holidays with us. I never had time to loo... ... riness and irritation. Ever since I became an “Excellency” and one of the Deans of the Faculty my family has for some rea- son found it necessary to ...

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....’ ‘I knew Grace very well—when she used to come first to Miss Prettyman’s school.’ ‘Poor girl. I pity her.’ ‘Pity her! Pity is no word for it, mamma.... ... was the prettiest girl in that part of the world. She was living now at a school in Silverbridge, where for the last year she had been a teacher; and... ... of the family. Bob Crawley, who was two years younger, was not at Malbro’ School, from whence it was intended that he should proceed to Cambridge, an... ... the butcher had wondered whether the major would pay his future father-in-law’s debts; and Dr T empest, the old Rector of Silverbridge, whose four da... ...ieved—saying nothing, however, of her grief, when her son and daughter- in-law had broken away from her, and submitted themselves to the blandishments... ...ecting, that Emily 23 Anthony Trollope Dunstable would be her daughter-in-law, and was therefore the more aggrieved when this terrible Crawley peril ... ...rd, but she would not even hear him to the end. ‘Don’t tell me about rural deans, as if I didn’t know. The rural dean has nothing to do with such a ca... ...don’t know that fifty- pound notes have always been so plentiful with him. Deans’ incomes ain’t what they were, you know.’ ‘I don’t know anything abou... ...hey tell me he is a very good fellow.’ ‘I never did see much in bishops or deans as yet,’ said Johnny, ‘and I should feel rather awe-struck travelling...

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...ou thought, or that I thought you thought, that one of the regular trained schoolmistresses would be better. ’ ‘But her ladyship did not agree?’ ‘Well... ...y, she is very fond of carrying it. ’ ‘But, you see, in this affair of the school she is thinking more of her protege than she does of the children. ’... ... But as for me, it’s impossible. ’ ‘But why, love?’ ‘Why? Just now, at the school-house, I answered a let- ter that was brought to me from Chaldicotes... ...cial big- 37 Anthony Trollope wigs think it expedient to make bishops and deans? Was it not, as a rule, of those clergymen who had shown them- selves... ... Robin, mindful of the tea and toast, explained to her courteously how the law made it imperative on him to bring the letter to the very house that wa... ...Parsonage the owner of the letter be where she might; and he laid down the law very satisfactorily with sundry long-worded quotations. Not to much eff... ...further no plan of his by a tete-a-tete conversa- tion with his brother-in-law. And then Mrs Proudie began her story about Mr Slope, or rather recomme... ...of to church-loving ears! But bishops have been shorn of their beauty, and deans are in their decadence. A utilitarian age requires the fatness of the... ...ended as follows:— ‘Many of these stalls are in the gift of the respective deans and chapters, and in such cases the dean and chap- ters are bound to ...

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... need not now describe it more closely. It is not a bad thing to be son-in-law to a potent earl, member of Parliament for a county, and a possessor of... ...bella chose to live as she had been accustomed to do, and as her sister-in-law the countess lived; now Lord de Courcy had much more than fourteen thou... ...love him dearly; and, therefore, when he came of age she got her sister-in-law and all the Ladies Amelia, Rosina etc. to come to Greshamsbury; and she... ...hed his house well and discreetly; and when Mary Thorne came home from her school at Bath, to which she had been taken some six years previously, she ... ... Miss Mary was kept at a farm-house till she was six; she was then sent to school at Bath, and transplanted to the doctor’s newly furnished house, a l... ...he found, to her great disgust, that Mary Thorne was learning music in her schoolroom on equal terms, as re- garded payment, with her own daughters. T... ...stocracy of Barchester consisted chiefly of clerical dignitaries, bishops, deans, prebendaries, and such like: on them and theirs it was not probable ...

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...Contessa Baroncelli, has two daughters, and when she cannot send a maid to school with them, she lets them go in sailor-hats instead. Every one takes ... ...hapel. There was a hint of the teacher about him. She felt like a child in school who had answered a question rightly. The chapel was already filled w... ... rather stop here with you.” “No, I agree,” said Miss Lavish. “It’s like a school feast; the boys have got separated from the girls. Miss Lucy, you ar... ...I repre- sent all that he despises. Why should he want me for a brother-in-law?” The Honeychurches were a worthy family, but he began to realize that ... ...fiance. Mrs. Honeychurch, amusing and portly, promised well as a mother-in-law. As for Lucy and Cecil, for whom the temple had been built, they also j... ...r against the blue. How glorious it was! The world of motor-cars and rural Deans receded inimitably. Wa- ter, sky, evergreens, a wind—these things not...