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.................................................... 107 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION ....................................... 108 ... ...TION ....................................... 108 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY ...................................................................... ............................................ 116 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF A SOCIETY ...................................................................... ......................... 127 ECONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ............... 128 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ............................. .............................. 152 BALANCING THE BUDGET—TAXES FOR YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ...................... 152 ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE ..................... ...ieved in neither. (23) There were huge differences by country with 95% of Maltese believing in God and only 16% of Estonians having such a belief. Wh...

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...n), Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association), Argentine Rural Society (large landowners' association), business organiza- tions, studen... ...braltarian; adjec- tive Gibraltar Ethnic divisions: mostly Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese, and Spanish descent Religion: 75% Roman Catholic, 8%... ...government groups include Fedayeen Islam Organization, Hezbollah, Hojjatiyeh Society, Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolu- tion, Muslim Students Following... ...yan(s); adjective Libyan Ethnic divisions: 97% Berber and Arab; some Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tunisians R... ...ion: 361,704 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.66% Nationality: noun Maltese (sing, and pi.); adjective Maltese Ethnic divisions: mixture of A... ...alian, English Religion: 98% Roman Catholic 155 Malta (continued) Language: Maltese and English (official) Infant mortality rate: 11.2/1,000 (1984) L... ...ion; expendi- tures, $486 million (1984 est.) Monetary conversion rate: 2.62 Maltese lira=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March Communica... ...ritish Religion: Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Society of Friends Language: English, Manx Gaelic Literacy: compulsory ed... ...ont, Chi- nese Middle School Friendly Association, Mauritius/USSR Friendship Society Other political or pressure groups: vari- ous labor unions Member...

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...n wind had been blowing for some days (they had told him at his hotel of the Maltese Cross), and he knew that it was often hurtful. He hoped the beau ... ...a constant guest. He was accomplished in pictures, books, and music; and his society, in any grim palazzo, would have been welcome. I used to notice, ...

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...f life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society, — magistrates who had re- signed their office during the usurper’s... ...’s ears. “Ah, ah,” murmured he, “is Dantes then a member of some Carbonari society, that his protector thus employs the collective form? He was, if I ... ... new man. Dantes observed, however, that Faria, in spite of the relief his society afforded, daily grew sadder; one thought seemed inces- santly to ha... ...ry. The abbe was a man of the world, and had, moreover, mixed in the first society of the day; he wore an air of melancholy dignity which Dantes, than... ...” said the pilot in bad French. “I am,” replied Dantes, in bad Italian, “a Maltese sailor. We were coming from Syracuse laden with grain. The storm of... ...ld them that all hands might turn in, and he would take the helm. When the Maltese (for so they called Dantes) had said this, it was sufficient, and a... ...exandre Dumas 191 when her toilet should be completed. “What are we to do, Maltese?” asked the captain. “We cannot leave you here so, and yet we canno... ...or was hired by a very rich gentleman who was supposed to be a Sicilian or Maltese; but the host was unable to decide to which of the two nations the ... ...onte Cristo?” asked Franz of his host. “A very great nobleman, but whether Maltese or Sicilian I cannot exactly say; but this I know, that he is noble...

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... and always behaves like a gentle- man, don’t you, Quizzy?’ and the little Maltese, who per- fectly well understood that there was trouble in the air,... ...ess leave. That will avoid offence, and I should prefer their enjoying the society of even the Varleys in this house.’ 39 Beechcroft At Rockstone Did... ...her looks very much. I have seen her singing in the choruses at the choral society concert, and thought how nice her manner was. She does justice to h... ...point of union between the parishes of Rockstone and Rockquay was a choral society, whereof Mr. Flight of St. Kenelm’s was a distinguished light, and ... ...reason for I heard la mamma mia trying to per- suade her to go on with the society, and she was determined, and would not. Alex said she was quite rig... ...elves in such an entirely different stratum of 89 Beechcroft At Rockstone society. They were ready to work, but they could not help feeling the morti... ...s, with no relief save a rim of white at neck and hands, and a tiny silver Maltese cross at the throat. Maura had a comparatively new gray dress, pick... ...or- 118 Charlotte M. Young rid to Maura, and said she was a Greek and I a Maltese, and so we were both false, and cheaty, and sly, and they should te...

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...have passed. The constable seemed to be on terms of scornful intimacy with Maltese, with Eur- asians, with Chinamen, with Klings, and with the sweeper... ...d. For the rest he might have been the member of a herd, not of a 42 Falk society. Self-preservation was his only concern. Not selfish- ness, but mer...

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...s were erected. It seems to me to have been the period in all history when society was the least natural, and perhaps the most dis- solute; and I have... ...s the only one which has a respectable air; the other chiefs of the famous Society are pompous old gentlemen in black, with huge periwigs, and crowns ... ... two centuries), and nobody to trouble you in reading them, and though the society of V aletta is most hospitable, varied, and agreeable, yet some- ho... ...-bred; for the worthy man had passed some time in England, and in the best society too. That humble hab- erdasher at Beyrout had been a lion here, at ... ... late, used to be quartered in these sham inns; but last year two or three Maltese took houses for the reception of tourists, who can now be accommoda... ...the world that the greatest marvels in it do not succeed in moving us?Have society, Pall Mall clubs, and a habit of sneering, so withered up our organ...

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...ientific pursuits to the utmost, get- ting more and more into opinions and society that distressed grandpapa and Uncle William. So he fell in with Mr.... ... preferred honestly the company and training of her children to going into society in her husband’s absence. Therefore she arranged her habits with a ... ...sto, the big Pyrenean dog, and,—oh, here comes little Quiz, mamma’s little Maltese—Quiz, Quiz.’ Dolores started, she did not like either dogs or cats;... ... says she will never have another of those G.F .S. girls. She says it is a society for interference.’ ‘Mamma likes it,’ said Mysie. ‘Oh! but she is on... ...en the gentleman and lady, 69 Yo n g e chiefly about music for the choral society, and the voices of the singers, about which Dolores neither knew no... ...th regular auburn hair, you know. And he sang! We used to go to the Choral Society concerts, and he sang ballads so beautifully, and always looked at ...

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...ut his cabbage-leaf hat; there was Spanish Jack, with curls of black hair, rings in his ears, and a knife not far from his hand, if you got into troub... ...shed the counter. Charles Dickens 54 Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haugh- tiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-s... ...leisure and op- portunity serve. Nothing in shy neighbourhoods perplexes my mind more, than the bad company birds keep. Foreign birds often get Charl... ...o things for people in short- skirted velveteen coats with bone buttons, or in sleeved waist- coats and fur caps, which they cannot be persuaded by th... ...ullborough with the rays of interest that I wanted and should otherwise have missed in it, and linked its present to its past, with a highly agreeable... ... before him, and, com- ing up with the head, would find a man standing bolt up- right to keep within the doorway’s shadow, and evidently intent upon n...

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...n. As resident at a small remote native court in In- dia, he saw no female society such as could undeceive him; and subsequently his Bayford life had ... ... ‘But Mrs. Osborn is quite the leader!’ exclaimed Lucy. They keep the best society here. So many families in the county come and call on them.’ ‘Very ... ...inary civility, and you know what that amounts to. As to the leadership in society here, she is a noisy woman, full of pretension, and thus always arr... ...age at the early dinner. Miss Ferrars was well read and used to liter- ary society, and she started subjects on which he was at home, and they discuss... ...finement. He would gladly have given up the visit, for his repug- nance to society was in full force on the eve of a party; but Albinia, by representi... ... several nights past has slept on the floor, in his room, not thinking the Maltese servant trustworthy. He 428 Yo n g e looks very ill and suffering,... ...ls. They were come! The summons at the door was answered by a dark-visaged Maltese, and while Maurice was putting the question whether Colonel Ferrars... ...on- taining a small packet for each of the family. Sophy received a silver Maltese Cross, and little Albinia a perfumy rose-leaf bracelet. There was a...

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...he remem- bered how Carlo Mariani (commonly known as Paunchy Charley), the Maltese hotel-keeper at the slummy end of Denham Street, had cringed joyful... ...noon drives and a first-class Resident with a fat, cheery wife to lead the society of married estate-managers and unmarried young fel- lows in the ser... ...ack on him. Fastidious, clever, slightly skeptical, accustomed to the best society (he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Mar...

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... on feeling and decency. Besides, he has effectually shut him- self out of society, and degraded himself beyond the power of interfering with you. For... ...onby had become a widower. For his own part, he was little used to ladies’ society, and could form no judgment of the bride; but he could assure Lord ... ... had taken would, when known, seriously affect the lady’s recep- tion into society, in a manner only to be repaired by Mary’s immediately joining them... ... and, seriously, our going in that way would set this Rosita straight with society much more handsomely and effectually. Don’t doubt my father—I will ... ...ed he has too much regard for his daughter to summon her into any improper society. I do not hear that he has been to blame as a father. I wish I coul... ...sformed Sir Hubert. It was much easier to line his tent with a tapestry of Maltese crosses, than to consider whether the hall should be covered with c...

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...hard by Marlott village. They, with two others below, formed the revolving Maltese cross of the reaping machine, which had been brought to the field on... ...me; but the event came as a shock nevertheless. The baby’s offence against society in coming into the world was forgotten by the girl mother; her soul... ...t first, it is true, when Clare’s intelligence was fresh from a contrasting society, these friends with Phase the Third — The Rally 97 whom he now hob... ...d of the year I should say.’ Four months or so of torturing ecstasy in his society — of ‘pleasure girdled about with pain.’ After that the blackness o... ... there were a few unimportant scores of millions of outsiders in civilized society, persons who were neither University men nor churchmen; but they we... ...hich he took part quite recently. He went as the deputy of some missionary society to preach in the neighbourhood of Trantridge, a place forty miles f...

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... an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans. But no more of this blu... ...se of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my... ...sions. If a stranger were introduced into any mis- cellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, w... ...o ice-floors. I’m sorry to throw cold water on the subject; but excuse me. Maltese sailor. Me too; where’s your girls? Who but a fool would take his l... ...born, high-tide Ganges turned to wind! Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva! Maltese sailor. (Reclining and shaking his cap.) It’s the waves—the snow’s ... ...h a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders for- mally indite his cir... ...ly indite his circulars? It is only within the last month or two that that society passed a resolution to patronise nothing but steel pens. 292 Moby ...

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...n an ice palace made of frozen sighs,and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans. Chapter 2 The Carpet B... ...se of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that as tonishment soon departed upon taking ... ...essions. If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the gen eral opinion of his merits,... ...to ice floors. I’m sorry to throw cold water on the subject; but excuse me. Maltese sailor. Me too; where’s your girls? Who but a fool would take his l... ...born, high tide Ganges turned to wind! Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva! Maltese sailor. (Reclining and shaking his cap.) It’s the waves’ — the snow... ...h a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formerly indite his circu... ...ly indite his circulars? It is only within the last month or two that that society passed a resolution to patronize nothing but steel pens. Chapter 6...

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...tions which could possibly be formed; he possesses fortune, a high rank in society, and every personal qualification likely to ren- der Valentine supr... ...deration the hospitality of the count, made up his mind that he was in the society of some nabob come to Paris to finish the worldly education of his ... ...ars, “the Count of Monte Cristo can know nothing, or he would not seek our society as he does.” “Oh, the wickedness of man is very great,” said Villef... ...better informed than you; his name is Zaccone.” “It is possible.” “He is a Maltese.” “That is also possible. “The son of a shipowner.” “Really, you sh... ...you will accompany me to my sister’s; there living, retired or mingling in society, as you wish, we shall be enabled to use our power to resist oppres... ...t number of friends, and these, added to the personages whom the usages of society gave Villefort a claim on, formed a consider- able body. Due inform...

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..................................................................... 150 THE MALTESE CAT................................................................... ... opinion the Deacon’s co’rect when he says that a ho’se of any position in society gets his gaits by his haid, an’ not by—his, ah, limbs, Miss Tuck. I... ...one hundred and fifty-six miles in two hundred and twenty-one minutes. THE MALTESE CAT T HEY HAD GOOD REASON to be proud, and better reason to be afra... ...it—” 166 Rudyard Kipling “Ah, but we aren’t playing the maxims,” said The Maltese Cat. “We’re playing the game; and we’ve the great advantage of know... ...gold-coloured Arab, who had been playing very badly the day before, to The Maltese Cat; “didn’t we meet in Abdul Rahman’s stable in Bombay, four seaso... ...p next season, you may re- member?” 167 The Day’s Work “Not me,” said The Maltese Cat, politely. “I was at Malta then, pulling a vegetable-cart. I do... ..., where he kept the photograph of his wife, were two or three Royal Humane Society medals for saving lives at sea. Professionally—it was different whe... ...d most of our mess are unmarried, too.” “But you must have met hundreds in society—at balls, and so on?” “I’m like the T enth, mummy: I don’t dance.” ...

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...ions to the great exchanges, which make up the huge conflict which we call society. But it is less suspected. The Radicals who used to advocate, as an... ...ay you four visits for it, seems to have no equivalent nowadays in English society. Better be a railway porter than an ordinary English general practi... ...e been the ardor of conviction as to tuberculosis, tetanus, enteric fever, Maltese fever, diphtheria, and the rest of the diseases in which the charac... ... committing murder. But he is by no means free to live unconditionally. In society he can exercise his right to live only under very stiff conditions.... ...t for other rights, and for its own exercise by others. When a man says to Society , “May I torture my mother in pursuit of knowl- edge?” Society repl... ...ot even if I have a chance of finding out how to cure cancer by doing it?” Society still says, “Not even then.” If the scientist, mak- ing the best of...

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...ad a far higher gift, the art of seeming so; played the part of a belle in society, while far lovelier women were left unat- tended; and up to old age... ...; and by means of him the family appear to have had access to much Italian society. T o the end, Fleeming professed his admiration of the 31 Robert L... ...e of his teachers, one circum- stance sufficiently proves. A philosophical society was started under the presidency of Mamiani, ‘one of the examiners ... ... herself so large a figure in his life, for sorry surroundings, unsuitable society, and work that leaned to the mechanical. ‘Sunday,’ says he, ‘I gene... ...in the house of Mr. Barron, a rallying place in those days of intellectual society. Edward Barron, the son of a rich saddler or leather merchant in th... ...heads. ‘Off Bona; June 4. ‘I READ YOUR LETTER carefully, leaning back in a Maltese boat to present the smallest surface of my body to a grilling sun, ...

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...ng fortunately been res- cued by his humble station from the contaminating society of 13 V olume One the “Best models,” wrote well and naturally from... ... his shrewd and natu- rally unamiable character. Still, though he regarded society as composed altogether of villains, the sharpness of his intellect ... ...t he would erase a passage colored too highly with his resentments against society and mankind, he readily and cour- teously assented-far more yieldin... ...der to get the means of taking the first step, I propose to lecture at the Society Li- brary, on Thursday, the 3d of February, and, that there may be ... ...s imagination. Seeking in Paris the objects I then sought, I felt that the societyof such a man would be to me a treasure beyond price; and this feeli... ...ese species. The owner, (who is ascertained to be a sailor, belonging to a Maltese ves- sel,) may have the animal again, upon identifying it satis- fa... ... I asked, “that you should know the man to be a sailor, and belonging to a Maltese vessel?” “I do not know it,” said Dupin. “I am not sure of it. Here... ...this knot is one which few besides sailors can tie, and is peculiar to the Maltese. I picked the ribbon up at the foot of the lightning-rod. It could ... ...induction from this ribbon, that the Frenchman was a sailor belonging to a Maltese vessel, still I can have done no harm in saying what I did in the a...

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... of marrying a Duke, or at least a Graf. Diplomates could not choose their society, and she had utterly disdained all re- straints from “the babies,” ... ... it clerical; good, but outside his life. Still, she was happy.” “Petting, Society, Art, travels! I had rather have had our two first years of tiffs t... ...e to care. I remember her being asked once to do some- thing for the Kyrle Society, and Mr. Grinstead did not like it, but now Clement’s illness has m... ...n dear, do come! You know such lots of swells. You would get one into real society if one is to have it; Lady Rotherwood, Lady Caergwent, besides all ... ...ave some fun together! Now, Annie, you would like it. You do care for good society, now don’t you?” “I did enjoy it very much when Aunt Cherry went wi... ...rd, and he was aware of a broad hat under the tree. Simultaneously a small Maltese dog sprang forward, and Francie’s head rose from leaning over the l...

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...hip. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane peo... ...ot see that I should be bound by Dorothea’s opinions now we are going into society, though of course she herself ought to be bound by them. But Doroth... ...on is offered.” He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature’s most naive toys. “It is painful to me to see... ...“I should never keep them for myself, but ladies usually are fond of these Maltese dogs. Here, John, take this dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy... ...s making great progress in Miss Brooke’s good 28 Middlemarch opinion. The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omis- sion which Dorothea afterw... ...was it reasonable to suppose that Mr. Casaubon de- lighted in Mr. Brooke’s society for its own sake, either with or without documents? Meanwhile that ... ...d so few spontaneous ideas might 30 Middlemarch be very useful members of society under good feminine direc- tion, if they were fortunate in choosing... ...y to join the Moravian Brethren, or some preposterous sect unknown to good society, was a little allayed by the knowledge that Mrs. Cadwallader always... ... Dowager. Sir James was annoyed, and leaned for- ward to play with Celia’s Maltese dog. “That is very rare, I hope,” said Lady Chettam, in a tone in- ...

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...hip. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane peo... ...ot see that I should be bound by Dorothea’s opinions now we are going into society, though of course she herself ought to be bound by them. But Doroth... ...on is offered.” He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature’s most naive toys. “It is painful to me to see... ...“I should never keep them for myself, but ladies usually are fond of these Maltese dogs. Here, John, take this dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy... ...sense that he was making great progress in Miss Brooke’s good opinion. The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omission which Dorothea afterwar... ...: was it reasonable to suppose that Mr. Casaubon delighted in Mr. Brooke’s society for its own sake, either with or without documents? Meanwhile that ... ...ese men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very use ful members of society under good feminine direction, if they were fortunate in choosing t... ...er to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn... ...he Dowager. Sir James was annoyed, and leaned forward to play with Celia’s Maltese dog. “That is very rare, I hope,” said Lady Chettam, in a tone inte...