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...e no longer possible in the world, that to attempt to keep on with the old system is to heap disaster upon disaster for mankind and perhaps to destroy... ... grew larger; no longer did each man kill or drive out his growing sons; a system of taboos made them tolerable to him, and they revered him alive and... ...progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very greatly alter th... ... with that un- easy affectation of ease that marks an overstrained nervous system and an under-exercised body. He hesitated at the White Stone Pond wh... ...doubt at Lawson’s suggestion. The beer warmed Holsten’s rather dehumanised system. He began to tell Lawson as clearly as he could to what his great di... ...bsurdities of courts and the indignities of rep- 51 H G Wells resentative parliamentary government, coupled with the opening of vast fields of opport... ...mour for representative government, and build high hopes upon a return, to parliamentary institutions. The council decided to give them everything the...

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... up, and she never seemed to understand anything whatever of the political Systems across which she came to me. Also she forbade all toys on Sundays e... ... his own. But he never really did experiments, except that in the class in systematic botany he sometimes made us tease common flowers to pieces. He d... ...entific perversity of Nature and the impassable gulf that is fixed between systematic science and elusive fact. I knew, for example, that in science, ... ...and manufacture on a larger scale, to send goods abroad in a wholesale and systematic way, to bring back commodities from overseas, not simply spices ... ... found ourselves among at this time were people, to put it roughly, of the Parliamentary candidate class, or people already actually placed in the pol... ...n to hold us all together. I 198 The New Machiavelli found the talk about Parliamentary procedure and etiquette particularly trying. We dined with th... ... was a disposition to wear the hat much too forward, I thought, for a good Parliamentary style. There was much play with the hats all through; a treme... ... to get something like a representative collec- 223 H G Wells tion of the parliamentary leaders of Socialism, the various exponents of Socialist thou... ...d devotion evapo- rated from my life; but I do know that quite early in my parliamentary days there had come a vague, unconfessed re- sentment at the ...

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...ia Forey, his widowed sister, said that Austin might have retired from his Parliamentary career for a time, and given up gaieties and that kind of thi... ...til Eve sided with him: a period that might be deferred, he said. He had a system of education for his son. How it worked we shall see. 11 George Mer... ... seemed to him better to keep an unseen eye over his son: Sir Austin’s old system prevailed. Adrian characterized this system well, in saying that Sir... ...with Sir Austin’s pointing out to his friends the beneficial action of the System in it from beginning to end. 71 George Meredith BOOK 2 CHAPTER XII ... ...r. “Let this be her penance, not inflicted by me!” Mrs. Doria bowed to the System for another, not opining when it would be her turn to bow for hersel... ...esimal dose of The World which Master Ripton Thompson had furnished to the System with such instanta- neous and surprising effect was considered by Si...

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...oldiers of Napoleon became almost to a man enamoured of the constitutional system—Colonel Giguet was, during the Restoration, the natural president of... ...n, an ephemeral effort of the Chamber of Deputies to realize the threat of parliamentary government,—a threat a la Cromwell, which without a Cromwell ... ...ly end, under a prince “the enemy of fraud,” in the triumph of the present system, by which the Chambers and the ministers are like the wooden puppets... ...h, joined the democrats, though enemies to democracy. In France, under the system of bal- loting, politico-chemical products are formed in which the l... ...produce your candidates and weigh their merits—in adopting, as I said, the parliamentary and constitutional—forms—of the—electoral Chamber.” “Yes, yes... ...“if the meeting itself nominated those officers,—following, of course, the parliamentary forms of the Chamber.” “That is best,” said the huge Monsieur... ...sieurs,” continued Beauvisage, prompted by Simon, “if we are—to conform—to parliamentary usage—I shall beg—the honorable gentleman —Monsieur Pigoult—t... ...l his courage to say:— “Monsieur Simon Giguet has the floor.” IV THE FIRST PARLIAMENTARY TEMPEST “MESSIEURS,” said Simon Giguet, “I ask permission to ... ... The tall, stout, heavy, and grave procureur- du-roi had lately invented a system by which he hoped to keep out of trouble with the exasperating Olivi...

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...Patteson to call in an Italian doctor, who treated him on the starva- tion system, administered no medicines, and would take no fee. The next day Cole... ...Dr. ——, a famous theologian, with whom Patteson was fond of discussing the system and organisation of the Church in Saxony. Up to the time of his leav... ...st answer your very sensible well-writ- ten letter at once, because on our system of mutual explana- 64 Life of John Coleridge Patteson tion, there a... ... me. I feel no tendency to latitudinarianism, but only to see much good in systems unrecognised by your very highflyers. I believe that the Church tea... ...nce of wants is implied when they have never been felt, 81 Yo n g e and a system for supplying them introduced which finds no room in the understandi... ...f full communion between the Home and the Colonial Church can be matter of Parliamentary legislation. It is the “One Faith, One Lord,” that binds us t... ... ‘You know that I sympathise with all your anxieties about Church matters. Parliamentary legislation would be the great- est evil of all. All your tro...

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...ysiologists have long wondered at this phe- nomenon, which overturns their systems and upsets all theo- ries; it is in fact a thunderbolt working with... ...few steps from the shop-door, roused his feeling heart and made him hate a system of government which was ca- pable of shedding blood without repugnan... ...n, which he called the “Carminative Balm.” He imitated in his own line the system of the Petit-Matelot, and was the first perfumer to display that red... ...t any meeting of creditors, and held on to his securities. He adopted this system and his implacable contempt for bankrupts from Monsieur Ragon, who i... ... in a gray woollen garment, breakfasted in his chimney-corner and read the parliamentary debates in the “Constitutionnel” or the “Journal du Commerce.... ... the following speech, which he divided by gestures and pauses in his most parliamentary manner. “No—hair—can be made—to grow! Hair cannot be dyed wit... ...ct upon it; I have now laid before you the whole theory of the modern loan-system. Come and see me often; you’ll always find me a jovial, jolly fellow...

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...she could hardly be interested in talk of soldiering and of for- eign army systems, jealous English authorities and officials, games, field-sports. Sh... ...e affairs to front our awkward squads. The French could boast a regimental system, and chiefs who held them as the whist-player his hand of cards. Had... ... taken the dose in- tended for him by Mrs. Lawrence, who believed that the system of gently forcing him was the good one. The ladies drove away in the... ...unt of the operations of the feelings, to the sole exercise of which he by system condemned the sex. He was also insensibly half a grain more soured b... ...y: an English friend brought an Italian gentleman to see me and discuss my system, up at Norwood, at my mother’s —a Signor Calliani. He has a nephew; ... ...ke his old Charlotte of the younger days that her brother partly laughed. ‘Parliamentary fighting ‘s not much to your taste or mine. They ‘ve lost the...

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...n other words, the majority of them are addressed directly to our muscular system, and they have no effect when we stand beyond the range. On the cont... ...al by any of us would be impolitic, were it a possible attempt, before our systems shall have been forti- fied by philosophy. Then may it be allowed t... ... siege, they have achieved their triumphs; they have domi- nated a frailer system of nerves, and a young woman with- out father, or brother, or husban... ...he di- lemmas of a woman. ‘Dear me, Emma! think of stepping aside from the parliamentary road to entreat a husband to relent, and arrange the domestic... ...lance, ma’am.—But would it not be better to rectify the law and the social system, dear sir?—Why, ma’am, we find it comfortabler to take cases as they... ...to serve her.’ ‘I want my girl married,’ said old Quintin. ‘He’s one of my Parliamentary chiefs, with first-rate prospects; good family, good sober fe... ... its tongue. So the knot would be cut. Men unaccustomed to a knot in their system find the pros- pect of cutting it an extreme relief, even when they ... ...ir influ- ence. They cannot, as Diana said, comparing them with men on the Parliamentary platform, cannot feel they are aboard the big vessel; they ca... ...e Ministers’ wives. Perhaps he does. Marriage will become a danger-sign to Parliamentary members. Foreign women do these tricks … women of a well-know...

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...he contrary. Now Nicholas Tulrumble had been reading pamphlets on crime, and parliamentary reports, or had made the secretary read them to him, whi... ...stablishment among them of infant schools and houses of industry, in which a system of virtuous education, based upon sound principles, should be obse... ...a very extraordinary and con vincing proof of the wonderful efficacy of the system of in finitesimal doses, which the section were doubtless aware w... ...t into the hospital with a broken head, and was cured upon the infinitesimal system in the incredibly short space of three months. This man was a hard... ... were accustomed to sit; the proportion in the year 1829 (it appeared by the parliamentary return) being as one monkey to three organs. Owing, however... ...Courtenay, otherwise Thorn, recently shot at Canterbury, in the Homoeopathic system. The sec tion would bear in mind that one of the Homoeopathic doc...

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... receipt for making good blood, combined with a certain har- mony of their systems, had done; nor could a schoolmistress 6 Rhoda Fleming have taught ... ...h his rector on the subject of hopeful 56 Rhoda Fleming Algernon, and the system he adopted with that young man. This incident has something to do wi... ...t nothing else, they’ll have lots of that for indemnification. It’s a good system, Ned; it enables a young fellow like me to get through the best year... ...r. No con- stitution can stand it. All the ladies here take an interest in Parliamentary affairs. They can talk to men upon men’s themes. It is imposs... ... the run of her sex: I may say, profoundly practical. So much so, that she systematically reserved the after-years for enlightenment upon two or three... ... in that way.” “I detest duelling,” Major Waring remarked. “I don’t like a system that permits knaves and fools to exercise a claim to 187 George Mer... ...lis, which, a school for many things, is not a school for the study of our Parliamentary system, and still less for that connubial career 217 George ...

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...doned; and now, at eight-and-twenty, Everett Wharton had discovered that a parliamentary career was that for which nature and his special genius had i... ...ition was a success, and some wise men to predict that at least fortuitous parliamentary atoms had so come together by accidental connection, that a m... ... had indeed kept all the other guests wait- ing half-an-hour,—as becomes a parliamentary magnate in the heat of the session. Mr Wharton, who had been ... ...w and Mrs Happerton, was very confi- dential respecting the Government and parliamentary affairs in general. ‘Yes, indeed;—of course it’s a coalition,... ... the Government thought himself strong enough to rule without attention to parliamentary details. 98 The Prime Minister The question was asked with a... ...e declared that there should be ‘an end of it’,—meaning an end of the very system by which she hoped to perpetuate his power,—she did not dare argue w... ...mpertinent puppy had found his way into the house? And then to abandon the system at once, whether it had failed or whether it had suc- ceeded, would ... ...n which many a bitter moment was spent while he thought over that abortive system of decimal coinage by which he had once hoped to make himself one of... ...and, indeed in her hearts of hearts disapproved altogether of the coddling system. But she was wont at this particular time to be somewhat tender to h...

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... was seldom known to take place before nine. In this respect, however, the system was elastic. In summer, that golden period for the coaching business... ...e transported. Travellers were satisfied with this easy-going, patriarchal system. If they arrived too soon, they seated themselves beneath the hood o... ...he 18th Brumaire, Monsieur de Serizy became, like so many other of the old parliamentary families, an object of the First Consul’s blandishment. He wa... ...; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry officer Chosrew simply... ...m the rest. The pacha of Egypt was so struck with the advan- tages of that system, that, when I came away he was on the point of organizing his own ad... ...e all the harvests, and leave the fellahs just enough to live on. That’s a system that does away with stamped papers and bureaucracy, the curse of Fra...

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...ns of beautiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followed in the smallest details, and even to th... ...11 Balzac women than for men in the application of his wife’s oppres- sive system. The two Maries, destined as women to endure tyranny, either of love... ...first man who offers.” “Ah!” he cried, “that is the bitter fruit of such a system. They want to make saints, and they make—” he stopped without ending... ...nsumed with envy,—a century with a thousand rivalries lurking under many a system, which nourish to their own profit that hydra of anarchy which wants... ...set of men; to rely on facts only, turn them to his own profit, regard his system as a weapon, and not interfere with a society so well constituted, s... ...ill of this innocent sovereign, followed in her train, followed, also, the parliamentary debates, edited and wrote for his newspaper, and put upon the...

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...rayal of manners and morals, especially when we reflect that the political system of the Younger branch rests almost wholly upon it. The winter of the... ...tutions considered from the highest stand-point; or reforms in the pawning system, the abuses of which are really frightful. Let us fasten some slight... ...n put himself into the skin of a registered creditor. By the present legal system relating to mortgages, when a house is sold at the request of credit... ...tended to rearrange the ideas of the Saint-Simonian “Globe,” giving them a systematic form, and coloring them with his fervid Southern diction. Thuill... ...he matter, whatever it is, is arranged. The counterpoise of this fraternal system is found in what we may call professional conscience. The public mus... ... projected railways, the construction of which is always delayed by either parliamentary rivalry or parliamentary in- decision. Let us say, in passing... ...th- ened by another happiness which came to him at almost the same time. A parliamentary crisis was imminent,—a fact that caused the ministry to think... ...rade. “I have not read the morning papers.” “So,” continued Lousteau, “all parliamentary ambitions will take the field, and, if I am well informed, Mo... ...by numbers placed between brackets, he said:— “Tiens! are you drawing up a parliamentary law?” “Yes,” replied la Peyrade, “the law of the vanquished.”...

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...ing rules for the subdivision of sections of land within the United States system of surveys, standing unrepealed, in my opinion, is binding on the re... ...he mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government subsequent to the Revolution, regarded the people of t... ...ce of ’87, but without any enforcement of the Ordinance to over- throw the system, there had been a small number of slaves introduced as indentured pe... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five slaveholder the entire control where the system was established, while we possessed the power to restrain it from go... ... capital invested in it, fields depending upon it for labor, and the whole system resting upon the importation of slave labor. They therefore did not ... ...isterial explanations made in Parliament. Y ou will base no proceedings on parliamentary debates fur- ther than to seek explanations when necessary an...

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...been given to the post office and was invested with the merit of the whole system. Thus, what with being so much in the air, playing with so many chil... ...iss Summerson, intent upon the perfect working of the whole little orderly system of which you are the centre, I feel inclined to say to myself—in fac... ...t from the face of the earth. Now you cannot afford—I will say, the social system cannot af ford—to lose an order of men like Mr. Vholes. Diligent, p... ...spectability of Mr. Vholes has even been cited with crushing effect before Parliamentary committees, as in the following blue minutes of a distinguish... ...handed about from post to pillar in trying to get him into one, which is a system that I don’t take kindly to.” “No man does, sir,” returns Mr. George... ...ibrary, has fallen asleep for the good of the country over the report of a Parliamentary committee. My Lady sits in the room in which she gave audienc... ...reat country, a very great country. Its sys tem of equity is a very great system, a very great system. Really, really!” My guardian said no more, and...

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...ooked on as part of his business to gratify such desires. Such was not the system on which his battles were fought, and victories gained. Success was ... ... never thought a moment on the subject. ‘It’s a direct attack on the whole system,’ said Towers. ‘It’ll go a long way to put down Rochester, and Barch... ...nted none, however, and knew not the meaning of the word in other than its parliamentary sense. A friend! Had he not always been sufficient to himself... ...f any anxiety in the matter. And how had he been paid? His advice had been systemati- cally rejected; he had been not only slighted, but dis- trusted ...

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... always on a great scale; there was a loan to the State, and a project for systematic colonization of the Occi- dental Province, involved in one vast ... ...town. His idea was to propitiate him in order to save the form at least of parliamentary institutions. Seated before a blank sheet of paper, a goose-q... ...accep- tance of accomplished facts may save yet the pre- cious vestiges of parliamentary institutions. Don Juste’s eyes glowed dully; he believed in p... ...city. Don Juste mur- mured— “You are abandoning us, Don Carlos… . And yet, parliamentary institutions—” He could not finish from grief. For a moment h... ...t himself in open hostility was madness, too. It would render impossible a system- atic search for that treasure, for that wealth of silver which he s... ...ss shop-fronts; our biggest daily. Conservative, or, rather, I should say, Parliamentary. We have the Parliamentary party here of which the actual Chi... ... de Tonoro. And the heroic Father Roman—I imagine the old padre blowing up systematically the San Tome mine, ut- tering a pious exclamation at every b...

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... BOARD FOR THE NEXT EIGHT OR TEN MONTHS, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. Th... ...as delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon t... ...went; and what more would the people have! It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop. O... ...tened people. For the first six months after Oliver Twist was removed, the system was in full operation. It was rather expensive at first, in conseque... ...liness which surrounded him. Let it not be supposed by the enemies of ‘the system,’ that, during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was ... ...e led off by the collar; threatening, till he got into the yard, to make a parliamentary business of it; and then grinning in the officer’s face, with...

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...e, good, the daugh- *He refers to the order of baronets, or baronettes; the barones minores, as distinct from the parliamentary bar- ons—not, it need ... ...ght a little of it. The effect which this had upon him was to put him greatly at his ease, and also to charge his system with very gratifying sensatio...