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...ioned to the sacrifice. ‘In our daily walks we talked constantly of Church mat- 51 Yo n g e ters. Some sharp and sad experiences in the loss of more ... ...ations than is common. His father made a much simpler matter of the Arabic mat- ter, in the following characteristic letter:— ‘Feniton Court: Septembe... ...t I am certainly glad I have not taken up a hostile position hastily. As a mat- ter of fact, he reads in very few cottages in my district; tracts he d... ... South Pacific. The technical bounds of the diocese were not defined; but mat- ters were to a certain degree simplified by Bishop Selwyn’s resolution... ...—All day we have been very slowly drifting along the west side of Espiritu Santo. A grand mountainous chain runs along the whole island, the peaks we ... ...l, two small, and one a volcano in full action. He called the large island Santa Cruz, and fancied the na- tives of the same race he had seen in Bauro... ...s in Patteson’s mind, as he shows by his journal, as the lovely scenery of Santa Cruz rose on him. The people came out in canoes with quantities of ya... ...s. They spoke a few words of Maori, but wore their hair like the people of Santa Cruz, and resembled them in the char- acter of their ornaments and in... ...armlets, ear-rings and nose-rings of bone and tortoiseshell.’ Returning to Santa Cruz, a large supply of the produce was obtained by barter, but the p...

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...the lucid substance. He put this engine into our ears, which made an inces sant noise, like that of a water mill: and we conjecture it is either som... ...rials and petitions for my liberty, that his majesty at length mentioned the mat ter, first in the cabinet, and then in a full council; where it was ... ...he time he first discovered me.” To which he answered, that discoursing this mat ter with the sailors while I was asleep, one of them said, he had ob... ... and perfectly neat and clean. The mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face,...

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...ory conclusion concerning it. I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the s... ...s round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South Ameri- can ponchos. But could it be possi... .... But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I ... ..., and commenced thinking about this head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. After 31 Herman Melville thinking some time on the bed-side, I got up... ... and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held. Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched... ...; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa?— heard nothing about that, eh? Nothing about the silver cala- bash h... ..., these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an inces- sant murdering of the sharks,* by striking the keen steel deep *The whaling... ...very learned man, professor of Low Dutch and High German in the college of Santa Claus and St. Pott’s, to whom I handed the work for translation, givi...

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...was the Days of the Persecution. The perishin’ cauld chalmers were all occupeed wi’ sants and martyrs, the saut of the yearth, of which it wasnae wort... ... of the glory of the kirk; there were whiles when his dander rase to see the Lord’s sants mis- guided, and shame covered him that he should be hauldin... ...am and the lass cam by; and what should the lassie do but mock with laughter at the sant’s devotions? He rose and lookit at the twa o’ them, and Tam’... ...siness, the more so as I per- ceived very early there was no sort of urgency in the mat- ters treated, and began very early to consider my employ- men... ...would deny you for at all events.” This was Greek and Hebrew to me; but I had other mat- ters to consider, and the first of these was to get clear of ... ...usible,” says he. “And now it seems that you have busied yourself handsomely in the mat- ter of my daughter, for whose direction I was remitted to you...

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...Teague to work and talk at the same time. He was just burnishing the last “mat” in Miss Baker’s tooth, when the door of the “Parlors” opened, jangling... ...cus was not sure of himself as regarded certain proprieties, nor, for that mat- ter, were any of the people of the little world of Polk Street. The sh... ...f this the tiny kitchen. The sitting-room was particularly charming. Clean mat- ting covered the floor, and two or three bright colored rugs were scat... ...ard. This picture had for name, “Faith,” and was bordered with a red plush mat and a frame of imita- tion beaten brass. A door hung with chenille port... ...ing what he had to say in a low voice. He had even made chalk marks on the mat- ting in the places where he was to take positions. The dentist and Old... ...ady and prolonged sound, coming from all sides at once. It was that inces- sant and muffled roar which disengages itself from all vast bodies, from oc...

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...sufficient indifference. The commandant turned their talk from the trivial mat- ters which had occupied them by saying to the doctor: “How comes it, s... ...t covered the walls— roses scattered over a gray background, and the straw mat- ting that did duty for a carpet on the floor. The armchair, the table,... ...u are bound either to fall a victim or to become a partisan in this inces- sant strife of ambitions, desires, and hatreds, in the midst of which you a...

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...ion, which, I know, you will regard as a degradation—so should I, for that mat- ter. The person to whom you will present it generally has two or three... ...he Professor was not, in the main, an ill-natured old woman, but an inces- sant and most indiscreet talker; she kept chiefly in and about the kitchen,... ...son when I was indisposed; I had a bad cold and a cough; two hours’ inces- sant talking left me very hoarse and tired; as I quitted the schoolroom, an... ...more and we should not have had a dry thread on us. Stepping over a little mat of green wool, I found myself in a small room with a painted floor and ... ...obby was void and still, all the doors closed; I looked for the neat green mat; it lay duly in its place. “Signal of hope!” I said, and advanced. “But... ... get up a scene directly.” Forcibly staying my eager step, I paused on the mat. “What an absolute hush! Is she in? Is anybody in?” I de- manded to mys... ...e dis- concerted at having made the mistake; his eye reverted to the green mat, but he said nothing. We walked in, and Frances rose from her seat near...

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...earranged. The next— White returned from an unprofitable digression to the mat- ter before him. 14 14 14 14 14 The first of Benham’s early essays was ... ...f London out to the shipping at Greenwich and the towed liners, the inces- sant tugs, the heaving portals of the sea…. His time was far too occupied f... ... issues again. There must be endless people of a mind with himself in this mat- ter. And even if there were not, if he was the only man in the world, ... ...ter forgotten. It didn’t convince. It had never worked things out. In this mat- ter just as in every other matter that really signified things had sti... ...e so?” 21 21 21 21 21 “Now let me write down plainly what I think of these mat- ters. Let me be at least honest with myself, whatever self- contradict...

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...loor cov- ered irregularly with patched and defective oilcloth and a dingy mat or so and a “surround” as they call it, of dark stained wood. Here and ... ...ake about the county boundary I adopted Surrey for my loyalty, though as a mat- ter of fact we were by some five hundred yards or so in Kent. It did q... ... to one another that we had never read Lucretius. We thought every one who mat- tered had read Lucretius. When I was nearly sixteen my mother was take... ...n which we were benighted) into Italy, and by way of Domo D’ossola and the Santa Maria Maggiore valley to Cannobio, and thence up the lake to Locarno ... ...t the keen interest I took in them, and then as we came over the pass from Santa Maria Maggiore to Cannobio, my secret preoccupation took me by surpri... ... our vision of nymphs and satyrs dancing for the joy of life amidst inces- sant sunshine. We had laid hands upon the wonder and glory of bodily love a... ...estiny, of an al- most terribly efficient pursuit of a fixed end when as a mat- ter of fact I had a very doubtful end and an aim as yet by no means fi... ...ain in the piece—in the whole human drama—is the muddle-headedness, and it mat- ters very little if it’s virtuous-minded or wicked. I want to get at m...

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...oing to mess about with the thing,” he said at last, and sat down upon the mat- 46 The War in the Air tress. “I’m not going to touch it …. I wonder w... ...ting to eat in the presence of the “German Alexander”—that great and puis- sant Prince, Prince Karl Albert, the War Lord, the hero of two hemispheres.... ...ing themselves with wonderful and wonderfully illustrated accounts of such mat- ters as:— THE SECRET OF THE THUNDERBOLT AGED SCIENTIST PERFECTS ELECTR...

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...f this object than a vast number of bad grammar schools, where superfluous mat- ters, badly learned, stand in the way of sound instruction in necessar... ...ion of the Americans naturally accustoms them not to take offence in small mat- ters; and, on the other hand, the democratic freedom which they enjoy ... ...esumed to itself alone these natural attributes of sovereign power; in all mat- ters of government the State tolerates no intermediate agent between i... ...f to the management of the public treasury; he interferes in private money mat- ters; he is the superior, and often the master, of all the mem- bers o... ...63 Tocqueville in those periods of personal independence, with what inces- sant royal regulations manufactures were hampered, even in their smallest d... ... very period of anarchy, and amongst these untractable nations, the inces- sant increase of the prerogative of the supreme government, becoming more c...

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...s a hero; in point of fact, he had simply become what people (not to mince mat- ters) call a blackguard. Shocked at the destitution of her cherished s... ...o her friend’s room. “Neither you nor Philippe should manage this delicate mat- ter,” she urged. “Our two old friends Du Bruel and Claparon are dead, ... ...f gold saved from her needs, wrapped carefully in wool, and then sewed the mat- 58 The Two Brothers tress up again. She intended, at the last drawing... ...under the circum- stances, could scarcely begin at once to speak of family mat- ters, Max thought it proper and magnanimous to leave the brother and s... ...n, was requested to be present at the meeting. The seconds agreed that, no mat- ter what might happen, the combat should last only ten min- utes. At e... ...acques what the second marriage of Louis XII. was to that king. The inces- sant watchfulness of a man like Philippe, who had nothing to do and never q...

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...s; a score of these, a hundred of them, nodded and vibrated with an inces- sant agitation over the heads of the crowd and flashed like mica flakes as ... ...the trees, bare and black as though built of iron and wire, dripped inces- santly. The sparrows, huddling under the house-eaves or in interstices of t... ...ngers, of bro- kers, of clients, and of depositors formed and broke inces- santly. T o the left, where the facade of the Board of T rade blocked the s... ... a pile of pew cush- ions in a remote corner. The rain drummed with inces- sant monotony upon the slates overhead, and upon the stained windows on eit... ...ticked steadily. In the distance, through the open window, came the inces- sant, mournful wash of the lake. All around them the house was still. At le...

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...w do? O brother mortals,—thou Advocate Panis, friend of Danton, kinsman of Santerre; Engraver Sergent, since called Agate Sergent; thou Huguenin, with... ...l this while? The Legis- lative Assembly; the Six Ministers; the Townhall; Santerre with the National Guard?—It is very curious to think what a City i... ... of Order, Humanity, and the Law; but there is no Force at his dis- posal. Santerre’s National Force seems lazy to rise; though he made requisitions, ... ...in an unusually satisfactory manner: for the Rights of Man.—But Commandant Santerre, in this so strait- ened condition of the flour-market, and state ... ...ry considerable. A cheerfuller form of inventive-stupidity than Commandant Santerre’s dwells in no human soul. Inventive-stupidity, imbedded in health... ...ution - V olume Three short!—General Wimpfen, looking practically into the mat- ter, can see nothing for it but that one should fall back on Royalism;... ...ionary Committee he is suspect. To Revolutionary Committee, on probing the mat- ter, he is evidently: Deputy Brissot! Back to thy Arrest- ment, poor B... ...asteboard, or go booted in hayropes, in dead of winter; they skewer a bass mat round their shoulders, and are destitute of most things. What then? It ... ...ed and windowed destitution, in their ‘straw-rope shoes and cloaks of bass-mat,’ how they overrun Holland, like a demon-host, the ice having bridged a...

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...a, a crack in the knotted rock, and on either side interwoven heaps of sea-mat, palm-fans, and reeds leaning against the rock formed rough and impenet... ...shed, ruth- lessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its inces- sant wheels. But this condition did not come all at once: I think indeed th...

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...ecumbent position in the anteroom; which circumstance ended by causing his mat- tress to become as ragged and as thin as a wafer. In addition to his l... ...ughout the winter. But these dead souls of which I speak are quite another mat- ter, for in this case you have put forth no exertions—it was merely Go... ...he turned back, and, in so doing, once more exhibited a back as shiny as a mat, and having adhering to it, in one spot, a chicken’s feather. As soon a... ...ng from his table all superfluous sand and tobacco ash; to procuring a new mat for his inkstand; to looking for his hat—the meanest-looking hat that e... ...weeks at the most he had so thoroughly got his hand in that he was conver- sant with Customs procedure in every detail. Not only could he weigh and me... ... for nothing large in the way of takings; but now—well, now it was another mat- ter altogether, and he could dictate what terms he liked. Moreover, th...

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...aiths comparable to that. So nevertheless had the world then construed the mat- ter. Had they not so construed it, how different had their hopes been,... ...eight Sections, lift up voices; sono- rous Brewer, or call him now Colonel Santerre, is not si- lent, in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. For, meanwhile, t... ...sailles! Here in this poor Tuileries, a National Brewer-Colonel, sonorous Santerre, parades officially behind her Majesty’s chair. Our high dig- nita... ...serve no trust at all. Were 116 The French Revolution—V olume Two Patriot Santerre, indeed, Commander! But the sonorous Brewer commands only our own ... ...s on his white charger; blue Nationals, horse and foot, hurrying eastward: Santerre, with the Saint-Antoine Battalion, is already there,—ap- parently ... ...rt; one unwashed Patriot ‘seizing the General by the boot’ to unhorse him. Santerre, ordered to fire, makes an- swer obliquely, “These are the men tha...

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...ed him at any time. Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by mat- rimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyo... ...t I am so afraid:—but Mr. Frank Churchill was so extremely—and there was a mat to step upon—I shall never forget his extreme po- liteness.—Oh! Mr. Fra... ... indubitable. The ball proceeded pleasantly. The anxious cares, the inces- sant attentions of Mrs. Weston, were not thrown away. Every body seemed hap... ...It is impossible to refuse what you ask in such a way. But what can be the mat- ter?—Is she really not ill?” “Depend upon me—but ask no more questions...

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...shed in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conver sant with French literature. In this age, he would have been a Professor; i... ...after notifying to his jackal that “he had thought better of that marrying mat ter”) had carried his delicacy into Devonshire, and when the sight and... ..., and nothing more.” There were in the cell, a chair, a table, and a straw mat tress. As the gaoler made a general inspection of these ob jects, and... ...ties – Dickens 303 immunities of the Nobles were, and I expected that the mat ter would never be heard of; but, I wished to relieve my own mind. I h...

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...ful skill of needlework; and the stitch (as I am assured by ladies conver sant with such mysteries) gives evidence of a now forgotten art, not to be ... ...k devices A revela tion, he could almost say, had been granted to him. It mat tered little for his object, whether celestial or from what other regi...

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...ould hold her note as long as five lengths of a fiddle-bow:—by the body of Sant’ Ambrogio, it was true!’ Beppo stretched out his arm, and chopped his ... ...third finger. It was there. This being done (number three on the fingers), mat- ters might still be well. So much his electric French and ges- ticulat... ...heatre was a rageing darkness; and there was barely a light on the stage. ‘Santa Maria!’ cried Giacinta, ‘how dreadful that steel does look in the dar... ...ent hacking or maiming, should have stretched Angelo, neatly slain, on the mat of green, before he had a chance. Even now the sight of the man was dis... ...Milan, enclosed to the duchess, spoke of Carlo Ammiani’s imprisonment as a mat- ter that might be indefinitely prolonged. His mother had been subjecte... ...d. Merthyr came 331 George Meredith there the day after the engagement at Santa Lucia. They had not met since the days at Meran. He was bronzed, and ... ...owys. Merthyr confessed that the Austri- ans had as good as beaten them at Santa Lucia. The tactical combinations of the Piedmontese were wretched. He... ...ile covering the backward movement. Why there had been any fight at all at Santa Lucia, where nothing was to be gained, much to be lost, he was incapa... ...o bring the lost bloom of their love to him; but he received it as a plain mat- ter of necessity. Certain of his love, she wondered painfully that it ...

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...ainting down to earth; yet even this did not relieve my mind from the inces sant anxiety which I felt about noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had sp... ...ill, can brag and talk unseemly. We know one another’s race and parentage as mat ters of common fame, though neither have you ever seen my parents no... ...ding near them he said to Priam, “Take heed, descendant of Dardanus; here is mat ter which demands consideration. I see a man who I think will presen...

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...elf? Is it like you, who have known me so long and sought my advice in all mat ters—like you, who from a girl have had a strong mind and a staunch he... ...pper done, Barnaby, regardless of her entreaties, stretched himself on the mat before the fire; Grip perched upon his leg, and divided his time betwee... ...herit real property in the United Kingdom by right of purchase or descent,—mat ters so far removed from the business and bosoms of the mass, might pe... ...on foot to Westminster. Gashford, meanwhile, bestirred himself in business mat ters; with which he was still engaged when, shortly after dusk, John G... ...Mr Tappertit, musing. ‘But come. The United B.’s expect me. On!—What’s the mat ter?’ ‘I quite forgot,’ said Hugh, who had started at the strik ing o... ...s and knobs in her chair), a frequent friction of her eyebrows, the inces sant recurrence of a small cough, a small groan, a gasp, a sigh, a sniff, a...

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...a little while, and then through the rolling-mills, where amidst an inces- sant din the deliberate steam-hammer beat the juice out of the succulent ir... ... it lit. He did, and perceived it burning in the midst of his toilet-table mat. He caught it up hastily, and it went out. His perception of pos- sibil... ...ndow of her little room. It was moonlight, and down the street a man sang “Santa Lucia” with almost heart-dissolving tenderness… She sat very still. S... ...of doors you’ll go up and up.” I waved an arm upward. “They’d have to send Santos-Dumont after you to bring you down again.” “I suppose it will wear o... ... a magic shop, and all the prancing precedence Gip would have taken in the mat- ter of mere toys was wanting. He left the burthen of the conversation ... ...t back to hail the cuberta. He ailed her again, and so she drove past him. Santa Rosa stood out clearly as her name. As she came by and into the wake ... ...up almost alongside as the lieutenant got aboard, so that the whole of the Santa Rosa, deck and hold, was visible to Holroyd. He saw now clearly that ...

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... ever tremble with delight? Five or six particularly—let us compromise the mat- ter —I will give up five, but then I must have one, and only one, prov... ...turning her head, with the movement of her finger only, she pointed to the mat that was at her feet—To start up, with an articulate cry of joy, and oc... ...s. I wished for nothing better. Rameau consented with an ill grace, inces- santly repeating that the composition of a man not regularly bred to the sc... ...irl in the Rue des Moineaux the name of Pope Joan. Our laughter was inces- sant; it almost stifled us. They, who in a letter which it hath pleased the... ... which drove me from Paris; that I should be under the necessity of inces- santly struggling hard, and have no other alternative than that of being an... ...began with: ‘Ecce sedes hic tonantis’. (I have since learned these were by Santeuil, and that M. de Linant had without scruple appro- priated them to ... ...f it to anybody, not a single person would ever have known anything of the mat- ter. I was so pleased with this action that I became attached to Rey, ...

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...n so great an army, you should scarce find common soldier lie on a coarser mat- tress, than Agesilaus; he was so indifferent to the varieties of 64 V... ...ccusers, yet the loss annoyed him, and he was vexed with himself about the mat- ter, as he had designed them not so much for a proof of his own fideli... ... of kingly power, and the senate itself submitted to receive his advice in mat- ters of difficulty; nor did he advise anything that might dero- gate f... ...ut received gifts from her and presented her again. Those who were conver- sant with her, were much interested, when she pleased to entertain them wit... ...eper to know why the dog kept such a barking, and whether anything was the mat- ter; who answered, that it was nothing, but only that his dog had been... ...lmet upon her. She, hearing the noise, and running out to see what was the mat- ter, stood in the temple gates, looking down from above upon those tha...

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...t the suggestion before him. The Captain thought this the very thing. As a mat- ter of fact, on that evening of Carnival, those two, Mills and Blunt, ... .... And you may be sure—that will surprise you both—that on the way back—oh, Santa Madre, wasn’t it a long way, too—I wasn’t thinking of any man at sea ... ...uced in marble on a monument to some woman in one of those atrocious Campo Santos: the bourgeois conception of an aristocratic mourning lover. When I ... ...ddled up on the edge of his bed, hugging himself forlornly; and his inces- sant and lamentable wailing filled the long bare corridor, strik- ing a chi... ...he sleep which de- scended on her at last. My thought was that now nothing mat- tered in the world because I had the world safe resting in my arms—or ...

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...s Huxley Lecture to the Anthropological Institute in 1901* puts the whole mat- ter as vividly as it ever can be put. He classifies humanity about the... ...ould greatly in- crease the apparent failure of the lower class. And these mat- ters of height and weight are only coarse material deficien- cies. The... ...know how atrociously English is taught, but proclaiming that will not mend mat- ters a bit, it will only render matters worse by making school- master... ...nalyzed, of course (there are enormous areas of valuable research in these mat- ters waiting for people of intelligence and leisure, or of intel- lige... ...ows anything at all about evolutionary science and heredity it is probably mat- ter picked up in a casual way from the magazines. Art is a sealed book... ...y, to counteract the system’s universal, inces- 152 Mankind in the Making sant teaching, its lesson of limited effort within defined pos- sibilities....

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...in’s hounds have been out to-day, will readily surrender all care of these mat- ters to a gentleman of your experience.” Then, bending gracefully from... ...alto- gether causeless anger; “an the quean had gien it to ony suffer- ing sant, or to ony body ava but that reaving, lying, oppress- ing T ory villai... ... rade in the wicked troop of militia when it was commanded out against the sants at Bothwell Brig by the auld tyrant Allan Ravenswood, that is gane to... ...ey both fell. Thus hard pressed, the Master offered to ride forward to get mat- ters put in such preparation as time and circumstances admit- ted; but...

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...No physiologist doubts that a stomach by being adapted to digest vegetable mat- ter alone, or flesh alone, draws most nutriment from these substances.... ...remely thick, solid, or extensive masses, in order to withstand the inces- sant action of the waves, when first upraised and during subsequent oscilla... ...g on this subject; namely, that Madeira and the ad- joining islet of Porto Santo possess many distinct but representative land-shells, some of which l... ...and although large quantities of stone are annually transported from Porto Santo to Madeira, yet this latter island has not become colonised by the Po... ...o to Madeira, yet this latter island has not become colonised by the Porto Santo species: nevertheless both islands have been colonised by some Europe...

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... the skin of its belly, when handled, a most beautiful carmine-red fibrous mat- ter, which stains ivory and paper in so permanent a manner that the ti... ...ep as comfortably as he can, on a wooden platform, covered by a thin straw mat. The venda stands in a courtyard, where the horses are fed. On first ar... ...gress is slow. On two occasions I saw some os- triches swimming across the Santa Cruz river, where its course was about four hundred yards wide, and t... ...an average, but he asserted that more than one fe- male deposited them. At Santa Cruz we saw several of these birds. They were excessively wary: I thi... ...r the Rio Colo- rado to between 600 and 700 nautical miles south- ward, at Santa Cruz (a river a little south of St. Julian), it reaches to the foot o... ...elics are left in the form of flat gravel-capped hills. The upper plain of Santa Cruz slopes up to a height of 3000 feet at the foot of the Cordillera... ...in the pe- riod when icebergs transported boulders over the upper plain of Santa Cruz, the elevation has been at least 1500 feet. Nor has Patagonia be... ...ient to cast on the water a long bright reflection. Large masses of molten mat- ter seem very commonly to be cast out of the craters in this part of t... ...(the insects of this ge- nus in Europe generally feed on decayed vegetable mat- ter) and two species of Phanaeus, common in such situ- ations. On the ...

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...ry produced at the Belforest farm agent’s? T o these, and many other small mat- ters, Caroline was quite relieved to plead guilty, and to prom- ise to... ...e tiresome. Y ou have more sense than Janet. Her father was Vice-consul at Sant Ildefonso, one of the Antilles.” “But, my dear, I am afraid that is no... ... warm it for him.” “No,” stoutly said the little boy; “there’s nothing the mat- ter, and mother must not know.” “Take my word for it,” said cook, “tha... ...he world was the same. Allen was a good deal struck when he understood the mat- ter. He said it explained a good deal to him which the others had been...

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... said sharply. “Will Henderson has spoken to me three times concerning the mat- ter. He says you go along for hours not hearing when you are spoken to... ...er these men took possession of him. Being a prayerful man he spoke of the mat- ter aloud to God and the sound of his own words strengthened and fed h... ...d with delight 174 Sherwood Anderson when the team, maddened by his inces-sant slash- ing at them, rushed straight ahead to cer-tain death. Boys like... ...the money walked away. Later he was caught and his grandmother settled the mat-ter by offering to come twice a week for a month and scrub the shop. Th... ...t. Indeed, he knew more of these things than anyone else in Winesburg. The mat- ter of sex in particular had presented itself to him in a quite horrib...

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...y betimes, the whole Parlement, once more set on wheels, is rolling inces- santly towards Troyes in Champagne; ‘escorted,’ says History, ‘with the ble... ...t his cloth-shop hard by, and stepped forth, one need hardly speak. Nor of Santerre, the sonorous Brewer from the Faubourg St. Antoine. Two other Figu... ...nly clouds of spray. Individuals of classical knowledge propose catapults. Santerre, the sonorous Brewer of the Suburb Saint- Antoine, advises rather ... ...orous and oil-of-turpentine spouted up through forc- ing pumps:’ O Spinola-Santerre, hast thou the mixture ready? Every man his own engineer! And stil... ...stead of Bakers’- queues, why not to Aristocrats’ palaces, the root of the mat- ter? Allons! Let us assemble. To the Hotel-de-Ville; to Versailles; to... ...luid; for example, ‘turpentine-and-phosphorus oil,’—fluid known to Spinola Santerre! 173 Thomas Carlyle Chapter 1.7.X. The Grand Entries. The dull da... ...e Placard Journal conserved it for one day; some Books conserve it for the mat- ter of ten years; nay some for three thousand: but what then? Why, the... ...biding with Bouille. Brave Bouille, though he puts a most firm face on the mat- ter, knows his position full well: how at Nanci, what with re- belliou... ...ionary Committee he is suspect. To Revolutionary Committee, on probing the mat- ter, he is evidently: Deputy Brissot! Back to thy Arrestment, poor Bri...

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...an; now law is a mean. Moreover; the moral law is far superior and conver- sant with far superior objects than the written law; for the 111 Aristotle... ...more regarded in his city which tend to the advantage of these than common mat- ters, such are war and justice; to which may be added coun- cil, which...

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...test, mildest voice. ‘I do, Miss Prettyman. I want to speak to you about a mat- ter that troubles me very much—very much indeed.’ ‘Anything that I can... ...him sent to Botany Bay!’ ‘Luckily Mrs Proudie won’t have much to do in the mat- ter,’ said Miss Walker, who ranged herself, as to church mat- ters, in... ...d of Grace Crawley to anyone. Nothing could be more courteous and complai- sant that was his father’s conduct to him. Anything that he wanted for Edit... ... none to give. It is the woman. You go and tell her from me that in such a mat- ter I will not obey the word of any woman living. Go at 387 Anthony T... ...ntended by his wife when she had instigated him to take proceedings in the mat- ter; but he did not much regard that now. Though he had been weak enou... ...nothing, Mr Eames.’ ‘Yes, I have, Sir Raffle. I have explained to you that mat- ters relating to one of my family, which materially affect the honour ...

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...n the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and that the peculiar philo- sophic temperame... ... literature, has written: “Whether facts be moral or physical, it makes no mat- ter. They always have their causes. There are causes for ambition, cou... ...we were fluids pent within the cavity of a jar. The influence is so inces- sant that it becomes subconscious. All of you, for ex- ample, sit here with... ...th, and whenever the thought would come over me I would have to get up, no mat- ter what time of night it was, and stand for a minute in the cold, jus...