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...ndifferent apartment in which the nervous and mental troubles of the outer world eddied for a time on their way to the distinguished special- ist. A b... ...good. All to the good. It prevented things being used up too fast. And the world was running by habit; the inertia was tremendous. You could take all ... ...l sorts of liberties. But all this is altered. We’re living in a different world. The public won’t stand things it used to stand. It’s a new public. I... ...this business in a cheap sort of way. She is like some pushful advertising tradesman. She isn’t frank with us; she just humbugs us into what she wants... ...ll either have built up such a fabric of apparatus, knowl- edge and social organization that we shall be able to manage without them—or we shall have ... ...ey haven’t told me, which is just as bad. I don’t believe they know. “What trade came here along these tracks? So far as I know, they had no beasts of... ...world is. Don’t you think so, Martineau?” “Well—yes—for its present social organization.” “For any social organization,” said Sir Richmond. “I’ve no d... ...on of the world they desired as a world scientifically ordered, an immense organization of mature commonsense, healthy and secure, gathering knowledge... ...e whole wide world. It was the good men of Bristol, by the bye, with their trade from Africa to America, who gave you your colour problem. Bristol we ...

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...es, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling; concerning ... ... our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the world; have feud or favor with no one,—save indeed the Devil, with whom, as... ...s must have occasioned little less surprise than it has to the rest of the world. For our- selves, at least, few things have been more unexpected. Pro... ...ch as ours, richer than usual in two things, in Truths grown obsolete, and Trades grown obsolete,—what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of ... ... Smuggler. With courteous brevity, I signify my indifference to contraband trade, my humane intentions, yet strong wish to be pri- vate. In vain: the ... ...g to himself a suit of Leather. This man, the first of the Quakers, and by trade a Shoemaker, was one of those, to whom, under ruder or purer form, th... ...homeless over the world, like a disembod- ied soul seeking its terrestrial organization,—into how many strange shapes, of Superstition and Fanaticism,...

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...re indepen- dent of daily necessities, so that he was free to go about the world under its direction. It led him far. It led him into situ- ations tha... ...be. He never faltered in his persuasion that behind the dingy face of this world, the earthy stubbornness, the baseness and dulness of himself and all... ...der it so perplexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet o... ...ass alto- gether before the dry advance of physical science and mate- rial organization. He was full of unsatisfied curiosities about its fierce hunge... ...gnificent had been more fighting in Thibet and Mr. Ritchie had made a Free Trade speech at Croydon. The Japanese had torpe- doed another Russian ironc... ...d flowed a mean residual life, a life of violence and dishonesty, peddling trades, vendettas and war. For a while the unstable Austrian ruled this lan... ...ere rather feeble people,” said Amanda. “Who?” “The Venetians.” “They were traders—and nothing more. Just as we are. And when they were rich they got ... ...man purpose faltered and shrivelled? Every order, every brotherhood, every organization carried with it the seeds of its own destruction. Must the ide... ...o seemed to have considerable powers of ex- position and a gift for social organization. Presently he came to Benham and explained that raki was avail...

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...t I have to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius a... ...a great host of minds that have had a kindred aspiration, have dreamt of a world of men better ordered, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities ... ...fe, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hat- ing and personal... ...tle under two thousand people, mostly en- gaged in agricultural work or in trades serving agriculture. There was a blacksmith, a saddler, a chemist, a... ...uld have found most of the old houses still as he had known them, the same trades a little improved and differentiated one from the other, the same ro... ...stead of wooden pegs, to achieve all sorts of mechanical possibilities, to trade more freely and manufacture on a larger scale, to send goods abroad i... ...on- ary; it is. The Endowment of Motherhood implies a new method of social organization, a rearrangement of the social unit, untried in human expericn...

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...wls, each protected by a plate, while he purrs his morning greeting to the world. A moment later the widow shows her face; she is tricked out in a net... ...of the commissary-general to the armies of the Republic had nothing in the world but her jointure and her widow’s pension, and some day she might be o... ...t be obliged to leave the helpless, inexperienced girl to the mercy of the world. The good soul, therefore, took Victorine to mass every Sunday, and t... ...brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies him- self nothing. Mme. Vauquer’s astonished eyes behe... ...rs of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous trades- man, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it ... ...had been twisted out of shape very neatly for a man that’s not used to the trade.” “Really? You don’t say so?” “Yes. One of my friends is expatriating... ...ynicism and contempt for mankind invested him, the physical strength of an organization proof against all trials. The blood flew to his face, and his ...

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...ou don’t know that the great school of dancing in Paris supplies the whole world with male and female danc- ers. Thus a rat who becomes a marcheuse,—t... ...emselves with ridicule; hence a lot of living caricatures quite new to the world.” “If everybody gets glory, who can be famous?” said Gazonal. “Fame! ... ...eas. He is blessed with that medium height which is the privilege of sound organizations. He is rather plump, and takes great pains with his person. H... ...,” said Leon. Vital bowed. “Would you kindly tell me why the shops of your trade in Paris remain open late at night,—later than the cafes and the wine... ...e sun, and heat puts it out of shape as well. What we call ‘beaver’ in the trade is neither more nor less than hare’s-skin. The best qualities are mad... ...he second from the sides, the third from the belly. I confide to you these trade secrets because you are men of honor. But whether a man has hare’s-sk... ...then enter the domain of fancy, would increase tenfold. The markets of the world should belong to France; Paris will forever give the tone to women’s ...

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...ver station of life they belonged. Nevertheless, by dint of “trundling the world,”—one of his own expressions,—he had come to look upon those he conve... .... “But let me give you a bit of good advice. Every man for himself in this world. We have enough to do to take care of ourselves. Do what Monsieur le ... ...- cal family proved to be a very active wheel in the grand and magnificent organization which we owe to Napoleon. The councillor of State was soon cal... ...courts of Europe. No man was less obvious, or more useful in the political world than he. It is easy to un- derstand that the world’s honor, the fuss ... ...ntries everybody makes a principal business of letting lodgings; all other trades are accessory. In the evening, linen changed, I sat in my bal- cony.... ...owry for those days, which enabled him to make a large fortune in the silk trade. I think he might, perhaps, place you with Monsieur Camusot, his succ...

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...seen that slavery is agitated in the religious as well as in the political world. Judge Douglas is very much afraid in the triumph that the Republican... ...ut as the beasts of the field; when you have extinguished his soul in this world and placed him where the ray of hope is blown out as in the darkness ... ...f time and business, bears pretty heavily upon one no better off in [this] world’s goods than I; but as I had the post of honor, it is not for me to b... ... would have little support in the North, and by consequence, no capital to trade on in the South, if it were not for his friends thus magni- fying him... ...d as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buying slaves in ... ...merican people, on the first day of January, 1854, found the African slave trade prohibited by a law of Congress. In a majority of the States of this ... ...ltimate con- summation is the original and chief purpose of the Republican organization. I say “chief purpose” of the Republican organiza- tion; for i... ...ed off. They are not now the chief danger to the purpose of the Republican organization; but the most imminent danger that now threatens that purpose ... ... that it was in course of ultimate extinc- tion; that I believed, from the organization of our government until a very recent period of time, the inst...

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... respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chanc... ...ered no doubt;—but with Spartan consistency he so hid his trouble from the world that no one knew that he suffered. Those with whom he lived, and who ... ...hree years old, and as he had begun life early he had been long before the world. It was known of him that he had been at a good English private schoo... ...ance of their views, were not at present making much way. ‘What we want is organization,’ said one of the leading young men. But the organization was ... ...oubted his law. He had once written a book,—on the mort- gage of stocks in trade; but that had been in early life, and he had never since dabbled in l... ...ave been various policies, commanding more or less of general assent; free trade—.’ Here Sir Orlando gave a kindly wave of his hand, showing that on b... ...ve. I’ve become essen- tially a City man,—one of those men who take up the trade of making money generally.’ ‘And does that content you?’ ‘No, Duchess...

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...nticed him; it may have been resentment of return from this fine, bold man-world to a restricted region of wives and stenographers, and of suggestions... ...plift and flipflop and settlement- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’... ...he Great Scholar of the neighbor- hood; the authority on everything in the world except babies, cooking, and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blod... ...nt of the Boosters’ Club, a weekly lunch-club, local chapter of a national organization which promoted sound business and friendliness among Regular F... ...respondence with a man in New York—wants me to see him about a real-estate trade— may not come off till summer. Hope it doesn’t break just when we and... ...he gets to shooting off his mouth about economics or literature or foreign trade con- ditions, and you just ease in something like, ‘When I was in col... ...at he is the world’s greatest salesman of salvation, and that by efficient organization the overhead of spiritual regeneration may be kept down to an ... ...ces to Mike Monday and his expert reclamation corps. The more enterprising organizations of the city had voted to invite him—Mr. George F. Babbitt had... ...y cunning, with wrinkles bracketing his mouth. They all read newspapers or trade journals, boot-and-shoe jour- nals, crockery journals, and waited for...

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... St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-traders whose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fu... ... dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull, but if she should ever learn t... ...ld earn her living. But how she was to earn it, how she was to conquer the world—almost entirely for the world’s own good—she did not see. Most of the... ...he astonishment of emotion, in a glory of abasement. Her eyes mothered the world. Stewart Snyder peered at her. He rammed his large red fists into his... ... cient. Here is the bold stone house which General Sibley, the king of fur-traders, built in 1835, with plaster of river mud, and ropes of twisted gra... ... recalled the men who had come here eighty years ago—Maine lumbermen, York traders, soldiers from the Maryland hills. “It’s a good country, and I’m pr... ...ely, so that she wondered if she might not enlist in the militant suffrage organization and be allowed to go to jail. Always she was to perceive in Wa...

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...E DUTIES OF THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN PREPARING FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe... ...ere, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can neve... ...e United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave-trade, made on the 17th day of February last, has been duly ratified and ca... ...here is reason to hope that it may become entirely so with the increase of trade which will ensue whenever peace is restored. Our ministers abroad hav... ...tates, I think, ought not to be exceptionally illiberal to inter- national trade and commerce. The operations of the Treasury during the last year hav... ...ional forces, detailed in the report of the Provost Marshal General. 5.The organization of the invalid corps, and 6.The operation of the several depar... ...mmander to sentinel, who compose them, and to whom more than to others the world must stand indebted for the home of freedom disenthralled, regenerate... ...t if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were ap- plied to the women of America, it would n... ...ment for their relief, and which address is presented by a committee of an organization called “The East Tennessee Relief Association.” Deeply commise...

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...d of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer’s own nat... ...aspect, but contributing an item of no slight importance to our decay ing trade. Cluster all these individuals together, as they sometimes were, with... ...orecastle to the cabin, spent a tempestuous manhood, and returned from his world wanderings, to grow old, and die, and mingle his dust with the natal ... ... their country’s ser vice—as I verily believe it was—withdrew to a better world. It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interfer ence, a s... ... tem naturally well balanced, and lacking no essential part of a thorough organization, that, with such associates to remem ber, I could mingle at o... ...ll; more by token, as there is a lot of apothecary’s stuff aboard, which I traded for with a Spanish vessel.” “What mean you?” inquired Hester, startl...

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...to a military career. In 1820 she considered banking the nursing mother of trade, the supporter of Nations, and she made the great Keller, that famous... ...a manner which enabled him to sell the chocolate itself very cheaply. This trade in colonial products, begun in the quartier Saint-Marcel, made a merc... ... pocket lined with leather made in his waist- coat. He looked into all his tradesmen’s accounts; he went to Saint-Denis to judge for himself the price... ...es the reason of some of those apostasies which have, at times, amazed the world and horrified it. If guilty, women of that age fall into one of sever... ...lfilling painful and costly duties, the rewards for which were not in this world. All the same, however, she was conscious of another clamoring voice;... ...om your motives—which, in- deed, I have no right to do—and my part in this world is certainly not to mingle with earthly powers; but please par- don m... ...ith a heavy sigh. “That is not probable,” said Madame de Godollo; “with an organization so calm and a mind so well balanced, he runs but little danger...

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...e parcel thereof, entitled, “T ales of my Landlord,” to one cunning in the trade (as it is called) of bookselling. He was a mirthful man, of small sta... ...have to laud for the truth of his dealings towards me. Now, therefore, the world may see the injustice that charges me with incapacity to write these ... ...ush-maker at Edinburgh, and had wandered to several places, working at his trade, from all which he was chased by the disagreeable attention which his... ... wilderness, where he might have the least possible communication with the world which scoffed at him. He settled himself, with this view, upon a patc... ...nished to find him- self close to a being who seemed not to belong to this world, as he was the most hideous dwarf that the sun had ever shone on. His... ...rgy,” said the divine. “Think of the piracies committed on our East-Indian trade by Green and the English thieves,” said William Willieson, half-owner... ...int which she put upon her internal feelings extended even to her muscular organization. Then raising her head, and drawing in her breath strongly ere...

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...nymous gentleman, who in this bashful man- ner gave a bruised heart to the world. He made no pretension to novelty. “Our new thoughts have thrilled de... ...sed to be his equal, and he judged her as his equal. She had blackened the world’s fair aspect for him. In the presence of that world, so different to... ...ed by him nobly, accord- ing to his light, he was condemned to undergo the world’s harsh judgment: not for the fault—for its atonement. “—Married his ... ...hey were poaching on the demesne of the notorious Farmer Blaize, the free- trade farmer under the shield of the Papworths, no worship- per of the Grif... ...at I goes there for, mayhap? Never you mind. One sees a mort o’ life in my trade. Not for coals it isn’t. And I don’t carry ‘em there, nei- ther. Anyh... ... is nearer the truth. The healthy nature is pretty safe. If he allowed for organization he would be right altogether. T o feel, but not to feel to exc... ... one now.” 345 George Meredith “Did I love him? He was a nobleman and I a tradesman’s daughter. No. I did not love him. I have lived to learn it. And... ... open the young man’s skull, and some blast of battle laid his palpitating organization bare, he watched ev- ery motion of his brain and his heart; an...

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...things for granted. It had been very easy and pleasant for him to take the world as he found it and God as he found Him. Indeed for all his years up t... ... rare that those marked for epis- copal dignities go so far into the outer world as Archbishop Lang of York, who began as a barrister. This early pred... ...ind, when a steely-blue sky full of colourless light filled a stiff-necked world with whitish high lights and inky shadows. These bright harsh days of... ...his war, he declared, was above all other wars a war of ideas, of material organization against rational freedom, of violence against law; it was a wa... ...h- ing but bow down in the utmost humility, here is a great instrument and organization—what would the world be without the witness of the church?—and... ...e himself from the enormous com- plications of symbolism and statement and organization and misunderstanding in the church and achieve again a simple ... ...rule the world and end the long age of the warring nations and com- peting traders, and he had intended to speak with equal plain- ness of the passion... ... blood- stained chronicles of the Dynasts and the miseries of a world that trades in life, for ever. They were many men, speaking divers tongues. He w...

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...een doing I know not; but you shall hear, if you choose to listen, how the world has wagged with me. “First, after leaving Eton, I had an interview wi... ...y , ‘Whether I had thoughts of following my father’s steps and engaging in trade?’ Now, I had had no thoughts of the sort. I do not think that my turn... ... the sort. I do not think that my turn of mind qualifies me to make a good tradesman; my taste, my ambition does not lie in that way; but such was the... ...corn expressed in Lord T ynedale’s counte- nance as he pronounced the word trade—such the contemp- tuous sarcasm of his tone—that I was instantly deci... ...——shire manufacturer. At the end of the six months she brought me into the world, and then herself left it without, I should think, much regret, as it... ... I did not understand it; now I knew how rare that class of face is in the world, and I appreciated keenly its thoughtful, yet gentle expression. The ... ...- cere, as far as her religion would permit her to be so, but her physical organization was defective; weak health stunted her growth and chilled her ...

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...rk Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of Bergen ONE DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years sin... ...ty of all this fairy spectacle blinked and glowed a massed multitude of gas-jets which seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds ... ...of branches to a point about twenty- five feet above-ground, and from there upward so thick with boughs that not a ray of sunlight could pierce throug... ...rial left to draw from. Nine-tenths of the Heidelberg students wore no badge or uniform; the other tenth wore caps of various colors, and belonged to ... ... or feels outraged; no harm has been done. It seemed to be a part of corps etiquette to keep a dog or so, too. I mean a corps dog—the common property ... ...ties; I perceived that there were things about the White Cap Corps which one member knew and another one didn’t. It was natural; for very few members ... ... years ago in ferreting out the choic- est nooks and corners in a land as priests have today. A big hotel crowds the ruins a little, now, and drives a... ... gits me.” “Where is your home?” “I’m f’m old Shelby.” “What’s your father’s religious denomination?” “Him? Oh, he’s a blacksmith.” “No, no—I don’t me... ... A Tramp Abroad of the sin of it falls upon us; but I do not know how we are going to get around the fact that if it is wrong for the printer to work ...

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... Balzac with so great a contentment with himself that he smiled on all the world and under all circumstances. Those simpering lips smiled at a funeral... ...en,” demanded Simon Giguet, “have good citi- zens like those of Arcis made trade and barter of the sacred mission of deputy?” It is impossible to repr... ... entered the Giguet house,” said Monsieur Martener, who was practising his trade as examining-judge by count- ing the electors. 31 Balzac “If Charles... ...Marne, and Haut-Marne, richly endowed with vineyards, the fame of which is world-wide, are otherwise full of flourishing industries. Without speaking ... ...anufactures of Reims, nearly all the hosiery of France—a very considerable trade—is manu- factured about T royes. The surrounding country, over a cir-... ...al life, might still evolve from that living block a charming woman of the world. Madame Beauvisage had had the courage to bring up her 51 Balzac dau... ...e in which she was placed at the head of a “grand national gynaecium,” the organization of which was to be made the subject of another decree. Robespi... ...e glance which he cast about him on entering the church, showed a powerful organization on which the passage of years had made little or no impression...