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... ii. 391.) O brisk Dumouriez Polymetis with thy teeming head, may the gods grant it!—Polymetis, at any rate, folds his map together, and flings himsel... ...took off his hat and said: “I see nothing to suspect in this man; I am for granting him his liberty. Is that your vote?” To which all the judges answe... ...ife got access to him, was found to have human compassion; and yielded and granted ‘always;’ ‘neither did one personal enemy of Danton perish in these... ... placidity, simplicity, pious sweetness. The Convention, after debate, has granted him Legal Counsel, of his own choosing. Ad- vocate Target feels him... ...r; for yet three days of life, to prepare himself to die. The Confessor is granted; the three days and all respite are refused. There is no deliveranc... ...nterne, ye also have arrived, then, at the Bourne of Creation, where, like Ulysses Polytlas at the limit and utmost Gades of his voyage, gazing into t...

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...under umbrellas strongly inclined to fly away from them—Miss Mohun and Mr. Grant, the junior curate, whom she had brought home to luncheon. Both were ... ... it come to anything?’ asked Aunt Ada, taking her sister’s information for granted. ‘Oh no, it is nothing. A civil service man, second cousin’s brothe... ...ckstone Did Aunt Jane repent of her decision on the Thursday half- holiday granted to Mrs. Edgar’s pupils, when, in the midst of the working party rou... ...agazine the weakest of poetry, and called it so sweet, just like ‘dear Mr. Grant’s lovely sermon, the last she had heard. Did he not look so like a sa... ... proportions in the Rockquay mind, and ‘the General Screw Company,’ as Mr. Grant observed, was prevailing. Gillian’s knowledge was rather discursive, ... ...said Valetta, who had picked up a good deal from the home atmosphere, ‘but Ulysses didn’t.’ ‘No; and the Greeks have been enslaved and oppressed for a...

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...monies were gone through, his oath of allegiance was made, investiture was granted to him by the delivery of a sword, and both he and Friedel were dub... ...y not unless my sons were heartily willing. Have I your leave to retire?” “Granted, my child, for meditation will show thee that this is too fair a lo... ...she not of Sir Kasimir’s offers?—Interest with the Romish king?—Yea, and a grant of nobility and arms to this house, so as to fill the blank in your s... ...astle is a male fief, and would return to you, but there are domains since granted that will cause intolerable trouble and strife, unless you and my p... ...e than a bitter pill to any T elemachus to have to resign to one so unlike Ulysses in all but the length of his wanderings,—one, also, who seemed only...

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... and the bandit Jesus T ejeda, and the days when Los Muertos was a Spanish grant, a veritable principality, leagues in extent, and when there was neve... ...n- ish, a language with which Presley was familiar. “De La Cuesta held the grant of Los Muertos in those days,” the centenarian said; “a grand man. He... ...e twenty-first book, where, after the failure of all the suit- ors to bend Ulysses’s bow, it is finally put, with mockery, into his own hands. Abruptl... ...the centenarian’s vividly coloured reminiscences—De La Cuesta, holding his grant from the Spanish crown, with his power of life and death; the romance... ...as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections of land on either side of ... ...cussion, allowed himself to be per- suaded, in the end accepting as though granting a favour. Broderson protested that his wife, who was not well, wou...

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...n had she coaxed and wheedled into good-humour, and into the 15 Thackeray granting of one meal more. She sate commonly with her fa- ther, who was ver... ... the ground, where- upon revengeful Nature grudged him the crops which she granted to more liberal husbandmen. He speculated in every possible way; he... ...spent, pardon me for saying so, with gentlemen. As for dear Amelia, she, I grant you, is a pearl, and would be charming anywhere. There now, I see you... ...tender as they were—assuredly would do. And so, asking permission (readily granted) to see her again, and rightly conjecturing that the news 224 V an... ...pressed a wish to go and see her mamma, at Fulham: which permission George granted her with some grumbling. And she tripped away to her enormous bedro... ...o deplore his absence, as Calypso did that of that other eminent traveller Ulysses. Boots (the Honourable G. Ringwood) passes with a wooden box, conta... ...nt about setting up her tent in vari- ous cities of Europe, as restless as Ulysses or Bampfylde Moore Carew. Her taste for disrespectability grew more...

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...ion, until, as the years wore on, the privileges of her lot were taken for granted, and certain drawbacks made themselves very manifest. Perhaps it is... ...es.” 61 Virginia Woolf “You’d be bored to death in a year’s time.” “Oh, I grant you I should be bored if I did nothing. But I should write plays.” “H... ...r emo- tions were not purely esthetic, because, after she had gazed at the Ulysses for a minute or two, she began to think about Ralph Denham. So secu... ...ry to come, I’m sure I don’t know. And the less talk there is the better.” Granting the assumption that gentlemen of sixty who are highly cultivated, ... ...he’s been going about all these years, pretending, letting one take it for granted, that he was single. And the poor deserted little wife—” “She is no... ...be content to remain silent for ever if a share of personal happiness were granted her. She read Mr. Clacton’s statement with a cu- rious division of ...

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...complexion will be content with kissing? No, Joseph, there is no woman who grants that but will grant more; and I am deceived greatly in you if you wo... ... honour of dancing with her, which she, with as low a curtesy, immediately granted. She danced with him all night, and enjoyed, perhaps, the highest p... ...d leave to dry his great- coat, wig, and hat by the fire, which T rulliber granted. Mrs T rulliber would have brought him a basin of water to wash his... ...which is the result of long reflection and experience, from the cunning of Ulysses, the effect of art and subtlety only! If we consider their variety,... ...here desist.—“By no means,” cries Adams; “go on, I beseech you; and Heaven grant you may sincerely repent of this and many other things you have relat... ...er of a school in all our county.” “Yes, that,” says Adams, “I believe, is granted me; that I may without much vanity pretend to—nay, I believe I may ...

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...stom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving hus bands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often pro... ...ed to a place; but where friendship is, all of fices of life are as it were granted to him, and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend. ... ...hem accordingly; for they grew to the greatest monarchy. Their manner was to grant natural ization (which they called jus civitatis), and to grant ... ... the principal. Timing, I say, not only in respect of the person that should grant it, but in respect of those, which are like to cross it. Let a man,... ...hat are general. The reparation of a denial, is sometimes equal to the first grant; if a man show himself neither dejected nor dis contented. Iniquum... ...observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some ...

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...ads—like a woman. When De Aquila sat in Hall to do justice, take fines, or grant lands, Gilbert would so write it in the Manor-roll. But it was none o... ...in good health,’ Parnesius answered. ‘See! I have tried to bend the bow of Ulysses, but -’ He held up his thumb. ‘I’m sorry. You must have pulled off ...

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... of society. The desire of society for the statesman’s advice is taken for granted, Plato in the Republic says that a good constitution is only possib... ...ded therefore to take the general will or common consent of the people for granted. Most political questions are concerned with the construction and e... ... Brewer (Nicomachean), 1836; W . E. Jelf, 1856; J. E. T . Rogers, 1865; A. Grant, 1857-8, 1866, 1874, 1885; E. Moore, 1871, 1878, 4th edition, 1890; R... ...r (Nicomachean), 1878, Susemihl, 1878, 1880, revised by O. Apelt, 1903; A. Grant, 1885; I. Bywater (Nicomachean), 1890; J. Burnet, 1900. Historia Anim... ...1880; E. W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Classics for English readers), 1877; T. Davidson, Aristotle ... ...he bard was call’d, to ravish every ear: “ and, in another place, he makes Ulysses say the happiest part of man’s life is “When at the festal board, i...

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...had condemned to the flames being first seized), drawing off his soldiers, granted them three days’ time to kill themselves in, that they might do it ... ...thinks, finer. Aristippus, to one that was lamenting this death: “The gods grant me such an one,” said he. A man discerns in the soul of these two gre... ...m with their own praises. The first charm the Syrens made use of to allure Ulysses is of this nature: “Deca vers nous, deca, o tres-louable Ulyss... ... grand honneur don’t la Grece fleurisse.” [“Come hither to us, O admirable Ulysses, come hither, thou greatest ornament and pride of Greece.”—Homer, O... ...ld give him no account where he had left a compan- ion of his, took it for granted that he had killed him, and presently condemned him to death. He wa... ...life for life’s sake, but my pain will dissolve this intelligence; and God grant that in the end, should the sharpness of it be once greater than I sh...

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...humilia- tion; and it would be strange if I refused you this, after having granted you so much. Know, then, that although I now make so quiet an appea... ...ature who looks like a king; and as for Jack Vandeleur, if you can imagine Ulysses at seventy years of age, and with a sabre- cut across his face, you... ... the lawyer. “Sir,” said he, “after a piece of news so startling, you must grant me some hours for thought. You shall know this evening what conclusio... ...it me, with all respect, to submit to him two queries?” “The permission is granted,” replied the Prince. “Y our Highness,” resumed the Dictator, “has ... ...urther from the intention of the Prefect. You will observe that he has not granted a warrant. It is mere formality, or call it, if you prefer, an obli... ...l not conceal from your Highness that a consider- able discretion has been granted me,” replied the detective with a bow. 140 Robert Louis Stevenson ...

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...woman, The soldiers should have toss’d me on their pikes Before I would have granted to that act. But thou preferr’st thy life before thine honor: And... ...thy gentleman did lose his life. GLOUCESTER: Your highness shall do well to grant her suit; It were dishonor to deny it her. KING EDWARD IV : It wer... ...ESTER: [Aside to CLARENCE ] Yea, is it so? I see the lady hath a thing to grant, Before the king will grant her humble suit. CLARENCE: [Aside to ... ...y should lose their father’s lands. LADY GREY : Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then. KING EDWARD IV : Lords, give us leave: I’ll try this wid... ... death, my humble thanks, my prayers; That love which virtue begs and virtue grants. KING EDWARD IV : No, by my troth, I did not mean such love. LADY... ...he basilisk; I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to ... ... the adventure very easy: Henry VI, Part III , Act IV , scene ii 61 That as Ulysses and stout Diomede With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus’ tents...

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...htened patronage. Sint Mæcenates, non deerunt, Flacce, Marones. Consulting Grant’s “Observations on the Bills of Mortality,” (4th edition, Oxford, 166... ... throat cut in sup- port of France; which favor accordingly was cheerfully granted 59 to them in three great successive battles by the English and by... ...r, had long since persuaded her mind, that for her no such prayer could be granted. T oo well she felt that her mis- sion must be worked out to the en... ...does us, and the very indig- nant admiration which, under some aspects, he grants to us. Continued on page 81 78 ing against her, such as would not a... ... the savage delight I found in laughing at T om’s Latinity. That, I freely grant to M. Michelet, is in- imitable; else, as regards substance, it strik... ...y not one of the whole brigade but excelled myself in personal advantages. Ulysses even, with the unfair advantage of his accursed bow, could hardly h...

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... whereon he his head might lay, And hear the heart beat with the love it granted, With several other things, which I forget, Or which, at ... ... conscience as before, ‘T will one day ask you why you used me so? God grant you feel not then the bitterest grief! Antonia! where ‘s my pock... ... speech, and begg’d her pardon, Which Julia half withheld, and then half granted, And laid conditions he thought very hard on, Denying sever... ...ties Are longer lived than others,—God knows why, Unless to plague the grantors,—yet so true it is, That some, I really think, do never die;... ...st now warms, Pillow’d on her o’erflowing heart, which pants With all it granted, and with all it grants. An infant when it gazes on a light, ... ...er. An honest gentleman at his return May not have the good fortune of Ulysses; Not all lone matrons for their husbands mourn, Or show the... ... Which, like a creed, ne’er says all it intends, But full of cunning as Ulysses’ whistle, When he allured poor Dolon:—you had better Take car...

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...case be- tween the English church and his own in such a way that those who granted his premises ought certainly to allow his conclu- sions. He touched... ...; and it was with re- plies such as the above he met his friends’ satire. “Granted, I am a fool,” says he, “and no better than you; but you are no bet... ...eluded gentleman could not free himself; and for a much longer period than Ulysses (another middle-aged officer, who had travelled much, and been in t... ...uitors, though he knew he might be cast off the next week. If he were like Ulysses in his folly, at least she was in so far like Penelope that she had... ... of them, a freedom which those who love that sex most would never wish to grant them. The gentlemen of my family that follow after me (for I don’t en...

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... which he laid about him at this season. Indeed, it may be doubted whether Ulysses, who by the way seems to have had the best stomach of all the heroe... ...lengths is not so extremely clear, unless we will suppose that women never grant every favour to a man but one, without granting 398 The History of To... ...sign. Jones now desired to be heard, which was at last, with difficulty, granted him. He then produced the evidence of Mr. Partridge, as to the find... ...y to the opinion of others, and very foolishly took the merit of a man for granted, whom I saw so universally well received by the women. What is the ... ...t it will, however, be always more commended; and this, I believe, will be granted by all, that it is necessary, unless in some very particular cases,... ...te rians. To be sure, every man values his livelihood first; that must be granted; and I warrant, if you would confess the truth, you are more afraid...

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...e contrary, a piece of flattery to the dupe’s conceit. The rare interviews granted to Crevel kept his passion at white heat. He was constantly blocked... ... sight of the Brazilian gave him a shock, Crevel begged Madame Marneffe to grant him two minutes’ speech with her. Valerie led Crevel into the drawing... ...d in a deserted room, where you will weep like Calypso on the departure of Ulysses, and at an age when there is no hope of Telemachus—” she added, rep... ... time. Yes, I have fought many a pitched battle to keep you in it.—Well, I grant you your two re- quests; it would be too bad to see you riding the ba... ...people were ready to offer good rents for the shops, on condition of being granted leases for eighteen years. The dwelling apartments rose in value by... ... are illogical. You want a battle fought, but you object to blows.—Well, I grant you the innocence you are so careful over. I have al- ways found that...

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...e, while in the shady end of the field were idler haymakers among the fra- grant piles, Charles half lying on the grass, with his back against a tall ... ...ur strong sense would have made you perceive that reasoning upon fact, and granting nothing without tangible proof, were the best remedy for a dreamy ... ...state, By something showing a more swelling port Than my faint means would grant continuance. —Merchant of Venice ST. MILDRED’S was a fashionable summ... ... written immediately after Guy’s outburst in her house, and, taking it for granted that her brother would receive a challenge, she wrote in the utmost... ...f the lateness of their arrival yesterday. Mr. Edmonstone had taken it for granted that Guy, like Philip, would watch for the right time, and warn him... ... avert his heavy eyes from the dazzling waters of the Corcyran bay , where Ulysses’ transformed ship gleamed in the sunshine, and the rich purple hill...

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...in his ire: Sophronia and Olindo would be slain To save the rest, the King grants their desire; Clorinda hears their fact and fortunes plain, Their pa... ...ense; “Tell on,” quoth he, “unfold the chance aright, Thy people’s lives I grant for recompense.” Then she, “Behold the faulter here in sight, This ha... ...the king admired the noble maid, His purpose was not to deny her aught: “I grant them life,” quoth he, “your promised aid Against these Frenchmen hath... ...d doctrine fall and fade, Till woeful Asia all lie desolate. Sweet words I grant, baits and allurements sweet, But greatest hopes oft greatest crosses... ...ing fire and weapons keen, Against the angels of proud Heaven we fought, I grant we fell on the Phlegrean green, Y et good our cause was, though our f... ...illars would he have impaled The overdaring wit of mankind vain, Till Lord Ulysses did those bounders pass, To see and know he so desirous was. XXVI “...