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...ountry she was going to travel through. ‘It’s some thing very like learning geography,’ thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able ... ...s. ‘I’m a Fawn!’ it cried out in a voice of delight, ‘and, dear me! you’re a human child!’ A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, ... ...pty Dumpty However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had ey...

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...came uncertain and difficult. One might have thought he had never passed a human being before. Still nearer, ten yards now, nine, eight. Would she go ... ...eved among other things that he was always the same consistent intelligent human being, whereas under certain stimuli he became no longer reason- able... ...pening to abso- lute wretchedness and pain, which is the colour of so much human life in modern London. One vivid contrast hung in his mind symbolical... ...roximations. Lewisham had a strong persuasion, an instinct it may be, that human beings should not be happy while others near them were wretched, and ... ...ociety, the political movement, all 82 Love and Mr. Lewisham his work for Humanity…. Why not be resolute—even now?… Why not put the thing clearly and... ... subjects—There’s commercial geogra- phy, for instance. What is commercial geography?” “Barilla,” said the assistant, biting the end of his pen, and a...

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...lework, she will be found to have realized her friends’ fondest wishes. In geography there is still much to be desired; and a careful and undeviating ... ...ion; she had, besides, 23 Thackeray read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was dressing for dinner, and aft... ...ts of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, without the aid of... ...women, and sets all their hysterical sympathies at work. As an observer of human nature, I regularly frequent St. George’s, Hanover Square, during the... ...that the Londoner looks enraptured: sometimes, on the contrary, a lover of human nature rather than of pros- pects of any kind, it is towards the bow ... ...f any kind, it is towards the bow windows that he turns, and that swarm of human life which they exhibit. From one issue the notes of a piano, which a... ..., which took place as usual on the day of Dobbin’s arrival. George was too humane or too much occupied with the tie of his neckcloth to convey at once... ... not. Provided there is no scene, why shouldn’t we meet? I don’t mind. But human patience has its limits; and mind, my dear, I respectfully decline to...

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...s in her eyes a charming man. If this exemplary youth had better known the human heart, he might without risk have allowed himself some flirtations am... ...ciples. Rosalie knew abso- lutely nothing. Is it knowledge to have learned geography from Guthrie, sacred history, ancient history, the history of Fra... ...ls delicious peace, supreme tranquillity. Certainty is the basis for which human feelings crave, for it is never lacking to reli- gious sentiment; man... ...alas! than the emotions of youth. T o believe in a woman, to make her your human religion, the fount of life, the secret luminary of all your least th... ...rds: “You are free. Farewell.” “Purely moral crimes, which give no hold to human jus- tice, are the most atrocious and detestable,” said the Abbe seve...

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... seeming to enjoy the work, among their fragrant provender, as much as the human kind. When five o’clock struck, Harold gave no signs of quitting the ... ...ould look for Cayenne. He was rather fond of maps, and knew a good deal of geography for a boy of his age, but he knew nothing about this place, and s... ...con- fused; but Mr. Cope saw that he had read some history and learnt some geography, and was not like some of the village boys, who used to think Har... ... heart of hope that Mr. Cope speaks that blessing, knowing that, as far as human eye can judge, here stands a man who truly feareth the Lord, and besi...

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...tion is doctrinal, and teaches both art and virtue, and is a maintainer of human society; and for these, and other like reasons, to be preferred befor... ...r the rivers of this nation: there be, as you may note out of Dr. Heylin’s Geography and others, in number three hundred and twenty five; but those of... ...ave been freed from these, and all those many other miseries that threaten human nature; let us therefore rejoice and be thankful. Nay, which is a far... ...nd sorrows only real be. Fly from our country pastimes, fly, Sad troops of human misery. Come, serene looks, Clear as the crystal brooks, Or the pure ...

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.... Thy looks and gestures all present The picture of a life well spent; Our human nature throws away Its second twilight and looks gay. —Wordsworth. Un... ...all the days when Henry and Oliver wore frocks and learnt to spell. If any human being could sweeten the Latin Grammar, it was Mrs. Frost, with the mo... ...arksedge. What did you know of him?’ ‘I was prompted by common justice and humanity,’ said Louis. ‘My protection was claimed for the poor boy, as the ... ...gree, he would talk, he could hardly have been silent ten minutes with any human being, except Frampton or his father, and whether deep reflections or... ...comfortable atmosphere; and the con- versation proceeded. Louis found that geography had been as much at fault as chronology, and that the runaway had... ...lt it,’ said Louis—’the first half was dignified.’ ‘What was the second?’ ‘Human nature,’ said Louis. ‘I see,’ said Clara. ‘Well, they were famously s...

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...cute’, to posterity, ex- ceeded his powers, is a trite criticism; like all human enter- prises, his purpose was only imperfectly fulfilled; but this c... ...close them at my death. We suffer before we think; it is the common lot of humanity. I experienced more than my pro- portion of it. I have no knowledg... ...efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never been able to eradica... ...t the object of universal veneration? Whoever wishes to honor monuments of human salvation would only approach it on their knees. It was a passage at ... ...thing to gain. This, in my idea, in true philosophy, the surest bulwark of human rectitude; every day do I receive fresh conviction of its profound so... ... without studying. What I most attended to at these times, was history and geography, and as these did not re- quire intense application, made as much...

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...e it sins unpardonably so far as it may swerve aside from the truth of the human heart—has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, t... ...edifice. The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunsh... ... architecture of a longpast epoch, and as the scene of events more full of human interest, perhaps, than those of a gray feudal castle,—familiar as it... ...unate a permanence as can anywise consist with the inherent instability of human affairs. It might fairly be anticipated that the progress of time wou... ...ably must, though per- haps not till ages hence—to the golden fertility of human culture, it would be the source of incalculable wealth to the Pyncheo... ...een a lion; the natural history of the region being as little known as its geography, which was put down most fantastically awry. The other adornment ...

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...t babbled away the lives of men. Life was cheap, however. The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one... ...ve the Jury-num- ber. After that, fear and consequent restraint begin, and human action becomes less gro- tesquely jerky. There was deep peace in Kash... ...you you are not a woman’s woman but why do you trouble yourself about mere human beings?’ ‘Because in the absence of angels, who I am sure would be ho... ... she consid- ered that she had made sufficient concessions in the cause of humanity and Mrs. Hauksbee was more esteemed by the Doctor as a help in the... ...d Corps. PEOPLE who have seen, say that one of the quaintest spectacles of human frailty is an out- break of hysterics in a girls’ school. It starts w... ... College.” “Of course: you are Kedar Nath’s son -the boy who said he liked geography better than play or sugar cakes, and I didn’t believe you. How is...

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...arcase, and as soon as they have done it, you shall hear me say my ancient geography, and then we will do a nice bit of T asso; and if we have any tim... ... be- lieve. They asked all manner of out-of-the-way questions— history and geography, what no one expected, and the fellows who read nothing they can ... ...e much evil arise in the best-planned in- stitutions; nay, in what are not human. Don’t you think we ought to do our utmost to have no flaw in the fou... ...ls, as if these defects had been im- planted either by Mrs. Ledwich, or by geography. It must be confessed that the violence of partisanship did not m... ...e. I will not say there are none, for that would be answering too much for human nature, or that they are fanciful—for that would be as little comfort... ... airy form soon caught my eye; Its texture frail, and colour various, Like human hopes, and life precarious. Sudden, my second caught my ear, And fill... .... “I believe!” he repeated. “What—when we go beyond the province of reason—human, a thing of sense after all! How often have I so answered. But Meta, ... ...e most natural and justifiable measure, under the circumstances. “How many human crea- tures do you keep there?” he asked. “Forty-seven to-day,” said ...

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...m were of very recent date. The books were of the most varied kind, history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law, all relatin... ...d streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it... ...ut as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. It was like the intolerable, tingling sweet ness of watergla... ...way! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if me... ...tering and chat tering and gossiping all day, after the manner of rooks—and humans. I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging things and housekeeping... ...post mortem and nothing to gain by it, no good to her, to us, to science, to human knowledge, Chapter 13 201 why do it? Without such it is monstrous....

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...gel, among merchants and seamen. Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even Frankenstein 6 in these rugged bosoms. My lieute... ...ices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the no blest endowments of humanity. I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; fin... ...ght on a large fragment of ice. Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it Frankenstein 10 whom the sailors were persuading t... ...ctionate our weak and faulty natures. I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendsh... ... their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels. No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents... ...who had given me life? Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative sit... ...enstein 131 had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to...

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...n 1834, the fathers and brothers of the ‘Kirk’ were in harmony as great as humanity can hope to see. Since May, 1834, the church has been a fierce cra... ...l era of manufacturing extension,) but that the duties had outstripped all human power of overtaking them. The efforts, however, have been prodigious ... ...hrown round the person, without receiving any artificial adjustment to the human shape. So much for the form: with regard to the material, there was l... ...teen inches by two—twenty-eight square inches at the most—and is it within human belief that I, simply as I stand here, shall be converted in so narro... ...ot overlooked, if passed deliberately, may plead the ordinary privilege of human frailty. The man erred; and his error ter- minates in itself. But an ... ... of his own country; where all men had gone astray, he went astray. And in geography, as regarded the Italian movements of Hannibal, he erred with his...

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...ance their huge Desert-waltz there!— 9 Thomas Carlyle Nevertheless in all human movements, were they but a day old, there is order, or the beginning ... ...ery days we, by act of Assembly, ‘naturalise’ the chief Foreign Friends of humanity: Priestley, burnt out for us in Birmingham; Klopstock, a genius of... ...g, judging; devising, deciding, doing, endeavouring to do: one wonders the human brain did not give way under all this, and reel. But happily hu- man ... ...Mad movements both, restrain- able by no known rule; strongest passions of human na- 13 Thomas Carlyle ture driving them on: love, hatred; vengeful s... ...ady come into existence there; and be already working there, though as yet human eye discern it not! On the night of that same twenty-eighth of August... ...ave a geographical and topographical view of it; being from of old fond of geography.—The Temple Circuit again receives him, closes on him; gazing Par...

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... Laocoon struggle he would have glimpsed, that indeed he was not so much a human being as a civil war. Wonderful things must have been going on inside... ...ht of the present world no longer as a won- derland of experiences, but as geography and history, as the repeating of names that were hard to pronounc... ... sprang from the tip of his nose. When he wished to bring the power of the human eye to bear upon an assistant, he projected his chest, knitted one br... ...rs—in that symbol Mr. Polly could recognise himself and all the trouble of humanity. He hadn’t had a particularly good time, poor old chap, and now it... ...he Johnsons’ house. But over the struggles that preceded his mastery it is humane to draw a veil. And also Mr. Polly bought a number of books, Rabelai... ...t Mrs. Johnson was all for Mr. Polly’s loitering. She seemed much the more human and likeable of the two to Mr. Polly. He tried at times to work up en...

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...ble zone of kindred languages, where the curse of Babel is so easy to be remedied; and my new fellow-creatures sat before me dumb like images. Methoug... ...tionless as an idol 18 In The South Seas and watching us, you would have said, without a wink. The next moment the tree closed, and the glimpse was g... ...of war on the great scale, trailing epidemics and leaving pestilential corpses in its train, that we have almost forgotten its original, the most heal... ...er Michel spoke always of his labours with a twinkle of humour, underlying which it was possible to spy a seri- ous pride, and the change from one to ... ...in those of the French, and to lock up a timid child in a dark room, 52 In The South Seas and, if he proved obstinate, lock up his sister in the next... ...and watched it till the morning. He had enough of night in the Paumotus. By daylight on the 9th we began to skirt Kauehi, and had now an opportunity t...

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...me forth to the street. The building quivered and creaked from the weight of humanity stamping about in its bowels. A small ragged girl dragged a red,... ...ears without laboring. During that time his sneer became chronic. He studied human nature in the gutter, and found it no worse than he thought he had ... ... on his knees. He made them sing mournful ditties and say funny things about geography and Ireland. “Do dose little men talk?” asked Maggie. “Naw,” sa... ...n sprang forward and picked it up, with a chivalrous air, as if rescu ing a human being from an oncoming express train. As the girl passed down throu...

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... so much more overwhelmed that this mere dawn of alarm was a comparatively human chill. The most singular part of it, in fact—singular as the rest had... ..., of which the very breath has remained with me as that of the sweetest of human charities. What was settled between us, accordingly, that night, was ... ...ng very hard. We were on the edge of the lake, and, as we had lately begun geography, the lake was the Sea of Azof. Suddenly, in these circumstances, ... ...him to reckon with; and dur- ing the minute, accordingly, the thing was as human and hideous as a real interview: hideous just because it was human, a... ...man and hideous as a real interview: hideous just because it was human, as human as to have met alone, in the small hours, in a sleeping house, some e... ...g, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue. No attempt, nonethe- 100 The Turn of the Screw less, could w...

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...ey were stirred by his enthusiasm for poetry or by the contortions which a human being was going through for their benefit, it would be hard to say. A... ... and had reached that kind of gay tolerance and general friendliness which human beings in England only attain after sitting together for three hours ... ...lar, but very restful, for it seemed to ignore completely all accidents of human life, and to span very deep abysses with a few simple words. On this ... ...nd with vehemence so that the stars of Heaven might hear, for there was no human being at hand, these sentiments sounded satisfactorily irrefutable. R... ...re into their separate places in the great and eternally moving pattern of human life. But, instead of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary ... ...emarked. But it appeared that she had come once as a small child, when the geography of the place was entirely dif- ferent, and the fauna included cer...