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...n to pass by the busy place where two main roads cross, you’ll definitely find a chap who fell in love with the flute. The apple business never took... ...entured into it after no one was willing to employ me, a man with an arts degree. And to tell you the truth, it’s not much of a business either. Mos... ...tence here have a purpose? Or forget the purpose. That’s asking too much out of life. Do I even exist? No one wants to have any business with me. I’... ... their existence, thus contributing to the mystery that surrounds the village itself. Then all sorts of surprises come to light: rivalries, hopes, d... ...holiday, he had promised. Such a long marvellous holiday indeed! The Chief and his star witnesses left to attend to their businesses. They lef... ...t has to otherwise why do I feel so incomplete?” “Talked like a real monkey!” “What do you mean? And what’s all this monkey business?” “This ...

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...solved to follow the advice of my friends and to leave to those hornets the business of wrangling and hurling invectives. Of that Italian friar of C... ...crament has been turned into mere merchandise, a market, and a profit-making business. Hence participations, 79 brotherhoods, 80 intercessions, mer... ... 128 Luther means the divergences, rivalries, and jealousies between the various monastic orders and theolog...

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... hereafter, then da sky‘s da limit.‖ --―Touche‘ And Con is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the... ...e customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are concepts that we hold in hig... ...ion as ethical or unethical. For example, if a person leaves an important business meeting and is rushing to the hospital to be by his wife‘s side f... ... that a future reward will be won. Losing weight, developing a successful business, completing a difficult course of study, learning another languag... ...willing to give up their desires to have children? Or that politicians or business people will volunteer to reduce their populations. Realistically,... ...nd Muslim Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1947 it was hoped that the religious rivalries would be eliminated. But not all Muslims moved to the two new Mu...

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...found itself at the helm of government in circumstances complicated by internecine rivalries, inter-ethnic tensions, an history of hate and mutual ... ...source of income was the 3% "War Tax" levied on 500,000 Kosovar Albanians and their businesses in the diaspora (though most of it ended up under Buk... ...ri), an influential Albanian coalition partner in Macedonia (and, many say, Thaci's business partner in Kosovo). Georgievski, who did more for Maced... ...nce of narcissistic traits and personalities in politics is much less than in show business, for instance. Moreover, while show business is concern... ... dowry to her Muslim husband's family). Marrying a Christian woman was a lucrative business proposition. And, then, of course, there was the Mosle... ...been a fraud-laced bubble. Loosely-held empires disintegrate. Laboriously assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "re...

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...for the rest of his life, and cause bad results in every aspect of life - business, family and everything. When someone comes to me with a complain... ...important mission, how can we bridge the differences in opinions and the rivalries and unite in order to attain it? Answer: That message is for t...

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...or ateliers have their points but they are never home. Guilds, with their rivalries, their rascalities, are continually broiling. Greedy apprentices.... ...ericles and I got into a talk: he squatted by my bed and we went over the business of writing for a living... He said the market was poor. He said m... ...ed: her enthusiasm faded: marriage ruined her figure: marriage made her a business woman: her hussiness became sexmate: Dr. Hall her all! How clearl... ..., the reveled, sleeved and broken sword. Getting ready to die is no man’s business! O, that this too, too solid flesh... Home – Evening March 2... ...n Salem I fell into debt. When my partner died, my partner in the grocery business, I assumed his in- debtedness—$1,000. It took me years to wipe out... ... Billy Herndon and I had that shingle, good natured Billy. Here we talked business, cockfights, women, and horse races. For sixteen years we kept at ...

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...ral arrest of invention and enterprise, except in the direction of the war business. Ability is con- centrated upon that; the types of ability that ar... ...difficulty in the way of establishing a world peace is that it is nobody’s business in particular. Nearly all of us want a world peace—in an amateuris... ...de in selling any popular make of automobile. We have all our par- ticular businesses to attend to. And things are not got by just wanting them; thing... ...arcely a life happier. There is a limit to the principle that “everybody’s business is nobody’s business.” The estab- lishment of a world State, which... ...becomes impossible; as, for instance, when a man who is stocktaking in his business premises discovers that the house next door is on fire. A great ma... ...ther into “United States” wherever there were possibilities of inter-state rivalries and commercial fric- tion. Where, however, one deals with a regio... ...the possessing nation alone. Their acquisition has been a matter of bitter rivalries, their continued administration upon exclusive lines is bound to ...

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...appeal for explanations to all sorts of people, this desire to exhibit the business, to get something in the way of elucidation at present missing, is... ...reservations and their complications, but that is the broad outline of the business as it has impressed itself on my mind and as I find it con- ceived... ...he German aggression, the German legend, the German effigy, and the effigy business generally; the thesis being that the Allies have no effigy. One mi... ...knew that we and our allies are upon a greater, graver, more funda- mental business than that sort of thing now. We are very near the waking point. “W... ...ct. And the outcome has been the biggest military mine in all history. The business began in January, 1916, with surveys of the rock in question. The ... ...merely incidental necessities, and obsessed by the idea of hostilities and rivalries continuing perennially; it will be a trading of advantages for su...

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...nce that time?” asked Warming. “Often wanted to come,” said Isbister; “but business nowa- days is too serious a thing for much holiday keeping. I’ve b... ...e will wake up very much better off—if he wakes—than when he slept.” “As a business man,” said Isbister, “that thought has natu- rally been in my mind... ...them to take him.” “Red tape, I suppose?” “Partly.” Pause. “It’s a curious business, certainly,” said Isbister. “ And compound interest has a way of m... ...ng platforms ran on their incessant journey. Messengers and men on unknown businesses shot along the drooping cables and the frail bridges were crowde... ... eh?—they’re easy to hear, easy to forget. But I’ve traced all the Sleeper business from the first.” “You will scarcely believe it,” said Graham slowl... ...g barbaric 165 H G Wells pride, passions, and prejudices, the jealousies, rivalries, and violence of the middle and lower classes, which had necessi-...

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... and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rivalries, made an ineffectual fight against this festering darkness. It wa... ...eneral intelli- gence far too low, to permit the State to go about the new business it was taking up in a businesslike way, to train teach- ers, build... ...l suburban quality; they were let at first to City people still engaged in business. And then hard on the gasworks had come the railway and cheap coal... ...lanting Italian hand and dealing mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business starts (in the vaguest terms) and the distresses of bankruptcy. An... ...ok in the face or think—even think! until it leads to our coming to—to the business at last with nothing but a few prohibitions, a few hints, a lot of... ...gs nor of the reaction of things. It did not seem to us, for example, that business had anything to do with govern- ment, or that money and means affe... ...easily have understood Chinese poetry. His motives were made up of intense rivalries with other men of his class and kind, a few vindictive hates spri...

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... conceptions and all the Utopias that were written in the former time. Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and cred- ible, if we can, fi... ...dge, of the actual common substance of life. He turns me to the thought of rivalries and tendernesses, of dif- ferences and disappointments. I am sudd... ...st our meeting her are a million to one…. And we loi- ter! This is not the business we have come upon, but a mere incidental kink in our larger plan. ... ...t is nothing to us that we go eighty or ninety miles from home to place of business, or take an hour’s spin of fifty miles to our week-end golf; every... ...use of Saloman* will be a thing realised, and it will be humming with this business. Every university in the world will be ur- gently working for prio... ...netary system based upon a relatively small amount of gold, upon which the business of the whole world had hith- erto been done, fluctuated unreasonab... ...life does not, at times at least, if not always, seem secondary to obscure rivalries and consider- ations, to the petty hates that are like germs in t...

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...to and fro, a wagon clatters by; most of the adult population is about its business, and a red-coated band plays along the roadway. Contrast this anim... ...trees again—this time they are sweet-bay; and all the joys and sorrows and rivalries and successes of Blue End and Red End will pass, and follow Carth...

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...ing the ballad of Calainos, for any good or ill that can come to us in our business.” By this time the labourer had come up, and Don Quixote asked him... ...n Salamanca? The devil, the devil and nobody else, has mixed me up in this business!” Such was the soliloquy Sancho held with himself, and all the con... ...njuring him.” With this reflection Sancho made his mind easy, counting the business as good as settled, and stayed there till the afternoon so as to m... ... tame partridge and your bold ferret, and leave everyone to manage his own business; this is mine, and I know whether these gentlemen the lions come t... ...se of wiles and stratagems to over- come the enemy, so in the contests and rivalries of love the tricks and devices employed to attain the desired end... ...elf where you’ll be like a bottle put to cool in a well; it’s no affair or business of your worship’s to become the explorer of this, which must be wo...

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...st be not only a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace. Fortunately, we have received ver... ...ng not only of the rights of Ameri- cans to go and come about their proper business by way of the sea, but also of something much deeper, much more fu... ...stressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed. GERMANY’S RUTHLES...

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...entertainment, if we only look at it in the right way, and that we have no business with either hating or loving; we ought only to strive to understan... ... to dig. This positive, practical, pushing bourgeoisie is always about its business; it lives in the street, in the hotel, in the train; one is always... ...or all, “Oh, Europe be hanged!” we should attend much better to our proper business. We have simply to live our life, and the rest will look after its... ... us for our party politics; but what are all the European jeal- ousies and rivalries, their armaments and their wars, their rapacities and their mutua... ...ry one else.) The sight of all these growing millions simply minding their business, is impressive to me,—more so than all the gilt buttons and padded...

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... lived. In these he himself is described as a man who wrote and transacted business, and it appears that his household 19 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 e... ...obleness, disinter- estedness, dauntless courage, and so forth. It was the business of a knight-errant to right wrongs, redress injuries, and succour ... ... and succour the distressed, and this, as a matter of course, he makes his business when he takes up the part; a knight-errant was bound to be in- tre... ... “It is easy to see,” replied Don Quixote, “that thou art not used to this business of adventures; those are giants; and if thou art afraid, away with... ...s it over in silence; which is ill done and worse contrived, for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from... ...se of wiles and stratagems to over- come the enemy, so in the contests and rivalries of love the tricks and devices employed to attain the desired end...

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...old wood for building purposes, slates, tiles, pantiles, pipes, etc. Their business, either from their own incapacity or through ill-luck, did badly, ... ...fter a multitude of legal formalities) were placed by her in the Lorrains’ business, they giving her a mortgage on a little house which they owned at ... ...to her maintenance. The old people, who were growing less and less fit for business, soon found themselves confronted by an ac- tive and capable compe... ... so fierce that it was all the brother and sister could do to carry on the business and maintain its reputation. Though Sylvie was at this time scarce... ...o make up a mercer’s stock, had taken all their capacity. Outside of their business they knew absolutely nothing; they were even ignorant of Paris. To... ...race, and some question of marriage, or precedence, or any of the feminine rivalries, is raised. The “Thank you, mademoiselle,” which Bathilde said to...

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...g open his premises for the day, and suitably arranging the exterior. With business-like dispatch, having rattled down his shutters, and at a palm-tre... ...there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and foreigners; men of business and men of pleasure; parlor men and backwoodsmen; farm-hunters and... ...his pocket, he fished forth a purse, and, accidentally, along with it, his business card, which, unobserved, dropped to the deck. “Here, here, my poor... ...ant, of Wheeling, Pennsylvania? Pray, now, if you use the advertisement of business cards, and happen to have one with you, just look at it, and see w... ...a Philadelphia house. The senior Brade in- troduced us, you remember; some business-chat followed, then you forced me home with you to a family tea, a... ...f pure love of the sweet company of 136 The Confidence-Man man—no envies, rivalries, or other unhandsome motive to it. “Ah, now,” deprecating with hi...

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...inutes, Schwartz Thier!’ some of the troop sung out. ‘The devil can do his business in one,’ was the retort, and Schwartz Thier swung himself on his b... ...n a minute he drew up in front of Margarita. ‘So! you prefer settling this business in the square. Good! my choice sweetheart!’ and he sprang to her s... ...nce and shirked its duty, he counts his wages for helping the devil in his business, as will any other lad here who likes to come on and try.’ Werner ... ...es? He took us for some night-prowlers. Why not come up fairly, and ask my business? Smelling a flower is not worth a broken neck, nor defend- ing you... ...e in such sweet eyes was begin- ning to lead me astray. And now, as to our business in the streets at this hour, believe the best of us.’ ‘I will! I d... ...for good harvests, made itself respected even in the heat of those jealous rivalries. It was said of him, that he would have camped in a bog, or taken...

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...ime, and who pursues common ide- als with. mow than common ability…. Tact, business tal- ent, knowledge of men, resolution, promptitude and sa- gacity... ... served as pilot on a steamboat trip, then as clerk in a store and a mill; business failing, he was adrift for some time. Being compelled to measure h... ... Then the wretched hand-to-mouth struggle began again. He “set up in store-business” with a dissolute partner, who drank whiskey while Lincoln was rea... ...became a deputy surveyor, and was appointed post- master of New Salem, the business of the post-office be- ing so small that he could carry the incomi... ...gh the North. Men who but a short time be- fore had been absorbed by their business pursuits, and 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One deprec... ... among the members of a cabinet so composed, troublesome disagreements and rivalries would break out. But it was better for the President to have thes...

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...es at the probable in- tentions of early Christian thought in passing. His business here is the definition of a position. The writer’s position here i... ...of dissensions that, left to work them- selves out, would have spoilt good business; it was the fist of Nicolas of Myra over again, except that after ... ...tions. He murders Sabbath-breaking chil- dren, or disorganises the careful business schemes of the un- godly. He is represented as going Sabbath-break... ...lity that the face of that Unknown will not be altogether hidden…. But the business of such ordinary lives as ours is the setting up of this earthly k... ...it his every thought and activity. The material greeds, the avarice, fear, rivalries, and ignoble ambitions of a disordered world will be challenged a... ...t in the case of a man who is a manufacturer or a trader, the financier of business enterprise or the proprietor of great es- tates. The world is in n...

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...any as five since ye come in at midnight,’ the woman goes on, as she chronically complains. ‘Poor me, poor me, my head is so bad. Them two come in aft... ...self) what a quiet life mine is. No whirl and uproar around me, no distracting commerce or calculation, no risk, no change of place, myself devoted ... .... Jasper? You are much my junior.’ ‘By all means.’ ‘If I have not gone to foreign countries, young man, foreign countries have come to me. They have c... ...r most extraordinary thing that they are always so violently flush of miscreants!’ ‘“Denouncing a public miscreant –”’0 – the old lady resumed, ‘“to g... ...and my ideas of civility were formed among Heathens.’ ‘Perhaps, the best civility, whatever kind of people we are brought up among,’ retorts Edwin Dro... ...home for the holidays; who should write to her the oftenest when they were separated, and whom she would most rejoice to see again when they were reun...

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...se fate I have heard them talk of the night before,—men who rush into some business where they are certain to lose their all. I am tempted, like Leona... ...d as any minister would have done on the constant embarrassment of Raoul’s business affairs. Sooner or later, necessity would bring him to accept cond... ...truly the child of a century consumed with envy,—a century with a thousand rivalries lurking under many a system, which nourish to their own profit th... ...pt in all the attitudinizing, quarrel- ling, alluring, and cajoling of her business; and she gave to those actions a savor of their own by playing chi... ...e truly remarkable for the power of thought are apt to behave in practical business; they seem to reserve the power of their mind for their writings, ... ...ul. Why this lack of penetration as to their personal affairs in men whose business it is to penetrate all things? Perhaps the mind cannot be complete...

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...ins of his former opulence,—a property which obliged him to see his man of business (who held the annuity papers) quarterly. In truth, one of the Alen... ...ples, which made a hobby of republican hon- esty, the management of public business in those days was by no means clean. A political spy, a stock-jobb... ...uy them in, a minister, and a general were all equally en- gaged in public business. From 1793 to 1799 du Bousquier was commissary of provisions to th... ...lived in a magnificent hotel and was one of the matadors of fi- nance, did business with Ouvrard, kept open house, and led the scandalous life of the ... ...d’Alencon, own- ers of pastures and cattle, or merchants doing a wholesale business in linen, among whom, as he hoped, he might find a wealthy wife. I... ...hese four personages? Surely there is something odd and fantastic in three rivalries silently en- compassing a woman who never guessed their existence...

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...ry well pleased to see him a deputy because—” “Come, sister, leave our own business of politics to us men. Where is Simon?” “He is dressing,” she answ... ...nker, endowed with great procreative powers, having soothed the worries of business by the plea- sures of paternity, favored the families of eleven ot... ... justice of peace, had died of a so- called apoplexy, having gone wrong in business. The Comte de Gondreville, however, with whom old Pigoult had rela... ... Phileas Beauvisage was the Alexander, or, if you will, the Attila of this business. And here follow the means by which this honorable merchant had ac... ...y; she paid the sum to Phileas in ready money,—advising him to buy out the business of his em- ployer, Monsieur Pigoult, the son of the old justice of... ...s Keller was regarded as a judgment from heaven, in- tended to silence all rivalries. Antonin Goulard, Frederic Marest, Olivier Vinet, and Monsieur Ma...

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... died, you’d marry to-morrow; you know you would.” “Oh, now you’re talking business.” He folded his long arms and leaned over the balcony, looking dow... ... his cigar and turned to scrutinize her. “I don’t see—hanged if I do. What business is it of any of us, after all?” That, of course, was the old view ... ...aught you at it, eh? Upon my soul-spoil- ing the brat like that! Y ou’d no business to, my dear chap-a lovely baroque pearl—” he protested, with the h... ...you meant to wait for me!” But being a man of duty, in domestic as well as business affairs, he did not even consider the possibility of disappoint- i... ...ng Davenant?” “Y oung Davenant; or the others ….” “Or the others. But what business was it of ours?” “Ah, that’s just what I think!” she cried, spring... ... had hopelessly lost her way in this laby- rinth of subterranean scandals, rivalries and jealousies; and finding Lansing’s hand within reach she clung...

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... and thirsty frame for novel impressions. Commonly he was too hot with his business, and airy fancies above it when crossing the bridge, to reflect in... ...ons of the governing element in the composition of man, and of hid present business here. The Tale inspirits one’s earlier ardours, when we sped witho... ...ilioed out, Fenellan might say. Nor had any combinations upon the theme of business displaced it. Just before the fall, the whole drama of the un- fol... ...cted: I thought you ought to know it:—an interview with her lawyer; office business, increase of Insurance on one of her City ware- houses.’ ‘Speak he... ...ow proclaimed speech, with his Puckish fancy jack-o’- lanterning over it. ‘Business hangs to swing at every City door, like a ragshop Doll, on the gal... ...ty-merchant to appreciate him as a diligent student of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen-...

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...rble works out of charity, because they have no father, and she hasn’t any business to be at the High School.’ ‘White, did you say? Maura White!’ excl... ...would not have penetrated beyond the gate where ‘No ad- mittance except on business’ was painted. Mr. Stebbing himself, a man with what Valetta was wo... ...ming, as she explained and showed whatever Mr. Stebbing wished. It was her business to make the working drawings for the others, and to select the sto... ... rather youthful for the mother of a grown-up son, engaged in his father’s business. She was extremely civil and polite, and everything went well exce... ...h compels me to say, Gillian, that the sons of men, even in a small way of business, are not apt to run away and enlist without some reason.’ ‘ And I ... ...place. They had gone out on the common above the town, with most amus- ing rivalries as to which drove the beast worst, making Mysie umpire. Then havi...

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... me.” “Ah, so they do me,” she exclaimed. “Then why go?” “It’s part of the business—you forget! And besides, if I didn’t, I should be playing bezique ... ... might be to do so afterward. Mr. Simon Rosedale was a man who made it his business to know everything about every one, whose idea of showing himself ... ...Osburgh “crushes”— Rosedale, with that mixture of artistic sensibility and business astuteness which characterizes his race, had instantly gravi- tate... ...owd. The collective nature of her interests exempted her from the ordinary rivalries of her sex, and she knew no more personal emotion than that of ha... ...y laughed again. “That’s just what I don’t know; and to find out, it is my business to get to church before the service is over.” “Exactly; and it is ... ...iness to get to church before the service is over.” “Exactly; and it is my business to prevent your doing so; in which case the other person, piqued b...

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...te of the deep dreads and disgusts that haunted his mind, he set about the business of its subjugation as if it were a spiritual amputation. But as he... ... with a horn- handled cane of exceptional size, who intervened, turned the business into a blend of wrangle and scuffle, introduced the degrading topi... ...eople,” he said. “But I thought—isn’t there the seaside?” “My mother has a business,” said Prothero, redder than ever. “O-oh!” said Lady Marayne. “Wha... .... “O-oh!” said Lady Marayne. “What fun that must be for her?” “It’s a real business, and she has to live by it. Sometimes it’s a worry.” “But a busine... ...nfusion of his visage with a sweet intelligence. “Is it an amusing sort of business, Mr. Prothero?” Prothero looked mulish. “My mother is a dressmaker... ...st imagined it spreads out without any definite boundary, to include one’s rivalries with old schoolfellows, for example, one’s generosities to beggar...

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...nses during the campaign, all of which, being added to my loss of time and business, bears pretty heavily upon one no better off in [this] world’s goo... ...r to get to it. It will push me hard to get there without injury to my own business; but I shall try to do it, though I am not yet quite certain I sha... ... bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat if I neglect my business this year as well as last. It would please me much to see the city... ...to be able to answer it. It is not my intention to take part in any of the rivalries for the gubernatorial nomination; but the fear of being misunders... ...nited States; and I wish you to remember, now and forever, that it is your business, and not mine; that if the union of these States and the liberties... ...these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time. It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves, and ... ..., D. C., MARCH 4, 1862 The United States have no enmities, animosities, or rivalries, and no interests which conflict with the welfare, safety, and ri...

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...ge turned away from the station. “She was afraid of the heat. She had some business letters to write yesterday, which teased her, and she has not reco... ...and I must leave him to do jus- tice to his own cordiality, and proceed to business.” Then came the particulars of freehold and copyhold, pur- chase o... ...her mother, whom she watched with great anxiety. She was glad that so much business was on her hands, as to leave little time for dwelling on her feel... ...ll house on his father’s estate, busied with farming, sporting, and parish business; while his active wife contrived to make a narrow income feed, clo... ...ncle Geoffrey, making a rueful face. 34 Henrietta’s Wish “Ay, it is a sad business that poor Beatrice cannot come,” said both the old people, “but ho... ...- tertained for Frederick was now manifested, and the remem- brance of old rivalries and petty contentions served but to make the reaction stronger. H...

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...ow the book.” I returned to the window and fetched it thence. “You have no business to take our books; you are a depen- dent, mama says; you have no m... ...bled: to this inferior class I was called, and placed at the bottom of it. Business now began, the day’s Collect was repeated, then certain texts of S... ...onducting a rummaging scrutiny of the room upstairs, while he trans- acted business with the housekeeper, questioned the laundress, and lectured the s... ...his occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet ... ...er, en regle. I now felt that an elderly lady was no bad ingredient in the business I had on hand. Mrs. Fairfax! I saw her in a black gown and widow’s... ...ced, I thought I loved her. There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, ...

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...xamine it. The leech gazed intently from me to Toby, and then proceeded to business. After diligently observing the ailing member, he commenced manipu... ...derstand of what took place, pointed him out to me as a man whose peculiar business thenceforth would be to attend upon my person. I am not certain th... ... thing I wanted. Of course there was nothing left for me but to proceed to business, and I began scraping away at a great rate. He writhed and wriggle... ...hundred evils in reserve;—the heart-burnings, the jealou- sies, the social rivalries, the family dissentions, and the thou- sand self-inflicted discom... ... With the young men there seemed almost always some matter of diversion or business on hand that afforded a con- stant variety of enjoyment. But wheth... ...a narcotic whiff from a pipe of tobacco, disposed themselves for the great business of night, sleep. With the Marquesans it might al- most most be sty...

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...BUTTONS LONG AFTER THE HOURS when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea ... ...s the receipt for that pie; or in comes my wife, and there’s no talking of business then, though she may have been bothering about his account all the... ...’ answered the emphatic Kilne. ‘But, you know, if the widow carries on the business,’ said Grossby, ‘there’s no reason why we shouldn’t get it all, eh... ...o much spirit to work to pay his father’s debts,’ added Barnes. ‘There’s a business there to make any man’s fortune-properly directed, I say. But, I s... ...ial error of transferring her affections, or her thoughts, from him to his business, which, indeed, was much in want of a mate; and while he squandere... ...ulties are stirred to their depths. You be- come engaged in the noblest of rivalries: in defending your own, you fight for your comrade’s existence. Y...

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... forced to reconstruct a cen- tral authority in order to put an end to the rivalries of differ- ent groups of producers. The best practicable system, ... ...1844 began his lifelong friend- ship with Engels, who had been hitherto in business in Manchester, where he had become acquainted with English Sociali... ...sed that this process must involve a diminution, not only in the number of businesses, but also in the number of capitalists. Indeed, he usually spoke... ...also in the number of capitalists. Indeed, he usually spoke as though each business were owned by a single man. Accordingly, he expected that men woul... ...mopolitan tendencies which Marx rightly discerned in finance. Although big businesses have grown bigger and have over a great area reached the stage o... ...fulness of work unavoidable? At present, the better paid work, that of the business and professional classes, is for the most part enjoyable. I do not... ...their victory, and on the morrow of the social revolution the old national rivalries might have revived. There is no alchemy by which a universal harm...

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...nversation, the gam- bling, the dancing, the flirtations, interests, petty rivalries, and scheming had all reached the pitch of ardor which makes a yo... ...ncial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Peasantry A Man of Business Cousin Betty Murat, Joachim, Prince The Vendetta 38 Domestic ...

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...eared with their melancholy consequences—universal languor, jeal ousies and rivalries of States, decline of navigation and commerce, discouragement o... ... and sure guaranty of all others. In consequence of the embarrassed state of business and the currency, some of the States may meet with difficulty in... ...ot before. Whilst the question of specie payments is in abeyance the prudent business man is careful about contracting debts payable in the distant fu... ...pelling the withdrawal of the national bank notes, and thus dis turbing the business of the country. I venture to refer to the position I have occupi... ...the appointing power against the waste of time and obstruction to the public business caused by the inordinate pressure for place, and for the protec ... ...such a sound and sensible basis as shall secure the safety and confidence of business interests and make the wage of labor sure and steady, and that o...