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...ith such a distinction—vault into the high places of the most advanced and painfully acquired civilization. Ward and Garnett, Wells Brown and Penningt... ...mory, he came from the land of bondage full of its woes and its evils, and painting them in characters of living light; and, on his part, he found, to... ...hing to fear from impotent childhood, easily affords to refrain from cruel inflictions; and if cold and hunger do not pierce the tender frame, the fir... ...ports and plays, and in spite of them, there would, occasionally, come the pain- ful foreboding that I was not long to remain there, and that I must s... ...en viewed more favorably. As it was, his motives were as abhorrent, as his methods were foolish and contemptible. It was too evident that he was not c... ... of the woman, while undergoing 62 My Bondage and My Freedom the terrible infliction, were mingled with those of the chil- dren, sounds which I hope ... ...hat, when pressed to extremes, it often avails itself of the most opposite methods. Extremes meet in mind as in matter. When the slaves on board of th... ...lure. It was a compromise, and defeated itself; for, immediately after the infliction, the heart-sickened colonel atoned to William for the abuse, by ... ...hter. All my les- sons concerning his temper and disposition, and the best methods of pleasing him, were yet to be learnt. Slaveholders, however, are ...

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...avings from the old masters was gradually made by him, those from Claude’s paintings being a specialty. After he retired from the Custom House, his ta... .... The condition of my right hand obliges me to dictate this to my son; but painful as it is to me to hold a pen, I cannot suffer this letter to reach ... ...written, contained passages reflecting with con- siderable severity on the methods pursued by missionaries in the South Seas. The manuscript was print... ..., to a certain extent, the conflict between the author’s earlier and later methods of composition, but the gigantic conception of the ‘White Whale,’ a... ...us? Is there no green thing to be seen? Yes, the inside of our bulwarks is painted green; but what a vile and sickly hue it is, as if nothing bearing ... ...ained me in his powerful grasp, and actually encouraged the wretch in this infliction of torture. Almost frantic with rage and pain, I yelled like a b... ...not. But the practitio- ners of the barbarous art, so remorseless in their inflictions upon the brawny limbs of the warriors of the tribe, seem to 10... ...I began scraping away at a great rate. He writhed and wriggled un- der the infliction, but, fully convinced of my skill, endured the pain like a marty...

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...d that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have se... ...at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically indus trious—painstaking, a workman to execute with persever ance and labour—but bes... ... this; it is sad trash.” If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely e... ...ented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction. My daily vows rose for revenge—a deep and deadly revenge, suc... ...able, but he did not know the origin of my suffer ings and sought erroneous methods to remedy the incurable ill. He wished me to seek amusement in s...

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...temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain. The crimson hand ex pressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality ... ...nge, indefinite sensa tion creeping through her veins, and tingling, half painfully, half pleasurably, at her heart. Still, whenever she dared to loo... ...e corded every experiment of his scientific career, its original aim, the methods adopted for its development, and its final success or failure, with... ...un to excite her attention. It was a sensation in the fatal birthmark, not painful, but which induced a restlessness throughout her system. Hastening ... ... forthwith steals into the ever open ear of the community. These ingenious methods constitute a sort of machinery, by which thought and study are done... ...by the innate sense of some thing wrong, and the dim perception of better methods, that have disquieted all the ages through which the procession has... ...their succession. “This is awful indeed!” exclaimed the sculptor—”an awful infliction, whether it be actual or imaginary. T ell me, Roderick Elliston,...

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...the Wapping of a seaport. The room itself is cobwebbed, and dingy with old paint; its floor is strewn with grey sand, in a fashion that has elsewhere ... ...discern that the old fellows dreaded some such discourtesy at my hands. It pained, and at the same time amused me, to behold the terrors that attended... ...had the few materials of his character been put together that there was no painful perception of deficiency, but, on my part, an entire contentment wi... ...him expatiate on fish, poultry , and butcher’s meat, and the most eligible methods of preparing them for the table. His reminiscences of good cheer, h... ...veral in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever penal infliction might be expected to ensue. The age had not so much refinement, ... ...ty, or reverence of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning.... ...adge, had begun a course of penance—which he afterwards, in so many futile methods, followed out—by inflicting a hideous torture on himself. Others co...

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... a blessing; but why misuse them? If they are given to support you through pain and confinement, why make mischief with them?’ Charles looked more imp... ...have been hand- some but that they were blanched, sharpened, and worn with pain, gradually lost their animated and rather satirical ex- pression, and ... ...e as tall as Philip; but he’s a capital fellow. And how have you been?—any pain?’ ‘Hem—rather,’ said Charles, shortly, for he hated answer- ing kind i... ...s?’ Guy put it down at once, and Philip proceeded to improved 83 Yo n g e methods of farming, to enable landlords to meet the exigen- cies of the tim... ...ou will sing to me again.’ ‘Not till he has recovered strength to bear the infliction with firmness,’ said Guy; ‘but, Amy, I’ll tell you what we will ... ...himself and his own faults, and rendered a slave to this hateful self. The infliction he underwent in his sister’s house was somewhat analogous, for M...

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...es. The lower part of the gates themselves was of solid wood that had been painted gray at some period in the past; the upper part con- sisted of a gr... ...ed upon me as a monster. The cure preached against me. In spite of all the pains I took to explain to all the shrewder heads of the little place the i... ... no peace. It will take you at least a week to study my condition, for the pain only comes back at intervals, and—” “Very good, sir,” Benassis broke i... ...rovements. Many people would think this in- timacy one of the most painful inflictions in the course of my task; but was he not a tool of the most val... ...cultivation as with a view to giving an object-lesson in the use of modern methods in ag- riculture. In six weeks’ time the population of the town in-... ...ration, as a matter of fact, does not consist in forcing more or less wise methods and ideas upon the great mass of the nation, but in giving to the i... ...easy to introduce the five-ply shift, artificial grasses, and potatoes. My methods did not clash with people’s prejudices. The faultily constructed pl...

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...self; ‘ Arthur cannot be so lost to the sense of everything becoming. Such pain cannot be in store for me! Anything else I could bear; but this must n... ...ht not to fulfil? You are too kind, when once you reflect, to inflict such pain, you, who cannot help being loved. Come away while it is time; come ho... ...ur fancy is smitten, it will recover in its proper sphere. If it costs you pain, you know to whom you have always hitherto turned in your vexations. D... ...ER 4 They read botanic treatises And works of gardeners through there, And methods of transplanting trees To look as if they grew there. —A. T ennyson... ... with the same sleepy, civil air of attention, as had served him under the infliction many times before. John gave only one piece of advice, namely, t... ...ll hav- ing brought him close to old Mr. Randall, and placed him under the infliction of a long prose about the hounds, he retreated, and was soon aga...

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... He said— “We are a civilian people; we pride ourselves on having civilian methods.” “How can that be if we have won India with guns and swords?” “But... ...s at Cuper’s es- tablishment: one party for our modern English magisterial methods with Indians, the other for the decisive Oriental at the early time... ...bow the head to their nobles, and not, of late, expecting a kick for their pains. Newspapers wrote of him that, “a martinet to subordinates, he was kn... ...and she had an unerring eye for the man to be used when a blow was needed, methods for setting him in action likewise. She knew how much stronger than... .... Lady Charlotte ascribed it to his recollection of the quick blusher, the pained blusher, she was in her girlhood at mention or print of the story of... ...ffled conscience. He fell upon the study of his old hero determinedly. The pain of a memory waking under pillows, unable to do more than strain for br... ...continue to decree a state of circumstances more or less necessitating the infliction he groaned under. He was too lofty to be questioned, even by his... ... a laugh, and so they lived and circulated. Lord Ormont sub- mitted to the infliction of that horrid female in his house- hold! It was no wonder he st... ...nocent naughtiness; compensation coming to her in excess for a tran- sient infliction of pain. ‘Your anxiety is about the box?’ ‘Yes, the box,’ Aminta...

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... executed in a very different spirit, that of Charles Jervas, the portrait painter, and friend of Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and Gay. Jervas has been all... ...tence, too, seems to have attached to him because he was by profes- sion a painter and a mediocre one (though he has given us the best portrait we hav... ...haps in mere colloquial Spanish. He was, in fact, an honest, faithful, and painstaking translator, and he has left a version which, whatever its short... ...doing a flagrant injustice to their great friendship in seeking circuitous methods of confiding to him his most hidden 254 Don Quixote thoughts, for ... ...d piteous voice I addressed such words to him as in- duced him to stay the infliction of a punishment so severe. He then caused all the duennas of the...

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...training and discipline. What she felt right, she insisted on, at whatever pain to herself.’ She had to deal with strong characters. Coleridge, or Col... ..., but always respectful as well as affectionate, and written with care and pains, being evidently his very best; nor does the good old formula, ‘Your ... ...e sure to be needed by an active lad. While at Ottery he silently bore the pain of a broken collar-bone for three weeks, and when the accident was bro... ... it sounds fearfully pedantic, I confess, has drawn upon you this grievous infliction. ‘My kindest love to Father and dear Joan, ‘Ever your loving ‘J.... ...make up the sum of extra teaching. ‘There is so great want of order in the methods so often adopted, want of arrangement, and proper sequence, and 42...

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...ectronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State ... ...ow faith is acquired, and then ensured, So well not one of the aforesaid paints As Saint Augustine in his fine Confessions, Which make the rea... ...re not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself ... ... hyaena laughter, died despairing. Their numbers were much thinn’d by this infliction, And all the rest were thin enough, Heaven knows; And so... ...om her breast, Defying augury with that fond kiss; And no doubt of all methods ‘t is the best: Some people prefer wine—’t is not amiss; I ...

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...the brutal,’ those scenes which, I will venture to say, have not been more painful for the most fastidious of my critics to read than they were for me... ... vain. But, at the same time, if any honest reader shall have derived more pain than pleasure from its perusal, and have closed the last volume with a... ...hack over the sconce, which, however, sustained no serious injury from the infliction; as, besides being more than commonly thick, it was protected by... ... we were ushered into a room where the first object that met the eye was a painter’s easel, with a table beside it covered with rolls of canvas, bottl... ... it was almost impossible to help it, for he not only bothered me with the infliction of his own presence, but he kept me from the enjoyment of more a... ...he stepped laughingly forward and said, “Come, I’ll preserve you from that infliction.”’ ‘Who was it, I ask?’ said she, with frigid gravity. ‘It was M... ...ces, and opposed so many objections to my plan, and devised so many milder methods for ameliorating my condition, that I was obliged to enter into fur...

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...ently weaponed. We were in fact as naked to the Imperial foe as the merely painted Britons. This being apprehended, by the aid of our own shortness of... ...is one in which, following the coun- sel of a sage and seer, I must try to paint for you what is, not that which I imagine. This day, this hour, this ... ... sel of the blood—degenerate maid —to receive a handsome trouncing for his pains, instead of the holy marriage-tie he aimed at, was the only connectio... ...ted by a Romfrey mildly accounting for events and smoothing them under the infliction of an offence, he could not but feel that Nevil had challenged h... ...the presence of her husband could not but be hateful to him, an undeserved infliction. To her it was intolerable that they should be brought into cont... ... of an ordinarily generous heart even—the very infant of antagonism to its methods and establishments. It is not so difficult to be right against the ...

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...e of what his wife had spoken, hoping that Robert would amorously stop his painful efforts to think fast enough for the occasion. Robert, however, had... ...not neglect some work to be done in the fields. She thought that he feared pain from hear- ing Dahlia’s name, and followed him with her eyes commisera... ...oda stamped on her foot. “Oh! cruel!” the comfortable old woman snapped in pain, as she applied her hand to the inconsolable fat foot, and nursed it. ... ...thout troubling any of his relatives; as it was, Jonathan submitted to the infliction gravely. Neither in speech nor in tone did he solicit from the s... ...o fight me,” Robert sighed. “Hey, Lord! it’s a heavy world when we come to methods. But will you, Percy, will you put it to him at the end of your fis... ...appeal is to force. I, you see, am a civilian: I invariably try the milder methods. Do you start for London tonight? I remain. I wish to look at the n...

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...e, a twitching or throbbing, from which I could not dissociate the idea of pain, came into that cruel mark; and lifted up the corner of her lip as if ... ...uncomfortable attitude, half resting on the box which had cost him so much pain and trouble. I learned, that, when he was past creep- ing out of bed t... ...ards and for- wards, and chafing her hands upon her knees like a person in pain. Quite alarmed at being the only recipient of this untimely visit, and... ...g an inch out of the right course, to recall him by some of those superior methods which were always at my command. But I regret to state that the fri... ...of Doctor Strong expressed some little sense of pain, I thought, under the infliction of these compliments. Therefore, my dear Doctor, said the Old ...

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...were brought up together, and still more because it would give you so much pain if I refuse. But I feel very deeply that this fish which I go and sell... ...the previous night now came back to his mind with startling clearness. The painful catastrophe he had just witnessed appeared effectually to have rent... ...tly tremulous, so great was the contrast between that happy moment and the painful ceremony he was now undergo- ing; so great was the contrast between... ... felt that he could throw it off at pleasure, like a worn-out garment. Two methods of self-destruction Alexandre Dumas 111 were at his disposal. He c... ...g the hateful canal carry off his customers and his profits, and the daily infliction of his peevish partner’s murmurs and lamentations. Like other dw...

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...milia’s eyes appeal hopefully to Mr. Pericles. The connoisseur shrugged. A pain lodged visibly on her black eyebrows. She gripped her harp, and her ey... ... At any rate it occupies them.” Cornelia laughed inwardly, and marked with pain that his own humour gave him no merriment. At the subsiding of the ech... ...t exhibit a feature. The effort to repress it must have cost them horrible pain. Adela, the youngest of the three, transferred her inward joy to the c... ...ng, frying, frying! and if he can keep his Christian sentiments under this infliction, what a wonderful hero he must be! What a hot day!” She moved sw... ...t admit any protestation. Handsome faces, musical voices, sly manners, and methods that I choose not to employ, make the business easy to men.” “Who d... ... a simple girl, that he might place his own there. 378 Sandra Belloni His methods almost led her to think that his estimate of human nature was falli...

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...ission. He wore the aspect of one who assumes a forced composure under the infliction of outrages on his character in a Court of Law, where he must of... ... had the smell of dark corners, in a street where all the house-doors were painted black, and shut with a bang. Italian organ-men and milk- men parade... ...ounting, till I saw Mrs. Waddy pass by the window. My heart gave a leap of pain. I found the street-door open and no one in the passage, and I ran out... ...ey, who was too busy. As we mounted the stairs I saw more kings of England painted on the back-windows. Mrs. Waddy said: ‘It is considered to give a m... ... aware that you are watching her. You have to review her acts, observe her methods. Always be above her; then by-and-by you catch her hesitating at cr... ...flect on it. There! I have been deceived—deceived myself, let’s say. Sharp methods play the devil with you now and then. To speak the truth,—perhaps y...

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...venture, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade. But Lily’s methods were more delicate. She re- membered that her cousin Jack Stepney h... ...ess added to the horror; and there were still times when Lily relived with painful vividness every 29 Edith Wharton detail of the day on which the bl... ... a plaster-cast—while Gwen’s countenance had no more modelling than a face painted on a toy balloon. But the deeper affinity was unmistakable: the two... ...essed that his enjoyment was disturbed by the remembrance of Mrs. Fisher’s methods. “The greatest of favours,” she rejoined gently. “The fact is, Judy... ...hite sapphire. I’m sure the person who chose it must have taken particular pains. What is the name? Percy Gryce? Ah, then I’m not surprised!” She smil... ...ct speech, far from pre- cluding in her an occasional resort to circuitous methods, served rather, at crucial moments, the purpose of the juggler’s ch... ...orset had pressed upon her. The other plan depended for its success on the infliction of an open injury, while this reduced the transac- tion to a pri...

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...alf coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair. Another mine on the cliff went off, followe... ...omforts) with the candle stuck in it. To my question he said Mr. Kurtz had painted this—in this very station more than a year ago—while waiting for me... ...fidently. “But they didn’t. Instead of rivets there came an inva- sion, an infliction, a visitation. It came in sections during the next three weeks, ... ...e sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill their two ridiculous shadows of unequal length, that trail... ... any trade secrets. In fact the man- ager said afterwards that Mr. Kurtz’s methods had ruined the district. I have no opinion on that point, but I wan... ...of favor was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound! Ah! but it was some...

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...ehold two small lodges built of red brick, joined, or separated, by a rail painted green. It was there that the diligence deposited your friend and co... ...plants with broad flat leaves and narrow slender ones, on which lay a boat painted white and black, as light as a nut- shell and dainty as the wherry ... ...ingled with amber upon the casements of the chateau, the effect is that of painted windows. At the other end of the canal we see Blangy, the county-to... ...ose silence was bought by permis- sion to charge the highest prices. These methods of dealing conciliated public opinion in favor of Gaubertin, while ... ...s, on the tail of the ser- pent; and in avoiding, as one would murder, the infliction of a blow to the self-love of any one lower than one’s self. An ... ...A land-steward must understand surveying, the customs of the locality, the methods of sale and of labor, together with a little quibbling in the inter...

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...le cabins amidships, the Saturn for the genial- ity of her captain and the painted and gilt luxuri- ousness of her saloon, whereas the Ganymede was fi... ...ips and a knitting of her black, straight eyebrows like a flicker of angry pain or an angry thought on her handsome, regular features. It was pain; sh... ...ribaldi, had been a sailor in his time. Sometimes she had no patience with pain. For years its gnawing had been part of the landscape embrac- ing the ... ...e public affairs of the country as seriously as the incidental atrocity of methods deserved. She saw in them a comedy of naive pretences, but hardly a... ...to the tone of his answer— “As far as the knowledge of these men and their methods and their politics is concerned, I can answer for myself. I have be... ... rulers of the country with its story of oppression, inefficiency, fatuous methods, treachery, and savage brutality, was perfectly known to Mrs. Gould... ... swing to human fingers or to the joints of a human body is enough for the infliction of the most exquisite tor- ture. The doctor had been a very stub...

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...EXTRACTS (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian). It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub- worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to... ...gether unpleasant sad- ness—Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go... ...’s worker, that with lowly dart, Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro’ the maine.” —The Faer... ...paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,— ... ...hem akin to Free-Mason signs and symbols; that the whale, indeed, by these methods intelligently conversed with the world. Nor are there wanting other...

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...ough she little knew the effort it cost, since Miss Mohun had been at much pains to set Mrs. Hablot’s class on foot, and felt it a slight and a bad ex... ... penetrated beyond the gate where ‘No ad- mittance except on business’ was painted. Mr. Stebbing himself, a man with what Valetta was wont to call a g... ...tue of Mercy at the Gate that Harry gave a photograph of to mamma, and she paints pictures herself. I want to see them; but I do not know whether we s... ...ade much of by an aunt, and you know I am very sorry for you all under the infliction.’ ‘Oh, Aunt Jane, we know you are very kind, and—’ began Gillian... ...ng which were the greater—and the great dislike of the peasant mind to new methods. When it came to ‘ At first, I had to superintend every blast- ing ...

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...square mass of red-and-gold books, and then a long skirt in blue-and-white paint lus- trous behind glass, and then a mahogany writing-table, with its ... ...move it. The eyes looked at him out of the mellow pinks and yellows of the paint with divine friendliness, which embraced him, and passed on to contem... ...ss, which embraced him, and passed on to contemplate the entire world. The paint 9 Virginia Woolf had so faded that very little but the beautiful lar... ...Denham, who threatened to have it all his own way. Mary tried half a dozen methods of ousting him. She raised her voice, she articulated dis- tinctly,... ...with her, the aloofness and force of her character checked all his natural methods of attack. He believed that she had behaved very badly to him, but ... ...Anything that hinted at love for the moment alarmed her; it was as much an infliction to her as the rubbing of a skinless wound. But he went on, witho... ...of mine.” He turned his stone between his fingers, and conceived different methods of leading Celia away from her obsession, which, he supposed, must ...

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...nge among the grey shapes of modern war transport as a Chinese mandarin in painted silk would be. They are the most individual of things, all two-whee... ...nd the same size it is true, but upon each there are they gayest of little paintings, such paintings as one sees in En- gland at times upon an ice-cre... ... It was in the emplacement of a real gun that had been located; it had its painted sandbags about it just the same, and it felt itself so entirely a p... ...d largely upon two factors. One of these is invention. New weapons and new methods have become available, and have modified tactics, strategy, the rel... ...ecords. If he is a Frenchman he is only too happy to explain his ideas and methods. Here, he will point out, is a little difference between the German... ...it itself against it. Within the 78 War and the Future last sixteen years methods of fighting have been elaborated that have made war an absolutely h... ...ly three types. First there is a type of person who hates violence and the infliction of pain under any cir- cumstances, and who have a mystical belie...

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...k his mo- roseness all day—and perhaps half the night—be- comes a grievous infliction. He walks the poop dart- ing gloomy glances, as though he wished... ...hore, nor did we knock a large hole in the big ship whose lower masts were painted white. But it is a wonder that we did not carry away the cables of ... ... past clean-faced houses, past thousands of brass knockers upon a thousand painted doors glimmering behind rows of trees of the pavement species, leaf... ... ever. That part of the expedition was easy enough, though the horses were painfully glistening with icicles, and the aspect of the tram-conductors’ f... ...road for some six weeks on end, establishing his particular administrative methods over the best part of the North Atlantic. It looked as if the easte... ...ly weather, just at the moment when the Easterly weather, discard- ing its methods of hard, dry, impassive cruelty, con- templates drowning what is le...

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...overnment. Bishop Grantly died as he had lived, peaceably, slowly, without pain and without excitement. The breath ebbed from him almost imperceptibly... ...bilities, that attempt at being better than his neighbours which jarred so painfully on the feelings of his acquain- tances, did not injure him in the... .... ’ ‘Yes, ’ he answered meekly, ‘indeed it is; I am begin- ning to feel it painfully.’ ‘Would,’ said I, ‘you could feel it—would that you could be mad... ...uch him- self, and was literally unaware that humanity was subject to such infliction. He had not thought much about it; but, had he been asked, would... ...the reverend gentlemen could be in- serted except as advertisements. Other methods of publication were, however, found less expensive than advertiseme...

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...ipides, for her blooming Rhesus;) all were liable to fear; all to physical pain; all to anxiety; all to the indefinite menaces of a danger not measura... ...most of all won the public esteem as the champion of the Bible against Tom Paine, was privately known amongst us connoisseurs *A question of some inte... ...that we must come at last to Phil. I’ve been seeking to avoid it, for it’s painful to say ‘Jack’ or ‘Dick’ either to or of an ecclesias- tical great g... ...as ‘formal’ and rigorous by this new method of Kant as by the old obsolete methods of Sam. Clarke and the schoolmen.* But it is not the too high or th... ...pain to annoy him by superfluous explana- tions, but that, unhappily, this infliction of tedium upon him is inseparable from what has now become a dut... ...as a traitor only in the sense of seeking his Master’s aggran- dizement by methods which placed him in revolt against that Master, methods which not o... ...dapts herself to all changes—whether imposed by climate or by situation—by inflictions of Providence or by human spirit of system. These cases we poin... ...ty in the seat of supremacy, as to have diverged in policy from our modern methods of such an installation. Our belief is, that according to his no- t...

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...e remedies be found for the treatment and cure of this most perplexing and pain- ful manifestation of human behavior. I have tried conscien- tiously t... ...nd of all the enemies of man, fear is the one which causes most misery and pain. There are many facts that show that the punishment of one does not de... ...erm, cannot be justified by any reasoning. Punishment really means the 21 infliction of pain because the individual has wilfully trans- gressed. Its ... ... justified by any reasoning. Punishment really means the 21 infliction of pain because the individual has wilfully trans- gressed. Its supposed justi... ... community; neither does it release one until he is safe. It uses the best methods for his treatment that may make him fit to live with his fellows, a... ...isition is so strong that men are con- stantly contriving new and improved methods for getting property. Often the new methods come under restraint of... ...he man who uses the confidence game contends with great assurance that his methods are like other business methods; that all men are using every means...

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... of evil— Its analogy to Lutheran theology— Salvation by re- laxation— Its methods: suggestion— meditation— ”recollection”— verification— Diversity of... ... of the healthy-minded philosophy— Morbid- mindedness: its two degrees—The pain-threshold varies in individuals— Insecurity of natural goods— Failure,... ...en a most ami- able man. “I am so far resigned to my lot that I feel small pain at the thought of having to part from what has been called the pleasan... ...n.’ Such men are in a state of freedom, because they have lost the fear of pain or hell, and the hope of reward or heaven, and are living in pure subm... ... with the pain or the death. He nowhere says that sickness is a beneficent infliction, and that evil has a healthy use. No, he calls sickness sickness... ... about all this. Meanwhile I will say a brief word about the mind- curer’s methods. They are of course largely suggestive. The sugges- tive influence ... ...st the scientific philosophy, and succeeds by using science’s own peculiar methods and weapons. Believing that a higher power will take care of us in ...

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...ople’s brains.” “No,” said Carey, “I know the real object is the relieving pain and saving life, and that is what you care for more than the honour an... ...ion than her recent apathy had been, as if she were wak- ing to thrills of pain after the numbness of a blow. Urged by a restless night and an instinc... ...her hands with a sort of hysterical heaving, and the other burst into that painful laughter by which strained spirits assert themselves in the young. ... ..., Herr Professor. You seem to have a turn for entering houses by irregular methods.” The new-comer bowed with suavity , saying, in excellent English— ... ...ardon, and return thanks, but mamma thought you would rather be spared the infliction.” “Besides that, they were not my due,” said John. “I never thou...

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...is mouth. As he had not been careful to shut the door, Hepzibah was at the pains of closing it after him, with a pettish ejaculation or two about the ... ...gnize as reflecting the unlovely truth of a human soul. In such cases, the painter’s deep con- ception of his subject’s inward traits has wrought itse... ...p her sane. By the spell of contrast, another portrait rose up before her, painted with more daring flattery than any artist would have ventured upon,... ...p-keeper’—she listened, with compliant ear, to her sug- gestion of various methods whereby the influx of trade might be increased, and rendered profit... ... could only be a grief, intense in due proportion with the severity of the infliction. He had no right to be a martyr; and, beholding him so fit to be...

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...company would probably be his best solace. But he knew,—at this moment, he painfully remembered,—that he was not as other men. He acknowledged the tru... ...sort of contempt which might be supposed to await a young nobleman who had painted scarlet the residence of the Head of his college—by the fact of his... ...had been a friend of the family. ’ ‘That will do, sir. I have been greatly pained as well as surprised by what I have heard. Of the real state of the ... ...ance. It should be your first care to sit and listen so that the forms and methods of the House may as it were soak into you gradually. And then you m... ...o dine with the proud consciousness of having done his duty. The forms and methods of the House were, he flattered himself, soaking into him gradually... ...“those places” are meant for, I suppose. But it was not apparently a great infliction. ’ Lord Silverbridge had to explain that it was not an inflicti...

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... me, or put the expression of them into my mouth. The whole affair is very painful, and as your father is engaged in the inquiry, I think that the les... ... all the trouble myself, and the labour I delight in shall be physic to my pain.’ Grace Crawley could not during the journey be at home and at ease ev... ...ou will receive him with that brotherly spirit in which he is sent on this painful mission. ‘Touching the remuneration to which Mr Thumble will become... ...because of the father’s fault; and the idea had been sweet to him that the infliction or non-infliction of such punishment should be in his hands. ‘Yo... ...had been almost cowed, and for a while she had condescended to use gentler methods, with the hope that she might thus bring her lord round to his usua...