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... a woman.” “I fancied,” said Madame de Montcornet with a smile, “that more politicians were undone by us than we could make.” “The monster of which I ... ....” “T o be such a woman, is it not necessary to be very clever?” asked the Polish Count. “It is necessary to have great taste,” replied the Princesse ... ...those I came across, happily towards evening I perceived a wretched little Polish farm, of which nothing can give you any idea unless you have seen th...

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...a slave. Finot hid a brutal strength of will under a heavy exterior, under polish of wit, as a laborer rubs his bread with garlic. He knew how to garn... ...ndifference. He looked at the furniture in the room; the paved floor, red, polished, and cold, was poorly covered with a shabby carpet worn to the str... ...left no trace there. Her chin, rounded as though some amorous sculptor had polished its fulness, was as white as milk. One thing only that she had not... ...will be seen, was a fatalist, like Napoleon, Mahomet, and many other great politicians. It is a strange thing that most men of action have a tendency ... ...d towards the goal where the trum- pets and gifts of victory await patient politicians. Lucien had taken Beaudenord’s bachelor quarters on the Quai Ma... ...tility of Prince de Talleyrand and the Duke of Otranto, the only two great politicians formed by the Revolution, who might perhaps have been able to s... ... When the Baron had given a long and copious explana- tion, in his hideous Polish-Jew dialect, of his meeting with Esther and the cry of the man behin... ...ld one of his “Anchel’s” hands in both his, talking to her in his horrible Polish-Jewish accent, a jargon which must be as unpleasant to read as it is... ... and the Law. At the present time, when philosophers, philanthropists, and politicians are constantly endeavoring to reduce every social power, the ri...

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...ter, who directed me to a princely young man behind a counter of brass and polish, like a bank—like sev- eral banks. This young man, while he answered... ...ere not in request. They made a peculiar class at that time, these English politicians and statesmen, a class that has now completely passed away. In ... ... they ruled and influenced the lives of nearly a quarter of mankind, these politicians, their clownish conflicts swayed the world, made mirth perhaps,...

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...cky!” “Well!” thought Philippe; “if this worthy Giroudeau, with a skull as polished as my knee, forty-eight years, a big stom- ach, a face like a plou... ...which a single fact gives rise. The provinces insist—as in former days the politicians of the little Provence at the T uileries insisted—on full expla... ...bedience and induces them to grasp at power. In their eyes, as in those of politicians, all means to an end are justifiable. Between Flore Brazier and... ... same width as the rue Grande Narette. When the nephew arrived, Kouski, in polished boots, black cloth trou- sers, white waistcoat, and black coat, an... ... hand, was horribly greasy round the rim. The malacca cane, from which the polish had long disappeared, must have stood in all the cor- ners of all th... ...e ears. The pure blue of his brilliant eyes had acquired the cold tones of polished steel. “Good-morning, uncle,” he said, in a hoarse voice. “I am yo...

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... cency generally hide the moral deficiency. But often there is a mind well polished, married to a conscience and natural impulses left as they were in... ...e been begun very early. Or possibly the mind and nature were incapable of polish; or he may have had a coarse and sordid domestic life around him in ... ...ry at least—would be required for the slow toil of hewing, chiselling, and polishing a gentleman out of this ponderous block, now rough from the quarr... ...the walls. Some suits of armor, that hung beneath the festal gallery, were polished till the old battered helmets and pierced breastplates sent a glea... ..., and all can died conserves of the Indies, was put on the long extent of polished mahogany. There was a tuning up of musicians, an interrogative dra... ...g found political life as much es tranged from it as it is apt to be with politicians,—yet he had early snuffed the musty fragrance of the Doctor’s b...

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... perambulate the room with a duster in her hand, with which she stopped to polish the backs of already lustrous books, musing and romancing as she did... ...ood would pass away, and the duster would be sought for, and the old books polished again. These spells of inspiration never burnt steadily, but flick... ...up her duster; but she was too much annoyed to find any relief, as yet, in polishing the backs of books. “Besides,” she said, giving the sheet she had... ...ides of the road the shop windows were full of sparkling chains and highly polished leather cases, which stood upon shelves made of thick plate-glass.... ... purple and white of the bowl, standing in a pool of variegated light on a polished Chippendale table in the drawing-room window, made her stop dead w... ...say that,” said Cassandra, almost severely. “I agree. I mean that I detest politicians,” he corrected himself quickly. “You see, I believe Cassandra i...

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...ess ‘Sufficiently’ (he said) ‘his approbation Of all the customs of this polish’d nation. ‘For his own share—he saw but small objection To s... ... Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new and polish’d nation, Whose names want nothing but — pronunciation. Still ... ...ould be Now under arms. Ho! Katskoff, take him to (Here he call’d up a Polish orderly) His post, I mean the regiment Nikolaiew: The strang... ...them, The rudest brute that roams Siberia’s wild Has feelings pure and polish’d as a gem,— The bear is civilised, the wolf is mild; And wh... ...yours) Was left upon his way to the chief city Of the immortal Peter’s polish’d boors Who still have shown themselves more brave than witty.... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ...fought their fox hunt o’er again, And then retreated soberly—at ten. The politicians, in a nook apart, Discuss’d the world, and settled all th...

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...living in the capital, the capital had altered her superficially. Parisian polish became rust on this coarsely tempered soul. Gifted with a cunning wh... ...ld Nanny Goat wanted some- thing to pet and tease—so I treated myself to a Polish Count.” “Has he a moustache?” “ As long as that,” said Lisbeth, hold... ...he army lace manufacturer called to make inquiries as to “One Steinbock, a Polish refugee.” “Whom do you call ‘One Steinbock’? Do you mean a young Liv... ... black wooden frames, short muslin curtains to the windows, the floor well polished and shining with cleanliness, not a speck of dust anywhere, but al... ...urnished with flowers purchased on credit. Marneffe had helped his wife to polish the furni- ture, down to the smallest objects, washing, brushing, an... ...er the banner of Giraud, a State Councillor, and Victorin Hulot. These two politicians were trying to form a nucleus of progressives in the loose arra...

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...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...ake improvement by choosing for them- selves new ways. If so, the American politicians have not been the first in the world who have thought that any ... ...ackenzie-Papineau rebellion, of which those who were then old enough to be politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the hi... ...st valueless. That a change in the fashion of hats should have assisted to polish these poor fellows off the face of creation, must, one may sup- pose... ...eeling of external inferiority. When that has gone—when the Ameri- can has polished himself up by education and general well- being to a feeling of ex... ...in its greatest richness can produce. In Paris he will find the supreme of polish, the ne plus ultra of varnish according to the world’s capability of... ...e world and its rules shall follow them. Of filibustering, annexation, and polishing savages off the face of creation there has been a great deal, and... ...by this smartness put in possession of the patri- archal scepter. Esau was polished off, and readers of Scrip- ture wonder why heaven, with its thunde...

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...SOCRATES GLAUCON Heavens! my dear Glaucon, I said, how energetically you polish them up for the decision, first one and then the other, as if they w... ...ws, and in the second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and polished bodies and the like: Do you understand? Yes, I understand. Imagine... ...ird class, consisting of those who work with their own hands; they are not politicians, and have not much to live upon. This, when assembled, is the l...

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... in differ- ent masses, and all this besides the exertion of composing and polishing.’ He despairs of mak- ing his picture vivid or full enough, and o... ...that Johnson had not been educated with more refinement, and lived more in polished society. ‘No, no, my Lord, (said Signor Baretti,) do with him what... ...at the established clergy in general did not preach plain enough; and that polished periods and glittering sentences flew over the heads of the common... ...m, though in reality they are not so. A body that has received a very fine polish may be easily hurt. Before men arrive at this artificial refine- men... ...neighbour a blow, his neighbour gives him a blow: but in a state of highly polished society, an affront is held to be a serious injury. It must theref... ... to a gentleman from that country, on the subject of an union which artful Politicians have often had in view—’Do not make an union with us, Sir. We s...

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...d little strength in hole- and-corner bargainings between the officials or politicians who happen to be at the head of this or that nation for the tim... ...of thing will not do now. This Peace Con- gress is too big a job for party politicians and society and county families. The bulk of British opinion ca... ...a, Egypt, and suchlike key possessions. It seemed to excite several of our politicians extremely . I read over the German Chancellor’s speech very car... ...effect if not in form republican, and upon a series of national republics, Polish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and the like, in Eastern Euro... ...damental than that mere raging against German “militarism,” upon which our politicians and press still so largely subsist. The enormous development of... ...st things; when we look for the wisdom of statesmen we find the cunning of politicians; when open speech and plain rea- son might save the world, cour...

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...ng to remain one. T raining, experi ence, association, can temporarily so polish him, improve Mark T wain 91 him, exalt him that people will think h... ...ised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, an... ...how to translate entrails. Caesar Augustus’s education received this final polish. All through his life, whenever he had poultry on the menu he saved ... ...ians these many, many years. They have to make him write that graceful and polished and flawless and beautiful poem before he escaped from Stratford a... ...ege presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, demagogues, clo...

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... sent as an ensign to a regiment stationed in the Government of Minsk. The Polish insurrection of 1880 had just been crushed. “The spectacle of terror... ...the authorities. In November, 1847, as the result of a speech praising the Polish rising of 1830, he was expelled from France at the request of the Ru... ... development as showing the vanity of political triumphs. Very many French politicians who have risen to power have begun their political career as So... ...mentary majority. But Syndicalists have too little faith in the honesty of politicians to place any reliance on such a 50 Proposed Roads to Freedom m... ...han the official Guildsman would wholly approve. It is in the matters that politicians usually ignore—science and art, human relations, and the joy of...

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...g involved in a tedious war with Poland, in which the whole of Livonia and Polish Prussia were successively conquered. Though constantly vic- torious,... ...erial troops 155 Friedrich Schiller had been despatched to the aid of the Polish king, Sigismund, to defend Prussia against the Swedes. When the king... ...ution of it. Charnasse, an unsuspected agent of the Cardinal, proceeded to Polish Prussia, where Gustavus Adolphus was conducting the war against Sigi... ...he timid mind of Louis with the most alarming fears. Not merely chimerical politicians, but many of the best informed Roman Catholics, fully believed ... ...stria, France commenced her operations by liberating it from all fear of a Polish war. By means of the Count d’Avaux, its minister, an agreement was c... ...of the Swedes, who ceded by a single stroke of the pen almost the whole of Polish Prussia, the dear-bought conquest of Gustavus Adolphus. The treaty o...

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...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ... short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneous... ... moral and physical necessity. We might defy the little arts of the little politicians to control or vary the irresistible and unchange- able course o... ... an epidemical rage in Europe for this species of compacts, from which the politicians of the times fondly hoped for benefits which were never realize... ... nonattendance of a few States, have been frequently in the situation of a Polish diet, where a single vote has been sufficient to put a stop to all t... ... diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as fee... ...rom the examples of the 343 The Federalist Papers Roman T ribuneship, the Polish Diet, and the States-General of the Netherlands, did not an example ...

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...s Vincy, who had just the kind of intelligence one would desire in a woman—polished, refined, docile, lending itself to finish in all the delicacies o... ...own me this pregnant little fact. Y our pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multi... ...gh there was nothing to be said against her hus- band except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.” “I wish I knew all about he... ... there were differences which represented every social shade be- tween the polished moderation of Dr. Minchin and the tren- chant assertion of Mrs. Do... ...mpet,” in asserting that Ladislaw, if the truth were known, was not only a Polish emissary but crack-brained, which accounted for the preter- 420 Mid... ...voice. Nothing, had done instead—not the opera, or the converse of zealous politicians, or the flattering reception (in dim corners) of his new hand i...

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...ween Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer (discussed in chapter 7) and a Polish report that personnel at the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in B... ...n, dominated by a wealthy and indolent elite. Saudi contacts with American politicians are frequently invoked as accusations in partisan polit- ical a...