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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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...damen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politicians, the nationalists and suspicious people, since it gives them ye... ...rved our purposes be- fore the war. I believe that for old lawyers and old politicians and “pri- vate ownership” to handle the great problem of recons... ...fficient; the Western countries have to do the same with that oligarchy of politicians which, as Pro- fessor Michels has recently pointed out in his s... ...ns and controls. In other words, we cannot do with- out a special class of politicians. They may be elected by a public or appointed by an autocrat; a... ...ly victorious Russia would probably rejoin Posen to Russian Poland and the Polish fragment of Galicia, and create a dependent Pol- ish kingdom under t... ...ubtful how far national unanimity is any longer possible between the three Polish fragments. Like most En- glish writers, I receive a considerable amo... ... I receive a considerable amount of printed matter from various schools of Polish patriotism, and wide diver- gences of spirit and intention appear. A... ... be a feverish field of international intrigue—intrigue to which the fatal Polish temperament lends itself all too readily; it may be a battle- field ... ...those of 1914. That is, I think, an undesirable probability, but until the Polish mind qualifies its desire for absolute independence with a deter- mi...

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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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... twenty years, he was at last to marry, getting his death in so doing, the Polish Madame Hanska. These, with some relations of the last named, especia... ...s its heraldry, its nobles and commonalty , its artisans and peasants, its politicians and dan- dies, its army—in short, a whole world of its own. Aft...

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... so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders among the Northern politicians. They never begrudged to these assistants a full share of the g... ... would not work. The latter people has been, or soon will be, exterminated—polished off the face of creation, as the Americans say—which fate must, I ... ... this there has undoubtedly been treachery as well as rebellion. Had these politicians been honest—though the political growth of Washington has hardl... ...owth of Washington has hardly admitted of political honesty— but had these politicians been even ordinarily respectable in their dishonesty, they woul... ...the heavy, rough works of the Welsh coal metropolis than to the finish and polish of Birmingham. “Why cannot you consume your own smoke?” I asked a ge... ... have retreated farther from each other, the power of this middle class of politicians has decreased. Mr. Lin- coln, though he does not now declare hi... ...English newspapers or in French pamphlets, that the corruption of American politicians has been exposed, but by American voices and by the American pr... ... than his brethren. Our friend was very angry against England. “When we’ve polished off these accursed rebels, I guess we’ll take a turn at you. You h... ...igence of the Yankee gives place gradually to the softer, and perhaps more polished, manner of the Southern. But the change thus experienced is not gr...

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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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...he beak of a bird of prey, the clear, cold eye, the gentle voice—she is as polished as the steel of a machine, she touches everything except the heart... ..., Lavienne strewed straw on the wet floor. By long use the benches were as polished as varnished mahogany; at the height of a man’s shoulders the wall... ... in rows, lengthwise, in front of the shelves; and that floor had not been polished for two years. The tables and shelves were covered with ex votos, ... ...to the use of ice instead of water, and nothing but cold food, by a famous Polish lady of our day who spends a life, now verg- ing on a century old, a... ...e faithful who surrounded her the importance of a coterie. A few dam- aged politicians whose wounds she had bound up, and whom she flattered, pronounc... ...l- ter. During the last century a printing establishment had worn down the polished floors, soiled the carved wood, blackened the walls, and altered t...

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...arness, carve in copper, paint carriages, blow glass, corrode the diamond, polish metals, turn marble into leaves, labor on pebbles, deck out thought,... ...r the benefit of his pleasures, and only be- came one of the most profound politicians of his day when 57 Balzac he had saturated himself with those ...

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...is’ epigrams. And unfortunately, the corruption lurking beneath the utmost polish tricked itself out in Voltairean wit. If the Chevalier went rather t... ... a fierce ambition stirred up whenever party spirit ran high, these ardent politicians on their promotion were lucid, clear-sighted, and perspicacious... ...ssions to obscure the wider interests of the country; a class of crotchety politicians, up- holding the government one day and opposing it the next, c...

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... for the Senate. Senator Douglas is of world- wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, hav... ...it strictly as a gentle- man, in substance at least, if not in the outside polish. The latter I shall never be; but that which constitutes the inside ... ... having the institution amongst us. In that precise condition our Nebraska politicians have at last suc- ceeded in placing our own new Territories; th...

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...ich as the reader probably knows—was that of a blacksmith. As for external polish, or mere courtesy of manner, he never pos sessed more than a tolera... ...my death with a pair of wet slippers! And when the verses are written, and polished quite to your mind, I will favor you with my idea as to what the g... ...coarse, forth putting freedom of expression, which no de gree of external polish could have abated one single jot. Not that it was vulgar. But he had... ...rvatives, the writers of “The North Ameri can Review,” the merchants, the politicians, the Cambridge men, and all those respectable old blockheads wh... ...be. And still I could not but ac knowledge that, for personal beauty, for polish of manner, for all that externally befits a gentleman, there was har... ... seemed to rebound, however, from his courteous visage, like an arrow from polished steel. They all three descended the stairs; and when I likewise re...

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...advise while flattering, and dis- guise the advice under the flattery. All politicians who follow this trade have bilious faces; and their constant ha... ... the minister himself; they owed their fortune to their talents; they were politicians. Baudoyer was considered the more able of the two; his position... ...a Scotch paper costing fifteen sous a roll on the walls, brick floors well polished, walnut furniture in the parlor, and a tiny kitchen that was very ... ...y mediocrity to please minds of its own calibre. The Restoration, like the Polish revolution, proved to nations as to princes the true value of a Man,...

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... of enterprise. The written portions of this book were already in a highly polished state. They combined a limitless freedom of pro- posal with a smoo... ... Coal owners who think only of themselves, solicitors who think backwards, politicians who think like a game of cat’s- cradle, not a gleam of generosi... ...utomobile, produced an en-tout- cas pocket-handkerchief and set himself to polish the lamps with great assiduity. The two gentlemen lingered at the tu... ... girl might find a considerable variety of active, interesting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men o...

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... his own invention. It was to be effected by rays of light striking upon a polished plate of metal. Georgiana assented; but, on looking at the result,... ...rofanation. Emboldened by her indulgence, I threw back the calash from her polished brow, and suffered my fingers, white and delicate as her own, to s... ...r. Among the gentlemen were characters of deserved emi nence—magistrates, politicians, and men of wealth, by whose example religion could not but be ... ...e pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unrenewed amid their hoary hair; politicians, whom some malicious contingency of affairs has thrust into con... ... hues of his attire took a richer depth of coloring; there was a gleam and polish over his whole 114 Mosses from an Old Manse presence betokening the...

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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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...ood could come of Nazareth. In this way, four of our number became decided politicians, not only entertaining a sovereign contempt for the sides they ... ..., aided by the good cure, a man who re- membered her grandfather, had both polished and stored her mind. Her manners were of the excellent tone that d... ...;” still it was not in the sweet tones, and with the sweeter smiles of the polished and gentle girl we had left in Picardie. There was a sentiment in ... ...ography of a Pocket-Handkerchief dies. Even the tones of their voices were polished, a circum- stance that I think one is a little apt to notice in Ne... ...et- handkerchief that had then appeared in their circles; and had I been a Polish count, with two sets of moustaches, I could not have been more flatt...

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... shaped, cut, fitted with 74 War and the Future copper bands, calibrated, polished, varnished…. Then we go on to another system of machines in which ... ...” He reflected, and some disagreeable memory darkened his face. “Under the politicians?” he said. I took the train of thought N had set going abroad w... ... autonomous Po- land, with Cracow, Danzig, and Posen brought into the same Polish-speaking ring-fence with W arsaw. What everyone who has looked into ...

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...if,” he continued, “people are stupid enough not to throw off the shop and polish their manners, if they don’t know any better than to mistake the Cou... ... a shabby paper, blue with black flowers. The tiled floor, stained red and polished, was icy to the feet. There was no carpet except for a strip at th... ...s of the clergy. My wife is right; Pierrette is a rough diamond that wants polishing.” “I thought you were a baron,” said Sylvie to the colonel, while... ... In this particular case, this particular old maid carried the day against politicians, lawyers, nota- ries, and all other self-interests. Sylvie dete...

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..., belted with patent leather, bright blue plush breeches, a red waistcoat, polished leather top-boots, a shiny hat with black lacing, and brass button... ...ys no one knew how great a tax on a man’s capital were six francs spent in polish to spread on his boots or shoes, yellow gloves at fifty sous a pair,... ...ckness. A pair of hands as beautiful as ever a Greek sculptor added to the polished arms of a statue grasped Rodolphe’s arm, and their whiteness gleam... ...er Branch were to return,” said he to an old states- man of seventy, “what politicians would they find?”— “Berryer, alone on his bench, does not know ...