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...horses, being the equi- page most like a private carriage possessed by the Royal Ho- tel, came to the door with Mr. Egremont seated in it, at a few mi... ...at moment, Blanche’s side coming out victorious, Nuttie descended into the arena to congratulate 82 Nuttie’s Father and be asked to form part of the ... ... XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV. F . F . F . F . FARMS OR UMBRELL ARMS OR UMBRELL ARMS OR UMBRELL ARMS OR UMBRELL ARMS OR UM... ...Half an hour ago. I came down with George Greenleaf, left my things at the Royal Hotel, and came on to look for you.’ ‘You will come and spend the eve...

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...mes Castle with a reasonable extent of land, which, in his inquiries after farms, had turned up, was his first place of settlement in this new capacit... ... soul consciously and uncon- sciously storming for deliverance into better arenas; and this in a restless, rapid, impetuous, rather than in a strong, ... ...to remunerated: and indeed proving more and more to be the true ulti- mate arena, and battle-field and seed-field, for the exu- berant impetuosities a... ...i- tions been allowed, his spiritual capabilities were first- rate. In any arena where eloquence and argument was the point, this man was calculated t... ...at there lay in a certain neighboring creek of the Irish coast, a worn-out royal gun-brig condemned to sale, to be had dog-cheap: this he proposed tha... ...f getting into Malaga with a party of Fifty-five. He takes possession of a farmstead (Ingles, the place is called); barricades himself there, but is s... ... pictures of Architecture, and by Heads of Saints, better than many at the Royal Academy Exhibition, and which one paid noth- ing for looking at. The ... ... accustomed to. Do what you can, I fear there will be little gain from the Royalists. There is something very small about the biggest of them that I h...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Monsieur J. B. Nacquart, Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine. Dear Doctor—Here is one of the most carefully he... ... Bour- bons, had had relations with my father at the time when all devoted royalists were endeavoring to bring about the es- cape of Marie Antoinette ... ...ere all to see Paris together. The first day we were to dine in the Palais-Royal, so as to be near the Theatre-Francais. In spite of the intoxi- catio... ...e civil war, the revolutionary government had forgotten to sell one of his farms of considerable extent, which his farmer had held for him by giving o... ... the most fatiguing of all employments. We get small returns in money; the farms are cultivated on shares, a system which needs the closest supervisio... ...o rise to heaven with his brethren, I obtained the fa- vor of dying in the arena. “Were it not for you I must have succumbed under this life,” Henriet... ...l the old leases and give new ones, to di- vide the estate into four great farms and let them on equal shares, the sort of lease that prevails in T ou...

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... that continually threatened our steps; and this bridge became the eternal arena of combat, we taking good care to be on the right side of the bridge ... ...sion of public joy for a victory,—bells ringing in the distance,—or when a royal birthday, or some traditional commemoration of ancient feuds, (such a... ...ar that the public service must have languished deplorably for want of the royal signature. In sailing past his own dominions, what dolorous outcries ... ...ions, what dolorous outcries would have saluted him from the shore—“Hollo, royal sir! here’s the deuse to pay: a perfect lock there is, as tight as lo... ...n. Through this mighty labyrinth of sounds, which Archimedes, aided by his arenarius, could not sum or disentangle, one solitary infant’s feet are dis... ...ed as this. In my twelfth year it was that first of all I entered upon the arena of a great public school, viz., the Grammar School 1 of Bath, over w... ...ngs, and the torture of “picketings;” to say nothing of houses burned, and farms laid waste—things which were done daily, and under mili- tary orders;...

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...ad left him only four thousand francs a year, the income from some cottage farms which lent painful uncertainty to the rents. The lion had hardly thre... ... Amedee slept late, dressed and went out towards noon, to go to one of his farms and practise pistol-shooting. He at- tached as much importance to thi... ...oil. Amedee wanted to achieve a good marriage by proving some day that his farms were not mortgaged, and that he had some savings. He wanted to be the... ...in it. Ah! Francesca, at my age tenderness requited, and by so sublime, so royally beautiful a creature as you are—why, it is the fulfilment of all my... ...Bourgogne, the last survivor of the only house which can ever vie with the royal family of France—” “Oh! of a bastard branch, and that a female line.”... ...ess, and how difficult it is to achieve anything of any kind in Paris, the arena where so many champions meet, I came to a determination painful to my... ...is not such a fool as her mother thinks her.” Monsieur de Chavoncourt is a Royalist, of the famous 221. Hence, from the day after the revolution of Ju...

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...ord, taking his commission from his bosom, laid it on the table before his Royal Highness with much emotion, and asked permission to retire from the s... ..., by spending a few hours a week at a new and com- plicated edition of the Royal Game of the Goose. There wants but one step further, and the Creed an... ...he boy’s inactivity, at an age when all his ancestors had borne arms; even Royalty itself had deigned to inquire whether young Waverley was not now in... ...iod, whose scanty rents were eked out by the contributions levied upon the farms by these light foragers, and the conscriptions exacted from the latte... ...otland appeared to depend, now faced each other like two gladiators in the arena, each meditating upon the mode of attacking their enemy. The leading ... ...echery, cattle-lifting. Spuilzie, spoil (cf. bruilzie = broil). Steadings, farms. Stieve, stiff. Stirk, a year-old heifer or bullock. Stoor, austere. ...

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...on and the humblest copy- ing-clerk; one is as powerful as the other in an arena outside of which each lords it in his own way. Education, equally dis... ...ckery. All the higher offices were gained through parliamentary influence, royalty had nothing to do now with them, and the subordinate clerks became,... ...ly required three additional clerks in the justice courts and three in the royal courts. The steady application of this principle brought Rabourdin to... ...ner to a secret society; and filled a posi- tion of superintendence in the royal household. His two of- ficial posts which appeared on the budget were... ...e! T welve thousand francs a year and perquisites, beside the rents of our farms at Grajeux,— nearly twenty thousand francs a year. It is not affluenc...

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...a to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit odd, of course, but the whole sit... ...d.” 24 When the Sleeper Wakes They did not answer him. “The Queen and the Royal Family, her Ministers, of Church and State. High and low, rich and po... ...reat archways giv- ing remoter perspectives, and everywhere people, a vast arena of people, densely packed and cheering. Across the nearer space lay t... ...at?” asked Graham. “‘I am awakened and my heart is with you.’ And bow— bow royally. But first we must get you black robes—for black is your colour. Do... ...dotted the country, by the vast treeless expanse of country from which all farms and vil- lages had gone, save for crumbling ruins. He had known the t...

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...I shall endeavor to interest in Edmond’s favor. I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a ... ...e — a Bonapartist, and is called Noirtier; I, on the contrary, am a stanch royalist, and style myself de Villefort. Let what may remain of revolu- tio... ... daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher clas... ...rom those of Baron Cervetri, and the children returned to their respective farms, promising to meet the next morn- ing. The next day they kept their w... ...he folds of his mantle, passed almost close to Franz, and descended to the arena by an outward flight of steps. The next minute Franz heard himself ca...

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... half devil! run out the bowsprit, up mainsail, top and top-gallant sails, royals, and sky-scrapers, and away,—follow who can! That fellow, Mr. Manner... ... well, and rides the whole day. Probably the extent of their large pasture farms, and the necessity of surveying them rapidly, first introduced this c... ...th our bold yeoman Andrew Dinmont, who has succeeded to the keeping of our royal flocks within the forest of Jedwood, where, thanks to our royal care ... ...e ceremonies, procured him three rounds of applause. “Deil hae me, if they arena a’ mad thegither!” said Din- mont, occupying with less ceremony a sea... ...ssional!—another forfeit,” exclaimed the tumultuary nobility. “Had not our royal predecessors,” continued the monarch, exalting his sovereign voice to... ...Can’t you take another then?” “I dinna ken—the Deuke’s no that fond o’ led farms, and he canna bide to put away the auld tenantry; and then I wadna li... ...he proprietor, or his managers, as to occasion the rent of his neighbour’s farms being raised, which, for obvious rea- sons, is held a very unpopular ...

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...h the back, mounting forest glades and coronals of precipice. Here, in the strong thorough-draught, Her Maj- esty received us in a simple gown of prin... ...through the dark under- growth, the floor of the forest was all paved. Three tiers of terrace ran on the slope of the hill; in front, a crumbling para... ... our European horror of human bones and mummies. Of the first they made their cherished orna- ments; they preserved them in houses or in mortuary cave... ...o be crowded with the brown roofs of houses; those of the palace and king’s summer parlour (which are of corrugated iron) glittered near one end con- ... ...to send his draught cattle to the shambles. Karaiti, to this day, calls his eight wives ‘his horses,’ some trader having explained to him the employme... ...- fully renewed his torments. Ave, Caesar! Smothered in a corner, dormant but not dead, we have all the one touch of nature: an infant passion for the... ...ined; and Tenkoruti, the grandfa- ther of Tembinok’, was the chief of a village at the north end of the island. Kuria and Aranuka were yet indepen- de...

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..., overlooked by quaint, unfinished hills. The Carmel runs by many pleas- ant farms, a clear and shallow river, loved by wading kine; and at last, as i... ...moved farther on, pursuing the strange Odyssey of his decadence. His days of royal favour had departed even then; but he still retained, in his narrow... ... character of man, without the help of petticoats. The Kingdom of Fife (that royal province) may be ob- served by the curious on the map, occupying a ... ...ng fish, not one but has its legend, quaint or tragic: Dunfermline, in whose royal towers the king may be still observed (in the ballad) drinking the ... ...nseen collaborators, if I here toss them over, bound hand and foot, into the arena of the critics? For the business of the powders, which so many have...

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...sart, a park of fifteen hundred acres enclosed by a stone wall, nine large farms, a forest, mills, and meadows. This almost regal property belonged be... ... old frondeur (he inherited the four great rancors of the nobility against royalty), came to live at Cinq-Cygne. The former courtier, rejected at the ... ...ver aggravated by terror. 25 Balzac Michu did not appear in the political arena until after these events, for the marquis and his wife remained in pr... ...r the whole of France, including among its mem- bers montagnards, chouans, royalists, and their princes. “Louis XVIII. held that as long as there were... ..., whose product he was. He murdered his mother on that occasion, but these royalists only seek to recover what was theirs. I can understand that the p... ...e went, and she was nearly always out of doors, riding or hunting over the farms of Gondreville, with- 38 An Historical Mystery out objection being m...

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...a- ment, or of mine, a painful discovery. The world was not made for us; it was made for ten hundred millions of men, all different from each other an... ...uealing and dealing death in some moorland feud of the ferrets and the wild cats. One after another closed his ob- scure adventures in mid-air, triced... ...ad stopped in front of him: “Gib, ye eediot,” he had said, “what’s this I hear of you? Poalitics, poalitics, poalitics, weaver’s poalitics, is the way... ... of un- tenanted moorland running in that direction towards the 90 Weir of Hermiston sources of the Clyde, he laid his finger on Cauldstaneslap and t...

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...,” said Adam, still wrathful; “what’s age got to do with it, I wonder? Y e arena getting stiff yet, I reckon. I hate to see a man’s arms drop down as ... ...ure that she should be dressed so: she is clearly one of those children of royalty who have never doubted their right divine and never met with any on... ...llays putten a sprig o’ mint in mysen; but how’s ye t’ know that? The lads arena like to get 110 Adam Bede folks as ‘ll make their parridge as I’n ma... ...ated to see the fellow lift the pewter pint to his mouth in the bar of the Royal George on market- day, and the mere sight of him on the other side of... ...d pettiest. For example, I have often heard Mr. Gedge, the landlord of the Royal Oak, who used to turn a bloodshot eye on his neighbours in the villag... ...he hedgerows in those days shut out one’s view, even on the better-managed farms; and this after- noon, the dog-roses were tossing out their pink wrea... ...resay Thurle, who is a man of some capital, would be glad to take both the farms, as they could be worked so well together. But I don’t want to part w... ...he rent, and save another quarter— I say, if Mr. Thurle’s so ready to take farms under you, it’s a pity but what he should take this, and see if he li... ... empty chair. “Come, Adam, then, take one,” persisted Mr. Poyser, “else y’ arena half a man.” Adam got up, blushing like a small maiden—great strong f...

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...oprietors lived in great ease and prosperity, in beautiful and picturesque farmsteads, enjoying a careless abundance, and keeping numerous rural or re... ... their own, and owing no duty, no office; poorer, because unendowed by the royal authority, but holding themselves infinitely higher, than the pension... ...ed little bride by her husband to come from all the cattle of the mountain farms around, who were to have their weal secured by being driven through t... ...n a day’s journey. All was preparation. Fresh sand had to be strewn on the arena. New tapestry hangings were to deck the galleries, the houses and bal... ...hey rode out to take their place in the procession that was to welcome the royal guests. Mas- ter Sorel, in ample gown, richly furred, with medal and ... ...e, but it was so quaint and so brilliant that it did not need the charm of royal conde- scension to entrance the young knights, who stood silent audit... ...ho will do so,” said Master Gottfried. “For morn- ing gift he promises the farms and lands of Grunau—rich both in forest and corn glebe. Likewise, her...

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...ks all to win all, by sacrificing to the god who has most votaries in this royal city, namely, Chance. At the 6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life same t... ...urn. The Rue de Langlade and the adjacent streets are a blot on the Palais Royal and the Rue de Rivoli. This portion of one of the handsomest quarters... ...age administrator alike must regret the old wooden galleries of the Palais Royal, where the lambs were to be seen who will always be found where there... ....” Thus Lucien, accustomed to regard the Grandlieus’ draw- ing-room as his arena, reserved his wit, his jests, his news, and his courtier’s graces for... ...him. “But, monsieur, old Sechard left twenty acres of vineyard, five small farms, ten acres of meadowland here, and not a sou besides—” “Nothing on ea...

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...r heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour... ...alled collection’—’Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry’—’The Royal Family are the pa trons of Jarley. ’ When she had exhibited these le... ...who was the delight of the Nobility and Gentry and the peculiar pet of the Royal Family, destitute of these familiar arts; or that she presumed so gre... ...ning streams, and rich with wooded hills, cultivated land, and shel tered farms. Now and then, a village with its modest spire, thatched roofs, and g... ...d, and where they might maintain themselves by very humble helping work in farms, free from such terrors as that from which they fled—the child, with ... ...l fight is found to be a comfortable spectacle by those who are not in the arena, and a house on fire is better than a play to people who don’t live n...

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...ver printed. It is, however, certain that the work was introduced into the Royal Chapel at St James’s, and that a long criticism ap- peared in the Mus... ...rinted, was never purchased; the copies which had been introduced into the Royal Chapel disappeared again, and were laid by in peace, with a load of s... ...on, and to entrust his parish to his curate. He had been a preacher to the royal beefeat- ers, curator of theological manuscripts in the Ecclesiasti- ... ...f on the success of his last move. He could not himself de- scend into the arena with Slope, but Arabin would have no such scruples. Arabin was exactl... ...to buying pianos and silk dresses instead of putting his money by to stock farms for his sons. Mrs Greenacre, much as she reverenced Miss Thorne, and ...

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...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain th...

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...RE EARE EARE EARE EARE 1 W ILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at S... ...lfilment of so grave a duty on the hazard of a convulsion fit. The case of royal children is different; their baptisms, it is true, were often delayed... ...t the very time, and accompa- nied with friendly sympathy, every motion of royal favor towards Shakspeare. Now he, in words which leave no room for do... ...hing for any poetry, although he wrote about its mechanic rules. Still the royal imprimatur would be influential and serviceable no less when offered ... ...on would be a degraded person; one who was permanently repelled from every arena of honor, and sometimes, as in cases of public danger, was banished f... ...oebaean contest was like that between two village cocks from neigh- boring farms endeavoring to overcrow each other. To us, in this age of purer and m... ...as indeed seems probable beforehand, was not the first but the last of his arenas as a schoolboy Which indeed was first, and which last, is very unimp...

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...und a projecting point of rock, and when she turned it, she found a battle royal going on over an old lobster-pot—Conrade hand to hand with a stout fi... ...Auchinvar property, that should have been poor Archie’s, and what with the farms and the moor, it would bring you in towards three hundred a year for ... ...croquet, in case there should have been too many players for the principal arena. This, however, had not been wanted, and no one was visible except a ...

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...ted not their hands against the persecuting monarch, and the neighbor- ing farms lost not one lamb through their violence. Some at least listened to t... ...estilential air, but was rich and fertile, full of highly cultivated small farms, where corn was raised in furrows made by a small hand plough, and he... ...un- tain clothed with chestnut woods, with spaces opening be- tween, where farms and vineyards rejoiced in the sunshine and the fresh breezes of the l... ...he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, w... ...ace of chambers, passages, and vaults around the central space, called the arena, from the arena, or sand, with which it was strewn. When the Roman Em... ...crapings of a soft white stone, which, when thickly strewn, made the whole arena look as if covered with untrodden snow. Around the border of this spa... ...on nearer, because of the unclothed state of some of the performers in the arena. Between the ladies’ boxes, benches were squeezed in where the lowest... ...est in England. This whole glittering army, at their head the King’s great royal standard bearing the golden lilies of France quartered with the lions... ... ever since the disputed succession of Bruce and Balliol had unsettled all royal authority, and led to one perpetual war with the English. The twenty ...

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...rather to face the battle than to filch suc- cess, to spring down into the arena rather than become a trumpet in the orchestra. “Society, madame, oddl... ...d them in triumph, and laid them on his wife’s lap. “A ream of this paper, royal size, would cost five francs at the most,” he added, while Eve handle... ...ed them up, and stayed execution by lodging notice of appeal on the Court- Royal. Notice of appeal, duly reiterated on the 25th of July, drew Metivier... ...the storm passed over to Poitiers, and an attorney practising in the Court-Royal instructed to defend the case, than Petit-Claud, a champion facing bo... ...a bit,” said the miller, “that printer is the son of the old skinflint who farms his own land at Marsac, isn’t he?” “The very same,” said Lucien. “He ... ...rumps? Very well; the ambitious man who carries virtue’s precepts into the arena when his antagonists have left them behind is behaving like a child. ...

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...nly the pots would be empty, and famine would be in the land, although the farms and butchers’ shops were still well stocked. The gen- eral community ... ... lift- ing up his voice, not exactly in the wilderness but at least in the Royal Institution, against the legal as compared with the creative or futur... ...ss with impunity, but she passes. She makes her stilted passage across the arena upon which the new wom- anhood of Western Europe shows its worth. It ... ...ntelligent adults if they are to hold against the political scoundrel, the royal adventurer, the fo- rensic exploiter, the enemies and scatterers of m... ...lised Germans and people of German origin in Britain—below the rank of the Royal Fam- ily, that is—and in making enduring bad blood between them and t...

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...rwards, under Charles II. that their existence was legally recognized by a royal charter. This frequently renders its it difficult to detect the link ... ...dure of England; in 1650 the decrees of justice were not yet headed by the royal style. See Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 452. **Code of 1650, p. 28; Hartfor... ...o instruments of oppres- sion. The Revolution declared itself the enemy of royalty and of provincial institutions at the same time; it confounded all ... ...y would be respected. But the American judge is brought into the political arena inde- pendently of his own will. He only judges the law because he is... ...ices will redound to his shame and confusion. His conduct in the political arena has been that of a shameless and lawless gamester. He succeeded at th... ...se dangerous times genius no longer abstains from presenting itself in the arena; and the people, alarmed by the perils of its situation, buries its e... .... A man whose estate extends over a whole district, and who owns a hundred farms, is well aware of the importance of gaining at the same time the affe... ...s branches have spread. In the course of the last fifty years the rents of farms have amazingly increased, not only in France but throughout the great... ...have fallen under the control of the State. The State either works them or farms them; the owners of them are mere tenants, deriv- ing their rights fr...

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...rty in game, he was a liberal landlord. No tenants were forced to take his farms. He dragged none by the collar. He gave them liberty to go to Austral... ...have given him anything— the last word in favour of the Country versus the royal Mar- tyr, for example, had he insisted on it. She gathered, bit by bi... ...h face con- cerning the declaration of war, and told with approval how the Royal hand had trembled in committing itself to the form of signature to wh... ...What writing! He was uplifted as ‘The heroical Commander Beauchamp, of the Royal Navy,’ and ‘Commander Beauchamp, R.N., a gentleman of the highest con... ...liteness is compelled to throw off cloak and jacket when it steps into the arena to meet the encounter of a bull. Beauchamp drew on their word ‘solida... ...literary periodical, no foremost combatant in politics, no champion in the arena; hardly better than a commentator on the events of the six past days;...

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...llowing many and follow’d by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena, (It may be I am destin’d to utter the loudest cries there, the win... ... as it departs, panting, blowing the steam whistle, See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—see, the numberless factories, See, mecha... ...salute you? I see a great round wonder rolling through space, I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, hut... ...chian! Bulgarian! You Roman! Neapolitan! you Greek! You lithe matador in the arena at Seville! You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Cauca... ...to my morning’s romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me. A young man comes ... ...s me with pleasure. O the joy of the strong brawn’d fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opp... ...o England, They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault, Dig out King George’s coffin, unwrap him quick from the grav... ...orming from his simplicity the poor man’s wages, For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh’d at in the breaking, Then in their power... ...e hair drooping dishevel’d round her shoulders, At her feet fallen an unused royal harp, Long silent, she too long silent, mourning her shrouded hope ...

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...Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Con... ...ry thing to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colo... ...ion of families, the impressiveness of death, and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will. To make habituall... ...nd its intrinsic 83 Emerson date. It must go with all Walpole’s Noble and Royal Au- thors to its fate. Blackmore, Kotzebue, or Pollok may en- dure fo... ...transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of a... ...ruin, nature causes each man’s peculiarity to superabound. Here, among the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery. They are natur... ...cs and trade, but the per- sonal force appears readily enough in these new arenas. Power first, or no leading class. In politics and in trade, bruiser...

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...e for children which leads certain people to establish orphanages and baby farms and schools, seizing any pretext for filling their houses with chil- ... ...king up and down to shew them off; and acting as footmen and housemaids to royal personages. The sole and obvious cause of the notion that idleness is... ...w oftener than it used to, because people remain much longer in the sexual arena. The cultivated Jewess no longer cuts off her hair at her marriage. T... ...hat has no god in it. Why do governments do nothing in spite of reports of Royal Commissions that establish the most frightful urgency? Why do our phi...

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...oming less and less French every day; but in the villages and on the small farms the French still remain, keeping up their language, their habits, and... ...hus a better class of people than the French hold possession of the larger farms, and are on the whole doing well. I am told that many Americans are n... ... possible danger; whereupon those who accompanied the prince requested his Royal Highness to forbear. I fear that, in these careful days, crowned head... ...n give to a new nationality then first taking its own place in the world’s arena, is a problem yet to be solved. There is, I think, no more beautiful ... ...ortation of slaves, her breaches of treaty, and the bribery of her all but royal governor, are known to all men. But Canada is not dishonest; Canada i... ...prove- ments at a profitable rate and takes the price. He is a preparer of farms rather than a farmer. He has no love for the soil which his hand has ... ...erity of military discipline. To them hitherto the war had seemed to be an arena on which each might do something for his country which that country w... ...illed less respectably. It is but an industrious idleness, an attempt at a royal road to information, that habit of attending lectures. Let any man or...

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...f these coal-miners, in blocks and pairs here and there, together with odd farms and homes of the stockingers, straying over the parish, formed the vi... ...Bill Hodgkisson. ‘Bill,’ I says, ‘tha non wants them three nuts, does ter? Arena ter for gi’ein’ me one for my bit of a lad an’ wench?’ ‘I ham, Walter... ...week. Then he was happy. On Friday night, Satur- day, and Sunday, he spent royally, getting rid of his sover- eign or thereabouts. And out of so much,... ... faced the amphitheatre of round hills that glowed with sunset, tiny white farms standing out, the meadows golden, the woods dark and yet luminous, tr... ...He came round. One evening of that week Sarah Bernhardt was at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, giving “La Dame aux Camelias” . Paul wanted to see thi...

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...next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself...

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... At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whate... ...e view. “Eight hun- dred acres go with the house—the old man told me. Five farms altogether. Rocketts is one of ‘em.” “I like Mrs. Cloke. But what is ... ... tory, as one gives it to lodgers, of Friars Pardon the house and its five farms. But Sophie asked so many questions, and George was so humanly intere... ...12 Actions and Reactions “Poor old thing!” They had been walking round the farms as usual before tea. “No wonder they loved it. Think of the sacrifice... ...e truth,” said the Queen’s voice behind them. They had not heard the heavy royal footfall which sets empty cells vibrating. Sacharissa offered her foo... ... very shame, the bees never went there. How in that ruin she blocked out a Royal Cell of sound wax, but disguised by rubbish till it looked like a kop... ...g bees to educate certain new-born bees in the almost lost art of mak- ing Royal Jelly. How the nectar for it was won out of hours in the teeth of chi... ...erenice, W. 2206 .. . Riga—Vladivostock Draw, E. 446 . . Coventry—Pontes Arenas Tontine, E. 5068 . C. Wrath—Ungava Wu-Sung, E. 41776 . . Hankow—Lob...

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...n. It begins in caves and shelters; it culminates in a wide spec- tacle of farms and peasant villages, and little towns among the farms. There were wa... ...exhorted this island to “wake up” in one of the most remarkable of British royal utterances, and Mr. Owen Seaman assures him in verse of an altogether... ...o were drowned? Shall we give him an hour or so among the portraits at the Royal Academy, or shall we make an enthusiastic tour of London sculpture an... ...and perhaps, if he has devised economies and improve- ments, a receiver of royalties during his declining years. And concurrently with the systematic ... ...at amounted in fact to little more than a system of private own- ership of farms and trades without money or any buying and selling, in an atmosphere ... ... is he on? You cannot have more than one fight going on in the politi- cal arena at the same time, because only one party or group of parties can win....

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...unity of gratifying it was not long wanting. 71 Friedrich Schiller In the Royal Letter which the Bohemians had extorted from Rodolph II., as well as ... ...towns, because they looked upon the ecclesiastical property as part of the royal demesnes. In the little town of Klostergrab, subject to the Arch- bis... ... of May, 1618, the deputies ap- peared armed, and in great numbers, at the royal palace, and forced their way into the hall where the Commissioners St... ...nquished, and friends were not more merci- ful than enemies. The neglected farms, the de- struction of the crops, and the numerous armies which overra... ...vate ends by a treaty with the Germans, she suddenly entered the political arena as an active and a commanding power. While the other belliger- ent st...

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...to Corpus Christi there was only a small settlement at Bastrop, with a few farms along the Colorado River; but after leaving 36 Personal Memoirs that... ...armed with spears having a point as sharp as a needle. Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musk... ...e in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris islands, Hilton Head, Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in South Carolina and Georgia; Fernandina, St. Augus... ...ottsylvania was of the same character. There were some clearings and small farms within what might be termed the battle-field; but generally the count... ...s, some going to the town direct, and others crossing so as to connect the farms with roads going there. Lee’s headquarters were at Orange Court House... ...of the navy in chang- ing our base of supplies from Fredericksburg to Port Royal, on the Rappahannock. Up to this time I had received no reinforcement... ...ouse, on the Pamunkey. The wagon train and guards moved directly from Port Royal to White House. Supplies moved around by water, guarded by the navy. ...

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... things, taking away his passport.With help from a dissident member of the royal family, he managed to get out of the country under the pretext of att... ... self-interest with respect to safety, they hadn’t seen it in the security arena.” 59 The final layer, security on board commercial aircraft, was not ... ...e sometimes stayed the night, and his primary residence at the time,Tarnak Farms.After the Afghan tribals reported that they had tried such an ambush ... ...fiction.Thereafter, the capture plan focused on a nighttime raid on Tarnak Farms. 17 A compound of about 80 concrete or mud-brick buildings surrounded... ...out 80 concrete or mud-brick buildings surrounded by a 10-foot wall,Tarnak Farms was located in an isolated desert area on the out- skirts of the Kand... ...ucture such as power grids, areas where people con- gregate such as sports arenas, and civil aviation generally. It warned that the 1993 World Trade C... ...e. The most serious weaknesses in agency capabilities were in the domestic arena. In chapter 3 we discussed these institutions—the FBI, the Immigratio... ...their friends can help them change. 20 There are signs that Saudi Arabia’s royal family is trying to build a consensus for political reform, though un... ... ouchstone, 2001), pp. 80–82. On aid provided by a dissident member of the royal fam- ily , see Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, Sept. 27, 2...