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...heir approach, and a few horsemen led, but the bulk of the force was naked humanity, mad with rage, and armed with the spear and the sword. The instin... ...on,’ said Torpenhow, rearrang- ing the blanket. ‘Here is a man, presumably human, who mentions the name of one woman only. And I’ve seen a good deal o... ...nd those who looked otherwise. ‘I never knew what I had to learn about the human face before,’ he thought; and, as a reward for his humility, Providen... ...ould be as it was of old, she wore a closely fitting gray dress. Since the human soul is finite and not in the least under its own command, Dick, adva... ...umiliating altogether; but I suppose even if one were an angel and painted humans alto- gether from outside, one would lose in touch what one gained i... ... in front of him. Torpenhow found him on the floor. ‘I’m trying to get the geography of my new posses- sions,’ said he. ‘D’you remember that nigger yo... ...d taken so long to move about his own darkened rooms well under- stood the geography of a ship, and the necessity of seeing to his own comforts was as...

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...e was sitting on a limb right over me, looking down at me. I felt something of the same sense of humiliation and injury which one feels when he finds ... ...but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use. Now I’ve never heard a jay use bad grammar but very seldom; and when they do, they are as ashame... ... may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure— but he’s got feathers on him, and don’t belong to no church, perhaps; but otherwise he is just a... ...lk to me—I know too much about this thing; in the one little particular of scolding— just good, clean, out-and-out scolding—a bluejay can lay over any... ...discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal, a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is an ass just as well as you do—maybe bet- ter. If a jay... ... the above item, about the army and the Indians, are made use of to discourage emigration to America. That the common people should be rather foggy in...

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...m were of very recent date. The books were of the most varied kind, history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law, all relatin... ...d streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it... ...ut as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. It was like the intolerable, tingling sweet ness of watergla... ...way! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if me... ...tering and chat tering and gossiping all day, after the manner of rooks—and humans. I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging things and housekeeping... ...post mortem and nothing to gain by it, no good to her, to us, to science, to human knowledge, Chapter 13 201 why do it? Without such it is monstrous....

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...h embraced the whole oichomeni;—the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the Briti... ...der will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of the human race has manifested it- self, are the four monarchies. Four times hav... ...ession, and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould, and had brought them un- der the unity of a sing... ...rs, operative even where it is not perceived, but like the distinctions of geography—existing to-day, forgotten to-morrow—and abolished by a stroke of... ...s, is no more than might natu- rally be expected. All other known power in human hands has either been extensive, but wanting in intensity—or in- tens... ...phys- ics. Else it is evident, that any power which, by standing above all human control, occupies the next relation to su- perhuman modes of authorit... ...is be supposed of him to whose care was confided the weightier part of the human race; who had it in his power to promote or to suspend the progress o...

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...gel, among merchants and seamen. Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even Frankenstein 6 in these rugged bosoms. My lieute... ...ices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the no blest endowments of humanity. I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; fin... ...ght on a large fragment of ice. Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it Frankenstein 10 whom the sailors were persuading t... ...ctionate our weak and faulty natures. I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendsh... ... their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels. No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents... ...who had given me life? Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative sit... ...enstein 131 had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to...

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...phet is the heavens; the least is the secret of the jumping cat within the human skull. How will so-and- so behave, and how will the nation take it? F... ...ilitarism or legalism, or the man who will first release atomic energy for human use, will walk along the Via Sacra as that Cicero or Giordano Bruno o... ... 1900 to write “ Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical Progress upon Human Life and Thought,” in 1916 his anticipations must belong to quite ano... ...reliminary examination. What is really being examined here is the power of human reason to prevail over passion—and certain other restraining and qual... ...ence, for example, may turn them this way or that. We are dealing with the human will—and thereby comes a snare for the feet of the would-be impartial... ...men which enables us to pit a woman at—the censorship will object to exact geography upon this point—against a man at Essen which has tipped the balan...

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...a sound, only I thought I could hear my heart. The dogs were as still as the humans, but they followed a little behind me. When I got to the three lo... ...e a turn to mesmer ism and phrenology when there’s a chance; teach singing geography school for a change; sling a lecture sometimes — oh, I do lots... ... anything like it, I’m a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. HUCKLEBERRY FINN 114 CHAPTER XXV. The news was all over town... ...l over tar and feathers, and didn’t look like nothing in the world that was human — just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier plumes. Well,... ...hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. We see we was too late —...

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...ity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING. —Cole... ...ther upon the indestructible and 5 Frederick Douglas unchangeable laws of human nature, every one of which is perpetually and flagrantly violated by ... ...ndicate a just and beneficent principle, in its applica- tion to the whole human family, by letting in the light of truth upon a system, esteemed by s... ..., that they are, naturally, inferior; that they are so low in the scale of human- ity, and so utterly stupid, that they are unconscious of their wrong... ...at large must feel the conviction, as well as admit the abstract logic, of human equality; the Negro, for the first time in the world’s history, broug... ...almost illimitable power. We all had vague and indis- tinct notions of the geography of the country. The distance, however, is not the chief trouble. ... ..., but not as the home of man. I knew something of theology, but nothing of geography. I really did not, at that time, know that there was a state of N... ...nd. I am, however, by no means preju- diced against the state as such. Its geography, climate, fertil- ity, and products, are such as to make it a ver...

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...n had asser an had asser t t t t ted tha ed tha ed tha ed tha ed tha t the human being is mer t the human being is mer t the human being is mer t the ... ...human being is mer t the human being is mer t the human being is mer t the human being is mer ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ... ...—from outside. If that timid man had lived all his life in a community of human rab bits, had never read of brave deeds, had never heard speak of th... ...an and Other Essays 16 Y.M. What do you call Love, Hate, Charity, Revenge, Humanity, Magnanimity, Forgiveness? O.M. Different results of the one Maste... ...There must be a genuinely and utterly self sacrific ing act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many years before you... ... are fifteen in number: I. Etymology; II. Grammar; III. Mathematics; IV . Geography; V . “Original”; VI. Analysis; VII. History; VIII. “Intellectual”... ...er of the feet. The product is the result. Right you are. In the matter of geography this little book is unspeakably rich. The questions do not appear... ...n our public schools are not merely loaded up with those showy facts about geography, mathematics, and so on, and left in that incomplete state; no, t...

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...her, what seemed scarcely 8 Sartor Resartus less interesting, a quite new human Individuality, an al- most unexampled personal character, that, namel... ... Philosophical reflections intervene, and sometimes touch- ing pictures of human life. Of this sort the following has surprised us. The first purpose ... ...cient Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, with- out arms, save the ball of heavy Flin... ..., the whole country being under water? But, on the other hand, show us the human being, of any period or climate, without his Tools: those very Caledo... ...asting Now? Think well, thou too wilt find that Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there is no Space and no Time: WE are—we kno... ...of order, courage, downrightness (Geradheit); that under- stood Busching’s Geography, had been in the victory of Rossbach, and left for dead in the ca... ...at of Hinterschlag, where he had his education, are equally foreign to our geography. Duck- ponds enough there undoubtedly are in almost every vil- la...

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... one-half its altitude. It looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring- time many splashing brooks. From its summit you must h... ...allejo. A long pier, a number of drinking saloons, a hotel of a great size, marshy pools where the frogs keep up their croaking, and even at high noon... ...lifornia boasts her famous stage-drivers, and among the famous Foss is not forgot- ten. Along the unfenced, abominable mountain roads, he launches his... .... And at the same time, we look tim- idly forward, with a spark of hope, to where the new lands, already weary of producing gold, begin to green with ... ...e detest each other’s errors. And yet somewhere, deep down in the heart of each one of us, something yearns for the old land, and the old kindly peopl... ... looks uglier when played at such close quar- ters and on so small a scale, it is none the more intrinsi- cally inhumane for that. The village usurer ...

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...n 1834, the fathers and brothers of the ‘Kirk’ were in harmony as great as humanity can hope to see. Since May, 1834, the church has been a fierce cra... ...l era of manufacturing extension,) but that the duties had outstripped all human power of overtaking them. The efforts, however, have been prodigious ... ...hrown round the person, without receiving any artificial adjustment to the human shape. So much for the form: with regard to the material, there was l... ...teen inches by two—twenty-eight square inches at the most—and is it within human belief that I, simply as I stand here, shall be converted in so narro... ...ot overlooked, if passed deliberately, may plead the ordinary privilege of human frailty. The man erred; and his error ter- minates in itself. But an ... ... of his own country; where all men had gone astray, he went astray. And in geography, as regarded the Italian movements of Hannibal, he erred with his...

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...t by the fancied sway Your system feigns o’er the controulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You... ... some corpses grinning, But has not answer’d like the apparatus Of the Humane Society’s beginning By which men are unsuffocated gratis: Wh... ...cause He had no business to commit a sin, Forbid by heavenly, fined by human laws, At least ‘t was rather early to begin; But at sixteen t... ...wreck complete she roll’d, At mercy of the waves, whose mercies are Like human beings during civil war. Then came the carpenter, at last, with t... ... every day help’d on his convalescence; ‘T was well, because health in the human frame Is pleasant, besides being true love’s essence, For hea... ...Such names at present cut a convict figure, The very Botany Bay in moral geography; Their loyal treason, renegado rigour, Are good manure fo... ...o that I do not grossly err in facts, Statistics, tactics, politics, and geography)— Having been used to serve on horses’ backs, And no grea... ... negroes, Nile or Niger, To that impracticable place, Timbuctoo, Where Geography finds no one to oblige her With such a chart as may be safely...

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...LXI EACH life converges to some centre Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal, Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be, Too fair For c... ...take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! 60 C WHO has not found the heaven below Wi... ...ecarious man. If nature will not tell the tale Jehovah told to her, Can human nature not survive Without a listener? Admonished by her buckled l... ...iolate a star. Such dimity convictions, A horror so refined Of freckled human nature, Of Deity ashamed,— It’s such a common glory, A fisherma... ...d in May, Dear to the moss, Known by the knoll, Next to the robin In every human soul. Bold little beauty, Bedecked with thee, Nature forswears Antiqu... ...t. CXIX VOLCANOES be in Sicily And South America, I judge from my geography. V olcanoes nearer here, A lava step, at any time, Am I inclined ...

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...ance their huge Desert-waltz there!— 9 Thomas Carlyle Nevertheless in all human movements, were they but a day old, there is order, or the beginning ... ...ery days we, by act of Assembly, ‘naturalise’ the chief Foreign Friends of humanity: Priestley, burnt out for us in Birmingham; Klopstock, a genius of... ...g, judging; devising, deciding, doing, endeavouring to do: one wonders the human brain did not give way under all this, and reel. But happily hu- man ... ...Mad movements both, restrain- able by no known rule; strongest passions of human na- 13 Thomas Carlyle ture driving them on: love, hatred; vengeful s... ...ady come into existence there; and be already working there, though as yet human eye discern it not! On the night of that same twenty-eighth of August... ...ave a geographical and topographical view of it; being from of old fond of geography.—The Temple Circuit again receives him, closes on him; gazing Par...

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... Laocoon struggle he would have glimpsed, that indeed he was not so much a human being as a civil war. Wonderful things must have been going on inside... ...ht of the present world no longer as a won- derland of experiences, but as geography and history, as the repeating of names that were hard to pronounc... ... sprang from the tip of his nose. When he wished to bring the power of the human eye to bear upon an assistant, he projected his chest, knitted one br... ...rs—in that symbol Mr. Polly could recognise himself and all the trouble of humanity. He hadn’t had a particularly good time, poor old chap, and now it... ...he Johnsons’ house. But over the struggles that preceded his mastery it is humane to draw a veil. And also Mr. Polly bought a number of books, Rabelai... ...t Mrs. Johnson was all for Mr. Polly’s loitering. She seemed much the more human and likeable of the two to Mr. Polly. He tried at times to work up en...

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...ht revolved, which, we may re- mark parenthetically, is the secret of much human accom- plishment; and his labor culminated finally in the invention o... ...ties who form the kernel of the political world. Knowing in the science of human nature, he assumed the character of a lis- tener, and none was ever m... ...vated; tumultuous grandeur towers above, but in itself all proportions are human. The world that the traveller has lately viewed is here in miniature,... ...d partners. At that moment Rabourdin was scolding poor Sebastien, the only human being who was in the secret of his immense labors. The youth copied a... ... his wife gave music lessons and he himself a course of history and one of geography in the evenings. He was about forty- five years of age, sergeant-... ... figure above the common height. Neat and clean as a master of history and geography in a young ladies’ school ought to be, he wore fine linen, a plea... ...es’ boarding-school. But Vimeux’s head was so full of his own idea that no human being could prevent him from having faith in his star. He continued t... ...l not be appointed head of the division.” Bixiou. “Papa Phellion, you know geography?” Phellion [bridling up]. “I should say so!” Bixiou. “And history... ... that, but you don’t know the human heart; you have gone no further in the geography and history of that organ than you have in the environs of the ci...

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...orehead, her eyes, her complex- ion. No regular beauty pleases egotistical human beings so much as a softened and refined likeness of themselves; for ... ... butter and cold beef directly. Having cleared a plateful, I became so far humanized as to intimate to Mr. Hunsden “that he need not sit there staring... ...anding his proviso that what he had done was not out of regard for me. But human nature is perverse. Impossible to answer his blunt question in the af... ...m to furnish proof that the climate is such as to induce degeneracy of the human mind and body; these, I soon found, were completely under her influen... ...and acquiring an imbecile indifference to every sentiment that can elevate humanity; they were distinguishable by an habitual look of sullen dejection... ...is tedious.” “Why do you pursue it? Why do you not rather teach his- tory, geography, grammar, even arithmetic?” “Is monsieur certain that I am myself... ...gue’s end.” “Monsieur, I have had many lessons both in grammar, his- tory, geography, and arithmetic. I have gone through a course of each study.” “Br... ...s. It seems she happened to be in want of a French lady to give lessons in geography, history, grammar, and composition, in the French language. Mrs. ... ...y frequently were; often, when elucidating favourite points of history, or geography, she would wax genuinely eloquent in her earnest- ness. Her pupil...

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.... It is better for mankind to be impressionable than reflective. Noth- ing humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come f... ...ult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some ... ...nce his aim is to reach the very fount of laughter and tears. The sight of human affairs deserves admi- ration and pity. They are worthy of respect to... ...d even in love. The manner in which, as in the features and character of a human face, the inner truth is foreshadowed for those who know how to look ... ... Victoria Dock, but never an emigrant turned up in Rouen—of which, being a humane person, I confess I was glad. Some gentlemen from Paris—I think ther... ...its soil I had not placed in position with my own hands); all the history, geography, politics, finance; the wealth of Charles Gould’s silver-mine, an...

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...ble zone of kindred languages, where the curse of Babel is so easy to be remedied; and my new fellow-creatures sat before me dumb like images. Methoug... ...tionless as an idol 18 In The South Seas and watching us, you would have said, without a wink. The next moment the tree closed, and the glimpse was g... ...of war on the great scale, trailing epidemics and leaving pestilential corpses in its train, that we have almost forgotten its original, the most heal... ...er Michel spoke always of his labours with a twinkle of humour, underlying which it was possible to spy a seri- ous pride, and the change from one to ... ...in those of the French, and to lock up a timid child in a dark room, 52 In The South Seas and, if he proved obstinate, lock up his sister in the next... ...and watched it till the morning. He had enough of night in the Paumotus. By daylight on the 9th we began to skirt Kauehi, and had now an opportunity t...