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...or healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, reli- gious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feelin... ... advance. There was one waiter in especial who was the most ac- complished social being I have ever encountered; from morning till night he kept up an... ...nd of those pleasures which proceed from the presence of women in whom the social art is both instinctive and acquired. The women of that period were,... ...ter of his own. This trifling incident reminded me afresh that France is a democratic country. I think I received an admonition to the same effect fro... .... In the year 436, Theodoric, King of the Visigoths, superseded both these parties; and it is during his occupation that the inner enceinte was raised... ...n all the others. It reminded me, as one is reminded at every turn, of the democratic con- ditions of French life: a man of the people, with a wife en...
... no impression of incompleteness, of maimed or stinted nature. And yet, in social intercourse, these familiar friends of his habitually and instinctiv... ...ts forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches near parties that come into the catacomb, especially if they be heretics, hoping... ..., in spite of all these professional grudges, art- ists are conscious of a social warmth from each other’s pres- ence and contiguity. They shiver at t... ...y of the Palace of the Caesars on the other, there arose singing voices of parties that were stroll- ing through the moonlight. Thus, the air was full... ...emperor is enough to create an eva- nescent sentiment of loyalty even in a democratic bosom, so august does he look, so fit to rule, so worthy of man’... ...e sufficed to people with human life so large an abode as this, and impart social warmth to such a wide world within doors. The sculptor confessed to ...
...ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly ter... ...s kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had an... ... them—and duelled them dead without wink- ing; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes—looki... ...shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dig- nity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Hi... ...ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Y ... ...ce of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Thou... ...e interruptions now and then, a conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at intervals not without still another interruption of a very ...
...e after him; with much more about his former idle habits,—fre- quenting of democratic oratory, public-houses, and fond- ness for bad company and strol... ...hen I shall send his sons to school and college.’ ‘ And pray what are your social duties till that time comes?’ ‘That’s plain enough,’ said Clara: ‘to... ...h, with your place made for you.’ ‘Not at all,’ said Louis. ‘Northwold tea-parties were my earliest, most natural dissipation; and I spoke for these g... ... the sheep,’ were his words, as he went forth to stand between the hostile parties, and endeavour to check their fury against one another. She herself... ...d lady, ‘it may often be the greatest blessing, the best incentive to both parties.’ Lady Conway was too much surprised to make a direct answer, but s...
...G ELDERLY ........................................................ 33 U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY ............................................................. ...China but in the late 90s it had been granted a freedom to experiment with social and political policies and with technology. Its progress has been ... ...ghts‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, are at least in part responsible for the over two million pri... ...arm that real farming is decreasing. ―The realities of politics in a democratic-republic is that to get the necessary votes for a measure you ... ...entific method that it applied to directing our society. While we have some democratic tendencies, enough to keep the people happy by thinking that t... ...n China to emulate their Western cousins—peroxided California blonds, rave parties, gratuitous uncaring and unprotected sex, and the selfishness tha... ...ring for others, because we are all in this together. This is what allows a democratic society to evolve toward the ‗good.‘ Without this altruistic e... ... The Republicans think they know. The Democrats think they know. The Green parties think they know. The kings think they know. The revolutionaries t...
...the impoverished. 9 “There are a couple of problems however. In a democratic world would the people of Connecticut vote for reducing their... ...ing parenting. “And what about health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Heal... ...dea. This is especially true in countries that call themselves religious or democratic because either God told us to have a bunch or babies or becau... ...uman lives can be happier and more productive. Ashley Montague, my favorite social thinker, and Sigmund Freud, not one of my 25 favorites, agree ... ...e time the population reached 150 all the good places to live and the major social roles were taken. Shortly after this population mark had been rea... ...hest attainable potentials. And what’s more—Article 4 mandates that ‘States Parties shall undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative, and ... ... He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While he was elected democratically, democracy was not one of his goals for his country. Chet...
........................................................................ 124 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS ............................................... ........................................................................ 243 SOCIAL QUESTIONS ............................................................. ...h is wrong in the other‘s eyes. My habits are right, my beliefs regarding socialism or free enterprise, appropriate dress, how to raise children, or... ...Hindu society we believe in the Upanishads and the Gita. If it is a truly democratic country we believe in certain humanistic principles. If it is a... ...o to college is it to gain knowledge and experiences now, like sports and parties, or is it to gain the tools you need for your future occupation or... ... have input from pressure groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically elected representatives are nearly always beholden to someb... ...that older version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians call for ―moral values‘. But the political course t... ...evasion in a corruption probe that has linked him with lawmakers from both parties ―We can certainly argue that these individuals who proclaim ... ...civil rights violations by China have the right to violence against third parties who were not involved with China? ―It‘s true that China in...
...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ............................. 195 v Charles Dickens 6 Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841. At a public din... ...or fictitious characters the classes from which they are drawn—about third parties, in whom we had a common interest. At every new act of kindness on ... ...eed—which is a very wide and comprehensive one, and includes all sects and parties— is very easily summed up. I have faith, and I wish to diffuse fait... ...o my way rejoicing, and for the future to shake hands with America, not at parties but at home; and, therefore, gentlemen, I say to night, with a full... ...y for merit everywhere: accepting it equally whether it be aristocratic or democratic, only asking whether it be honest or true, is, I take it, the tr...
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...ification by meanings and applications, new or old, under the galvanism of democratic forces. The disturbers of 8 Theological Essays and Other Papers... ...pedient; but if it required a new law to make it illegal, how could those, parties be held in the wrong previously to the new act of legislation? On t... ... the parish, as a party whose reasonable wishes ought, for the sake of all parties, to meet with attention? Or did he do so, in humble submission to t... ...econciled the rights of patrons for the first time with those of all other parties interested. Nobody has more than a condi- tional power. Everybody h... ..., if defeated as a clerical power, should settle into a tenure exquisitely democratic? W as that trivial? Doubtless, the Scot- tish ecclesiastical rev... ...astoral. And at this moment, so fearfully increased is the overbearance of democratic impulses in Scot- land, that perhaps in no European nation—hardl... ...vil which acts through opinion, it acts by a machinery, viz. the press and social centralization in great cities, which in these days is perfect. Righ... ...an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the Free Church lies in pleading a spiritual ... ...middle ages. It would be absurd, however, seriously to pur- sue these anti-social chimeras through their consequences. Stern remedies would summarily ...
... American statesman since Washington, the statesman who in this absolutely democratic republic succeeded best, was the very man who actually combined ... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One won him the election in the strongly Democratic district. Then for the first time, perhaps, he thought seriously... ...ator of the United States when only thirty-nine years old. In the National Democratic convention of 1852 he appeared even as an aspirant to the nomina... ...f the State at least, as the representative combatants of their respective parties in the debates be- fore popular meetings. As soon, therefore, as, a... ...with their consent. He repeatedly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On thi... ...tive by temperament and mental habit, and led the most sudden and sweeping social revolution of our time; who, preserving his homely speech and rustic... ...ci- pal members of the convention not only condemned sla- very as a moral, social, and political evil, but believed that by the suppression of the sla... ...he gov- ernment, through it all; that he listened to all advice, heard all parties, and then, always realizing his responsibility to God and the natio... ...art, and the whole depend upon the honor and integrity of the con- tending parties, to which party would the greatest degree of credit be due? Again: ...
...inger? The Clergy have means and material: means, of number, organization, social weight; a material, at lowest, of public ignorance, known to be the ... ...reak of Day Journal, though with declining sale. But why is Freron so hot, democratic; Freron, the King’s-friend’s Nephew? He has it by kind, that hea... ...d, grow and flourish; new every where bud forth. It is the sure symptom of Social Unrest: in such way, most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhi... ...o a known sort. Chapter 2.1.VII. Prodigies. To such length had the Contrat Social brought it, in be- lieving hearts. Man, as is well said, lives by fa... ...copious Rascality, on the pavement, with prayer for Salm: there do the two parties stand;—like chariots locked in a narrow thorough- fare; like locked... ...is gone, in these very days, to see old scenes in native Corsica, and what Democratic good can be done there. Royalty never executes the evasion-plan,... ... authority, no need of bul- lying and shouting, Saint-Antoine signifies to parties con- cerned there that its purpose is, To have this suspicious Stro... ...burst of dissolution and delirium. Sus- picion rules all minds: contending parties cannot now com- mingle; stand separated sheer asunder, eying one an...
... it freshly for a trifle; and the hoar-headed nineteenth-century billow of democratic ire craved the word to be set swelling. ‘Am I the fellow you mea... ...mercenaries! And that lands me in Red Republicanism, a hop and a skip from Socialism! said Mr. Radnor, and chuckled ironi- cally at the natural decliv... ...their poultry, cows, cream. And a certain influence one has in the country socially. I make my stand on a home— not empty punctilio.’ 22 One of Our C... ...could, considering their immense extension; and except for the sen- sitive social name, he was of single-minded purpose. 37 George Meredith T urning ... ...g; or when he was not too distinctly seen by her to be shooting at all the parties of her beloved England, beneath the wicked semblance of shielding e... ... 61 George Meredith The young gentleman introduced to the Radnor Concert- parties by Lady Grace Halley as the Hon. Dudley Sowerby, had to bear the si... ...view of safety from intrusion, I can admit-speaking humbly. But one of the parties—I had a wish to gratify him—is a lover of old English times and hab... ... ‘Court! my girl? But the arduous duties are over for the season. We are a democratic people retaining the seductions of monarchy, as a friend says; a... ...iors; and, over this country at least, require the refresh- ment, that the democratic sprouts in them may be recon- ciled with aristocracy. Do not lis...
... that system of patriarchal rule which lies at the foundation of the whole social structure. Alas! in the case of the excellent Adrienne, this conseil... ... frequent that centre of civilization. The only difference is, that in the social pictures offered by what are called cities, the cancans are in the s... ...was the cote droit, and which the cote gauche. Thus completely deranged as parties, we took to discussing philosophical matters in general; an occupat... ...ich seemed barely large enough to contain so great a man’s moustaches, the parties understood each other without un- necessary phrases, and I was, at ... ...ss, nor is it any evidence of acquaintance with the intricate machinery of social greatness and a lofty civilization. These gradations in attain- ment... ...s to an- other, though no one could presume to communicate the fact to the parties most interested. In a commercial town, like New Y ork, the failure ... ... great influence in New Y ork, doubtless by way of expiation for the rigid democratical notions that so universally pervade its soci- ety. And here I ... ...ical conversions to answer for. It is such a thor- ough development of the democratic principle, that the faith of few believers is found strong enoug... ...e of a room filled with company, and every thing will present a vulgar and democratic appearance; or, vice versa, you shall occupy a place among the o...
...ness. His hunt- ing requires from him everything, his time, his money, his social hours, his rest, his sweet morning sleep; nay, his very dinners have... ...ne by a crowd; but men who meet together to do wicked things meet in small parties. Men cannot gamble in the hunting-field, and drinking there is more... ... adds greatly to his grandeur; and he is one of those who, in spite of the democratic tenderness of the age, may still be said to go about as a king a...
...in the last days of October, Frau Forster, a daughter of Heyne’s, somewhat democratic, walking out of the Gate of Mentz with her Husband, finds French... ...ders far over the marches; and likewise she has shattered her own internal Social Constitution, even to the minutest fibre of it, into wreck and disso... ...better or worse luck: the wreck and dissolution must reshape itself into a social Arrangement as it can and may. But as for this Na- tional Convention... ...ing; shaking off daily (so to speak), and trampling into the dust, its old social garnitures, ways of thinking, rules of existing; and cheerfully danc... ...l of Lepelletier: it was the last act these men ever did with concert! All Parties and figures of Opinion, that agitate this distracted France and its... ...ible and incompatible. In plainer words, this France must needs split into Parties; each of which seeking to make itself good, contradiction, exas- pe... ...seeking to make itself good, contradiction, exas- peration will arise; and Parties on Parties find that they cannot work together, cannot exist togeth...
...your hotel.” “Oh yes, I should like to learn French,” Newman went on, with democratic confidingness. “Hang me if I should ever have thought of it! I t... ... good-nature, and a part of his 28 The American instinctive and genuinely democratic assumption of every one’s right to lead an easy life. If a shagg... ...t, but it amused him, and the old man’s decent forlornness appealed to his democratic instincts. The as- sumption of a fatality in misery always irrit... ...tranger, who, without a suspicion or a question, had admitted him to equal social rights. He compromised, and declared that while it was obvious that ... ...d purchase handsome things; but he was no more conscious, individually, of social pressure than he admitted the exist- ence of such a thing as an obli... ...Tristram, in accor- dance with the latter’s estimate of what he called his social position. When Newman learned that his social po- sition was to be t... ...was a mode of recreation to which he was much addicted. He liked making up parties of his friends and conducting them to the theatre, and taking them ... ...t have them if you will mind what I tell you—I alone—and not talk to other parties.” He passed his arm into that of his companion, and the two walked ... ... scruple simply because I consider your brother and you two very different parties. I see no connection between you. Your brother was ashamed of you. ...
...poor, they were rather excited. But they belonged to a set which looked on social triumphs as a downfall that one allows one- self. The two men, Lilly... ...mportant box at the opera without experiencing the strange intoxication of social pre-eminence, it is just as impossible to be there without some feel... ...ent hours with his tailor. But instead of being a soldier he was a sort of socialist, and a red-hot revolutionary of a very ineffectual sort. “Good la... ...kirmished. “Yes. I was on guard one day when the Queen gave one of her tea-parties to the blind. Awful affair. But the children are awfully nice child... ...lt a little dim and superficial surprise. He had fallen into country house parties before, but never into quite such a plushy sense of riches. He felt... ... a strange back-water. And the old families are very proud still, in these democratic days. They have a great opinion of themselves, I am told.” “Well... ...casion. He made the two elderly people uncomfortable with his silence: his democratic silence, Miss Wade might have said. However, Miss Wade lived out... ....— Oh, they’ll all come to realise it, when they’ve had a bit more of this democratic washer-women business.” Levison was laughing, with a slight snee...
... scarce have pretended to found the best of his appeal for her on her high social position.) It is an example exactly of the deep difficulty braved—th... ...o, they’ll be firm,” the old man rejoined; “they’ll not be affected by the social and political changes I just referred to.” “You mean they won’t be a... ...rope. There was nothing flighty about Mrs. Touchett, but she recognised no social superiors, and, judging the great ones of the earth in a way that sp... ...quite realise. You and I, you know, we know what it is to have lived under democratic institutions: I always thought them very comfortable, but I was ... ...Turner and Assyrian bulls were a poor substi- tute for the literary dinner-parties at which she had hoped to meet the genius and renown of Great Brita... ... Gardencourt; the days grew shorter and there was an end to the pretty tea-parties on the lawn. But our young woman had long indoor conversations with... ...nd Isabel’s answering quite another. He knew she had lis- tened to several parties, as his father would have said, but had made them listen in return;...
...l as the ministers, felt an abhorrence of her doctrines. Thus two opposite parties were formed; and so fierce were the dissensions that it was feared ... ...y people of the province imitated them; and thus began a general change in social life. “So, my dear Clara,” said Grandfather, “after our chair had en... ...the strangers began to stray into the town. They went, we will suppose, in parties and groups, here a hundred, there a score, there ten, there three o... ...her, “that affrays happened between such wild young men as these and small parties of the soldiers. No weapons had hitherto been used except fists or ... ...as religious as they, as stern and in flexible, and as deeply imbued with democratic principles. He, better than any one else, may be taken as a repr...
...tle too sedulously pol ished, and of course too conscious of it,—a deadly social crime, certainly. CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVI... ...nces, now that he was in peace; or to think of the turmoil of mod ern and democratic politics, here in this quietude of gone by ages and customs. The... ...hat if he were restrained from taking it, it would probably only be by the democratic pride that made him feel that he could not, retaining all his ma... ... American politician, accustomed to the fierce conflicts of our embittered parties; where life was made so enticing, so refined, and yet with a sort o... ...l better, of enjoying its great, deep solitude when the workmen were away. Parties of visitors, curious tourists, sometimes peeped in, took a cur sor... ...d was an American, and have been trying to adapt his manners to those of a democratic freedom. “Mr. Redclyffe, I believe,” said he. Redclyffe bowed, w...