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...ng the rocky summit of the hill. An hour before, he had been dead weary, and I had been comparatively active. But now his strength was recruited by th... ...dering, while she led the boy to his attic. 156 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER IV: THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER THE INSTALLATION of the adopted sta... ... The Doctor was a pattern of regularity. All forenoon he worked on his great book, the ‘Comparative Pharmaco- poeia, or Historical Dictionary of all M... ...o be preferred before a piece of science; a little more, and he would have written the ‘Comparative Pharmacopoeia’ in verse! The article ‘Mummia,’ for... ...is mettle by the most relevant objections. Besides, was he not educat- ing the boy? And education, philosophers are agreed, is the most philosophical ... ...down in his heart the Doctor was disap- pointed with the ill-success of his more formal education. A boy, chosen by so acute an observer for his aptit... ... lost your fortune.’ ‘Sorry?’ cried the Doctor. ‘Why, I find I have scarce be- gun your education after all. Listen to me! Would you rather live in th... ...n. They 165 Merry Men were bound for Franchard, to collect plants, with an eye to the ‘Comparative Pharmacopoeia.’ A little rattling on the open road... ...rned the Doctor, with sublime fatuity, ‘I read your thoughts! Nor am I surprised – your education is not yet complete; the higher duties of men have n...

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... making a virtue of necessity, they consented to defray the expenses of my education. I was sent to Eton, where I remained ten years, during which spa... ...arents, I should not be indebted to my uncles Tynedale and Seacombe for my education; but as I grew up, and heard by degrees of the persevering hostil... ...ment, look, or word of mine. My southern accent annoyed him; the degree of education evinced in my language irritated him; my punctuality, industry, a... ... She is eighteen years of age, and has been sent to Brussels to finish her education; she is of middle size, stiffly made, body long, legs short, bust... ...elp you.” The words were uttered with emphasis—nay, with vehe- mence—and a comparative silence followed; whether the calm was permanent, I know not; t... ...en serves to give an idea of the whole; besides, narrow and wide are words comparative, are they not? All my life would perhaps seem narrow in your ey... ...This was the point to which I had wished to bring him, and I was now again comparatively at my ease. I did not, it is true, like my position in his ho... ... the soul, of late rushing headlong to an aim, had overstrained the body’s comparative weakness. A horror of great darkness fell upon me; I felt my ch... ...ion; I knew she was not one who could live quiescent and inactive, or even comparatively inactive. Duties she must have to fulfil, and important dutie...

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...ad that been his mission. It must not be overlooked, in this glance at his education, that Mr. Douglass lacked one aid to which so many men of mark ha... ...he light of day, the highest qualities of his mind; the force of their own education stood in their own way: they did not delve into the mind of a col... ...United States, by free colored men, born free, and some of them of liberal education and fair talents for this work; but, one after an- other, they ha... ...S—FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF BEING A SLAVE—OLD MASTER—GRIEFS AND JOYS OF CHILDHOOD—COMPARATIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T a... ... the tongue of his cart, with no overseer to look after him, the slave was comparatively free; and, if thoughtful, he had time to think. Slaves are ge... ...e reader has already noticed and deplored, were not permitted to enjoy the comparatively moderate rule of Mr. Hopkins. The latter was succeeded by a v... ...SHE HAD GIVEN ME THE INCH, I WAS RESOLVED TO TAKE THE ELL—HOW I PURSUED MY EDUCATION—MY TUTORS—HOW I COMPEN- SATED THEM—WHAT PROGRESS I MADE—SLA- VERY... ...pent in Baltimore, where—as the reader has already seen—I was treated with comparative tender- ness. I was now about to sound profounder depths in sla... ...r- rection from the dark and pestiferous tomb of slavery, to the heaven of comparative freedom. I was no longer a servile coward, trembling under the ...

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...me, inevitably the scenical features (what aesthetically may be called the comparative advantages) of the several murders are reviewed and valued. One... ...really had moral and spiritual relations, how much more with regard to the comparative trifles (as in the ultimate relations of human nature they are)... ...mmercial body, none receive an elabo- rate, and what is meant by a liberal education, except those standing by their connections in the richest classe... ...n- formed, not having had the benefits when young of a regu- lar classical education, find (upon any accident bringing up such subjects) a deficiency ... ...ing an answer, in connection with this revival, was one with regard to the comparative fitness of the Antigone for giving a representative idea of the... ...ientious nature, by assuming his father’s debts, and by superintending the education of his brothers. He had distinguished himself at Oxford as a scho... ...fants at Sangor on the Ganges; finally, to promote an enlarged sys- tem of education, which (if his splendid scheme had been adopted) would have diffu... ...mous resolution (which he personally drew up) for appropriating to general education in Ireland any surplus arising from the revenues of the Irish Chu...

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... as a great and sudden increase in the number of married men occasioning the comparative desertion (for a time) of Tav erns, Hotels, Billiard rooms, ... ...ful spirit and a quiet mind only at home at last. How much may depend on the education of daughters and the conduct of mothers; how much of the bright...

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...ntity. He had come to me only because he wanted to purchase, and I remember being so amused at his attitude, which I had never seen equally marked in ... ...sensibil- ity and his type. He was of course bewildered by my sketches, which implied in the beholder some sense of intention and quality; but for one... ...een a definite engagement between his lordship and the young lady, the sort of thing that was announced in the Morning Post, renunciation and retireme...

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...years Mr. Lewisham will have his five or six languages, a sound, all-round education, a habit of tremendous industry, and be still but four-and- twent... ...heme she treated with a specialist’s enthusiasm. They dealt with it by the comparative methods and neither noticed the light was out of the sky until ... ... but appreciative sketch of his life, and enlarged upon his discipline and educational methods. At the end was a long and decorative schedule of his c... ...loyment for the rest of his life, came a marvellous blue document from the Education Department promising inconceivable things. He was to go to London... ...tally quite a number of times, in the corridors of the schools, in the big Education Library, and in the Art Museum. After a time those meetings appea... ...to Clapham alone, and Lewisham sat in the flickering electric light of the Education Library star- ing blankly over a business-like pile of books at u... ...or a man that he engage in some 118 Love and Mr. Lewisham straightforward comparatively harmless cheating, than if he risk his mental integrity in so...

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...ld. How then, seeing we are driven to the hypothesis that people choose in comparatively cold blood, how is it they choose so well? One is almost temp... ...of any grit and spirit put their fortunes into one, there succeeds to this comparative certainty a huge welter of competing jurisdic- tions. It no lon... ...eart beats no more tunefully than yours. But it is the object of a liberal education not only to ob- scure the knowledge of one sex by another, but to... ...nds us, he will have little time for thought. If you look back on your own education, I am sure it will not be the full, vivid, instructive hours of t... ...s playing truant. This is not the moment to dilate on that mighty place of education, which was the favourite school of Dickens and of Balzac, and tur... ...f kindly thought, and see things in a new perspective. Why, if this be not education, what is? We may conceive Mr. Worldly Wiseman accosting such an o... ...ing in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly ...

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...f all races and conditions, their social and reli- gious sentiments, their education and tastes; their industries, their commerce, their local governm... ... – age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are imposed, relate to his education or property, and to the fact that he has not been convicted of cr... ...ld propensities, and it has grown up like those outcasts who receive their education in the public streets, and who are unacquainted with aught but th... ...turn to place themselves under the protection of the laws, their political education had been perfected in this rude school, and they were more conver... ...erefore obtain the first elements of human knowledge. In America there are comparatively few who are rich enough to live without a profession. Every p... ...ituted, and to facilitate the means of resistance to its mandates; but the comparative weakness of a restricted sovereignty is an evil inherent in the... ... and to lower those of the more important functionaries – Reason of this – Comparative statement of the salaries of public of- ficers in the United St... ...e number of per- sons who can hope to be benefited by the receipt of it is comparatively small. In aristocratic countries, on the con- trary, the indi... ... wealth, and as the number of persons by whose assistance they may rise is comparatively small, the government is, if I may use the expression, put up...

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...r thing is due!— On the whole, my private thought was: First, How happy it comparatively is, for a man of any earnestness of life, to have no Biograph... ..., than others natives of Middlesex or Surrey, where the scene of his chief education lay. The climate of Bute is rainy, soft of temperature; with skie... ...es;’ things unknown in aristocratic seminaries, but constantly used at the comparatively humble academy which supplied the best knowledge of reading, ... .... Jacobson or Dr. Trollope, was appointed for a more ambi- tious sphere of education. In the beginning of his nineteenth year, “in the autumn of 1824,... ...ooks he devoured. And perhaps,—as is the singular case in most schools and educational establishments of this unexampled epoch,— it was not the expres... ...sh and European life, in the nineteenth century,—he suffered much, and did comparatively little. I have known few creatures whom it was more wasteful ... ...of the house; where they broke open the cellar win- dow, and placed her in comparative safety. The force of the hurricane was, by this time, a good de... ...d, and she was much nerved by a tumbler of claret. As soon as I saw her in comparative security, I went off with one of the Overseers down to the Work... ...e might get some scheme raised into life, in Downing Street, for universal Education to the Blacks, preparatory to emancipating them? There were a nob...

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...f her daughter in order that the latter might enjoy the ad- vantages of an education which the city of New York could only offer at that period. A few... ...ut still he had enough real regard for his child not to bring her into the comparative wilderness in which he dwelt, until the full period had expired... ...nts; but, the moment that his head was laid in the grave, his indolent and comparatively uneducated offspring were compelled to yield precedency to th... ...etired with the rank of major, maintaining in his domestic establishment a comparative splendor, he be came a man of the first consideration in his na... ...d no longer enjoy or improve, to a son, who was formed, both by nature and education, to do both. The younger Effingham did not object to the amount o... ...appeared in New York, and became the purchaser of extensive possessions at comparatively low prices. 28 The Pioneers It is true that Marmaduke, by th... ...habitations, with a profusion that bespoke the quality of the soil and the comparative facilities of intercourse, Immediately on the bank of the lake ... ...se flourishing resolutions, which briefly recounted the general utility of education, the politi- cal and geographical rights of the village of Temple... ... lower con- tained two rooms that were intended for the great divisions of education, viz., the Latin and the English scholars. The former were never ...

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...counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is lacking officially is very largely... ...en killed and in each there was an attempt to put the fourth in a place of comparative safety. In one case a general took the fourth son in as an atte... ...epair vans and so forth needed to go with the aeroplanes; she would need a comparatively small army of infantry armed with machine guns, with motor tr... ...stems of authentic opinion in this world of thought about the war are like comparatively rare thin veins of living mentality in a vast world of dead r... ...future of conscription, of the future of the temporary of- ficer, upon the education of boys in relation to army needs. But the war itself was bearing... ...e outcome of our social injustices. They are the failures of our social ad educational systems. We may regret their pitiful degradation, we may exoner... ...have the leisure to learn something about the general state of opinion and education in their dioceses. The Bishop of London was evidently unaware of ... ...s Anglican com- promise is like a cold in the English head, and the higher education in England is a training in evasion. This is an al- ways lamentab... ...two undistinguished civil service commissioners can hold up the scientific education of our entire adminis- trative class?” M. Reinach protested furth...

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...hour of cool reflection is a great matter, when em- ployed in weighing the comparative evil of two measures, to neither of which we are internally par... ... by the prudent Count- ess that they were the natural effects of a retired education, the sacrifice might have been completed, as doubtless has hap- p... ...urse was otherwise limited to formal messages, and more formal visits. The education of the youth was regulated alternately by the taste and opinions ... ...and of his father. But more of this in a subse- quent chapter. CHAPTER III EDUCATION THE EDUCATION of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a na- ture som... ...accomplishments, to bestow 19 Sir Walter Scott an hour or two on Edward’s education while at Brere-wood Lodge, and left his uncle answerable for his ... ...mplete change of scene, from gaiety and splendour to absolute solitude and comparative poverty; and the ideas and wishes which she chiefly fostered, r... ...ho streamed from the barn-resembling building, debating, as they went, the comparative merits of the blessed youth Jabesh Rentowel, and that chosen ve... ...s conjecture was altogether improbable; since, to suppose she had left the comparatively safe situation at Glennaquoich to descend into the Low Countr... ...pe in the manner he proposed, he would have been finally determined by the comparative facil- ity by which either might have been executed. But his fo...

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...hristian theology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparative theology in this distinction between the Being of Nature (cf. K... ...radiction. The truly religious have been content to lapse quietly into the comparative sanity of an unformulated Arianism, they have left it to the sc... ...the Deity, having once decided upon intervention, did not, instead of this comparatively trivial meteorological assistance, adopt the more effective c... ...onies of the human constitu- tion will lead directly to the improvement of education and to the solidarity of mankind. “In progress towards the goal, ... ...heocracy; for example, they are doing or sustaining scientific research or education or creative art; they are making roads to bring men together, the... ...n as if he were innocent, to save him from unjustly heavy penalties…. This comparatively full discussion of the barrister’s prob- lem has been embarke... ...and simplification of languages; associations for promot- ing and watching education; associations for the discussion of political problems and the de...

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...ause I came of a better family than most of them; had received a classical education; and espe- cially because I had a rich aunt, Mrs. Hoggarty, about... ...r, Tidd.” “He was a tailor, sir,—but what of that? I’ve had a Univer- sity education, and have the feelings of a gentleman; as much— ay, perhaps, and ... ...ond now and must fall; whereas the West Diddlesex Association shares were (comparatively) low, and must inevitably, in the course of a year or two, do... ...rty’s peculiarities as well as anyone, madam; and aware that those and her education are not such as to make her a fit companion for you. I know you d... ...ast, though cheated by you of a large summ, and obliged to pass my days in comparative ruin, can retire, and have some of the comforts to which my ran... ...nd bustled about until the requisite leave was obtained, and I was allowed comparative liberty. As for lodgings, they were soon had. My old landlady, ...

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...h in no wise competent. He was essentially a landsman, and though a man of education, no more meant for the sea than a hair- dresser. Hence everybody ... ...y like this are not unusual on the part of sea captains landing at islands comparatively un- known. Even at the Pomotu group, but a day’s sail from Ta... ...our destination at this time, and the fact that we were abroad upon waters comparatively little traversed, lent an interest to this portion of the cru... ...to sea. At the time, I was quite amazed to hear of press-gangs in a day of comparative peace; but the anomaly is accounted for by the fact that, of la... ... might be mentioned, may be ascribed the speedy restoration of our sick to comparative health. The orange of T ahiti is delicious—small and sweet, wit... ...administered the same as ever; the missionaries went about unmolested, and comparative tranquillity everywhere prevailed. Nevertheless, I sometimes he... ...) is a seminary under the charge of the Rev. Mr. Simpson and wife, for the education of the children of the missionaries, exclusively. Sent home—in ma... ...exclusively. Sent home—in many cases, at a very early age— to finish their education, the pupils here are taught nothing but the rudiments of knowledg...

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...an entirely remove it. What might be an injury to you, single, would be of comparatively little importance to him.’ ‘Miss Conway,’ faltered Mary, who ... ...ady. Clara was likewise to be taken home; Isabel undertook to complete her education, and school and tuition were both to be removed from the contempl... ... rid and grim over the white cake, and no one talked of any- thing but the comparative density of fogs; and Mr. Mansell’s asthma had come on, and his ... ...she does not deserve all that has been said of her, no doubt soon will?—no education, no principles, breaking out of her convent! And you let yourself... ...the habits nurtured by poverty are the 80 Dynevor Terrace V olume II best education; but I cannot let you suppose that a grand theatrical restoration... ...uch improved by dress. She shows excellent feeling, and does credit to her education.’ ‘The Pendragon blood never had a finer development,’ said Louis... ...d have no more time for them, his blunt answer was, ‘She ought not.’ These comparatively indifferent topics were the only re- source; for he treated a... ...im, while he could conform so happily to such a way of life. Everything is comparative, and the small increase to James’s income had been sufficient t... ...ake away their dear Charlotte. Clara’s first outlay, on her restoration to comparative wealth, was on Charlotte’s wedding-dress. It was a commission g...

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...his talents could not have recommended him at any time. Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by mat- rimony, being settled in London, o... ...ations had been rising into gentility and property. He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had be... ...ight be sent to be out of the way, and scramble them- selves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies. Mrs. Goddard’s scho... ...to being acquainted with his wife— for though his sisters, from a superior education, are not to be altogether objected to, it does not follow that he... ...d with the wife, who will probably be some mere farmer’s daughter, without education.” “To be sure. Yes. Not that I think Mr. Martin would ever marry ... ...ot that I think Mr. Martin would ever marry any body but what had had some education—and been very well brought up. However, I do not mean to set up m... ...s way before—and no degree of vanity can prevent her acknowledging her own comparative littleness in action, if not in consciousness.” “I know how hig... ...he was not without agitation. It was not in his calmness that she read his comparative difference. He was not calm; his spirits were evidently flutter... ...e that might take place among the circle of her friends, Hartfield must be comparatively deserted; and she left to cheer her fa- ther with the spirits...

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... and carriage. [It is curious to think that a Hill man, after a lifetime’s education, is a Hill man still; but a Hill woman can in six months master m... ...l detested, it was a mar- ried subaltern. He chuckled when he heard of the education of Pluffles, and said it was “good training for the boy.” But it ... ...him into spending money beyond his means, which were good: above that, the education spoilt an average boy and made it a tenth-rate man of an objectio... ...s should be made through the Department, which might be subordinate to the Educational Department, under the same penalty as that attaching to the tra... ...ted Matri- monial Department, under the control of the Director General of Education, but corresponding direct with the Viceroy . THE ARREST OF LIEUTE... ...fin made a colored Pig-population map, and col- lected observations on the comparative longevity of the Pig (a) in the sub-montane tracts of the Himal...

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...ingley; “let us hear all the particulars, not forgetting 42 JANE AUSTEN their comparative height and size; for that will have more weight in the argu... ... a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.” “And your defect is a propensity to hate every... ...t otherwise have failed of; as I am informed by the lady who superintended her education, and who still resides with them. But she is perfectly amiabl... ...ot a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent u... ...h, her home has been London, where a lady lives with her, and superintends her education.” After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizab... ... secure, and with reason, for Charlotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday. His reception ... ...uaintance, were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance. Importance may sometimes be purchased too de... ...many of her acquaintance whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be... ... Elizabeth with energy. “You have reduced him to his present state of poverty, comparative poverty. You have withheld the advan tages, which you must...