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...ile giving full details of persons (of individual manners, tendencies, and customs) and also of inanimate surround- ings (of dress, furniture, fitting... ...ning which he had the soundest of knowledge. Did any one happen to mention Customs officials and inspectors, from that moment he expatiated as though ... ...der. Indeed, it would be difficult to say—so thoroughly did he perform his duties in this respect—whether the post most fitted him, or he the post. Ma... ...barin had “been in the employment of the State, and also had served in the Customs.” In short, the sum total of the results gathered by the tchinovnik... ... good hammering. ‘You, and you, and you, ’ he said, ‘do not even know your duties. You are law-breakers.’ Yes, he trod every man of them under foot. A... ... the frontier. So, as I say, Chichikov had long felt a leaning towards the Customs, but for a time had been restrained from applying for the same by t... ...nly a bird in the bush. But now he decided that, come what might, into the Customs he must make his way. And that way he made, and then applied himsel... ...st make his way. And that way he made, and then applied himself to his new duties with a zeal born of the fact that he realised that fortune had 223 ... ...t and recover- ing his spirit, he determined then and there to perform his duties in such a manner as should be an example to the rest. But where are ...

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...lads was influenced by the oriental and sultanic 13 Balzac atmosphere and customs of the Palais-Royal. The Palais-Royal was an Eldorado of love where... ...who count insolence as part of their dowry. She saw nothing in life except duties to be fulfilled. All cold women whom I have known made, as she did, ... ...ning of society, the habits of a court life, and the exercise of important duties under the crown or in eminent offices. Monsieur de Mortsauf had emig... ... yet she pretends to be my wife! She bears my name and fulfils none of the duties which all laws, human and divine, impose upon her; she lies to God a... ...For the last four months you have made me re- flect deeply on the laws and customs which regulate our epoch. The conversations I have had with my aunt... ...ruit. Dear, the laws of society are not all written in a book; manners and customs create laws, the more important of which are often the least known.... ...ely admired, where the artist may dream amorously of his master-piece. But duties, my friend, are not sentiments. T o do what we ought is by no means ... ... o be or not to be.” This alternative, coupled with the scorn to which the customs of her country have trained her, make an Englishwoman a be- ing apa... ... Balzac Have you ever reflected on the actual meaning of the man- ners and customs and morals of England? Is it not the deifi- cation of matter? a wel...

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... to provide safely through official agents only for the performance of the duties thus confided to citizens fa- 25 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V... ...ithout requiring from him any guaranty for the faithful performance of his duties, when the services of competent public officers were available, and ... ...he issue of United States notes, receivable for all government dues except customs, and made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except ... ...ear any forcible resistance to them in the dis- charge of their respective duties in this behalf, to call upon any military officer in command of the ... ...essary to enable them safely and efficiently to discharge their respective duties; and all such commanding officers are required promptly to obey such... ...sary service as far as may be in their power consistently with their other duties. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: EDW ARD BA TES, Attorney-General... ... 1862, were $583,885,247.06, of which sum $49,056,397.62 were derived from customs; $1,795,331.73 from the direct tax; from public lands, $152,203.77;... ...as soldiers in the public ser- vice. The law of nations and the usages and customs of war, as carried on by civilized powers, permit no distinction as...

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...s, and manifested the greatest zeal for the performance of his reli- gious duties, piety which caused no remark in Spain. The very next day, while the... ...may yet be driven forth forever. For the last forty years the manners, and customs, and speech, in a word, the tradition of the Faubourg Saint-Germain... ...ts the expenditure, the other the receipts. Consequently their manners and customs are diametrically opposed. Nothing contemptuous is intended by this... ...Langeais and Navarreins remained about the Court, condemned to perform the duties required by Court ceremonial amid the reproaches and sneers of the L... ...om her husband without scandal. The Duke, more- over, besides his military duties, had a place at Court, to which he came during his term of waiting, ... ...d she, “respect him. He does not love me, he is not kind to me, but I have duties to fulfil with regard to him. What would I not do to avert the calam... ...ll, to gain a dispensation from attendance on the Princess and from social duties. She was only at home to her father the Duc de Navarreins, her aunt ... ... make a journey to those lands. Montriveau’s familiar knowledge of Eastern customs made him an invaluable travelling compan- ion, and at the entreaty ...

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... its ac- crued interest. Except during the time required for her household duties, Madame Sauviat was always seated in a rickety wooden chair placed a... ...luctance or sour faces the sum they thought their fair share of the parish duties. The mutilated Virgin on their corner pillar never failed (after 179... ...ique was fifteen years old a change was made in the internal man- ners and customs of the household. The father and mother went upstairs in the evenin... ...om which to make comparisons. She was, more- over, totally ignorant of the duties or the purpose of mar- riage. She heard the solemn voice of the vica... ... simple and modest, in the attitude of a person who is ob- serving habits, customs, manners, things unknown to her, and endeavoring to conform to them... ...for succor. Never, at any period of her life, did she fulfil her religious duties with such fervor. The despair of not loving her husband flung her vi... ...with a view to escape is criminal. I will not speak to you of the horrible customs and morals of the galleys. No man belongs to himself; the governmen... ...ld,” said the archbishop at last, raising his noble head, macerated by the customs of his austere life, “you are going beyond the commandments of the ... ...aid the rector, “religion has had some heavy blows. This return to ancient customs, brought about by the greatness of the sin and its repentance, may ...

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...and things bore the characteristics of simplicity which French manners and customs are losing day by day. Follow the wind- ings of the picturesque tho... ...xpensive, but which, nevertheless, departed alarmingly from the inveterate customs of the house. The midday breakfast was always taken standing. Each ... ...st!” thought Charles, incapable of suspecting or imag- ining the rules and customs of the household. “Give me my glass, Nanon,” said the master Eugeni... ...f-interest. Nevertheless, Charles was a true child of Paris, taught by the customs of society and by Annette herself to calculate everything; already ... ... it was, and turned to the true, pure love. He loved even the house, whose customs no longer seemed to him ri- diculous. He got up early in the mornin... ...nterest, who, through lack of charity to herself, ne- glects her Christian duties.” 161 Balzac “Monsieur le cure, you have come to me at a moment whe...

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...nks. I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has re... ...ir hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me. With this deep con sciousness of what they owed towar... ...r the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country. My departure was therefore fixe... ...e deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the re... ...ter Frankenstein 26 to us all. She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal. She devoted herself to those whom she had b... ...ant in France and England. Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate coun try, does ... ... unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world. She fell, however, into good hands. The Italian had...

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... his confidence. Finally, although he was sufficiently acquainted with the customs of society and with the laws of politeness, to which he conformed a... ...ath a roof worthy of the stable wherein Jesus Christ was born, the hardest duties of motherhood were fulfilled cheerfully and without consciousness of... ... his clerk, another hapless wretch who was scarcely able to understand his duties. The old cure had died at the age of seventy, and his curate, a quit... ...ly, but this should be effected without resorting to the pitiful shifts of customs duties and prohibitions. Industries must work out their own salvati... ...this should be effected without resorting to the pitiful shifts of customs duties and prohibitions. Industries must work out their own salvation, comp... ...e to the general welfare of the State. If old-es- tablished prejudices and customs bring a country into a bad way, the people will renounce their erro... ...octor in number. The law is uniform, but not so the land and the minds and customs of those who dwell in it; and the admin- istration of the law is th... ...s in the lowlands. Up among the mountain peaks in our canton they cling to customs that bear the impress of an older time, and that vaguely recall sce... ... All this is taken very seriously. Any one who was slack in fulfilling his duties after the death of the head of a family would have no one at his own...

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...er, it was soon seen as we’d got a new parish’ner as know’d the rights and customs o’ things, and kep a good house, and was well looked on by everybod... ...s?” Mr. Crackenthorp wished to know, having some acquaintance with foreign customs. “Well—stay—let me see,” said Mr. Snell, like a docile clairvoyante... ...his wife an excuse for going there while it was the scene of severe public duties. Some disappointment was felt, and perhaps a little indigna- tion al... ...se: she was in all respects a woman of scrupulous conscience, so eager for duties that life seemed to offer them too scantily unless she rose at half-... ... a little before sitting down to cards, but rather as part of their social duties. For what were these if not to be merry at appropriate times, interc... ... liked your cheer? And the parson naturally set an example in these social duties. For it would not have been possible for the Raveloe mind, without a... ...s pitch of freedom and enjoyment, it was usual for the servants, the heavy duties of supper being well over, to get their share of amusement by coming... ...ation in Dolly, whose narrow outward experience gave her no key to strange customs, and made every novelty a source of wonder that arrested them at ev...

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...er, it was soon seen as we’d got a new parish’ner as know’d the rights and customs o’ things, and kep a good house, and was well looked on by everybod... ...s?” Mr. Crackenthorp wished to know, having some acquaintance with foreign customs. “Well — stay — let me see,” said Mr. Snell, like a docile clairvoy... ...his wife an excuse for going there while it was the scene of severe public duties. Some disappointment was felt, and perhaps a little indignation also... ...: she was in all respects a woman of scrupu lous conscience, so eager for duties that life seemed to offer them too scantily unless she rose at half ... ... a little before sitting down to cards, but rather as part of their social duties. For what were these if not to be merry at appropriate times, interc... ...iked your cheer? And the parson naturally set an example in these so cial duties. For it would not have been possible for the Raveloe mind, without a... ...s pitch of freedom and enjoyment, it was usual for the servants, the heavy duties of supper being well over, to get their share of amusement by coming... ...ation in Dolly, whose narrow outward experience gave her no key to strange customs, and made every novelty a source of wonder that arrested them at ev...

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... Planche. The opening scene of this volume, representing the man- ners and customs of the old Breton family, a social state existing no longer except ... ...ry, and the transition pe- riod of the vieille roche as it passed into the customs and ideas of the present century, is one of Balzac’s remark- able a... ... concerned with facts and dates than with the truer history of manners and customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the pe... ...the day; and that little the inhabitants adapt in a way to their immutable customs, their unchangeable physiognomies. The public square is filled with... ...cription of the ground-floor, and after reading an account of the manners, customs, and physiog- nomy of the family. For the last fifty years the du G... ...he had to prepare it for herself; a woman capable of accomplishing all the duties, even the most painful, of hu- manity, strong under necessary privat... ...d she has taught me.” “Y ou knew the essential things when you learned the duties taught us by religion,” replied the baroness. “Ah! this woman is fat... ...eenly felt the value of independence, and was conscious of disgust for the duties of maternity. It is necessary to give these details to explain the a... ... is not to be. What can you, my fine nephew, put in the scale against such duties? Is it that actress at Les T ouches?” “What?” said the baron; “how c...

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...sketch were clearly developed it would give a whole picture of manners and customs in which many a fam- ily could recognize the events of their own hi... ...halet, surrounded by the choice flowers which Dumay cultivated; the family customs, as regular as clock-work, the provincial decorum, the games at whi... ... double existence. She per- formed with humble, loving care all the minute duties of the homely life at the Chalet, using them as a rein to guide the ... ...n the ground of the importance of the confes- sion and the pressure of his duties at the ministry. He took care to get from the director-general of th... ... heart to love, such constancy sustained by reason, such hero- ism for the duties for which I was created,—if indeed love can ever be transmuted into ... ...son of the whole world. England and Germany are romantic in their marriage customs,—though even there noble families follow our customs. Y ou certainl... ... nobility have anything to complain of in this long history of manners and customs. Those great and magnificent social necessities have been well repr... ...rance. Good taste, on the contrary, demands that we adapt ourselves to the customs of foreign- ers without losing too much of our own character,—as di... ...men who have to endure the burden of an idle husband, either a man without duties, or one so rich as to have nothing to do, you would know that the hi...

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...is Is named, your wars in France: this makes bold mouths: Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze Allegiance in them; their curses now L... ... Men into such strange mysteries? SANDS: New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, Nay, let ‘em be unmanly, yet... ...y read the rest. Second Gentleman : I thank you, sir: had I not known those customs, I should have been beholding to your paper. But, I beseech you, ...

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...amorous were his creditors, that he could not have left Rome on his public duties, had not Crassus come forward with assistance in money, or by promis... ...ll- ingly accepted of public appointments, and sedulously dis- charged the duties attached to them, in conjunction with colleagues who had been chosen... ... suf- fered perhaps in every case, not so much because he had violated his duties, as because he had dishonored his office. It is, therefore, in the t... ...wall—S.P .Q.R., the officers of the Roman army had been kept true to their duties, and vigilant by emulation and a healthy ambition. But, when the rip... ...then of responsibility rested upon the emperor in the most personal sense. Duties of every kind fell to his sta- tion, which, from the peculiar consti... ...mon usage, that sort of blunder when a man ascribes to one age the habits, customs, or generally the characteristics of another. This, however, may be...

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... it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one day to give a meaning to ... ...mines himself, and endeavors to give himself a voca- tion. The manners and customs of bourgeois boarding-houses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seem... ...ntentions of her lodger, or rather her boarder. If he would conform to the customs of the house he could become her boarder; but these customs were wi... ...ry morning, you will not be surprised to find us blindly following all the customs of the Church, even the severest.” “And you shall begin by imitatin... ...n an attitude of humble reverence, reminded Godefroid of his own forgotten duties, and he prayed fervently. “I expected you,” said the kind old man, w... ...il neighbor- hood is near the archbishop’s palace, where our dear abbe has duties with the cardinal. That was one of the chief rea- sons why Madame ag... ...worst women about her. During her imprisonment she observed the habits and customs of these women, and was seized with that great pity for the sorrows...

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...many ways, of which, as an honest man, I can’t approve. It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of telling ... ...ty or childish impatience. The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent... ...an admirator of names, though the Christian fashions fall far below savage customs in this par- ticular. The biggest coward I ever knew as called Lyon... ...our help! God send it may be soon and under a leader that knows the Indian customs!” “Y ou hear our probable fortunes, Cora,” said Duncan, “and you kn... ...reby thank thee, before pro- ceeding to discharge other and more important duties, because thou hast proved thyself well worthy of a Christian’s prais... ...s had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties. The evening was delightfully calm, and the light air from the limpi... ... it can be said Munro is too much pressed to discharge the little domestic duties of his own family. Y our mother was the only child of my bosom frien... ...understand each other; it is time that we should now assume our respective duties.” 177 James Fenimore Cooper Gamut cheerfully assented, and together... ...ing over his council-fire; and, though a man of white blood, I honor their customs in this particular, seeing that they are deliberate and wise. W e w...

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... proceeded quietly and with great compo- sure in the exercise of her daily duties; not in the least suspect- ing the real distress that, from a variet... ...ituations. Those accustomed to particular dangers easily dis- charge their duties, because they know, as it were instinctively, what is to be done. Th... ...aid Julia, “to manage the horses, and you acknowledge that he did it well. Duties incurred, no mat- ter how unworthy of us, must be discharged; and al... ... worldly happiness of their daughter. Charlotte was but seventeen, yet the customs of the country, and the temptations of her expected wealth, togethe... ...ettered by any romantic and foolish pledges, discharg- ing all the natural duties of her years and station in an exem- plary manner, but unwilling to ...

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................................................. 381 CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS ...................................................................... ...e and command you expressly that you proceed without delay to enter on the duties to which you have received so legitimate a call. And so you will act... ...cle and me to send up prayers for him; “for those are,” he said, “the best duties that Christians can fulfil one for another.” In the course of talkin... ...ached but surpassed the theories of the wisest philosophers, regarding the duties and laws of the wedded state. And, at all events, it will be always ... ...ority be used, it has persons sufficient for the discharge of all official duties; and when this is the case, noth- ing is wanting to make a State per... ... high and so salutiferous an effect, to the blindness and injustice of our customs and observances; sacrificing the in- nocent blood of so many of His... ... seeming to me very unjust to go about to subject pub- lic and established customs and institutions, to the weakness and instability of a private and ... ...es in certain opinions, and conforming them- selves to particular laws and customs, easily alter, or at least disguise, their true and real dispositio... ... medal; but to be able chiefly to give an account of the humours, manners, customs, and laws of those nations where he has been, and that we may whet ...

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...not in man, inborn or innate, but is enshrined in his tradi- tions, in his customs, in his literature and his religion. Its creation and sustenance ar... ...ing 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. THE PRIMAR THE PRIMAR THE PRIMAR THE PRIMAR THE PRIMARY DUTIES Y DUTIES Y DUTIES Y DUTIES Y DUTIES NOW IT FOLLOWS very directly fro... ...in which they find themselves, but for all there are certain fundamen- tal duties; a constant attempt to be utterly truthful with one- self, a constan... ...ual frankness, fitness and steadfast work; these are the daily fundamental duties that every one who truly comes to God will, as a matter of course, s...

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...may not be thought that in this chapter I am going to take upon myself the duties of a military critic. I am well aware that I have no capacity for su... ...us in their cause, handy with arms, willing enough to work at all military duties, and personally brave. On the other hand, they are sickly, and there... ...ertakes to teach his min- isters in all parts of the world, not only their duties, but their proper aspiration. He is equally kind to foreign states- ... ... of the individual States, and to this Congress was to be confided certain duties and privileges, which could not be performed or exercised separately... ...however, and such depression seemed to me to be the two things needed. The duties of the House of Representatives are solely legislative. Those of the... ...s or consuls, are there tried. Matters relating to the post-office, to the customs, the collection of national taxes, to patents, to the army and navy...