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... decent 29 H. G . Wells income—independently.” “Women have practically no economic freedom,” said Miss Miniver, “because they have no political freed... ... should be the Queen. They should never come into contact with politics or economics—or any of those things. And we men would work for them and serve ... ... that they at least had found a way of earning a living, and had that much economic superiority to herself. It did not occur to her that save for some... ...one of Ouida’s guardsmen re- vised by Mr. Haldane and the London School of Economics and finished in the Keltic school. “It’s unforgivable of me to ca... ... of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, ... ...e unendurable, and she rolled out and marched about her room and whispered abuse of her- self—usually until she hit against some article of furniture....

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..., thinking of it.” “A social smash-up.” 6 The Secret Places of the Heart “Economic. Social. Yes. Don’t you?” “A social smash-up seems to me altogethe... ...ith any morbid ex- cess of pity,” the doctor was constrained to remark. “I abused her very probably. I forget exactly what I said….” The doctor offere... ...tly what I said….” The doctor offered no assistance. “But the reason why I abuse her is perfectly plain. I abuse her because she distresses me by her ... ...cience and honour than they have ever been before. In matters of property, economics and public conduct it will probably be just the reverse. Then, th... ...lism, and that she had what he considered to be a most unfeminine grasp of economic ideas. He thought her attitude towards so- cialism a very sane one... ...d of this idea of a great fuel control in the world and of a still greater economic and educational con- trol of which it is a part. I want to make th... ...private and public documents that are slowly opening out a prospect of new economic methods, methods conceived in the generous spirit of scientific wo...

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...lluminating co-operation with those who deal with the food and housing and economic life of the community. And again quite parallel with these persona... ...es and that goods should be distributed; land must be administered and new economic possibilities developed. The drift of things is in the direction o... ...at theory and prac- tice clear and plain to ordinary men, of reforming the abuses of the profession by working for the separation of bar and judiciary... ... the distri- bution of bread, the notification of measles, for hygiene and economics and suchlike affairs. The better we organise such things, the fre...

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...ery pos- sible for such a one! Being now turned of sixteen, and the family economics getting yearly more propitious and flourishing, he, as his brothe... ...at present; and his outlooks into the future, whether for his spiritual or economic fortunes, were confused enough. Among his familiars in this period... ...endly, by no means romantic appre- ciation of the Blacks; quiet prosperity economic and do- mestic: on the whole a healthy and recommendable way of li... ... rich to him. His unmanageable, dislocated, devastated world, spiritual or economical, lay all illuminated in living sun- shine, making it almost beau... ... so far as rapid lively intellect produces wit, he had plenty, and did not abuse his endowment that way, being always fundamentally serious in the pur... ... Regula- tions, probably drawn up by Sterling, a very solid lucid piece of economics; and the List of the proposed Mem- bers, signed “James Spedding, ...

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... excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and Crown Prince, and so forth; abuse of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenera... ...s carried on her admirable campaign with less interference with her normal economic life than any other power. The first person I spoke to upon the pl... ...d high to go to Italy…. I doubt if English people fully realise either the economic sturdiness or the political courage of their Italian ally. Italy i... ...emanded a remoter wisdom. In the long run she would have been swallowed up economically and politically by Germany if she had not fought; but that was... ...drama. Has Italy been sinking into something rather hard to define called “economic slavery”? Is she or is she not escaping from that magical servitud... ...erciale Italiana. Banking in a country undergoing so rapid and vigorous an economic development as Italy is very different from the banking we simple ...

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...n any other war, but it has struck deeper at the foundations of social and economic life. I doubt if we begin to realize how much of the old system is... ...Ger- mans remaining in Belgium and Lorraine because of the stra- tegic and economic importance of those regions to Germany, and he was arguing that be... ...orker—and Labour knows this. But how are we to prevent the enslavement and economic exploitation of the blacks if we have no general watcher of Africa... ...upplies. We can, if we choose, cut off Germany altogether from these vital economic ne- 33 H.G. Wells cessities, if she does not consent to abandon m... ...ved of all power for politi- cal mischief in Africa without humiliation or economic in- jury. In that way, too, we can head off—and in no other way ca... ... thrones it is very undesirable that the British habit of asylum should be abused. We have already in England the dethroned monarch of a friendly re- ... ...curely vested in the hands of a com- mon league beyond any power of sudden abuse. It must always be remembered that this war is a mechani- cal war con...

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... nails, and eat coals and earth, and more by custom than na- ture that men abuse themselves with one another. The laws of conscience, which we pretend... ...ssary instruction. Away with the thorny subtleties of dialectics; they are abuses, things by which our lives can never be amended: take the plain phil... ... breed a grammarian or a logician, but a gentle- man, let us leave them to abuse their leisure; our business lies elsewhere. Let but our pupil be well... ...es.”—Horace. Ep. ii. 3, 208.] I presently pitied the poor people that were abused by these follies. Whereas I now find, that I myself was to be pitied... ...ir wives are reproachable if immoderate, and that a licentious and riotous abuse of them is a fault as reprovable here as in illicit connections. Thos... ... the enjoyment of his wife, and who on the other side felt the care of his economics lie heavy upon his shoulders, as it does on mine, was resolved to...

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...nia bustled round the ransack’d room, And, turning up her nose, with looks abused Her master and his myrmidons, of whom Not one, except the at... ...e dangerous life in which he had grown old, The mercy he had granted oft abused, The sights he was accustom’d to behold, The wild seas, and ... ... As the psalm says, ‘inditing a good matter. ’ He praised the present, and abused the past, Reversing the good custom of old days, An Eastern ... ...e sung, or even a Dandy’s dandiest chatter, Or all the figures Castlereagh abuses; Just as a languid smile began to flatter His peace was maki... ...by which hell is peopled, or as sad As hell — mere mortals who their power abuse— Was here (as heretofore and since) let loose. If here and ther... ...tion, That sad result of passions and potatoes— Two weeds which pose our economic Catos. Had Adeline read Malthus? I can’t tell; I wish she ...

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...at laid waste human happiness (such as slavery, and many hundreds of other abuses that might be mentioned), the rule evidently acted upon by the Found... ... to have descended into the communi- cation of truth merely scientific, or economic, or worldly. And the three reasons are these:—First, Because such ... ...TURY Y Y Y Y IN THE PERSON of this Mr. Schlosser is exemplified a com- mon abuse, not confined to literature. An artist from the Italian opera of Lond... ...nine voy- ages crowding into one pocket volume, he cannot really have much abused his professional license for being dull. Indeed, one has to look out...

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...tiness and con- ceived a lively admiration for Parisian economies. His own economic genius was so entirely for operations on a larger scale, and, to m... ...at her crooked little daubs commanded a market; but it seemed a scandal to abuse the credulity of this free-handed stranger, who, without a suspicion ... ... same,” said Newman. “Yes; the other day she had the bad taste to begin to abuse her father, to his face, in my presence. I shouldn’t have expected it... ...Newman assured her that he suspected, if he had not measured, his domestic abuses, and that to reform them was a mission worthy of her powers. She hel...

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...ers was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a good dea... ...e president nor a lot of monkeying with foreign affairs, but a good— sound economical—business—administration, that will give us a chance to have some... ...s you’re just a plug business man, he gets to shooting off his mouth about economics or literature or foreign trade con- ditions, and you just ease in... ...er woman thing went cold and fearful, but he could not hurt her, could not abuse her trust. He mumbled something about waiting, and escaped. He walked... ...is toes to sit in with a poet and with Howard, the guy that put the con in economics! But these small-town boobs, with nobody but each other to talk t... ... put on a ragged uniform, and I’d thank you,’ I said, ‘to keep your filthy abuse to yourself.’ And then I waited for Paul to show he was half a man an... ... gibbered; she howled; words could not be distin- guished in her slaver of abuse. Then the bland George F. Babbitt was transformed. If Paul was danger... ...se old stiffs of teachers just give you a lot of junk about literature and economics.” One week-end Ted proposed, “Say, Dad, why can’t I trans- fer ov...

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...entation of the same) and yet to treat it, at close quarters and for fully economic expression’s possible sake, as if it were important and essential—... ...of their purpose, no trib- ute to letters; it was of a mere rich kernel of economics, politics, ethics that, glazed and, as Mrs. Newsome main- tained ... ...en abruptly, “Jim is a damned dose!” he de- clared. “Oh I don’t ask you to abuse or describe or in any way pronounce on your relatives; I simply put i...

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... bicycles on hire. It was a singular trade, obeying no known commercial or economic principles—indeed, no principles. There was a stock of ladies’ and... ...cal traction, it had brought men nearer together, so much nearer socially, economically, physically, that the old separations into nations and king- d... ... fantastic fabric of credit and fi- nance that had held the world together economically for a hundred years strained and snapped. A tornado of realisa... ...mallways saw, for all its glare of light and traffic, was in the pit of an economic and financial collapse unparalleled in history. The flow of the fo... ...ered position. Necessarily, in the face of urban populations in a state of economic disorganisation and infuriated and starving, this led to vio- lent... ...Gaw!” whispered Bert, and then uttered under his breath one single word of abuse. He sat crouched together for per- haps three minutes, then he sprang...

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...Redwood. “It’s the sort of knowledge that could easily be subject to grave abuse—grave dangers, as Caterham puts it.” Redwood said nothing. “Even care... ...rightly. “It’s the sort of knowledge that could easily be subject to grave abuse,” said Redwood. “But I don’t see how that applies,” said Winkles. “It... ...that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first t... ...diction, no science so significant as the reconcili- ation of “interests.” Economic realities, topographical ne- cessities, the barely touched mines o... ...w he had everything to learn. He did not know there were physical laws and economic laws, quantities and reactions that all humanity voting ne- mine c...

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...into a custom and a scourge, and the dictionary teems with evidence of its abuse. Special words signify the begging of food, of uncooked food, of fish... ...never have one. It is there as it is with us at home: the mea- sure of the abuse of either system is the blackness of the individual heart. The same m... ...en passed forbidding gifts under the pen- alty of a sharp fine. Under this economic regimen, the unpopularity of taxes, which strike all at the same t... ...r, by which the thrall’s term of ser- vice is extended, has grown to be an abuse; and it is com- plained that, even where that term is out, much irreg... ...moans cried on account of their lands, which were taken high- handedly and abused. They again cried on account of the loss of what they had planted, w...

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... in the neighbourhood, why should he not, if he wished to marry? If he was economical, surely he had a right to man- age his own affairs. Her dread wa... ... summer day,” Herbert resumed encouragingly. Annette was replying, “People abuse our climate—” But the thought of having to go out away from this cli-... ...eco … you know—my Lord! where’s my brains?—but he’s upright—’nomical!” “An economical man,” said Fellingham, with sedate impa- tience. “My dear sir, I... ...e moneyed daugh- 59 George Meredith ter, the prospective marriage, for an economical man rejected by every lady surrounding him, advised him to lock ... ...delighted in them. The cook regaled the carpenter with skilful, tasty, and economic dishes; and the carpenter, obedient to her supplications, had prom...

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...also say to Renouard: “Y ou may yet change the history of our country. For economic conditions do shape the history of nations. Eh? What?” And he woul... ...sed to introduce himself to strangers as a man with a mission to track out abuses and fight them whenever found. 132 He would also hint that he was a...

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... in the back of my mind that I must not leave Rawdon’s. I simply wanted to abuse my employer to Parload. But I talked myself quite out of touch with a... ...nsive fact of the lock-out! That year was a bad year, a year of world-wide economic disorganization. Through their want of intelligent direction the g... ...ovey of unsubstantial jabbering minds drifting over a series of irrational economic cataclysms, prices and employment tumbled about like towers in an ... ...s retort, an indictment of all Lord Redcar’s class, their manners, morals, economic and political crimes, when my trouble with Nettie arose to swamp a... ...wall paper, the saucepans and kettle on the narrow, cheap, but by no means economical range, the ashes under the fireplace, the rust-spotted steel fen... ... forty-one millions of people, in a state of almost indescribably aimless, economic, and moral muddle that we had neither the courage, the energy, nor...

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... under- ground, or reduced to ashes and thrown to the winds with what most economical dispatch may be possible. If water had been added to the landsca... ...leck of abusing his power, seeing that it is hard to determine what is the abuse of such power and what its proper use. When we were at St. Louis a ta... ...g sold by auction. No doubt such a measure was by them regarded as a great abuse. One gentleman informed me that, in addition to this, certain houses ... ...d unless he would take the oath of allegiance. He no doubt thought that an abuse of power! But the worst abuse of such power comes not at first, but w... ...the appearance of bread which has been carefully spread with treacle by an economic housekeeper. And the proprietor was right, for had we not done so,... ...d that I was an Englishman; for previous to his so finding he had begun to abuse the English roundly—but I did not quite agree with him about the volu... ...duced by one-half, and the labor might be saved which is now wasted in the abuse of that useless stationery. Their mail bags are made in a costly mann...

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...sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ... ...ckland had the gift of sym- pathy. It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of its posses- sion: for there is somethi... ...s sometimes felt, they lose the power 148 The Moon and Sixpence they have abused. But Stroeve, the unconquer- able buffoon, had a love and an underst... ...which aroused her violent disapproval. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quar... ... on the kitchen table, and with a dexterous gesture and a lively volley of abuse flung a book at its scampering tail. “I asked him if he was happy wit...