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...social discontent, the great railway strike, a curious sense of social and political instability, and the first beginnings of the bishop’s ill health.... ...ainst the Sunday trespasser, he fell into a despondent meditation upon the political and social outlook. His thoughts were of a sort not uncommon in t... ...nd, and feuds and frantic folly broke out at every point of the social and political edifice. And then a bomb burst at Sarajevo that silenced all this... ... know that Professor Hoppart, who so amusingly combined a professorship of political economy with the writing of music-hall lyrics, was a keen amateur... ... diminished to the scale of any other great human problem, to the scale of political problems and problems of integrity and moral principle, prob- lem... ...lowship. He took the Natural Science tripos, zoology chiefly. He’s good at philosophy, but of course our Cambridge philosophy is so silly—McTaggart bl... ...stration, chemistry, for example; but it is for every man to think his own philosophy and think out his own religion. One man may tell another, but no...

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...r’s collection of autographs into money, though not understanding the deep philosophy which had thus mixed up I O U’s and copies of verses. But the wi... ...d are obliged to make a good show.—Again, you know the difficulties of the political situation. The aris- tocracy has to be rehabilitated in the face ... ...—” “My dear sir, recrimination is useless. Listen to a simple statement in political arithmetic: The collectorship at Sancerre is vacant; a certain pa... ...anation Dinah was favoring him with—for the fourth time, it is true—of the philosophy of Kant. Monsieur de la Thaumassiere, the grand- son of the hist... ...a new dress with a new season, she seemed to have made a concession to the philosophy of the place. It is the same with matters of speech, choice of w... ...rgues in good faith; a regular journalist’s pleasantry. “If we take up the political attitude into which you would force yourself,” he went on, withou... ...s a year more for your share, and you will enter a family hold- ing a fine political position; Cardot is the brother-in-law of old Camusot, the depute... ... were preparing to fulfil all the conditions insisted on for turning out a political per- sonage, you are capable of every mean trick that is necessar...

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... on which I mean to lay several stories; the Bloody Wedding, possibly the High Woods—(O, it’s so good, the High Woods, but the story is craziness; tha... ... he changed his mind already?I wonder: here at least is the news. Some little while back some men of Manono—what is Manono?—a Samoan rotten borough, a... ...nd amuse him?—touch and try him too, but that goes along with the others: no pain, no pleasure, is the iron law. So here I stop again, and leave, as I... ...er for my journey. Twenty miles ride, sixteen fences taken, ten of the miles in a drenching rain, seven of them fasting and in the morning chill, and ... ...st tell you of our feast. It was long promised to the boys, and came off yesterday in one of their new houses. My good Simele arrived from Savaii that... ...it’s really rather riper), the t’other thing from Seeley, and I’ll tell you, you may put in my letter to the Church of Scotland—it’s not written amiss... ...St. Ives has paid the penalty. I must not let you be disappointed in St. I. It is a mere tissue of adventures; the central figure not very well or ver...

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...ecords on the Grand-Livre, he ought to have been studying his rhetoric and philosophy. While grinding the ministerial machine, he had no leisure to cu... ...inard establishment, with its gilded salons and great opulence, where many political celebrities of the “juste milieu” were wont to congregate, such a... ...iming to succeed those barristers who were turned down from the Palais for political reasons in 1830, was the genius of the household, and his mother,... ...e riot, he supported the dynasty, the product of July; but, as soon as the political trials began, he stood by the accused. This innocent “weather-coc... ..., he stood by the accused. This innocent “weather-cockism” prevails in his political opinions; 34 The Lesser Bourgeoisie he produces, in reply to all... ...n any portrayal of manners and morals, especially when we reflect that the political system of the Younger branch rests almost wholly upon it. The win... ...s marriage, about which I regret to say Felix does not behave with all the philosophy I could desire, may still not take place.” Seeing that Felix sho...

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...y come, these mere exercises of genius, to a great sum total of poetry, of philosophy, a mighty mass of specu- lation, notation, quotation. The genius... ...r of a victory still more personal. I dare say I coloured however, for his political success had momen- tarily passed out of my mind. What was present... ...s of her engagement, which I had told him about: the idea of marriage, the philosophy, the poetry, the sublimity of it.” It was impossible wholly to r...

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...ne days. Monastier is notable for the making of lace, for drunkenness, for freedom of language, and for unparalleled political dissension. There are a... ...ider along the king’s high-road, and chaise and out- rider fleeing before him at the gallop. He was placarded like a political offender, and ten thous... ... phantoms, communicate by signs. At supper we talked politics. I make it my business, when I am in France, to preach political good-will and modera- t... ...God keeps an open house. I thought I had rediscovered one of those truths which are revealed to savages and hid from political economists: at the leas... ...e knows the Lord. His religion does not repose upon a choice of logic; it is the poetry of the man’s experience, the philosophy of the history of his ...

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...nt reason from society, and ceased to take any active interest in affairs, political or do- mestic. His wife, thus left mistress of her actions, felt ... ...vast, lurking ambitions that plunged him at a later day into the storms of political life. A face that might be called insignificantly pretty and care... ...metaphysics. He was engaged in ransacking the spoils of ancient and modern philosophy, and in the assimilation of it all; he would be like Moliere, a ... ...and fact. His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promi... ...dau, and Fulgence Ridal performed the last duties to the dead, between two political fires. By night they buried their beloved in the cemetery of Pere... ... ‘Classics.’ The divergence of taste in matters literary and divergence of political opinion coin- cide; and the result is a war with weapons of every... ...live however and move. Passion, in short, an element unknown in Voltaire’s philosophy, has been brought into play. Here a diatribe against Voltaire, a...

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...all be lawful for people to eat their dinner on church days, and other great political questions; and sometimes, long after silence has fallen on the ... ...a relish for statistics, and got philosophical; and the statis tics and the philosophy together, led him into an act which increased his unpopularity... ...magic wand. And this brings us to a few words on the pantomime of public and political life, which we shall say at once, and then conclude merely p... ... parallel is quite perfect, and still more singular. Perhaps the cast of our political pantomime never was richer than at this day. We are particularl... ...od of Westminster Bridge, everybody talks politics, every evening, the great political authority being Mr. Robert Bolton, an individual who defines hi...

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...h is natural to all vanquished people, when they hope that a new chief will be able to save them from ruin and shame. This new chief, quite ready to a... ...f Orange. But Cornelius was not only possessed of a great mind, but also of a great heart. He belonged to that race of mar- tyrs who, indissolubly wed... ...th the presence of Cornelius in the town. In the same degree as Cornelius de Witt had excited the hatred of the people by sowing those evil seeds whic... ... feelings in particular. It is certainly astonishing what rich comfort great minds, in the midst of momentous catastrophes, will de- rive from the con... ...orist. He therefore came to the conclusion that the parcel contained simply some papers, and that these papers were relating to politics. But why shou... ...spondence with the Marquis de Louvois, the war minister of the King of France; only the godfather forbore giving to his godson the least intimation co... ...izon where the wind- mills of Dort were turning their sails, was breathing the fresh air, in order to be able to keep down his tears and to fortify hi...

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...g they found some hours for the serious concerns of life. I may have a wrong idea of wisdom, but I think that was a very wise remark. People connected... ...ily with the lilies and the skylarks. He does not precisely sing, of course; but then he looks so unassuming in his open landau! If all the world dine... ... to discuss during a long half- hour, and each nationality have a different idea in view throughout. It was not till the very end that we discov- ered... ...roughout. It was not till the very end that we discov- ered his heresy had been political, or that he suspected our mistake. The terms and spirit in w...

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...d uncle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir. A difference in political opinions had early separated the Baronet from his younger brother... ...ley of W averley-Honour, suc- cessor to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest in the shire where it l... ...o independence save that of relying upon his own exertions, and adopting a political creed more consonant both to reason and his own interest than the... ...a share of ministerial favour more than proportioned to his talents or his political impor- tance. It was however, discovered that he had respectable ... ... left to him, would have burdened him with a disagreeable inmate, if not a political spy, in his family . He therefore prevailed upon his private sec-... ...ommenced. He was soon called upon to justify his pretensions by reason and philosophy. CHAPTER LXI A JOURNEY TO LONDON THE FAMILY at Fasthwaite were s... ...e accident, so as to predispose him to this spiritual illusion?’—Hibbert’s Philosophy of Appa- ritions, Edinburgh, 1824, p. 190. NOTE 5.—SCOTTISH INNS...

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...with France or claim to her throne. The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Mo... ...ey foresaw for themselves the bright and cheering prospect of a revivified political existence. An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, n... ...t, I have laid aside even the name of my father, and altogether disown his political principles. He was — nay, probably may still be — a Bonapartist, ... ...I ask is, that Villefort will be firm and inflexible for the future in his political principles. Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourse... ...ready recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharp... ...not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.” “But cannot one learn philosophy?” “Philosophy canno... ...n he descended, a smile on his lips, and murmuring that last word of human philosophy, “Perhaps!” But instead of the darkness, Alexandre Dumas 195 an... ... of how much shall be charged for them.” Morcerf then, with that delighted philosophy which believes that nothing is impos- sible to a full purse or w... ...ver has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.” “Philosophy , M. Bertuccio,” interrupted the Count; “you have done a little ...

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...nt Louis. Such satirical hits as these, however, must not be considered as political, or as anything more than the expres- sion of the artist’s nation... ...tious in repeating his stories) gave the writer a good illustration of the philosophy of exaggeration. Mr. — was once behind the scenes at the Opera w...

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...face to face with collaterals without a heritage. What are they to do? Our political future is big with the answer. The family of the man who under Lo... ...et was really coming to live in Nemours, they were seized (in spite of the political events which were just then weighing so heavily on Brie and on th... ...ctor’s life either by the bourgeoisie at large or by his heirs. As for his political opinions, he did not meddle in public matters seeing that he paid... ...h the science of that day chose to see a definition of the void. In modern philosophy there is no void. Ten feet of void and the world crumbles away! ... ...e grandeur of religion and the value of its prac- tices; you will find its philosophy in human aspects far higher than that of the boldest sceptics.” ... ...ung girl reached Paris, and the doctor went at once to consult his notary. Political events were then very threaten- ing. Monsieur Bongrand had remark... ... and Monsieur Bongrand, were carried out in perfect secrecy, thanks to the political troubles 131 Balzac of the time. When quiet was again restored t... ...ok the form of hatred and revenge, would require a whole treatise on moral philosophy. Perhaps he felt he was not the real possessor of thirty-six tho...

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... learned a person as any in his dominions, had been educated in the study of philosophy, and particularly mathematics; yet when he observed my shape e... ...literally lusus naturae ; a determination ex actly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occ... ...recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantag... ... Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 146 CHAPTER III A phenomenon solved by modern philosophy and as tronomy. The Laputians’ great improvements in the lat ... ...t a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without th... ...proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. I n the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing... ...ed, that there is a strict universal resemblance between the natural and the political body; can there be any thing more evident, than that the health... ...ll acrostics and anagrams. First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings. Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse;... ...e. This great philosopher freely acknowl edged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all m...

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...eantime he was drawn into all the dissipations that arise from literary or political life, and he yielded to the temptations incurred by journalists b... ...ete, and without sufficient force to bear up against the rough jostling of political life, the struggles and sufferings of which confer no credit,—a b... ...ke of sacred principles. From the time of his return to the provinces this political manoeuvrer had an intimacy with a young man, overwhelmed with deb... ...icity given by the press to every trial, even the least important, whether political or individual. The system of the Imperial government was that of ... ...ied pair, and the young wife had occasion to know the depraved habits, the political and religious atheism and— shall I say the word?—the infamy of th... ...ay-scholar at the school of Louis-le-Grand, where he is nearly through his philosophy course, and only sixteen, too; that’s something to boast of! but...

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...e too much alarmed. Perhaps without knowing it, this reveals some profound political idea. It will surely not be a work of supererogation to describe ... ...hysiologists ought to try to detect the causes, since physiologists are to political life what entomologists are to agriculture. “But if I die before ... ...man once more, had begun by consoling some old friends now fallen from the political firmament, like ex- tinguished stars, and then, as he grew old, w... ...th, there will be great names, but no great houses, unless there should be political changes which we can hardly foresee. Everything takes the stamp o... ...ty.” “They are afraid of my attachment to the dynasty,” replied Rivet. “My political enemies are the King’s. He has a noble character! They are a fine... ... is ragged, it must be patched; but we keep it on as long as we can.” This philosophy of life, and her high spirits, postponed Hulot’s keenest pangs. ...

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... from self interest, should show towards them. But perhaps there may be a political reason for it: in finding one of a truly be nevolent disposition... ...son. There now ensued between the squire and the parson a most excellent political discourse, framed out of newspa pers and political pamphlets; in... ...d. In the affair of love, which, out of strict conformity with the Stoic philosophy, we shall here treat as a disease, this proneness to relapse is ... ...he moment the rug fell, stared directly at Jones; so that when the idea of philosophy was added to the figure now discov ered, it would have been ver... ...t private recesses of their study, and a certain liquorish part of natural philosophy is often the principal subject of their conversation. But when... ... pre vented by the interposition of Thwackum and the physi cian; for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very cal... ...ench Memoires pour servir a l’Histoire: to these she had added most of the political pamphlets and journals published within the last twenty years. Fr... ...d discover the secret springs which move the great state wheels in all the political machines of Eu rope, must surely, with very little difficulty, f... ... eclipse all private concerns. Our discourse therefore now became entirely political. For my own part, I had been for some time very seriously affecte...

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...absorbed in the spectacle of a world travailing for lack of the gospel of “Political Justice”, the study of orthographical niceties must have seemed a... ... to it every power of his mind, every pulsation of his heart. He looked on political freedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; a... ... fast aug- menting; and, in the ameliorations that have taken place in the political state of his country, we may trace in part the operation of his a... ...choicest impulses. _70 The fountains of divine philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips, and all of great, Or good, or lovel... ...e public mind, as to how far a thirst for a happier condition of moral and political society survives, among the enlightened and refined, the tem- pes... ...virtue, and be incited to those inquir- ies which have led to my moral and political creed, and that of some of the sublimest intellects in the world.... ...s soul their dark unrest: Nor what religion fables of the grave Feared he,—Philosophy’s accepted guest. _15 For none than ... ...ndure. So spake they: idly of another’s state Babbling vain words and fond philosophy; _110 This was their consolation; su... ...y; But something nobler than to live and die— So taught those kings of old philosophy Who reigned, before Religion made men blind; And those who suffe...

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...that it is a vapour, or a show, or made out of the same stuff with dreams. Philosophy, in its more rigid sense, has been at the same work for ages; an... ...have been heaped one upon another into dry and cloudy volumes without end, philosophy has the honour of laying before us, with modest pride, her contr... ... of bagmen in the country, but human beings are reckoned by number only in political constitutions. And the Admirals are typi- cal in the full force o... ...are more valuable to England than any material benefit in all the books of political economy between Westminster and Birmingham. Greenville chewing wi... ...ot possible to make it better.” It’s a pretty fair start, is it not, for a political trial? A little later, he has occasion to refer to the relations ...