...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...

...main thing to them. It can make this life comparatively comfortable to the parties concerned; the neglect of this training can make this life a const... ...t of this training can make this life a constant peril and distress to the parties con cerned. Y.M. Y ou have said that training is everything; that ... ...on the human race to reach up—up—up— and strike from its far summit in the social skies the world’ s accepted ideal of Glory and Might and Splendor an... ...hiavelli whom he depicts does not cease to be politically a republican and socially a just man because he holds up an atrocious des pot like Caesar B... ...o to speak. I don’t know what’s the reason, but these material tokens of a social decay afflict me terribly; a tipsy woman isn’t dreadfuler than a hag... ...and un expected way: Republican, a sinner mentioned in the Bible. Also in Democratic newspapers now and then. Here are two where the mistake has resu... ...mind the Baconian assumers have come out ahead of the Shakespearites. Both parties handle the same materials, but the Baconians seem to me to get much...

...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... ...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 winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes — loo... ...shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Hims... ...e royal mantle of humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale... ...ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! 166 Chapter 36 The Quar... ...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... ...he same thing, that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave s...

...en, Mon- sieur Alphonse, and issue orders for a succession of six din- ner-parties. ‘And now, ma’am, you have occupation for your mind,’ he would say.... ...rm to- night, I will.’ She hugged me almost too tight, but it was warm and social, and helped to the triumph of a feeling I had that nothing made me r... ...the original. Come, invent some scandal for us; let us make this place our social Exchange. I warrant a good bold piece of invention will fit them, to... ...ed even in Germany for scholarship, rather notorious for his political and social opinions too. The margravine, with infinite humour in her countenanc... ...tocracy, squirearchy, and merchants. ‘Here it is not so,’ he said; ‘and no democratic rageings will make it so. Rank, with us, is a principle. I suppo... ...d him, and held his wine up. He drank, and thumped the table. ‘We ‘ll have parties here, too. The girl shall have her choice of partners: she shan’t b... ... entertain- ments; and also that he was admitted to the exclusive din- ner-parties of the Countess de Strode, ‘which are,’ he ob- served, in the moder...

... 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’...

...s man going. He may live on for many generations inside the shelter of the social establishment which he has erected for himself, as pear-trees and cu... ...y as well live. And so he applied himself to his own tiny sec- tion of the social work, and to doing the best for his family, and to leaving the rest ... ...essful barrister, also littérateur of high repute, a rich man, and a great social suc- cess. At the centre he felt himself neuter, nothing. Isabel kne... ...k began. Nothing more was said for the time being. As the week went on all parties became more comfortable. Joe remained silent, averted, neutral, a l... ...ere,’ said Matilda. ‘Is it any different in Canada?’ asked Emmie. ‘Oh, yes—democratic,’ replied Matilda, ‘He thinks they’re all on a level over there....

... enough to show that Mrs. Hilbery was so rich in the gifts which make tea- parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely neede... ...thinking of that. I was thinking how you live alone in this room, and have parties.” Mary reflected for a second. “It means, chiefly, a power of being... ... at lunch-time, or squeezed in a visit to a picture gallery, balancing his social work with an ardent culture of which he was secretly proud, as Mary ... ...bing into their gigs, or setting off home down the road together in little parties. Many salu- tations were addressed to Mary, who shouted back, with ... ...tway was one of the people for whom the great make-believe game of English social life has been invented; she spent most of her time in pretending to ... ...at she was a dignified, im- portant, much-occupied person, of considerable social standing and sufficient wealth. In view of the actual state of thing... ...ed of a very few pages, entitled, in a forcible hand, “Some Aspects of the Democratic State.” The aspects dwindled out in a cries- cross of blotted li... ...d her green-shaded lamp to another table, and covered “Some Aspects of the Democratic State” with a sheet of blotting-paper. “Why can’t they leave me ...

...a gratuitous Coriolanus haughtiness as well, new among a people accustomed socially to bow the head to their nobles, and not, of late, expecting a kic... ...sted savour. They enjoyed the pecu- liar novel relish of it, coming from a social pressman and a dame of high society. The different hemispheres becam... ...eral a great man. He now regarded him as a mere soldier, a soured veteran; socially as a masker and a trifler, virtually a callous angler playing his ... ... of 130 Lord Ormont and His Aminta Ormont which so violently offended the democratic aristo- crat, and caused her to resent it as an assault on the f... ...ed. Aminta simply ob- served that it would cause less inconvenience to all parties. A suspicion of her aunt’s proceedings was confirmed by the good wo...

...rgin throng. And here, assembled cross legg’d round their trays, Small social parties just begun to dine; Pilaus and meats of all sorts met th... ...rong. And here, assembled cross legg’d round their trays, Small social parties just begun to dine; Pilaus and meats of all sorts met the gaze,... ...he nightingale; they were Unfit to mix in these thick solitudes Call’d social, haunts of Hate, and Vice, and Care: How lonely every freeborn c... ... Kindness, destroys what little we had got: To feel for none is the true social art Of the world’s stoics— men without a heart. ’ Just now a b... ...ein whether Gulbeyaz show’d them both commiseration, Or got rid of the parties altogether, Like other angry ladies of her nation, Are thi... ...m you as me. The consequence is, being of no party, I shall offend all parties: never mind! My words, at least, are more sincere and hearty ... ...the other way, And wax an ultra royalist in loyalty, Because I hate even democratic royalty. I think I should have made a decent spouse, If ...

...k, urged or guided them forward, distressed, pre- occupied, adjuring their parties to keep together; in their white-gloved fingers they held their tic... ... audience, suddenly remembering hats and wraps, bestirred itself, and many parties were already upon their feet and filing out at the time the curtain... ..., or kept his head more surely than the same young fellow who confused his social engagements for the evening of the same day. The Landry Court the De... ...ndings had been to Laura an unbroken series of little delights. For formal social distractions she had but little taste. She left those to Page, who, ... ...ed in a bewilder- ing round of teas, “dancing clubs,” dinners, and theatre parties. Mrs. Wessels was her chaperone, and the little middle-aged lady fo... ...painting, or flowers, or more rarely—for she had not the least interest in social affairs—to teas or receptions. But in the evenings, after dinner, sh... ...e was not a trace of the snob about Charles Cressler. No one could be more democratic. But at the same time, as this interview proceeded, he could not... ...er,” addicted to actresses, suppers, and to bath- ing in champagne. In the Democratic press he was assailed as little better than a thief, vituperated...

... 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 ...

...tch at epithets, and any low contention of this kind obscured for them the social summit they hoped to attain; the dream whereof was their prime nouri... ... common shot that exploded a magazine; and for a time it quite upset their social policy, causing them to act like simple young ladies who feel things... ...ngs and the Fine Shades play a principal part in our human development and social history. I dare not say that civilized man is to be studied with the... ...d: “though,” as she said to Arabella, “you must know I abomi- nate musical parties, and think them the most absurd of en- tertainments possible; but i... ...red, clenching her little hands. The patriotic melody, delivered in sturdy democratic fash- ion, had to be endured. It died hard, but did come to an e... ...ing divine in the idea of a teacher. I listen to Sir T . on Parliament and parties, and chide myself if my interest flags. His algebra-puzzles, or Euc... ...’s leaving the room meant. I suppose the hotel people are used to yachting-parties.” And then, not seeing any friendly demonstration on his part, she ...

...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 ...

...unfortunate and misunderstood Ralston. Once he had been put forward as the Democratic candidate for governor, but failed of elec- tion. After this Mag... ...ared in the doorway, singly or in couples, or in families, or in garrulous parties of five and six. Now it was Phelps and his mother from Los Muertos,... ... Derrick for the second, and James Darrell for the third. Nominated in the Democratic State convention in the fall of the preceding year, Lyman, backe... ...s, Young, Poushkin, Henry George, Schopenhauer. He attacked the subject of Social Inequal- ity with unbounded enthusiasm. He devoured, rather than rea... ...eth- ics. The widow of India, in the costume of her caste, de- scribed the social life of her people at home. The bearded poet, perspiring in furs and... ...but the manufacturer’s wife turned the meet- ings of these committees into social affairs—luncheons, teas, where one discussed the ways and means of a... ...ted this by an- other offer of an equal amount. The country was thick with parties of horsemen, armed with rifles and revolvers, recruited from Visali... ...Ask Magnus Derrick what he thinks about that. Ask him how much he paid the Democratic bosses at Sacramento to swing the convention.” He went out, slam...

...id so. He cordially despised any brother rector who thought harm of dinner-parties, or dreaded the dangers of a moderate claret-jug; consequently dinn... ...ties, or dreaded the dangers of a moderate claret-jug; consequently dinner-parties and claret-jugs were common in the diocese. He liked to give laws a... ... to come to us, that is, in the way of calling. And at your English dinner-parties all is so dull and so stately. Do you know, my lord, that in coming... ...g opinion. In truth they were both right. Mr Arabin was a diffident man in social intercourse with those whom he did not intimately know; when placed ... ...arn people that they were not to sit long. In his eyes there was something democratic and parvenu in a round table. He imagined that dissenters and ca... ...d remain so as to preoccupy Mr Slope’s place in the carriage, and act as a social policeman to effect the exclusion of that disagreeable gentleman. Bu...

...arage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted always of the curate, Josiah Graves with his sister, Dr. ... ...ws Homeward Fly , or Trot, Trot, My Pony . But the Careys did not give tea-parties often; the preparations upset them, and when their guests were gone... ...ering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social animal. Philip passed from the innocence of childhood to bitter cons... ...sed, and as Tar, otherwise Mr. T urner, said, it was undig- nified for all parties. He gave no warning, but after morning prayers would say to one of ... ...n’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.” He leaned back cautiously, fo... ...lighted with his joke. 653 W. Somerset Maugham “You must wear them at the social evening, Clarence.” “He’ll catch the belle of Lynn’s, if he’s not ca... ...the belle of Lynn’s, if he’s not careful.” Philip had already heard of the social evenings, for the money stopped from the wages to pay for them was o...

...ark Beyond the path with grain on either hand, Help to the steering of our social Ark Over the barbarous waters unto land. For us the double conscienc... ...een blood run dry And blood running flame may our offspring run! May brain democratic be king of the host! Less then shall the volumes of History tell... ...r history’s maps, T o see across Britain’s old shaggy unshorn, Through the Parties in strife internecine, foot The ruler’s close-reckoned direct to th... ... stationed wheel; Nor History written in blood or in foam, For vendetta of Parties in cursing accursed. The God in the conscience of multitudes feel, ... ...ready blade, Whose argument the cannonade. He loathed his land’s divergent parties, loth T o grant them speech, they were such idle troops; The friabl...

...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...

...l pamphlet, “The Discovery of the Future,”** presents a general theory of social development and of social and po- litical conduct. It is an attempt ... ...pment and of social and po- litical conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point... ...al questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and... ...thlessly and entirely. And these repudiations extend also to the political parties that struggle to realize themselves within the forms of our establi... ...action-fighting may be turned for a time to- wards his remoter ends. These parties derive from that past when the new view of life had yet to establis... ... aim at all—as we of the new generation mea- sure comprehensiveness. These parties, and the phrases of party exposition—in America just as in England—... ... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...e country was drifting 149 H G Wells slowly towards the constitution of a democratic republic. In those days it was that there came into being a theo...

...lation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

... ELF I S ING One’s self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not ... ...pple peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find, At musters, beach parties, friendly bees, huskings, house raisings; Where the mocking bird ... ...nd running, Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plant... ...f one man or one woman to day—the average man of to day, It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts, It is in the broad show of artificial ... ...ion grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee, Thee in thy democratic fetes en masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers... ...nd they again leading to other results.) How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, willful, as I love them, How the whirl, the...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life imme...

................................................. 39 Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. ...................................................................... ... (man-eating!) under their feet; your Henri Fourths, with their prophesied social millen- nium, ‘when every peasant should have his fowl in the pot;’ ... ...so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kingships, Social Institutions, oftenest die. Sad, when such Institution plethorically... ...and Fall: the lady Necker founds Hospitals; gives solemn Philosophe dinner-parties, to cheer her exhausted Controller-General. Strange things have hap... ...te Publicole; Breton Club; Enraged Club, Club des Enrages. Likewise Dinner-parties in the Palais Royal; your Mirabeaus, Talleyrands dining there, in c... ...o the Commons Deputies sit incubating. There are private conclaves, supper-parties, consultations; Breton Club, Club of Viroflay; germs of many Clubs.... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National... ...written order from our Versailles Municipality,—which is a Monarchic not a Democratic one. However, Versailles Patroles drove them in again; as the vi...

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.......................................................................... 34 SOCIAL PANACEAS............................................................... ...remony inaugurate? The question is inevitable. There is nothing in all the social existence of men so full of challenge as the crowning of a king. It ... ...assured. I can conceive many of them, a little fatigued, preparing now for social dispersal, relaxing comfortably into gossip, discussing the detail o... ...d urgent social needs. They play a game, a long and interesting game, with parties as sides, a game that rewards the industrious player with prominenc... ... is an impos- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a democratic re- public, every gre... ...e mines are to be a democratic re- public, every great industry is to be a democratic republic 67 H. G . Wells within the State; our community is to ... ...d, a community of independent families protected by law and an intelligent democratic statecraft from the economic aggressions of large accumulations ... ...rganise a society, form a group for the control of the two chief political parties, bring about “socialism” in twenty-five years, or do anything beyon... ...the politi- cal arena at the same time, because only one party or group of parties can win. And going back for a moment to that point about a Uto- pia...

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................................................. 46 Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. ...................................................................... ... (man-eating!) under their feet; your Henri Fourths, with their prophesied social millennium, ‘when every peas- ant should have his fowl in the pot;’ ... ...so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kingships, Social Institutions, oftenest die. Sad, when such Institution plethorically... ...and Fall: the lady Necker founds Hospitals; gives solemn Philosophe dinner-parties, to cheer her exhausted Controller-General. Strange things have hap... ... Publicole; Breton Club; Enraged Club, Club des Enrages. Likewise Din- ner-parties in the Palais Royal; your Mirabeaus, Talleyrands dining there, in c... ...o the Commons Deputies sit incubating. There are private conclaves, supper-parties, consultations; Breton Club, Club of Viroflay; germs of many Clubs.... ...igneurs d’Artois, Conti, Conde (named Court Triumvirate), they of the anti-democratic Memoire au Roi, has not their foreboding proved true? They may w... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National...

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...NLY IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE COMEDY is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilize... ...s and types under the broad Alpine survey of the spirit born of our united social intelli- gence, which is the Comic Spirit? Wise men say the latter. ... ...ly. They dare not be chuckling while Egoism is valiant, while sober, while socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old... ...ities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic cousins”, he said. Such cousins! They might all have been in the... ...nor and Isabel to bring Laetitia Dale on a visit to the Hall, where dinner-parties were soon to be given and a pleasing talker would be wanted, where ... ...for a variation of a man; con- cluding that he must have a round of dinner-parties to friends, especially ladies, appreciating him, during the Doctor’... ...dleton’s pathetic exit in captivity sufficed to tell Colonel De Craye that parties divided the house. At first he thought how deplorable it would be t...

...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convi...

...les were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herri... ...cademical beer. 12 SARTOR RESARTUS day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt doch der Schalk? added they, looking rou... ... knead and publish was other than medicinal and sacred. In such environment, social, domestic, physical, did Teufelsdr¨ ockh, at the time of our acqua... ...ired Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Printing. The first ground ha... ...led shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity; Clothes have made Men of us; they are threatening to make ... ... found these Chapters, that it may be thrown out as a pertinent question for parties concerned, Whether or not a good English Translation thereof migh... ...rudge, in like manner wending: till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty... ...f Ministry 160 SARTOR RESARTUS and Opposition, and that generous conflict of Parties, mind warming itself against mind in their mutual wrestle for the...

...ch last, indeed, there have been minds to whom the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? ...

... Coles and Edwards courts. I have some cases in both of them, in which the parties have my promise, and are depending upon me. The court commences in ... ...e sent to Vera Cruz as soon as it shall be deemed proper. “The contracting parties sign this instrument for the abovementioned purposes, in duplicate,... ...at may properly be called an internal im- provement veto message. The late Democratic conven- tion, which sat at Baltimore, and which nominated Gen- e... ...eral Cass for the Presidency, adopted a set of resolutions, now called the Democratic platform, among which is one in these words: “That the Constitut... ...nation, holds this language: “I have carefully read the resolutions of the Democratic national convention, laying down the platform of our po- litical... ...eved that the self- named “Free Soil” party was far behind the Whigs. Both parties opposed the extension. As he understood it the new party had no pri... ...he only danger which seemed to threaten, at some distant day, to sever the social bond of union. All the evidences of public opinion at that day seeme... ...incoln: V ol Two upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine wo... ... not be said that I am contending for the establish- ment of political and social equality between the whites and blacks. I have already said the cont...

... society. But that makes it all the more essential that public opinion and social environment should not be left to grow up at haphazard as they ordin... ...e state, are necessary because men’s community is imperfect, because man’s social nature expresses itself in conflicting ways, in the clash of interes... ...sses itself in conflicting ways, in the clash of interests, the rivalry of parties, and the struggle of classes, instead of in the united seeking afte... ...n their relative importance in the good life, but upon the strength of the parties which they represent. The mixed constitution is practicable in a st... ... as the birds. The gift of speech also evidently proves that man is a more social animal than the bees, or any of the herding cattle: for nature, as w... ...n some instances it is sufficiently clear, that it is advantageous to both parties for this man to be a slave, and that to be a master, and that it is... ...t, the sen- ate the oligarchical; and, that in the ephori may be found the democratical, as these are taken from the people. But some say, that in the... ...r, and that it is their common meal and daily course of life, in which the democratical form is represented. It is also said in this trea- tise of [12... ...stom be- ing broken through by the Leucadians, made their govern- ment too democratic; for by that means it was no longer necessary to be possessed of...

...t in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianity involves itself to the eye of a contemporar... ...st the infant faith. This be- ing so, and as the gods were really the only parties invited who got nothing at all of the banquet, it becomes a questio... ...amongst which he travelled: there was a sort of truce, indeed, between the parties; temples, with their religious services, and their votive offerings... ...to be explained only by one who should know the mysterious history of both parties from the eldest times. It is extraordinary, however, that Herodotus... ...have attempted to show, that from the same mighty influence had grown up a social influence of woman, which did not exist in pagan ages, and will here... ...e; secondly, that in the regular and ‘official’ meetings of the people, no social interest was ever discussed, but only some political interest. Now, ... ...y interpretation) in his utter ruin; that the sudden revolution, through a democratic movement, which was to raise himself and his brother apostles in... ...ion of an oath, (for which there was surely reason enough in days when the democratic tri- bunals were forcing men to swear to an et caetera;) and, by...

... no means the outcome of malevolence, but depend on their education, their social status, even their professions. The good artist should expect no rec... ... firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing ... ...fore we behold him in the dock, a stranger to all historical, political or social considerations which can be brought to bear upon his case. He remain... ...ation, for the honour, for the fun of the thing. The virtuous, industrious democratic States of to-morrow may yet be reduced to fighting for a crust o... ... arouse her cupidity be- cause she had salt mines of her own. No doubt the democratic complexion of Polish institutions was very distasteful to the co... ... modified and confirmed by two other treaties, which guaranteed to all the parties in a just and eternal union all their rights, liberties, and respec... ...at different times, simply be- cause good care was taken by the interested parties to stop the mouth of the accused. But it has never carried much con... ... its problems by its distant friends, the West- ern Powers, which in their democratic development must recognise the moral and intellectual kinship of... ... out that this plan is the only one offering serious guarantees to all the parties occu- pying their respective positions within the scheme. If her ex...

...as yet been carried. My wish is to describe, as well as I can, the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, wi... ... woman’s keen eye, and described with a woman’s light but graphic pen, the social defects and 5 Trollope absurdities which our near relatives had ado... ...ure and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- duced the social absurdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurditie... ... necessarily to be done from with- out. But it is ten times better for all parties that it should be done from within; and as the cocks are now clippi... ...t in the fact of England’s neutrality—in the fact of her regarding the two parties as belligerents—but in the open declaration made to the world by a ... ...d us than have remained neutral in such a conflict and have re- garded the parties as belligerents. The only question is whether she would have done s... ...ich it may have been guilty will be condoned by the world. The Southern or Democratic party of the United States had, as all men know, been in power f... ...d assisted at its birth. In Massachusetts itself, also, there was a strong Democratic party, of which Massachusetts now seems to be somewhat ashamed. ... ...the abso- lute absence of true liberty which such a passion through- out a democratic country must engender. But he who has observed all this must ack...

...it chiefly concerns within one and the same hour. The mighty Juggernaut of social life, moving onwards with its everlasting thunders, pauses not for a... ...ndirect, whether many or few. The increasing grandeur and magnitude of the social system, the more it multiplies and extends its victims, the more it ... ...ugh every hour of the golden morning the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old, the timid and the bold, nay, even of the most del... ...egree, by the time we reached the office. Already on our road thither some parties had passed us who were conversing with eagerness upon the case: so ... ...nal interest inevitably connected with a case to which there were two such parties as a brutal, sensual, degraded ruffian, on one side in character of... ... now its unity was broken. A new element was introduced into the question: Democratic feelings were armed against this outrage; gentlemen and nobles, ... ...e advan- tage which, for such a purpose, he derives from the exagger- ated social estimate of all violence. Personal security being so main an object ...

... gen- erous ardour, the better part of the man too often withheld from the social commerce, and the contact of mind with mind evaded as with terror. A... ...n geniality . Thus, 12 Robert Louis Stevenson at least, we have a healthy democratic atmosphere to breathe in while at work; even when there is no co... ...shipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed a different social constitution from his fellow-countrymen either of the south or north... ...house where I spent my youth was not yet thought upon; but we made holiday parties among the cornfields on its site, and ate strawberries and cream ne... ...leasures bear discussion for their own sake, but only those which are most social or most radically human; and even these can only be discussed among ... ...and strength among themselves effectually prevents the appear- ance of the democratic notion. Or we might more exactly compare their society to the cu...

... full of pathos, full of truth, full of a high eloquence. Superstition and social exigency having been thus dealt with in the first two members of the... ...d, and free from bashfulness or affectation. If he made a slip, he had the social courage to pass on and refrain from explanation. He was not embar- r... ...tances. It was, in short, an admirable ap- pearance on the stage of life – socially successful, intimately self-respecting, and like a gentleman from ... ...der the different dates. 53 Familiar Studies of Men & Books pity for both parties concerned. This was not the wife who (in his own words) could “ente... ...ular and poetical presentment; and, in so doing, catch and stereotype some democratic ideal of humanity which should be equally natural to all grades ... ...ip that it takes place on a level higher than the actual characters of the parties would seem to war- rant.” This is to put friendship on a pedestal i... ...n that it takes place on a lower level than the charac- ters of any of the parties would warrant us to expect. The society talk of even the most brill...

... attack.The job of the NMCC in such an emergency is to gather the relevant parties and establish the chain of command between the National Command Aut... ...centric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its hist... ...es (such as those promoted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party of Syria and Iraq) that called for a single, ... ...ulers sought to buy off local Islamist movements by ceding control of many social and educational issues. Embold- ened rather than satisfied, the Isla... ...discos and beaches in Beirut, and in Greifswald was known to enjoy student parties and drinking beer.Although he continued to share an apartment in Gr... ...t has occurred with the full support of the Congress, both major political parties, the media, and the Amer- ican people. The nation has committed eno... ...Muslim states.A cen- tral government has been established in Kabul, with a democratic constitution, new currency, and a new army. Most Afghans enjoy g... ... communities.Y et even if his efforts are successful and elections bring a democratic government to Afghanistan, the United States faces some difficul... ...om ‘Muslimun/Muslims.’...Islamism is defined as ‘an Islamic militant, anti-democratic movement, bearing a holistic vision of Islam whose final aim is ...

... difficulty occurred, and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties. At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensib... ...rs of the world, the wars, revolutions, etc., are carried on and affected by parties. “That the view of these parties is their present general interes... ..., or what they take to be such. “That the different views of these different parties occa sion all confusion. “That while a party is carrying on a ge... ... to be brought to every fire; and we agreed to meet once a month and spend a social evening together, in discoursing and communicating The Autobiograp... ...much prerogative in it, and in England it was judg’d to have too much of the democratic. The Board of Trade therefore did not approve of it, nor recom...

...nt to complain that this is a cold world; and to cold, no less physical than social, we refer directly a great part of our ails. The summer, in some c... ...gain, running in the face of it. If it had concerned either of the political parties, depend upon it, it would have appeared in the Gazette with the e... ...ized country, where —— — people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its... ...s one not interested in the success or failure of the present economical and social arrangements. I was more 34 Walden independent than any farmer in... ...is moment stopping at some brilliant station house in town or city, where a social crowd is gathered, the next in the Dismal Swamp, scaring the owl a... ... keep a house. Say, some hollow tree; and then for morning calls and dinner parties! Only a woodpecker tapping. O, they swarm; the sun is too warm th...

...s of beeches, and fre- quent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made ... ... a year after Mr Gresham’s last con- test for the county, it seemed to all parties to be a pleas- ant and rational arrangement that the hounds should ... ...t Scatcherd, who had hitherto been silent enough about his sister in those social hours which he passed with his gentleman friend, boasted of the enga... ...ncreased distances. Now there was something low, mean, unprofessional, and democratic in this; so, at least, said the children of AEsculapius gathered... ...a stone. Dr Thorne’s pretensions, mixed with his subversive pro- fessional democratic tendencies, his seven-and-sixpenny visits, added to his utter di... ...d achieved a sort of popularity there and elsewhere by the violence of his democratic opposition to the aristocracy. According to this man’s political... ...s be here, backwards and forwards; and perhaps it will be bet- ter for all parties—safer, that is, doctor—if Miss Thorne were to discontinue her visit... ...made greatly uneasy by reflecting how very high the bill would be. The two parties had outdone each other in the loudness of their assertions, that ea... ... had in effect banished herself from the most intimate of the Greshamsbury social circles. She magnified in her own mind the importance of the confere...

.... It had been arranged, or possibly it was the custom of the day, that the parties should proceed separately to church. By some accident the bridegroo... ... his equals in age, partook of the enmity of their parents. His tender and social nature had already overflowed in attachments to everything about him... ...first provincial charter, un- der which our forefathers had enjoyed almost democratic privileges! He that was styled the arch-enemy of New En- gland, ... ...itutions and customs that were connected with it, had never yielded to the democratic her- esies of after times. The young queen of Britain has not a ... ...n of the manner in which the world kept itself cheerful and prosperous, by social pleasures and an intercourse of busi- ness, while he, in seclusion, ...

...sie from the contamination by taking her out in the carriage and to garden parties, which the young lady infi- nitely preferred to long walks that tir... ...changed, but she sent refusals on mourning cards to invitations to evening parties, though she took her young people to plays, concerts, and operas, a... ...se with friends. All kinds of amusements astonished the neighbourhood, and parties of the newest kinds, private the- atricals, tableaux, charades, all... ... Allen liked high life for her, so she did not refuse it; but probably her social suc- cess was all the greater from her entire indifference, and that... ...profes- 214 Magnum Bonum sion,” said Janet; “he means to read law, get up social and sanitary questions, and go into parliament.” “I know,” said her ... .... Hyde Corner was too agreeable a haunt to be despised, and Janet owed her social successes more to her mother’s attractions than her own. Conversatio... ...lucky, since they ascribe her greater religiousness to what it suits their democratic notions to scorn. Not that there is much to com- plain of in Bob...

...we may augur that he is not often blessed by one or other of the two great parties who subdivide this universe. In the case of Mr. Melchisedec it was ... ...s fair enemy, and to find a distraction for their legs. The classes of our social fabric have, here and there, slight connecting links, and provincial... ...her on deck,’ said the Countess. ‘Silva is too harassed for converse.’ The parties were thus divided. The silent Count was left to meditate on his wro... ...d!—I have been slaving in your interests. Y es; I have forced the Jocelyns socially to acknowledge us. I have not slept; I have eaten bare morsels. Do... ... him from beneath his bushy eyebrows. Before long he had again to call two parties to order. To Raikes, Laxley was a puppy: to Laxley, Mr. Raikes was ... ...re was the necessity for him to thrust the fact of his being that abhorred social pariah down the throats of an assembly of worthy good fellows? The a... ...’ exclaimed the frenzied Countess, within her bosom. Alas! it was almost a democratic outcry they made her guilty of; but she was driven past patience...

...ity, I mean interest: “Does anybody know 25 Joseph Conrad besides the two parties concerned?” he asked, with some- thing as it were renewed (or was i... ...tial contempt for all mankind. There is nothing in that against the purest democratic principles; but that you, Rita, should elect to throw so much of... ...nfortunate position of an exile has its advantages. At a certain height of social position (wealth has got nothing to do with it, we have been ruined ... ...great political (and domestic) influence at Court. The card was, under its social form, a mere command to present myself before the grandee. No Royali... ...is complexion was uniformly pale, his mouth was red, but not engaging. His social status was not very defi- nite. He was wearing a dark blue overcoat ...

...r them, I could not but remember that I was separating myself from all the social and intellectual enjoyments of life. Yet, strange as it may seem... ...aptain to the smallest boy; and a day of rest and of something like quiet, social enjoyment, was all that we could expect. We continued runni... ...the foreigners not feeling themselves called upon to act in this case, the parties being all natives, nothing was done about it; and I frequently a... ...n the watch with that man for any given hours of my life passed in study and social intercourse. - 103 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dan... ...and hills of San Francisco Bay. While not off, on these wood and water parties, or up the rivers to the missions, we had very easy times on boar... ...rived at San Diego,—I gained a greater knowledge of the state of political parties in Mexico, and the habits and affairs of the different classes o... ...ed; * * * * *, the mouth piece of the debating clubs, noisy, vaporous, and democratic; and so following. Then I could see them receiving their A.B... ...y. It has been found necessary to vest in every government, even the most democratic, some extraordinary, and, at first sight, alarming powers; ...

...amine the geology. After din- ner the soldiers divided themselves into two parties for a trial of skill with the bolas. Two spears were stuck in the g... ...he country full of ill-paid turbulent officers, the people yet hope that a democratic form of govern- ment can succeed! On first entering society in t... ...From the time of our leaving, a regular system of plunder commenced; fresh parties of the natives kept arriving: York and Jemmy lost many things, and ... ...” But now, the more Fuegians the merrier; and very merry work it was. Both parties laughing, wondering, gaping at each other; we pity- ing them, for g... ...ising animal. That a hybrid should possess more reason, memory, obstinacy, social affection, powers of mus- cular endurance, and length of life, than ...