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...nelled with this carving, which Van Huysum, out of regard for the martyr’s memory, came to Douai to frame in wood painted in lapis- lazuli with thread... ...ar to advantage in good society: but he was doubtless too late, she had no memory but that of the heart. Josephine never forgot anything that Claes to... ... 1809?” “Do I remember him!” she exclaimed; “I am often annoyed because my memory still recalls those eyes, like tongues of fire darting from coals of... ...voice, certain grave words whose general meaning alone remains fixed on my memory; but he spoke with a force of tone, with fervid inflections, with an... ...ranny of ideas. Madame Claes keenly regretted her defects of education and memory. It was difficult for her to sustain an interesting conversation for... ...nd looked at her daughter. The hour of confi- dence had come. Marguerite’s management of the household since her mother’s illness had amply fulfilled ... ...you wish.” “Do not marry, my darling, until Gabriel can succeed you in the management of the property and the household. If you married, your husband ... ...nt by and brought no change to the House of Claes. Gabriel, under the wise management of his tutor, Monsieur de Solis, worked studiously, acquired for... ...wenty thousand francs of his own savings, pay off in the third year of her management a large slice of the debts. This life of courage, privation, and...

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... having done so, the censure will deservedly fall, if at all due, upon the memory of Mr. Peter Pattieson; whereas I must be justly entitled to the pra... ...e the same Christian name. It cost him no efforts, there- fore, to call to memory the terrific incidents connected with the extensive waste upon which... ..., perhaps to tell of the mighty dead who slept beneath, or to preserve the memory of some bloody skirmish. The real cause of its exist- ence had, howe... ... with a supplementary legend of her own, which now came full upon Hobbie’s memory. The ground about the pillar was strewed, or rather encumbered, with... ... to assume and exercise a predominant and unaccount- able influence in the management of his private affairs. Mr. Ratcliffe was a grave, steady, reser... ...r liberties,” he exclaimed; “confound cess, press, and presbytery, and the memory of old Willie that first brought them upon us!” “Damn the gauger!” e... ...s now his nearest ally, prolonged his con- finement, in order to enjoy the management of his immense estates. There was one who owed his all to the su... ...th suc- ceeded in obtaining his patron’s freedom, and reinstatement in the management of his own property, to which was soon added that of his intende... ...f taking care of his person and prop- erty, until he was reinstated in the management of the latter by those who, no doubt, thought they were doing hi...

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... PRIVILEGES, and they were graciously accorded him by Louis XIV of inflated memory. Chief among them was the privilege to explore, far and wide, and ... ...have to know it just like A B C.” That was a dismal revelation to me; for my memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges. However, I di... ...O USE IN ARGUING with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing mar... ...boat, now, as I had been to save her be fore. I impressed my orders upon my memory, to be used at the inquest, and made a straight break for the reef... ...l the news from the morning paper; and fi nally, when I had trained my dull memory to treasure up an endless array of soundings and crossing marks, a... ...ions well fortified with capital; and by able and thor oughly business like management and system, these make a sufficiency of money out of what is l... ...ral York. Here, as below, the remarkable skill of the women and girls in the management of the smaller pirogues was noticed. Children were paddling ab...

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...ou,’ said he. “ ‘Have you not the reputation of your name to leave me, the memory of your good works—?’ “ ‘We need say nothing of that inheritance,’ h... ...f his own interests was carried by the Count to the length of folly in the management of his affairs. Possessing an in- come of about a hundred and si... ...never ceased to worship her. From the day when she left me I have lived on memory; one by one I recall the plea- sures for which Honorine no doubt had... ...d, I stood on the very threshold of infidelity, but there 30 Honorine the memory of Honorine rose before me like a white statue. As I recalled the in... ...haling the perfume of violets that ac- companied her, I understood how the memory of this wife had arrested the Count on the threshold of debauchery, ... .... I seem a light thing, you regard me as a child— Ah yes! I have a child’s memory, the memory which returns 60 Honorine to us on the verge of the tom...

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... a rebuke; she doesn’t deserve that—she is not to blame for the tricks her memory serves her.” I say— has my mother an Interior Master?—and where was... ...nd joyful episode of my remote boyhood which had suddenly flashed up in my memory—moved to this by the spectacle of a yellow cat picking its way caref... ...ame a daily guest again. Gulls do not rank high mentally, but this one had memory and the reasoning faculty, you see, and applied them Edisonially. Y.... ...—friends who formed part of a hive of five hundred thousand! Has any man a memory for form and feature approaching that? Y.M. Certainly not. O.M. Fran... ...art conclusions from the combinations—a man’s mental process exactly. With memory to help, man preserves his observations and rea sonings, reflects u... ...k on hand … was it possible that he could have taken a leading part in the management and conduct of two theaters, and if Mr. Phillipps is to be relie... ...ch must be acknowledged—was in a great measure attributed to his dexterous management. Again: While actively engaged in the House of Commons and in th...

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...nderness of thought, A stranger, linking with the spectacle 605 No conscious memory of a kindred sight, And bringing with me no peculiar sense Of quie... ...the mind. —And if the vulgar joy by its own weight Wearied itself out of the memory, 630 The scenes which were a witness of that joy Remained, in thei... ...early, feeling as I fear, The weakness of a human love, for days Disown’d by memory, ere the birth of spring Planting my snowdrops among winter snows.... ...his I feel, and make Breathings for incommunicable powers. Yet each man is a memory to himself, And, therefore, now that I must quit this theme, 190 I... ...stive ring Of commonplace convention, I to thee Poured out libations, to thy memory drank 305 Within my private thoughts, till my brain reeled, Never ... ...eaten road, Guide faithful as is needed), I began To think with fervour upon management Of nations—what it is and ought to be, 690 And how their worth...

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...ving ruler was a truth; his canoniza- tion, a fiction of tenderness to his memory. 13 Thomas de Quincey sanctuary from the imperial pursuit. If he we... ...0 The Cæsars and to knit together after the battle of Actium; and that the memory and the prudential tradition of this plan survived in the imperial f... ...petual. 83 Thomas de Quincey and simulation with a remarkable exertion of memory, it may be well to mention. The custom was, in canvassing the citize... ... in a literal sense, impossible to all men with the ordinary endowments of memory, in order to reconcile the pretensions of republican hauteur with th... ...se with the services of such an assessor; for the office imposed a twofold memory, that of names and of persons; and to estimate the immensity of the ... ... mother. By Herodian the discontents of the army are re- ferred to the ill management of the Persian campaign, and the unpromising commencement of the... ...o, a great source of the senate’s power had been found in the uncontrolled management of the provin- cial revenues; but at this time, Augustus so arra...

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... good an authority on horseflesh as any Englishman alive; the best for the management of cav- alry: there never was a better cavalry leader. The boys ... ...cience. He fell upon the study of his old hero determinedly. The pain of a memory waking under pillows, unable to do more than strain for breath, dist... ...e to do more than strain for breath, distracted his attention. There was a memory: that was all he knew. Or else he would have lashed himself for hang... ...m. So it had been with him at the early stage; and his heart went swifter, memory fetched a breath. Memory quivered eyelids, when the thought returned... ...Browny by the boys. 61 George Meredith Temptation threw warm light on the memory, and very artfully, by conjuring up the faces, cries, characters, al... ... germ of it must have sprang from the dust to prompt the kindling leap his memory took, out of all due connection; like a lightning among the crags. I... ...he shattering bell of a city’s insurrection in her breast. ‘In time, under management; catching and grouping them young. A boy who sees a girl do what... ...d very succinctly, the drawer for labelled keys, whatever pertained to her management, in London or at Great Marlow. ‘She ‘s cool,’ Lady Charlotte sai... ... cloudy com- bination in his head when he put a question, referring to the management of the dormitories at the school. Whereupon 270 Lord Ormont and...

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...es.] But the affairs of my publishers having, unfortunately, passed into a management different from their own, I had no right any longer to rely upon... ... chapters in these Novels are sometimes quoted either from reading or from memory, but, in the gen- eral case, are pure invention. I found it too trou... ... of snow was exhausted, continued the storm by snowing brown, I drew on my memory as long as I could, and when that failed, eked it out with invention... ... Chronicles of the Canongate on many occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had... ...hed 21 Sir Walter Scott to be drunk in solemn silence, said it was to the memory of a regretted-prince, whom we had lately lost. Every individual wou... ...ion of this kind, and it was in that view that he proposed to drink to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York.—Drunk in solemn silence... ...ed under the most favourable auspices. It was lib- erally supported by the management, and highly patronized by the public. Notwithstanding, it fell s... ...ethren, by publicly acknowledging the obliga- tions they were under to the management for the aid given and the warm interest they had all along taken... ...brother, the late Mr. Siddons, it was proposed that I should undertake the management of the Edinburgh Theatre, I confess I drew back, doubting my cap...

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...earings in the several voyages, together with the minute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the a... ...cularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memory; al though I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human ... ...arning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory. The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew wear... ...ted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public af fairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few... ...on on my mind, and is so deeply fixed Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 79 in my memory, that, in committing it to paper I did not omit one material circu... ...he punishment of vice and protection of innocence. I mentioned the pru dent management of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by... ...ey were ever admitted as members in the lower senate?” He fell next upon the management of our treasury; and said, “he thought my memory had failed me... ...” He fell next upon the management of our treasury; and said, “he thought my memory had failed me, be cause I computed our taxes at about five or six... ... alphabetical order. And thus, in a few days, by the help of a very faithful memory, I got some insight into their language. The word, which I interpr...

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...vants as if we knew them, and propose treach- ery—always agreed to); next, memory, sagacity, invention (to make schemes, conceived rapidly, never the ... ...ppy at that conclusion.—’No, though I have gesture enough, and figure, and memory. But there’s too much wear and tear; I prefer the career of porter.’... ...ll I had to—you know who. That poor Lousteau went into partnership for the management of a theatre with an old vaudevillist who has great influence wi... ...ing; bring- ing nations to light of which the world has long lost even the memory; an art which crowns and consecrates great men? Yes, sculpture is pr... ... persons, and looked around him with an air which Bixiou noted down in his memory and reproduced in one of the famous carica- tures with which he riva...

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...ve- ments in that field, and while those achievements are yet fresh in the memory of the million, he who would add an- other to the legion, must posse... ...hood, as to throw light upon the question, “when positive and persis- tent memory begins in the human being.” And, like Hugh Miller, he must have been... ...been so, this was, for one so young, a notable discovery. T o his uncommon memory, then, we must add a keen and accurate insight into men and things; ... ...ion rendered him insensible to their sting; but it was afterward, when the memory of them went seething through his brain, breeding a fiery indignatio... ...must have been beneficial to me. The side view of her face is imaged on my memory, and I take few steps in life, without feeling her 10 My Bondage an... ...to Col. Lloyd, as did, also, the slaves upon them. Each farm was under the management of an overseer. As I have said of the overseer of the home plant... ...the cheap rate at which they could be obtained. He was not fit to have the management of a drove of mules. In a fit of drunken madness, he committed t... ...at I should not have escaped any one of these evils by remaining under the management of Aunt Katy. Then, 89 Frederick Douglas too, I thought, since ... ...ar or two which I spent in his house, he left me almost exclusively to the management of his wife. She was my law-giver. In hands so tender as hers, a...

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...liance was foremost in the heart of Montaigne, as it was afterwards in his memory, when death had severed it. Although he blames severely in his own b... ...care in my power to treasure what was said. True it is, Monseigneur, as my memory is not only in itself very short, but in this case af- fected by the... ...fe. This will be an induce- ment to you to continue to cherish towards his memory, your good opinion and goodwill. And to be bold with you, Monsieur, ... ...e, that you will pay him his just due, and in order to refresh him in your memory, I present you this book, which will answer for me that, were it not... ... I failed, to the utmost of my power, to prevent such a name as his, and a memory so richly meriting re- membrance, from falling into oblivion; and if... ...s possible that Madame de Roissy, reading in it the order of her household management and of your happy accord painted to the life, will be pleased to... ... the reins of government in the hands of in- capable men, have avoided all management of political af- fairs; and he who demanded of Crates, how long ... ...ct. There had been so long an intelligence and society betwixt them in the management of the public affairs, so great a community of fortunes, so many... ...s known to future ages, and the thirst of glory, do yet detain them in the management of public affairs, and make them fear the solitude and retiremen...

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...haps, very readily excuse the way in which he has occasionally treated the memory of his mis- tress and benefactress. That he loved Madame de Warens— ... ...rfluous ornament, it was merely to occupy a void occa- sioned by defect of memory: I may have supposed that cer- tain, which I only knew to be probabl... ... which hung on her temples, according to the mode of that time, escaped my memory. Though my taste, or rather passion, for music, did not show itself ... ...t on me, that not only several of her songs have ever since remained on my memory, but some I have not thought of from my infancy, as I grow old, retu... ... improvement was trivial, it was obtained with ease, and has never escaped memory. The simplicity of this rural life was of infinite advantage in open... ...retain me. My departure being thus determined by those who under- took the management of my concerns, I had only to submit; and I did it without much ... ...and- ing, though destined to experience adverse fortune, might, by skilful management, arrive at happiness; that there was no true felicity without vi... ... I yet remained on good terms with the Counsellor de Coccelli, who had the management of it. Some time after, the director of the custom-house entreat... ...s be- trayed me, and though no notice was taken of it, I had no longer the management of the cellar. In all this Monsieur Malby conducted himself with...

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... tempted into the subsequent creation of a vision in the form of resurgent memory; a less sane man might have believed in such a cre- ation; but Silas... ...lusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey’s bitter memory. He had long known that the delusion was partly due to a trap laid f... ...l visitation of his waistcoat-pocket, as he was ruminat- ing, awakened his memory to the fact that the two or three small coins his forefinger encount... ...” a new piece of work in his loom early in the morning. It had slipped his memory, because, in coming from Mr. Lammeter’s, he had not had to 39 Georg... ...e can be ta’en up. Let’s have no accusing o’ the innicent, Master Marner.” Memory was not so utterly torpid in Silas that it could not be awakened by ... ...help me keep things together.” “W ell, sir, I’ve often offered to take the management of things, but you know you’ve taken it ill always, and seemed t... ...r the women of her generation—unless, like Priscilla, they took to outdoor management—were not given to much walking beyond their own house and garden...

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... tempted into the subsequent creation of a vision in the form of resurgent memory; a less sane man might have believed in such a creation; but Silas w... ...lusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey’s bitter memory. He had long known that the delusion was partly due to a trap laid f... ...ual visitation of his waistcoat pocket, as he was ruminating, awakened his memory to the fact that the two or three small coins his forefinger encounte... ...” a new piece of work in his loom early in the morning. It had slipped his memory, because, in coming from Mr. Lammeter’s, he had not had to pass thro... ...e can be ta’en up. Let’s have no accusing o’ the innicent, Master Marner.” Memory was not so utterly torpid in Silas that it could not be awakened by ... ... help me keep things together.” “Well, sir, I’ve often offered to take the management of things, but you know you’ve taken it ill always, and seemed t... ...the women of her generation — unless, like Priscilla, they took to outdoor management — were not given to much walking beyond their own house and gard...

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...eenish sides visibly specked with sheep, whose motion was only revealed by memory, not detected by sight; wooed from day to day by the changing hours,... ...se men. He bore the same sort of resemblance to his mother that our loving memory of a friend’s face often bears to the face itself: the lines were al... ..., I must plead, for I have an affectionate partiality towards the rector’s memory, that he was not vindic- tive—and some philanthropists have been so;... ...ast, her inward life had con- sisted of little else than living through in memory the looks and words Arthur had directed towards her—of little else t... ...ke her return his glance—a glance which she would be living through in her memory, over and over again, all the rest of the day. In this state of mind... ...him as for his parchment deeds! And to be disgusted at every turn with the management of the house and the estate! In such circumstances a man necessa... ...aving a proper steward to look after th’ estate. And he’s lost more by ill management o’ the woods, I’ll be bound, than ‘ud pay for two stewards. If h... ...ng other folks right, you know—would have it Burge was the man to have the management of the woods. ‘A substantial man,’ says he, ‘with pretty near si... ...chelor.” “Well, then, it was so far settled yesterday that I’m to take the management o’ the woods. The captain sent for me t’ offer it me, when I was...

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...e a rich man will not endure a cloud. A man of rank cares little about the management of his fortune; he leaves the details to his stewards (ragionati... ... not to be seen in the theatre. Was this a clever trick on the part of the management, to secure two full houses by bringing out Genovese and Tinti se... ... , like a perfume. The singer’s voice impinges not on the mind, not on the memory of happiness, but on the first principle of thought; it stirs the el... ...ingers them lightly as an organist touches the keys. Sud- denly, up starts Memory, bringing us the roses of the past, divinely preserved and still fre... ...ed Vendramin. “No; you are mad; for madness, the crisis we despise, is the memory of an anteced- ent condition acting on our present state of being. T... ... fancies, chosen above all the elect, conse- crated with tears, deified by memory, and for ever young in the presence of ineffectual desire!” “Prince,...

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... not pleasing everyone by re- membering that an old Tourainian, of eternal memory, had put up with such contumely, that losing all patience, he de- cl... ...flasks of Pomme-de-Pin, where he had left his understanding and 12 Balzac memory, fell into a ditch full of water near his house, and found he was up... ... of a loaf and an apple.’ “Then the good man, who had no confidence in his memory, went home, repeating to himself the penance or- dered. But having l... ...t value, in one of his castles, in the which our defunct sire, of immortal memory, soon became listless and weary, seeing that he loved the open air, ... ...is was the house of the Regent, the daughter of King Louis XI. of virtuous memory) brought Jacques de Beaune into a room, and laid him stiff and stark... ...be stripped of everything, and resolved to invent a more perfect system of management in his domains, and he did well. In a cellar of Gargantuan abode...

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...n the book, and to jot down the whole exactly as it stands pictured to his memory, and, lastly, to send me the jottings as they may issue from his pen... ...meditation comprised! Nor can it be said that he took much interest in the management of his estate, for he never rode into the country, and the estat... ...and to his heart. “In this breast, madam, will abide for ever the pleasant memory of the time which I have spent with you. Believe me, I could conceiv... ...loud that, having heard of Plushkin’s tal- ents for thrifty and systematic management, he had con- 130 Dead Souls sidered himself bound to make the a... ...stom of folk paying calls, and forthwith there will ensue such ruin to the management of estates that landowners will be forced to feed their horses o... ...ereaf- ter, incidentally remarking that she had just dropped a tear to the memory of her dear mother, who had departed this life twenty-five years ago... ...sions; with the result that many a spot which had long been faded from his memory now filled him with interest, and the beautiful views on the estate ... ...aracters I am yet ignorant! To think that I should have deemed true estate-management inferior to a documen- tary, fantastical management of provinces... ...odi- ous and repellent; at these times there would uprise be- fore him the memory of his school days, and the figure of Alexander Petrovitch, as vivid...