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The Lifted Veil

By: George Eliot

... vivid images; I could see no accident of form or shadow without conscious labour after the necessary conditions. It was all prosaic effort, not rapt ... ... a new delight from the scent because I had procured it by slow details of labour, and by no strange sudden madness. Already I had begun to taste some... ...in the sacred lamp, while our Jewish cicerone reached down the Book of the Law, and read to us in its ancient tongue—I felt a shuddering impression th... ...case what he had not intended in my brother’s—that his son and daughter-in-law should make one household with him. My softened feelings towards my fat... ...en me word that he was coming to England for relaxation from too strenuous labour, and would like too see me. Meunier had now a European reputation; b...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...veral empty cabs had gone by during the peroration of 39 e e cummings the law, and no more seemed to offer themselves. After some minutes, however, o... ... persons sent to it were held for a Commission, composed of an official, a law- yer, and a captain of gendarmes, which inspected the Camp and passed u... ...ed from three to six wagonfuls of water twice a day, and in reward for the labour involved in its capture was in the habit of giving a cup of coffee t... ...o the rest of us and to teach us a wholesome respect for (one must assume) law and order. One and all, they heartily agreed that it was worth it. Ever... ...ted from the husband by miles and by stone walls and by barbed wire and by Law. Or perhaps (there was a rumour to this effect) The Three Wise Men disc... ...au, s’il vous plaît” 174 The Enormous Room upon which the guardian of the law looked up suspiciously; pausing a moment as if to identify the scoundre... ... Friend, of no one has he ever or will he ever say My Enemy. When there is labour to do he works like a dog ... the day we had nettoyage de chambre, f...

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Euthyphro

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...he man who is dead was a poor dependant of mine who worked for us as a field labourer on our farm in Naxos, and one day in a fit of drunken passion he... ...ese are the questions which they are always arguing, especially in courts of law: they commit all sorts of crimes, and there is nothing which they wil... ...instruct me in the nature of piety; and I hope that you will not grudge your labour. Tell me, then—Is not that which is pious necessarily just? EUTHYP...

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A Room with a View

By: E. M. Forster

...nce when Miss Lavish had concluded. Then the cousins wished success to her labours, and walked slowly away across the square. “She is my idea of a rea... ...possible to be nice to her; it was impos- sible to love her. “The son of a labourer; I happen to know it for a fact. A mechanic of some sort himself w... ...I repre- sent all that he despises. Why should he want me for a brother-in-law?” The Honeychurches were a worthy family, but he began to realize that ... ...fiance. Mrs. Honeychurch, amusing and portly, promised well as a mother-in-law. As for Lucy and Cecil, for whom the temple had been built, they also j... ...hey don’t seem to notice anything. The country gentle- man and the country labourer are each in their way the most depressing of companions. Yet they ... ...er ask for leave where there is a right of way. Why could he not do as any labourer or navvy—nay, as any young man behind the counter would have done?...

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Pillars of Society a Play in Four Acts

By: Henrik Ibsen

...ow do you do, Betty dear! How do you do, Martha! How do you do, brother-in-law! Mrs.Bernick (with a cry): Lona—! Bernick (stumbling backwards): As s... ...ick: Well, I mean—in the circus— Lona: Ha, ha, ha! Are you mad, brother-in-law? Do you think I belong to the circus troupe? No,certainly I have turned... ...should science and capital venture to introduce these new discoveries into labour, before the community has had time to educate a generation up to usi... ...but because you will not exhibit ‘the superiority of machinery over manual labour’ . Aune: And you will not be moved, Mr. Bernick, because you know th... ...e community one lives in. Lona: That is an excellent sentiment, brother-in-law, but it is a pleasure, all the same, to see how people appreciate you. ... ... and with emphasis): You have to go and be a pillar of society, brother-in-law. Sandstad: Yes, come along; we need the full weight of your moral excel... ... (Takes hold of the cords.) I will draw down the curtains on my brother-in-law—though I would much rather draw them up. Rummel: You can do that too, ...

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Benedict de Spinoza the Ethics

By: R. H. M. Elwes

...ar as they are bound to live according to the command- ments of the divine law. They therefore believe that piety, reli- gion, and, generally, all thi... ... be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all thi...

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Arms and the Man

By: George Bernard Shaw

...llantry). My dear mother, if I may call you so. PETKOFF (drily). Mother-in-law, Sergius; mother- in-law! Sit down, and have some coffee. SERGIUS. Than... ... raises his eyebrows.) My husband has just returned, with my future son-in-law; and they know nothing. If they did, the consequences would be terrible... ... He finds out what to do; draws up the orders; and I sign ‘em. Division of labour, Major. (Bluntschli passes him a paper.) Another one? Thank you. (He...

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Eugene Pickering

By: Henry James

...e desire to produce a sen- sation. I can prove to you that it is the quiet labour itself I care for, and not the world’s more or less flattering atten... ...ith me that I have a right to be happy. I ask no exemption from the common law. What I claim is simply freedom to try to be!” Of course I was puzzled;...

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Barrackroom Ballads

By: Rudyard Kipling

...’ lovin’, but wot do they understand? Beefy face an’ grubby ‘and — Law! wot do they understand? I’ve a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner... ...n’t such things as infidels, Excep’, per’aps, it’s us. For monthly, after Labour, We’d all sit down and smoke (We dursn’t give no banquits, Lest a ...

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Lady Hester : Or, Ursula's Narrative

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...—but very kindly and friendly, was at work there with some French-Canadian labourers. Bertram’s friend knew him and often halted there on hunt- ing ex... ... against him. So we little knew! But it seems that the daughter and son-in-law were just as much amazed as Bertram, and when he was gone, and the poor... ...uld give me plenty of sound counsel as to how much pork to provide for the labourers, and how much small beer would keep them in good heart, and not m... ...the days when everyone was abus- ing the farmers for not living with their labourers in the house, and Fulk was determined to try it, at least the fir... ... should have been thrown away on a mere common man—not a bit better than a labourer.” I detested him like all the rest; but Fulk declared he was subli... ...other thing if you don’t get me off! What, don’t you under- stand? Let the law lay a finger on me, and what is to hinder me from telling how your swee... ...sition; while we watched the little coffin carried across the field by the labouring men, with those two walking after it. Our boy’s first funeral was...

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Boyhood

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... again, ‘First say who is zere, ant I will open.’ ‘Open in the name of the law!’ say the someone behint the door. I now do so. Two Soldaten wis gons s... ... themselves do not know what they want, and it is a cursed life—sheer hard labour, and nothing else! If only a certain thing would happen!— though God...

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The Arrow of Gold : A Story between Two Notes

By: Joseph Conrad

... making a little money, with- out actually breaking anything. Not even the law. And Mrs. Blunt really had a position once—in the days of the Second Em... ...eems to me that choice has got more right to be respected than heredity or law. Moreover, Mme. de Lastaola,” she continued in an insinuating voice, “t... ...at Pompeiian chair had been a task almost beyond human strength, a sort of labour that must end in collapse. I fought against it for a mo- ment and th... ...t which checked the flow. She fetched another sigh and muttered: “Then the law can be just, if it does not require any paper. After all, I am her sist... ..., unintelligent eyes for a bit, and then with the fatuous remark about the Law being just she left me to the horrors of the studio. I believe I went t... ... with me about the will had produced on her an indelible impression of the Law’s surprising justice. Recalling her naive admiration of the “just” law ...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...e live in—” she began. “They’re my houses, those two,” said the mother-in- law. “And not clear either. It’s as much as I can do to keep the mortgage i... ..., she had ceased to tap, she saw him stir, then lift his face blindly. The labouring of his heart hurt him into consciousness. She rapped imperatively... ...d friends in station. Some of the clerks in the office had studied for the law, and were more or less going through a kind of apprenticeship. William ... ...ing away at Latin, because he intended to get on in his office, and in the law as much as he could. He never sent his mother any money now. It was all... ...ief. He was given some checking and invoicing to do. He stood at the desk, labouring in his execrable handwriting. Presently Mr. Jor- dan came strutti... ... it when the work got faster, towards post-time, and all the men united in labour. He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work a... .... The kitchen was very small and irregular. The farm had been originally a labourer’s cottage. And the furniture was old and battered. But Paul loved ... ...d with brightness. For many hours she sat still, slightly conscious of him labouring away, whilst she worked or read her book. And he, with all his so... ...this conversation remained graven in her mind as one of the letters of the law. 179 D.H. Lawrence Now she stood with him and for him. When, about thi...

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