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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

..., when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon- ... ...If a gentleman wants a good rascal now, I can recommend him. I am going to reform, you know, and must turn him out of my service.” “And pretty Mrs. Ca... ...onal interests, which are protected by the main body. The great measure of Reform, for instance, carried along with it much private jobbing and swindl...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...ted many essays, and which he made a medium for agitating a variety of local reforms. In 1732 he began to issue his famous “Poor Richard’s Almanac” fo... ... to advance his relatives. His most notable service in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on... ...ny of his notes in the margins. This obscure family of ours was early in the Reformation, and continued Protestants through the reign of Queen Mary, w... ...n the aid of religion, I propos’d to them the proclaiming a fast, to promote reformation, and implore the blessing of Heaven on our undertaking. They ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...mon in these days. KNOX. – Knox, the second in order of interest among the reformers, lies dead and buried in the works of the learned and unreadable ... ...rous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction that buries the reformer *Gaudeamus: Carmina V agorum Selecta. Leipsic. T rubner. 1879. 14... ...n is proved by the eagerness with which he threw himself into the cause of reform; and what would have dis- couraged another braced Yoshida for his ta... ...s own house. And there, as well to keep up com- munication with his fellow-reformers as to pursue his work of education, he received boys to teach. It... ... sympathy in this last hour of trial. In the next cell lay one Kusakabe, a reformer from the southern highlands of Satzuma. They were in prison for di... ...ish), a poet, a patriot, a schoolmaster, a friend to learning, a martyr to reform, – there are not many men, dying at seventy, who have served their c... ... ’88 to that of ’67 (of Evelyn’s designing), till the pravity of this were reformed to the tem- per of that age, wherein God Almighty found his blessi... ...cious of his errors – far from it; he was often startled into shame, often reformed, often made and broke his vows of change. But whether he did ill o... ... his wits for help, to whom his doctor recommends Lutheran specifics.* The Reformers themselves had set their affections in a dif- ferent world, and p...

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new social experiments and reform ob- solete institutions, in snobbery, jobbery, idolatry, and an omni... ..., and law by appeals to morality or constitutional agita- tion for Liberal reforms, made common cause with the starv- ing wage-working class, and reso... ...part in the political struggles of his day than Bishop took in the English Reform agitation of 1832, or Sterndale Bennett in the Chartist or Free T ra... ... hoping that each will establish some permanently practical and beneficial reform or moral habit that will survive the correction of its excesses by t... ...ity of his prodigious artistic power by the first fierce attack of the New Reformation, gave no quarter to the antagonist of his hero. His Wotan, whom... ...mself in the character of the most pugnacious, aggressive, and sanguine of reformers, he rested himself as a Pessimist and Ninanist. In The Ring the q...

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

...expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise me... ...e left us by our ancestors elder or later; nor from the modern custom of any reformed city or church abroad, but from the most anti christian council ... ...ill that mysterious iniquity, provoked and troubled at the first entrance of Reforma tion, sought out new limbos and new hells wherein they might inc... ..., and to no other purpose but to obstruct and hinder the first ap proach of Reformation; I am of those who believe it will be a harder alchemy than L... ...our Order may be Areopagitica Milton 24 exact and not deficient, ye must reform it perfectly ac cording to the model of Trent and Seville, which ... ...ith every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer of a kingdom, that spake it, they will not pardon him their dash... ...ight. But now, the bishops abrogated and voided out of the Church, as if our Reformation sought no more but to make room for others into their seats u... ... and mystery on set purpose to extinguish, if it were possible, the light of Reformation, and to settle falsehood; little differing from that policy w... ...nd in the rule of life both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin...

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Narrative Tive of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

By: Frederick Douglass

...count the lashes on the slave’s back, are seldom the “stuff ” out of which reformers and abolition- ists are to be made. I remember that, in 1838, man... ...hood lived the Rev. Rigby Hopkins. These were members and ministers in the Reformed 67 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Methodist Church. ... ...world. 93 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass of the anti-slavery reform. I took right hold of the cause. I could do but little; but what I c...

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

By: Karl Marx

...at have been in vented, or discovered, by this or that would be univer sal reformer. They merely express, in general terms, ac tual relations sprin... ...r the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole and corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of Socialism has, moreover,... ...ement in the eyes of the working class, by show ing that no mere political reform, but only a change in the material conditions of existence, in eco... ..., an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these rela tions; reforms, ... ...ing class. Pro tective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison Reform: for the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and t... ...ce, “The Communist Manifesto” 32 respectively, oppose the Chartists and the Reformistes. IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS E... ...ng working class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America. The Communists fight for the attainment of the im ...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

... selfish ends? What of many of our great financiers who use every possible reform and conventional catch word as a means of affecting public opinion, ... ...believe in punishment, contend that the object of this inflic- tion is the reformation of the victim. This, of course, cannot be urged of the death pe... ...or very long-term sentences. In these cases there is neither inducement to reform nor any object in the reformation. No matter how thorough the reform... ...ing sentences, ever lay down the rule that one may be released when he has reformed. A much larger class of people offers the excuse that pun- ishment... ...ho felt that he had done wrong, or had any thought of what the world calls reformation. A very few have used the current language of those who talk of... ... him with the dire evils that the future holds in store for him, unless he reforms. If he is re- leased, nothing is done by society to give him a bett... ..., and yet organized government that spends its millions on pros- ecutions, reformatories, jails, penitentiaries and the like, has scarcely raised its ... ...of the New York State Com- mission of Prisons, shows that in the New Y ork Reformatory only eight per cent passed the required physical examina- tion.... ... criminal? 162 First of all we must abandon the idea of working his moral reformation, as the term “moral reformation” is popularly understood. As we...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

... his slayer and cast him into hell. The moral is a monkish one: repent and reform now; for to-morrow it may be too late. This is really the only point... ...e with zest, I feel unspeakably relieved and obliged. But I never dream of reforming, knowing that I must take myself as I am and get 30 GB Shaw what... ...has always classed himself as an advanced thinker and fearlessly outspoken reformer. Sitting at his writing table, he has on his right the win- dows g... .... TANNER. So we are to marry your sister to a damned scoun- drel by way of reforming her character! On my soul, I think you are all mad. ANN. Don’t be... ...t for nothing that you suddenly found you had a moral duty to chastise and reform Rachel. Up to that time you had traded pretty extensively in being a... ... my destructiveness in hand and directed it to moral ends. I have become a reformer, and, like all reformers, an icono- clast. I no longer break cucum... ...uly say to us, If everybody did as I do, the world would be com- pelled to reform itself industrially, and abolish slavery and squalor, which exist on... ...e- comes so loathsome to his oppressors that they themselves are forced to reform it. THE DEVIL. Precisely. And these are the creatures in whom you di... ...ed to, Juan. That is how things were arranged on earth. I was not a social reformer; and I always did what it was customary for a gentleman to do. DON...

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