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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... side next the nave, but on the other side slender shafts with bell-shaped capitals, carved with bold round mouldings and deep hollows. Two corbels su... ...xt year, only the tower being left of the former edifice. In 1808 some few capitals of the old pillars remained in parts of the village, and were adju... ...fashion. It was substantially paved within, and was a costly and anxiously planned achievement in the taste of the time, carefully preserving all the ...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... in such a country civil associations will always be few in number, feebly planned, 592 Democracy in America unskillfully managed, that they will nev... ...hem to save. These savings are daily producing an infinite number of small capitals, the slow and gradual produce of labor, which are always increasin...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...We will look still further. The ant has a system of government; it is well planned, elaborate, and is well car ried on. Y.M. Instinct again. O.M. She... ...in hand from the dinner table and sat down in the library and chatted, and planned, and dis cussed, cheerily and happily (and how unsuspectingly!)— u... ...ves, but the fact that none of them was fore seen by me, none of them was planned by me, I was the author of none of them. Circumstance, working in h... ...uncourteously. I could never plan a thing and get it to come out the way I planned it. It came out some other way—some way I had not counted upon. And... ... newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy. “General, who planned the the march through Georgia?” “The enemy!” He added that the en... ... idea miscarried: for by the simple process of spelling his deities with capitals the Hindu confiscates the definition and restricts it to his own s...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e know this generation already: we have seen them clustered about the worn capitals of pillars, or craning forth over the church-leads with the open m... ..., his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to h... ...f the world with all its contradictions, and leave the upshot with God who planned it. What he has made of the world and the world’s meanings is to be... ...therefore let all men be advertised, for the trumpet hath once blown.” The capitals are his own. In writing, he probably felt the want of some such re... ...ant of passion in the orderly lines of type; and I suppose we may take the capitals as a mere substitute for the great voice with which he would have ...

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The Firm of Nucingen

By: Honoré de Balzac

...the ordinary level,” added Blondet. “Well, Godefroid sojourned in the four capitals of Italy,” continued Bixiou. “He lived in England and Germany, he ... ...s Raphael is to Natoire. “Mme. Desroches, the widowed mother, had long ago planned this marriage for her son, in spite of a tremendous obstacle which ... ...on without the green cloth, the croupier’s rake is invisible, the cheating planned beforehand. The gambling houses are closed, the lottery has come to...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

..., tears came into her eyes. “It will end sooner than you and your lover have planned! If you must have the satisfaction of animal passion. . . ” “Alex... ...a “Oh, I stayed in Germany, in Prussia, in France, and in England—not in the capitals, but in the manufacturing towns, and saw a great deal that was n... ...rized at the time, and that haunted him in all their charm. Serpuhovskoy had planned his appointment at Tashkend, and Vronsky agreed to the propositio... ...uilding of the hospital, too, interested her. She did not merely assist, but planned and suggested a great deal herself. But her chief thought was sti... ...rs. 626 Anna Karenina Nevyedovsky had scored a higher majority, as they had planned, and he was the new marshal of the province. Many people were amu... ...V, the husband of Natalia, Kitty’s sister, had spent all his life in foreign capitals, where he had been educated, and had been in the diplomatic serv...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

... unpacked his bags. Then he showered. Then he cracked another beer. He had planned to call up friends, or look at the want ads for cars. Bummer! I sho... ...She walked proudly beside Jake at functions across Canada and in the great capitals of the world, beautifully coifed and attired, confident and secure... .... Before too long it would be her home! Lacey had told the family what she planned to do with her estate. She was be- queathing sums to the two main C... ...issues such as voluntary euthanasia and assisted dying. A public report is planned for 2011. Chair is Udo Schuklenk, www.udo- schuklenk.org SELECTED D...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...cident, how marvellous that the same insanity should possess the two great capitals of Christendom in the same year? If, again, it were not accident, ... ...ly, to find it failing of this purpose; and 3dly, if it had not failed, so planned that it could have succeeded only by a sacrifice of all that was gr...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...hese, with long bills of ben- efits all ending with ‘Come Early’, in large capitals, formed the principal contents of Miss Snevellicci’ s scrapbook. N... ... of admiration, and knowing from long experience exactly where the largest capitals ought to go), he seriously applied himself to the composition of t... ... six weeks, and when he came back, I told him—with every circumstance well planned and proved; nobody could have suspected me—that the child was dead ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...study of college freshmen in the U.S. indicates that the women have higher educational goals than the men. 66% of the women and 63% of the men planne... ...common in the upper classes. In every society there will be inequalities in the various kinds of capital a person possesses. He listed other capita...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...he clear and beautiful dawn of new and bal- anced effort, easy, unresting, planned, assured, and there is also the blundering-up of a still half-somno... ...dom, as no other empire was ever made. The nominal rulers of Britain never planned it. It happened almost in spite of them. Their chief contribution t... ...trating criticism, a steadfast, continuous urgency towards effort and well-planned recon- struction and efficiency. And as a last example of the prese... ...and the fact that they are so used will be emphasised by the employment of capitals. It will be possible for anyone to argue that what is here defined... ...ween rural and urban conditions would be entirely practicable in a largely planned community. The agricultural population could move out of town into ... ... into Kent, but that is a mere hint of the extended picnic which a broadly planned cultivation might afford. A fully developed civilisation, employing... ...lf audible to the new world, and crack- ing into italics and breaking into capitals with the strain. The rest of that enormous bale of paper is eloque...

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