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... be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated. I then turned my thoughts to our own hemisphere, where I imagin... ...that the equality of conditions is daily progressing towards those extreme limits which it seems to have reached in the United States, and that the de... ...nd its adversaries so weak? None can say which way we are go- ing, for all terms of comparison are wanting: the equality of conditions is more complet... ...eated a species of law in the midst of vio- lence, and established certain limits to oppression. As the noble never suspected that anyone would attemp... ...e nothing that is visible or permanent, like the passions of old men which terminate in impotence. We have, then, abandoned whatever advantages the ol... ...- flict. In the heat of the struggle each partisan is hurried be- yond the limits of his opinions by the opinions and the ex- cesses of his opponents,... ...volution which I am speaking of seems nearly to have reached its natu- ral limits; it has been effected with ease and simplicity, say rather that this... ... below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and includes all the remainder of the continent. The one slopes... ... below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and includes all the remainder of the continent. The one slopes...

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...ate, and Meno, who is their pupil, is ignorant of the very nature of general terms. He can only produce out of their armoury the sophism, ‘that you ca... ... (Phaedo). They are both personal and impersonal. They are 16 Meno abstract terms: they are also the causes of things; and they are even transformed ... ... very distinct from him, if not opposed to him (Sophist). Nor in what may be termed Plato’s abridgement of the history of philosophy (Soph.), is any m... ... of a system. They are the ever varying expression of Plato’s Idealism. The terms used in them are in their substance and general meaning the same, a... ...n unaffected by impressions derived from outward nature: it arose within the limits of the mind itself. From the time of Descartes to Hume and Kant it... ...er which God or substance is unfolded to man. Here a step is made beyond the limits of the Eleatic philosophy. The famous theorem of Spinoza, ‘Omnis d... ...28 Meno the relation of cause and effect. He would deprive men of a familiar term which they can ill afford to lose; but he seems not to have observed...

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... no test of real life and practice, is described by the ancients under the term umbraticus, or seeking the cool shade, and shrinking from the heat. Th... ...bout two guineas and a half a head. To his army, in one donation, upon the termination of the civil war, he gave a sum which allowed about two hundred... ...lice; but in fact, as Casaubon first pointed out, nominatus is a technical term of the Roman jurisprudence, and means that he was formally denounced. ... ...ion and subtlety. He was sure to risk nothing which could be had on easier terms; and nothing, unless for a great overbalance of gain in pros- pect; t... ... have guaranteed an event depending upon the final success of Augustus, on terms far below those which they must in prudence have exacted from the fie... ...ong it will deserve to be had in remem- brance, that the first man who set limits to the empire of wrong, and first translated within the jurisdiction... ...its permanent and real tendencies, was even then shrinking within narrower limits, and travelling downwards to dissolution. In reality, one such emper... ...oned. In the next reign, the empire had already recoiled within its former limits; and in two reigns further on, under Marcus Antoninus, though a prin...

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...he is willing to elevate black men to office and to associate with them on terms of perfect equality. He knows that we advocate no such doctrines as t... ... not be robbed of them, but if he needs legislation let him submit to just terms to obtain it. Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded i... ...t if it can be had on Republican grounds; and I am not for it on any other terms. A fusion on any other terms would be as foolish as unprincipled. It ... ...taining, if this act stood alone, what ought to be the construction of the terms “coupon bonds” and that it, would mean bonds bearing interest from th... ... the Legislature intended to invest you with a dis- cretion to impose such terms and restrictions as would protect the interest of the State; and we t... ...se of making their homes, they choose to either exclude slavery from their limits or to establish it there, however one or the other may affect the pe... ...nst the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution?” He answered that t... ...se of making their homes, they choose to either exclude slavery from their limits, or to establish it there, however one or the other may affect the p... ...e for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit slavery within their limits; some for maintaining sla- very in the Territories through the judic...

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...ntain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsake me; and I would publicly a... ...t of the bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of which, sub- stantially as presented, I respectfully ... ...l at any time afterwards by law reintroduce or tolerate slavery within its limits, contrary to the act of abolishment upon which such bonds shall have... ...tes senator! I am a patient man—always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of re- pentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I... ... ence; and the people of the State can then, upon the old con- stitutional terms, govern themselves to their own liking. This is very simple and easy.... ... Six immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their re- spective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of Afri- can descent with t... ...my, has sent in a few of our prisoners under a flag of truce, paroled with terms to prevent their fighting the Indians, and evidently seeking to commi... ... unsatisfactory prospect before them, and to have peace again upon the old terms, under the Consti- tution of the United States, to manifest such desi... ... that State manifest much anxiety for the removal of the tribes beyond the limits of the State as a guaranty against future hostilities. The Commissio...

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...Waterloo, not by its amount of killed and wounded, but as the battle which terminated a series of battles, having one common object, namely, the overt... ...in and out between town and country; rural families all intermarry- ing on terms of the widest freedom with town families; all again, in the persons o... ...its commanding expression to her deportment. I reported to Lord Massey, in terms of unexceptionable decorum, those flattering expres- sions of homage,... ... to very large fortunes. The colonel and the general, being on broth- erly terms of intimacy, resolved to combine their plans for the welfare of their... ...her interest in Schreiber at a settled rate in three per cent. consols and terminable annuities; for every coupon of Schreiber receiving a bonus of so... ...eemed final extinction; with the spirit of adventure carried to the utmost limits of heroism; with self-devotion on the sublimest scale, and the very ... ...ble privations;—and the knowledge which Holkerstein possessed of the short limits within which his opportunities were now circumscribed would doubtles... ...tself, and strictly shut up within its own walls. All roaming beyond those limits was now indeed forbidden even more effectu- ally by the sword of the... ...hich afterwards they had found it impossible to exorcise within its former limits. People were everywhere obliged to be on their guard, not alone (as ...

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...m the Territories acquired from Mexico. But when, at the expiration of his term, in March, 1849, he left his seat, he gloomily despaired of ever seein... ...reasing interest by the whole country. When, in 1858, Douglas’s senatorial term being about to expire, Lincoln was formally designated by the Republic... ...the people of a Territory could in any lawful way exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution.” Lincoln foresaw and... ...anaged to work together until near the end of Lincoln’s first Presidential term, when Chase, after some disagreements concerning appointments to offic... ...h for able and useful men for public duties, he frequently went beyond the limits of his party, and gradually accustomed himself to the thought that, ... ...rarily united motley mass, hardly felt himself, in the narrow sense of the term, a party man. And as he became strongly impressed with the dangers bro... ... American Union and the emancipation of the colored race. During his brief term of power he was probably the ob- ject of more abuse, vilification, and... ...ing of good roads, and in the clear- ing of navigable streams within their limits, is what no person will deny. Yet it is folly to undertake works of ... ...benefit of a few individuals only, un- less there be a law made fixing the limits of usury. A law for this purpose, I am of opinion, may be made witho...

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...iled to express his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pe... ...sk which the proud King of a vainglorious Court would have lost no time in terminating had it been discovered—the task of judge, spy, critic, por- tra... ...e blood were placed at the right and at the left, according to their rank, terminated by the two illegitimate children of the King, and, for the first... ...a domestic affair which concerned himself alone, refused promotion on such terms. He thus lost the baton; and, what was worse for him, the Duchess soo... .... M. de Noailles, who had been so successful in Catalonia, was on very bad terms with Barbezieux, secre- tary of state for the war department. Both we... ...d whose love of con- templation and solitude kept her within the strictest limits, and whose fear, above all, was that she should become known. The to... ...and who enjoyed, as it were, the sovereignty of a rock—beyond whose narrow limits anybody might spit, so to speak, whilst standing in the middle—soon ... ...mself to the vengeance of the company by choosing a confessor out of their limits. He wanted to live, and to live in safety. He requested the Ducs de ... ...he opened his heart to me without rashness, and without passing the strict limits of his virtue; but the pon- iard was in his heart, and neither time ...

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... of his wooden head. Then at once you confess yourself desirous to come to terms, do you Boffin? Before you answer, keep this hat well in your mind an... ...in your mind and also this walking-stick.’ ‘I am willing, Wegg, to come to terms.’ ‘Willing won’t do, Boffin. I won’t take willing. Are you desirous t... ...illing won’t do, Boffin. I won’t take willing. Are you desirous to come to terms? Do you ask to be allowed as a favour to come to terms?’ Mr Wegg agai... ...t unfortunate gentleman. ‘I am so worrited! I ask to be allowed to come to terms, supposing your document is all correct.’ ‘Don’t you be afraid of tha... ...l show it you, and I’ll hold you the while. Then you want to know what the terms are. Is that about the sum and substance of it? Will you or won’t you... ...ak to you very seri- ously , Mr W rayburn?’ ‘I will do anything within the limits of possibility , for you, Lizzie,’ he answered with pleasant gaiety ... ...kens the man who as to both distances could give him up to ruin. T o these limits had his world shrunk. He mended his pace, keeping his eyes upon the ...

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...nd inexactitudes to confused thinking about the exact value of classes and terms, so here he is disposed to think that interminable controversies and ... ...peak, is the key of his book. He cannot bring the two ideas under the same term God. He uses the word God therefore for the God in our hearts only, an... ...ses the word God therefore for the God in our hearts only, and he uses the term the V eiled Being for the ultimate myster- ies of the universe, and he... ...declares that we do not know and perhaps cannot know in any comprehensible terms the rela- 7 H. G. Wells tion of the Veiled Being to that living real... ...ion of the Veiled Being to that living reality in our lives who is, in his terminology, the true God. Speaking from the point of view of practical rel... ...dea of spirituality, a disembodiment of the idea of personality beyond the limits of the conceiv- able; nevertheless they accept the conception that a... ...r eyes can as yet see nothing, our imaginations reach and fail. Beyond the limits of our under- standing is the veiled Being of Fate, whose face is hi... ... the sort of men who exploit drunken- ness and the turf. It offends within limits. Barristers can be, and are, disbarred. But it is now a profession e... ...- tive title of “The Sling and the Stone,” and caused an outcry beyond the limits of his congregation, that he was indicted and deprived. 83 H. G. We...

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... not seems dissolved, As if the mental eye gain’d power to gaze Beyond the limits of the existing world. Such hours of shadowy dreams I better love Th... ...e family ar- rangements, it had been settled upon Aunt Margaret during the term of her life. Upon this frail tenure depends, in a great measure, the l... ...t, she might have brought to reason any Sir Philip whatsoever, were it the termagant Falconbridge himself. But the greater part of their acquaintance ... ... request him to reserve his advice till it was asked.” “And being on these terms, you are going to join the very army in which my brother Falconer is ... ...remarkable cures. But though, on the one hand, the physicians of Edinburgh termed him an empiric, there were many persons, and among them some of the ... ...rage enough to reply to the physician, as he 26 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror termed himself, that she would abide with firmness and si- lence the sight ...

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...sat down to table, Lord Meadowbank [One of the Supreme Judges of Scotland, termed Lords of Council and Session.] asked me privately whether I was stil... ...ht and high-prin- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, I have termed Jeanie Deans. The circumstance of her refusing to save her sister’s ... ... like a literary picnic is likely to end in suggesting comparisons, justly termed odi- ous, and therefore to be avoided; and, indeed, I had also had s... ... the imagi- nary Editor, Mr. Croftangry, I have now to add, that the lady, termed in his narrative, Mrs. Bethune Balliol, was de- signed to shadow out... ...eeding with our account of this very interesting festival—for so it may be termed—it is our duty to present to our readers the following letter, which... ...Park wall, and includes the whole King’s Park within the Sanctuary.” These limits, which I abridge from the accurate Maitland, once marked the Girth, ... .... I experienced the impatience of a mastiff who tugs in vain to extend the limits which his chain permits. Day after day I walked by the side of the k... ...myself to consult Janet, in future, only on such things as were within the limits of her comprehension, and hazard my arguments and my rhetoric on the... ...g a foible, the consequences of which were con- fined within such innocent limits. We became so much accustomed to Donald’s mode of man- aging us, tha...

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...ons of Latin America may achieve a method of unity, and then deal on equal terms with the present United States. The thing has been ably advocated alr... ... golden sovereign; but Great Britain will not get through the war on those terms. There comes a point in the stress upon a Gov- ernment when it must d... ...has admirable reasons for refusing coalescence with Braintree, except upon terms that Braintree could not possibly con- sider. I can quite understand ... ...g to be done if every Bocking in the country is holding out for impossible terms from Braintree, and every Braintree holding out for impossible terms ... ...of collective functions, has to express its collective will in some better terms than “go as you please,” or fail. And we find the affairs of nearly e... ...apse of the Germanic monarchical system may spread considerably beyond the limits of the German empire. It will probably be effected without much viol...

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...is administration. The minister sits safe in his office—safe there for the term of the existing Presidency if he can keep well with the president; and... ...gress without a breach of the laws by which they were bound. For a certain term of years, namely, from 1781 to 1787, the different States endeavored t... ...rong a desire for secession, a desire which has existed for fully half the term through which the United States has existed as a nation, and so firm a... ...ct of accomplishing that which they deemed not to be accomplished on other terms? 51 Trollope It must, I think, be conceded that the Gulf States have... ...York and Massachusetts, does not militate against my ar- gument. The exact limits of any great movement will not be bounded by its purpose. The heated... ... the men who, on that day, threw down their arms because the three months’ term for which they had been enlisted was then expired! Pennsylvania does n... ...y could see no one, 143 Trollope hear of nothing, go nowhither beyond the limits of that miserable strip of ground! The earth was hard with frost whe... ...e. It was to consist of delegates, the very number of which within certain limits was to be left to the option of the individual States, and to this C... ...rning power of the President and his cabinet has been kept within moderate limits. But not the less is the position of the President very dominant in ...

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...an and Bulgarians that were Moslem. There were fami- lies that changed the termination of their names from ski to off as Serbian or Bulgarian prevaile... ...(south) of Goritzia. Both San Martino and Doberdo are destroyed beyond the limits of ruination. The Carso itself is a waterless upland with but a few ... ...Pirelli. “Do they lend money on bad security to clerical voters, and on no terms whatever to anti- clericals?” He was quite of my way of thinking. “Pe... ...p an intermittent fire, the German guns register—I think that is the right term—on the cross of Ar- ras cathedral, the British guns search lovingly fo... ...ase of warfare. Of these other things I may only write in the most general terms. But though T anks and their collaterals are being made upon a very c... ...d in spurs, he travels in trains in spurs, he walks in spurs, he thinks in terms of spurs. He has still to discover that it is about as ridiculous as ... ...ny power amongst them which increases its war equipment beyond its defined limits. That much has already been broached in several quarters. But so far...

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...o both and quite peculiar to itself; something which, for want of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader f... ...though he were a child, and at every step there were a danger of employing terms beyond his understanding. Should these precautions be kept constantly... ...wners Manilov and Sobakevitch; so much so that his haste to arrive on good terms with them led to his leaving the President and the Postmaster rather ... ...ith the usual hillocks, fir trees, clumps of young pine, *In this case the term General refers to a civil grade equiva- lent to the military rank of t... ...eek name (to which, for some un- known reason, Manilov always appended the termination “eus”), Chichikov raised his eyebrows a little, but has- tened,... ...imply to communicate to you my friendly opinion.” “To everything there are limits,” retorted Chichikov stiffly. “If you want to indulge in speeches of... ...undless as yourself? Do they not presage that one day you too will know no limits? Do they not presage that one day, when again you shall have room fo...

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...ies of opium, assured me that the number of amateur opium-eaters (as I may term them) was at this time immense; and that the dif- ficulty of distingui... ...eragents, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms [Greek text]: “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a natur... ...any reason to feel it, in avowing that I was then on familiar and friendly terms with many women in that unfor- tunate condition. The reader needs nei... ...ave been a humiliation worse to me than death, and which would indeed have terminated in death. I was therefore shy enough of applying for assistance ... ...d now I come to the end of my story. The Jews did not approve of Lord D—’s terms; whether they would in the end have acceded to them, and were only se... ... millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. 70 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 4... ...which has already extended to an unreasonable length. Within more spacious limits the materials which I have used might have been better unfolded, and...

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...interposed. “Boston in this weather would be very trying; it’s not the temperature for intellectual exer- tion. At Boston, you know, you have to pass ... ...ined, with vi- vacity, that when she wanted to see people very much she did not insist upon those distinctions, and that Mr. Westgate had written to h... ...? You don’t set her down as ‘fast’?” “Exactly so. Mrs. Westgate tells me that there is no such thing as the ‘fast girl’ in America; that it’s an En- g... ...led the “German” in New York. Indeed, by the young ladies who habitually figured in this Terpsichorean revel he was believed to be “the best dancer in... ... don’t like to be patronized. I may be very eccentric, and undisciplined, and outrageous, but I confess I never was fond of patronage. I like to assoc... ...t, and to know almost everything.” Lord Lambeth looked at her a moment. “Shall I tell you something?” he asked. “A young man in my position, as you ca...

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... to his chin, appeared the usual number of pepper and salt coloured legs, terminating in a pair of imperfectly pol ished boots. Although his coat wa... ...and out of which, all the morning in vacation, and half the evening too in term time, there may be seen constantly hurrying with bundles of papers und... ...waistcoat pocket. Charles Dickens 17 ‘It’ll come on, in the settens after Term: fourteenth of Febooary, we expect; we’ve marked it a special jury cau... ...tle man; ‘that’s a matter of opinion, you know, and we won’t dispute about terms; because of course you can’t be expected to view these subjects with ... ...e denomination of a first rate residence, in the strict acceptation of the term; but it is a most desirable The Pickwick Papers 30 spot nevertheless.... ... own heart. As to Mr. Pickwick, the affection he conceived for him knew no limits. ‘Now is there anything I can do for you, my dear Sir?’ said Smangle...

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...I heard it for more than a quarter of a minute, at the expiration of which term, I lay down again, excessively sea sick. Not sea sick, be it understoo... ...sick. Not sea sick, be it understood, in the ordinary accep tation of the term: I wish I had been: but in a form which I have never seen or heard des... ...at they were to be imposed upon and shipwrecked, and who would on no other terms believe that he had been ashore, or had done anything but fraudulentl... ...iary, and found it written in a fair legible square hand, and expressed in terms which were quite intelligible without any explana tion. On my saying... ... the rising genera tion, I would cheerfully give my consent to the disin terment of the bones of any genteel highwayman (the more genteel, the more ... ...in the com pass of their means. Supposing it confined within rea sonable limits, I would always encourage this kind of pride, as a worthy element of... ...es were filled, so shocked me, that I abridged my stay within the shortest limits, and declined to see that por tion of the building in which the ref... ...yellow rain; clearing, by that means, a kind of magic circle, within whose limits no intruders dared to come, and which they never failed to refresh a...