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...made here, though he had seen the universal empire to which Napoleon aspired, and which politicians believed inevitable, vanish like smoke? (Note by ...

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...on of slavery, denied the truth of it. I know that Mr. Calhoun and all the politicians of his school denied the truth of the Declaration. I know that ... ... of slavery is the mere agitation of office-seekers and ambitious Northern politicians. He thinks we want to get “his place,” I suppose. I 78 The Wri... ...stitution of slavery spring from office-seeking, from the mere ambition of politicians? Is that the truth? How many times have we had danger from this... ...ure, in morals, in all the manifold relations of life? Is this the work of politicians? Is that irresistible power, which for fifty years has shaken t...

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... sought to discover a secret so well guarded. Society spies, triflers, and politicians, weary of the strife, ended by ceasing to concern themselves ab...

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... from the North Country or the Potteries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a... ...itechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a priest or so, here a clump of ol... ...of individuals,” he insisted. “It isn’t that. That’s the standing error of politicians. You want to organise a culture. Civilisation isn’t a matter of... ...ing in from a State ball—and ex- changed information. I told her about the politicians and intellectuals, and she told me about the aristocrats, and w... ... as widely and charitably receptive as any man I have ever met. The common politicians beside him seemed like rows of stuffy little rooms looking out ... ...ience than their chaffeurs, and of the quality of English people than welt-politicians; contemptuous of school and univer- sity by reason of the Gates... ...ard at the first course of action that presents itself; the whole world of politicians is far too like a man who snatches a poker to a failing watch. ... ...profoundly. But I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their...

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...toler- ance, a trifle derisive, of the populace again—socialist ora- tors, politicians, a band, and the same wild uproar of dogs, frantic with the gla... ...of flaming destruction, statesmen whose countries had become chaos, scared politicians and financial potentates. Here were leaders of thought and lear... ...deed, mag- nificently representative. It became so representative that the politicians were drowned in a deluge of votes. Every adult of either sex fr...

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...s and sometimes not. SOCRATES: And are you aware that not you only and other politicians have doubts whether vir tue can be taught or not, but that T...

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... been got up with con- siderable enthusiasm, and for a while certain fiery politicians had believed that through the instrumentality of this insti- tu... ... doubted that the party of Progress had become slack, and that the Liberal politicians of the country, although a special new club had been opened for... ...ssion not only of his intellects but of his bodily power, showing, as many politicians do show, that the cares of the nation may sit upon a man’s shou... ...ld school, who hated compromises, and ab- horred in his heart the clash of politicians to whom politics were a profession rather than a creed. Mr Roby... ...of the Duke and the occasional despair of the Duchess. There had been many politicians who had thought, or had, at any rate, predicted that the Coalit... ...on that point. The crime committed had been so horrible that all the great politicians of the country ought to compete for the honour of asking it. Wh... ...epper can hardly be gratified by simple salt. When that deadlock had come, politicians who were really anxious for the country had been forced to look... ...isters from the Opposition benches, have less opportunity of becoming real politicians than the new men who sit in Parliament with empty hands and wit... ...under the auspices of Sir Orlando, and that with him Sir Timothy and other politicians were in close council. It was of course necessary that they sho...

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...appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is ... ... one as may be gotten up at any time by turbu- lent men aided by designing politicians, My advice to them, under such circumstances, is to keep cool. ... ...drive that one out of the Union, it is presumed the whole class of seceder politicians would at once deny the power and de- nounce the act as the grea... ...indeed, many of them are already mutinous. They have been tampered with by politicians, and made to believe that if they get up a mutiny and demand Fr...

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... Coal owners who think only of themselves, solicitors who think backwards, politicians who think like a game of cat’s- cradle, not a gleam of generosi... ... girl might find a considerable variety of active, interesting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men o...

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...pleasurable activities, instead of letting them fall into the hands of the politicians.” “I don’t suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years... ...ding was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first week of March had given promise of sp... ...always deferring hope till the next generation. We’re tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reform- ers (and the husbands!) coax u... ...wer part of their faces expressionless, heavy, unappealing. They were like politicians cynically dividing appointments. How could they understand her ... ... I want to be let alone, in a woman world— a world without Main Street, or politicians, or business men, or men with that sudden beastly hungry look, ... ...how scientists ought to rule the world, instead of a bunch of spread-eagle politicians—can’t you see that I’m all the science there is here? And I can...

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...his unimpressed and frigid behaviour? He was the first of the succes- sive politicians sent out from the capital to rule the Occidental Province whom ... ...rnandez evidently was not of the stuff of which the distinguished military politicians and conspirators of Costaguana are made. This clever but common... ...gh the exer- tions of his creditors (the Sta. Marta shopkeepers, all great politicians), who moved heaven and earth in his interest publicly, and priv... ...elf was never known to talk. But he made no secret of his opinion that the politicians of Sta. Marta had harder hearts and more corrupt minds than the...

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...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...because of the known failure of her other adorers. He in the front rank of politicians attracted her with the lustre of his ambition; she him with her...

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...liberties, so now the world. Things as they are may be fun for lawyers and politicians and court people and—douaniers; they may suit the loan-mongers ... ...matter. They had not had the time. They had just negotiated, like the mere politicians they were, for the Nationalist vote. They seemed to hope that b...

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...usly and by lucky chances. If some soldiers are wily and astute and clever politicians, they are exceptions; a soldier is, usually, especially an acco... ...ith the difficulties and necessities of administration, but whom pu- ritan politicians, doing infinitely worse things, call corrupt. The interior of G...

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...ious scholar, he became the acknowledged head of a school of moralists and politicians. Time alone can pronounce upon the merits of his theories; but ... ...despairingly, and went out saying, “I will come back again.” T wo or three politicians were chatting over the convocation of the Chambers and public b...

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...e, is that they’re willing to take a lot off the snobs and journalists and politicians, while the modern American business man knows how to talk right... ...r in his eyes, a syrup-smooth quickness in his speech, which in- timidated politicians and warned reporters; and in his pres- ence the most intelligen...

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...rvatives, the writers of “The North Ameri can Review,” the merchants, the politicians, the Cambridge men, and all those respectable old blockheads wh...

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...ancing the Union cause, but on the distinct issue of Union or no Union the politicians have shown their instinctive knowl- edge that there is no diver...

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...ere going through our priestly mummer- ies, abasing ourselves to kings and politicians, when we ought to have been crying out: ‘No! No! There is no ri...

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...r travellers. I, with them, could see (perhaps it was the preaching of the politicians that warned me of the fact) that we are looking on at the last ...