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...tively high. Also, the major beneficiaries of globalization have been the bankers and the multi-national giant corporations. They are held in check ... ...hance a society. They can‟t be compared with the uneducated laborers from Central America. The times have changed since the 1800s when we needed Iri...

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...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at tha...

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...arton BOOK I SELDEN PAUSED IN SURPRISE. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.... ...e spaniels dozed luxuriously before the fire, and the light from the great central lantern overhead shed a brightness on the women’s hair and struck s... ...idly conceive of a love which should broaden and deepen till it became the central fact of life. What he could not accept, in his own case, was the ma... ...ad for seven years—and what changes the re- newed contact produced! If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the s... ...coward from an infatuation his reason had conquered. He had instructed his bankers to forward some important business letters to Nice, and at Nice he ... ... and build herself a shelter with them, seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of exist- ence. It was a meagre enough life, on the grim edge...

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...onsider the diffi- culties of a single question, which is also a vital and central question in this forecast. We shall not attempt a full answer here,... ...ation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing revenge, dream-... ...For precisely similar reasons it seems to me incredible that the two great Central European Powers should ever fall into sustained conflict again with... ... be only three great World Powers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever... ...asten on the essential conclusion of the 23 H G Wells great war, that the Central Powers and their pledged antago- nists are in a deadlock, unable to... ...f that original debt; it has added to it tremendously; so far as money and bankers’ 32 What Is Coming? records go it still owes and intends to pay th... ... Great Britain has other sentiments to consider than the finer feelings of bankers and the delicacies of usury. The pound British will come out of thi...

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...nd beauty of composition of a certain building with curved wings and a small central dome that looks across the Seine at the gardens of the Louvre and... ...men of the dawn have been found on the walls and caves and grottoes all over central and southern France, throughout the very region where our America... ... The traces of a very ancient culture discovered in the United States and in Central America prove the far off existence of an artistic and civic deve... ...ic period, must have swept away the astounding race who adorned the caves of central and south western France with drawings matching those of the Japa... ...inuity of her social life. By her geographic position she seemed destined to centralise and cherish the scattered fires of these old societies. What is... ... shopkeepers’ wives, wives of big manufacturers and commission merchants and bankers, were to all intents and purposes their hus bands’ business part...

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..., on the other hand, remained inert, a passive appendage, as it were, of a central authority which was often embarrassed by its own partisans; for not... ... the Left. Du Croisier was in correspondence with the Brothers Keller, the bankers, the oldest of whom shone conspicuous among “the nineteen deputies ... ...ne favors him. In the morning Victurnien happened on the name of the Paris bankers in cor- respondence with du Croisier, and de Marsay furnished him w... ... an end. With the Duchess’ help he had managed to extort various sums from bankers; but it had been with the greatest difficulty, and, moreover, those... ...ho had acted so promptly and so directly in opposition to the views of the central power. “In any case,” continued she, “if celebrated counsel come do... ...use to the opposite glass door, at the end of a long passage, and down the central alley in the garden beyond; while through the windows of the dining... ...obtain a sum of money in spite of du Croisier’s contrary injunction to his bankers,” Camusot answered. “Gentlemen,” said Blondet, “this seems to me to...

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...r hear of the Circuit Judge Helping anyone except the “Q” railroad, Or the bankers? Or did Rev. Peet or Rev. Sibley Give any part of their salary, ear... ...ominant forces drawn from New England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers, Hating me, yet fearing my arm. With wife and children heavy to car... ...or petals Or halo-rays? Mockeries, shadows Of the heart of the flower, the central flame All is yours, young passer-by; Enter the banquet room with th... ...ice of the peasant youth Of Galilee who went to the city And was killed by bankers and lawyers; My voice mingling with the June wind That blew over wh...

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...lated surprise. “I shouldn’t have thought it.” “I was forty-three when his bankers—you remember you wired to his bankers—sent on to me.” “I got their ... ...orms, or stepping from one to another down the steps, or swarming over the central space, was an innumerable and wonderfully diversified mul- titude o... ...ll more thickly. He saw pointing fingers. He perceived that the motionless central area of this huge arcade just op- posite to the balcony was densely... ...thers. More and more faces were turned to him. At the intervals along this central area Graham noted openings, pits, apparently the heads of staircase... ...sing away bare. With incredible swiftness a vast crowd had gathered in the central space before his eyes; a dense swaying mass of people, and the shou... ...im, shouting strange, unintelligible things, and ran back obliquely to the central way. One thing he distin- guished: “It is indeed the Sleeper. It is...

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...ening very elegantly dressed, came home late, and was seen at the balls of bankers and notaries. Such habits displeased Cesar, according to whose idea... ...alls of its houses, has no life or movement except in the daytime; it is a central spot where dark passages meet, and connect the quarter of the marke... ...ntelligence. He will acquire bet- ter manners through his intercourse with bankers. You may see him on the boulevard, or on a cafe tippling, disorderl... ...an- teed Birotteau to the sellers, why should I guarantee him again to the bankers? The circumstances in which we are placed are very hard. Roguin has... ...mes the most distinguished, are thus gulled like children by business men, bankers, and lawyers, who all have a double signature,—one dead, the other ... ...has some now.” Birotteau went home broken-hearted, not perceiving that the bankers were tossing him from one to the other like a shuttle-cock; but Con...

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...ial zones; and pos- sibly an enquiry into the causes that bring about this centralisation may do more than merely justify the probabil- ity of this ep... ...he Faubourg, with some few gaps in continuity, was always backed up by the central power, which in France seldom fails to support that side. Thence it... ...the historian is pretty certain to find some rep- resentative figure, some central personage who embodies the qualities and the defects of the whole p... ... a project of great importance, he turned his attention to that unexplored Central Africa which occu- pies the learned of today. The scientific expedi... ...to insolence, a superficial observer might have taken them for a couple of bankers. Any such mistake would have been impossible, however, if the liste... ...ember. `Yes,’ said he, `I don’t go into society now; I am living among the bankers.’—You know why?” added the Marquis, with a meaning smile. “No,” sai... ...ch society has ever placed at the disposal of statesmen, kings, ministers, bankers, or any human power, in fact, were all exhausted in vain. Neither M...

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... to the entrance of the tower, in which a spiral stairway winds up round a central shaft carved with a grape-vine. This style, which recalls the stair... ...tate, were plunged. Nevertheless there was not a single one of those great bankers to whom the confidence expressed in the house of Mongenod was not a... ...d is, at thirty-seven years of age, one of the ablest, and most up- right, bankers in Paris. Not very long ago Madame Mongenod admitted to me that she... ...is narrative. But his curiosity was more whet- ted than satisfied, for the central figure of the picture was Ma- dame de la Chanterie. The history of ... ...ll feel doubtful of my solvency I offer you as reference Messrs. Mongenod, bankers, rue de la Victoire.” “I know them,” said Halpersohn, putting the t... ...ution, pay the sum you owe into the hands of Messrs. Mongenod and Company, bankers. May God forgive you. 188 The Brotherhood of Consolation Five cros...

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...assed, the frigate took a more decided westerly direction, and scoured the central waters of the Pacific. Commander Farragut thought, and with reason,... ...tilus, then it stopped. “We have arrived,” said the Captain. I went to the central staircase which opened on to the platform, clambered up the iron st... ...ace of the ocean to renew our supply of oxygen. I directed my steps to the central stair- case, and mounted the platform. 73 Jules Verne It was six o... .... “Hardly.” “Well, come and you will see.” I directed my steps towards the central staircase. There Ned Land and Conseil were slyly watching some of t... ...isoner? Quite free. I opened the door, went to the half- deck, went up the central stairs. The panels, shut the evening before, were open. I went on t... ...he hour we intended leaving his vessel.” “Yes, Ned, he had business at his bankers.” “His bankers!” “Or rather his banking-house; by that I mean the o...

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...ent. Paris has also this immense advantage over all other cities: ’tis the central hotel on the high-road of civilization. In Paris you meet your frie... ...iated her better. 326 The Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER XXXVIII MY BANKERS’ BOOK THE SQUIRE again did honour to Janet’s eulogy and good manage... ... He fixed that side-cast cock’s eye of his on me, and said, ‘Where ‘s your bankers’ book, sir?’ I presumed that it was with my bankers, but did not su... ...e in their display of happiness. It chanced that they came opportunely. My bankers’ book had been the theme all the morning, and an astonishing one to... ...gave very poor interest, I remarked cursorily-and had kept the money at my bankers’, to draw upon according to our necessities. I pitied the old man w... ...tables. Reduced to behave tem- perately , he began the whole history of my bankers’ book anew— the same queries, the same explosions and imprecations.... ...ng me, circumstances for not surrounding me with friends worthy of me. The central ‘I’ resembled the sun of this universe, with the difference that it... ...unting her. He and I parted, and for ever, at a corner of crossways in the central city. There I saw the last of one who deemed it as simple a matter ... ...ings, that soared in flame- tips and columns of crimson smoke, leaving the central hall and chambers untouched as yet, but alive inside with myste- ri...

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...t whist: An- drew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Director... ... com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for th... ...acific Railroad is, however, really divided into two dis- tinct lines: the Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden, and the Union Pacific, be... ...a. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its start- ing-point, extends eastwa... ... he had lost his wager. It was not even necessary that he should go to his bankers for the twenty thousand pounds; for his antagonists already had his... ...t in the great saloon of the club. John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, the bankers, Andrew Stuart, the engineer, Gauthier Ralph, the director of the B...

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...ch acts through opinion, it acts by a machinery, viz. the press and social centralization in great cities, which in these days is perfect. Right or wr... ...gypt, amongst which the rose in every variety was one. Fium, a province of central Egypt, which the ancients called the Garden of Egypt, was distingui... ...sents us with the evolution and propagation of Christianity in its present central abodes; with the great march of civilization, and the gathering wit... ...and the English. His continental policy moved en- tirely upon the pivot of central Europe, that is, the German system of nations—the great federation ... ...aining the great mis- sion of civilizing conquest. Above all, as the great central depository of Christian knowledge, she seemed specially sta- tioned... ...r found travelling for profes- sional objects. Some have been merchants or bankers, many have been ecclesiastics; but neither commercial nor clerical ...

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... speculator. He was a ner- vous speculator. Before he gambled he consulted bankers, lawyers, architects, contracting builders, and all of their clerks... ...bend; at the head of the lake, under a mountain slope, they saw the little central din- ing-shack of their hotel and the crescent of squat log cottage... ... the beginning of a repu- tation for oratory, so the Republican-Democratic Central Committee sent him to the Seventh Ward and South Ze- nith, to addre... ...cKelvey was being placidly merry now with the great, the manufacturers and bankers, the land-owners and law- yers and surgeons who had chauffeurs and ... ...l wore the delicate patches of side-whiskers which had been the uniform of bankers in 1870. If Babbitt was envious of the Smart Set of the McKelveys, ... ...ive men who founded Zenith, in 1792, and he was of the third generation of bankers. He could examine credits, make loans, promote or injure a man’s bu... ...shment, it had a boom. It did not become the largest school in Zenith— the Central Methodist Church kept ahead of it by methods which Dr. Drew scored ... ...nner. Babbitt spoke gracefully of the stabilizing and educational value of bankers to the com- munity. They were, he said, the pastors of the fold of ... ... arranged by a director, could not have acted in the Easter cantata of the Central Methodist Church; maga- zines reporting, quite seriously, in “inter...

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...e agent, and Cointet Brothers, printers and paper manufacturers, were also bankers in all but name. This surreptitious banking sys- tem defies all the... ...s to the financial world of Angouleme, if that bill is protested, then the bankers in Angouleme must draw up a detailed account of the expenses of pro... ...d to the drawing-room on Lucien’s arm, and seated him on the awe-inspiring central sofa between herself and Zephirine. There, enthroned like a queen, ... ... come of them. We are not merely paper-makers, we are printers besides and bankers, and people say that you are ruining us.” David Sechard’s gesture o...

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... family, succeeded in selling all the pictures in the gallery to the noted bankers Happe and Duncker for the ostensible sum of eighty- five thousand D... ... of science, engineers, generals, sailors, magistrates, manufacturers, and bankers. There is nothing extraordinary in the son of a rich or noble famil... ... question him. 124 The Alkahest A month after this scene one of the Douai bankers brought a bill of exchange for ten thousand francs signed by Claes.... ..., specimens hooked upon the walls or lying on the furnaces, surrounded the central figure of Balthazar Claes, without a coat, his arms bare like those...

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...matical studies. He had a thoughtful hold of what he knew, which would be exceptional among bankers. He had been brought up in the midst of hot-house ... ...nd the amateur- ish accomplishments of a clique. But manners, like art, should be human and central. Some of my fellow-passengers, as I now moved amon... ...ndowed with very much the same natu- ral capacities, and about as wise in deduction, as the bankers and barristers of what is called society. One and ... ...R’S W ALK IN CARRICK AND GALLOW AY— A FRAGMENT—1876 AT THE FAMOUS BRIDGE of Doon, Kyle, the central district of the shire of Ayr, marches with Carrick... ...is to sow his wild oats; and so the cases of father and son mark an epoch in the history of centralisation in France. Not until the latter had got int...

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...; and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night, in the central ‘part of the Churchyard Sainte-Catherine, in the Suburb Saint-Marce... ...ng to the Champ-de-Mars and from it, in the utmost excitability of humour; central Fatherland’s Altar quite heaped with signing Patriots and Patriotes... ... Reigns of Terror expressly so-called. The Countries of the Loire, all the Central and South-East regions, start up distracted, ‘simultaneously as by ... ...: for instance, the Battalion of the Filles- Saint-Thomas, made up of your Bankers, Stockbrokers, and other Full-purses of the Rue Vivienne. Our worth... ... Jacobin President, “which it may be interesting not to state,” have got a Central Committee sitting close by, un- der the roof of the Mother Society ... ...of effervescence is surely proper, the Forty-eight Sections have got their Central Committee; intended ‘for prompt communication. ’ To which Central C...

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...nge with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River Buffalo to Albany , and B. and A. the same Albany ... ... Limited whirled the “Constance” into Buffalo and the arms of the New York Central and Hudson River (illustrious magnates with white whiskers and gold... ...he societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine- insurance agents, captains of tugs and water-boats, rig...