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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ght? Be- sides, in what way was this action, which is certainly within the rights of a man’s own will, —in what way was it contrary to the ethics of a...

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Colonel Chabert

By: Honoré de Balzac

...s day, sometimes I hate my name. I wish I were not myself. The sense of my rights kills me. If my illness had but deprived me of all memory of my past... ...- sisted, at your age, and in your present circumstances, in resuming your rights over a woman who no longer loves you? You will have both your wife a... ...eath certificate and your marriage, so as to put you in possession of your rights. You may even, by Comte Ferraud’s intervention, have your name repla... ...ause Comte Chabert, to secure your happiness, will undertake to assert his rights only un- der certain circumstances set forth in the deed.—And these,...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...er to be voluntarily granted; and war measures, not seldom restricting the rights and liberties to which the citizen was accustomed, to be voluntarily... ...ve essentially intact our free institutions in all things that concern the rights and liberties of the citizens. He understood well the nature of the ... ...rn people that he would do all to se- cure the safety of the Union and the rights of the emanci- pated negro, and at the same time by the confidence o... ...aration of Inde- pendence that all men are vested with certain inalienable rights the equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. On ... ...ution and within the Union, and relied upon their constitutional and legal rights, their fa- vorite institution, immoral as it was, blighting and fata...

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A House of Gentlefolk

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...in vain. He was not born to be a victim; his healthy nature reasserted its rights. Much became clear to him; even the blow that had fallen on him no l... ...d not a notion of what was proper. T o make up for this, Anton resumed his rights at dinner: he took up a firm position behind Marya Dmitrievna’s chai... ... bright with unshed tears. “Ah! I see, you have been setting your cell to rights again,” observed Marfa Timofyevna, and she bent low over a young ros...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

... desolate and afflicted old man; or of sisterly affection, maintaining the rights of a brother under circumstances of peril, of desertion, and consequ... ...or a person?” Resp. “I conceive Dumpkins to have been a person, having the rights of a person.” Com. “Capable, for instance, of suing and being sued?”...

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A Treatise on Government Translated from the Greek of Aristotle

By: William Ellis A. M.

...friends and companions, as well as those whom we are connected with by the rights of hospital- ity; and this cannot be done without the establishment ... ...n him; which if he could not do, there was a law which deprived him of the rights of a citizen, as has been already mentioned: but in Crete they were ... ...other. It is probably a matter of still more difficulty to determine their rights as citizens who are admitted to their freedom after any revolution i... ...t, or any such advantage will be a claim for a greater share of the public rights. But that this is evidently absurd is clear from other arts and scie... ...t of the heroic times; which was a government over a free people, with its rights in some particulars marked out; for the king was their general, thei...

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Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

...eth had succeeded, at sixteen, to all that was pos- sible, of her mother’s rights and consequence; and being very handsome, and very like himself, her... ...ance of. The heir presumptive, the very William Walter Elliot, Esq., whose rights had been so generously sup- ported by her father, had disappointed h... ...ands. Depend upon me for taking care that no tenant has more than his just rights. I venture to hint, that Sir Walter Elliot cannot be half so jeal- o... ... any representations from one who had almost a mother’s love, and mother’s rights, it would be prevented. Captain Wentworth had no fortune. He had bee... ... but I shall tell you, Miss Anne, because you may be able to set things to rights, that I have no very good opinion of Mrs Charles’s nursery-maid: I h...

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Summer

By: Edith Wharton

... without a weapon. “See here, Charity—you’re always telling me I’ve got no rights over you. There might be two ways of looking at that— but I ain’t go...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

... ‘Blazes,’ but as the company seemed more disposed to stand upon their own rights than his, the question was not raised. The man with the cocked hat b... ... my dear ma’am. Don’t be frightened, ma’am. We shall be able to set you to rights in a very short time, I have no doubt, ma’am. Here, my dear ma’am. N...

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ster has had the misfortune to marry you, she there and then forfeited her rights and privileges as a lady? I own, sir, that by that action she did as... ...ld man, pausing in his walk. “Are you really a thief?” “I claim the sacred rights of hospitality,” returned the poet. “My lord, I am.” “You are very y... ...music as retailed by the Berthelinis, had no hesitation whatever as to the rights of the matter. He instantly fell foul of the Commissary in very high...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...of government, which embraced every security for their liberties and equal rights and privileges to all in the pursuit of happiness. He came as an hon... ...o changed this, that those who were then negro slaves are clothed with the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a politica... ...nd is the antagonist of all great political combinations that threaten the rights of minorities. It is the public opinion formed in the independent ex... ...courts, will be found sufficient 9 Tocqueville for the safety of personal rights, and for the safety of the government, and the prophetic outlook of ... ...of the seas to other lands, where the appeals of De T ocqueville for human rights and liberties have already inspired the souls of the people. Hon. Jo...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...esses of sanctity, for human dignity systematically outraged, or for human rights mercilessly trodden under foot—champions of such interests, men firs... ...confidence to the Protestant king. 8 Memorials, and Other Papers violated rights of conscience against perfidious despots and murdering oppressors, e... ...ndest when it is fought for godlike truth, for human dignity, or for human rights; it is the meanest when it is fought for petty advantages (as, by wa... ...rangement of the liver, a torpor in its action that might have been put to rights in three days. In fact, one week’s pedestrian travelling amongst the... ...aria ought to be accepted, because else you were lowering the prescriptive rights and value of the office, which you—a mere locum tenens for some comi...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 3 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ted equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; t... ...hese are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, govern- ments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers ... ...ruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other man’s rights; that each community as a State has a right to do exactly as it plea... ... Three brethren of the South. “When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I ac- knowledge them, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly; and I w... ...Lincoln: V ol Three world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, li...

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Almost Two Months Had Passed

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...om Providence for us—this Servian war. I’m old, and I don’t understand the rights and wrongs of it, but it’s come as a providential blessing to him. O... ...ely that it was dark as an eclipse. Stubbornly, as though insisting on its rights, the wind stopped Levin, and tearing the leaves and flowers off the ...

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

... dor, who will devote his days to the settlement of the question of human rights in the Council Chamber, in stead of being threatened with the priso... ...not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State unt...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

... up, of neglect in the gravest consideration of life. He insisted upon the rights and dignity of the individual man, and at the same time upon the vit... ...t if the abuse be enormous, Nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.’ I mark this animated sentence... ...in obstinate si- lence. Sir, we as yet do not enough understand the common rights of humanity.’ Johnson, for sport perhaps, or from the spirit of cont... ...ared. ‘Sir, that is being so uncivilised as not to understand the com- mon rights of humanity.’ At the inn where we stopped he was exceed- ingly dissa...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...into my endeav- ouring to force from Madame Rigaud a relinquishment of her rights; and, on her persistence in a refusal to make the conces- sion I req... ...e would have shed tears in resentment of the attempt to deprive him of his rights. A disposition began to be perceived in him to exaggerate the number... ...ery new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college. ‘By rights,’ remarked the turnkey when she was first shown to him, ‘I ought to ... ...le Branch, indeed, considered themselves in a general way as having vested rights in that direction, and took it ill if any other family had much to s... ...ected young or old gentle- man, and dodged back again; he is a man with no rights in his own time, or his own property; a mere outlaw, whom it is just...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...into my endeav- ouring to force from Madame Rigaud a relinquishment of her rights; and, on her persistence in a refusal to make the conces- sion I req... ...e would have shed tears in resentment of the attempt to deprive him of his rights. A disposition began to be perceived in him to exaggerate the number... ...ery new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college. ‘By rights,’ remarked the turnkey when she was first shown to him, ‘I ought to ... ...le Branch, indeed, considered themselves in a general way as having vested rights in that direction, and took it ill if any other family had much to s... ...ected young or old gentle- man, and dodged back again; he is a man with no rights in his own time, or his own property; a mere outlaw, whom it is just...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady, though more frank, and ready for everyt...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nd the scrap of paper that makes Gaudin a baron of the empire, and all our rights to the endowment of Wistchnau, if only Pauline could be brought up a... ...ears of domes- tic service had scarcely civilized. He had given up all the rights of life in order to live; he had despoiled his soul of all the roman...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

... in bed. At last, when I had followed seven of the thieves, and set ‘em to rights—that’s an expression of ours, don’t you see, by which I mean to say ... ...e prop had been passed away; and I said to Witchem, when we had set ‘em to rights, and were cooling ourselves along with Mr. T att, “we don’t take muc... ...t who had deserted his lovely mother. It was understood that if he had his rights, he would be worth twenty thousand a year. And that if his mother ev... ...ing in Blunderbooze at the top of the poll, we are unworthy of the dearest rights of Britons. Flaming 196 Reprinted Pieces placards are rife on all t...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...ecutive generally had demurred to this,—not with an absolute denial of the rights of Congress, but with those civil and almost silent generalities wit... ... was under the dominion of a quack doctor on one side, and of a college of rights of women female medical professors on the other. “I believe, sir, no... ...lion voices his inability to live under circumstances so subversive of his rights as a man. And he would have thoroughly believed the truth of his own... ...ellion, England should have consented to allow the North to assume all the rights of a belligerent, and should have denied all those rights to the Sou... ... vehemently opposed to its progress. Men had been taught to think that the rights of the State of Maryland were being invaded by the passage of the so...

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Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay : An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government

By: John Locke

... of another. 7. And that all men may be restrained from invading others’ rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of Nature be observ... ... satisfaction for the harm he hath suffered. 11. From these two distinct rights (the one of punish ing the crime, for restraint and preventing the ... ... is made. 84. The society betwixt parents and children, and the distinct rights and powers belonging respectively to them, I have treated of so larg... ..., with a title to perfect freedom and an uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of Nature, equally with any other man, or ... ... people, men found it necessary to examine more carefully the original and rights of government, and to find out ways to restrain the exorbitances and...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...inciple. The right to bear a child, perhaps the most sacred of all women’s rights, is not one that should have any conditions attached to it except in... ... turn for mothering and coddling them; and find the concession of conjugal rights to any person under any conditions intol- erable by their self-respe... ...ried of proud and sensitive people to avoid any assertion of mat- rimonial rights, or to condescend to jealousy, sometimes makes the threatened husban... ...ity classroom, specifies “liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as natural rights. The terms are too vague to be of much practical use; for the suprem... ... years’ penal servi- tude, two years hard labor, and the loss of all civil rights. Not counting that I’m a private trustee, and, like all private trus...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...sputes arise from the violation of what are con- sidered to be fundamental rights, and from the perversion or subversion of governmental institutions”... ...t a very large part of the criminal law is concerned in safeguard- ing the rights of property, that is to say—as things are now— the unjust privileges...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

... may often be fit, like Roman freedmen, to be admitted at once to the full rights of citizenship. This, however, is not the normal condi tion of slav... ... which can be laid down respecting hu man affairs. The first is, that the rights and interests of every or any person are only secure from being disr... ...m. The former proposition—that each is the only safe guard ian of his own rights and interests—is one of those elemen tary maxims of prudence which ... ...mper the arbitrary power of the executive, yet keep up the idea of popular rights, and conduce greatly to the real liberty of the press which exists i... ...ling most tenaciously to the exclusive class interest; and the elec toral rights of the minority, while useless for the purposes for which votes are ...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...and attempted to assail my character when he could not otherwise impugn my rights. This boy he has left behind him—this Edgar—this hot- headed, hare-b... ...casioned the family, though only in the prosecution of his just and lawful rights. He therefore made it his particular and personal re- quest that the... ...d the right of forestry, and may think themselves entitled to exercise the rights they have paid their money for.” “It may be sae, my lord,” replied C... ...e family, most of the inhabitants of Wolf ’s Hope had contrived to get feu-rights to their little possessions, their huts, kail-yards, and rights of c... ..., that’s come frae the North to settle amang us, and he’ll pit this job to rights, I’se warrant him.” A day was accordingly fixed for holding a grand ...

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Notwithstanding the Discipline Which Marechal Suchet Had Introduced into His Army Corps

By: Honoré de Balzac

... details always attractive to the mind of girls, giving her a sense of the rights and realities of love. Then, having agreed upon the hour for their f...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...he world of religious and polit- ical pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian t... ...age 85 service, Congress concentrated its efforts on a “passenger bill of rights,” to improve capacity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction in the ... ...ensions, ending the Afghan civil war, and ameliorating the Taliban’s human rights abuses than on driving out Bin Ladin.Another key actor, Marine Gener... ...ady Hillary Rodham Clinton—both critics of the Taliban’s record on women’s rights. 86 The proposal seems to have quietly died. Within the State Depart... ...tical-military issues of where operations would be based) and securing the rights to fly over neighboring countries. 223 The draft presidential direct...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...g to ask for restitution. But the farmer was a hard man and stood upon his rights. “How were they marked?” he asked; and since John had bought right a...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

... pre senting them with a set of resolutions I had drawn up, de claring our rights, and that we did not relinquish our claim to those rights, but onl...

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