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... makes phone calls from his rooms. But he also murders - or tries to murder - those who suspect the truth. These acts of lethal self-preservation pr... ...the truth. These acts of lethal self-preservation prove conclusively that he knows who he is and that he fully realizes that his acts are parlously... ...courtesy his ever more disenchanted father - to a girl he impregnated. She commits suicide and he blames the primitiveness of the emergency service... ...g his distaste and disenchantment. He is savagely cruel as he calls Ripley a leach who has taken over his life and his possessions (having previous... ... he makes his decision, he is fully informed. He knows that some people may commit suicide, go bankrupt, endure major depressive episodes, do drugs... ... "alters" (i.e., one of the multitude of "identities" sharing Dan's mind and body) committed the crime? Should Dan still be held responsible? What ... ...committed the crime? Should Dan still be held responsible? What if the alter "John" committed the crime and then "vanished", leaving behind another ... ..., "Joseph") in control? Should "Joseph" be held responsible for the crime "John" committed? What if "John" were to reappear 10 years after he "va... ...t liability" approach also fits here. The owner (and his "long arms": manufacturer, engineers, builders, etc.) of the Titanic were deemed responsibl...

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...braced. My grandparents' tiny home was government property and was reclaimed. The sanitary engineers, revolted, removed from the garden the worm-in... ...aler acknowledges him discreetly and draws the cards. He lays them gingerly in front of Eli who, exultant, gathers his winnings and tips the gratef... ...d a Jewish prisoner to an Arab-infested prison. After all, I was held up by Arab assassins who slaughtered Jews!" The legalistic side (they are big... ...er off this vehicle, she may be lethal!" – another advises. "I am not forcing anybody down who has paid the ticket!" – snaps the driver and reverts... ... beloved canines, his birthday party, and how he wed his mistress the day before the twain committed suicide. How they were both consumed by fire. ... ...canines, his birthday party, and how he wed his mistress the day before the twain committed suicide. How they were both consumed by fire. This was ... ... Our bloated love alivid at the insolence of time protests by falling in, involuntarily committed. You are the sadness in my sepia nights. I a...

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...wn, and middle-aged; I imagined him--grown portly in figure and domestic in his habits; in short, overtaken by the fate common to all except to those who, being specially beloved by the gods, get knocked on the head early. The letter was of the reminiscent ?do you remember? kind--a wistful letter of backward glances. And, amongst other things, ?surely you remember old Nels...

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... his habits; in short, overtaken by the fate common to all except to those who, being specially beloved by the gods, get knocked on the head early. Th... ... The Dutch, in his view, were capable of “playing any ugly trick on a man” who had the misfortune to displease them. There were their laws and regulat... ... con- cealing the fact that what one remembered really was his daugh- ter, who at that time came out to live with him—and be a sort of Lady of the Isl... ...ats in the course of that nautical operation. Then, all my crew assisting, engineers and firemen included, by the ex- ercise of much anxious ingenuity... ...oner. Robinson’s story is too ingenious altogether. That other tale of the engineers of the Nan-Shan finding Schultz at midnight in the engine-room bu... ... and his captain was detained on board the gunboat, he was ready to commit suicide from despair; only he thought it his duty to live in order to let t... ...he seemed hardly able to put one foot before the other. That very night he committed sui- cide by cutting his throat in the house of a half-caste with...

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...med—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house... ...gs against the gold patina of sky, and fumbled for sleep as for a drug. He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested ... ...pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and wa... ...ple who inhabited the Reeves Building corridors—elevator-runners, starter, engineers, superintendent, and the doubtful-looking lame man who conducted ... ... business, and they’d go—Why do you suppose there’s so many ‘mysteri- ous’ suicides? Why do you suppose so many Substantial Citizens jumped right into... ...two excellent thoughts on the use of two-cent stamps on circulars. Then he committed an offense against the holy law of the Clan of Good Fellows. He b... ...th a private garden), but if one was a Bad Man, that is, if he murdered or committed burglary or used cocaine or had mistresses or sold non-existent r... ...anciers who ruled the generation between the pioneers and the brisk “sales-engineers” and created a somber oligarchy by gaining control of banks, mill... ...ng the College has,” fretted Babbitt. “I’d like to know how it hasn’t! The Engineers can play on any of the teams!” There was much explanation of the ...

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...r- eign armies. According to Monsieur de la Billardiere, the functionaries who represent the city of Paris should make it their duty, each in his own ... ...re our enemies. They all say , ‘Birotteau has had luck; Birotteau is a man who came from nothing: yet here he is deputy-mayor; everything succeeds wit... ... debt to his country by merely selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came to buy it. If the State demands the help of our intelligence, we a... ...te event induced Constance to shut her eyes to the follies which Birotteau committed for her sake in fitting up the new appartement. The perfumer had ... ...ought, might have become an honest man; his previous fault might have been committed for some mistress in distress or from losses at cards; the public... ...ceived the vigilance of his porter, Rue Saint-Honore. Monsieur Gendrin had committed infa- mies worthy of Marat,—obscene drawings at which the po- lic... ...ltaire said, ‘Canaux, canards, canaille!’ But the govern- ment has its own engineers; you can’t get a finger in the matter unless you get on the right... ...at Roguin had carried off Cesar’s whole property. The thought of immediate suicide 153 Balzac passed through the brain of the victim, deeply religiou... ...iters, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents, engineers, and above all satellites, or henchmen, who passed from group to ...

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...e lead- ing characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object. Perhaps this forgetfulness is only ... ...y the unceasing conspiracy of those whom we term weak against those others who fancy themselves strong,—that of the peasant against the proprietor. It... ...our writers blindly rush, it becomes an urgent duty to exhibit the peasant who renders Law inapplicable, and who has made the ownership of land to be ... ...was quietly help- 76 Sons of the Soil ing to hide the traces of a robbery committed upon you this very morning. I came to speak to you about it, gene... ...f “pickings” was, alas! the cause of Paul-Louis Carter’s assassination; he committed the mistake of advertis- ing the sale of his estate and allowing ... ...aithful devotion which made your own egotism blush, “They must surely have committed some crime together”? After an administration of twenty-five year... ...outh. Though she was now forty-five years old, with a son in the school of engineers, Lupin never went to the Pre- fecture without paying his respects... ...he mountain. If the histo- rian of human life were simply telling you of a suicide, five hundred of which occur yearly in Paris, the melodrama is so c... ... as it was before 1830. One evening, when he had come very near committing suicide (a folly he had so often laughed at), while his mind travelled back...

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...—at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old. Certainly an Englis... ...ent, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fo... ...at Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared... ... had been observed going to and fro in the paying room where the crime was committed. A description of him was easily pro- cured and sent to the detec... ...the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Sol... ...ast September a robbery of fifty- 87 Jules Verne five thousand pounds was committed at the Bank of En- gland by a person whose description was fortun... ...stead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains. But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its difficulties by wind- i... ...y delighted, and found the plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on... ... governed by a fixed idea some- times resort to the desperate expedient of suicide, Passepartout kept a narrow watch upon his master, though he carefu...

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... the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, t... ...bittered one, he gathers experience round his theme as only the artist can who has enriched leis art by having outlived his youth without forgetting i... ...ejdanov and not Solomin; the part is cast in the woman’s figure of Mariana who broke the silence of “anonymous Russia.” Ivan T urgenev had the underst... ...cobins, “of whom there could hardly be any in Servia,” but might have been committed by some of the followers of the Karageorgievsky party, enemies of... ...e sure whether to thank or arrest him. He gave them all the details of the suicide, regaled them with Swiss cheese and Madeira, but as for the whereab... ...ana and hide for a time. Nothing was revealed by the inquiry held over the suicide. The body was buried. Sipiagin gave up searching for his niece. Nin... ...rd kant in Russian means a kind of braid or piping.] on the collars of our engineers! And it’s no better in art! You go to a concert and listen to our...

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...cts with land were short, few, and fleeting, I heard the story of some man who was supposed to 4 Nostromo have stolen single-handed a whole lighter-f... ...d this, it seems, only because he was implicitly trusted by his employers, who must have been singularly poor judges of character. In the sailor’s sto... ...very man, woman, and child in that port 5 Joseph Conrad is my friend. And who’s to prove the lighter wasn’t sunk? I didn’t show you where the silver ... ... European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of engineers building the road, aided by the Italian and Basque workmen who ra... ... chief on the wall. Even when he was cooking for the “Signori Inglesi”—the engineers (he was a famous cook, though the kitchen was a dark place)—he wa... ...e hens made off in all directions, with immense strides; if there were any engineers from 28 Nostromo up the line staying in Sulaco, a young English ... ...d took from him his inaccessible position of a force in the background. It committed him openly unless he wished to throw up the game—and that was imp... ... deck of his own schooner. That man, subjective almost to insanity, looked suicide delib- erately in the face. But he never lost his head. He was chec...

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... to a lady with no heart to give him; whose happiness was in the past, and who was content to bind her broken spirit to the dutiful and meek endurance... ...th mentioning. There had been a girl some six years before, and the child, who had stolen into the chamber unobserved, was now crouching timidly, in a... ...Blockitt, Sir?’ suggested the nurse, a simpering piece of faded gentility, who did not presume to state her name as a fact, but merely offered it as a... ...aid Mr Chick, thoughtfully, ‘to be sure.’ Admonished, however, that he had committed himself, by the indignation expressed in Mrs Chick’ s countenance... ...years before, had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers, and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination, went dow... ...urt. And don’t you commit yourself, whatever you do.’ ‘I haven’ t been and committed nothing, Captain!’ answered Rob. ‘Keep her free, then,’ said the ... ...ered by his anxieties and regrets for Walter, he had been driven to commit suicide. Unequal to the wear and tear of daily life, as he had often profes...

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...table tradition and sure faith. Would he not betray himself an alien cynic who should other- wise portray Main Street, or distress the citizens by spe... ... wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, young men who sing, and one lady instructress who really likes Milton and Carlyle. So... ...h. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed; a fragile child who must be cloaked with understanding kindness. “Psy- chic,” the girls whi... ...e devoted herself to admiring the spinsterish Miss Villets—and immediately committed an- other offense against the laws of decency. “We haven’t seen y... ...flers and fur caps, running along the tops of ice-coated freight-cars; the engineers scratching frost from the cab windows and looking out, inscrutabl... ... so confound- edly unhappy that it’s a wonder they don’t all up and commit suicide. But they seem to struggle along some- how!” “They don’t know what ...

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... to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...al good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Repu... ...ss and pain as much as they might have wanted to offer solace to each other. Who could offer solace when the conclusion of life as an evil and godless... ...ts ecosystem, the muscular young body that had an orange hue like a Chinamen who had sucked up too much sun. After the revelation he had listened to ... ...rdered, he was just beginning his studies at the university. When his father committed suicide, Sang Huin's cadaverous numbness was on fire and he fel... ... was just beginning his studies at the university. When his father committed suicide, Sang Huin's cadaverous numbness was on fire and he felt that any... ...ks, wishing to walk across hills and depart from family. . He felt her true, committed, objection to everything in her big lonely home and with everyt... ...d come to Korea. He had been so lost after his sister's death, his father's suicide, and the exacerbated disconnection from the robotic and perfuncto... ... and experimental construction was done without the mathematical formulas of engineers, her hobbies were natural. They were diversions and she knew t... ... permanency in family and an adult needs a friendship on paper that states a committed level of consistency beyond casual friendship. If women could s...

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...ls. Patients suffering from the range of obsessive- compulsive disorders are committed to perfection and believe that only they are capable of attain... ...elming sense of entitlement. I am but a mediocre and forgettable scribbler who, at the age of 39, is a colossal under-achiever, if anything. Of cou... ...rs, erstwhile friends, and, finally, even by long-suffering family members who tire of his tirades and rants. Unable to work in a team, to compromis... ...ts (see above). But there are other narcissists, the "luckier" ones, those who can afford not to work. They laze about, indulge themselves in a var... ...ncy, infant and child mortality, spontaneous abortion, reckless behaviours, suicide, and the onset of mental health disorders. Most abusers and bat... ...ack on your word. Be firm and resolute. Impossible Situations The abuser engineers impossible, dangerous, unpredictable, unprecedented, or highly... ... and in conjunction with other mental health problems - sometimes leads to suicide. But more often, it allows the victim to process mentally hurtfu... ...e in his dreams, although he has been told numerous times that he has been committed to a mental health facility for evaluation. As far as he is co... ...the judge interrupted him, impatiently - "it is your view that he should be committed "? " I would definitely recommend it." - Concluded the doct...

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...e life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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... gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality. Yet again I say—May God grant it! DE BAL... ...nce they have roused a protest from certain ignorant and voracious readers who want emotions without undergo- ing the generating process, the flower w... ... powerful Guild of Weavers. When the great city revolted under Charles V., who tried to suppress its privileges, the head of the Claes family was so d... ...l- sions which give to the eyes an infinitude of shades; the promptings to suicide caused by a word, dispelled by an in- tonation; trembling glances w... ...mands from indi- viduals: every hour it commits crimes, but the crimes are committed in words; it paves the way for evil actions with a jest; it degra... ...with the earnestness of a man who sees a fortune escaping him, “you commit suicide; you fling your mother’s property into a gulf. Well, I will prove t... ...r on all sides; the school turns out statesmen, diplomats, men of science, engineers, generals, sailors, magistrates, manufacturers, and bankers. Ther...

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... are men not only of far greater intellectual power and energy than I, but who have devoted their whole lives to the sustained analysis of this or tha... ...e for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These things, chemistry, su... ...it. The bulk of men are obliged to be amateur philosophers,—all men indeed who are not spe- cialized students of philosophical subjects,—even if their... ...ear malice nor cherish anger nor seek revenge, you will never turn towards suicide as a relief from intolerable things; in- deed there will be no into... ...paratus of the civilized state; the organizers of transit and housing, the engineers in their incessantly increasing variety, the miners and geologist... ...ate abandonment of private prop- erty we have already discussed, a sort of suicide that helps the world nothing. Or she may “strike,” refuse marriage ... ...nergies in con- 74 First and Last Things structive work. But that also is suicide; it is to miss the keen- est experiences, the finest realities life... ...right in pointing out that there is much more social toleration for an act committed under the sanction of a group than for an isolated act that may b... ...han, as liter- ary people say, “created.” They were to be drawn from among engineers, doctors, scientific business organizers and the like, and I foun...

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...e new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good ... ...r grounds of separation, must, at the very threshold, by warning off those who dis- sent from them, so far operate to limit your audience. To take my ... ...from the journal, and reprinted? In the neglect to do this, some there are who will read a blamable carelessness in the author; but, in that carelessn... ...nd lands of the enemy; which enemy was these fair girls. The warrior stood committed to universal destruction. Neither sex nor age, neither the smiles... ...tive- ness which sometimes amounts to lunacy, and sometimes even tempts to suicide. It is a mistake, however, to suppose this morbid affection unknown... ...pathy with which the public always pursue the fate of any criminal who has committed a murder of this class, even though tainted (as generally it is) ... ...een Anne granting you a general redress, upon proof that a piracy had been committed, you, the party relieved, were bound to express your sense of thi... ...they have already exceeded the maximum of possibility, as laid down by all engineers during the progress of the Manchester and Liverpool line, may soo... ...n the point of a knife. “O, stop him, stop him! that man’s going to commit suicide.” This anec- dote argues silver forks as existing much more than a ...

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...raw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift of fourteen miles to the Coast-g... ...and weeks, in the performance of the forlornest offices that Man can render to his kind; of his having most tenderly and thoroughly devoted himself to... ...y, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was not a great price. The people were none the richer for the wreck, for it was the season o... ...ing and sucking a horizontal iron bar at the top of the locks. Inspira- tion suggested to me that Mr. Baker was the acting coroner of that neighbourho... ...enheim when he tore the breast of his (the warrior’s) little coat open, and shook all his ten fingers in his face, as if they were ten thousand. When ... ...of the old-fashioned houses in the High-street as they shake the town. I have not the honour of Pickford’s acquaintance, but I felt that he had done m... ...e resolution that he would exert his utmost self-devotion and use his utmost efforts, to get Carlavero pardoned. If the prisoner had been a brigand an... ... tempers with an old hulk, very green as to her cop- per, and generally dim and patched, I pull off my hat to her. Which salutation a callow and downy... ... are knocked away with The Uncommercial Traveller 305 handspikes; and the port-side bulwark, barren but a mo- ment ago, bursts into a crop of heads o...

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... with their servants and families: very likely they are right. But persons who think otherwise, and are of a lazy, or a benevolent, or a sarcastic moo... ...-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour. A black servant, who 5 Thackeray reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his b... ...he hearts of her companions, and the affectionate regards of her mistress, who has the honour to subscribe herself, Madam, Your most obliged humble se... ...on her friend’s part; and indeed in later days Miss Sharp would never have committed herself so far as to advance opinions, the untruth of which would... ...r feelings better than this poor little creature. Miss B. would never have committed herself as that imprudent Amelia had done; pledged her love irret... ... have served to condemn a whole regi- ment of young officers. If a man has committed wrong in life, I don’t know any moralist more anxious to point hi... ...in laughed, and said he would send his acquaintance (Major Wagstaff of the Engineers) a piece of cake when that event took place. At length Captain Os... ...ertheless gone through one or two affairs of the heart without any idea of suicide. “And there are others,” Dobbin continued, “as true and as kind-hea...

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.... An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six mi... ...tch of time which they rep resent. To say that De Soto, the first white man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which sta... ... joust and the tournament were the frequent pastime of titled fine gentlemen who could fight better than they could spell, while religion was the pass... ... river contained a demon ‘whose roar could be heard at a great distance, and who would engulf them in the abyss where he dwelt.’ I have seen a Mississ... ...I only fled. The awful crash was imminent—why didn’t that villain come! If I committed the crime of ringing a bell, I might get thrown overboard. But ... ... boy, you ought to tap the big bell three times before you land, so that the engineers can get ready.” I blushed under the sarcasm, and said I hadn’t ... ... watching things. The dangerous place was on slow, plodding boats, where the engineers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the “doctor” and s... ...avy stool, and I hit Brown a good honest blow which stretched him out. I had committed the crime of crimes—I had lifted my hand against a pilot on dut... ...hat he would do to a cub pilot who had been guilty of such a crime as mine, committed on a boat guard deep with costly freight and alive with passen ...

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...estial city. This is by no means the case, fortunately for those per- sons who take an interest in modern Gaul, and yet are still left vaguely unsatis... ...aids are trying to pacify you in advance. There was one waiter in especial who was the most ac- complished social being I have ever encountered; from ... ... of his vision, took in more of human life than any one, since Shakspeare, who has attempted to tell us stories about 8 A Little Tour in France it; a... ...f, had he not been a monk, he would have made a distin- guished officer of engineers. When he was not reading the “Figaro” he was conning his breviary... ...umn evening, the body of the young Marc- Antoine Calas, whose ill-inspired suicide was to be the first act of a tragedy so horrible. The fanaticism ar... ...e over to the door-keeper of the citadel. I should add that I was at first committed to the wife of this functionary, a stout peasant-woman, who took ...