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...ge chair. But collect individual instances; think of armchairs and reading-chairs and dining-room chairs, and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into be... ...and dining-room chairs, and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into benches, chairs that cross the boundary and become settees, dentist’s chairs, throne... ...aste for engineering. I have no doubt that in devotion to a virile, almost national Deity and to the service of His Em- pire of stern Law and Order, e... ...selves together in leagues and loyalties, in cults and organi- zations and nationalities, and it is often hard to say whether the bond is one of love ... ...ractising medical men, legislators, must be Samurai, and all the executive committees and so forth, that play so large a part in our affairs, are draw... ...les of religion to which he cannot subscribe and creeds he will not say. A national state church has no right to be thus limited and exclusive. Rather... ...mon Man has worked and is working infinite mischief. In politics the crude democratic faith leads directly to the submission of every question, howeve... ...ues may be, to a popular vote. The community is regarded as a consultative committee of profoundly wise, alert and well- informed Common Men. Since th... ... These two ideas, firstly the pupil-teacher parental idea and secondly the democratic idea (that is to say the idea of an equal ultimate significance)...

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...ce Carl with an astonishing faithfulness. Is it too much to hope that some democratic “Bert” may not ultimately get even with his Highness? Our author... ...eau en fait, a son propre jeu. Je desire de vendre ceci a votre government national. Voulez vous me directer la? “Bit rummy, I expect, from the point ... ...sible to mankind. The world of Bert Smallways did nothing of the sort. Its national governments, its national interests, would not hear of anything so... ..., being resolved, as he said, to give to Germany land and sea and sky. The national passion for aggression found in him its supreme exponent, and achi... ...mself but one single moment of the posturing that was so universal in that democratic time. “We have chosen our epitaphs,” he said to a reporter, “and... ...- tion that had arisen between the methods of warfare and the necessity of democratic support, is the effectual secrecy of the Washington authorities ... ...Councils of Defence, and, in the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary committees taking charge of the re-arming of the population, of the making ... ... 3 3 3 3 So what historians have come to call the Phase of the Emer- gency Committees sprang from the opening phase and from the phase of social colla... ...c associa- tions, brotherhoods of order, city mayors, princes, provisional committees, trying to establish an order below and to keep the sky above. T...

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...sliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of the national spectacle. When led away by a grave and protecting police- man, it... ... enter a quite small room furnished with a heavy writ- ing-table and a few chairs. The servant shut the door, and Mr V erloc remained alone. He did no... ... the end of diplomacy, and pretty nearly the end of the world, in a horrid democratic upheaval. His pro- phetic and doleful despatches had been for ye... ...s- sions of humanity is the answer. Of course, there is art. A bomb in the National Gallery would make some noise. But it would not be serious enough.... ...f the Middle Classes”; special delegate of the more or less mysterious Red Committee, to- gether with Karl Y undt and Michaelis for the work of litera... ...n his round head. His round and obese body seemed to float low between the chairs under the sharp 38 The Secret Agent elbow of Karl Y undt. The old t... ...mumbled the other contemptuously, “the del- egate of the International Red Committee, has been a postur- ing shadow all his life. There are three of y... ...hing half so precise to define the nature of your activ- ity with all your committees and delegations. It is I who am the true propagandist.” “We won’... ...you can’t imagine how irri- tated he is by the attacks on his Bill for the Nationalisation of Fisheries. They call it the beginning of social revoluti...

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...Frederick Douglass passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul every thing t... ...oclivity or bent, to active toil and visible progress, are in the strictly national direction, delighting to outstrip “all creation.” Nor have the nat... ...ves.” Thus, I was in a pretty fair way to be denounced as an impostor. The committee of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society knew all the facts in m... ... increase their stock of knowledge, to seek pleasure, to have their rough, democratic manners softened by contact with English aristocratic re- fineme... ...duct it was intended to sustain; for, besides awakening some- thing like a national interest in me, and securing me an au- dience, it brought out coun... ...d I have crossed three thousand miles of the peril- ous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the ... ...ing with the lord mayor of Dublin. What a pity there was not some American democratic Christian at the door of his splendid mansion, to bark out at my... ...ted by his state to perform, are many that can only be done efficiently on committees; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve... ...es; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve on the committees of this body, the sla- very party took the responsibility of rob...

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...ghts, as the flames leapt and wavered. “Dear things!” she exclaimed. “Dear chairs and tables! How like old friends they are—faithful, silent friends. ... ...Before long, therefore, the groups on the mattresses and the groups on the chairs were all in communication with each other, and Mary Datchet, who 44... ...her’s daughter could hardly be anything else. I think I’ve been on as many committees as most people. Waifs and Strays, Rescue Work, Church Work, C. O... ...e told you,” Katharine added. “But I met Cyril only a fortnight ago at the National Gallery!” Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed. “I don’t believe a word of it,” ... ...ary remarked, “I’ve a great deal to say to you, but I must go on—we have a committee.” She rose, but hesitated, looking down upon him rather gravely. ... ...orm of expostulating with her about her work. “What d’you want to sit on a committee for?” he asked. “It’s waste of your time, Mary.” “I agree with yo... ...ed of a very few pages, entitled, in a forcible hand, “Some Aspects of the Democratic State.” The aspects dwindled out in a cries- cross of blotted li... ...d her green-shaded lamp to another table, and covered “Some Aspects of the Democratic State” with a sheet of blotting-paper. “Why can’t they leave me ... ...eemed to her the most lavish and hospitable of hosts. After vis- iting the National Gallery, or Hertford House, or hearing Brahms or Beethoven at the ...

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...nger years one of the biggest failures that history commemorates, an immense national fiasco, and it had implanted in his mind a deep aversion to the i... ...so anxious to meet Mrs. Farrinder, she gave the young man a delicate, dirty, democratic little hand, looking at him kindly, as she could not help doin... ...s o’clock twenty other persons had arrived, and had placed themselves in the chairs that were ranged along the sides of the long, bald room, in which ... ...ude of an enormous street car. The apartment contained little else but these chairs, many of which had a borrowed aspect, an implication of bare bedro... ...ther stultification of the suffrage, the prospect of conscript mothers in the national Senate. It made no difference; she didn’t mean it, she didn’t kn... ...moment, what he was doing; he only had a general sense that such places were national nerve centres, and that the more one looked in, the more one was... ...d in his measure, and on behalf of a vigilant public opinion, the pride of a democratic State, to the great end of preventing the American citizen fro... ...le associations. The people he had ever seen who were most in earnest were a committee of gentlemen who had investigated the phenomena of the ‘materia... ...oof, and she received her colleagues—she belonged to twenty associations and committees—only at preappointed hours, which she expected them to observe...

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...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ...al though complex passion for Making, making widely and greatly, cit- ies, national order, civilisation, whose interplay with all those other factors ... ... under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarchists, Justice and Social Democratic Federation (as it was then) presented so- cialism to our minds. ... ...ote for Remington,” and Willersley no doubt saw himself chair- man of this committee and that, saying a few slightly ironi- cal words after the declar... ... as much as anything in life could have shocked him. Socialism as a simple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Indivi... ...ollection of people worked for me; two solicitors, a cheap photographer, a democratic parson, a number of dis- senting ministers, the Mayor of Kingham... ...urprising that Isabel should ask for a lift in our car as far as the Lurky Committee Room, and that she should offer me quite sound advice en route up... ...nextinguishable flame; now she flew by on her bicycle, now she dashed into committee rooms, now she appeared on doorsteps in animated conversation wit...

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... undeserving friends. There was a long frameful of his work in the Clayton National School, for example, inscribed in old English lettering, “Italian ... ...hat evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. Parload was there, among the pri... ...o the cottage, I fell talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at... ...ctures, and generally in that time of world-de- mentia pretended to be the national mind, were busy in both countries, with a sort of infernal unanimi... ...ree dirty plates, with used knives and forks upon them, on one of the hall chairs. I went into the hall, looked into either room, and hesi- tated. The... ...inally altogether replaced, the thin and vague aspirations of the original democratic ideals. They presented not only the per- sonalities who led our ... ...re absurd than the con- trolling ganglion, autocratic council, president’s committee, or what not, of each of its blind rivals… . S S S S Section 2 ec... ...began to tell me of many things that were being arranged, the Midland land committees had got to work with remarkable celerity and directness of purpo... ...and dirt-sodden carpets, their ill-designed and yet pretentious tables and chairs, sideboards and chests of drawers, the old dirt-saturated books, the...

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...ds which said noth- ing but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac ti... ... but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac tion, legality, movement,... ...s of the government are in question. He admits, with his chosen paper, the democratic element, but refuses in conversation all compact with the republ... ...lican spirit to him means 1793, rioting, the Terror, and agrarian law. The democratic element is the de- velopment of the lesser bourgeoisie, the reig... ...ter a service of thirty-six years. In 1832 he had led his battalion of the National Guard to the attack on Saint-Merri, but his neighbors had previous... ...there was no such thing as deliberation,—a saying of Louis-Philippe to the National Guard of Metz. Nevertheless, the bourgeois virtues of Phellion, an... ...yor of the 11th arrondissement, had been called to the chairmanship of the committee for reading plays, with the power to join unto him- self as assis... ...cience. The thought of boxes and tickets of which the future member of the committee could dispose in favor of his own kin had excited in the househol... ...e of the most marked traits of the bourgeois character. The session of the committee had been extremely stormy. On the subject of a tragedy entitled, ...

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... it freshly for a trifle; and the hoar-headed nineteenth-century billow of democratic ire craved the word to be set swelling. ‘Am I the fellow you mea... ...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... .... An unstable London’s no world’s market-place.’ ‘No, no; it’s a niggardly national purse, not the journals,’ Mr. Radnor said. ‘The journals are tradi... ... I shall take my name off my Club up West.’ ‘More like monasteries, with a Committee for Abbot, and Whist for the services,’ Fenellan said. ‘Or tabern... ... ‘Court! my girl? But the arduous duties are over for the season. We are a democratic people retaining the seductions of monarchy, as a friend says; a... ...iors; and, over this country at least, require the refresh- ment, that the democratic sprouts in them may be recon- ciled with aristocracy. Do not lis... ...t and hear, that it called itself a man’s wife! She looked burnt out. T wo chairs had been sent to front the sofa. Execution there! Victor thought, an... ...en minutes,’ Mr. Buttermore said low, after obligingly placing them on the chairs. He went. They were alone with Mrs. Burman. No voice came. They were...

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...se can ever attain. Mrs Proudie has not been able to sit at the boards and committees to which her husband has been called by the state; nor, as he of... ... the bishop was at present much called upon by the ‘University Improvement Committee’: indeed, the Committee could not well proceed without him, as th... ... always pleasant as well as great. He took delight in elections, served on committees, opposed tooth and nail all projects of uni- versity reform, and... ...arn people that they were not to sit long. In his eyes there was something democratic and parvenu in a round table. He imagined that dissenters and ca... ...e known to other men in power. There was a cer- tain chief-commissioner of national schools who at the present moment was presumed to stand especially... ...Mrs Lookaloft soon found herself on a sofa, and the Miss Lookalofts on two chairs, while Mr Augustus stood near the door; and here they remained till ... ...your consti-stit-stit; what do you call the people that carry you about in chairs and pelt you with eggs and apples when they make you a member of par... ...Slope, and walking round to the fire, he threw himself into one of the arm-chairs that graced the hearth-rug. ‘Mr Slope,’ said the bishop, ‘it has bec...

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...on- veying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard. Among the Paris crowd, who are supposed to be so clever, th... ...ve at her command. During all these preparations—odd, to say the least—the National Guardsman studied the furniture of the room in which he found hims... ...use her.” Tears of shame hanging to Madame Hulot’s long lashes checked the National Guardsman. He stopped short, and forgot his attitude. “To proceed,... ...k, as the parvenu perfumer had been, with the penury stamped on the shabby chairs, the dirty hangings, and the ripped silk. The furniture we live with... ...erything was in a litter, with old socks hanging over the horsehair-seated chairs, the pattern outlined in dust, was that of a man to whom home is a m... ...ere there was nothing whatever but a wretched table, the camp-bed, and two chairs. On the table lay a document, which she read: “I am Count Wenceslas ... ...or work began to be felt, when the Prince de Wissembourg, president of the committee of subscribers, asked to see the statue, Wenceslas spoke the inev... ...r Marshal. Lisbeth, quite as Republican as he could be, pleased him by her democratic opinions, and she flattered him with amazing dexterity; for the ...

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...ing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper- weight had be... ...le and mischievous. The suffragettes became extraordinarily malignant; the democratic movement went rotten with sabotage and with a cant of being “reb... ...ormous background of the world war, by his ineffective realization of vast national needs, by his passionate desire, for himself and his church, not t... ...ho had not expected so prompt an appearance of the men, had ar- ranged her chairs in a semicircle for a little womanly gossip, and before she could in... ...t topic they had passed to the discussion of the war, and then of wars and national aggressions and the perpetual thrusting and quar- relling of manki... ...indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Burthen”; the clear ... ... had been suggested by quite a different sort of person, by a man, or by a committee, in the end I think I should have come to the same conclusion. Le...

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... life, with a vague self-mistrust. An observer with anything of an eye for national types would have had no difficulty in determining the local ori- g... ...orous relish of the almost ideal completeness with which he filled out the national mould. The gentleman on the divan was a power- ful specimen of an ... ...and sinewy neck which are frequent in the American type; but the traces of national origin are a matter of expres- sion even more than of feature, and... ...your hotel.” “Oh yes, I should like to learn French,” Newman went on, with democratic confidingness. “Hang me if I should ever have thought of it! I t... ... with people, the fountains were spouting, a band was playing, clusters of chairs were gathered be- neath all the lime-trees, and buxom, white-capped ... ... good-nature, and a part of his 28 The American instinctive and genuinely democratic assumption of every one’s right to lead an easy life. If a shagg... ...t, but it amused him, and the old man’s decent forlornness appealed to his democratic instincts. The as- sumption of a fatality in misery always irrit... ...like it, after all.” Newman declared that he knew nothing about tables and chairs, and that he would accept, in the way of a lodging, with his eyes sh... ...th; my sister-in-law and I were on a bench against the wall. It was like a committee at the Corps Legislatif. We were called up, one after the other, ...

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...s, when made vocal to the meditative heart by the truths and services of a national church, God holds with children “communion undisturbed.” Solitude,... ... beturbaned. It was no part of his intention that we should sit lolling on chairs like ladies and gentleman that had paid opera prices for private box... ...t often the most aristocratic, yet also, for many noble purposes, the most democratic of lands. 2 Five years ago, during the carnival of universal an... ...racter of the British policy as to all external demonstrations of pomp and national pretension, and its strong opposition to that of France under corr... ...s, why, we may ask, were not the many and gorgeous jewels, achieved by the national wisdom and power in later times, adopted into the recomposed tiara... ...succeeded in arresting a large body of the leading conspirators. The whole committee of Leinster, amounting to thirteen members, was captured on 211 ... ... an unfortunate reserve of manner. Whilst, on the contrary, Mr. Fox, ultra democratic in his principles and frank in his address, was repulsively aris...

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...egan, “is that where you usually sit?” She looked about at the heterogeneous chairs and tables. “Not when I have visitors,” said Isabel, getting up to... ...She was very critical herself— it was incidental to her age, her sex and her nationality; but she was very sentimental as well, and there was somethin... ...g woman dressed, on the lines of the prevailing fashion, in the folds of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her devel... ...y quite realize. You and I, you know, we know what it is to have lived under democratic institutions: I always thought them very comfortable, but I wa... ...ckpole returned. “I’m sure you understand everything and that differences of nationality are no barrier to you,” Ralph went on. Miss Stackpole gazed a... ...henever he moved he roused a melancholy echo. He sat down in one of the arm chairs; the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small ca... ...treet, taking leave first of Ralph Touchett and Isabel, who, seated on garden chairs in another part of the enclosure, were occupied— if the term may b... ...and while he spoke it became complete. He might have been addressing a small committee— making all quietly and clearly a statement of importance; aide... ... paper of notes concealed in his hat, which he had not again put on. And the committee, assuredly, would have felt the point proved. “I’ve often thoug...

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...ly stole a look. The loggia floor was clothed with rugs and furnished with chairs and sofas; and the un completed surprise was there: in the form of... ... Christmas presents for servants and friends! They are everywhere; tables, chairs, sofas, the floor—everything is occupied, and over oc cupied. It is... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...and un expected way: Republican, a sinner mentioned in the Bible. Also in Democratic newspapers now and then. Here are two where the mistake has resu... ...g child, nor the unintelligent teacher—or rather the unintelligent Boards, Committees, and Trustees—are the proper target for it. All through this lit... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ... a His tory of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensive and valuable a...

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...r pleasure, and must leave him alone. For humanity’s sake don’t try to be “democratic.” EXCORIATED—All inflators chafe sooner or later. You must go on... .... It seemed to me a pretty sight, but Penfentenyou said it represented Our National Attitude. Lord Lundie’s summer resting-place we learned was a farm... ...for in the House of Commons by a Mr. Lethabie Groombride, who had formed a Committee, and was disseminating lit- erature: The Province groaned; the In... ...“Look what Farag has brought me!” It was a pamphlet, signed on behalf of a Committee by a lady secretary, but composed by some person who thor- oughly... ...oom— mine for the night again—and sat, the women on the bed, and we men on chairs, drinking in blessed draughts of peace and comfort and cleanliness o...

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...rtillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? T... ...was unknown to Mr. Beauchamp. He would by no means allow the burden of our national disgrace to be cast on one part of the nation. We were in- sulted,... ...ls are to kings. The cry for war was absolutely unanimous, and a supremely national cry, Everard Romfrey said, for it excluded the cot- ton-spinners. ... ...roportion to their utility? That was the question for Nevil Beauchamp. The democratic spirit inhabiting him, tempo- rarily or permanently, asked wheth... ...er eye. It was a page of verse. And, oh! could it have issued from a T ory Committee? ‘The Liberals are as bad, and worse,’ her father said. She becam... ...George Meredith in the neighbourhood of Bevisham by a recent report of his committee, describing the young Radical’s canvass as redoubt- able. Cougham... ...r. Oggler, a tradesman of the town, on the 152 Beauchamp’s Career Liberal committee, dressed in a pea-jacket and proudly nau- tical, they applied for... ...right of cutting furze for firing. Consider that! Beauchamp’s eyes flashed democratic in reciting this injury to the objects of his warm solicitude—th... ...” But you are right, colonel; we have had sufficient. I shall be getting a democratic orator’s twang, or a crazy parson’s, if I go on much further. He...

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...an, “is that where you usually sit?” She looked about at the heterogeneous chairs and tables. “Not when I have visitors,” said Isabel, getting up to r... ... was very critical herself—it was inciden- tal to her age, her sex and her nationality; but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something ... ...woman dressed, on the lines of the prevailing fashion, in the folds of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her develop... ...quite realise. You and I, you know, we know what it is to have lived under democratic institutions: I always thought them very comfortable, but I was ... ...m sure you understand everything and that differ- 99 Henry James ences of nationality are no barrier to you,” Ralph went on. Miss Stackpole gazed at ... ...et, taking leave first of Ralph Touchett and Isabel, who, seated on garden chairs in another part of the enclosure, were oc- cupied—if the term may be... ...lph asked. “No, you’ll dine at your club.” They had wandered back to their chairs in the centre of the square again, and Ralph had lighted his cigaret... ...aper of notes concealed in his hat, which he had not again put on. And the committee, assuredly, would have felt the point proved. “I’ve often thought...