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...al prospect; he had already a certain reputation as a poet; he made up his mind, therefore, to cast his lot with literature, and for a first venture c... ...y may be obtained from the scrutiny of Chapter VII, if the reader bears in mind that only a portion of the romances belonging to by far the largest gr... ...kind and the other, no doubt “Don Quixote” is a sad book; no doubt to some minds it is very sad that a man who had just uttered so beautiful a sentime... ...d, for example, by the illustrators. To be sure, the great majority of the artists who illus- trated “Don Quixote” knew nothing whatever of Spain. To ... ...or three obliging friends, I know they would give me them, and such as the productions of those that have the highest reputation in our Spain could no... ...risk his life for our freedom; and so saying he took out from his breast a metal crucifix, and with many tears swore by the God the image represented,...

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... thin silver bracelets upon his arms, and on his neck a collar of the same metal bearing the inscription, “W amba, the son of Witless, is the thrall o... ... quoth Gurth; “expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read riddles.” “Why, how call you those grunting brutes ... ...ening to the trampling of several horses which became then audible. “Never mind whom,” answered Gurth, who had now got his herd before him, and, with ... ...endants wore silver collars round their throats, and bracelets of the same metal upon their swarthy arms and legs, of which the former were naked from... ...not so bad a woodsman as to show the dog where the deer lies, if I have no mind he should chase him.” “Thou art right,” said Gurth; “it were ill that ... ...bracelets of gold upon his arms, and a broad collar of the same pre- cious metal around his neck. About his waist he wore a richly- studded belt, in w... ... strangers our bosom friends, our confidential servants; we borrowed their artists and their arts, and despised the honest simplicity and hardihood wi... ... some mode could be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions. Scottish manners, Scottish dialect, and Scottish characters of... ...herefore remind you, that when we first talked over together that class of productions, in one of which the private and family affairs of your learned...

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...intensely as he loathed Mrs. Jennett; and this is not a wholesome frame of mind for the young. Since she chose to regard him as a hopeless liar, but a... ... the wood- wreathed piles. ‘Throws high and to the right. You try, Maisie. Mind, it’s loaded all round.’ Maisie took the pistol and stepped delicately... ...I’m not supposing.’ ‘Let’s go home,’ said Maisie, weakly. But Dick was not minded to retreat. ‘I can’t say things,’ he pleaded, ‘and I’m awfully sorry... ...t anything you do,’ he answered. ‘I’ll be an artist, and I’ll do things.’ ‘Artists always want money, don’t they?’ ‘I’ve got a hundred and twenty poun... ... wish I had; but I forgathered with some men of sorts. They said they were artists, and I knew some of them could draw,—but they wouldn’t draw. They g... ..., and then to criticise and advise upon them as he realised that they were productions on which advice would not be wasted. Sunday after Sunday, and h... ...d, and yet rigid 110 The Light That Failed As though a shell of burnished metal frigid, Her feet thick-shod to tread all weakness down.’ There was no... ...at they call an artist by profes- 117 Rudyard Kipling sion. You know what artists do?’ ‘They draw the things in red and black ink on the pop-shop lab...

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...s, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, have been retained, and enoug...

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...which were of greater importance in Boswell’s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devo- tees, of open... ...ook 4 Boswell’s Life of Johnson to illustrate all the phases of Johnson’s mind and of his time which Boswell observed. Loyal Johnsonians may look upo... ... performance. When his work appeared Boswell himself said: ‘The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many conversations are preserved, I m... ...at part of his labour which consisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other contributors, like that employed in levelling ground, ... ...g to rouse the natural indolence of his constitution, we owe many valuable productions, which otherwise, perhaps, might never have appeared. He had sp... ...our people by the news-papers.’ Sir Adam mentioned the orators, poets, and artists of Greece. Johnson. ‘Sir, I am talking of the mass of the people. W... ...ith additions and corrections; nor did he, so far as is known, furnish any productions of his fertile pen to any of his numerous friends or dependants... ...ths; and the dark colour, from which he never deviated, was en- livened by metal buttons. His wigs, too, were much better; and during their travels in...

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........................................................... 132 Chapter XI Of Discerning, and other operations of the Mind ................................. ...h are a sort of hawking and hunting, wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the plea- sure. Every step the mind takes in its progress towards ... ...oposing was very obscure, another way of expressing it has made very clear and intelligible; though afterwards the mind found little difference in the... ...s, which was driven by the extreme force of screws, the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal, and finding no room for a ne... ...se a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigne... ... its colour or weight: and it is probable, if any one knew all the properties that are by divers men known of this metal, there would be an hun- dred ... ... cast, and do equally partake, has, I imagine, very much per- plexed the knowledge of natural things. The frequent productions of monsters, in all the... ...ertain that ev- erything that exists has its particular constitution. And yet we find that some of these monstrous productions have few or none of tho... ...he pattern of neither sort alone, but to have jumbled them both together. To which he that shall add the monstrous productions that are so frequently ...

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...oving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling...

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...tion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody’s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody’s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes... ...t block of the former prison, but as preserving the rooms that arose in my mind’s-eye when I became Little Dorrit’s biographer. The smallest boy I eve... ...appeared (though with- out any ill-nature) to be in that peculiar state of mind in which the last word spoken by anybody else is a new injury. ‘Over! ... ...seemed reserved for her. As there are degrees of hardness in the hard- est metal, and shades of colour in black itself, so, even in the asperity of Mr... ...d upon that. ‘W ell then,’ said Doyce, with a sigh, ‘as I know what such a metal will do at such a temperature, and such a body under such a pressure,... ...ce, often heavily beating like a bleeding heart of iron, with the clink of metal upon metal. The opinion of the Y ard was divided respecting the deriv... ...shrugging her shoulders, ‘a very respectable pursuit, I dare say, and some artists are, as artists, quite superior persons; still, we never yet in our... ...traitor in the camp of those dear, gifted, good, noble fellows, my brother artists, by not doing the hocus-pocus better. But I have not been brought u... ...a grain of reality, like the smallest portion of some other scarce natural productions, will flavour an enormous quantity of diluent. It came to pass,...

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...ty are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowl- edge—a common understanding—like-mindedness as the sociologists say. Such things cannot be passed physically... ...cess of leading or bringing up. When we have the outcome of the process in mind, we speak of educa- tion as shaping, forming, molding activity—that is... ...ilate the point of view of the old, or the older bring the young into like-mindedness with them- selves. The answer, in general formulation, is: By me... ...mbers have little or no direct contact with one another, like the guild of artists, the republic of letters, the members of the professional learned c... ... of their own choice. Social efficiency, even social service, are hard and metallic things when severed from an active acknowledgment of the diversity... ... enough to impress beginners, and often to take them captive. Meth- ods of artists in every branch depend upon thorough ac- quaintance with materials ... ...with paper, cardboard, wood, leather, cloth, yarns, clay and sand, and the metals, with and without tools. Processes employed are folding, cutting, pr... ... activities of gardening, weav- ing, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cook- ing, etc., which carry over these fundamental human con- cern... ...g a store of facts about linguistic matters, or the chronology of literary productions. Unless such activ- ity reacts to enlarge the imaginative visio...

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... tools. The different op- erations into which the making of a pin, or of a metal button, is subdivided, are all of them much more simple, and the dext... ... When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does not go to it, and for some time he rather trifles t... ...readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated am... ...nce is considerably increased by it. It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the differ- ent arts, in consequence of the division of ... ...rt of it. But they have nothing to offer in exchange, except the different productions of their respective trades, and the butcher is already provided... ... by irresistible reasons to give the preference, for this em- ployment, to metals above every other commodity. Metals can not only be kept with as lit... ...e was to give for it could seldom be divided without loss; and if he had a mind to buy more, he must, for the same reasons, have been obliged to buy d... ... two or three sheep. If, on the contrary, instead of sheep or oxen, he had metals to give in 27 Adam Smith exchange for it, he could easily proportio... ...value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it can en...

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... fortu- nately somewhat rubbed at the brim, showed clearly enough that his mind was yet untainted; and the little old man, who had wallowed from his y... ...s beset with such thoughts as these, which passed in fragments through his mind, like tattered flags flut- tering above the combat. If he set aside fo... ...out him. A death in broad daylight seemed degrading to him; he made up his mind to die at night so as to bequeath an unrec- ognizable corpse to a worl... ...of an immense suite of rooms, all decorated and gilt by eighteenth century artists. “Thousands of millions, you might say,” said the florid shopman; “... ...es of every people seemed gathered up in his passive face, just as all the productions of the globe had been heaped up in his dusty showrooms. He seem... ...Jesus Christ, mon- sieur?” the old man asked politely. There was something metallic in the clear, sharp ring of his voice. He set the lamp upon a brok... ...felt the emblematical skin curiously. It was almost as rigid as a sheet of metal. The old merchant set the lamp back again upon the col- umn, giving t... ... wax-lights in a golden chandelier, round about a table inlaid with gilded metal, a group of women, whose eyes shone like diamonds, suddenly met the s... ... a half Russian Parisienne, or a half Parisian Russian. All the ro- mantic productions that never get published are brought out at her house; she is t...

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...ar, whenever he has manly indignation, or warm-hearted patriotism, or high-minded scorn to express. If Lord Carlisle’s object, then, was to elevate Po... ...hin a new and more gorgeous nature, the fresh creation of his own inspired mind, Pope was not only inferior to Chaucer, Shakspeare, Spenser, and Milto... ...ibrary to his grotto, or from his grotto into his library, back again. His mind dwelt with greater pleasure on his own garden than on the garden of Ed... ...ll of genius; where there is less— as in artificial objects, or the poorer productions of nature— the mind of the poet must exert itself tenfold, and ... ...at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ’Tis well—but, artists! who can paint or write, To draw the naked is your true delight. Th... ...chase what he ne’er can taste? Not for himself he sees, or hears, or eats; Artists must choose his pictures, music, meats; He buys for Topham 45 draw... ...ing piles were raised, 200 No fretted roofs with polish’d metals blazed; No labour’d columns in long order placed, No Grecian stone t... ...ound the thimble-case. Jove, Jove himself, does on the scissors shine; The metal, and the workmanship, divine! SMILINDA. This snuff-box,—once the pled... ...eak the sparkling rill, Unpolish’d gems no ray on pride bestow, And latent metals innocently glow: Approach! Great Nature studiously behold! And eye t...

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... with a keen interest in gimp and artificial pro- trusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception o... ...held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather:... ...oney as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about ... ...ld do for them. Every man would not ring so well as that, if you tried his metal. Yo u would, Chettam; but not every man.” “I don’t know,” said Sir Ja... ...ill as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near th... ... It is too one-sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, e... ...ned by Brasenose and a less formidable pos- terity. These minor monumental productions were always ex- citing to Mr. Casaubon; digestion was made diff... ... Too large for you to stir? Let but a flute Play ‘neath the fine-mixed metal listen close Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill. ... ... was, for some minds, melted into the mass of mys- tery, as so much lively metal to be poured out in dialogue, and to take such fantastic shapes as he...

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...is ing out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that t... ...F THE UNITED STATES 10 not abandoned by their usual good sense, presence of mind, resolution, or integrity. Measures were pursued to concert a plan t... ...in private. It was not then, nor has been since, any objec tion to it in my mind that the Executive and Senate were not more permanent. Nor have I ev... ... spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED ... ...aculties a more rapid devel opment, and, draining or diverting the precious metals from British circulation and British vaults, have poured them into... ...on find great encourage ment in being made the favored carriers of the vast productions of the other portions of the United States, while the inhabit... ...he United States to afford complete protection to the vast and very valuable productions of our whole Western coun try, which find a market through t... ... subject is the character of the currency. The idea of making it exclusively metallic, however well intended, appears to me to be fraught with more fa... ... to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency. Or if there is a process by which the character of the...

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... means and ends, between causes and con ditions; also the division of the mind into the rational, concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of pleasur... ... and his ideas. That there is a truth higher than experience, of which the mind bears witness to herself, is a conviction which in our own generation ... ...ement of the plan; or from the imperfect reconcilement in the writer’s own mind of the struggling elements of thought which are now first brought toge... ...s specially confined to the art? Yes. Then, if there be any good which all artists have in com mon, that is to be attributed to something of which t... ...erable numbers. Then, again, within the city, how will they exchange their productions? To secure such an exchange was, as you will remember, one of o... ...p. Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within them, and they have there fore no need of the dross which... ...t to pollute the divine by any such earthly admix ture; for that commoner metal has been the source of many unholy deeds, but their own is undefiled... ...ith a view to production and construction, or for the preservation of such productions and constructions; and as to the mathematical sciences which, a... ...ulers will be ap pointed who have lost the guardian power of testing the metal of your different races, which, like Hesiod’s, are of gold and silver...

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...-Nicolas Sechard had the luck to dis- cover a noble Marseillais who had no mind to emigrate and lose his lands, nor yet to show himself openly and los... ... never lost their cunning even when disguised in drink. Sechard put you in mind of one of La Fontaine’s Franciscan friars, with the fringe of grizzled... ...ive in them. I haven’t book-learn- ing like you, but you keep this well in mind, the life of the Stanhope is the death of the type. Those three presse... ...t is what I call a typefounder! M. Vaflard is an honest man, who uses hard metal; and, to my way of thinking, the best typefounder is the one you go t... ...r their Cicero! These nail-heads of yours will only fetch the price of old metal—fivepence a pound.” “You call M. Gille’s italics, running-hand and ro... ...- pia; he disfigured the walls of his friends’ rooms with a swarm of crude productions, and spoiled all the albums in the de- partment. M. Alexandre d... ...ugle, which proved too great a strain upon the average intellect. None but artists or those endowed with the artistic tempera- ment can understand and...

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.... He is of those that die hard. Be as fastidious as you will; make up your mind to recognize only those who are, without any manner of doubt, beyond a... ...the encyclopaedic movement of the Renaissance was attracting all the lofty minds. Rabelais threw himself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity ... .... A later work than any of his, the Novelle of Bandello, should be kept in mind—for the writer was Bishop of Agen, and his work was translated into Fr... ...seraph. Upon the middle finger of the same hand he had a ring made of four metals together, of the strangest fashion that ever was seen; so that the s... ... or any metaphor drawn from it. They went like- wise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance; how the lapidaries did work; as a... ...nury of pecune in our marsupies, and that they be exhausted of ferruginean metal, for the shot we dimit our codices and oppignerat our vestments, whil... ... the elements! O how delectable then unto nature will be our own works and productions! Whilst Ceres appeareth laden with corn, Bacchus with wines, Fl... ...issions, delegations, instructions, informations, inquests, preparatories, productions, evidences, proofs, alle- gations, depositions, cross speeches,... ...of the quill, it is ten to one thou art too much in love with thy own dear productions to admire those of one of thy trade. However, I know three or f...

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...roups of producers. The best practicable system, to my 7 Bertrand Russell mind, is that of Guild Socialism, which concedes what is valid both in the ... ... to be found within the limits of their creed. The result of this state of mind is that, to a casual and un- imaginative attention, the men who have s... ...ill. This class includes, of course, enemies in war, and criminals; in the minds of those who consider the preservation of the existing order essentia... ...t matter. And among those who would be classed as idlers might be included artists, writers of books, men devoted to abstract intellectual pursuits—in... ...rves the purpose of affording profitable contracts to the shipbuilding and metal industries: its real meaning and use is to forward the aggressive pol... ... be to judge the work of young men, and to issue li- censes to those whose productions find favor in their eyes. A licensed artist shall be considered... ...neous and free if it is to have any value. It is this nightmare that makes artists, and lovers of beauty generally, so often suspicious of Socialism. ... ...s strong and genuine, but would tend to exclude the dilettante. Many young artists at present en- dure voluntarily much greater poverty than need be e...

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...dead organic matter — mocking, also, in shape, some of the lower vegetable productions. We found on St. Paul’s only two kinds of birds — the booby and... ... really similar circum- stances. The origin, however, of these coatings of metallic oxides, which seem as if cemented to the rocks, is not understood;... ...leared, yet almost every acre was capable of yielding all the various rich productions of a tropi- cal land. Considering the enormous area of Brazil, ... ...feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind. April 19th.—Leaving Socego, during the two first days, we retraced ou... ... how to express his feelings. The general effect frequently recalled to my mind the gayest scenery of the Opera-house or the great theatres. I never r... ...l climates. It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist’s mind, to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete cata- logue. T... ...abits the Carranchas. They live on the flesh of dead animals and on marine productions; and on the Ramirez rocks their whole sustenance must depend on... ...some points are of a black colour, and from their glossy surface possess a metallic lustre. The thickness of the wall of the tube varies from a thirti... ... on each side of the line where the bell-wires had run, was blackened. The metal had been fused, and although the room was about fif- teen feet high, ...

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...lifford Pyncheon. In all probability Hawthorne connected with this, in his mind, the murder of Mr. White, a wealthy gentleman of Salem, killed by a ma... ... remi- niscences of all three may have blended with the ideal image in the mind of Hawthorne. He, it will be seen, remarks in the Preface, alluding to... ...d or destroyed. Here, as elsewhere, he exercised the liberty of a creative mind to heighten the probability of his pictures without confining himself ... ...uire a look which an artist (if he have anything like the compla- cency of artists nowadays) would never dream of presenting to a patron as his own ch... ...er one’s eyes, to come into it. But would you like to see a specimen of my productions?” “A daguerreotype likeness, do you mean?” asked Phoebe with le... ...d grace of which had almost transcended the skill of the most exquisite of artists. It could the more adequately be known that the soul of the man mus... ...ithin a long day’s flight, or as if the soil of Hepzibah’s garden gave its productions just the very quality which these laborious little wizards want... ...irable powers,—so little harmed, too, by the many tests that had tried his metal,—it was pleasant to see him in his kindly intercourse with Phoebe. He... ...mptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. Could the departed, whoever he may be, return in a week after his de...

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...hat each may obtain their mutual safety; for a being who is endowed with a mind capable of reflection and forethought is by nature the superior and go... ...ural difference between a female and a slave: for na- ture is not like the artists who make the Delphic swords for the use of the poor, but for every ... ...rnment; for the soul governs the body as the master governs his slave; the mind governs the appetite with a po- litical or a kingly power, which shows... ...that the body should be governed by the soul, and the pathetic part by the mind, and that part which is possessed of reason; but to have no ruling pow... ...r no fruit, are yet useful, such as selling of timber and the whole art of metal- lurgy, which includes many different species, for there are various ... ...ion from the moment of their birth: but those who are to be husbandmen and artists, brass and iron; be- sides, though he deprives the military of happ... ...Painting also seems useful to enable a man to judge more accurately of the productions of the finer arts: nor is it like the gymnastic exercises, whic... ...inent spectator is accustomed to make them change their music; so that the artists who attend to him regulate their bodies according to his motions. C... ...le extent, 39; his com- parison of the human species to different kinds of metals, 40; his account of the different orders of men in a city im- perfec...

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...culiar to people who have lived long in confinement, and which puts one in mind of shoots of potatoes that spring up in a cellar. Her small broad hand... ...face to the grating from the other side, and said, in a hoarse voice: “Now mind, and when they begin questioning you, just repeat over the same thing,... ...t quite so common as Katka. She used to sew, tidy up the rooms, polish the metal cases of the icons and do other light work, and sometimes she sat and... ...rette, was going to take another out of the silver case; but, changing his mind, he reso- lutely raised his solid frame, and, putting down his smooth,... ... he just devours me with his eyes,” she said, shak- ing her head. “Regular artists.” “Yes, that’s so,” said the watchman’s wife, and ran on in her mus... ...of his being so used to it, he still felt pleasure in listening to his own productions. “This sentence is the direct result of the most glaring judici... ...ould you come on Saturday? You will meet men of science, literary men, and artists at my house, and then we might discuss these general questions,” sa... ...at but in a gold-trimmed attire, which made him look like a bird, and with metal plates on his breast. This funny costume seemed to make the old man h... ... Nekhludoff opened the door and entered a small room dimly lit by a little metal lamp, which was standing low down on the shelf bedstead. It was cold ...