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...ce of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,” said a dark-eyed young woman, whom... ...arried into minute detail.” And the sculptor directed the attention of the party to the ears of the beautiful statue which they were contemplating. Bu... ...ent and assistance.” “Then you are deficient of a sense,” said Miriam. The party now strayed onward from hall to hall of that rich gallery, pausing he... ... so resonant; and Hilda with her slender scream, piercing farther than the united uproar of the rest—began to shriek, halloo, and bel- low, with the u... ...age of us in this respect. The slender thread of silk or cotton keeps them united with the small, familiar, gentle interests of life, the continually ... ... of the avenues, and crowned them with busts of that multitude of worthies—statesmen, heroes, artists, men of letters and of song—whom the whole world... ...me a commission to carve the one-and-thirty (is that the num- ber?) sister States, each pouring a silver stream from a sepa- rate can into one vast ba... ...ire,” remarked an English artist, “you could set those same one-and-thirty States to cleansing the national flag of any stains that it may have incurr... ...emperor is enough to create an eva- nescent sentiment of loyalty even in a democratic bosom, so august does he look, so fit to rule, so worthy of man’...

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... we have perished at the stake or faced the levelled muskets of the firing party—“No, do not bandage my eyes”—because we would not betray the secret p... ... before she was twenty to marry Benham, whom she had idealized at a tennis party. He had talked of his work and she had seen it in a flash, the nobles... ...ssions that all ultimately re- solved themselves into an antagonism of the democratic and the aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the... ...e aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the exponent of the democratic idea. The next day he came down early, his talk with Benham stil... ... returned to London and the inmost aspect of his fellow-creatures, but the party of three was supplemented by a vague young lady from the village and ... ... their inception. They were all more or less political careers. Whatever a democratic man may be, Prothero and he had decided that an aristocratic man... ...If you are going for the handsome thing in life then the world has to be a united world, Benham, as a matter of course. That was settled when the rail... ...ries and creeds, and so on, that stand in the way. Just as Italy had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, j... ...e rotten little dukes and princes and republics, just as Germany had to be united in spite of its scores of kingdoms and duchies and liberties, so now...

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...m now in the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreea... ...n the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as ... ...g it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as a need- less proclamation of ind... ... make the locking of his door coincident with the dismissal of his evening party. Upon these and other grounds of alarm (particularly this, that Mrs. ... ...f sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may ev... ...illiams returned from his dreadful labors, he found the English and Scotch party asleep, but the Ger- mans awake: one of them was sitting up with a li... ... put it out directly; we shall all be burned in our beds.’ Had the British party in the room been awake, Mr. Williams would have roused a mutinous pro... ...ot bearing the technical name of theatre) were included. All these must be united to compose a build- ing such as that which received the vast audienc... ...l more extravagantly exalted them. On this account it is just to look upon democratic or popu- lar politics as identical in the 17th century with patr...

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...nent ministers. The Puritans formed a great political as well as religious party in England, and did not at first separate themselves from the church ... ...habitants must all have felt like brethren. They were fitted to become one united People at a future period. Perhaps their feelings of brother hood w... ... good old gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his ... ...ld gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his chair u... ...es, for mutual defence against their enemies. They called them selves the United Colonies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of... ...ies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of the United States?” inquired Laurence. “No,” replied Grandfather; “the different colon... ...ay. Few men in this position would have ingenuity enough to satisfy either party. Colonel Shute, though a good natured, well meaning man, succeeded so... ...which pointed directly at one of the doors of the above edi fice. A large party of soldiers were always stationed in the court of guard. The Custom H... ...as religious as they, as stern and in flexible, and as deeply imbued with democratic principles. He, better than any one else, may be taken as a repr...

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..., and their aunt—Aunt Wess’—were still waiting for the rest of the theatre-party to appear. A great, slow-moving press of men and women in evening dre... ...and their aunt to share their box with them. It had been arranged that the party should assemble in the Auditorium vesti- bule at a quarter of eight; ... ...you know.” “Well I think it is he,” continued Page. “He was to be with our party to-night. I heard Mrs. Cressler say she would ask him. That’s Mr. Jad... ...was eighteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was... ...hteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was an imp... ...mind telling you this much—that he’s not the least important member of the United States Lega- tion. Well, now and then he is supposed to send me what... ...ned-glass world of seclusion and exclusion. No, sir, that won’t do for the United States and the men who are making them the greatest nation of the wo... ...e was not a trace of the snob about Charles Cressler. No one could be more democratic. But at the same time, as this interview proceeded, he could not... ...er,” addicted to actresses, suppers, and to bath- ing in champagne. In the Democratic press he was assailed as little better than a thief, vituperated...

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...rom the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famou... ...st and sacrifice, which he called Panathenaea, or the sacrifice of all the united Athenians. He instituted also another sacrifice, called Metoecia, or... ...the town. And here, they say, Alycus, the son of Sciron, was slain, of the party of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), from whom a place in Megara, whe... ...our brothers, and countrymen, that time, having now by the strictest bonds united us to those we once mortally hated, has made it impossible for us no... ...nd confederacy with him. Fidenae he took, a neighboring city to Rome, by a party of horse, as some say, whom he sent before with commands to cut down ... ...y break of day, to the end that he might strike a terror into the opposite party. Hermippus hath set 73 Plutarch’s Lives down the names of twenty of ... ...to make great innovations. The frame of govern- ment which Numa formed was democratic and popular to 128 V olume One the last extreme, goldsmiths and... ...t with the many and poor, contrary to his natural bent, which was far from democratical; but, most likely, fearing he might fall under suspicion of ai... ... privately at a house in Plataea, and conspired for the dissolution of the democratic government; and, if the plot should not succeed, to ruin the cau...

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... His gestures had the quality of physical threats. “I do not know who your party may be. I am in the dark, and you keep me in the dark. But I know thi... ...rescue?” whispered Graham. “Escape?” “Yes, Sire. If you will.” “You are my party—the party of the Sleeper?” “Yes, Sire.” “What am I to do?” said Graha... ...g, sleeping till he died. He knew that quite well! And plump! a man in the United States, who had lost two sons in a boat accident, fol- lowed that up... ...ping till he died. He knew that quite well! And plump! a man in the United States, who had lost two sons in a boat accident, fol- lowed that up with a... ...that. The Council spread by title deed, mort- gage, share, every political party, every newspaper, they bought. If you listen to the old stories you w... ... complicated system of arches, bridges, passages and galleries divided and united every part of the great space. He came out through one of the now fa... ...rol them?” The Surveyor-General did, “entirely.” Now, Graham, in his later democratic days, had taken a keen interest in these and his questioning qui... ...has been full of surprises to me. In the old days we dreamt of a wonderful democratic life, of a time when all men would be equal and happy.” Ostrog l... ...hopes been vain?” “What do you mean?” said Ostrog. “Hopes?” “I came from a democratic age. And I find an aristocratic tyranny!” “Well,—but you are the...

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...lldog. Their remarks were possibly not in tended to reach the ears of the party, but certainly were not so cautiously whispered but they occasionally... ...gth (in a society split up into many sects) of being able to rely upon the party sympathies of any one of them. The mob hated him with the blind senti... ...me distinguished, and, though so young, a leader, locally at least, in the party which he had adopted. He had been, for a biennial term, a member of C... ...end. A large letter was delivered to him, bearing the official seal of the United States, and the indorsement of the State De partment; a very import... ...nces, now that he was in peace; or to think of the turmoil of mod ern and democratic politics, here in this quietude of gone by ages and customs. The... ...hat if he were restrained from taking it, it would probably only be by the democratic pride that made him feel that he could not, retaining all his ma... .... He drank the health of the Honorable Edward Redclyffe, Ambassador of the United States to the Court of Hohen Linden. Our English cousins received th... ... among the rest that bore on the envelope the name of the President of the United States. The good W arden was impressed with great respect for so dis... ...d was an American, and have been trying to adapt his manners to those of a democratic freedom. “Mr. Redclyffe, I believe,” said he. Redclyffe bowed, w...

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... knowledge. Imagine a large clear jelly, in which at all angles and in all states of simplicity or contor- tion his ideas are imbedded. They are all v... ...wn for example from matter to atoms and centres of force and up to men and states and countries—if you will imagine the ideas lying in that manner—you... ...ollows:— “I can see no reason why even to-day a number of persons avowedly united in the same ‘Belief’ and recognizing each other as the self-constitu... ...re the regis- trar?’ and the answer would be, ‘No, we are Samurai and were united before the Elders.’ In Catholic countries those who use only the civ... ...l migration small, there have been far fewer such developments than in the United States of America. In England toleration has become an institution, ... ...mon Man has worked and is working infinite mischief. In politics the crude democratic faith leads directly to the submission of every question, howeve... ...d devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a whole and complerely, as it conduces m... ... 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)... ...ty, of in- sanity, habitual vice or the prolonged imprisonment of ei- ther party. And this being so I find it impossible to condemn on any ground, exc...

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...gue about the Trinity. Simply because a tired bishop had fallen into their party. It was not fair to him to pretend that the atmosphere was a liberal ... ... bishop and every one the fact that he was by far the best-read man of the party. “Disraeli called 22 The Soul of a Bishop them the T wo Nations, but... ... “sheep” and his “little children.” But all this was so different. Neither party resembled sheep or little children in the least degree. . The labour ... ...le and mischievous. The suffragettes became extraordinarily malignant; the democratic movement went rotten with sabotage and with a cant of being “reb... ...ire to forward the interests of his realm that the King decided to set his statesmen an example— which unhappily was not very widely followed—by absta... ...; it is almost as easy to say with the Christian Scientist that all bodily states are ame- nable to our ideas. The truth doesn’t, I think, follow the ... ...indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Burthen”; the clear ... ...- ers, accidents, and absurdities who bear crowns and sceptres today—of an united mankind.” 131 H G Wells He paused, and in the pause he heard a litt... ...xplicitness. Much more was his dream a vision of men inwardly ennobled and united in spirit. He saw history growing reasonable and life visibly noble ...

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... had been his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in two succes- sive ... ...unfortunate and misunderstood Ralston. Once he had been put forward as the Democratic candidate for governor, but failed of elec- tion. After this Mag... ...me the legislature is in session; he’s got his own men on the floor of the United States Sen- ate. He has the whole thing organised like an army corps... ... to make a big strike, and risk is better than sure failure.” “I can be no party to a scheme of avowed bribery and corruption, Mr. Osterman,” declared... ...e it. The railroad didn’t always act as a unit, either. There was always a party in it that opposed spending too much money. He would bet that party w... ...ing, and leaving their seed or slips to be marketed broadcast all over the United States. This had been the vocation of Angele’s parents—raising flow-... ...on of company in this district assured. Have secured services of desirable party. Am now in posi- tion to sell you your share stock, as per original p... ... Derrick for the second, and James Darrell for the third. Nominated in the Democratic State convention in the fall of the preceding year, Lyman, backe... ...Ask Magnus Derrick what he thinks about that. Ask him how much he paid the Democratic bosses at Sacramento to swing the convention.” He went out, slam...

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...ngth for this, they perish as Rome perished, and Venice, and so many other states. This distinction between the upper and lower spheres of social acti... ...the poet’s genius, the merchant’s steady endurance, the strong will of the statesman who concentrates a thousand dazzling quali- 26 The Duchesse de L... ... fails to support that side. Thence its downfall in 1830. At that time the party of the Faubourg Saint-Germain was rather like an army without a base ... ... of the noblesse. It seemed to them that as each individual grew rich, the party as a whole would gain in strength. And herein lay their mistake. Mone... ...at might have saved it. In short, however effete individuals might be, the party as a whole was none the less armed with all the great principles whic... ...fended to admiration. Few women venture to be democrats; the at- titude of democratic champion is scarcely compatible with tyrannous feminine sway. Bu... ...nplace with their equals, slippery with the infe- riors whom courtiers and statesmen know how to tame by a tactful word, or to humiliate with an unexp... ... reason for her presence without delay. Montriveau hoisted the flag of the United States before they came in sight of the island, 128 The Duchesse de... ...anned by treasure-seekers, a gang of men whose hobby was well known in the United States; indeed, some Spanish writer had writ- ten a history of them....

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...t because of the develop- ment of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world, ... ...ave supposed a sort of epidemic of sanity to break out among the rulers of states and the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sen... ... land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), mee... ... poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting ob... ...llows, come and scrap the mint!’ In the year 1955 the suicide rate for the United States of America quadrupled any previous record. There was an enor-... ...patience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems that had sprung out of their absurd electoral arrangements, l... ...bombs first. China and Japan had assailed Russia and destroyed Moscow, the United States had attacked Japan, India was in anarchistic revolt with Delh... ...very complete. In theory—and he abounded in theory—his manners were purely democratic. It was by sheer habit and inadvertency that he permitted Firmin... ...ge produce. They are bodies small enough as a rule to be run on a strictly democratic basis, and large enough to supply all the labour, except for a c...

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... the people, he was disappointed, and lost the place, being opposed by the party of Sylla, which seems to have been the principal cause of his subsequ... ...ttempted to recall the lost in- terest of Marius, Sertorius joined Cinna’s party, more par- ticularly as he saw that Octavius was not very capable, an... ...rdice and remissness of the commanders, but more by the treachery of their party, when with the want of prudence in the chief leaders, all went so ill... ...y cohorts. And when now all the cities on this side of the river Ebro also united their forces together under his command, his army grew great, for th... ...magogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta. Having passed the Hellespont, he marche... ... now succeeded in making up, and by this means strengthened himself by the united power of both, and so under the cover of an action which carried all... ...whole course of so long a life never knew but the one woman to whom he was united in his first and only marriage. In the war of the slaves, which took... ...im, and restore the commonwealth to the Syracusans; not that he approved a democratic government, but thought it altogether preferable to a tyranny, w... ...e that constitution he intended; for he designed to suppress the unlimited democratic government, which in- deed is not a government, but, as Plato ca...

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...r smouldering fire, might have indicated that he was to be a great Ameri can statesman; or, on the other hand, they might simply have proved that he c... ... but he mustn’t mind that; perhaps he would like to go with her. It wasn’t a party—Olive didn’t go to parties; it was one of those weird meetings she ... ...s sure to be all wrong. I shall be back very late; we are going to a theatre party; that’s why we dine so early. Good bye, Mr. Ransom,’ Mrs. Luna cont... ...ideas,’ to meet Mrs. Farrinder. ‘Oh, thank you,’ said Basil Ransom. ‘Is it a party? I haven’t been to a party since Mississippi seceded.’ ‘No; Miss Bi... ...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... ...the aristoc racy. Nothing could be weaker, she knew very well, than (in the United States) to apply that term too literally; nevertheless, it would r... ...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... ...epublics, the distressing persons she had met abroad in the legations of the United States, the bad manners of servants and shopkeepers in that countr... ...reet?’ ‘Well, no; that’s her residence—her principal one—since she became so united to your cousin. Isn’t Miss Chancellor your cousin?’ ‘We don’t insi...

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...ce of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,” said a dark-eyed young woman, whom... ...arried into minute detail.” And the sculptor directed the attention of the party to the ears of the beautiful statue which they were contemplating. Bu... ...ent and assistance.” “Then you are deficient of a sense,” said Miriam. The party now strayed onward from hall to hall of that rich gallery, pausing he... ... so resonant; and Hilda with her slender scream, piercing farther than the united uproar of the rest—began to shriek, halloo, and bel- low, with the u... ...age of us in this respect. The slender thread of silk or cotton keeps them united with the small, familiar, gentle interests of life, the continually ... ... of the avenues, and crowned them with busts of that multitude of worthies—statesmen, heroes, artists, men of letters and of song—whom the whole world... ...me a commission to carve the one-and-thirty (is that the num- ber?) sister States, each pouring a silver stream from a sepa- rate can into one vast ba... ...emperor is enough to create an eva- nescent sentiment of loyalty even in a democratic bosom, so august does he look, so fit to rule, so worthy of man’... ... shuddering. “We know it well.” “None,” repeated Miriam, also shuddering. “United—mis- erably entangled with me, rather—by a bond of guilt, our union ...

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...raigned the parliamentary Opposition for having inflated her to serve base party purposes. The Opposition challenged the allegations of Government, po... ...nd very happy in fighting them all round. This was during the decay of his party, before the Liberals were defined. A Liberal deprived him of the seat... ...ns of the sublimer House, and laughed at the trans- parent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoots of the commonalty: ‘Dragging... ...hile Lords and Commons suggest the decapitation of the leading figure. The united three, however, no longer cast re- flections on one another, and wer... ...ent. Commander Beauchamp, in responding to the invitation of the great and united Liberal party of the borough of Bevisham, obeyed the inspirations of... ...roportion to their utility? That was the question for Nevil Beauchamp. The democratic spirit inhabiting him, tempo- rarily or permanently, asked wheth... ...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... ...e it out worse to you than to any one else, because I want our minds to be united.’ ‘Give me a respite now and then.’ ‘With all my heart. And forgive ...

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... to. For not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. How often have we seen some such adventur... ... of, might endanger the circulation of any Journal extant? If, indeed, all party-divisions in the State could have been abolished, Whig, Tory, and Rad... ...r of Heuschrecke’s. Form rose out of void solution and discontinuity; like united itself with like in definite arrangement: and soon either in actual ... ...everal; meaning thereby that, one day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt doch der Schalk? added they, looking round... ...attered papers, and miscellaneous shreds of all conceivable sub- stances, “united in a common element of dust.” Books lay on tables, and below tables;... ...ed Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Print- ing. The first ground h... ...le that, by the “good Gretchen Futteral,” or some other perhaps interested party, he has himself been deceived? Should these sheets, translated or not... ...usty Town-home, is ush- ered into the Garden-house, where sit the choicest party of dames and cavaliers: if not engaged in AEsthetic Tea, yet in trust... ...mstances, might be, followed Teufelsdrockh, through the various successive states and stages of Growth, Entanglement, Unbelief, and almost Reprobation...

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