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... a desperate Dick, a carder and a dicer, a professor of the seven damnable sciences, if ever man 32 Kenilworth took degrees in them?’ No, by Heaven! ... ...s been already observed, that when Lambourne accom- panied Foster into the library, they left T ressilian alone in the ancient parlour. His dark eye f... ...say, but bring him not hither; I will come to you presently in the Abbot’s library.” Foster left the room, and the courtier, who remained behind, pace... ...ce in the town of Farringdon were occasioned by his progress in the mystic sciences, and his intercourse with the invisible world. Me also he tried to... ...suasion that he was a sorcerer. And yet his supposed advance in the occult sciences drew to him the secret resort of men too powerful to be named, for... ...e is at no court in Europe a man more skilled in this holy and most useful science than Doctor Masters, and he came from Us to our subject. Neverthele... ... for the encouragement which he gave to the pro- fessors of this pretended science. Indeed, the wish to pry into futurity, so general among the human ... ...ot, until they were in the opposite side of the quadrangle, and in the old library, with which the reader has already been made acquainted. Here he tu... ...f thick leather. Captain Coxe, that celebrated humorist of Coventry, whose library of ballads, almanacs, and penny histories, fairly wrapped up in par...

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...t nothing is startling or obtrusive. Even those who break the laws of this science, 23 Balzac either through ignorance or carried away by some impuls... ...e of frightful errors in the memoirs of The Archer of Charles IX. When the library closed, he went back to his damp, chilly room to correct his work, ... ...ed to be familiar to him, and drank water. Wherever Lucien saw him, at the library or at Flicoteaux’s, there was a dignity in his manner, springing do... ...red so far as yet. The silent young man went off to the further end of the library, on the side at right angles to the Place de la Sorbonne, and Lucie... ...e saw the student coming away from the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve. “The library is closed; I don’t know why, monsieur,” said he. T ears were standi... ...wrote articles for encyclopaedias, dictionaries of biogra- phy and natural science, doing just enough to enable him to live while he followed his own ... ...cyclopedia of angelic spir- its, each of whom bore the stamp of the art or science which he followed:— David Sechard to Lucien. “My Dear Lucien,—Enclo... ...e best chance of success lies in an empty head. The austerity of your con- science, clear as yet, will relax when you see that a man holds your future... ... usurer a hundred francs in the last six months. Samanon has de- voured my library already, volume by volume” (livre a livre). “And sou by sou,” Loust...

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... are as spiritually intelligent as men,—an argument in favor of the occult sciences. The old man-servant of Colonel Giguet, Madame Marion’s older brot... ...nd society, the dissipations of gallantry,— the man who makes his memory a library of lies and craft, who envelops such diverse thoughts, such conflic... ...foolish pretension: that of being initiated by long study into a cer- tain science represented as arduous, which they call the sci- ence of public aff... ...e sci- ence of public affairs and which they (like physicians with medical science) alone have the right to practise. They are not willing that an und... ...obably it occurred to him that the poor young lady, having more ardor than science, was not going the right way to work, and the thought of improving ... ... the tail of the serpent is its venom,”—a remark of antiquity which modern science does not admit. Monsieur de l’Estorade was not mistaken; Sallenauve... ...be forced to answer. He was therefore perched on the high- est step of his library ladder, holding in his hands the gift of the sculptor, and preparin...

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...k of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the minis- ters of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination. Now, i... ...hat, above all, manifested the shrewdness of the steward, and the profound science of the master, the one in carrying out the ideas of the other, was ... ...e to them with much more respect than many servants pay their masters. The library was divided into two parts on either side of the wall, and containe... ...ts red and gold binding. On the other side of the house, to match with the library, was the conservatory, ornamented with rare flowers, that bloomed i... ...t necessity. He preferred to use the sitting-room upstairs, which was more library than parlor, and was furnished with theological books and parchment... ...tributed through this wicket in his master’s name. The other room near the library was a bedroom. A bed without curtains, four arm-chairs, and a couch... ...a good effect. “Is the abbe at home?” asked he. “Yes; he is at work in his library, but he expects you, sir,” replied the valet. The stranger ascended... ...justice.” “Do not alarm yourself, monsieur, we will duly respect your con- science.” At this moment the abbe pressed down his side of the shade and so... ...ow out of dogs with whalebone.” “And he is made a member of the Academy of Sciences for this?” “No; of the French Academy.” * Louis David, a famous Fr...

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...ith you,” said the officer; “it was given me by an uncle, a learned man of science, who intended me great good by what he there wrote. Reap the profit... ... be brought out by what was hidden. Septimius had read, in the old college library during his pupilage, a work on ciphers and cryptic writing, but bei... ...fit of my scientific knowledge; also to practise some new modes of medical science, which I could not so well do in the army.” “I think you are quite ... ... to be in quest of certain kinds of secret knowledge, which the fathers of science thought attainable. Now, in several quar ters, amongst people with... ...t old family in England was in posses sion of this secret, being a man of science, and the friend of Friar Bacon, who was said to have concocted it h... ...s old Friar Bacon and his acolyte discovered 66 Septimius Felton by their science! One ingredient, however, one of those plants, I scarcely think the... ...over, in a walk to Cambridge, where he searched the alcoves of the college library for such works as it contained; and borrowing them from the war di... ...lf for some time back, with the aid of the books borrowed from the college library, and not without success. Indeed, it appeared to him, on close obse... ... he should find a volume as big as the most ponderous folio in the college library too small to contain its wisdom. It seemed to drip and distil with ...

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...MARK THMARK IN THE LATTER PART of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who n... ...r of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own. Such a union ac... ...ither remove this dread ful hand, or take my wretched life! You have deep science. All the world bears witness of it. You have achieved great wonders... ...an yourself. Georgiana, you have led me deeper than ever into the heart of science. I feel myself fully competent to render this dear cheek as faultle... ...de, watching her earnestly, but without alarm; for he was confident in his science, and felt that he could draw a magic circle round her within which ... ...bination and analysis, Georgiana turned over the volumes of his scientific library. In many dark old tomes she met with chapters full of romance and p...

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... Thackeray “I shouldn’t like to sleep in this yeer bed without a good con- science, Miss,” said the old woman. “There’s room for us and a half-dozen o... ...ll doors with stags’ heads.over them, leading to the billiard-room and the library, and the great yellow saloon and the morning-rooms. I think there a... ...– V olume One eldest was rather fond of books, and as there was in the old library at Queen’s Crawley a considerable provision of works of light liter... ...shion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And though he belonged to the household troops, who, as it was th... ...l; in dancing, without the aid of a master; and in the elements of natural sciences. In the use of the globes both are proficients. In addition to the... ...s Crawley solaced herself with the most senti- mental of the novels in her library. Little Sharp, with her secret griefs, was the heroine of the day. ... ...will be instructed by the ex- ecutors, to offer to public competition, the library, furniture, plate, wardrobe, and choice cellar of wines of Epicurus...

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... corner under the shadow of your fortune, to spread wide the advantages of Science, and pray for your long life and prosperity.’ The Vi- zier tells u... ...ik Shah, he came to Merv, and obtained great praise for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favors upon him.’ “When the Malik Shah det... ...e in the following whimsical lines:— “‘Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science, Has fallen in grief ’s furnace and been suddenly burned; The... ... Khayyam, died at Naishapur in the year of the Hegira, 517 (A.D. 1123); in science he was unrivaled,— the very paragon of his age. Khwajah Nizami of ... ... A.D. 1460. This contains but 158 Rubaiyat. One in the Asiatic Society’s Library at Calcutta (of which we have a Copy), contains (and yet incomplete...

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...e wise and the learned, who can only know whether there be any truth in this science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none bu... ...d Rays, Which plainly shews the near Alliance Twixt cobling and the Planets Science. Besides, that slow-pac d Sign Bootes, As tis miscall d, we know... ...audacious predictor, and to make him rue the hour he ever affronted a man of science and resentment. The Cardinal may take what measures he pleases wi... ...taff Partridge Papers – Swift 22 arts only remain in bondage, when a man of science and char- acter shall be openly insulted in the midst of the many... ...jusce Saeculi facile Princeps. Signior Magliabecchi, the Great Duke s famous library-keeper, spends almost his whole letter in compliments and praises...

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... nameless sequences of maladjustments that still defy our ordinary medical science. It was afflicting him with a general malaise, it was affecting his... ...ity in every- thing he experienced. And with that went this levity of con- science, a heaviness of soul and a levity of conscience, that could make hi... ...rt and so forth, who had acquired a consider- able amount of ungentlemanly science and energy in Ger- many and German Switzerland. But the Fellows ele... ...ery small and indistinct. He would take himself into a quiet corner in the library of this doll’s house, and sit his little body down in one of the mi... ... to become altogether a trance—well, a bishop asleep in an armchair in the library of the Athenaeum is nothing to startle any one. He thought of that ... ...g to startle any one. He thought of that convenient hidden room, the North Library, in which is the bust of Croker. There often one can be quite alone... ...NY SENSE of transition the bishop found himself seated in the little North Library of the Athenaeum club and staring at the bust of John Wilson Croker... ...ed them any longer. And now—Now he would go out into the world. The little Library of the Athenaeum has no visible door. He went to the book-masked en... ...“In the eighteenth cen- tury they used to draw beautiful female figures as Science and Mathematics. Y oung men have loved Science—and Free- dom—as Pyg...

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... bring such windy punishment upon itself, as I never fail to find recorded in the newspapers when the wind has blown at all hard. Brixton seems to hav... ...honey, butter and fruit, and suckled their children as they sat by their clean baskets, and had such enormous goitres (or glandular swellings in the t... ...elf, with some general remarks on wheat and clover; and even then, he dared not for his life call the song, a song, but disguised it in the bill as an... ...and old enough to hear the story again just yet. But, she never spared me one word of it, and indeed commanded the awful chalice to my lips as the onl... ...peless chance of some one look- ing in, yawns in the last extremity over the book of patterns, The Uncommercial Traveller 159 as if he were trying to... ...ildren who awfully reverse Our Saviour’s words, and are not of the Kingdom of Heaven, but of the Kingdom of Hell. Clear the public streets of such sha... ...ne burnished copper, vies with the cat in winking at the fire; and one old lady has a tea-urn set forth in state on the top of her chest of drawers, w... ...ld phrenology, within certain limits, to be true; I am much of the same mind as to the subtler expressions of the hand; I hold physiognomy to be infal...

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...lves as having been imposed upon, or as having weakly gratified their con sciences with a lazy, flimsy substitute for the noblest of all vir tues. T... ...med to lapse away, of mere imbecility. Attached to our Assembly Rooms is a library. There is a wheel of fortune in it, but it is rusty and dusty, and ... ...over, by whom he sent his last words home. 27 Charles Dickens This is the library for the Minerva Press. If you want that kind of reading, come to ou... ...ing to the human intellect. And they are for ever rushing into the English library, propounding such in comprehensible paradoxes to the fair mistress... ...ich Heaven forbid!— and if I knew of something which sat heavy on his con science, I think I would introduce that something into a Posting Bill, and ... ...ot for me to say) at the top of a hill at least a mile and a half off. The library, which I had never seen otherwise than wide open, was tight shut; a... ...as at the Norwich musical festival when the extraordi nary echo for which science has been wholly unable to ac count, was heard for the first and la...

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... Lucien lives with La T orpille—” “What an irreparable loss to literature, science, art, and politics!” exclaimed Blondet. “La Torpille is the only co... ...y suppressed in men who still have a heart while occupied with politics or science, literature or art. There is not in Paris another woman who can say... ...n inevitable suffering? Everything is doubtful and obscure in a case which science scorns to study, regarding the subject as too immoral and too compr... ...hysician aside for a moment. After this confidential interview, the man of science told the man of faith that the only cure lay in a journey to Italy.... ...umina- tions, or in the Missal of Charles V ., the pride of the Impe- rial library at Vienna. “It hafe cost two tousand franc’ an ell for a milord who... ...top him, no one can control him. He is a monarch, subject only to his con- science and the Law. At the present time, when philosophers, philanthropist... ...hes. Close by are the public prosecutor’s offices, the attorney’s room and library, the chambers of the attorney-general, and those of the public pros... ... as a remem- brance. “And as a remembrance, I beg my executor to accept my library of books as a gift from me. “Lucien Chardon de Rubempre.” This Will... ...rthy to compare in importance with the rob- bery of medals from the Public Library; for the unhappy tendency of our age is to make a murder the more i...

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...d in 1909. The gentleman, then battling with a fatal malady, took from his library shelf a translation of the Upanishads and, open- ing it, expressed ... ...here is no difference be- tween the creator and the created. Even physical science has come to recognize that cause and effect are but two aspects of ... ...nses, then God-knowl- edge would be like any other knowledge and spiritual science like any physical science. He can be known, how- ever, by the purif... ...in Soul- consciousness must rise above matter. The observation of material science being confined to the sense plane, it ignores what is beyond. There... ...ge of the Infinite, because it is exclu- sive and not inclusive. Spiritual science is not merely a question of mind and brain, it depends on the awake...

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... had acquired had left him with the impression that arithmetic was a fluky science and best avoided in practical affairs, but even the absence of book... ...d Mr. Polly had lost much of his natural confidence, so far as figures and sciences and languages and the possibilities of learning things were con- c... ..., wearing a gold pince-nez, and writing for the most part in the beautiful library of the Re- form Club. This gentleman did not know Mr. Polly person-... ...golden pince-nez and writing for the most part in that beautiful room, the library of the Reform Club. There he wrestles with what he calls “social pr...

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...in sufficient number to punctuate the “Moniteur” and the “Encyclopaedia of Sciences,”—the loto-players lifted their noses and looked at him with as mu... ...-pile, where the logs were ranged with as much precision as the books in a library. The pavement of the court-yard showed the black stains produced in... ... flower, rested the mind, held the eye, and imparted the charm of the con- science that was there reflected. Eugenie was standing on the shore of life... ...itutions, a hospital for old age, Christian schools for children, a public library richly endowed, bear testimony against the charge of avarice which ...

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...oks there are a plenty; and so in some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales. Many are the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen... ...preliminaries to settle. First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Ce- tology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that i... ...shape. Though Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-brow... ...moment’s consideration will teach, that how- ever baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science a... ...I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor. I try all things; I achieve w... ...of every man’s and every being’s face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in th...

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... the young gentlemen in Hart Street might learn a something of every known science. The Rev. Mr. V eal had an orrery, an electrifying machine, a turni... ...e (in the wash-house), a chemical appa- ratus, and what he called a select library of all the works of the best authors of ancient and modern times an... ... the learning which Georgy imbibed under this valuable master of a hundred sciences, to judge from the weekly reports which the lad took home to his g... ... muffled in straw, the carpets were rolled up and corded, the small select library of well-bound books was stowed into two wine-chests, and the whole ... ... his son. Reflect, afterwards when —when you are at leisure, and your con- science will withdraw this accusation. It does even now.” Amelia held down ...

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...rles, delighted. ‘His heart was set on training these birds. He turned the library upside down in search of books on falconry, and spent 12 The Heir ... ...lk. ‘No; it was just before dinner. I had been shooting, and went into the library to tell him where I had been. He was well then, for he spoke, but i... ...tness that compensated for want of knowledge, the gentle- men with greater science and discrimination; indeed, Philip, as a connoisseur, could not but... ...co Polo, and Sir John Mandeville; and Guy , who knew both the books in the library at Redclyffe, grew very eager in talking them over, and tracing the... ...you setting him to do?’ ‘To make you read all the folios in my uncle’s old library,’ said Charles. ‘ All that Margaret has in keeping against Philip h... ... hope it is not in the ball-room,’ said Guy. ‘No said Laura, ‘it is in the library.’ Charlotte, whose absence had become perceptible from the general ... ...tain Wellwood whose death had weighed so heavily on his grandfather’s con- science, feeling almost as if it were his duty to ask forgive- ness in his ... ...ce. You were always too young, and Laura too much addicted to the physical sciences to get on together.’ ‘A weak, silly mother, sighed Mrs. Edmonstone... ... could be together without apprehension, or playing tricks with their con- sciences; but she had as yet scarcely been able to spend any time with him;...

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... Thackeray “I shouldn’t like to sleep in this yeer bed without a good con- science, Miss,” said the old woman. “There’s room for us and a half-dozen o... ...ll doors with stags’ heads.over them, leading to the billiard-room and the library, and the great yellow saloon and the morning-rooms. I think there a... ... V anity Fair eldest was rather fond of books, and as there was in the old library at Queen’s Crawley a considerable provision of works of light liter... ...shion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And though he belonged to the household troops, who, as it was th... ...l; in dancing, without the aid of a master; and in the elements of natural sciences. In the use of the globes both are proficients. In addition to the... ...s Crawley solaced herself with the most senti- mental of the novels in her library. Little Sharp, with her secret griefs, was the heroine of the day. ... ...will be instructed by the ex- ecutors, to offer to public competition, the library, furniture, plate, wardrobe, and choice cellar of wines of Epicurus... ...to the health of the invalid. When he met Miss Briggs coming home from the library with a cargo of novels under her arm, Mr. Crawley blushed in a mann... ...-praise and im- precations;—by the first, excusing himself to his own con- science for his conduct; by the second, exaggerating the undutifulness of G...