... ofthe country could not help seeing the growing power of money, and the injustice caused by it. The second period which last from the middle ofthe 16th century up to the beginning ofthe ... well as in other European countries. There was no work for the peasants and many of them became homeless beggars lust of rich was typical ofthe new class ofthe bourgeoisie. The most progressive ... The public acting of women was prohibited in the England ofShakespeare s time and so writers would often emphasize the femininity of their female characters so as to remove the necessity of...
... delight at the end ofthe war March to Bordeaux Kind reception ofthe troops by the inhabitants of the country on the way Particular good fortune of Lawrence Great attention on the part of his host ... our halts, the best billets being of course chosen for the officers,then for the sergeants, and then for the corporals and privates, the numbers being suited to the accommodation of the places; ... six gentlemen ofthe town made their way into our square andbegged the colonel so hard to let them off, as that was the general wish ofthe inhabitants, that at last hedismissed the victims with...
... under the chapel, the hour, the resolution to end the matter, the rising up and rushing forth, the finding ofthe young fellow I had chieflywronged, the acknowledgment of my sin, the return ofthe ... remain on the edge of starvation from day to day, and the bulk of these teeming multitudes are as careless of eternity as the heathen,and far more uncared for by the great majority ofthe professed ... proportion ofthe poorer labouringpopulation of London. The ruined, the unfortunate, the depraved, the feeble ones, outrun in the race of life,gravitate thither and jostle one another in the daily...
... on a level with the ground; one of which Father Holt said was tobe the boy's chamber, the other on the other side ofthe passage being the Father's own; and as soon as the little man's ... being advised by their friendsto leave the country in consequence ofthe transactions which are recoun-ted at the close ofthe volume ofthe Memoirs. But my brother, hearinghow the FUTURE BISHOP'S ... Castlewood, by another stream, thatbears, like the new country of wandering AEneas, the fond names of the land of his youth. The Hall of Castlewood was built with two courts, whereof one only, the fountain-court,...
... Hereward,with the bishop of Durham named Egelwinus, got into the Ile of Elie, in purpose there to defend themseluesfrom the iniurie ofthe Normans, for they tooke the place (by reason ofthe situation) ... meaning to disburthen himselfe ofthe charge of their keeping, he caused their finding and wages to beborne by the lords and peeres ofthe realme, by the shirifs of shires, and other officers. [Sidenote: ... _IohnPike._] On the other side, Odo the bishop of Bayeux, and Geffrey the bishop of Constances pursued the earle of Cambridge so narrowlie with an other armie, which they had gathered ofthe English...
... that the decay ofthe bookis not owing somewhat to the decay of The Project Gutenberg EBook ofThe Man of Letters as a Man of Business, by William Dean HowellsThis eBook is for the use of anyoneanywhere ... the editor means the sale ofthe serial rightsonly, but if the publisher ofthe magazineis also a publisher of books, the republication ofthe material is supposedto be his right, unless there ... have their preferences in the different kinds, and they have theirtheory of what kind will be mostacceptable to their readers; but theyexercise their selective function with the wish to give them...
... tradespeople, of course, or asmen in the other professions when theybegin to make themselves names; the highstate of brokers, bankers, railroadoperators, and the like is, in the nature of the case, ... aestheticconscience and of generous sympathy.They have their preferences in the different kinds, and they have their theory of what kind will be most acceptable totheir readers; but they exercise theirselective ... made the best of it, of course, and took the account to the juniorpartner ofthe house which employed me,half in proportion. I do not now dispute the justice ofthe charge. It was not the fault...
... cake of dirt with 'em. I don't knowwhat give him the idea that there wasmoney in it, but he did think so from the start. I guess, if they'd had the word inthose days, they'd ... incongruouspiazza. The photographer had not beenable to conceal the fact that they were alldecent, honest-looking, sensible people,with a very fair share of beauty among the young girls; some of these ... Job of it.Well, sir, we built a kiln, and we kept alot of that paint-ore red-hot for forty-eighthours; kept the Kanuck and his family up,firing. The presence of iron in the oreshowed with the...
... best represent the real relations ofthe thought. 34In these cases the writer must simply learn the idioms. The contents of a book is singular. The contents of a jar may be either singular ... anticipated the upturn in the market. My brother expected the upturn in the market. In the second example, the word anticipated is ambiguous. It could mean simply that the brother believed the ... Columbus, one ofthe Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service ofthe world and of 3917. Omit needless words. 23 18. Avoid a succession of loose sentences....