Again to the high street of Cheape, from Fauster lane end to St. Martin’s, and by that lane to the shambles or flesh-market, on the north side whereof is Penticost lane, containing divers slaughter-houses for the butchers. — from The Survey of London by John Stow
But not so did it seem to Ahab, who knew the sets of all tides and currents; and thereby calculating the driftings of the sperm whale’s food; and, also, calling to mind the regular, ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular latitudes; could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching to certainties, concerning the timeliest day to be upon this or that ground in search of his prey. — from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Iliad , the tragic poetry of Greece,—Shakespeare, in the Tempest and Midsummer Night’s Dream ,—and most especially Milton, in Paradise Lost , conform to this rule; and the most humble novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry. — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Islands played like children
For then the people of the Islands played like children about the feet of Chance and had no gods and went not forth to war. — from Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany
Looking Backward , 92 ; his description of a socialistic Utopia, 92 ; his argument, 105 Bessemer, 197 , 220 Boy messengers, 80 Bradlaugh, Charles, 85 Brazil, Rossi fails to found a socialistic colony in, 141 Brigand chief, his justification, 206 Capital, is labour in an externalised and permanent form, 14 ; is past labour crystallised, 14 , 20 ; as the implement of ability, 32 ; fixed and circulating, 35 ; the primary function of, 40 ; its interest described by George as the gift of nature, 212 Capitalism (a comparatively modern phenomenon), causes of its accelerated development, 2 ; as a working system, 3 ; essence of modern, 14 ; and wages, 16 ; state and private, 62 , 71 ; economics of: the "economic man" and economic science, 123 , 124 Cause and effect, 185 Cellini, Benvenuto, 24 Christian socialism as a substitute for secular democracy, see Democracy; the message of, 153 ; its view of the steel-kings and the oil-kings, 153 , 158 , 160 ; its preaching a species of ecclesiastical electioneering, 156 ; and the faculty of invention, 159 ; [Pg 298] abolishes competition, 160 ; on the moral conversion of able men, 160 Christian Socialist, The, 150 Christian socialists, are simply secular socialists of the more modern and educated type, 163 ; their temperamental deficiency finds its fullest expression in socialism, 172 Coleridge, Lord, 135 Colossal fortunes, growth of, 130 , 131 Competition, 160 Corvée system, and slavery, 57 , 58 Crozier, Dr. Beattie, Wheel of Wealth , 217 , 218 , 236 Darby of Coalbrookdale, 83 Demand and supply, 143 Democracy, 130 , 132 , 134 , 136 , 138 , 140 , 142 , 144 , 146 , 148 ; Christian socialism as a substitute for secular, 150 , 152 , 154 , 156 , 158 , 160 , 162 , 164 , 166 , 168 , 170 , 172 , 174 Direction, wage-capital an implement of, 70 Directive ability, 191 ; its value, 68 ; and socialism, 87 ; and labour, 182 , 187 , 189 to 193 —— faculties, 31 ; function of the, as applied to the operations of modern labour, 29 ; their function, illustrated by the case of a printed book, 29 ; name for the, 33 Dudley, 82 Eclecticism, 186 Economic distinction, abolished by the truly socialistic scheme, 58 Economic emancipation, is entire abolition of the wage-system, 56 —— man, the, 111 , 123 —— motive, personal gain the primary, 127 —— opportunity, 254 —— science, capitalism and, 124 ; its reasonings, 177 —— values, 166 Economics of capitalism, — from A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
'Ah, yes, to be sure, I have seen them there and in Père la Chaise—so they do; they have them in all the cemeteries—I forgot that. — from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
it prudent Lord Chester
‘I have thought it prudent, Lord Chester,’ said the Bishop gravely, ‘to acquaint you with the fact that the time is now approaching when the great Attempt will be made. — from The Revolt of Man by Walter Besant
in producing laboratory colloids
Lloyd’s discovery of the “death bacillus” of the sea toad, and his experiments on it with potassium cyanide, sent his name and that of his university ringing round the world; nor was Paul a whit behind when he succeeded in producing laboratory colloids exhibiting amoeba-like activities, and when he cast new light upon the processes of fertilization through his startling experiments with simple sodium chlorides and magnesium solutions on low forms of marine life. — from Moon-Face, and Other Stories by Jack London
independent position Lady Coryston
Till now Marcia had rather lazily assumed that the meeting would concern some matter of family property—some selling or buying transaction—which a mother, even in the abnormally independent position Lady Coryston, might well desire to communicate to her children. — from The Coryston Family
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