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id: 14717
title: Twelve Men
author: Dreiser, Theodore
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  "You know, Dreiser," Peter said to me one day with the most delicious "Maybe you and me are thinking of the same one, Jacob," said old Mr. Main, looking inquisitively at the boat-builder. "I think we''ve all got the same man in mind, likely," returned the the company in general he added, "Look at the time he worked over there life which gave rise mayhap to the need of a man to work among the poor. standing there a man came up to me and said, ''Brother, I''m told to give times--borrowed a big boat and got men to help me--oh, I''m a good A little later I met a doctor who said, "Paul cannot live. he turned and gave one long keen look in the eye of the sick man, then But let one of these things, that some people call a _man_, come along,


id: 26425
title: Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
author: Earle, John
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  Earle says of men is no less true of books: "Acquaintance is the first fellow_ [Earle''s insolent man] was at Holland House again last night, and The present edition of Bishop Earle''s Characters was undertaken from an old man''s spectacles, make a great letter in a small print. His authority is great over men''s good names, Is a far finer man than he knows of, one that shews better to all men than things of the world, good to make merry the company, and whom only men man you may hate after a good turn, and not be ungrateful; and men reckon to the Christmas; and no man loves good times better. ----"Dr. Earle, Bishop of Salisbury, was a man that could do good against Great man, character of a meer, 177. Old man, character of a good, 153. Poor man, character of, 179. World''s wise man, character of, 78. Young man, character of, 42.


id: 760
title: Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties
author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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  "Enoch Soames," repeated Rothenstein in a tone implying that it was "Negations." He said he had looked into it, "but," he added crisply, exchanging a few words, I said with a glance to the open book, "I see I knew anything of the work of a man called Enoch Soames. poor old Soames was really a rather tragic figure, and that I believed evening of that day Soames went, too. I wondered what train of thought poor Soames had been following. "A Catholic diabolist," said Soames. "All right," said Soames. Soames said nothing, but cruelly did not cease to look at me. Look here Soames, you know me "I see the whole thing," said Soames, quietly. He merely looked at Soames and With an inhibitive gesture to my friend, "Mr. Soames," I said have said to another, "What has become of that man Soames?" but I never You realize that the reading-room into which Soames was


id: 759
title: James Pethel
author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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  "Not while Jimmy Pethel''s taking the bank," he answered, with a laugh. I thought every one knew old Jimmy Pethel." I asked what there was so wonderful about "old Jimmy Pethel" that every Pethel asked me to tell him who every one was. "They were QUITE right," said Mrs. Pethel, evidently not for the first "They were QUITE right," said Mrs. Pethel again. To gloss over the mother''s disability, I looked brightly at Pethel, as Pethel looked so very I said to Mrs. Pethel, with more Pethel asked her if SHE really wanted to come. "Shall we go and put on our things, Peggy?" replied Mrs. Pethel, rising replied with all possible emphasis that I should like to be with Mrs. Pethel. Pethel, like the good driver he was, did not talk; just drove. cry, and entitled "A Gambler''s Wife." Mrs. Pethel was not like that. "Seen Jimmy Pethel?" he asked.


id: 761
title: A. V. Laider
author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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  A Very Young Envelop: Something in me whispers that he will come to-day! I raised my hand to the letter-board, meaning to effect a swift and Melbourne Man." I said to Laider how very restful it was, after in his voice as he explained that he never looked at people''s hands far as I know, to be read in MY hands." "One of the first things I had seen in my own hand, as soon as I had "I had said all I had to say about Brett''s hands. And when I said so, I was told not to talk. day I thought I should like to know why, and so I asked. "They are the hands of a very weak man," he said. "Well," I said, with awkward sympathy, "I suppose all hands are the "Tell me: Was it marked in your hands that you were not going to pull


id: 12491
title: Twelve Types
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  not occur to a man''s mind; it may be said, with almost equal truth, that moral truth as the old story, existing in many forms, of Beauty and the the eternal and essential truth that until we love a thing in all its A man like Morris draws attention to thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Asceticism is a thing which in its very nature, we tend in these days to There are two main moral necessities for the work of a great man: the human spirituality in which Carlyle believed that a man should be owned who asserts that man, as a fact of natural history, is a creature with The religion of Christ has, like many true things, been disproved an Walter Scott is a great, and, therefore, mysterious man. his soul may be in rags, every man of Scott can speak like a king.


id: 40339
title: Selections from the Observator (1681-1687)
author: L''Estrange, Roger, Sir
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  L''Estrange''s arch-enemy, Harry Care, changed to dialogue the _Popish term "Observator" had come to signify a controversy _in dialogue_.[6] a Speaking to the Common People in their Own Way.... Matters are over, we shall at the end of every Paper, Present you with a L''Estrange manipulates "Whig" and "Tory" for 171 papers, changes to of the _True-Protestant Way_, (in case of _the King''s Violent Death_) when Matters were come to _This Pass_ once, I think it was High Time to _MAN_, or _THING_; or of _Common Justice it Self_: So neither, on the Pray favour me a word; When you speak of a_ True Protestant, _don''t _Just Reason, Method_, and _State_ of the _Matter_: And when People are _Trim._ And what if a man should Allow This sort of People now, to be enough, ''tis true, to _Satisfy any man_, that People may be made as


