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This exceptional strip was the eastern coast belt of the province of Britain; and we have next to ask: "What happened in Britain when the rest of the Empire was being transformed, after the breakdown of central Imperial power?"
As long as all goes well, I shall keep the main roads, but if there is a breakdown, or an unforeseen accident occurs, I may have to leave the road and take to bypaths." "The cost of such horses would be about eighty rupees each; the saddles and bridles another fifteen or twenty." "Then here are two hundred rupees, Pertaub." "Have you given up all hope of finding your father, Sahib?
This contradiction increased with increasing size, diversity and complexity. Psychological forces played a part in the breakdown and break-up of Roman civilization. People lost faith and hope. They became disillusioned and cynical. They forgot the common good and devoted themselves to the gratification of body hungers.
Every year less than three generations, that the progress is hastened, means moral and spiritual breakdown for thousands means domestic tragedy and congested criminal calendars. There is only one foreigner who is really a menace to American society. He is the foreigner who is in rapid process of "Americanization."
I had met her and her mother the winter before at Davos, where I had been sent after South Africa, and a spell of playing fast and loose with my health a possession usually treated as we treat the poor, whom we expect to have always with us. Helen Blantock had been the success of her season in London, had paid for her triumphs with a breakdown, and we had stopped at the same hotel.
It is not our environment that overcomes us. It is the way we face and deal with circumstances, with people, and with environment that keeps our nerves irritated or keeps them quiet and wholesome and steady. Let me tell the story of two men, both of whom were brought low by severe nervous breakdown. One complained of his environment, complained of circumstances, complained of people.
Susan Horridge, watching her like a faithful dog, reported that she ate little, that she walked up and down her room at night when she ought to have been sleeping, that she started when spoken to, that she spent long hours staring before her piteously, doing nothing. "If Mrs. Wade don't come back soon the young lady will either go after her or she'll have a breakdown," Susan said.
An extensive and varied country business like theirs might be carried on through years of ill-success without an utter breakdown, and years of care and labour would be required, if the sacrifice of much valuable property was to be avoided, and this care and labour he saw must fall on him. He could no longer hope for a partnership with Mr Langden in the new enterprise.
The breakdown of the whole temporal power of the Church was sudden, terrible, complete. Following up his religious successes, Philip the Fair attacked the mighty knights of the Temple, the most powerful of the religious orders of knighthood which had fought the Saracens in Jerusalem.
"Had a breakdown?" enquired the voice. John recognized it. It was the voice of Kid Brady. The Kid, as he had stated that he intended to do, had begun his training for his match with Eddie Wood at White Plains.
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