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He was nameless now, a man utterly without respect or standing-place in the world, a being whom the law ignored except as the possessor of a mere life; such was he now, instead of one whose rights and privileges, whose property and rank all the statutes of the realm and customs of his country delighted to honour and protect. This he repeated to himself over and over again.
They expected that way would be made for them with shouts of welcome, but they find themselves before long struggling to get even a standing-place in the crowd it is only kings, and the nobility, and those fortunates who dwell in the tropics, where bread grows on trees and clothing is unnecessary, who have reserved seats in this world.
Standing-place there must be for this long battle for existence, and in yielding this standing-place comes instant solution of a myriad problems. This is no place for extended argument as to the necessity of land nationalization, or the advantages or disadvantages of Mr. George's scheme of a single tax on land values, with the consequent dropping of our whole complicated tariff.
"Every person," says Gibbon, "has two educations one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself." Archimedes said, "Give me a standing-place and I will move the world." But Goethe more happily says, "Make good thy standing-place and move the world." Circumstances may afford a standing-place, but self-reliance alone can give the leverage power.
They expected that way would be made for them with shouts of welcome, but they find themselves before long struggling to get even a standing-place in the crowd it is only kings, and the nobility, and those fortunates who dwell in the tropics, where bread grows on trees and clothing is unnecessary, who have reserved seats in this world.
But his elation did not lift him many inches from his standing-place, to which he came down again on the instant, causing the boards of the crazy old coach-roof to crack with the weight of his joy. "Hurrah, hurrah!" he bawled out, "Podasokus is the horse! Supper for ten Wheeler, my boy. Ask you all round of course, and damn the expense."
Jem Rodney was the outermost man, and sat conveniently near Marner's standing-place; but he declined to give his services. "Come and lay hold on him yourself, Mr. Snell, if you've a mind," said Jem, rather sullenly. "He's been robbed, and murdered too, for what I know," he added, in a muttering tone. "Jem Rodney!" said Silas, turning and fixing his strange eyes on the suspected man.
"The Bulrampore men shouted to him to try and get the elephant to go to his standing-place, saying that if he could persuade him to sit down they would tie his legs up.
The attentive gods, wearying themselves, following his footsteps, stood at the highest, beautiful standing-place of Agni. When the bright ones had done service to thee, the bright one, Agni, with Ghrita through three autumns, they assumed worshipful names; the well-born shaped their own bodies.
"But why? if I may make so bold." "I thought," said the little old lady, more starched and prim than ever, "I believed myself to have intimated that our conversation was at an end." "You was not wont to be cruel nor unjust in your earlier days," Ezra answered. "But it shall be as you wish." He left the seat, gave her a quaint old-fashioned bow, and returned to his former standing-place.
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