Sublime

Abruptly, and with unwelcome compassion for a woman he’d despised so cheerfully and for so long, he understood what loneliness had compelled Lorna to Bethesda’s door, and to all the church doors after it – recognised, in fact, her capacity to modify herself to please her company. Wasn’t he a different man to different men? It was among the least of

A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the r

Pour sa part, le plan Beveridge était fondé sur trois principes parfois baptisés les « trois U » : l’unité (un seul système), l’uniformité et l’universalité (les mêmes prestations pour tous les membres de la société). À la différence du système allemand, il s’inscrit dans une logique de remplacement forfaitaire et minimum du revenu, et est financé

On both occasions Fred had felt confident that he should meet the bill himself, having ample funds at disposal in his own hopefulness. You will hardly demand that his confidence should have a basis in external facts; such confidence, we know, is something less coarse and materialistic: it is a comfortable disposition leading us to expect that the w

Certes, il peut subsister et subsiste en effet dans une large mesure en tuant d’autres animaux ; mais c’est une façon de vivre bien pitoyable, – comme l’apprend sans doute celui qui attrape les lapins au collet ou qui égorge les agneaux –, et celui qui apprendra aux hommes à se limiter à un régime plus innocent et plus sain passera pour un bienfait

When he was thirty-two years old, Thomy Lafon was listed in the 1842 city directory as a merchant. His mother was born a free woman in Haiti and had arrived with other migrants post-revolution. Lafon grew wealthy through real estate. The Holy Family nursing home was the result of one of many of his charitable donations made in service of Black peop

Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.’