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- 1761: Hard Times: The Gradgrind System of Education
- ... colleagues. However he is not telling the truth, far from it, when his mother turns up on the doorstep, she humiliates him quite unintentionally. In fact she really cares for her son as she quotes Lord forgive you, sir, for your wicked imaginations after Mr Gradgrind curses her saying she deserted Josiah in his infancy. Mr Bounderby is a bad person thinking about himself and himself only at all times, doing ...
- 1762: The Hobbit: Summary
- ... the land of the menace of the Goblins. From the begginning, he displayed great confidence in Bilbo, and because of this they became great friends, and he helped Bilbo grow as a person. Elrond, the Lord of The Elves - he was the leader of the elves, so old and wise, that his knolegde spanned the centuries, yet kind and friendly. He always welcomed strangers, as long as they weren't evil ...
- 1763: The Good Earth: Summary
- The Good Earth: Summary Wang Lung was just a simple farmer in the beginning of this book and as he got older the more power he obtained, until he became Lord of the house of Wang. Being a farmer, he relied on the earth to give him and his family all that they needed to be supported through life. I think this would have been hard ...
- 1764: Jim's Role in Huckleberry Finn
- ... ker-blam! - en my lan', de chile never move'! My breff mos' hop outer me
I bust out a- cryin' en grab her up in my arms, en say, "Oh, de po' little thing! De Lord God Amighty fogive po' ole Jim, kaze he never gwyne to fogive hisself as long's he live!" Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb - en I'd ben a ...
- 1765: Summary of Orwells' Animal Farm
- ... goal that Old Major was talking about in the beginning (that all animals would soon overtake all man and man would serve animals) was soon to be no more. So this proves without doubt that Lord Action was right (in this book) when he said "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- 1766: Gulliver's Travels and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Similarities
- ... and became jealous. The same thing happened to Gulliver, who had many enemies in Lilliput. Flimnap, Treasur er of the Realm, long suspected, with absolutely no grounds, that Gulliver was his wife's lover, This Lord, in Conjunction with Flimnap the High Treasurer, whose Enmity against you is notorious on Account of his Lady (Swift 56 ). Gulliver's enemies plotted against him, and accused him of treason. Gulliver then fled from ...
- 1767: Of Mice and Men: The Great Depression - The Uncommon Struggle of All Men
- ... rock jail. . .I've been laid out ninety days, way down the road. The darned old judge, he said to me, it's ninety days for vagrancy, and I've been doin' some hard travelin', Lord." This was the tune or the song of almost everyone during the Great American Depression. People faced struggles everywhere they turned. Webster's Intermediate Dictionary defines struggle as: "to make great efforts or attempts; strive ...
- 1768: The Scarlet Letter: The Puritans Are Wrong in Thinking That Pearl Is Wicked
- ... sin. When Hester goes to the seashore to talk to Chillingworth, she tells Pearl to go "to the margin of the water and play with the shells and tangled sea- weed"(154). In response, Pearl "[flies] away like a bird"(154) to the margin of the sea. Pearl is eager to play with nature. She has grown used to having nature as a playmate and finds playing with it enjoyable. Pearl ...
- 1769: Animal Farm: Utopia
- ... only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. (p.19) This speech gets all the animals riled up and sends the toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major then teaches them the song the Beasts of England which ...
- 1770: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... known the ennobling affection of a wife, or the steadfast devotion of a mother but in his heart will say, Amen! * Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, at that time Prime Minister of England, had just been elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, and had made a speech which gave rise to a world of discussion. WOMAN'S PRESS CLUB. On October 27, 1900, the New York Woman's Press Club gave a tea ...
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