No social functions occur within it; no railroads disturb its calm; while the motor, nay, even the cycle, give it a wide berth.
But in most others there are also accessories which attract the crowd, which conduce to vanity, or popularity, or give a leg up to the social climber.
Social instincts, too, seemed to have been effectually stamped out upon the lonely skirts of Saddleback and Skiddaw.
Their ancient condition is one of no little economic and social interest, but not of the kind to stir the blood of the stranger as does that which existed on the Solway, the Irthling, the Tynes, the Coquet, and the Tweed.
The men who engage in these deplorable practices are not from any one walk in life: they spring up from various branches of our social structure.
Individual members must not be taken as averages of the membership in any kind of civil, social or political organization.
After a long talk with Eleanor, Madge finally wrote Mrs. Curtis, confessing that they were rather afraid to venture into the social life of the point.
Surely this wild gypsy boy had not come to their lodge on such a night just to make them a social call.
She had written them that as long as they were to be anchored near Fortress Monroe, she hoped to show them the social side of the Army and Navy life centered there.
Mr. Nash narrates his own experiences, and gives a detailed account of the agricultural, business, and social resources of the State in an obviously impartial manner.
Mr. Nash writes especially for the benefit of emigrants and intending settlers, but the book will have an interest for all readers who like to trace the developments of social and political institutions in a swiftly growing State.
Their members have never been resigned to this comparatively solitary life; they have braved all interdicts and persecutions in order to turn it into social life and fraternal communion.
No one nowadays underestimates thesocial importance of the religious question.
Political federations are formed, and the religious as well as the social consciousness of the people is enlarged.
It is not merely morals and philosophy that are affected by religion, but literature, art, politics, social economy, and in a general way the whole destiny of men.
Social philosophy has sufficiently demonstrated that no individual exists either by himself or for himself alone.
The Social Element in Religion Religion is not merely a phenomenon of the individual and inner life: it is also a social and historical phenomenon.
The cause of the corruptions of the Christian principle in social life can only be found in the previous tradition, in one of the moral and religious tendencies that Christianity aspires to conquer and replace.
This socialaction of religion springs from its very essence.
Nor is it just to brand an illustrious man with indifference to great moral and social movements because he would wait, sooner than upturn the very principles on which society is based.
It was this spirit of reckless innovation, promulgated by atheists and drawn logically from some principles of the "Social Contract" of which Rousseau was the author, which excited the ire of Burke.
But his labors were prodigious, and gave him no time for pleasure, or even social intercourse, which finally became irksome to him.
Both Catholics and Dissenters were alike held in scornful contempt or indifference, and had inferior social rank.
Money and pleasure had become the gods of France, and Paris more than ever before was the centre of luxury and social vice.
Government was utterly intolerant of all political agitation, which was chiefly confined to men without social position.
What sympathy could such a man as Burke have for atheistic theories, or a social progress which scorned the only conditions by which society can be kept together?
He tells us, too, that when he was leaving the city with an army to fight in the Social War, the earth opened near Laverna and a great fire gushed out, shooting up a bright flame to the sky.
When the Social War broke out, and all hands in Rome were, as it were, called to the pumps, Sulla was ready.
This Social War, as it was called, was waged with dreadful bitterness on both sides, and the misery and ruin it brought on the country was terrible.
It is not the poetry of social life, but of solitude: each man seems alone in the world with the original forms of nature, the rocks, the earth, and the sky.
His doctrines contained nothing that was subversive of social order, and their ultimate triumph lends the color of heroism to a consistency which people have often interpreted as proof of a limited horizon.
Poetry in this age was impregnated with politics; ideas for social reform sprang from the ground of personal sentiment.
Hazlitt could not walk out without feeling that every passer-by had read the atrocious article and saw the brand of the socialoutcast on his features.
Nothing could exceed the gravity, the solemnity with which I carried home and read the Dedication to the Social Contract, with some other pieces of the same author, which I had picked up at a stall in a coarse leathern cover.
Like the great French sentimentalist with whom we have compared him, a suspicious distrust of all who came near him converted his social existence into a restless fever.
In the vigour of his intellect, he grapples with all the objects of nature, and enters into all the relations of social life.
In a place like Pymantoning, she's 'as good as anybody,' and her daughter has as high social standing.
She had not even a girl friendship, and her chief social resource was in her intimacy at the Burtons.
He would go back to their first meeting, and bring in a sketch of Pymantoning County Fair, and of the village itself and its social conditions, with studies of Burton and his wife.
She told Cornelia about this strange social ceremony of chaperonage, which now for the first time practically concerned them.
Viktor held himself aloof, and seemed to be trying by his whole demeanour to convey that he was out of sympathy with all such customs and was only performing a social duty.
The social life of the officers of this regiment did not differ from any other kind of society.
Those thirty men represented types of almost all the social grades, and to a man they were seeking the shelter of anonymity in that monastery of action, the Foreign Legion.
There are no social distinctions in the alley-ways of Fez.
A valued literary friend suggests that the social life described in the following pages is too much like ours, but why should their daily life and socialcustoms be greatly different from ours?
If a thousand English-speaking Aryans should now be placed on some distant island, how much would their social customs and even amusements differ from ours in a hundred years?
The Aryan migrations to India and to Europe were in large masses, of course taking their social customs, or as the Romans would say, their household gods, with them.
Woman rules in thesocial sphere, and is responsible for its vices.
She frequented a little social organization, in which young men and women assembled for conversation, reading, singing, etc.
Few changes in our social life have afforded me such genuine satisfaction as the recent changes, among a few of our best people, in the forms and methods of hospitality.
Wholesome in person, and interesting in manners, she not only won pupils, but social recognition.
Leaving Constantinople, let us visit an old-time fashionable social gathering in Vienna.
If a few hundred of you would join hands around the social evil, even in a city like this, where it has attained huge proportions, you could bring it within easy reach of christian aid.
It is another piece of that growing vice, which would remove music from the social sphere, and make it, like some peculiarity of dress, a mere show.
The social character and relations of women, as a class, in any country, may be clearly inferred from certain peculiarities of their dress.
Naturally they would "exchange works" with each other, and thus securesocial enjoyment.
It is but natural that she should be occupied with trimmings, and feel no interest in the great social and moral movements of the day.
But I hasten on to give you a very interesting illustration of the power of woman in the summary abatement of social nuisances.
Everyone knows, it is said, that the "social gospel" is the really effective modern agency; yet some evangelists with only the very crudest possible socialprogram are accomplishing important and beneficent results!
Despite the importance of social reforms, the first purpose of true Christian evangelism is to bring the individual man clearly and consciously into the presence of his God.
Undoubtedly, much good is being accomplished by social workers who have given up belief in historic Christianity; but it is good that does not go to the root of the matter.
Without that, all else is of but temporary value; the human race is composed of individual souls; the best of social edifices will crumble if all the materials are faulty.
His references to political and socialconditions are extraordinarily exact.
Slavery, moreover, is only an example; a host of other imperfect social institutions have similarly been modified or removed.
Social service exists for the sake of God, not God for the sake of social service.
It is often said that true religion is identical with social service, that the service of one's fellow men is always worship of God.
The only social insects were small twigfuls of ant and termite colonies, with from five to fifteen members.
The rearing of new hosts was too easy a matter for nature to have evolved anything like stretchers or a Red Cross service among these social beings.
These were my thoughts rather than later meditations on whether this might not be a sort of atavistic social instinct, faintly reminiscent of the gregariousness of their caterpillar youth.
Guests moved about now, or gathered into little socialgroups at will.
Several letters and papers came from trans-Pacific friends, a great many Tokio social invitations, a few notes relating to Red Cross matters, and one folded pamphlet with a Japanese postmark.
These people prefer to regard it as the most intimate of social functions, a family sacrament, a transition to be made in grave silence, not in the buzz of comment.
Well, Madame la Princesse, may I give you now my first social commission?
It was the secret craving of such socialvultures that a scene, the more disgraceful the better, be enacted for their entertainment, and the disappointment was correspondingly keen when neither Pierre nor Count Ronsard attended.
After all, I am ignorant of Japan, and of what social phantoms Yuki and I may have to fight.
Chit-books are to social life what check-books are to fiscal.
A ship is a huge floating laboratory of social gossip.
Seldom now did he accompany the Todd family to any social function.
And to think she must give up this brilliant social success, and go to a heathen country for four years!
Ah, little Princess Hagane, it is in such straits that your experience of foreignsocial hypocrisy must be made to serve you.
Our good old friend is gone; gone to his rest, Whose social converse was itself a feast.
The meeting, so singularly produced, was a source of reciprocal delight; and each looked cheerfully forward to the unclouded enjoyment of many social and literary hours.
After passing our mornings in social study, we usually walked out together at noon.
Had half a score of coxcombs died In social Robin's stead, Poor Sally's tears had soon been dried, Or haply never shed.
Hence the prime mover wheels itself about Continual, day by day, and with it bears, In social measure swift, the heavens around.
I am in favor of low levels and slowness in political change; I dislike these social overturns to which ambitious minds subject us.
It shows what women have lost by the Revolution, which has levelled all social ranks.
Do you not think it has a vague resemblance to social life?
As for money, though I regard it as one of the most powerful means given to social man to act with, it is, after all, but a means.
Left in their savage and primitive state these uncultivated social and natural wastes give birth to discouragement, laziness, weakness resulting from poor food, and crime when needs become importunate.
When great geniuses arise above the social mass, impelled by vocation, they are nearly always rounded into completeness; the man is then not merely a specialist, he has the gift of universality.
But modern philanthropy is an evil to society; the principles of the Catholic religion can alone cure the diseases which permeate social bodies.
The land-owning class, the lords, guide the social mechanism.
Thought is invariably the point of departure and the goal of all social existence.
The sacrament of God is offered and eaten at many a social meal, and the Spirit of Love finds utterance in quiet words from smiling lips.
All the ambitions which have their end in personal prestige are wholly barren; the ambitions which aim at social amelioration have a certain nobility about them, though they substitute a tortuous by-path for a direct highway.
But the valley had no social life of its own, and no one ever seemed, so far as we knew, to enter any other dwelling, though they met in quiet friendliness.
The politico-social line of division between the East and the West had been gradually growing fainter as that between the North and South grew deeper; but on the Oregon question it again became prominent.
In that movement, though Jefferson had behind him the mass of the people as the rank and file of his party, yet all his captains were still drawn from among the men in the same social position as himself.
He was rigidly moral, and he was too fond of work ever to make social life a business.
They were mainly college-bred men of high social standing, as well educated as any in the community, usually rich or at least well-to-do.
His eyes were black and piercing, with an expression of sensibility somewhat bordering on melancholy; except when engaged in cheerful and social intercourse with his friends, when they were exceedingly animated.
His temper also was singularly sweet and amiable, being not only free from ebullitions of anger, but from all those minor defects which it is needless to enumerate, and to which social peace and harmony are so repeatedly sacrificed.
Johnson said of him that he was not a social man; he never exchanged mind with you.
He was, henceforth, however he might try, as Frances Candler had warned him, to muffle or forget it, a social anomaly.
Day by day she was becoming more firmly linked to that ignoble and improvident class who fed on the very offal of social activity.
Haynes, under the direction of the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy.
They were a group of Americans, trained in the social conventions of their own land.
Among the round pegs that the square holes so uncomfortably chafe are colored girls of intelligence and charm who deliberately join the anti-social class.
The Southern white may lay bricks on the same wall with the Southern black, secure in his superior social position.
The traveller to the British West Indies finds three divisions among the inhabitants, white, colored, and black, each group having a distinct social status.
This investigation was carried on by Miss Ovington under the auspices of the Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations, of which she was a Fellow.
I have made two divisions of this census list; the first includes those occupations requiring intellectual skill and carrying with them some social position, the second, those demanding only manual work.
But while the white race usually makes no social distinction between the light and the dark Negro, classing all alike, social lines are drawn within the color line.
This does not include the many colored women doing social and recreation work in the public schools and on the city's playgrounds.
This was not a social call, so it did not matter that he was boring his host, however.
Earth was restored to its former splendor as the social and political capital of the Galaxy, though Ndrikull now was the financial center and rivaled Earth for artistic honors.
I still can't understand why you sent him an invitation to the wedding, but that he should make a casual social call.
