There are certain standards of conduct which no civilised Government can with impunity neglect and which His Majesty's Government are determined to uphold.
On the pleasure yacht I should at least walk among equals, and feel myself a civilised being.
That degradation of the artisan, which might ensue from the monotony and triviality of his employment, is counteracted by that variety of interests which spring up in a civilised community.
If it did, not one rule or law that binds the rotten fabric of civilised life together would stand for a single moment.
Mr. Winkle, being engaged in the City as agent or town correspondent of his father, exchanged his old costume for the ordinary dress of Englishmen, and presented all the external appearance of a civilised Christian ever afterwards.
If there was a paradise for the first primitive man, why should there not be one for civilised man of to-day?
If Anarchists wish to spread their opinions abroad, there are quite sufficient means for doing so in civilised society.
The older form of Anarchism is marked by that lofty idealism which was the general mental attitude of civilised Western Europe in the first half of this century.
He is the typical representative of that nation to whom its best sons have denied the capacity of being a nation, but which has therefore been able to produce more striking individualities than all other civilised nations of the time.
Like most semi-civilised nations, the people of Herzegovina are much addicted to showy colours in their dress.
Of all the provinces of the empire Bosnia was perhaps the most deeply imbued with the spirit of this faction, the last memento of that ancient chivalry which had carried fire and sword over a great part of civilised Europe.
The high Vienna notions which he imbibed during that period have deprived him of the sympathy and affection of his semi-civilised subjects, as much as the uncultivated mind of his father deprived him of their respect.
Many will doubtless deny the advantages to be thus derived; but it is self-evident that in half-civilised countries power should be in the hands of as few as possible.
What would not most men do, civilised or savage, for 'temporal advantages?
But civilised man can make this inequality innocuous, as he has already done with bogs and bears.
The highest and holiest task for a civilised being is to serve his neighbours, and we try to serve them as best we can.
In other words, Nature abhors anarchy as being the destruction of civil society, and as cutting the ground from under the feet of civilised man.
I was astonished and disgusted at the abusive manner in which they were written, the freedom of the press being enjoyed to an extent in this province unknown in more civilised communities.
When such improvements have been effected, the inhabitants may be said at once to take their proper place among civilised nations.
Every object had become endeared to me during my long exile from civilised life.
The attitude expressed in these words was widespread in the whole of the civilised world at the beginning of the Christian era.
Whitman, in common with Jason Lee, soon began to perceive that the Columbia Valley possessed resources and a location which would inevitably make it the seat of a civilised population.
He remained an Indian to the last, not ordinarily living in a house or wearing civilised costume or even speaking English, though perfectly able to do so.
At this point they began to be aware of the fact that they were reaching the sphere of the white traders from the ocean, for they began to see blankets, axes, brass kettles, and other articles of civilised manufacture.
Rounding the bluffs of Tongue Point, they beheld with full hearts the Stars and Stripes floating over the only civilised abode west of St. Louis.
But to the parties led by Lewis and Clark and by Hunt, we must accord the greatest meed of praise for having broken the first pathways across the continent and for having linked the two oceans by the footsteps of civilised men.
We try to live over again the sensations which we think must have been felt by Lewis and Clark or Broughton, as they, first of civilised men, lifted the veil from this solitude.
How do you account for this--that a principle which I do not believe one man in a million could defend from all objections has become the dominating rule of civilised government throughout the world?
These were the offences which prompted the Daily Mail to say: 'After this no one will treat the Huns as civilised or repentant.
The purpose of the Allies in this War,' said Mr Asquith, 'is to pave the way for an international system which will secure the principle of equal rights for all civilised States .
The way to treat a German, while Germans follow their present methods, is as a common peril to all civilised mankind.
The French, British, Belgians, and Italians, and every civilised force in Russia would tumble over one another in their eager greeting of this return to sanity.
After enjoying sufficiently my wonder at their appearance, and delight at their agreeable taste, she informed me of their first introduction into Europe, and their gradual diffusion over the more civilised portions of the globe.
The most striking example of this change of opinion is that as to slavery, which was held to be quite justifiable by the most highly civilised people of antiquity, and hardly less so by ourselves within the memory of persons still living.
It has always been more or less chronic since the rise of the Roman Empire, but there is now undoubtedly a disinclination for war among all civilised peoples.
That such things should still exist in a country claiming to be civilised would be incredible, were there not so many others of a like nature and almost as bad.
The first of these is, that all civilised nations are endeavouring to stamp out ignorance and disease, and that an enormous advance in this direction can be observed in the last fifty years.
And when woman became civilised enough to have exotic desires, she lost her natural instinct, that of preservation of pure offspring, and became liable to vagrant fancies and often a vicious creature.
And, taking a general view of the civilised peoples, a far greater number of their units now lead less dreadful and degraded lives.
It was a sublimely simple mode of clearing the way for the countenance--much in vogue among North American savages, from whom it has recently been introduced among civilised nations.
The nearest abode of civilised man was several hundred miles distant, and neither he nor Rollin knew the way to any place whatever.
A young prince of the Lebanon, whatever his religion, was a distinguished and agreeable accession to their circle, but in Tancred they recognised a being at once civilised and fashionable, a Christian who could dance the polka.
I wonder how any civilised being can wear the sort of things we see about us.
It is the Jordan and the Ilyssus that have civilised the modern races.
She had heard all her life of crimes committed for the sake of an inheritance; and so have most of us, and in countries that fondly believe themselves much more civilised than Italy.
In Lincoln and Orange Courts, the most glaring violation of the laws of health and of the requirements of civilised life was found.
It has been abolished in nearly every other civilised country, but the courts and jails of our beautiful Italy continue to be the scene of plots in which helpless unfortunates are terrorised by expedients which leave not a trace of crime.
The silence was breathless while the speaker made this personal reference, and when he sat down, after a denunciation of the militarism which was consuming the heart of the civilised world, the House was too dazed to make any manifestation.
All the world knows and honours Him, and civilised nations have built themselves upon the religion He founded.
There cannot be a question that he is a murderer also, and if you keep him here you will violate the law of every civilised State and expose yourself to the condemnation of the world.
It is one of those scandals of the law that are telegraphed to every part of the civilised world.
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