1 There is a material growth; we admit it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW 2 , the Huguenot king, with the material for an oath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 3 He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 4 She wore a dress of black damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST 5 There was in the woman a substratum of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 6 Poverty instantly lays material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds towards the ideal life.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 7 This industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw material, which reacted on the manufacture.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ... 8 After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable to point out, in a few words, its material configuration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES 9 Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 10 During her entire stay there, he had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and precipitates the whole soul on a single point.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 11 On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes of Marius was gradually rent.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN 12 France has her relapses into materialism, and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ... 13 He had thus propounded the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to cast the rest to the infinite.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 14 Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called passion.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ... 15 A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS 16 All belonged to that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE 17 This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which was a benefit to the manufacturer.
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