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...agnificent, (a word too often and lightly abused.) In reality, speaking of women, I have seen many beautiful figures, but hardly one except Agnes that... ... styled truly and memorably magnificent. Though in the first order of tall women, yet, being full in person, and with a symmetry that was absolutely f... ...m mere want of moisture, I could not separate my lips to speak. One of the women saw the vain efforts I was making, and hastily brought me a glass of ... ...sentatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that the muleteer’s stable at Valladolid was worth twenty suc... ...and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodu... ...ight (as it literally was in its commencement)—to the T artar siege of the Russian fortress Koulagina—the bloody engagement with the Cossacks in the m... ...sses at Ouchim—the surprisal by the Bashkirs and the advanced posts of the Russian army at Torgau—the private conspiracy at this point against the Kha... ...s of con- densing, would become planets, capable of brilliant literati and philosophers, in several volumes octavo. So stood the case for a long time;... ...unclean beasts would have been Coleridge’s private menag- erie of departed philosophers, could they all have been trot- ted out in succession! But did...

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...lants, the birds, the insects, and the children. But men, grown-up men and women, did not leave off cheat- ing and tormenting themselves and each othe... ...t 9 a.m., three prisoners at present detained in the prison, a man and two women (one of these women, as the chief criminal, to be conducted sepa- rat... ...e at once became sleepy. From inside the cell came the sound of bustle and women’s voices, and the patter of bare feet on the floor. “Now, then, hurry... ...ing to another tune then.” “This son of a priest will be saying ‘thou’ [in Russian, as in many other languages, “thou” is used generally among people ... ...irty-three; born in the year one thousand eight—” “What religion?” “Of the Russian religion, orthodox.” 32 Resurrection “Married?” “Oh, no, sir.” “Yo... ...ith, nature, and with those who had lived and thought and felt before him— philosophers and poets. What he now considered neces- sary and important we... ... scented soap, with the wrapper just taken off, and two towels— one a long Russian embroidered one, the other a bath towel. The unused soap with the s...

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...me de Cadignan could come to the theatre unseen, and depart incognito. Few women would have been capable of a delicacy which deprived them of the plea... ..., a dazzling queen, whose luxurious existence equalled that of the richest women of fashion in London,— there was something touching in the sight of h... ...mber, dining-room, salon, one bed-chamber, and a dress- ing-room, with two women-servants only. “Ah! she is devoted to her son,” said that clever crea... ...nhappy she had been with a certain celebrated ambassador, how happy with a Russian general, besides be- coming the Egeria of two ministers of Foreign ... ...ng-continued struggle. If you observe carefully the noble faces of ancient philosophers, you will always find those deviations from the type of a perf... ...le fool of a d’Esgrignon, and Rastignac, Rubempre, ambassadors, ministers, Russian generals, heaven knows who! all Europe! They have gossiped about th...

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...s harsh and rasping as a file. Caustic to excess she had few friends among women; she surrounded herself with prim, elderly matrons of her own stamp, ... ... her work with more agility. Mme. Cibot had attained the time of life when women of her stamp are obliged to shave —which is as much as to say that sh... ... of view. Paris, in his opinion, was a perpetual hurly- burly, the men and women in it were whirled away by a tempestuous waltz; it was no use expecti... ...ne covered with delicate carving, the like of which had never been seen. A Russian lady (Russian ladies are apt to forget that they are not in Russia)... ...s far more widely spread than scholars, lawyers, doctors, magistrates, and philosophers imagine. The instincts of the people are ineradicable. One amo... ...rough you, madame?—So young! and yet have you such vices as this?” asked a Russian prince. Russians are by nature imitative; imitative indeed to such ... ...bric-a-brac mania had appeared in an acute form in St. Petersburg, and the Russians caused such a rise of prices in the “art line,” as Remonencq would...

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...ou so much as a French centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the... ... sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never possessed. Your wars and revolutions come up before... ...ast, and strong enough to bring about three days of delirium! Pas- sionate women’s forms should grace that night! I would be borne away to unknown reg... ...fying the worthy people of France with a few new words and old ideas, like philosophers of every school, and all strong intellects ever since time beg... ...ent dinner every day, and the play at frequent intervals, where profligate women swarm, where suppers last on into the next day, and light loves are h... ... passage of Beresina; and when Napoleon later on proposed an exchange, the Russian authorities made search for him in Siberia in vain; he had escaped ... ...or else no one has taken a fancy to her. A sort of feminine enigma, a half Russian Parisienne, or a half Parisian Russian. All the ro- mantic producti... ...in a simple, childlike fashion, and with the ab- stracted look peculiar to philosophers. His face plainly showed traces of a struggle between a heavy ...

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...................................................................... 35 THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION ............................................ ...entre of the world’s attention is too absurd for discussion; grown men and women may speak kindly of a harmless crea- ture who utters amiable sentimen... ...lished religion and those who are passionately attacking it, the genu- ine philosophers being very few. Thus you never have a nation of millions of We... ... does not place Jesus above Confucius or Plato, not to mention more modern philosophers and moralists. 35 Preface to Androcles and the Lion MARK THE ... ...philosophers and moralists. 35 Preface to Androcles and the Lion MARK THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION LET US SEE whether we can get anything mo... ... occurred as that the battle of Waterloo occurred, or that a large body of Russian troops passed through England in 1914 to take part in the war on th... ...have written the epistles attributed to him, in which Chinese sages, Greek philosophers, Latin authors, and writ- ers of ancient anonymous inscription...

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... commencement of his reign, being the savior of Russia. There is no one in Russian literature now, from schoolboy essayist to learned historian, who d... ...ether the preservation of my father’s house in Moscow, or the glory of the Russian arms, or the prosperity of the Petersburg and other universities, o... ...ushes eastward and reaches its final goal— Moscow. That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered i... ... almost desperate when she brought him a petition from some peasant men or women who had appealed to her to be excused some work; why he, that kind Ni... ... that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty. It is only Malvinas and women of that kind who are loved for their beauty. But do I love my wife? I... ...lready,” she said in French, pointing to little Natasha. “Y ou reproach us women with being illogical. Here is our logic. I say: ‘Papa wants to sleep!... ...ing such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and poets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goal toward whic...

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... some reason for it when the Undershafts could only 9 Major Barbara marry women in their own class, whose sons were not fit to govern great estates. ... ... airs, an lam into er with the poker. RUMMY. That’s what’s so unfair to us women. Your confes- sions is just as big lies as ours: you don’t tell what ... ...Y es: you like an old man to hit, don’t you, when you’ve finished with the women. I ain’t seen you hit a young one yet. BILL [stung] You lie, you old ... ...philosophy; only a simple knowledge of the secret that has puzzled all the philosophers, baffled all the lawyers, muddled all the men of business, and... ... do nothing of the sort, papa. I suppose it’s your business to blow up the Russians and Japs; but you might really stop short of blowing up poor Choll...

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...als.” Another, that “all the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stan... ... pardon him.”—The Gulistan of Sadi . Most people with whom I talk, men and women even of some originality and genius, have their scheme of the uni ve... ...rints, or the thoughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German cr... ... is such a despatch in them. Compared with these, the grave think ers and philosophers seem not to have got their swaddling clothes off; they are sl... ...able with warrant, travellers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar. There stands a gig in the gray... ...ain of the Indian sect of Gymnosophists, and he had told them of those new philosophers of the West, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Diogenes, and their doc... ... of genius, but to have lived with too passive a regard for the laws.” The philosophers of the West are liable to this rebuke still. “They say that Li...

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........................................... 148 BOOK VII. THE INSURRECTION OF WOMEN ........................................................................ ...e public places with cries of despair; crowds gather, get excited: so many women in destraction run about exaggerating the alarm: an absurd and horrid... ... received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11- 36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, before i... ...Progress of the Species, happiness enough now awaits him. Kings can become philosophers; or else philosophers Kings. Let but Society be once rightly c... ... his little contribution, does much. Force likewise (for, as Antiquar- ian Philosophers teach, the royal Sceptre was from the first something of a Ham... ...Rue de Clichy,’ far North, to wait there till wanted. Apparently a certain Russian Baroness de Korff, with Waiting-woman, Valet, and two Children, wil... ...Europe all rallying on us. It is a problem like few. Truly, if man, as the Philosophers brag, did to any extent look before and after, what, one may a...

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... since regained. I was invited to literary parties and to parties given by women of rank and fashion who thought it behoved them to patronise the arts... ...meet her that Arthur had arranged to come to tea that afternoon. The young women waited for him in the studio. The kettle was boiling on the stove; cu... ...years to pass easily, and she looked older. But she was one of those plain women whose plainness does not matter. A gal 18 TheMagician lant Frenchma... ...hose strange beings, male and female, which were called homunculi. The old philosophers doubted the possibility of this operation, but Paracelsus asse... ...sure of that little world. Afterwards, she often saw them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prod...

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...han those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she transl... ...g affection in her own sex. Impulsive girls she could keep in awe; but old women, notably two aunts who had never paid her any at- tention during her ... ...t yet provided a place and a sphere of action for wise and well-instructed women. In my younger days, when the companionship of my fellows was a neces... ...,” said Cashel, earnestly. “It isn’t right to be always looking at men and women as you would at horses. If you want to back them in a race or in a fi... ... knew how to fight too, he wouldn’t need to fear police, nor soldiers, nor Russians, nor Prussians, nor any of the millions of men that may be let loo... ...ear her, “if your paragon should turn aside from her friends, the artists, philosophers, and statesmen, to give herself to an illiterate prize-fighter...

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...d-times more cunningly devised poetical turning-loom, than that of Swift’s Philosophers in Laputa. Johnson’s prose is true, indeed, and sound, and ful... ...how to rise above it. Governments naturally at- tempt the first expedient; Philosophers, in general, the second. The Poet, says Schiller, is a citizen... ...rt, with which many houses were provided, was called a frame (Geräms). The women sat in it to sew and knit; the *A chief judge or magistrate of the to... ... as the earnest and noble form and the blue eyes of Charles Seventh on the women. At any rate, both sexes vied with each other in giving to the attent... ...ner- ally a cheerful, quiet man, and fond of ease, became impa- tient. The women vainly endeavored to smother the flames; 64 Autobiography and, after... ... I will also mention that I saw Diderot’s “Father of a Fam- ily,” and “The Philosophers” of Palissot, and still perfectly remember the figure of the p... ...habitants of the Eastern countries in their strange dresses, the Poles and Russians, and, above all, the Greeks, for the sake of whose handsome forms ...

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...ant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold ... ...the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese,... ...ngs. Y et,’ looking full upon her, ‘you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their busi- ness to do with you, and ... ...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...of; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the de... ...e seen in Rag Fair. All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people’s individuality, ... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri...

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...eems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as a matter of course) all religions,... ...has been committed on this subject, not by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian ethics (which word ethics, how- eve... ...ghout Christendom to murder harmless, friendless, and oftentimes crazy old women. Meantime the witch of Endor in no respect re- sembled our modern dom... ...rous warrant; until at last the fiery fur- nace, which they had heated for women and children, shot forth flames that, like those of Nebuchadnezzar’s ... ...it? Who first no- ticed hunger and cold as awful realities afflicting poor women and innocent children? Who first made a public provision to meet thes... ...sule Romam!’ and he mentioned the fact at all only for the sake of Natural Philosophers or of the curious in old women. Char- ity, even in that sense,... ...th century. The merest possibility exists, that in Armenia, or in a Graeco-Russian monastery on Mount Athos, or in Pompeii, &c., some authors hitherto...

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...m were inaccessible. He mentions all told more than fifty names of men and women whom he consulted for infor- mation, to which number many others shou... ...pon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversa- tion.’ Upon women of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the consciou... ...ous and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third down to the cat ... ...his produced a trium- phant roar of laughter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so ... ... I heard him maintain the superiority of Sir Isaac Newton over all foreign philosophers, with a dignity and eloquence that surprized that learned fore... ...rdinary exertions of that distinguishing faculty of man, which has puzzled philosophers so much to explain. Johnson’s laugh was as remarkable as any c... ... The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be trans- lated into the Russian language: so I shall be read on the banks of the Wolga. Horace boas...

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...ant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold ... ...the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese,... ...ngs. Y et,’ looking full upon her, ‘you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their busi- ness to do with you, and ... ...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...of; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the de... ...e seen in Rag Fair. All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people’s individuality, ... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri... ...t, the land of a host of past and present abstract philoso- phers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in their myriad forms, called ...

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...son, disclosed at once the presence of one of those angels upon earth that women in adversity can be. It was a hard fate that she was watching over. M... ...mong the older negroes of the place. At length one of the most aged of the women said that she had heard of such a place as Bessop’s Castle, and thoug... ...Some few are mountebanks. Others more particularly be- long to the race of philosophers. The greatest portion, how- ever — those especially who belabo... ...at a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!” Come let us be off. “Stay a moment! I see a vast hubbub in t... ...g the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling ques- tions, are not beyond all conjecture. —Sir ... ...ds of the shrill voice. Spoke quick and unevenly. Thinks it the voice of a Russian. Corroborates the general testimony. Is an Italian. Never conversed... ...has no knowledge of the En- glish.’ The Italian believes it the voice of a Russian, but ‘has never conversed with a native of Russia.’ A second French...

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...e busi- ness of a peculiar trade; and some by that of those who are called philosophers, or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do any thing,... ...rds occupa- 16 The Wealth of Nations tion to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as ... ... and is generally exhausted by two or three. Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station. Luxury, in ... ...e men-servants, who leave their masters, become independent labourers. The women return to their parents, and commonly spin, in order to make clothes ... ...art of men have of their own abilities, is an ancient evil remarked by the philosophers and moralists of all ages. Their absurd presumption in their o... ... The chairmen, porters, and coal- heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful wo... ...ns T urkey market, which, during the distress of the country , and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplie... ...language in which the mandarins of Pekin used to talk to Mr. De Lange, the Russian envoy, concerning it {See the Journal of Mr. De Lange, in Bell’s T ... ... fit to face the hardiest and most experienced veterans. In 1756, when the Russian army marched into Poland, the valour of the Russian soldiers did no...

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...had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlig...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Ele... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania S... ... they lived without scruple on incomes which they did nothing to earn. The women in their girlhood made themselves look like variety theatre stars, an... ...imply pocket the money that was heaped on them. Attractively dressed young women found that they had nothing to do but parade the streets, collecting-... ...l of fashionable hats, were filled with steel helmets. Slain and mutilated women and children, and burnt and wrecked dwellings, excuse a good deal of ... ...on the part of the very persons who, as university professors, historians, philosophers, and men of science, were the accredited custodians of culture... ...k we were filled with notions that might have been all very well for pagan philosophers of fifty, but were certainly quite unfit for respectable peopl...

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...ected, sugary expression, evi- dently habitual to him when conversing with women. “I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and cul- ture of the... ... society. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.” Anna Pavlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew ... ...is career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, will not rest un... ...story today and must treat you to it. Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell h... ...int will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. E... ... of helping, was in everyone’s way. “Allow me, sir,” said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking h... ...ing such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and po- ets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goal toward wh...

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...e too tolerant of dull, well- meaning and industrious men and arrogant old women. It suffers hypocrites gladly, because its criticism is poor, and it ... ...e care that was to be taken of them, and they went down, and most of their women 38 An Englishman Looks at the World and children went down with the ... ... of industry. And then, last but not least, there is self-respect. Men and women are capable of wonders of self-discipline and effort if they feel tha... ...in the ballot box. Our liberal intelligences could and do still understand Russians wanting votes, Indians wanting votes, women want- ing votes. The h... ..., will come to be a manageable matter. It has been the perpetual wonder of philosophers from Plato onward that men have bred their dogs and horses and...

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... is not a cabbage. In Spain they are all curtains—a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in thei... ... the game,” continued Hop-Frog, “lies in the fright it occasions among the women.” “Capital!” roared in chorus the monarch and his ministry. “I will e... ...vage cries, among the crowd of delicately and gor- geously habited men and women. The contrast is inimitable!” “It must be,” said the king: and the co... ...ts of some kind in real- ity, if not precisely ourang-outangs. Many of the women 27 V olume Five swooned with affright; and had not the king taken th... ...lming principle, as I have already described it to you, it occurred to our philosophers that a laudable curiosity might be gratified, and, at the same...

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...rather oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or like to that which here below Philosophers in vain so long have sought, In vain, though by thir powerfu... ...urest seise them both Grip’t in each paw: when ADAM first of men To first of women EVE thus moving speech, Turnd him all eare to heare new utterance f... ...ome my crime, And thou th’ accuser. Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in Women overtrusting Lets her Will rule; restraint she will not brook, And ... ...o hee Departing gave command, and they observ’d. As when the TARTAR from his RUSSIAN Foe By ASTRACAN over the Snowie Plaines Retires, or BACTRIAN Soph... ...SE, or where The PERSIAN in ECBATAN sate, or since In HISPAHAN, or where the RUSSIAN KSAR In MOSCO, or the Sultan in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN born; nor cou... ...on the Plain Long had not walkt, when from the Tents behold A Beavie of fair Women, richly gay Paradise Lost Milton 193 In Gems and wanton dress; ...

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