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... acts A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Farquharson Sharp is a publication of the Pe... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Farquharson Sharp, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen Translated by Farquharson Sharp A play in five acts ... ...Kiil, a tanner (Mrs. Stockmann’s adoptive father). Hovstad, editor of the “People’s Messenger.” Billing, sub-editor. Captain Horster. Aslaksen, a prin... ...y of the People Petra. Still, you might have told us— Dr. Stockmann. Not a living soul. But tomorrow you may run around to the old Badger— Mrs. Stockm... ...aths promise to be a regular gold-mine for the town. We shall all make our living out of them, especially those of us who are house- holders. That is ... ...Dr. Stockmann. The source is poisoned, man! Are you mad? We are making our living by retailing filth and cor- ruption! The whole of our flourishing mu... ...e town, if we go about proclaiming that our water is polluted, that we are living over a plague spot, that the entire town— Aslaksen. And the whole th... ... Dr. Stockmann. Bravely said, Katherine! It shall be made public—as I am a living soul! If I can’t hire a hall, I shall hire a drum, and parade the to...

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... has sixteen shots in the magazine. DRINKWATER (indignantly). Yuss; an the people that sells sich things into the ends o’ them eathen bleck niggers ca... ... who begins a casual acquaintance at the point usually attained by English people after thirty years ac- quaintance when they are capable of reaching ... ...dy Cicely, from travelling in Africa, has acquired a habit of walking into people’s houses and behaving as if she were in her own. LADY CICELY. But, m... ..., that is so nice of you, Mr. Rankin. This is a delicious country! And the people seem so good! They have such nice faces! We had such a handsome Moor... ...can trust my memory still, Mr. Rankin; though some 14 George Bernard Shaw people do complain that I am growing old. RANKIN. And where may Miles be no... ... without it. BRASSBOUND. In my world a man can navigate a ship and get his living by it. LADY CICELY. Oh, I see you’re one of the Idealists—the Imposs... ... be real; for I have seen him with these eyes; and I am one of the few men living who can decipher the curious alphabet in which he writes his private...

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...s carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every per...

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...heir family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted ... ...ous of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living to- gether, and that the stray people brought together by chance in ... ...elt that there was so sense in their living to- gether, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one an... ... wife’s words. There happened to him at that instant what does hap- pen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He ... ...ible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself. All he ... ...his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn. And for him, living in a certain society—owing to the need, ordinarily developed at year... ...that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service ... ...ing which produced a physical effect of kind- liness and good humor on the people who met him. “Aha! Stiva! Oblonsky! Here he is!” was almost always s... ...an utterly ruined, who had dissipated the greater part of his fortune, was living in the strangest and lowest com- pany, and had quarreled with his br...

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...son is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality. The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word teleph...

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... of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, ... ...abor, than drift along from their cradles to their graves doing what other people do for no other reason than that other people do it, and knowing not... ...sses can be concealed. Is it any wonder that I am driven to offer to young people in our suburbs the des- perate advice: Do something that will get yo... ...ty with integrity of self-respect and rea- sonable consideration for other peoples’ feelings and inter- 4 Fanny’s First Play ests on every point exce... ... respectability. But when there’s a will there’s a way. I hate to see dead people walking about: it is unnatural. And our re- spectable middle class p... ... I beg your pardon. I thought you were talking of the Byron. So you prefer living abroad? THE COUNT. I find England ugly and Philistine. Well, I dont ... ...y one of those unemployables of the business class who manage to pick up a living by a sort of courage which gives him cheerfulness, con- viviality, a...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Karenins, husband and wife, continued living in the same house, met every day, but were complete strangers to one another. Alexey Alexandrovitch made it a rule to see his wife every day, so that the servants might have no grounds for suppositions, but avoided din...

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...ance Garnett Part Four Chapter 1 The Karenins, husband and wife, continued living in the same house, met every day, but were complete strangers to one... ...he might not himself be insulted. The prince’s manner of treating the very people who, to Vronsky’s surprise, were ready to descend to any depths to p... ...is promotion, was now a colonel, had left the regimental quarters, and was living alone. After having some lunch, he lay down on the sofa immediately,... ... which he’s utterly steeped?... Could one, with any feeling, live as he is living with me? He understands nothing, and feels nothing. Could a man of a... ...pressed this uncertainty; but the lawyer promptly came to his assistance. “People cannot go on living together—here you have a fact. And if both are a... ...inty; but the lawyer promptly came to his assistance. “People cannot go on living together—here you have a fact. And if both are agreed about it, the ... ...r dinner, and by twelve o’clock was at Dussot’s, where he had to see three people, luckily all staying at the same hotel: Levin, who had recently come... ... stinctively felt that everything would come round all right. “They’re all people, all men, like us poor sinners; why be nasty and quarrelsome?” he th... ...t too, even if it were carried out, as doing for that bear. So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work— anything so as not to thin...

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................................................................................................................................ 123 THERE ARE NO GUILTY PEOPLE .................................................................................................................... 136 THE YOUNG TSAR .....................................................................................

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.............. ...................................... 123 THERE ARE NO GUILTY PEOPLE ....................................................................... ...g from a personal wrong. The dumb and submissive moujik found in Tolstoy a living voice to express his sufferings. Tolstoy was well fitted by nature a... ...s Morning” – ended in failure, owing to the ignorance and obstinacy of the people. It was not till he passed through the ordeal of war in Turkey and t... ...e had given him, and to have become, as before, a peasant and a man of the people. In the eyes of the other prisoners Plato was just a common soldier,... ...horses, because “one mustn’t forget the animals.” The characteristics of a people so embedded in the soil bear a closer relation to their native lands... ...ous altruism, “What then must we do?” takes its rank among the world’s few living books. It marks that stage of Tolstoy’s evolution when he made succe... ... for low wages; they would be inde pendent producers instead of earning a living by pro viding luxuries for the rich, who had enslaved them by monop... ..., is not ripe for disclosures of this nature, which so closely concern the living. Despite a strong rein of restraint his mental distress permeates th... ...t, breathing his own vitality into them, till they rose before our eyes as living aspirations. The spiritual joy of which he wrote was no rhetorical h...

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...E........................................................................................................................................ 4 DIFFICULT PEOPLE.................................................................................................................... 46 THE GRASSHOPPER.......................................................................................

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................................................................. 4 DIFFICULT PEOPLE........................................................................ ...ack. Here, of course, they have noth- ing now; everything belongs to other people. They have settled three or four families in a hut, so that there ar... ...hat they can do nothing, and yet continue to re- ceive their salaries from people who are living upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a right ... ... nothing, and yet continue to re- ceive their salaries from people who are living upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a right to judge whethe... ... was absolutely nobody in the district except me to help the starving. The people surrounding me were uneducated, unintellectual, callous, for the mos... ...ccounts of their splen- did packs of hounds and horses, the only one still living was Ivan Ivanitch Bragin. At one time he had been very active, talka... ... men as well as women; now he was an old man, had grown corpulent, and was living out his days with neither views nor charm. He came the day after get... ...s was my wife with whom I had once lived, and with whom I should have been living to this day if it had not been for her unfortunate character; she wa... ...vo today I envied the sick and starving peasant women because they are not living with a man like you. They are free and honest, while, thanks to you,...

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...raved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernable peals of laughter....

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...bott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to bre... ...a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.” “How I wish you were coming, Phi... ...really keen, for the hotel’s none too com- fortable.” “I cannot understand people,” said Harriet. “What can they be doing all day? And there is no chu... ...g—the Book Club, the Debating Society, the Progressive Whist, the bazaars. People won’t like it. We have our reputation. A house di- vided against its... ...—German bad taste without German domesticity broods over that room; also a living-room, which insensibly glides into a bedroom when the refining influ... ...ith which all seemed com- mon. Her money flew apace, in spite of the cheap living. She was even richer than he expected; and he remembered with shame ... ...ur friends’ people?” “Why, no. If they are poor and have to work for their living I may see them—but not otherwise. Ex- cept—” He stopped. The chief e... ...am at all events a man, and know what is right.” He found her still in the living-room, combing her hair, for she had something of the slattern in her... ... Perfetta was a widowed cousin, too humble for social aspirations, who was living with them as factotum. “Very well,” smiled Lilia, “very well”—as if ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Levins had been three months in Moscow. The date had long passed on which, according to the most trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she was still about, and there was nothing to show that her time was any nearer than two months ago. The doctor, the monthly nurse, and Dolly and her mother...

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... long passed on which, according to the most trust- worthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she wa... ..., but at the same time she wanted to laugh with a strange new joy. All the people she loved were with her, and all were so good to her, so attentively... ...o. Even the consideration that with such an expenditure he could not go on living for a year without debt, that even had no force. Only one thing was ... ...laborer has a quite special view of the land, different from that of other people; and to support this proposition he made haste to add that in his op... ...ude of the Russian peasant was due to the consciousness of his vocation to people vast unoccupied expanses in the East. “One may easily be led into er... ... not take his eyes off the marvelous portrait. It was not a picture, but a living, charming woman, with black curling hair, with bare arms and shoulde... ...antly and softly she looked at him with eyes that baffled him. She was not living only because she was more beautiful than a living woman can be. “I a... ..., but, on the other hand, there was something fresh and seduc- tive in the living woman which was not in the portrait. Chapter 10 She had risen to mee... ... would avoid her. One thing he did with more sincerity confess to was that living so long in Moscow, a life of nothing but conversation, eating and dr...

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...e peculiar characteristics of Russian life. A satisfactory translation can be made only by one who understands the language and spirit of the Russian people. As Tolstoi?s writings contain so many idioms it is not an easy task to render them into intelligible English, and the one who successfully accomplishes this must be a native of Russia, commanding the English and Russi...

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... made only by one who un- derstands the language and spirit of the Russian people. As Tolstoi’s writings contain so many idioms it is not an easy task... ...they plunged into the fair at Nijni Novgorod. The clerk boasted of knowing people who were leading a gay life there, but the old man did not allow him... ...8 Tolstoy often. In the present day it is bound to happen more frequently. People have become too learned.” The lawyer made some reply to the old man,... ..., evidently addressing the lawyer and myself, and not at all the old man. “People have become too learned,” repeated the last, looking at the lady wit... ... to go in her own fashion, and had kept a firm hand upon her, she would be living honestly, no danger. Liberty must be taken away from the begin- ning... ...nts; but I so arranged matters that I could not become aware of them. “And living thus, I considered myself a perfectly honest man. I did not understa... ...h, of the officers, of the Parisians, and all these gentlemen, and myself, living wild lives at the age of thirty, and who have on our consciences hun... ...t, and likewise very painful. “The situation may be described thus. We are living more or less tranquilly. I am even gay and contented. Suddenly we st... ...d that in a certain family all had moved from the house in which they were living, and thereby saved the little ones. And the doctors, with a serious ...

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...sible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart...

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...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ... don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce were, le... ...ing more particularly what in England it is the custom to call “quite good people”. They were descended, as you will probably expect, from the Ashburn... ...I to the scaffold, and, as you must also expect with this class of English people, you would never have noticed it. Mrs Ashburnham was a Powys; Floren... ...g years of scraping in little stations in Chitral and Burma—stations where living is cheap in comparison with the life of a county magnate, and where,... ...lies of the neighbourhood. And, in the mysterious way in which two people, living together, get to know each other’s thoughts without a word spoken, h... ...to imagine his frantic refusal—and talk. And talk! My God! And yet, to me, living in the house, enveloped with the charm of the quiet and ordered livi... ...that she stated as much in her letter to Nancy and upbraided the girl with living in luxury whilst her mother starved. And it must have been horrible ...

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...swer to the question whether he agreed to this arrangement or not. The arrangement was the more suitable as, immediately after the wedding, the young people were to go to the country, where the more important part of the trousseau would not be wanted....

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...ngement was the more suitable as, immediately after the wedding, the young people were to go to the coun- try, where the more important part of the tr... ...ome back from the country, where he had got everything ready for the young people’s arrival, “have you a certificate of having been at confession?” “N... ...“Oh, no, I’m not an enemy of matrimony. I’m in favor of division of labor. People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for... ...f...better say so,” he said, not looking at her. “I shall be wretched. Let people say what they like; anything’s better than misery.... Far better now... ...less comprehended than the man himself, and all the while she was going on living in the outward conditions of her old life. Living the old life, she ... ...ry, very glad!” “Let’s go in. Come, tell me what you’re doing.” “I’ve been living here for two years. I’m working.” “Ah!” said Vronsky, with sympathy;... ...t be occu- 36 Anna Karenina – Part Five pied in some way, since they were living abroad in com- plete freedom, outside the conditions of social life ... ...had received that morning, and pointing to an article on a Russian artist, living in the very same town, and just finishing a picture which had long b... ...d aloud with delight. The figure from a lifeless imagined thing had become living, and such that it could never be changed. That figure lived, and was...

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...r cast two votes. The Chancellor of New York and fellow Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath of office. The Bible on which the oath w... ...t, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for the... ...s than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the In visible Hand which c... ... as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will rema... ...in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and... ...ir own immediate representatives, who spend a part of every year among them, living with them, often la boring with them, and bound to them by the tr... ...ds of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth stone all over this broad land, will yet swell t... ...herein any departure from those di vine attributes which the believers in a living God al ways ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pr... ... the land, to the end that the products of all may find a market and leave a living remuneration to the producer; to the maintenance of friendly relat...

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...of humanity went on as unceasingly as the flow of time. V arious groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdo... ...ed, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spa... ...eir opinion, caused what they describe as the reaction. All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Phot... ...ty years ago Alexander I was mistaken in his view of what was good for the people, we 5 Tolstoy must inevitably assume that the historian who judges ... ...and Sonya to a small house on the Sivtsev Vrazhek. Natasha and Pierre were living in Petersburg at the time and had no clear idea of Nicholas’ circums... ...verness, and old Michael Ivanovich, the late prince’s archi- tect, who was living on in retirement at Bald Hills. Countess Mary sat at the other end o... ...nquillity only death could give her. But until death came she had to go on living, that is, to use her vital forces. A peculiarity one sees in very yo... ... who had formed the circle of her contemporaries and had once been a real, living, and dis- tinct group, but who were now for the most part scattered ... ...ve, and draw conclusions, man must first of all be conscious of himself as living. A man is only conscious of himself as a living being by the fact th...

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...nnot act otherwise. Wherefore among men, so long as they are considered as living under the sway of nature, he who does not yet know reason, or who ha... ... that previous to the law – that is, so long as men are consid- ered of as living under the sway of nature, there is no sin. The natural right of the ... ...re has given them no other guide, and has denied them the present power of living according to sound reason; so that they are no more bound to live by... ...is by the necessity of this alone that all individuals are conditioned for living and acting in a particular way. If any- thing, therefore, in nature ... ...till less to be feared: for it is almost impossible that the majority of a people, espe- cially if it be a large one, should agree in an irrational de... ...oes himself no good: but in a state or kingdom where the weal of the whole people, and not that of the ruler, is the supreme law, obedience to the sov... ...n power; and will be bound so to do so long as the king, or nobles, or the people preserve the sovereign power which 10 A Theologico-Political Treati... ...y by its authority: for when a man has transferred to another his right of living as he likes, which was only limited by his power, that is, has trans... ...ks and heathen, and to give orders to their subjects who settle among such peoples not to assume more freedom, either in things secular or religious, ...

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...possibly be put on it. But he had selected quotations so adroitly that for people who had not read the book (and obviously scarcely anyone had read it... ...es, beer, restaurants—everything testified to sym- pathy with the Slavonic peoples. From much of what was spoken and written on the subject, Sergey Iv... ...society with an object and an occu- pation. He saw, too, that a great many people were tak- ing up the subject from motives of self-interest and self-... ... Servians and Montenegrins struggling for a great cause begot in the whole people a longing to help their brothers not in word but in deed. But in thi... ...halovna, to the nurse, to his grandfather, to his father even, Mitya was a living being, requiring only materiel care, but for his mother he had long ... ... From that moment, though he did not distinctly face it, and still went on living as before, Levin had never lost this sense of terror at his lack of ... ... him was the thought how much easier it was to believe in a still existing living church, embracing all the beliefs of men, and having God at its head... ...elf. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living. Chapter 10 When Levin thought what he was and what he was liv- ing ... ...about it. It seemed as though he knew both what he was and for what he was living, for he acted and lived resolutely and without hesitation. Indeed, i...

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...birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones. Now death is not necessarily a failure ... ...eath is not necessarily a failure of energy on the part of the Life Force. People with no imagination try to make things which will last for ever, and... ...able horror could provoke. With all our perverse nonsense as to John Smith living for a thousand 4 A Treatise on Parents and Children million eons an... ...damned, since the saved are no longer what they were, and in hell alone do people retain their sinful nature: that is to say, their individuality. And... ...he twenty years following. She never alluded to my salva- tion in any way. People occasionally ask me to act as godfa- ther to their children with a l... ...e cheerful and stimulating. I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never hea... ...times a year during the holidays, and then not oftener than they can help, living meanwhile in daily and intimate contact with their valets and lady’s... ...s they are sur- rounded by their victims, and always certain to make their living by accepting the custody of children, no matter how many alternative... ...heir several limbs each in a different metre until they become complicated living magazines of cross rhythms, and, what is more, make music for others...

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...here have been one or two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixi... ...p who took the part of Annas went home and died of horror. But responsible people have never made such attempts. The moneyed, respectable, capable wor... ...acks on the existing social order, however corrupt that order might be, by people with no knowledge of government and no power to construct political ... ...h has no real significance because it has no intelligence, there is, among people who are really free to think for themselves on the subject, a great ... ...ptismal font was the river Jordan. He was an ascetic, clothed in skins and living on locusts and wild honey, practising a savage austerity. He courted... ...nly solves the problem by exclaiming, “Thou are the Christ, the son of the living God.” At this Jesus is ex- traordinarily pleased and excited. He dec... ...oing through a predetermined ritual, like the works of a clock, instead of living. Finally Mark reports Christ as saying, after his resurrection, that... ...glory and establish his king- dom on earth within the lifetime of men then living, was one which he believed that he could, and indeed must fulfil. Tw... ...and baker and the clothier for the things that he really ap- propriates as living tissue or its wrappings, paying for all of them more than their cost...

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...eir words and feelings seemed an insult to the world in which she had been living of late, and she felt not merely indifferent to them but regarded th... ... grass were already sprouting, which taking root would so cover with their living verdure the grief that weighed her down that it would soon no longer... ...nd in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. The chief cause of the wastage of Napoleon’s army was the rapid- it... ...o imagine any aim more worthy or more consonant with the will of the whole people. Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of ... ... that thoughts and the words serving as their expression are not what move people—use quite meaningless words that hap- pened to enter his head. 17 T... ...iston’s proposal of peace, he said: There can be no peace, for such is the people’s will. He alone during the retreat of the French said that all our ... ...ad come from Moscow; and also his cousin the eldest princess, who had been living on his estate at Elets and hearing of his rescue and illness had com... ...th—not faith in any kind of rule, or words, or ideas, but faith in an ever-living, ever-manifest God. Formerly he had sought Him in aims he set himsel... ...vivid- ness. Having heard at dinner that Princess Mary was in Mos- cow and living in her house—which had not been burned—in V ozdvizhenka Street, he d...

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...as passed. He writes: “They were freer than their forefathers in dress and living, and spent more in other kinds of excesses, consuming their time and... ...fate he drew the moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. This is a very noticeable principle in M... ...e Medici, imprisoned, and put to the question by torture. The new Medicean people, Leo X, procured his release, and he re- tired to his small property... ...far later day than Machiavelli’s that government should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition... ...ent should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; to... ... them- selves upon high mountains, even so to understand the nature of the people it needs to be a prince, and to un- derstand that if princes it nee... ...to be a prince, and to un- derstand that if princes it needs to be of the people. 15 Machiavelli Take then, your Magnificence, this little gift in t... ...med men in the state shall be your own soldiers who in your old state were living near you. 3. Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, wer... ...out this time great disturbances arose in Rome, ow- ing to the dearness of living which was caused by the absence of the pontiff at Avignon. The Germa...