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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...or a better understanding of this definition, see the interpretation of the film “Scent of a woman” (see “I Laboratori corali della Cosmo-art”, Sophi... ...iale” {Theory of the Existential Unconscious} and my interpretation of the film “The Silence of the Lambs” in my book : “La vita come opera d’arte e ... ...in my book : “La vita come opera d’arte e la vita come dono spiegata in 41 film” {Life as a work of art and life as a gift explained in 41 films}. ... ...ay, which the solar system containing the Earth belongs to, represents the male and female reproductive organs for the life of the entire universe. ... ...lopment of my reflections on the anthropic principle created by a group of American scientists. Anyone who would like to know more about the anthro... ...ay, which the solar system containing the Earth belongs to, represents the male and female reproductive organs for the life of the entire universe. ... ...e comes about through initiation rites that take place after the adolescent males have been separated for a time from the family and the village. In... ...ter in the poem represents a part of Ulysses, like in a play where all the actors are portraying various aspects of the playwright. It is only fair,... ...ering ourselves victims of destiny so we can become artists, and not just actors, of our lives and of the life of the universe; the pain of losing...

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Kabbalah for Beginners

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ntradicted everything his contempo- - Perhaps one of the best known Native American traditions is the Council Circle. Here, the members sit in a cir... ... persons, and even cab drivers. In Kabbalah, a giving degree is considered male and a receiving degree is considered female. Within each degree ther... ...ered female. Within each degree there are states in which it is acting as male or as female; hence, we sometimes refer to a certain degree as male,... ...h. The only two exceptions to this rule are the Crer r ator, who is always male, being the source, and Creation, which is always female, since she re... ... b eg Inners - p art t hree Let’s clarify this with an example. In the film, What the Bleep Do We Know!? Dr. Candace Pert explains that if a cer... ...couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an... ...nvironment; I can reinforce the influence of that environment with books, films, and magazine articles. Any means that increases and supports my des... ...increase my desire for it, I need only have the right friends, books, and films around me. Human nature will do the rest. If a group of people de- -... ...o the New England Journal of Medicine, “Annu- - ally, more than 46 million Americans, ages 15-54, suffer from depressive episodes.” And the Archives ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ....................................................... 30 TRADITION AND MALE POWER ................................................................... ...e on the lower end of the scale to voluntarily undergo sterilization. For males or females with no children for every point on the IQ scale that a ... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...ing jobs to become barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Marriage for the male university graduates was more likely to be with less educated women. ... ...ying to fill 200 television channels with 24/7 programs, open several new films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on ... ...have a more peaceful society in the meantime. “We wonder why your film producers insist on producing violent films when the research indicate... ...y don‟t understand that the bad guy usually gets caught at the end of the film. “We are not ready to declare that being ethical is genetically...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...e late 90s in China the entrepreneurial types often pirated clothes, music, films. They had decided to beat free enterprise at its own game. The gove... ...to eliminate them. For example, China has 320 million smokers. 90% of adult males smoke. That‘s about twice the world‘s rate. Smoking now accounts fo... ...nd we do not allow actors to smoke on screen for TV or movie programs. Any film that shows a person smoking is not allowed in our country. Film produ... ...her cut or re-do the scenes with tobacco in them. We are a large market for films so we command respect and compliance by the film producers. ... ...he people. Whether we look at the ancient Athenians‘ democracy only for the male citizens, or the thinkers of the Enlightenment who envisioned a broa... ...sulted from reducing the population in China. First there is the excess of males to females. Then there is the graying of the population. But whatev...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...saying one thing while doing something different? Why don‘t more American males wear condoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the risin... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...re or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly tea... ...ier church council seriously debated whether females even had souls. If a male fetus younger than four weeks old is aborted, was it a human life? ... ... come from valid basic assumptions. But, as with the case of the Taliban, male supremacy reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-human status... ...mise of getting your ‗pie in the sky-- bye and bye.‘ Singing and dancing, films and TV, public friendships, sports and recreational pastimes all crea...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ...ily member abuse and in prisoner abuse and torture? When I was at Stanford, Dr. Zimbardo, who was a psychologist, recruited a couple of dozen male s... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...s certainly not a universal. Eleanor Roosevelt got hers from her brains, as did Marie Curie. But back to Ardrey. He gives many examples of how male a... ...on. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preying mantis bites off the head of its male m... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...e should he penetrate and split? Everythingness or Nothingness? He lost his male aggressiveness and confidence. As a result of his indecisiveness,... ...ch he could split all over again. In case you haven’t noticed; the Energy of male Impetus likes to penetrate things… and then go around and come ba... ...calls a singularity which was the origin of the Big Bang. If you reverse the film of a pebble hitting the 2-dimensional The Path of Splitness Cha... ... fast-slow, far-near, forward-back, degeneration, re-composition, life-death, male-female, in-out, positive polarity- negative polarity. The ... ...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ...s another medium like water, or a transparent pane of glass, or a transparent film of plastic. Space is a Pure Formless Medium. The only reason ... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...ually comprised of minorities, not Caucasian. And as everyone knows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European... ...ucasians in America have mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic t... ...d since we're the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange... ...hrow a baby off a cliff if it's a girl, only stopping until they conceive a male. In Asian culture, the first son is like winning a biological lotter... ...today is that today, they are paid slaves. As Peter Joseph, producer of the film Zeitgeist Addendum, said: Physical “ slavery requires people to be ... ...al. The main reason, obviously, is to get attention, hopefully attracting a male with a strong moral character and benevolent disposition yeah right!... ... Our waiter, also not Japanese even though he's wearing a traditional Jinbei male — kimono brings out a huge sushi boat, full of an assortment of del... ...od. Most people think of Hollywood as the movie capital of the world, where actors and actresses flow like water from a fountain. That's true, for th...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ... The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long lost these attributes. The digital divides th... ...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...r labels - George Michael had to fight Sony to do just that) and very few actors come close to deriving subsistence level income from their professio... ...l, the costs of production are lower (with the exception of the music and film industries), the marketing channels more numerous (half of the income... ...processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, softwa... ... authors actually live by their pen. Even fewer musicians, not to mention actors, eke out subsistence level income from their craft. Those who do ca...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...pts and tenets. Consider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and... ...mic behaviours. h. Explanatory Powers – It must explain the behaviour of economic actors, their decisions, and why economic events develop the way... ...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ... to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on the issue o... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...hing. Napster-like peer to peer networks undermine the foundations of the music and film industries. Open source software is encroaching on the tur... ...evements, hierarchy, ruthlessness, drive - are both social values and narcissistic male traits. Social thinkers like the aforementioned Lasch specu...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...e-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f... ...aviour. When I was a soldier, every Wednesday we were shown a very warlike film to give us courage, and I wasn't afraid of dying then. Now I am afraid... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...vely to men. Women have done sewing and handicrafts, but tailors are often male, as was the case in Finnish villages; today, young men are already see... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ...ar, the groom on the bride's right. Each has their assistants, the groom a male best man, the bride one or two bridesmaids, who take charge of the mon... ...on, to deliver him a Songkran greeting. This ceremony was deemed to be too male-oriented, and a new celebratory tradition was created to better reflec... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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Analysis of Social Aspects of Migrant Labourers Living with Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... stereotypes and socialization patterns. Such conventional beliefs about male (hetero)sexuality have to be shed and impetus has to be given to shat... ...n (staying away from family) and bad company and so on. Study of HIV/AIDS male patients, have been analyzed taking mainly into account that migratio... ...cussed. Thus we give the raw data of the matrix for these 58 HIV/AIDS male patients: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 -2 -4 -6 -8 -10 -12 -14 -16... ...ool of refugees, waiting in a political refugee camp in Turkey to get the American visa, a% have the chance to be accepted – where a varies in the s... ... important role in shaping the popular culture, and because actresses and actors are seen as icons and role-models by the youth of today, we have to... ...emendous and immediate impact among the youth. 394 7. Sometimes the films end up giving a very wrong view of life. Not only are some of the so... ...hat it would be a good social investment if, on the lines of European and American countries, we design counselling programs to be given to these pa... ...133. What do you think about yellow journalism and pornographic/blue films? : 134. Different views prevail in different countries on the ... ... Holmes, K.K., “Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the AIDS Era” Scientific American, 264 (1991) 62-69. 8. Atanassov, K.T., “Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ruling sounded reasonable and clear, something that would only strike at bad actors while paying heed to the Sony Axiom and the assurance of safety th... ...-mockery, as it explores the concerns of the rich African-American celebrity male. My favorite line is “If you ain’t no punk, holler ‘We want prenup!!... ...l, who uses her sexuality for profit. Put them together and you have bookends—male fantasy and male nightmare. Was that Mr. West’s point? Perhaps. The ... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://... ...k: New York University Press, 2001). 22. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 410 F .3d 792, 804n16 (6th Cir. 2005). 23. Walter Benjamin, “The W...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

... more than 4.1 million people in the United States. It afflicts 10 percent of Americans over 65 years of age and as many as 50 percent of those over... ...g to a report published in the October 22, 1977 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Ginkgo biloba extract can stabiliz... ...d obsessive-compulsive tendencies. The latter may affect as many as 7 million Americans. Home remedies for anxiety offer the best approach to comple... ...ncontinence is a factor, skin barriers like the new, polymer-based protective films should be used in addition to absorbent padding to protect the sk... ...dressings that you can opt for, like gauzes, gels foams, treated bandages and films. At times, you may be advised to use a combination of dressings ... ... beautiful appearance are where we are most likely to find bulimiacs (models, actors, dancers, ballet dancers). By her own admission, Princess Diane ... ...ns there are some very powerful home remedies for cystitis. Urethritis in the male is most often contracted as a result of sexual contact. Many condi... ... lung and kidney function. Increases blood flow to brain, heart. • Increases male potency, female vitality. Improves appetite and sleep. 4. Ginseng... ... obesity and depression are also definite causes. Additionally, a reduction in male hormones, rise in male infertility and a global decrease in sperm...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...was heard, and immediately groups of people began to gather in the street. Two or three open carriages arrived, and depos- ited some maids of honor an... ...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...ake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious. Many people say that... ...the walls of one room were pretty completely covered with small pictures of the Margravine in all conceivable varieties of fan- ciful costumes, some o... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...rst-class hotel, that to the drummers loves to cater, across from some big film theayter; if I should look around and buzz, and wonder in what town I ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...ritish Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him malevolently angry. The doctor was nonplussed for a moment. Then he gath- ... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...t it was Jim himself, for he was an unsettled house mate. There was a thin film of snow, a lovely Christmas morn- ing. CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER I... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ... can’t stand it that Robert offers to hand her into the taxi.” He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for t... ... answer. “Did you ever keep count?” Tanny persisted. Jim looked up at her, malevolent. “I believe I did,” he replied. “Forty is the age when a man sho... ...ather like the imposing hall into which the heroine suddenly enters on the film. Aaron dropped his heavy bag, with relief, and stood there, hat in han... ...as now no magnate richer than we, no hero nobler than we have been, on the film. Connu! Connu! Everything life has to offer is known to us, couldn’t b...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...ted the Judge with the character of those in the sleigh. It contained four male figures. On one of those stools that are used at writing desks, lashed... ...hen the law provided that all born after a certain day should be free, the males at twenty— eight and the females at twenty-five. After this the owner... ...which opened into the porch emerged two or three female domestics, and one male. The latter was bareheaded, but evidently more dressed than usual, and... ...he light of an eternal day . Then, indeed, it may be humbly hoped that the film which has been spread by the subtleties of earthly arguments will be d... ...and, among all the changes, this is certainly not the least wonderful, The actors are as unique as the scenery .” Miss Grant colored and drew in her h...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

... lifted and extended to view, in all his beautiful, dead youth. The young, male body droops forward on the cross, like a dead flower. It looks as if i... ...which was not herself, ultimately. 21 Twilight in Italy Even the man, the male, was part of herself. He was the mobile, separate part, but he was non... ...rail in the bluish sky, a frail moon had put forth, like a thin, scalloped film of ice floated out on the slow current of the coming night. And a bell... ...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...houses themselves. We were always level with the mountain-snow opposite. A film of pure blue was on the hills to the right and the left. There had bee... ...he flesh that is like a narcotic. But they are too strong for the men. The male spirit, which would subdue the immediate flesh to some conscious or so... ...er, the ter- rible subjugation to sex, the phallic worship. The company of actors in the little theatre was from a small town away on the plain, beyon... ...and thin and somewhat German-looking, wearing 99 Twilight in Italy shabby American clothes and a very high double collar and a small American crush h...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...downward grimace, the necessitated wrinkles of which could be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our ... ... a short utterance between the nuptial two, of whom the unshamed exuberant male has found the sweet reverse in his mate, a 97 George Meredith haven o... ...g in my service an inveterate pugilist—who breaks the law from patriotism! Male or fe- male, these very respectable persons—the people your show was m... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m... ...lay- fulness of a cane. It bears resemblance to those accomplished natural actors, who conversationally present a dramatic situ- ation in two or three... ...the battle for Nataly; chiefly through Mrs. Burman’s tenacious hold of the filmy thread she took for life and was enabled to use as a means for the pe...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ... see the whole little drama, rather clearer than his words gave it me, the actors all absurdly in Hampstead middle-class raiment, meetings of a Sunday... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter... ...nist inclines. The second type includes, amidst its energetic forms, great actors, and popular politi- cians and preachers. Between these extremes is ... ...ng tawdry and momentary illusions of excellence; it is our experience that actors and actresses as a class are loud, ignoble, and insincere. If they h... ...last triumph of realisation, but the swimming moment of opacity before the film gives way. To come to individual emotional cases, is to return to the ...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...en men hang about the stage of a large establishment—not regularly engaged actors, but ballet people, procession men, tumblers, and so forth, who are ... ...articles in requisition, while a couple of large headed, circular visaged males rose from their seats in the chimney corner (for although it was a Ma... ...is features grew less and less distinct, and his figure more shad owy . A film came over T om Smart’s eyes. The old man seemed gradually blending int... ...lar wagrants there; trust ‘em, they knows better than that. Young beggars, male and female, as hasn’t made a rise in their profession, takes up their ... ...onclusion, when a window above stairs was thrown up, and three or four fe male voices repeated the query—’Who’s there?’ Mr. Pickwick dared not move h... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

... Vol. One ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to b... ...ith another blot headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” ... ...ut Boodle and his retinue, and Buffy and his retinue. These are the great actors for whom the stage is reserved. A People there are, no doubt—a certa... ...g up at me. I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared ex... ... but still a demon of the patrician order. All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of m... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...ty details might grieve me very much, Miss Summerson. But can I permit the film of a silly proceeding on the part of Caddy (from whom I expect nothing...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...au, are flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ... working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Fe- male Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. (See Dumont: Souvenirs, 6.) ... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...iclers are trustworthy, as was not witnessed since the Age of Gold. Paris, male and female, precipitates itself towards its South-west extremity, spad... ... which will stand no tear and wear! Beautiful cheap gossa- mer gauze, thou film-shadow of a raw-material of Virtue, which art not woven, nor likely to... ...Spectrum and squeaking and gibbering Shadow! One of the few Royalist Chief-actors this Bouille, of whom so much can be said. The brave Bouille too, th... ...lack powder or seedgrains in the hollow of his hand, this Oge; sprinkled a film of white ones on the top, and said to his Judges, “Behold they are whi... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

... through thin ice;—say, as the region of Nether Darkness through your thin film of Gironde Regulation and Respect- ability; trample it not, lest the f... ...ate Tronchet, some ten years older, does not decline. Nay behold, good old Malesherbes steps forward voluntarily; to the last of his fields, the good ... ...le. For this do Deseze and Tronchet plead, with brief eloquence: brave old Malesherbes pleads for it with eloquent want of eloquence, in broken senten... ... tears. (Moniteur (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 210). See Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, ii. 139.)—They reject the Appeal to the People; that having be... ...) ‘It is the Explosion and New-creation of a World,’ says Foster; ‘and the actors in it, such small mean objects, buzzing round one like a handful of ... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...in, yet destroyed and engulphed. Terror has long been terrible: but to the actors themselves it has now become manifest that their appointed course is...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ce certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool wa... ...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...the Doctor. He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. He could knock you off forty Lat... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...n! Ah monstre:” and cursing the tyrant of the play from the boxes; but the actors themselves positively refuse to play the wicked parts, such as those...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...k. I shall endeavour to extract, from the midst of insult and contempt and maledictions, those admonitions which may tend to correct whatever imperfec... ...ves not up its dead _1820 T o evil thoughts.’—A film then overcast My sense with dimness, for the wound, which bled Freshly... ...ces); and in all re- spects it is fitted only for Covent Garden. The chief male character I confess I should be very unwilling that any one but Kean s... ...ome fa la luna:— So thought Boccaccio, whose sweet words might cure a _330 Male prude, like you, from what you now endure, a Low-tide in soul, like a ... ...elf be mortal! Woe is me! Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene The actors or spectators? Great and mean _185 Meet ... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous... ... in the Elysian calm Of its own beauty, floating on the line Which, like a film in purest space, divided _230 The heaven bene... ...the pool, _235 And on it little quaint and filmy shapes. With dizzy motion, wheel and rise and fall, Like clouds of gn...

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The Blithedale Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ...e so happy, especially a feminine creature.” “They are always happier than male creatures,” said I. “You must correct that opinion, Mr. Coverdale,” re... ...oks of courtesy with eyes that were impenetrable beneath the glaze and the film. We passed, therefore, as if mutually invisible. I can nowise explain ... ...ating them from other relations, had kept so long upon my mental stage, as actors in a drama. In itself, perhaps, it was no very remark 123 Hawthorn... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s... ...voices and much laughter proceeding from the interior of the wood. Voices, male and feminine; laughter, not only of fresh young throats, but the bass ...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...– Dickens ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to b... ...ith another blot headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” ... ...ut Boodle and his retinue, and Buffy and his retinue. These are the great actors for whom the stage is reserved. A People there are, no doubt—a certa... ...g up at me. I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared ex... ... but still a demon of the patrician order. All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of m... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...ty details might grieve me very much, Miss Summerson. But can I permit the film of a silly proceeding on the part of Caddy (from whom I expect nothing...

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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

By: Honoré de Balzac

... arrest the play of all his faculties; but neither the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the women, nor the writers in the great drama will listen to th... ...ss, to understand a part and act it without compro- mising the play or the actors in it, and possessed of a rare sort of honor, that of keeping a secr... ...imulate the growth of hair, to titillate the scalp, to revive the color of male and female tresses. This cosmetic will not be less successful than my ... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...ut architects and contractors are to each other very much what authors and actors are,—mutually dependent. Grindot, ordered by Birotteau to stipulate ... ... “There is a beginning to everything,” said Molineux. Dismayed by the curt malevolence of the old man, Cesar was cowed; he heard the knell of failure ... ...denesse, the Baron de la Billardiere, the il- lustrious Vauquelin. A light film dimmed his eyes, and his uncle Pillerault, who held his arm, felt him ...

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Father Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ught to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and a... ...t-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors’ lives. Mlle. Michonneau, that elderly young lady, screened her weak... ... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ... ...self unmasked his batteries, for he took Poiret and the Michonneau for the male and female of the same species. “If his Excellency himself, his Excell... ...Poiret, his heart swelling with the cour- age that love gives to the ovine male, “respect the weaker sex.” “Spies are of no sex!” said the painter. “A... ...fusion of serum in the brain; they look as though they were covered with a film of fine dust, do you notice? I shall know more about it by to-mor- row...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ce certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool wa... ...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...the Doctor. He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. He could knock you off forty Lat... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf

...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...inner, the sense of being women together coming out most strongly when the male sex was, as if by some religious rite, se- cluded from the female. Kat... ...pire and left their bones on many frontiers, looked at the world through a film of yellow which the morning light seemed to have drawn across their ph... ... his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgment no ounce of his male muscularity. He seemed to argue as fiercely with her as if she were hi... ...n brightness of eye and pallor of cheeks) seemed to him well befitting the actors in so great a drama as that of Katharine Hilbery’s daily life. Beaut... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ... ...nham’s unfashionable appearance. He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing one, he remained silent. The glance, the slight q... ...r lay before her, whether it was a letter or a dictionary, as if it were a film upon the deep pros- pects that revealed themselves to her kindling and...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent... ...s heels, so quaint and delicious was the nudity revealed through the light film of lawn. “I have just seen virtue in despair.” “Can despair possess vi... ...ound him. Where does Madame Nourrisson—yes, that was her name—pick up such actors?” On the following day, Doctor Bianchon allowed the Bar- oness to go... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...e Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for ... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...smissing it, I stand in my place with my own day here. Here lands female and male, Here the heir ship and heiress ship of the world, here the flame of... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality, And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other, And sexual org... ...houses! Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are, You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul, About my body for me, and your body f... ...eming plays this curtain hid!) This glaze of God’s serenest purest sky, This film of Satan’s seething pit, This heart’s geography’s map, this limitles... ...ead, Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night, As some dissolving delicate film of dreams, Hiding yet lingering. T wo little breaths of words compri...

...top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...Easton Police Department and relayed what he had heard. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Mar... ...was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriati... ...s roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a “good man” and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Ladin. Motassadeq would help co... ...oordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.The two suicide opera- tives chosen... ...s, and detonated the bomb. Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack. 124 Back in Afghanistan, Bin Ladin anticipated U.S. milita... ...ter the move, Bayoumi used their apartment for a party attended by some 20 male members of the Muslim community.At Bayoumi’s request, Bin Don videotap...

...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...alk your light life-minuet, over bottomless abysses, divided from you by a film! For the rest, the proper authorities felt that no Funeral could be to... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou... ...rd to solve, even for calm onlookers at this distance; wholly insoluble to actors in the middle of it. The States-General, created and conflated by th... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...t my throat, when a voice exclaims, “Stop!—kill him not, it is Gujputi!” A film came over my eyes—exhausted nature would bear no more. CHAPTER IX. SUR... ...rdon. Were there—a no- tary-public present,” slowly gasped the knight, the film of dis- solution glazing over his eyes, “I would ask—you—two— gentleme... ...lence: one eye still glared with hate and fury, but it was glazed with the film of death! The red orb of the sun was just then dipping into the Rhine....

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...alk your light life-minuet, over bottomless abysses, divided from you by a film! For the rest, the proper authorities felt that no Funeral could be to... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...p; which will stand no tear and wear! Beautiful cheap gossamer gauze, thou film-shadow of a raw-material of Virtue, which art not woven, nor likely to... ...lack powder or seedgrains in the hollow of his hand, this Oge; sprinkled a film of white ones on the top, and said to his Judges, “Behold they are whi...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...ttle the ice is melting, and the inevitable day drawing near when the last film of it will disap- pear, and to be drowned ignominiously will be the hu... ... I could not see any reality, as if I were in a theatre; as if people were actors, and everything were scenery; I can no longer find myself; I walk, b... ...on the sly, and this fact, together with my jealousy of another one of her male admirers and my own conscience despising me for my uncontrollable weak... ...h between the two Ideals. The carnivo- rous-minded “strong man,” the adult male and can- nibal, can see nothing but mouldiness and morbid- ness in the... ... special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely di... ...Bad, between Friends and Foes, between Father and Child, Husband and Wife, Male or Female; but all would have been turned topsy-turvy, by being expose...

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

... of women when she learns that she has destroyed the peace of mind of some male victim, there was a hard, haggard expression in Julie’s face—a look of... ...vitality had brought a light into her eyes, which sparkled through a moist film with that liquid brightness which gives such irresistible charm to the... ...s countenance and to play an actor’s part. They know the side-scenes where actors may retire to calculate chances, shed their tears, or pass their jes... ...system. Italy at any rate is the land of sharp contrasts. Woman there is a malevolent animal, a dangerous unreasoning siren, guided only by her tastes... ...ich even in our literature we affect to hold this land of ours, and poured maledictions on the pitiable plutocrats who fall out of love with fair Fran... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th... ... insolent blaze, the colors were scarcely visible, and the smoke was but a film fluttering like a thin scarf in the noonday torrent of light and heat....

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