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...n greater than the joys and challenges of parenthood. The liberation of women around the world has allowed them to run from their homes and compet... ...ulation. The attempt at eugenics was aimed at getting the highly educated women, those who were having fewer children, to become 5 multiple moth... ...vel workers that are being popped out of the willing wombs of Third World women. For Japan it is a godsend as a way of substituting for the unborn wo... ...ic philosophies and religions that are usually strongly influenced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment period. It is particularly true when tho... ...u trying to teach? “Our major films show the lives of composers, philosophers, artists and others who show courage and intellect. There is ... ...ussia, where they need more workers, there is a huge prejudice against non-Russians. So it is different from the West where the illegals may be takin...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree....

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...1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece ... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...thing which, for want of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, T... ... as the legitimate beginning of the Russian novel. Gogol knew little about women, who played an equally minor role in his life and in his books. This ... ...f demonstrating our national weaknesses and short- comings. As for men and women of the better sort, I propose to portray them in subsequent volumes. ... ...an-shaven faces, so easy the manner of their dancing attendance upon their womenfolk, so glib their French conversation as they quizzed their female c... ...n had become mixed up in a very absurd affair. That is to say, a couple of philosophers belonging to a regiment of hussars had, together with an aesth...

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...king figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength? Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of...

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...not, in some con- ceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterpri... ... with com- parisons and her real India shawls imported by the suite of the Russian ambassador, and her silver plate and her Russian prince,—who to my ... ...ade him a sign to sit down, and said, “Let us converse, Monsieur.” The two women went into Madame Margaritis’ bedroom, leaving the door open so as to ...

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...te for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son of Isidor— Kirylo Sidorovitch-Razumov, If I have ... ...It is based on a document; all I have brought to it is my knowledge of the Russian language, which is sufficient for what is attempted here. The docum... ...or a long time in Geneva. A whole quarter of that town, on account of many Russians re- siding there, is called La Petite Russie —Little Russia. I had... ...n this way the door of immortality, innumerable people, criminals, saints, philosophers, young girls, statesmen, and simple imbeciles, have kept self-... ...ed the monarchy by imprisoning, exiling, or sending to the gallows men and women, young and old, with an equable, unwearied industry. In his mystic ac... ... He flew quite a long way into the yard. I raged like—like a—minotaur. The women clung to me and screamed, the fiddlers got under the table… .Such fun...

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...RUDIN a novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State Elect... ...university. 3 Turgenev RUDIN a novel BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak LONDON: WILLIAM HE... ... because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it w... ...st authors of all times. The gallery of living people, men, and especially women, each different and perfectly individualised, yet all the creatures o... ...es us, with an unim- peachable, artistic objectiveness, the living men and women in whom certain ideas, doctrines, and aspirations were em- bodied. An... ...an give it here. Turgenev, like George Meredith, is a master in paint- ing women, and his Natalya is the first poetical revelation of a very striking ... ...houlders. ‘Well, where’s the harm if I do? I ask: where is truth? Even the philosophers don’t know what it is. Kant says it is one thing; but Hegel—no...

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...ather. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women — he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the pr... ...English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 Some women use their tongues — she look’d a lecture, Each eye a sermon, an... ...th an only mother Is brought up much more wisely than another. Sagest of women, even of widows, she Resolved that Juan should be quite a parag... ...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ... luck holds, They all were heroes, conquerors, and cuckolds. Thou mak’st philosophers; there ‘s Epicurus And Aristippus, a material crew! Wh... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...g of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing but in hue, ... ... On which the passion’s self seems to depend: And hence some heathenish philosophers Make love the main spring of the universe. Besides Plato...

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... little guard; and by low-roofed whitewashed houses, with balco- nies, and women in them,—the very same women, with the very same head-clothes, and ye... ...he houses curiously small, with arcades and balconies, out of which looked women apparently a great deal too big for the chambers they inhabited; the ... ... us. Boom! the gun fired at the end of the funny little entertainment. The women and the balconies, the beggars and the walking Murillos, Pooch and th... ...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...e teeth and afraid to fight, are bred out of the same land which begot the philosophers and heroes. But the “Half-way House” is passed by this time, a... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...and smoked cool pipes on his house-top, as we looked over the hill and the Russian palace to the water, and the Seraglio gardens shining 58 Notes on ...

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...e managed to preserve the still youthful figure which saves men as well as women from an appearance of old age. Yes, remember this: all of life, or ra... ...is compliments, of which he was stingy, won the good graces of all the old women; he made himself agreeable to every one, even to the officials of the... ...n—he permitted himself certain pen- etrating glances which could make some women tremble; although they all loved him heartily as soon as they discov-... ...is in store for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Beside... ...quier’s meditation. He plumed himself on belonging to the class of cynical philosophers who could never be “taken in” by women,—putting them, one and ... ...ncle announced in this sudden missive that Monsieur de T roisville, of the Russian army during the Emigration, grand- son of one of his best friends, ... ...h her money. But among the Bour- geoisie, the Vicomte de T roisville was a Russian general who had fought against France, and was now returning with a...

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...nant. Already, though there was sunlight in the haze, tattered old men and women were nodding off to sleep 6 The Voyage Out upon the seats. When one ... ...red behind one cloak, seemed to her sordid, past their passion; the flower women, a contented company, whose talk is always worth hearing, were sod- d... ...cab, but only vans and waggons, and that not one of the thou- sand men and women she saw was either a gentleman or a lady, Mrs. Ambrose understood tha... ...that that stand out in life. Nothing’s been quite so vivid since. It’s the philosophers, it’s the scholars,” he continued, “they’re the people who pas... ...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...d me than any one I’ve ever met.” 196 The Voyage Out “What about the five philosophers?” said Helen, with a laugh, stitching firmly and swiftly at he... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere...

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...y: So, over the hills we’ll bound, old hound, Over the hills and away. The women, they shall sigh and smile, And madden whom they may: It’s over the h... ...ow ties her strings. She’s a dish for a man who’s a mind to be poor; Lord! women are such expensive things. II We don’t marry beggars, says she: why,... ...o strike. But home’s where different politics jar most. Respectability the women like. This form, or that form, – The Government may be hungry pike, B... ..., and who sat there unbent. XVI ‘“We stood in line, and like hedgehogs the Russians rolled under us thick. They frightened me there.”—He’s no coward; ... ...and at last I was vexed, And swore I would never surrender a foot when the Russians charged next. XIX ‘“I know that life’s worth keeping.”—Ay, so it i... ...But my life belongs to a woman.”—Does that mean Her Majesty, Miss?— “These Russians came lumping and grinning: they’re fierce at it, though they are ... ...ke a wreath Of our most blushful flower shine trembling through, T o teach philosophers the thirst of thieves: Is one for me? is one for you? II —Fair... ...irt. And dog, bull, cook, was he, fanged, horned, plumed; Original man, as philosophers vouch; Carnivorous, cannibal; length-long exhumed, Frightfully... ...pressive scene, beyond arrest, A darkness not with stars of heaven dressed Philosophers behold; desponding view Your Many nourished, starved my brilli...

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... you, passion, I can see, will be very different from what it is with most women.” She drew me gently to her and kissed my forehead. The kiss made my ... ...lls to me the inimitable sweep of her skirts as she sank back in it! These women of a past generation have carried off with them secrets which are ver... ...all put on my Madonna face; I mean to play the simpleton, and have all the women on my side. My mother is miles away from any idea of what I write to ... ...the father interviewed in 1814, declared that he had seen him taken by the Russians. Mme. de l’Estorade died of grief whilst a vain search was being m... ...des dividuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, i... ...ing man and woman! I have no wish to controvert what has been laid down by philosophers or legislators—they are quite capable of do- ing this for them... ...land!” We both laughed; but I must explain the joke. The evening before, a Russian princess had told us an anecdote of this gentle- man. He had suffer... ...s, and only shows how well we deserve the epithet of children, bestowed by philosophers on our sex.” She continued talking thus in the gentle voice yo...

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... showin’ across the parade ground, an’, by this an’ that, the way thim two women worked at the bundles an’ thrunks was a caution! I was dyin’ to help,... ...! They say they’re comin’ down here to wake us up. What will we do wid our women-folk?” ‘“Fetch my throlly!” sez I; “my heart’s sick in my ribs for a ... ...e Captain’s wife. She had to be put in by main force. You’ve no notion how women can struggle. The other woman was the wife of an officer going to mee... ...te. No breastplate at all. Simple leather strap across the breast—like the Russians. Hi! Jack never thought of that! MRS. G. (Entering hastily, her ha... ...ext cold weather for a cer- tainty; ourselves the first on the roster; the Russian shindy ready to come to a head at five minutes’ notice, and you, th... ...e heterodox women—is it not?—who were amusing and not fools. All the Greek philosophers delighted in their company. Tell me, my friend, how it goes no... ...said Lalun, when the last had gone. ‘They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawur. Show me, now, how the English M...

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...ns of the peasantry and the original and sacredly preserved jewelry of the women. These two classes, and that of the sailors in their jerkins and varn... ...his shoulder; but so simple a matter did 21 Beatrix it seem that even the women scarcely thanked him. The baron and his guests uttered neither curses... ... seated on one of the antique chairs, presented the type of those adorable women who exist in England, Scotland, or Ireland only. There alone are born... ... explained by his actual suffering during the emigration. He served in the Russian navy until the day when the Emperor Alexander ordered him to be emp... ...intellect, without action upon the chastity of the body, would have amazed philosophers and observers, had any one in Nantes even suspected the powers... ...d truly, and for himself alone. Aurelie refused to make the happiness of a Russian prince who of- fered her five thousand francs a month. “You are a l... ...quis and endeavored to en- tice Madame Schontz away from him, but like the Russian prince they wasted their old age. “Listen to me,” she said to Finot...

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... wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whistling clouts, in the pay of our doctors. He braved them; h... ...ong those wheels; and his nerves clutched him, like a troop of house- hold women, to keep him from the hazard of an exposure to the horrid crunch, pit... ...lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to temples of dusky thought: philosophers partaking of it are drawn by the arms of garlanded nymphs abou... ...hey let slip of their secrets, and the point of it for penetrating yours”:—women. But no; my dear souls didn’t prick and bother. And they dealt with a... ...tpouring, explosive, equally voluble, uncontrolled M. Bobinikine, a Mongol Russian, shaped, featured, hued like the pot-boiled, round and tight young ... ...s of the races of mankind. Strange!—she partly suspects the Frenchman, the Russian, the attentive silent Greek, to be all of them bound for the Court ... ...tions over the play of Delphica’s divers arts upon the Greek, and upon the Russian, and upon the English curate Mr. Semhians, and upon M. Falarique—se... ..., and painfully, not ignobly—was in process of development: interesting to philosophers, if not to maidens. Victor accused her of paying too much heed...

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...ith aristocratic families than any in the kingdom. Many elegant and pretty women there naturally were in these parties; but undoubtedly our two Laxton... ...se words: “Jeremy T aylor, the most eloquent and the subtlest of Christian philosophers, was the son of a barber, and the son-in-law of a king,”— allu... ... should have had en- trance! Several people, kind, cordial people, men and women, were scattered over England, that, during their days of in- fancy, w... ...en united in the calamity of orphan- age,—go where they might, these young women drew all eyes upon themselves; and from the audible comparisons somet... ...u- miliations. Hence it was that Ledyard, the traveller, speak- ing of his Russian experiences, used to say that some of his miseries were such, that ... ...giment; and subsequently, during the campaign of 1813, as a captain on the Russian staff. Thus brilliantly accomplished for conferring lustre and ben-... ...d to be in some secret connection of fatal sympathy with the growth of the Russian cross. Perhaps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main s...

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...for it is as well to know at once that they were not of that poor order of women who yield their admiration to a thing for its abstract virtue only)—t... ...elp to his fair associate, she thought not the worse of him, so heroic can women be toward any creature that will permit himself to be clothed by a my... ...ien ideas were not unimpressed by the picture of those daintily-clad young women demurely stepping homeward, while the air held a revel of skylarks, a... ...of decision of mind, we should not behold them turning contemptuously from philosophers in their agony, to find refuge in the arms of smirking orthodo... ...eap of papers and newly-opened foreign letters; to one of which, bearing a Russian stamp, he referred fretfully at times, as if to verify a monstrous ... ...s tapped his brow—”pluck,—you want pluck. It is your decadence. Greek, and Russian, and Yankee, all zey beat you. For, it is pluck. You make a pin’s h... ...k you, and not a countryman. A French- man?—oh, no! A German?—not a bit! A Russian?—never! A Yankee?—save me! I am a Greek—I take an Englishman.” “Wel... ...iculty in the world to keep him back and let me pur- sue my course.) These philosophers are a bad-mannered body. Either in opposition, or in the suppo...

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...egregious sentimentalities, they get into mighty tangles and troubles with women, and he has had his troubles. You will hear of them, for that is the ... ...rst to the limitations of human possibility as we know them in the men and women of this world to-day, and then to all the inhumanity, all the insubor... ...hes, antagonistic diseases, and inimical beasts and vermin, out of men and women with like passions, like un- certainties of mood and desire to our ow... ...ility of tyranny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one might look at the chains of a slave. You imagine... ...e irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring it to unity. Now philosophers after my Utopian pattern, who find the ultimate significance i... ...who profess what is called Science as against psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary men, whom he regards as wild, foolish, immoral s...

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... betray Boleslaus, king of Poland, either by killing him, or by giving the Russians opportunity to do him some notable mischief. This worthy went ably... ... his master’s absence, he betrayed Vislicza, a great and rich city, to the Russians, which was entirely sacked and burned, and not only all the inhabi... ...sin, as in thefts, but in the very exercise of sin, or in the enjoyment of women, where the temptation is violent, and, ’tis said, sometimes not to be... ...hould always speak in a magisterial tone to their servants, whether men or women, without being sometimes facetious and familiar; for besides the reas... ...what such souls produce. The conversation also of beautiful and honourable women is for me a sweet commerce: “Nam nos quoque oculos eruditos h... ...And his fifty so lascivious epistles? I will let alone the writings of the philosophers of the Epicurean sect, pro- tectress of voluptuousness. Fifty ... ...elate common beliefs, not to regulate them: that part concerns divines and philosophers, directors of con- sciences; and therefore it was that this co... ...n harbours storms and 268 Essays: Book III tempests; the two extremes, of philosophers and peasants, concur in tranquillity and happiness: “F...

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...evolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the ... ...ve to many of them.” The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children. Their object was to plant a colony on the shores of... ...b- scure democracy, which had as yet brought forth neither gen- erals, nor philosophers, nor authors, a man might stand up in the face of a free peopl... ...as taken. This feeling pervades the most trifling habits of life; even the women frequently attend public meetings and listen to political harangues a... ...by sacrificing their opinions, they prostitute themselves. Mor- alists and philosophers in America are not obliged to conceal their opinions under the... ... which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving at this state. The philosophers of the eighteenth century explained the gradual decay of relig... ...ast. T o the northwest nothing is to be met with but a few insig- nificant Russian settlements; but to the southwest, Mexico presents a barrier to the... ...the same end, although they started from different points: I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed; and whils... ...les against the natural obstacles which oppose him; the adversaries of the Russian are men; the former combats the wilderness and savage life; the lat...

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...attractive in uniform than in their ordinary clothes, and who attribute to women so depraved a taste that they believe they will be favorably impresse... ...tions—tried indeed to deprave me altogether, preached Saint-Simonism as to women, and all sorts of lordly ideas; but, you see, I was fond enough of my... ...r pull up on the road he has taken? In the first place, he is too sweet on women. There is a happy me- dium in all things, as our King has told us. An... ...the papers that prove your identity?” “Yes, Monsieur le Baron. They are in Russian and in Ger- man, but not legalized.” “Do you feel equal to undertak... ...sin Betty There are some of every sort, rich and poor, envious and envied, philosophers and dreamers, all grouped like the plants in a flower-bed roun... ...9 Balzac as the late Marshal Montcornet leading a cavalry charge against a Russian square. Being such a handsome man, he had never known any ground fo...