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...e Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses, fire raged for 6 d... ...uberculosis for the rest of his life. Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived in St. Petersburg and participated in the activities of the Social Demo... ...lows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic Ne... ...e American public. He won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 for his tome, The Spirit of Saint Louis and died in 1974 in Hawaii. The kidnapping and gr... ...rnardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisher... ...o (1842). The opera was so adored that it was still playing in Buenos Aires and St. Petersburg a decade later. As opposed to nostalgic re-writin... ..., Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club A...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

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...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go... ... for the deterioration of this first family, and it (equally so in so-called saints and laymen) was graphic. It was salacious. It was violent. It ... ... was a halo about her head since sick people needed their mothers, gods, and saints. "Poor, Gaby, time has run by like a shell shocked soldier, and sh... ...ssibilities entered her head. She told herself that whoever it was, thief or saint, if this person weren't scared away by the fire alarm, she would de... ...ussian Orthodox services and it makes my sister feel like she is back in St. Petersburg." "Not Christian or atheist, but a devout church going non-bel... ...ter into the air making a rainbow. "Are you still planning to go back to St. Petersburg?" she asked. "Yes, just for a couple months." "Are you still p...

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... do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystic... ...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ...k to Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic and Mother Theresa, and to the Muslim saints and Sufis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Fra... ...word ‗God.‘ It‘s like using the word dog. One person may be thinking of a Saint Bernard and another of a toy poodle. ―While many of your ... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...today you fear for your wallet, if not your life. On my last visit to St. Petersburg I had just left the subway and was riding the escalator up to th...

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...d rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs t...

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...nd Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseill... ...your old friends; and I know one down there Alexandre Dumas 15 behind the Saint Nicolas citadel who will not be sorry to hear it.” “Mercedes?” said t... ...his eyes until the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort Saint Nicolas, then turning round, he perceived Fernand, who had fallen, pa... ...count, leaning over a large table, was tracing on a map the route from St. Petersburg to China. The procureur entered with the same grave and measured... ... abilities with which nature had endowed you have been weakened by want of culture; and, in short, whether you consider yourself capable of resuming a...

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...her aunt and her elder brother. This brother soon after obtained a post in Petersburg, and made them a scanty allowance. He treated his aunt and siste... ...ust introduced to the reader was Vladimir Nikolaitch Panshin. He served in Petersburg on special commissions in the department of in- ternal affairs. ... ...rase in German is quite correct, c’est meme tres chic, as the Parisians of Petersburg express themselves. By the time he was fifteen, Vladimir knew ho... ..., Piotr Andreitch, had inscribed in one place, “Celebration in the city of Saint Petersburg of the peace, concluded with the T urkish empire by his Ex... ... you know what’s amiss with the En- glish and the French, and your pitiful culture goes to make it worse, your shameful idleness, your abominable inac... ...cents she would narrate the life of the Holy Virgin, the lives of hermits, saints, and holy men. She would tell Lisa how the holy men lived in deserts... ...hy, if you are so sick at heart, go on a pilgrimage, offer prayers to some saint, have a Te Deum sung, but don’t put the black hood on your head, my d...

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...oming from Savenay, the arrondissement to which it belongs, which stops at Saint-Nazaire; and a second road, leading from Vannes, which connects it wi... ...bihan. The arrondissement road establishes communication by land, and from Saint-Nazaire by water, with Nantes. The land road is used only by governme... ...y government; the more rapid and more fre- quented way being by water from Saint-Nazaire. Now, be- tween this village and Guerande is a distance of ei... ...o farmers, and bring in sixty thousand francs a year, in spite of ignorant culture. The du Gaisnics remain the own- ers of these lands although they r... ...er death; she died at the age of forty-nine, during the emigration, at St. Petersburg, the climate of which killed her. She must be very cold in her c...

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...fteen, he achieved a momen- tous one. He ascertained that his mother was a saint. She had always been a very distinct presence in his life, but so ine... ...tilled his restless pulses. He was ruminating the full-flavored verdict of culture. Rowland felt an irresist- ible kindness for him, a mingled sense o... ...I fairly despise my amiabil- ity. It ‘s rather a hard fate, to live like a saint and to pass for a sinner! I should like for six months to lead Mrs. H... ...he received him with a meek-eyed dignity that made her seem like a painted saint on a church window, receiving the daylight in all her being. The brea... ...himself, was a trifle cold and conscious, her purity prudish, perhaps, her culture pe- dantic. But since he was obliged to give up hopes of Mary Garla... ...bject I have already fixed upon. I desire an allegorical representation of Culture. Do you think, now,” asked Mr. Leavenworth, encouragingly, “you cou... ...ftly. “We are going to London. We are going to Vienna. We are going to St. Petersburg.” Prince Casamassima dropped his eyes and fretted the earth with...

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...n January, in an outbreak of enquiry, he had gone with Lionel Maxim to St. Petersburg and had eaten 89 H G Wells zakuska, brightened his eyes with vo... ...lid hostili- ties. All those fools away there in London and Vienna and St. Petersburg and Rome take sides as though these beastly tribes and leagues a... ... Billy.” 196 The Research Magnificent “Oh! you can sneer!” “Well, clearly—Saint Paul is my authority—it’s marriage, Billy.” Prothero had walked to th... ...y of life that is convenient for Rigdon the vegetarian and fits Bowler the saint like a glove? It isn’t convenient for me. It fits me like 199 H G We... ...ng larger, more vivid, cruder; one felt that directly one walked about St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg upon its Neva was like a savage untamed London o... ...ere in an entirely different environment was another dis- cord of race and culture, and he found in his study of it much that illuminated and correcte... ...nto human dis- sensions in lower Bengal. Here there were not only race but culture conflicts, and he could work particularly upon the differences betw... ...sed,” said the young American. 5 5 5 5 5 Benham’s notes on race and racial cultures gave White tanta- lizing glimpses of a number of picturesque exper... ...xaltation neglects,” said Prothero. “No religion has ever boasted that its saints were spick and span.” This controversy raged between them in the str...

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...ish his remains were carried home and buried in the V olkoff Cemetery, St. Petersburg. The grey crow he had once seen in foreign fields and addressed ... ...ng up the back staircase of a five-storied house on Officers Street in St. Petersburg. Noisily shuffling his down-trodden goloshes and slowly swinging... ...arefully hid the copy-book in which they were written, and none of his St. Petersburg friends, with the exception of Paklin, and he only by his peculi... ...ote until midnight. The following day, the 9th of May, was Kolia’s patron- saint’s day. Although the church was not a quarter of a mile off, the whole... ..., and bursts out from time to time in torrents of eloquence, a most highly cultured person! His lady, a picturesque beauty, who has all her wits about... ...she wants everyone to bow down before her as a beauty and worship her as a saint! She will invent a pretty speech, say it to one person, repeat it to ... ...being a stupid, spoiled, conceited bounder. He considered himself a man of culture because he dressed in the German fashion, kept an open house (thoug... ... neat little people, just like two poll-parrots; and kind to stupidity, to saintliness, there is no end to their kindness! I am told that excessive ki... ...to produce a “chic” dinner. (Golushkin, as a man of the high- est European culture, kept a French cook, who had formerly been dismissed from a club fo...

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...fternoon tramp up the valley, along the grassy bank of a rushing stream of clear water, past farm- houses, water-mills, and no end of wayside crucifix... ... not usually consid- ered to be virtues when they are lodged in kings. She makes him out to be a person with a meek and modest spirit, the heart of a ... ...he ill luck to miss martyrdom. With the best intentions to do the right thing, he always managed to do the wrong one. Moreover, nothing could get the ... ...f the world, sees it plain enough, but he can’t cure it, you know, so the best is to leave it and seek a sphere which is more in harmony with his tast... ...Warsaw, 31; Breslau, 31; Odessa, 32; Munich, 33; Strasburg, 33, Pesth, 35; Cassel, 35; Lisbon, 36; Liverpool, 36; Prague, 37; Madras, 37; Bucharest, 3... ...ks, first and last, to a careful and critical study of this tongue, and thus have acquired a confidence in my ability to reform it which no mere super...

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...ies or intellectual part of religion, a very diminished fervor attends the culture of its moral and practical part. This was perhaps one reason; for t... ...n the barbaresque taste, to support themselves under the frown of European culture. VIII. The first rude sketch of the Hebrew SANDAL may be traced in ... ...th, still the ludicrous aspects of the Parliamentary war, and its fighting saints, were too striking to have perished. If not in a narrative form, the... ... the combination of such fabulous beings in the same groups with glorified saints and angels, as there is to the combination, by a painter or a sculpt... ... and few histories are written except in the simplest condition of hu- man culture, which do not in part assume its functions, or which are content to... ...o the higher modes of aris- tocratic life, he may know that London and St. Petersburg are far more magnificent capitals than Paris; but that will not ...

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...her sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg. This boy was well dressed, too — well dressed on a week day. ... ...st hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities that St. Petersburg could boast; the bent and venerable Major and Mrs. Ward; lawye... ... that boy had. So thought every harassed, ham pered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. Tom hailed the romantic outcast: “Hello, Huckleberry!” “Hello... ...er boy!” Tom thought, grating his teeth. “Any boy in the whole town but that Saint Louis smarty that thinks he dresses so fine and is aristocracy! Oh,... ...es of Other Days”; “Religion in History”; “Dream Land”; “The Ad vantages of Culture”; “Forms of Political Government Com pared and Contrasted”; “Mel...

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...ENERAL CURTIS. W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 12, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL CURTIS, Saint Louis, Missouri: Would the completion of the railroad some distance f... ...r best opinion as to the number of the en- emy now at Richmond and also at Petersburg. A. LINCOLN. TO GOVERNOR SHEPLEY . EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTO... ...AL CURTIS. [Cipher.] W ASHINGTON, November 30, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL CURTIS, Saint Louis, Missouri: Frank Blair wants Manter’s Thirty-second, Curly’s Tw... ...- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line along which the culture of corn and cotton meets, and which in- cludes part of Virginia, pa... ...OWN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON December 7, 1862. HON. B. GRATZ BROWN, Saint Louis, Missouri: Y ours of the 3d received yesterday. Have already do... ...O MRS. ARMSTRONG . W ASHINGTON, September 18, 1863. MRS. HANNAH ARMSTRONG, Petersburg, Ill.: I have just ordered the discharge of your boy William, as...

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...ce in the last resort with the spirit of martyrdom on behalf of man’s most saintly in- terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retr... ...terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retrieving such saintly interests should come to be dishon- ored or less honored, would the... ...g apart from the urban aristocracy, and standing on a dif- ferent level of culture as to intellect, of polish as to manners, and of interests as to so... ...n had thus become the great organ of human 58 Memorials, and Other Papers culture. Lady Carbery advanced half-way to meet me in these new views, find... ...n philologically profound scholars, which at that time, from the imperfect culture of philology, they could not eas- ily have been; men they were whom... ...nd generally of those who were then known amongst sneerers as “the Clapham saints.” This one requisition it was on which the scheme foundered. And the... ... capital city, as it does in Paris, Edinburgh, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, and Petersburg, liable to every mode of positive temptation and distraction, wh...

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...vanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls....

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...per and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on ... ... some people he was said to be the outcast son of rich parents and a pure, saintly soul, while others averred that he was a mere peasant and an idler.... ...g the candle, lifted the latter towards the shrine where the images of the saints stood. That done, he made the sign of the cross again, and turned th... ...l accustomed to move in the highest circles of society. Well-educated, his culture was that of a youth of the end of the last century. He had read eve... ...so you write that our affairs render it indispensable for you to visit St. Petersburg. The Lord go with you! Go and return as, soon as possible. Witho...

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................................................ 266 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ................................................................. ...s thy day also done? Alas, the Chapel organs may keep going; the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve be let down, and pulled up again,—without effect. In the e... ....) the sons of the Saxon Puritans, with their Old-Saxon temper, Old-Hebrew culture, sleek Silas, sleek Benjamin, here on such errand, among the light ... ...of the ever-memorable Explosion itself, and read eagerly by all the world: Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie, and Louvet’s Cheva- lier de Faublas. Notew... ...creatures, how shall he, in all Philosophe-soirees, and saloons of elegant culture, become notable as a Friend of Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes... ...netting Europe with intrigues. From Turin to Vienna; to Berlin, and utmost Petersburg in the frozen North! Great Burke has raised his great voice long... ...out a sigh from most Historians. The men were men of parts, of Philosophic culture, decent behaviour; not condemnable in that they were Pedants and ha...

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...odor Pavlovitch at once began bustling about, making preparations to go to Petersburg, with what object he could not himself have said. He would perha... ... And just at that time his wife’s family received the news of her death in Petersburg. She had died quite suddenly in a garret, according to one story... ...tinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end of his li... ...t know exactly which. He regarded it as his duty as a citizen and a man of culture to open an attack upon the “clericals.” Hearing all about Adelaida ... ... religious; he had probably never put a penny candle before the image of a saint. Strange impulses of sudden feeling and sudden thought are common in ... ...nguished by anything in particular till then: they had nei- ther relics of saints, nor wonder—working ikons, nor glori- ous traditions, nor historical... ...re and a martyr’s death for the faith. When the Church, regarding him as a saint, was burying him, suddenly, at the deacon’s exhortation, “Depart all ... ...onation of a thousand roubles, while another was a very wealthy and highly cultured land- owner, upon whom all in the monastery were in a sense de- pe... ... in the immediate future and don’t become a monk, I shall be sure to go to Petersburg and get on to some solid magazine as a reviewer, that I shall wr...

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... shared his feel- ing, and many of the visitors looked upon him as a great saint and ascetic, although they had no doubt that he was crazy. But it was... ...ascetic, Father Iona, who had lived to be a hundred and five, and of whose saintly doings many curious stories were still extant in the monas- tery an... ...vening fresh- ness in the air. The monk from Obdorsk bowed down before the saint and asked his blessing. “Do you want me to bow down to you, monk?... ...rd not crippled but far too clever. She is a student, dying to get back to Petersburg, to work for the emancipation of the Russian woman on the banks ... ...sixteen roubles she had earned by lessons and saved up, to go back with to Petersburg in Sep- tember, that is now. But we took her money and lived on ... ...ch, I can get medicines for the dear crea- tures, I can send my student to Petersburg, I can buy beef, I can feed them properly. Good Lord, but it’s a... ...out as a remembrance of it. But men, too, can be beaten. A well- educated, cultured gentleman and his wife beat their own child with a birch-rod, a gi... ...e merchant grows more and more eager for rank, and strives to show himself cultured though he has not a trace of culture, and to this end meanly despi...

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...odor Pavlovitch at once began bustling about, making preparations to go to Petersburg, with what object he could not himself have said. He would perha... ... And just at that time his wife’s family received the news of her death in Petersburg. She had died quite suddenly in a garret, according to one story... ...tinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end of his li... ...t know exactly which. He regarded it as his duty as a citizen and a man of culture to open an attack upon the “clericals.” Hearing all about Adelaida ... ... religious; he had probably never put a penny candle before the image of a saint. Strange impulses of sudden feeling and sudden thought are common in ... ...nguished by anything in particular till then: they had nei- ther relics of saints, nor wonder—working ikons, nor glori- ous traditions, nor historical... ...re and a martyr’s death for the faith. When the Church, regarding him as a saint, was burying him, suddenly, at the deacon’s exhortation, “Depart all ... ...onation of a thousand roubles, while another was a very wealthy and highly cultured land- owner, upon whom all in the monastery were in a sense de- pe... ...in the immediate future and don’ t become a monk, I shall be sure to go to Petersburg and get on to some solid magazine as a reviewer, that I shall wr...

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...as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, ... ...APTER II ANNA P A VLOVNA’S drawing room was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and ... ... short for her teeth, but it lifted all the *The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. 6 War & Peace more sweetly, and was especially charming when s... ...having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s- day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre. “Eh... ...houlders shook. Natasha’s face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day , suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver pa... ...e, “and here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. *Fruhstuck: breakfast. 182 War & P... ...f Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that... ...glance from under his brows. “Prince Theodore and all those. T o encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent b... ... states to the writers of general histories and the new his- tories of the culture of that period. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies aris...

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...ouse in Moscow, or the glory of the Russian arms, or the prosperity of the Petersburg and other universities, or the freedom of Poland or the greatnes... ...f Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that... ...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’ circumstances. Ha... ...he general drunkenness to be expected on the morrow because it was a great saint’s day, he returned to din- ner, and without having time for a private... ...days. Since their marriage Natasha and her husband had lived in Moscow, in Petersburg, on their estate near Moscow, or with her mother, that is to say... ... Nicholas could not remember—all this made Pierre in his eyes a hero and a saint. From broken remarks about Natasha and his father, from the emotion w... ...lance from under his brows. “Prince Theodore and all those. To en- courage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent b... ...te states to the writers of general histories and the new histories of the culture of that period. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies aris...

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...road and enduring the same discomforts. Why live here if one could live in Petersburg or abroad? And one would have thought it would be nothing for a ... ...past, but in the sight of God St. Mary of Egypt is no lower than the other saints. When it had happened to V assilyev in the street to recognize a fal... ...He had very many good friends and acquaintan- ces who lived in lodgings in Petersburg… . Among them were a good many honest and self-sacrificing men. ... ...ry one! T o do 29 The Schoolmistress and other stories that one must be a saint and be unable to feel hatred or repul- sion. But supposing that I, th... ...g! What a cap you’ve got, my friend! Y ou wouldn’t find a worse one in all Petersburg… .” “He-he! … he-he! …” laughs Iona. “It’ s nothing to boast of!... ...nap their fin- gers at it!” It is pleasant to Malahin to talk to educated, cultured people. He strokes his beard and joins in the conversation with di... ...n and badly fed; this time she had looked at him sternly and immovably, as saints in the holy pictures or dying people look. From that strange, evil l... ...ld end their lives in the wilds, in a province far away from the center of culture, where noth- ing is accidental, but everything is in accordance wit...

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... both in regard to his great contemporary and to the literary world of St. Petersburg, shook off the dust of the capital, and, after resigning his com... ...s prayers, invoking, like Plato, the blessings of Florus and Laura, patron saints of horses, because “one mustn’t forget the animals.” The characteris... ...he one hand, he was fond of society, and during his brief residence in St. Petersburg was never so engrossed in authorship as to forego the pleasure o... ...councillor and the examining magistrate. They all came to his house on his saint’s day, drinking the cherry brandy he offered them with pleasure, and ... ...ey had also in com mon the sense that they both excelled their enemies in culture, in brains, as well as in morals. Katia Turchaninova was a gifted g... ...lets among his ef fects, he was arrested and transferred to prison in St. Petersburg. Katia Turchaninova followed him to the metropolis, and went to ... ...demands for money. Then she resolved to apply to an old man, known to be a saint by his life, and to give him her money to dispose of in the way he th...

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...rance, historian and adventurer, has given us many profitable histories of saints and sin- ners, of Roman procurators and of officials of the Third Re... ...ook from his pen— which may be called golden, as the lips of an elo- quent saint once upon a time were acclaimed golden by the faithful—this latest bo... ...rough of stone, a vessel of hollowed granite. The explorer was St. Mael, a saint of Armorica. I had never heard of him before, but I believe now in hi... ...eir blood freezing crimson upon the snow of the squares and streets of St. Petersburg; since their generations born in the grave are yet alive enough ... ... Prince Bismarck, then about to leave his post of Prussian Minister in St. Petersburg, called—so the story goes—upon another distinguished diplomatist... ... their trace on our minds and our imagination by their splendour, by their culture, by their art, by the ex- ploits of great conquerors. The record of... ...post of their own type of civilisation, which was the only basis of Polish culture. Whatever may be the future of Russia and the fi- nal organisation ... ...which had adopted and brought them up in the development of its own humane culture—the offspring of the West. A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM—1916 WE MUS... ...ame mood of trivial demonstrations. One could not take to-day a ticket for Petersburg. “You mean Petrograd,” would say the booking clerk. Shortly afte...

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...as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, ... ...HAPTER II ANNA PA VLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people dif- fering widely in age an... ...sts began to arrive; and slowly turning her *The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. 9 Tolstoy eyes from the visitor to her aunt, Anna Pavlovna men... ...conversing with women. “I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I... ...having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre. “Eh,... ...houlders shook. Natasha’s face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver pas...

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... A foreign prince, who had come on a visit 4 Anna Karenina – Part Four to Petersburg, was put under his charge, and he had to show him the sights wor... ...sted her. “No; how so?” she replied. “He’s seen a great deal, anyway; he’s cultured?” “It’s an utterly different culture—their culture. He’s cultivate... ...t of the room without a word. Chapter 5 The waiting-room of the celebrated Petersburg lawyer was full when Alexey Alexandrovitch entered it. Three lad... ...ey Ivanovitch was a Moscow man, and a philosopher; Alexey Alexandrovitch a Petersburger, and a practical politician. He was asking, too, the well-know... ...novitch put in with a subtle smile. “It is the accepted view now that real culture must be purely classical; but we see most intense disputes on each ... ...Stepan Arkadyevitch. “I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture,” Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of con... ...a, again hid his face in his hands. “Uncover your face—look at him! He’s a saint,” she said. “Oh! uncover your face, do uncover it!” she said angrily....

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...ete freedom, outside the conditions of social life which filled up time in Petersburg. As for the amusements of bachelor existence, which had provided... ...tchev, in whose view Vronsky had both talent, and what was most important, culture, giving him a wider outlook on art. Golenishtchev’s faith in Vronsk... ... who has devoted all his life to it. And more than all, it’s a question of culture, which he is without.” Vronsky defended Mihailov, but at the bottom... ...y feelings, and that new mystical fervor which had lately gained ground in Petersburg, and which seemed to Alexey Alexandrovitch disproportionate, sti... ...ing tears on the scared child’s cheeks, she told him that his father was a saint and his mother was dead. Countess Lidia Ivanovna kept her promise. Sh... ...retation of Chris- tian doctrine, which had been gaining ground of late in Petersburg. It was easy for Alexey Alexandrovitch to believe in this teachi... ...fe, who had so greatly sinned against him, and towards whom he had been so saintly, as Countess Lidia Ivanovna had so justly told him, ought not to ha...

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...of wo to me, should also to thyself be heralded by the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech an... ... beauty of the prisoner. That beauty so childlike, and at the same time so saintly, made, besides, so touching in its pathos by means of the abandonme... ...t would admit of another explanation. If she did read the very worst, meek saint! she suffered no complaint or sense of that injury to escape her. It ... ...t of detestation; for besides his known dependence upon the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, the direct line of succession had been set aside, and the princ... ...f soliciting his cause more effectually, he soon repaired in person to St. Petersburg. Once admitted to personal con- ferences with the Cabinet, he fo... ...olt, and, if so, of instant revolt; since any preparations reported at St. Petersburg would be a signal for the armies of Russia to cross into such po... ...h and the nectarine are said to have radiated from this austere stock when cultured, developed, and trans- ferred to all varieties of climate. Superst... ...flictions of our human state that spring up as inevitably without separate culture and in defiance of all hostile culture, as verdure, as weeds, and a... ...rom the bosom of war itself. Gradu- ally the mere practice of war, and the culture of war though merely viewed as a rude trade of bloodshed, ripened i...

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...e’s considerably property, were in an embarrassed condition. Half Moscow and Petersburg were friends and relation of Stepan Arkadye vitch. He was bor... ...ll Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg. I made his acquaintance in Tver when I was there on official b... ...adyevitch. A feeling such as his was profaned by talk of the rivalry of some Petersburg officer, of the suppositions and the counsels of Stepan Arkadye... ...mate and the soil, and consequently deducing all the principles of scientific culture, not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data ... ... all there is in his soul,” she thought; “as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.” From his ... ...m Alexey Alexandrovitch had a high opin ion, noted for his intelligence and culture. Alexey Alexandrovitch entered into conversation with him. There ... ...nna, again hid his face in his hands. “Uncover your face—look at him! He’s a saint,” she said. “Oh! uncover your face, do uncover it!” she said angril... ...pping tears on the scared child’s cheeks, she told him that his father was a saint and his mother was dead. Countess Lidia Ivanovna kept her promise. ... ...wife, who had so greatly sinned against him, and towards whom he had been so saintly, as Countess Lidia Ivanovna had so justly told him, ought not to ...

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...that a flood tide, with a westerly wind, and ice in the Neva, would sweep St. Petersburg from the face of the earth. As this business was to be entered... ...elestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cheri... ... a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint. When I consider how our houses are built and paid for, or not paid... ...gs, I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to human culture, and we are still forced to cut our spiritual bread far thinner ... ...t some free labor. Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduri... ...les of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further pr... ...nse by the pains which he takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the...

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...hentic dramas. As to the first argument, let it be remembered, that if the saints of the chapel are always in the same honor, because there men are si... ...en are simply discharging a duty, which once due will be due for ever; the saints of the theatre, on the other hand, must bend to the local genius, an... ... question as seriously affecting the glory of the poet. In some legends of saints, we find that they were born with a lambent circle or golden aureola... ...between the departments of poetry which he cultivated and the merit of his culture. The first place must undoubtedly be given for ever,—it cannot be r... ...t indiscriminate? From this defect in his nature it arose, that, except by culture and by reflec- tion, Lamb had no genial appreciation of Milton. The... ...y towards either pole, still it is next to impossible, in the exercise and culture of the two powers, but some bias must arise which would give that a... ...for showing forbearance towards a fam- ily so nearly allied to that of St. Petersburg. In 1813 the grand duke was found at his post in that great gath...

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...en from me, and it was I who telegraphed to the Governor. I telegraphed to Petersburg, too. But it was by no means out of love for litigation, as you ... ...sort of crab. “Y ou ought to go away, your Excellency ,” he muttered. “T o Petersburg or abroad.… Why should you live here and waste your golden days?... ...on on her face, such as one sees on the faces of people listening to crazy saints or holy men when a peculiar hidden significance is imagined in their... ...se who have faith, because faith is an expression of ignorance and lack of culture, and at the same time you hate those who have no faith for having n... ...the local authorities, and to send a complaint of the local authorities to Petersburg. Legal justice!” said my wife, and 30 Anton Chekhov she laughed... ... modern man at the sight of suffering is, to my mind, far greater proof of culture and moral elevation than hatred and aversion. W oman is as tearful ... ...the yard, looking majestically at the heavens. “One can see he is a man of culture!” he said, twisting his head round. “I hope we shall get on togethe...

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...overness in his house, and who was now on her way from South Russia to St. Petersburg. She wrote that she would wait for him between five and six p.m.... ...n, a fellow-townsman and companion of the said Smelkoff, returned from St. Petersburg, and hearing the circumstances that accompanied the death of the... ...ice which de- manded something different. This began after he moved to St. Petersburg, and reached its highest point when he entered the army. Militar... ...under- stand, but still thought it better to have pity on him. “We are not saints ourselves,” and he kept to his opinion. The answer to the second que... ...mercy on him who cries to Thee, Saviour Jesu. Born of prayer Jesu, all thy saints, all thy prophets, save and find them worthy of the joys of heaven. ... ...ple of a quite new and good type of civilised Euro- 470 Resurrection pean culture, grafted on a healthy, uncultivated peasant stem. The governor of t...

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...a knowledge of his French predecessors.[Chief among these were Fourier and Saint-Simon, who constructed somewhat fantastic Socialis- tic ideal commonw... ...te in the Gov- ernment of Tver. Bakunin entered the school of artillery in Petersburg at the age of fifteen, and at the age of eighteen was sent as an... ...cattle in Great Britain. Even more astonishing are the achievements of the Culture Maraicheres round Paris. It is impossible to summarize these achiev... ...uare miles), it could be grown without resorting to any other meth- ods of culture than those already in use—methods already tested on a large scale a... ...nd colleges. The Hindoo Nation- alist feels that his country has a type of culture containing elements of value that are absent, or much less marked, ...

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...g-place, no respectful shelter, where, with the delicacy due to genius and culture, be might secure aid, till, with return- ing health, he would resum... ...attempt to join the fortunes of the insur- gent Greeks, which ended at St. Petersburg, where he got into difficulties through want of a passport, from... ...r taking it upon herself. The countenance of this lady, made beautiful and saintly with an evidently complete giving up of her life to priva- tion and... ...otre langve par J. B. D. A. Paris, chez Francois Piot, pres la Fontaine de Saint Benoist. Et chez J. Goignard, au premier pilier de la grand’salle du ... ... in with his humor; and, continuing to occupy our chambers in the Faubourg Saint Germain, we gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in...

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...f their eyes? The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way? The saints and sages in history—but you yourself? Sermons, creeds, theology—b... ...t random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, ... ...Grass –Whitman 555 (Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,) Have lost my recognition of y...