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... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ... rape, stores being broken into with impunity, rescue helicopters fired upon, women and children sexually assaulted in the convention center where many... ...stifying ecstatically to the virtues of Charles’s lady friend. Charles liked women—a lot of women, according to his biographers— and a lot of women li... ...hen, and each time it was also extended retrospectively. Artists, musicians, novelists, and filmmakers who had created their works on the understanding... ...rns. The gold dig- ger dogging Mr. West is used as part of a homily to black women on how to treat their (noncelebrity) black men. They should stick w... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c...

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...the terrible catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale w... ...ion, was communicated by me to my late lamented friend, William Erskine (a Scottish judge, by the title of Lord Kinedder), who afterwards reviewed wit... ...any occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had been, from an early period, at n... ...here my little Highland landlady, as dapper and as tight as ever, (for old women wear a hundred times better than the hard-wrought seniors of the masc... ...ng the corpse in its bloody plaid before carrying it from the fatal spot. “Women,” she said, starting up and interrupting their chant at once and thei... ...arting up and interrupting their chant at once and their labour—”T ell me, women, why sing you the dirge of MacDhonuil Dhu in the house of MacTavish M... ...e, in some degree worn out by the incessant labour of modern romancers and novelists, who, finding in those remote regions primitive habits and manner...

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...ary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the passengers increased. T wo of the women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have suppose... ...modest. I knew I liked Mr. Jones from the moment I saw him. I thought him by his face to be Scottish; nor could his accent undeceive me. For as there ... ...ile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the so... ...th generous applause. Once or twice, a recita- tion, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sough... ...hurricane deck, and the rest knitting arms or taking hands, we made a ring to sup- port the women in the violent lurching of the ship; and when we wer... ...Strathspey time. A white- faced Orpheus was cheerily playing to an audience of white- faced women. It was as much as he could do to play, and some of ... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...

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...almost of his success as a novelist he was given, like too many successful novelists (not like Scott), to rather undignified and foolish attacks on cr... ... to grapple, once drawing up an elaborate list of his virtuous and vicious women, and showing that the former outnumbered the latter; and, again, labo... ...te in that respect. If in some of his types—his journalists, his mar- ried women, and others—he seems to have sacrificed to con- ventions, let us reme... ...f civilization. Hence the work to be written needed a threefold form— men, women, and things; that is to say, persons and the material expression of t... ...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul...

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...es can keep us in our place. Men, as Miss Howe or Miss Harlowe 8 Robert Louis Stevenson would have said, ‘are such encroachers.’ For my part, I am bo... ...o use for a man to take to the woods; we know him; St. Anthony tried the same thing long ago, and had a pitiful time of it by all ac- counts. But ther... ...ves, and can walk in a high and cold zone with- out the countenance of any trousered being. I declare, al- though the reverse of a professed ascetic, ... ...aning than an oath or a salutation. We are so much ac- customed to see married couples going to church of a Sun- day that we have clean forgotten what... ...ely escorted us to the end of the lock under an umbrella. We had now brought ourselves to a pitch of humility in the matter of weather, not often at- ... ...e Oise. 72 Robert Louis Stevenson ! HE MOST PATIENT PEOPLE grow weary at last with being continually wetted with rain; exc...

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...g, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (other qua... ...er loneliness taught her to feign. She had never mingled in the society of women: her father, repro- bate as he was, was a man of talent; his conversa... ...ching herself to Amelia? The happinessthe superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpressible pangs of envy. “What airs... ...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared... ...e had read it in one of her favourite novel-books—Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. “Suppose you were to run on and tell her,” the Major said....

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...of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I would beg you to recall your sinc... ...ret of this behavior, now dilatory and again hurried, is known only to old women and to certain experi- enced loungers. In this immense assembly the c... ...ould have changed him, if indeed such a nature were susceptible of change. Women who have lived the life that Esther had so vio- lently repudiated com... ...dull rebellion, of which Esther her- self did not know the cause. Like the Scottish sheep, she wanted to pasture in solitude, she could not conquer th... ... an old woman fully informed as to the unknown beauty’s affairs. Hitherto, novelists of manners have placed on the stage a great many usurers; but the...

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...tness and light, that she was more energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath dec... ...thed meant to be teachers. Of these there were two sorts: care- less young women who admitted that they intended to leave the “beastly classroom and g... ...f a beautiful town remained. When she encountered an item about small-town women’s clubs or a photograph of a straggling Main Street, she was home- si... ...e Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the board them... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...ith aristocratic families than any in the kingdom. Many elegant and pretty women there naturally were in these parties; but undoubtedly our two Laxton... ... 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... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near...

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...sterday morning. Christmas Day I wish you could have seen our party at table. H. J. Moors at one end with my wife, I at the other with Mrs. M. , be... ...onsulate; it was a lovely night with a full moon; and as I got round to the hot corner of Matautu I heard hymns in front. The balcony of the dead man’... ...ll fed with facts, true to the manners, and (for once in my works) rendered pleasing by the presence of a heroine who is pretty. Miss Uma is pretty; a... ...father. VI. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent... ...55 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXVIII APRIL, 1893. 1. Slip 3. Davie would be attracted into a similar dialect, as he is later—e. g. , with Doig, chapter... ...he most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by journa...

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...only domes- tic happiness lay in the autocracy which usually satisfies all women of her nature. But what of the woman herself? Here follows what she w... ...aw turn me out of doors; they must live with me.” At dessert, when the two women-servants were safely at their own dinner in the kitchen, and Madame B... ...e drama, in which he had always known how to save appearances. To this man women were never anything else than a means; he believed no more in their g... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ... ...le; there is no such fertile source for com- pilers of causes celebres and novelists. In the eyes of the law, you must remember, the counterfeiting of...

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... legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander. T o make the jacket sit yet more close to the body, it... ...ell whether the Saxon war-cry was not heard as far within the ranks of the Scottish host as the cri de guerre of the boldest Norman baron. To the memo... ...aid the Knight, “to gnaw the bowels of our nobles with usury , and to gull women and boys with gauds and toys— I warrant thee store of shekels in thy ... ...character- istic terrors of a Saxon respecting fawns, forest-fiends, white women, and the whole of the superstitions which his ances- tors had brought... ...his account, thoroughly to detest. Nevertheless, Cedric, whose opinions of women’s constancy was far from strong, persisted in using every means in hi... ...ce of Godfrey’s quali- ties should not be bound by the ordinary rules. The Scottish Nisbet, and the same Ferne, insist that the chiefs of the Cru- sad... ... obvious expedient. The name of Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff, th...

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...g circumstance, that there was not a single place where *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckwort... ... 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... ...lderliness and dignity as to cut a couple of capers after the fashion of a Scottish highlander—alighting neatly, each time, on the flat of his heels. ... ...letting my thoughts wander! What a fool I am!” So saying, he exchanged his Scottish costume (of a shirt and nothing else) for attire of a more Europea...

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...en the ages of eighteen and thirty, young Thuillier had much success among women, in a sphere which began with the lesser bourgeois and ended in that ... ...e successes of “that handsome Thuillier” were usu- ally of short duration; women did not care to keep his devo- tion any more than he desired to make ... ...made herself the mother, protectress, and servant of this spoiled child of women. Brigitte, with the natural caution of a girl who owed everything to ... ...y in that pretty little gown of mous- seline-de-laine of the color of some Scottish tartan! That day I said to myself: ‘Why is that woman so often at ... ... of the insurrection in Hungary our ears were battered by the press and by novelists about the famous citadel of Komorn; and la Peyrade knew that by a...

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...e too tolerant of dull, well- meaning and industrious men and arrogant old women. It suffers hypocrites gladly, because its criticism is poor, and it ... ..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ...e care that was to be taken of them, and they went down, and most of their women 38 An Englishman Looks at the World and children went down with the ... ... of industry. And then, last but not least, there is self-respect. Men and women are capable of wonders of self-discipline and effort if they feel tha... ...en such a thing as a novel in England. This has been recognised equally by novelists, novel-readers, and the people who wouldn’t read novels under any... ...ns. You may say that is demanding more insight and power in our novels and novelists than we can possibly hope to find in them. So much the worse for ... ...in his method of treatment; or rather, if I may presume to speak for other novelists, I would say it is not so much a demand we make as an intention w...

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... thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national... ...ple picking their way among the stones and the water and the brambles; the women especially, with the weights poised on their heads and walk- ing all ... ... both the Russian ladies; they talked very nicely, and are bright, likable women both. They come from Georgia. WEDNESDAY , 10.30. – We have all been t... ...h. 10.45. – And I did. I want to say something more to you about the three women. I wonder so much why they should have been women, and halt between t... ...y merits. ‘ENGLISH, THE: – a dull people, incapable of compre- hending the Scottish tongue. Their history is so intimately connected with that of Scot... ...once I have studied and written these two vols., The Transformation of the Scottish Highlands and Scotland and the Union, I shall have a good ground t... ...188 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 The best of the present French novelists seems to me, in- comparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very ...

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...rer wit, I pray you to refer it back to this night, and point to that as a Scottish passage for evermore. I thank you again and again, with the energy... ...hearty. I drooped to see twenty Christophers in one. I began to think that Scottish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beaut... ... visible population, except half a dozen men in smock frocks, half a dozen women with umbrellas and pattens, and a washed out dog or so shivering unde... ...e once, no doubt, blooming chil dren were born, and grew up to be men and women, and married, and brought their own blooming children back to patter ... ... may read in the Hospital Report, with a glow of pleasure, that these poor women are so respondent as to have made, even in a toiling year of difficul... ...—I am no stranger—and I say it with the deepest gratitude—to the warmth of Scottish hearts; but the warmth of your present welcome almost de prives m... ...the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope that they ma...

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...the appearance of any other beauty. The men were raving with love, and the women with jealousy. Her eyes, her beauty, her wit, her grace, her ton, cau... ... red stockins and i-eeled drab shoes, and beautiful snowy air. All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the p... ...ing on the terrace of V ersailles; the fairest, not only of Queens, but of women, hung fondly on the Royal arm; while the children of France were indu... ...uburn, the golden ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the f... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ...

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...als.” Another, that “all the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stan... ... pardon him.”—The Gulistan of Sadi . Most people with whom I talk, men and women even of some originality and genius, have their scheme of the uni ve... ...able with warrant, travellers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar. There stands a gig in the gray... ...Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelists ourselves. We are continually acting a part in a more interesting... ... In the Saxon poetry extant, in the earliest English, and the contemporary Scottish poetry, there is less to remind the reader of the rudeness and vig...