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... The early retirement incentives you Westerners are using to make way for younger workers are counterproductive. You just have to reduce the number o... ...ers are counterproductive. You just have to reduce the number of potential young workers. We recognized that some years ago. Your pension planners ar... ...e have tried to minimize the early retirement problem two ways. We reduce young workers by licensing parents and we give large financial incentives t... ... education. Fewer babies will result in less expenditure for juvenile and adult criminal court expense, fewer jail inmates -- at a savings of $25,000... ... child policy. “Nay-sayers will curse that those teenagers and adults who are being denied children are having their civil and human righ... ...can research shows that children living with 30 a couple in which one adult is not the biological parent is fifty times more likely to be killed,... ...not necessarily more popular than other types of stories such as comedies, romances or adventure stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so m...

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...en in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a thoughtful adult with an expanded vision of the world around her. The second is about Daniel Deronda, adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman who becomes fascinated with Jewish traditions when he meets an ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...inance new experiments. Moreover, we are killing off many of our brightest young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new f... ...to muscle, as America is to-day. But if that old usurer’s age is over, the young usurer’s age may be coming. To meet such enormous demands as this war... ...t would be a poor creature in these days when there is scarcely a possible young man in one’s circle who has 34 What Is Coming? not quite freely and ... ...arded as a fundamental part of educa- tion. The French, German, or English literature and literary development up to and including contemporary work i... ...radictory things; there is scarcely a single argument for it in suffragist literature that cannot be completely negatived out of suffragist literature... ...career. House- hold cares, a dozen children, and she was consumed. All her romances ended in marriage. All a decent man’s romance ended there, too. Sh... ...ce of the world must become the common property of the mass of intelligent adults if they are to hold against the political scoundrel, the royal adven...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ry, with laws, boundaries, conventions, and traditions, with schools, with literature and religious organisation, with creeds and customs, with everyt... ...re should be no positive compulsions at all in Utopia, at any rate for the adult Utopian—unless they fall upon him as penalties incurred. 26 A Modern... ...d friends, the corn and the vine and the hearth; the untamed spirit of the young has turned for ever to wandering and the sea. The soul of man has nev... ...arted a little in- coherently and in tears, and it had not occurred to the young 39 H G Wells man to imagine she was not going off to conventional li... ...l,” he says. “But how could I go back to my laboratory, mixed classes with young ladies, you know, after a thing like that? How could we live and wher... ...icants to specified licensed places and the sale of them to unmistak- able adults, and they will make the temptation of the young a grave offence. In ... ... for, crime. But I doubt whether the State will go beyond that. Whether an adult shall use wine or beer or spirits, or not, seems to me entirely a mat... ...pe prolonged maturity. This mod- ern Utopia is an adult world. The flushed romance, the pre- dominant eroticisms, the adventurous uncertainty of a wor...

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...e great-uncle to whom I owe my bricks. He must have been one of those rare adults who have not forgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was ... ...rived concep- tions of foreign and domestic politics it has taken years of adult reflection to correct. And at home permanently we had Wood’s Natural ... ..., and what a hunger he may have felt for the sympathy of the undevel- oped youngster who trotted by his side. 24 The New Machiavelli “I’m no gardener... ...ple moved into them as soon as the roofs were on, mostly workmen and their young wives, and already in a year some of these raw houses stood empty aga... ...ttered fossils to lecture to us upon geology. I was one of those fortunate youngsters who take readily to school work, I had a good memory, versatile ... ...ess homes in which so many find themselves, a going out towards something, romance if you will, beauty, that has suddenly be- come a need—a need that ... ...rything that was most acceptable in the maga- zines that flourished in the adult world about us, and had determined to make it a success. He had by a ... ...age, I too was for leaving them alone. I developed a dread and dislike for romance, for emotional music, for the human figure in art—turning my heart ... ...sed people—people overshadowed by a situation. We shall be an elopement, a romance—all our breadth and meaning gone! People will always think of it fi...

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...fire-pointed stick, na- ked, living in small family groups, killed by some younger man so soon as his first virile activity declined. Over most of the... ...7 AT THE CLOSE of the nineteenth century as a multitude of passages in the literature of that time witness, it was thought that the fact that man had ... ...pan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the parents of young Holsten, who was to be called by a whole generation of scientific men... ...ut any sense of fatigue, so fascinating did they find his suggestions. One youngster in particular, a chuckle-headed, scrub-haired lad from the Highla... ...ions to the collective future, is trace- able more and more clearly in the literature of those times, and movement after movement fretted itself away ... ... pity in that crew of Godless, Vivisecting Prigs?’ cried this last king of romance. ‘Do you think, Pestovitch, they understand anything of a high ambi... ...eep the less adaptable out of mischief, and of paying wages to the younger adults for at- tendance at schools that would equip them to use the new ato... ...presentative that the politicians were drowned in a deluge of votes. Every adult of either sex from pole to pole was given a vote, and the world was d... ...discovery of the love interest, but life lengthens out now and the mind of adult humanity detaches itself. Poets who used to die at thirty live now to...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...? Why did he let the years go by and still hope on? By what means did this young and pretty and clever 19 Balzac woman hold him in bondage? The answe... ...ng the valet, he saw in the gate-way of the Lion d’Argent the lady and the young man in whom his perspicacity at once detected customers, for the lady... ... for him, proving that he had grown, and might grow still more, like other adults of eighteen or nineteen years of age. The blue trousers, mended by h... ...ter, and had there found the Madame Clapart just portrayed, instead of the young and beautiful creature he expected to find. The drivers of public con... ...fooling you,” said Georges to the farmer. “Mara- schino comes in cases.” “‘Romances alter cases,’” remarked Mistigris. CHAPTER V THE DRAMA BEGINS PIER...

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...Excerpt: The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book--was a miserabl...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...RDS OF A FEATHER Chapter 1 OF AN EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER THE SCHOOL AT WHICH young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book—the streets being, for pu... ...t orations to all comers, at all sorts of unseasonable times. So, unwieldy young dredgers and hulking mudlarks were referred to the experiences of Tho... ...good, but because you were to make a good thing of it. Con- trariwise, the adult pupils were taught to read (if they could learn) out of the New T est... ...ocket and its decent hair-guard round his neck, looked a thoroughly decent young man of six-and-twenty. He was never seen in any other dress, and yet ... ...was not so very , very bad. There was even a touch 141 Charles Dickens of romance in her—of such romance as could creep into Limehouse Hole—and maybe... .../jmanis/ dickens.htm. If you would like to receive more classical works of literature in PDF , go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ jimspdf.ht...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...f being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country. Although I am not disposed to maintain th... ...was care lessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectl... ...e fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately. As the young woman spoke, he rose, and ad vancing to the bed’s head, said, with m... ...way, bless her dear heart! Think what it is to be a mother, there’s a dear young lamb do.’ Apparently this consolatory perspective of a mother’s pros ... ...l the mothers in the town. As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of de... ...d his thoughts; he was evidently tinctured, for the nonce, with a spice of romance and enthu siasm, foreign to his general nature. He looked down on ... ...y/jmanis/dickens.htm. If you would like to receive more classical works of literature in PDF , go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.ht...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...gious faith. 14 The Village Rector II VERONIQUE THERE ARE, no doubt, many young girls in the world as pure as Veronique, but none purer or more modes... ...union must be counted among the strongest emotions of so pure and candid a young creature,—an inward light seemed to efface for the moment all traces ... ...e possessed therefore something more quaint than itself,—the portrait of a young girl worthy of Mieris, or Van Ostade, or T erburg, or Gerard Douw, fr... ...ness. 18 The Village Rector In such a situation she naturally made many a romance such as young girls are fond of weaving. She clasped the idea—perha... ... works of Schiller and of Goethe, and much else of modern and also ancient literature. She learned to ride a horse, and to dance and to draw. She pain... ...ion of a man who had the face and bearing of a hero, had been drawn into a romance the outcome of which was crime. This supposition was to some extent... ...is nothing without grace. My life is simple and without the very slightest romance. My father, who has made his own way in the world, is a stern, infl... ...ure of things, can give a certainty that the intellectual qualities of the adult youth will be those of the mature man. At this moment I am intimate w...

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...was nothing, it was like walking along a kerbstone, it was an exercise for young la- dies…. 7 7 7 7 7 In his younger days Benham had regarded Fear as ... ...n the chief thing present in my mind was that all those fellows round were young soldiers who wouldn’t at all understand bad behaviour. My arm was—orc... ...traint upon childish enterprise, to creep up into and distress and distort adult life? … “The modern world thinks too much as though painless- ness an... ... reminiscent of the maternal lair.” But fear has very little hold upon the adult solitary animal, it changes with extreme readiness to resentment and ... ...orce. His wife, William Porphyry’s mother, made the acquaintance of a rich young man named Nolan, who was recuperating at Seagate from the sequelae of... ... he concealed from her. What remained to tell was—attenuated. He could not romance. So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines. She tried to inspire ... ...ys that rose against the sullen smoke-barred sunsets, and he felt only the romance of the lurid shuddering flares that burst out from squat stacks of ... ...life, in very truth, the heart has not this simplicity. Only the heroes of romance, and a few strong simple clean-shaven Americans have that much emot... ...l school- boys; they do nothing but malicious mischief; there is noth- ing adult about them but their voices; they are like the he- roic dreams of you...

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...was thirty years old, perhaps more. His gleaming beauty , maleness, like a young, good-humoured, smiling wolf, did not blind her to the significant, s... ... and fraying of her white gar- ments, towards the church. Like a hound the young man 16 was after her, leaping the steps and swinging past her father... ...on to her duties. But his sister merely crowded to her seat. Therefore the young man, slightly too dictatorial, directed the guests to their places. T... ...he?’ ‘He neither does nor doesn’t. She is the harlot, the actual harlot of adultery to him. And he’s got a craving to throw himself into the filth of ... ...er heart, from the bottom of her soul, she de- spised and detested people, adult people. She loved only chil- dren and animals: children she loved pas... ..., she seemed to have a strange new fire in her heart. This slight sense of romance stirred her like an intoxicant. 277 At last she saw Gudrun coming,... ...attention, and was happy. Yet in her remoter soul, she knew as well as the adults knew: perhaps better. Her father was quite well in his make-belief w... ...erick the Great reading his own poetry. They talked together for hours, of literature and sculpture and painting, amusing themselves with Flaxman and ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... which place touched the ship in which I sailed from home. The other was a young man whom, four years previous, I had frequently met in a sailor board... ...ts passed ere I was sent for into the cabin by the captain. He was quite a young man, pale and slender, more like a sickly counting-house clerk than a... ...ng to stand their watch though they could do but little. The captain was a young cockney, who, a few years before, had emigrated to Australia, and, by... ...ty. They have also established churches, and schools for both children and adults; the latter, I regret to say, are now much neglected: which must be ... ...—what a debt do we owe you! I know not whether it was the reading of these romances, or the want of some sentimental pastime, which led the doc- tor, ...

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...ies, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to br... ...our schooner, now bereft of any breeze, continued to creep in: the smart creature, when once under way, appearing motive in herself. From close aboard... ... nine of our particular friends equipped with gifts and dressed as for a festival. Hoka, the chief dancer and singer, the greatest dandy of Anaho, and... ...rs when he beheld the inani- mate performance of the dancers. When the people sang for us in Anaho, they must apologise for the smallness of their rep... ...med a phe- nomenon apart. He marries but the one wife, uses the Prot- estant Bible, observes Protestant forms of worship, for- bids the use of liquor ... ... the quest, and he was still a bachelor. Within strictly native society the old laws and practices were harsh, but not without a certain stamp of high... ... its maturity before I was informed abruptly that I had stood the ordeal. ‘I look your eye. You good man. You no lie,’ said the king: a doubtful compl... ... one of the king’s expres- sions. And again: ‘I had been reading the Musketeer books, and he reminded me of Aramis.’ Such is the portrait of Tembinata...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... TION S S S S Section 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 THE MAID was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitor... ... by the quaint, the burlesque, and all the smiling, dull condescensions of adult love. 27 H G Wells CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE FOUR ... ...d afterwards the detested coupe could go back to London. The day was still young, and after lunch and coffee upon a sunny lawn a boat seemed indicated... ...g can be curi- ously fatiguing; punting involves dreadful indignities. The romance here tarnishes very quickly. Romantic encounters fail to occur; in ... ... the stuffy horrors described in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” “I’ve not read it.” “A picture of the Catholic atmosphere; a yo... ...al af- fairs was very largely due. We left divorce-law revision to exposed adulterers and marriage reform to hot adolescents and craving spinsters dri... ...d drawings and scratchings of the Old Stone people who came before them.” “Adults with the minds of thirteen-year-old children. Thir- teen-year-old ch... ...ort. “The second streak, “ said Sir Richmond. “Oh!—Love of beauty, love of romance. I want to give things their proper names; I don’t want to pretend ...

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...but to furnish him with a further stipend, urging, that, “While he was yet young, it was fitting that he should see with his own eyes the coun- tries ... ...I may observe that this Life has been paraphrased in English by my learned young friend Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, and appended to my prose translation ... ... But setting aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees ... ...rive both subject and em- bellishment. But it is one thing to use existing romances in the embellishment of a poem, another to patch up the poem itsel... ...debate The best, the bravest, of the Grecian state. 64 The Iliad of Homer Young as ye are, this youthful heat restrain, Nor think your Nestor’s years... ...d leave unpunish’d this perfidious race? Shall T roy, shall Priam, and the adulterous spouse, In peace enjoy the fruits of broken vows? And bravest ch... ... was expelled his own coun- try, and scarce escaped with his life from his adulterous wife Ægiale; but at last was received by Daunus in Apulia, and s... ...ses, the rav- ages of pestilence, the fate of the young child or promising adult, cut off in the germ of infancy or flower of youth, of the old man dr... ...e. The chiefs fight in advance, and enact almost as much as the knights of romance. The siege of Troy was as little like a modern siege as a captain i...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...as the almost thirty-year-old Incumbent of Cocksmoor, still looking like a young deacon, entered the room with his quiet step, and silent greeting to ... ...scarlatina, I believe—’ ‘But, Richard,’ burst forth the merry voice of the young- est, ‘you must see our letters from Edinburgh.’ ‘You have heard, the... ...ve years’ respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there... ... busy, and told him to take a book.’ ‘I know,’ said Aubrey; ‘the liveliest literature you can get in Richard’s parlour are the Missionary Reports.’ 1... ...o see what can be done by means of the press. I tell Matilda it is quite a romance of modern life; and indeed, the sweet girl is very romantic still—v... ...uest’s regular formula of expecting to meet Richard, she told him that the adult school always kept Richard away in the winter evenings; ‘But if you w... ...who had taken pity on the helpless strangers—interested, partly by her own romance about England, partly by their mourning dresses, dark melancholy ey... ... the cadet and the convict, and, moreover, tended to remove the aureole of romance with which the unseen captive had been invested by youthful fancy. ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...nd—and made a necklace of their teeth and claws for the chief ’s beautiful young daughter. Also he killed a lion with a pointed stake, stabbing throug... ...eing in question. “Earnest Joy.” “Exultant, Urgent Loogoobuosity.” A manly young curate, marking and misunderstanding his preoccupied face and moving ... ...tween extravagant smartness and the last stages of decay. There were sunny young men full of an abounding and elbowing energy, be- fore whom the soul ... ...ade a little holiday possible. Holidays were his life, and the rest merely adulterated living. And now he might take a little holiday and have money f... ...e little in practis- ing them. And then it happened to Mr. Polly that real Romance came out of dreamland into life, and intoxicated and gladdened him ... ...fetime. 70 The History of Mr. Polly “Vile Business,” said Mr. Polly. Then Romance appeared. Or to be exact, Romance be- came audible. Romance began a... ...n the hither side and as ten pink finger tips, scarcely apprehended before Romance became startling and emphatically a leg, remained for a time a fine... ...d himself emerging from the western door. Outside, a crowd of half-a-dozen adults and about fifty children had collected, and hailed the approach of t...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of ... ...ference,” proceeds the Chancellor, still on Jarndyce and Jarndyce, “to the young girl—” “Begludship’s pardon—boy,” says Mr. T angle prematurely. “In r... ...“In reference,” proceeds the Chancellor with extra distinct ness, “to the young girl and boy, the two young people”— Mr. T angle crushed — “whom I di... ...l his later life. Would you suppose him to have a head and a heart full of romance yet?” “I think, guardian, I might have supposed so. But it is easy ... ...energy, which has a certain amount of reason in it and a certain amount of romance; and I don’t know but what I should be more interested in our young... ...o behold the tops of their heads while they are about it. The whole court, adult as well as boy, is sleepless for that night, and can do nothing but w... .../ jmanis/dickens.htm. If you would like to receive more classical works of literature in PDF , go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/jimspdf.ht...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...; but, Mr Veneering having this very evening set up the shirt-front of the young Antinous in new worked cambric just come home, is not at all complime... ...ars ago, and had got so far and had never got any farther. Reflects mature young lady; raven locks, and complexion that lights up well when well powde... ...ll powdered—as it is—carrying on considerably in the captivation of mature young gentleman; with too much nose in his face, too much ginger in his whi... ...d, as you inevitably will, the man from Somewhere a bore. Sorry to destroy romance by fixing him with a local habita- tion, but he comes from the plac... ...good, but because you were to make a good thing of it. Con- trariwise, the adult pupils were taught to read (if they could learn) out of the New T est... ..., Pleasant Riderhood was not so very , very bad. There was even a touch of romance in her—of such romance as could creep into Limehouse Hole—and maybe... ...y roamed about the town together, pursuing this singular research. Miserly literature not being abundant, the proportion of failures to successes may ...