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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...

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...try had anything like our treasures to defend? countless riches, beautiful women, an inviolate soil! T rue, and it must be done. Ministers were author... ...mp nodded. She left him hard at work. He was a popular boy, a favourite of women, and therefore full of engagements to Balls and dinners. And he was a... ...ed a bone in his mouth; and it was natural wisdom, though unappreciated by women. A bone in a boy’s mind for him to gnaw and worry, corrects the vagra... ...t to be visited by the guests at T ourdestelle. In common with some French philosophers and English matrons, he cherished a sentimental sad enthusiasm... ... small things producing great consequences, which have inspired diminutive philosophers with ironical visions of history and the littleness of man), i... ...genuity, the Germans for enlightenment, the Italians in the Arts; yes, the Russians for good-humour and obedience—where are they? They’re only worth s... ... without ques- tion of man’s taking that which he has conquered. Poets and philosophers did the same. Again she beheld Nevil Beauchamp solitary in the...

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...ways be in by ten o’clock at night; they disliked noise; and could have no women or children to break up their customary habits. An ecclesiastic might... ...he examined that face so purely white, resembling those of the cold, grave women of Holland whom the Flemish painters have so won- derfully reproduced... ... a wrinkle; neither fat nor thin; white enough to be the envy of all young women, and shapely enough for the model of a sculptor. Godefroid had alread... ... brought him; and he became the subject of a moral phenomenon which modern philosophers have de- spised,—possibly out of ignorance. The sphere in whic... ...e work of these mysterious persons be- came a passion. Without being great philosophers we can all understand the force which passions acquire in soli... ... sur- prise only lasted for an instant, for he had seen among Ger- man and Russian Jews many instances of the same contrast between apparent misery an...

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... not with a view to regulate your prac- tice, but your judgment: as to old women, and the mob of newspaper readers, they are pleased with anything, pr... ...inding one of that inscription, so justly admired by Paul Richtor, which a Russian Czarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow—This is the road that l... ... the poor king (Charles VI.) falling in at such a crisis, like the case of women laboring in childbirth during the storming of a city, trebled the awf... ... Domrémy, and, by a satisfactory consequence, how thinly sown with men and women must have been that region even in its inhabited spots. But the fores... ... arose, did people (but observe, very great people) advance to four, P .M. Philosophers, who watch the “semina rerum,” and the first symptoms of chang...

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...s stopped by a sort of portcullis. The panic was not confined to the rich; women in the humblest ranks more than once died 8 The Note Book of an Engl... ...rants, meditating probably nothing worse than a robbery, but whom the poor women, misled by the London newspapers, had fancied to be the dreadful Lond... ...opo- lis there are many thousands of households, composed ex- clusively of women and children; many other thousands there are who necessarily confide ... ...lyly, humbly but cunningly—to those whom he professed to regard as greater philosophers than himself. All parties found their account in the affair. P... ...he gates of cities, under the title of ‘swine,’ but caressed their infidel philosophers. Now, in this category of Jew and infidel, stood the author of... ... East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in interest to philosophers! In 1814, however, to my great regret, I did not see him; for ... ...e, sufficiently argues that the verses must have ploughed as deeply as the Russian knout. Vitriol could not scorch more fiercely. And yet the whole pa...

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...wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, En- glish men and women are, they will say to one another: “Yes, this Shakspeare is ours; we ... ... forward there, all generations since the beginning of the world, like the Russian soldiers into the ditch of Schweidnitz Fort, only to fill up the di... ... is it not too true what we said, That many men in the van do always, like Russian soldiers, march into the ditch of Schweidnitz, and fill it up with ... ...the Devil’s Cause, had no method of making himself agreeable! “Better that women weep,” said Morton, “than that bearded men be forced to weep.” Knox w... ... heartily in earnest. In earnest, if ever man was; as none of these French Philosophers were. Nay, one would say, of an earnestness too great for his ... ...appily into the region of Dreams and the Picturesque!—T o such comfortable philosophers, the Three Days of July, 183O, must have been a surprising phe... ...ave it made good; will have them- selves shot, if it be not made good. T o philosophers who had made up their life-system, on that “madness” quietus, ...

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...7% that same as a chimpanzee and about 60% the same as a chicken, we would have to assume that we have some instincts. ―Psychologists, philos... ...d our reliance on faith and hope. Theologians have given us many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philos... ...d name the organ 14 several inches lower as the path to a man‘s heart. Women ... ...part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women ... ...s true from mice to men. Get your power through politics, money, beauty or celebrity and you‘ll get enough sex!‖ —―Generally true, Con. Women ... ...ove as it is now defined. The idea of love can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philos... ...ave trained to attack minorities, primarily blacks. Their rationalizations are that they are protecting the purity of the race or protecting Russia...

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............................................ 277 CHAPTER XVIII: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN ........................................................................ ...f burdened with much nervous anxi- ety at my first introduction to men and women in Boston. I knew what the feeling there was with reference to En- gl... ...lubs, but one rather rejoicing in the rustle of petticoats. I like to have women in the same room with me. But at 29 Trollope these hotels I found my... .... M. Agassiz has collected at Cambridge a museum of such things as natural philosophers delight to show, which I am told is all but invaluable. As my ... ... of eating bread earned by men. It is in that 301 Trollope that these new philosophers seem to me to err so greatly. Humanity and chivalry have succe... ...All this had come upon us with very quick steps since the beginning of the Russian war. But if fighting must needs be done, one did not feel special g... ... fighting must needs be done, one did not feel special grief at fighting a Russian. That the In- dian mutiny should be put down was a matter of course...

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...re so typically feminine. “Oh, no, madam,” the latter replied in broken Russian; and instantly moving the grating half off the tank, he poked the... ...n. To tell the truth, it had not entered my head, so much more practical are women than we men in the solution of the problems of daily life! “Poo... ...f I am celebrated here, I wish her to be celebrated there. Sa vants, poets, philosophers, foreign mineralogists, statesmen, after conversing in the m... ...riking vir tues; and if they are right in calling Andrey Alexandrovitch our Russian Alfred de Musset, they will be still more right in calling her ou... ...g I am afraid of: in a thousand years the cloth of my coat, unfortunately of Russian make, may decay, and then, left without clothing, I might perhaps... ...van Matveitch hasten to express himself before me, like feverish weak willed women who, as we are told by the proverb, cannot keep a secret. All that ...

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...Ivanovitch as soon as Stepan Arkadyevitch had left them. “What a typically Russian, Slav nature! Only, I’m afraid it won’t be pleasant for Vronsky to ... ...n the volunteers were again greeted with shouts and singing, again men and women with collecting boxes appeared, and provincial ladies brought bouquet... ...rince, and Lvov, whom he liked so much, and Sergey Ivanovitch, and all the women be- lieved, and his wife believed as simply as he had believed in his... ... had believed in his earliest childhood, and ninety-nine hundredths of the Russian people, all the working people for whose life he felt the deepest r... ...d thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life. Their ideas ... ...eedom, essence, purposely letting him- self go into the snare of words the philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something. But he had onl... ...h lost all its charm for him, and this edifice crumbled into dust like the philosophers’ edifices. All that spring he was not himself, and went throug... ...bury him. He’s untying the sheaves, and giving orders, and shouting to the women, and quickly setting straight the strap on the moving wheel. And what... ...ristians, but simply children, women, old people, feel- ing is aroused and Russians go eagerly to help in stop- ping these atrocities. Fancy, if you w...

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.... I was writ- ing “A History of Railways”; I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign books, pamphlets, and articles in the magazines, to mak... ...ve it was disappointment. I had actually given up my post in the *Sobol in Russian means “sable-marten.”- TRANSLATOR’S NOTE. 6 Anton Chekhov Departme... ...ws and for the peculiar charm of his face, which fascinated men as well as women; now he was an old man, had grown corpulent, and was living out his d... ...his big soft head, with the hair combed down on the forehead like a Little Russian’s, and went off into a thin, aged laugh. “ And you go on getting yo... ...e and reminded me of her native town — Odessa, where the society , men and women alike, had wearied me by its bad taste. “I want to do something for t... ...eyes. “When I was in Pestrovo today I envied the sick and starving peasant women because they are not living with a man like you. They are free and ho... ...one, but by the indifference with which I hear of their marriage. They say philosophers and the truly wise are indifferent. It is false: in- differenc...

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...entimentality peculiar to the poets, a bloodless abstraction toyed with by philosophers, which must remain a closed book to struggling humanity. Yet T... ...cross or a new order. I see only one thing. To morrow one hundred thousand Russians and one hundred thousand Frenchmen will meet to fight; they who fi... ... struck by the steadfastness under fire which has always distinguished the Russian soldier. The fall of each man acted as an increasing stimu lus. Th... ...toy does full justice to the cour age and patriotism of all grades in the Russian army, but it is constantly evident that his sympathies are most hea... ... valuable and interesting record of one of Tolstoy’s rare friendships with women, revealing in his unguarded confidences fine shades of his many sided... ...g passages of “What then must we do?” (1886). Having affirmed that “it is women who form public opinion, and in our day women are particu larly powe... ...who shall urge her husband and train her children to self sacrifice. “Such women rule men and are their guiding stars. O women – mothers! The salvatio...

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...agnificent, (a word too often and lightly abused.) In reality, speaking of women, I have seen many beautiful figures, but hardly one except Agnes that... ... styled truly and memorably magnificent. Though in the first order of tall women, yet, being full in person, and with a symmetry that was absolutely f... ...m mere want of moisture, I could not separate my lips to speak. One of the women saw the vain efforts I was making, and hastily brought me a glass of ... ...sentatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that the muleteer’s stable at Valladolid was worth twenty suc... ...and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodu... ...ight (as it literally was in its commencement)—to the T artar siege of the Russian fortress Koulagina—the bloody engagement with the Cossacks in the m... ...sses at Ouchim—the surprisal by the Bashkirs and the advanced posts of the Russian army at Torgau—the private conspiracy at this point against the Kha... ...s of con- densing, would become planets, capable of brilliant literati and philosophers, in several volumes octavo. So stood the case for a long time;... ...unclean beasts would have been Coleridge’s private menag- erie of departed philosophers, could they all have been trot- ted out in succession! But did...

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...yosha of a strange and very opportune incident. It appeared that among the women who had come on the previous day to receive Father Zossima’ s blessin... ...onth. “What do I know about love 26 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part II and women and how can I decide such questions?” he thought reproachfully, after... ... “Never trust a woman’s tears, Alexey Fyodorovitch. I am never for the women in such cases. I am always on the side of the men.” “Mamma, you a... ...of all sorts, and there were several people in it. On the left was a large Russian stove. From the stove to the window on the left was a string runnin... ...st touched. “Nikolay Ilyitch Snegiryov, sir, formerly a captain in the Russian infantry, put to shame for his vices, but still a cap- tain. Though... ...dent, dying to get back to Petersburg, to work for the emancipation of the Russian woman on the banks of the Neva. I won’ t speak of Ilusha, he is onl... ...together all the wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, su... ...ur thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds. That is why the philosophers say that we cannot apprehend the reality of things on earth. ...

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...ness to trample on the elementary decencies of marriage. He gathered loose women into his house, and car- ried on orgies of debauchery in his wife’s p... ...vant, and on one occasion broke up the revels and drove all the disorderly women out of the house. In the end this unhappy young woman, kept in terror... ...nto that kind of nervous disease which is most frequently found in peasant women who are said to be “possessed by devils.” At times after terrible fit... ...sting in its way, of course, as a variety. The worst of it is it’s awfully Russian. There are no French women there. Of course, they could get them fa... ...nastery he met this elder. I must digress to explain what an “elder” is in Russian monas- teries, and I am sorry that I do not feel very competent to ... ... an elder are not the ordinary “obedience” which has always existed in our Russian monasteries. The obligation involves confession to the elder by all... ...together all the wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, su... ...ur thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds. That is why the philosophers say that we cannot apprehend the reality of things on earth. ... ..., though. I said to him just now,’ The Karamazovs are not blackguards, but philosophers; for all true Russians are philosophers, and though you’ve stu...

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...lants, the birds, the insects, and the children. But men, grown-up men and women, did not leave off cheat- ing and tormenting themselves and each othe... ...t 9 a.m., three prisoners at present detained in the prison, a man and two women (one of these women, as the chief criminal, to be conducted sepa- rat... ...e at once became sleepy. From inside the cell came the sound of bustle and women’s voices, and the patter of bare feet on the floor. “Now, then, hurry... ...ing to another tune then.” “This son of a priest will be saying ‘thou’ [in Russian, as in many other languages, “thou” is used generally among people ... ...irty-three; born in the year one thousand eight—” “What religion?” “Of the Russian religion, orthodox.” 32 Resurrection “Married?” “Oh, no, sir.” “Yo... ...ith, nature, and with those who had lived and thought and felt before him— philosophers and poets. What he now considered neces- sary and important we... ... scented soap, with the wrapper just taken off, and two towels— one a long Russian embroidered one, the other a bath towel. The unused soap with the s...

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...me de Cadignan could come to the theatre unseen, and depart incognito. Few women would have been capable of a delicacy which deprived them of the plea... ..., a dazzling queen, whose luxurious existence equalled that of the richest women of fashion in London,— there was something touching in the sight of h... ...mber, dining-room, salon, one bed-chamber, and a dress- ing-room, with two women-servants only. “Ah! she is devoted to her son,” said that clever crea... ...nhappy she had been with a certain celebrated ambassador, how happy with a Russian general, besides be- coming the Egeria of two ministers of Foreign ... ...ng-continued struggle. If you observe carefully the noble faces of ancient philosophers, you will always find those deviations from the type of a perf... ...le fool of a d’Esgrignon, and Rastignac, Rubempre, ambassadors, ministers, Russian generals, heaven knows who! all Europe! They have gossiped about th...

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...s harsh and rasping as a file. Caustic to excess she had few friends among women; she surrounded herself with prim, elderly matrons of her own stamp, ... ... her work with more agility. Mme. Cibot had attained the time of life when women of her stamp are obliged to shave —which is as much as to say that sh... ... of view. Paris, in his opinion, was a perpetual hurly- burly, the men and women in it were whirled away by a tempestuous waltz; it was no use expecti... ...ne covered with delicate carving, the like of which had never been seen. A Russian lady (Russian ladies are apt to forget that they are not in Russia)... ...s far more widely spread than scholars, lawyers, doctors, magistrates, and philosophers imagine. The instincts of the people are ineradicable. One amo... ...rough you, madame?—So young! and yet have you such vices as this?” asked a Russian prince. Russians are by nature imitative; imitative indeed to such ... ...bric-a-brac mania had appeared in an acute form in St. Petersburg, and the Russians caused such a rise of prices in the “art line,” as Remonencq would...

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...ou so much as a French centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the... ... sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never possessed. Your wars and revolutions come up before... ...ast, and strong enough to bring about three days of delirium! Pas- sionate women’s forms should grace that night! I would be borne away to unknown reg... ...fying the worthy people of France with a few new words and old ideas, like philosophers of every school, and all strong intellects ever since time beg... ...ent dinner every day, and the play at frequent intervals, where profligate women swarm, where suppers last on into the next day, and light loves are h... ... passage of Beresina; and when Napoleon later on proposed an exchange, the Russian authorities made search for him in Siberia in vain; he had escaped ... ...or else no one has taken a fancy to her. A sort of feminine enigma, a half Russian Parisienne, or a half Parisian Russian. All the ro- mantic producti... ...in a simple, childlike fashion, and with the ab- stracted look peculiar to philosophers. His face plainly showed traces of a struggle between a heavy ...

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...................................................................... 35 THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION ............................................ ...entre of the world’s attention is too absurd for discussion; grown men and women may speak kindly of a harmless crea- ture who utters amiable sentimen... ...lished religion and those who are passionately attacking it, the genu- ine philosophers being very few. Thus you never have a nation of millions of We... ... does not place Jesus above Confucius or Plato, not to mention more modern philosophers and moralists. 35 Preface to Androcles and the Lion MARK THE ... ...philosophers and moralists. 35 Preface to Androcles and the Lion MARK THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION LET US SEE whether we can get anything mo... ... occurred as that the battle of Waterloo occurred, or that a large body of Russian troops passed through England in 1914 to take part in the war on th... ...have written the epistles attributed to him, in which Chinese sages, Greek philosophers, Latin authors, and writ- ers of ancient anonymous inscription...

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... commencement of his reign, being the savior of Russia. There is no one in Russian literature now, from schoolboy essayist to learned historian, who d... ...ether the preservation of my father’s house in Moscow, or the glory of the Russian arms, or the prosperity of the Petersburg and other universities, o... ...ushes eastward and reaches its final goal— Moscow. That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered i... ... almost desperate when she brought him a petition from some peasant men or women who had appealed to her to be excused some work; why he, that kind Ni... ... that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty. It is only Malvinas and women of that kind who are loved for their beauty. But do I love my wife? I... ...lready,” she said in French, pointing to little Natasha. “Y ou reproach us women with being illogical. Here is our logic. I say: ‘Papa wants to sleep!... ...ing such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and poets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goal toward whic...

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... some reason for it when the Undershafts could only 9 Major Barbara marry women in their own class, whose sons were not fit to govern great estates. ... ... airs, an lam into er with the poker. RUMMY. That’s what’s so unfair to us women. Your confes- sions is just as big lies as ours: you don’t tell what ... ...Y es: you like an old man to hit, don’t you, when you’ve finished with the women. I ain’t seen you hit a young one yet. BILL [stung] You lie, you old ... ...philosophy; only a simple knowledge of the secret that has puzzled all the philosophers, baffled all the lawyers, muddled all the men of business, and... ... do nothing of the sort, papa. I suppose it’s your business to blow up the Russians and Japs; but you might really stop short of blowing up poor Choll...

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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... ...rints, or the thoughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German cr... ... is such a despatch in them. Compared with these, the grave think ers and philosophers seem not to have got their swaddling clothes off; they are sl... ...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... ...ain of the Indian sect of Gymnosophists, and he had told them of those new philosophers of the West, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Diogenes, and their doc... ... of genius, but to have lived with too passive a regard for the laws.” The philosophers of the West are liable to this rebuke still. “They say that Li...

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........................................... 148 BOOK VII. THE INSURRECTION OF WOMEN ........................................................................ ...e public places with cries of despair; crowds gather, get excited: so many women in destraction run about exaggerating the alarm: an absurd and horrid... ... received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11- 36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, before i... ...Progress of the Species, happiness enough now awaits him. Kings can become philosophers; or else philosophers Kings. Let but Society be once rightly c... ... his little contribution, does much. Force likewise (for, as Antiquar- ian Philosophers teach, the royal Sceptre was from the first something of a Ham... ...Rue de Clichy,’ far North, to wait there till wanted. Apparently a certain Russian Baroness de Korff, with Waiting-woman, Valet, and two Children, wil... ...Europe all rallying on us. It is a problem like few. Truly, if man, as the Philosophers brag, did to any extent look before and after, what, one may a...

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... since regained. I was invited to literary parties and to parties given by women of rank and fashion who thought it behoved them to patronise the arts... ...meet her that Arthur had arranged to come to tea that afternoon. The young women waited for him in the studio. The kettle was boiling on the stove; cu... ...years to pass easily, and she looked older. But she was one of those plain women whose plainness does not matter. A gal 18 TheMagician lant Frenchma... ...hose strange beings, male and female, which were called homunculi. The old philosophers doubted the possibility of this operation, but Paracelsus asse... ...sure of that little world. Afterwards, she often saw them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prod...

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...han those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she transl... ...g affection in her own sex. Impulsive girls she could keep in awe; but old women, notably two aunts who had never paid her any at- tention during her ... ...t yet provided a place and a sphere of action for wise and well-instructed women. In my younger days, when the companionship of my fellows was a neces... ...,” said Cashel, earnestly. “It isn’t right to be always looking at men and women as you would at horses. If you want to back them in a race or in a fi... ... knew how to fight too, he wouldn’t need to fear police, nor soldiers, nor Russians, nor Prussians, nor any of the millions of men that may be let loo... ...ear her, “if your paragon should turn aside from her friends, the artists, philosophers, and statesmen, to give herself to an illiterate prize-fighter...

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...d-times more cunningly devised poetical turning-loom, than that of Swift’s Philosophers in Laputa. Johnson’s prose is true, indeed, and sound, and ful... ...how to rise above it. Governments naturally at- tempt the first expedient; Philosophers, in general, the second. The Poet, says Schiller, is a citizen... ...rt, with which many houses were provided, was called a frame (Geräms). The women sat in it to sew and knit; the *A chief judge or magistrate of the to... ... as the earnest and noble form and the blue eyes of Charles Seventh on the women. At any rate, both sexes vied with each other in giving to the attent... ...ner- ally a cheerful, quiet man, and fond of ease, became impa- tient. The women vainly endeavored to smother the flames; 64 Autobiography and, after... ... I will also mention that I saw Diderot’s “Father of a Fam- ily,” and “The Philosophers” of Palissot, and still perfectly remember the figure of the p... ...habitants of the Eastern countries in their strange dresses, the Poles and Russians, and, above all, the Greeks, for the sake of whose handsome forms ...

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...ant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold ... ...the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese,... ...ngs. Y et,’ looking full upon her, ‘you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their busi- ness to do with you, and ... ...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...of; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the de... ...e seen in Rag Fair. All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people’s individuality, ... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri...

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...eems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as a matter of course) all religions,... ...has been committed on this subject, not by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian ethics (which word ethics, how- eve... ...ghout Christendom to murder harmless, friendless, and oftentimes crazy old women. Meantime the witch of Endor in no respect re- sembled our modern dom... ...rous warrant; until at last the fiery fur- nace, which they had heated for women and children, shot forth flames that, like those of Nebuchadnezzar’s ... ...it? Who first no- ticed hunger and cold as awful realities afflicting poor women and innocent children? Who first made a public provision to meet thes... ...sule Romam!’ and he mentioned the fact at all only for the sake of Natural Philosophers or of the curious in old women. Char- ity, even in that sense,... ...th century. The merest possibility exists, that in Armenia, or in a Graeco-Russian monastery on Mount Athos, or in Pompeii, &c., some authors hitherto...

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...m were inaccessible. He mentions all told more than fifty names of men and women whom he consulted for infor- mation, to which number many others shou... ...pon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversa- tion.’ Upon women of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the consciou... ...ous and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third down to the cat ... ...his produced a trium- phant roar of laughter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so ... ... I heard him maintain the superiority of Sir Isaac Newton over all foreign philosophers, with a dignity and eloquence that surprized that learned fore... ...rdinary exertions of that distinguishing faculty of man, which has puzzled philosophers so much to explain. Johnson’s laugh was as remarkable as any c... ... The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be trans- lated into the Russian language: so I shall be read on the banks of the Wolga. Horace boas...

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...ant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold ... ...the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese,... ...ngs. Y et,’ looking full upon her, ‘you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their busi- ness to do with you, and ... ...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...of; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the de... ...e seen in Rag Fair. All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people’s individuality, ... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri... ...t, the land of a host of past and present abstract philoso- phers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in their myriad forms, called ...

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...son, disclosed at once the presence of one of those angels upon earth that women in adversity can be. It was a hard fate that she was watching over. M... ...mong the older negroes of the place. At length one of the most aged of the women said that she had heard of such a place as Bessop’s Castle, and thoug... ...Some few are mountebanks. Others more particularly be- long to the race of philosophers. The greatest portion, how- ever — those especially who belabo... ...at a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!” Come let us be off. “Stay a moment! I see a vast hubbub in t... ...g the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling ques- tions, are not beyond all conjecture. —Sir ... ...ds of the shrill voice. Spoke quick and unevenly. Thinks it the voice of a Russian. Corroborates the general testimony. Is an Italian. Never conversed... ...has no knowledge of the En- glish.’ The Italian believes it the voice of a Russian, but ‘has never conversed with a native of Russia.’ A second French...

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...e busi- ness of a peculiar trade; and some by that of those who are called philosophers, or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do any thing,... ...rds occupa- 16 The Wealth of Nations tion to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as ... ... and is generally exhausted by two or three. Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station. Luxury, in ... ...e men-servants, who leave their masters, become independent labourers. The women return to their parents, and commonly spin, in order to make clothes ... ...art of men have of their own abilities, is an ancient evil remarked by the philosophers and moralists of all ages. Their absurd presumption in their o... ... The chairmen, porters, and coal- heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful wo... ...ns T urkey market, which, during the distress of the country , and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplie... ...language in which the mandarins of Pekin used to talk to Mr. De Lange, the Russian envoy, concerning it {See the Journal of Mr. De Lange, in Bell’s T ... ... fit to face the hardiest and most experienced veterans. In 1756, when the Russian army marched into Poland, the valour of the Russian soldiers did no...

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...oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or like to that which here below 600 Philosophers in vain so long have sought, In vain, though by thir power... ...t seise them both Grip’t in each paw: when ADAM first of men To first of women EVE thus moving speech, Turnd him all eare to heare new utterance... ...my crime, And thou th’ accuser. Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in Women overtrusting Lets her Will rule; restraint she will not brook, ... ... Departing gave command, and they observ’d. 430 As when the TARTAR from his RUSSIAN Foe By ASTRACAN over the Snowie Plaines Retires, or BACTRIAN ... ...or where The PERSIAN in ECBATAN sate, or since In HISPAHAN, or where the RUSSIAN KSAR In MOSCO, or the Sultan in BIZANCE, 395 TURCHESTAN-born; ... ...he Plain Long had not walkt, when from the Tents behold A Beavie of fair Women, richly gay In Gems and wanton dress; to the Harp they sung Sof...

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...had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlig...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Ele... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania S... ... they lived without scruple on incomes which they did nothing to earn. The women in their girlhood made themselves look like variety theatre stars, an... ...imply pocket the money that was heaped on them. Attractively dressed young women found that they had nothing to do but parade the streets, collecting-... ...l of fashionable hats, were filled with steel helmets. Slain and mutilated women and children, and burnt and wrecked dwellings, excuse a good deal of ... ...on the part of the very persons who, as university professors, historians, philosophers, and men of science, were the accredited custodians of culture... ...k we were filled with notions that might have been all very well for pagan philosophers of fifty, but were certainly quite unfit for respectable peopl...

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...ected, sugary expression, evi- dently habitual to him when conversing with women. “I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and cul- ture of the... ... society. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.” Anna Pavlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew ... ...is career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, will not rest un... ...story today and must treat you to it. Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell h... ...int will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. E... ... of helping, was in everyone’s way. “Allow me, sir,” said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking h... ...ing such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and po- ets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goal toward wh...

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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 ... ...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... ...in the ballot box. Our liberal intelligences could and do still understand Russians wanting votes, Indians wanting votes, women want- ing votes. The h... ..., will come to be a manageable matter. It has been the perpetual wonder of philosophers from Plato onward that men have bred their dogs and horses and...

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...nd have been encouraged in the belief by some who aspire to the character of philosophers, that their feelings, on subjects of this nature, are better... ... between princes and subjects, between nobles and roturiers, between men and women, has been for the most part the creation of these class interests a... ...cient commonwealths thought themselves entitled to practise, and the ancient philosophers countenanced, the regulation of every part of private conduc... ...ed in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers. Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual think On Libe... ...uld be a considerable loss to exchange for these automatons even the men and women who at present inhabit the more civilized parts of the world, and ... ...t be remembered that this relation is as much volun tary on the part of the women concerned in it, and who may be deemed the sufferers by it, as is t... ...to the interest of the bureaucracy . Such is the melancholy condition of the Russian empire, as is shown in the accounts of those who have had suffici...

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...uch, let them take the consequence. Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that look... ...ereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,—to the length o... ...n “was red painted on the nose, and white painted on the cheeks, as her tire women, when from spleen and wrinkles she would no longer look in any glas... ...so high even as at One to a Hundred (which, considering the Wages of a Pope, Russian Autocrat, or English Game Preserver, is probably not far from the... ...ether unspeakable. A visible Divinity dwelt in them; to our young Friend all women were holy, were heavenly. As yet he but saw them flitting past, in t... ... incipient Dotage, would crown with no new myrtle garland. To the Professor, women are henceforth Pieces of Art; of Celestial Art, indeed, which celes... ...ong the rock hollows; and, shaggy, huge as the Hyperborean Bear, hails me in Russian speech: most probably, therefore, a Russian Smuggler. With cour ...

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...al phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, is, in all subst... ...le or a general massacre could effect the emancipation of the serfs in the Russian Empire. The same passages of history forcibly illustrate another mo... ...urper) through the mental qualifi cations of a permanent bureaucracy. The Russian and Aus trian governments, and even the French government in its n... ...ose which were sought by senators, were conferred by popular election. The Russian government is a characteristic exemplification of both the good and... ...e in it to secure their share of its benefits. If there be any difference, women require it more than men, since, being physically weaker, they are mo... ...since abandoned the only pre mises which will support the conclusion that women ought not to have votes. No one now holds that women should be in per... ...is allowed to unmarried, and wants but little of being conceded to married women to hold prop erty, and have pecuniary and business interests in the ...

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... is not a cabbage. In Spain they are all curtains—a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in thei... ... the game,” continued Hop-Frog, “lies in the fright it occasions among the women.” “Capital!” roared in chorus the monarch and his ministry. “I will e... ...vage cries, among the crowd of delicately and gor- geously habited men and women. The contrast is inimitable!” “It must be,” said the king: and the co... ...ts of some kind in real- ity, if not precisely ourang-outangs. Many of the women 27 V olume Five swooned with affright; and had not the king taken th... ...lming principle, as I have already described it to you, it occurred to our philosophers that a laudable curiosity might be gratified, and, at the same...

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...rather oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or like to that which here below Philosophers in vain so long have sought, In vain, though by thir powerfu... ...urest seise them both Grip’t in each paw: when ADAM first of men To first of women EVE thus moving speech, Turnd him all eare to heare new utterance f... ...ome my crime, And thou th’ accuser. Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in Women overtrusting Lets her Will rule; restraint she will not brook, And ... ...o hee Departing gave command, and they observ’d. As when the TARTAR from his RUSSIAN Foe By ASTRACAN over the Snowie Plaines Retires, or BACTRIAN Soph... ...SE, or where The PERSIAN in ECBATAN sate, or since In HISPAHAN, or where the RUSSIAN KSAR In MOSCO, or the Sultan in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN born; nor cou... ...on the Plain Long had not walkt, when from the Tents behold A Beavie of fair Women, richly gay Paradise Lost Milton 193 In Gems and wanton dress; ...

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............................. 170 CHAPTER IX – JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Fami... ... irregularity and the too frequent vanity and meanness of his relations to women. Hence, in the eyes of many, my study was a step towards the demonstr... ...dramatic author has to paint his beaches with real sand: real live men and women move about the stage; we hear real voices; what is feigned merely put... ... vacation from humbler toil having com- menced, devote himself to oriental philosophers, the study of nature, and the work of self-improvement. Pruden... ... being, but must be coopering a barrel, forsooth.” Ay, or reading oriental philosophers. It is not the nature of the rival occupation, it is the fact ... ...tevenson While the young Ronyin thus lay studying in Yeddo, news came of a Russian ship at Nangasaki. No time was to be lost. Sakuma contributed “a lo... ...neteenth century. When he reached Nangasaki he was once more too late. The Russians were gone. But he made a profit on his journey in spite of fate, a...