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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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...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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... why? It seems so easy.’ ‘Just what makes it so difficult. How many clever women are there in Simla?’ ‘Myself and yourself,’ said Mrs. Hauksbee, witho... .... That’s the case with every man up here who is at work. I don’t suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and ... ...t to go back to the salon. Allowing that you had gathered all your men and women to- gether, what would you do with them? Make them talk? They would a... ...ed Mrs. Hauksbee wickedly. ‘And collectively, my dear scoffer, we, men and women alike, have no influence. Come into the verandah and look at the Mall... ...glorious Aryan past of Max Muller, Birdwood and the rest of your spindrift philosophers.” An orderly brought a card to Orde who took it with a movemen...

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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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...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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...l revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very considerable amount ... ...itten with an in- stinctive skill and a clearness and a vigour uncommon in philosophers, in which a very complete statement of the new view is present... ...ld-world wisdom, the ultimate mystery of Oriental philosophy is to contemn women and offspring, to abandon costume, cleanliness, and all the de- cenci... ...nd he has also proposed that “diplomas” should be granted to young men and women of high class—big S and upward—and that they should be encouraged to ... ...tal (suppressed in 1835) had a mortality of eighty per cent. The two great Russian institutions are, I gather, about equally deadly with seventy- five...

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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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... day, who think Fielding’s micro- cosm a “toylike world,” and imagine that Russian Nihilists and French Naturalists have gone beyond it. It will decei... ...ketches may require the cau- tion that they are eighteenth-century men and women; some the warning that they are obviously caricatured, or set in desi... ... wonderful thing than any of their unlike- nesses. It is that they are all women, that they are all live citizenesses of the Land of Matters Unforgot,... ...er, con- jectures this to have been the founder of that sect of laugh- ing philosophers since called Merry-andrews. To waive, therefore, a circumstanc... ...d at him at table, and in- dulged him in all those innocent freedoms which women of figure may permit without the least sully of their virtue. But tho... ...heroic virtue. Thou odious, deformed monster! whom priests have railed at, philosophers despised, and poets ridiculed; is 77 Fielding there a wretch ... ...he carried with him nine volumes of sermons, and not being of that sect of philosophers who can reduce all the matter of the world into a nutshell, se...

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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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...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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..., who were his nearest connections on the side of the Pallisers. They were women to whom he had ever been kind, but to whom he had never opened his he... ...ndship. But she knew also—no one knew better—that the judgement of men and women does not always run parallel with facts. She entertained, too, a conv... ...rs Finn could not but remember that the friend she had lost was not, among women, the one best able to give a girl good counsel in such a crisis. ‘Why... ...ng;— few, perhaps, do, beyond the feeling that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or... ...have a glass of brandy-and-water and then lounge till dinner-time. But the philosophers received the proposition with stern dis- dain. Was his Lordshi... ...gh, the philoso- phers thought that a man should complete the furrows! The philosophers’ view had just carried the day, the dis- cussion having been h... ...al candidates should be intro- duced. ‘It will take ten minutes,’ said the philosophers; ‘but then it will take them ten minutes too. ’ Upon this Tre...

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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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... 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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...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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...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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...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...