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...es can keep us in our place. Men, as Miss Howe or Miss Harlowe 8 Robert Louis Stevenson would have said, ‘are such encroachers.’ For my part, I am bo... ...o use for a man to take to the woods; we know him; St. Anthony tried the same thing long ago, and had a pitiful time of it by all ac- counts. But ther... ...ves, and can walk in a high and cold zone with- out the countenance of any trousered being. I declare, al- though the reverse of a professed ascetic, ... ...istrust… . For the life of me I cannot understand it. I too have been knolled to church, and sat at good men’s feasts; but I bear no mark of it. I am ... ...us like a tree. There was one odd piece of practical metaphysics which accompanied what I may call the depth, if I must not call it the intensity, of ...

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...y: So, over the hills we’ll bound, old hound, Over the hills and away. The women, they shall sigh and smile, And madden whom they may: It’s over the h... ...ow ties her strings. She’s a dish for a man who’s a mind to be poor; Lord! women are such expensive things. II We don’t marry beggars, says she: why,... ...o strike. But home’s where different politics jar most. Respectability the women like. This form, or that form, – The Government may be hungry pike, B... ...e lose to win. III The beggar-king, November, frets: His tatters rich with Indian dyes Goes hugging: we our season’s debts Pay calmly, of the Spring ... ...ke a wreath Of our most blushful flower shine trembling through, T o teach philosophers the thirst of thieves: Is one for me? is one for you? II —Fair... ...irt. And dog, bull, cook, was he, fanged, horned, plumed; Original man, as philosophers vouch; Carnivorous, cannibal; length-long exhumed, Frightfully... ...pressive scene, beyond arrest, A darkness not with stars of heaven dressed Philosophers behold; desponding view Your Many nourished, starved my brilli... ...ions’ mad revolts, Draws down; the midnight hovers to descend; And dire as Indian noons of ulcer heat Anticipating tempest and the bolts, Hangs curtai...

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...seized matter of State, and went up to Master Walsingham, swelling like an Indian turkey-cock, with his secret letters, and behold they turned out to ... ...e is the child? Wouldst guess it to be of gentle, or of clownish blood, if women can tell such things ?” “Of gentle blood, assuredly,” cried the lady,... ... one know of it, or of the trinket—Thou hast them safe?” “Laid up with the Indian gold chain, thy wedding gift, dear sir.” “’Tis well. My mother!—ah m... ... them all that is proof against her blandishments. Her Majesty should have women warders for her. ’Twas good sport to see the furrows in his old brow ... ... all our play time if you try to make him do it with a grace. Curtsies are women’s work—go on.” “Where was I? O—” (resuming her dignity after these as... ...aid the smith, looking up from the horse’s foot; “’tis the trade of yonder philosophers to gainsay what- ever honest folk believed before them. They’l... ...ke. Poor fellow! the Queen, even while she wished him in the farthest West Indian isle, could not help under- standing that strange doubt and dread th...

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...ve, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor a... ... his egg. They knew that he must have an egg for his voice, there were two women in the house, and no one had the least regard for his comfort. Mrs. C... ... the evenings when they did 119 W. Somerset Maugham not go out, the young women sang little songs in the green velvet drawing-room, while Fraulein An... ... was real life. It was a strange life, dark and tortured, in which men and women showed to remorseless eyes the evil that was in their hearts: a fair ... ...ty at the vicarage, and two girls came, daughters of a retired major in an Indian regiment who had lately settled in Blackstable. They were very prett... ...ed their nimble way on the edge of the incomprehensible. Some- times great philosophers seemed to have noth- ing to say to him, but at others he recog... ... say ,” she told him, “as there’s another lady here whose husband’s in the Indian Civil.” “I wouldn’t let that disturb me if I were you,” said Philip....

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... ture. In spite of the intense labour and wonderful discover ies of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.... ...he worst event. On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her. She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself. “... ...tals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eye... ...d exhibited. He said that “These were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge... ... placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me,... ...ue. The prospect of marrying a Chris tian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her. “The ... ...desired his return to complete the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise. He could not any longer delay his departure; but as hi...

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...y. His first intention was to write a picturesque history of France. Three women—Isabella of Bavaria, Catharine and Marie dé Medici—hold an enormous ... ...part of Catherine’s household, which was wholly composed of French men and women, for, by a law of the monarchy, the execution of which the Pope saw w... ...d of the house of Brosse made her one of the most powerful and best titled women in France. Catherine’s aunt the Duchess of Albany, the Queen of Navar... ...many in- ventors, who, starting in quest of the Great Work (the so- called philosophers’ stone), attained to astonishing results. At no period were th... ...ence, sire, which is a very different thing. Materialism is the outcome of Indian doctrines, transmitted through the mysteries of Isis to Chaldea and ... ...n. That miracle would justly seem impos- sible to Christians as well as to philosophers,” said the little lawyer, resting the tips of his fingers on t...

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...now.” “What! Are ye a-turnin’ roun’, Adam? I thought ye war dead again th’ women preachin’, a while agoo?” “Nay, I’m not turnin’ noway. I said nought ... ...chin’, a while agoo?” “Nay, I’m not turnin’ noway. I said nought about the women preachin’. I said, Y ou let the Bible alone: you’ve got a jest- book,... ...f it, which he knew to be the destination of certain grave-looking men and women whom he had observed passing at intervals. Mr. Casson’s person was by... ...or the slates; he knew exactly how many grains were gone out of the ear of Indian corn that hung from one of the rafters; he had long ago exhausted th... ...pedlars, who brought bargains to the door on sunny after- noons. Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is ...

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...at were going forward around them, in the hands of those innumerable young women in irreproachable toilets who devote themselves, in France, to the pr... ... to “exercise.” He had no theory with regard to cold bathing or the use of Indian clubs; he was neither an oarsman, a rifleman, nor a fencer—he had ne... ... handsomest churches,. and the most celebrated men, and the most beautiful women.” “Settle down in Paris, then. There are no mountains that I know of,... ... of pictures and churches, no end of celebrated men, and several beautiful women.” “But I can’t settle down in Paris at this season, just as summer is... ...nds foolish to say,” said Newman. “Hang it, no man is rich!” “I have heard philosophers affirm,” laughed M. de Bellegarde, “that no man was poor; but ...

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...fall in love,” he added, by way of explanation, to his father. “The pretty women themselves may be sent flying!” Lord Warburton exclaimed. “No, no, th... ... by means of telegrams, and her telegrams are rather inscrutable. They say women don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered t... ...er. He slightly inclined himself, smiling; he had an excellent manner with women. The girl appreciated it in an instant; she had not forgotten that th... ... mother’s door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted that of his pr... ...he hotel and wandered all over the place. It was lovely weather —a kind of Indian summer, only not so good. We just lived in that park. Oh yes; you ca...

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...irations… Only when the family had “moved” into the malarious backwoods of Indiana, the mother had died, and a stepmother, a woman of thrift and energ... ...ashington. To the town constable’s he went to read the Revised Statutes of Indiana. Every printed page that fell into his hands he would greedily devo... ... field, and his most noteworthy deed of valor consisted, not in killing an Indian, but in protecting against his own men, at the peril of his own life... ..., it awards to him the merit of having accomplished what but few political philosophers would have recognized as pos- sible,—of leading the republic t... ... and broad culture and association with the wisest and the best of men and women can give, and enters upon some form of pub- lic service on the road t... ...rters shot. As surely 73 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One as the women of the culprit’s family could get at him he always gave way. Certainl... ... want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so in all cases with women. I want, at this particular time, more than any thing else to do righ... ...s fable of the bundle of sticks; and he whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers has declared that “a house divided against itself cannot stand...

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...he latter’s son. The new place was named ‘Arrow Head,’ from the numer- ous Indian antiquities found in the neighbourhood. The house was so situated as... ...urning home, toiling and sweat- ing, with a bundle of it, under which most women would have sunk. T o tell the truth, Kory-Kory’s mother was the only ... ...ivilization, for it would alleviate his physical wants. But the voluptuous Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence has bountifully pro- vi... ...in the valley. In this secluded abode of happiness there were no cross old women, no cruel step-dames, no withered spinsters, no lovesick maidens, no ... ...ining hills, and then a burst of voices in the same direction. At this the women who had congregated in the groves, set up the most violent clamours, ... ...u- lence, does this manual labour come more unkindly than to the luxurious Indian when thus robbed of the bounty of heaven. Habituated to a life of in... ... consideration in which the ever-adorable sex is held by the men be—as the philosophers affirm—a just cri- terion of the degree of refinement among a ...

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...inly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found h... ...ce of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? No situation would be be- neath him; or what did Sir Thoma... ...n my- thology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.” “Very true indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonder... ...or him in their turn; and the pains which they, their mothers (very clever women), as well as my dear aunt and myself, have taken to reason, coax, or ... ... was most allowably a sweet, pretty girl, while they were the finest young women in the country. Her brother was not handsome: no, when they first saw...

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...di- ately closed again. Ten yards farther on, John de Witt met a lovely young girl, of about seventeen or eighteen, dressed in the national costume of... ...n which his father and grandfather, old established princely mer- chants of the princely city of Dort, were born. Mynheer van Baerle the father had am... ...ed to this queen of flowers its natural distinctive perfume, which she has lost in passing from her Eastern to her European throne, and which she must... ...ct Cornelius to the cell, which on that very morning Cornelius de Witt had left to go into exile, or what in revolutionary times is meant instead by t... ...other hand, all the hopes on the fulfilment of which Cornelius van Baerle had rested his ambition for the last seven years were now crushed. Rosa was ... ...the green on which the scene occurred; it pursued its way slowly, on account of the flocks of chil- dren who were pushed out of the avenue by the crow...

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... happen. In a moment afterwards he determined that it could, but that such women were constantly observed, and had no opportunity given them for the a... ...eir united consequence and grandeur would be triumphantly re- alized. Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and ... ...aul couldn’t understand what that had to do with it, nor why the two young women looked on so seriously, nor why Florence turned away her face for a m... ... been anxious to show even more cheerfulness and activ- ity after the West Indian interview than he had shown before: if that were possible, in one of... ...efore he availed him- self of so favourable a moment for breaking the West Indian intelligence to his friend, as a piece of extraordinary prefer- ment... ...And now, among the knot of servants dressed in mourn- ing, and the weeping women, Mr Dombey passes through the hall to the other carriage that is wait... ... for such a cause— will I go now till I have said the rest, I may not be a Indian widow Sir and I am not and I would not so become but if I once made ...

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...that class of per- sons—since, greatly improved through the agency of good women. 5 Charles Dickens POSTSCRIPT AT A PUBLIC DINNER given to me on Satu... ...ing quite impossible that any differ- ence of opinion can take place among women without every woman who is within hearing taking active part in it, t... ...ect to; it’s the ways of this chap. Nothing’s good enough for him; all the women is dying for him he thinks, and is overpaid if he winks at ‘em; and a... ...ed him that domestic drudg- ery was far beneath the exalted range of these Philosophers, and that the chances were a hundred to one that not one of th... ...ed out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing. In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been...

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.............................................. 261 CHAPTER XXXV OF THREE GOOD WOMEN ........................................................................ ...hat antiquity has not much decried this vice; the writings even of several philosophers speak very tenderly of it, and even amongst the Stoics there a... ...would tell of strange confidences, and some of them his own, with virtuous women, free from any manner of suspicion of ill, and for his own part solem... ...deliver- ing his family and himself from slavery and dishonour. The Jewish women, after having circumcised their children, threw them and themselves d... ... bodies into the fire, and at last leaped into it himself. Ninachetuen, an Indian lord, so soon as he heard the first 35 Montaigne whisper of the Por... ...mes to the pinch of the business. This is the reason why those amongst the philosophers who were ambitious to attain to a greater excellence, were not... ...ich neither the saints whom we hear speak so highly of themselves, nor the philosophers, nor the divines will be curbed; neither will I, who am as lit... ...in a great body, as beauty is in a conspicuous stature: the Ethiopians and Indians, says he, in choosing their kings and magistrates, had regard to th... ... was a whole night forming in her head. It is quite another thing with the Indian women for it be- ing the custom there for the men to have many wives...

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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 ... ...es of measles in Polynesia and the ruin worked by fire-water among the Red Indians, he gives in great abundance. He infers from this that interference...

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...ar him, as he explains the state of the existing poor laws to the deaf old women in the board-room passage on business nights; and to hear what he sai... ... after she comes back from market, there is a regular levee of old men and women in the passage, waiting for their weekly gratuity. Her name always he... ...r mammas of several other unmarried fami- lies, that five old men, six old women, and children innumerable, in the free seats near her pew, were in th... ... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...ave performed such evolutions as would have put the whole company to shame—Indian chiefs, knights, Swiss peasants, and all. Some people object to the ... ...ab, confident in the strength of his own moral principles, like many other philosophers, was wont to set the feelings and opinions of society at compl...

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...cting free will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing w... ... bands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their c... ...e, to deny the administration, he had not the power, to deny the nature. The Indians of the West, have names for their particular gods, though they ha... ...So that against atheists, the very savages take part, with the very subtlest philosophers. The contempla tive atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a... ...rn. When the plantation grows to strength, then it 78 is time to plant with women, as well as with men; that the plantation may spread into generatio... ...heels of custom. We see also the reign or tyranny of custom, what it is. The Indians (I mean the sect of their wise men) lay themselves quietly upon a... ... appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their...

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...’s body and immortal spirit? Can such things be possible among men born of women? Oh! infamy of infamies!” He was about to rise in his horror, when he... ...!” she cried, “is it so late? I have not an instant to lose. Alas, we poor women, what slaves we are! What have I not risked for you already?” And aft... ...NT BRACKENBURY RICH had greatly distinguished himself in one of the lesser Indian hill wars. He it was who took the chieftain prisoner with his own ha... ...ure. And the next moment he was conversing with the two officers about the Indian army and the native troops, a sub- ject on which, as on all others, ... ...eps recalled their glances towards the door. It was the Prince and the two Indian officers who entered. God had defended the right. “I am ashamed of m... ... many respectable authorities, as one among the three or four best dressed women in England. Harry’s duty as secretary was not particularly onerous; b... ...s Stevenson men exchanged a glance; it was tragic; not otherwise might two philosophers salute, as at the end of a laborious life each recognised that...