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...g Poland, the daring pamphleteers, the scrutinizers of the civil test, the philosophers who demand sincerity in the working of our institutions, if th... ... of foreign cabinets, and of all the ramifications of 85 Balzac the great continental families. De Marsay convinced Maxime of the necessity of doing ...

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...use. Their own high food would kill them. You shall find great poets, rare philosophers, night after night on the broad grin before a row of yellow li... ...tainly,” said the doctor. “You will admit, Sir Austin, that, compared with continental nations—our neighbours, for instance—we shine to advantage, in ... ...s our history, as Benson would have written it, and a great many poets and philosophers have written it. Yet it was but the plucking of the Autumn pri...

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... read- ing himself, notwithstanding, as one who was less flighty than many philosophers and professedly practical teachers of his generation. He saw f... ...er. It was winter in Milan, turning to the new year—the year of flames for continental Europe. A young man with a mili- tary stride, but out of unifor...

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...offee- pot before us, shows us what to do. Coffee and milk we have, in the Continental fashion, and some excellent rolls and butter. He is a swarthy l... ...e irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring it to unity. Now philosophers after my Utopian pattern, who find the ultimate significance i... ...who profess what is called Science as against psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary men, whom he regards as wild, foolish, immoral s... ...age humanity, there is probably no pure race in the whole world. The great continental populations are all complex mixtures of numerous and fluctuatin...

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...ge the earth, which it missed so narrowly, has sustained. All the familiar continental mark- ings and the masses of the seas remain intact, and indeed... ... insisted on his lying in the dark, and that was a great misery. And blind philosophers came and talked to him of the wicked levity of his mind, and r...

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...philosophic attainments, and perhaps upon philosophic glory. All the great philosophers of his own time, whether Stoic or Peripatetic, and amongst the... ...lied in these stern and memorable words—Occidat, dum imperet. Upon which a continental writer comments thus: “Never before or since have three such wo...

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...a distance off Cape Horn. Of a retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but ... ... V ery often do the captains of such ships take those absent- minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient “interest... ...rom which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately or lovely emblazoni... ...s into tents, and crawled into them. Besides, it has been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was thrown overboard from the Jop... ...ockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the 440 Moby Dick moot point is, whether Leviathan can... ...ps fifty of these whale-bone whales are har- pooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has ...

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...e of expenditure prevalent, not only amongst the correspond- ing bodies of continental nations, but even amongst the poorer sections of our own nobili... ...ason against us all, had been demonstrated to the satisfaction of all true philosophers. Who were these shams and make-believe men? They were, in fact... ...ter the fashion of Louis Qua- torze, or our Charles II., and so many other continental princes. There were living witnesses (more than one) of his abe... ...r- eigner ever sees at home will at least be always within reach, from the continental practice of using the bed room for the sitting room. But in Eng...

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...that that stand out in life. Nothing’s been quite so vivid since. It’s the philosophers, it’s the scholars,” he continued, “they’re the people who pas... ...lished. The villa was a roomy white house, which, as is the case with most continental houses, looked to an English eye frail, ramshackle, and absurdl... ...d me than any one I’ve ever met.” 196 The Voyage Out “What about the five philosophers?” said Helen, with a laugh, stitching firmly and swiftly at he...

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...atively got itself sanctioned and prescribed there. Such, in full sight of Continental and other Univer- sities, is Huber’s opinion. Alas, the questio... ... it is of the doctrine of the Greek Fathers, of the Mystics and of Ethical Philosophers, consists,—if I may hint a fault in one whose holiness, meekne...

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...arral. She al- most understood it. What came next was a German family, the continental ac- quaintances of the wife of one of Fyne’s colleagues in the ... ...om being comic? Didn’t you read the latest books about laughter written by philosophers, psy- chologists? There is a lot of them ….” “I dare say there...

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...lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to temples of dusky thought: philosophers partaking of it are drawn by the arms of garlanded nymphs abou... ...or at him, I should say. He’s right: if we won’t learn that we have become Continentals, we shall be marched over. Laziness, coward- ice, he says.’ ‘O... ...tin. I must beg of you you write it down. It is orally incomprehensible to Continentals.’ ‘We are Islanders!’ Colney shrugged in languishment. ‘Oh, yo... ..., and painfully, not ignobly—was in process of development: interesting to philosophers, if not to maidens. Victor accused her of paying too much heed...

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...by repeated doses of brandy, will be held, according to cer- tain leisured philosophers, to be happier than the huckster is. The one perishes in a bre... ...ure, but that is an effect of the constant calm affected by those profound philosophers with their long pipes, their 16 The Girl with the Golden Eyes... ...ruits and the decrepit age of its pontiffs; but if the church likes!). The continental war prevented young De Marsay from knowing his real father. It ...

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...n conscious rectitude =pliers man should have a tail for its just display. Philosophers have drawn attention to the power of the human face to express... ...n of Annette will be disap- pointed by short sentences, just as of old the Continental eater of oysters would have been offended at the offer of an ex...

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...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 ... ...emporary gossip. It was scarcely so cold in the church as it was with- out, but it looked colder. The white nave was positively arctic to the eye; and...

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...ions should also be sought from Russia and Great Brit- ain, and a vigorous continental spirit of independence against European intervention be aroused... ..., 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... ...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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...ing them, was not disappointed. Blue ladies there are, in Boston; but like philosophers of that colour and sex in most other latitudes, they rather de... ...of the rottenness of these things, there has sprung up in Boston a sect of philosophers known as Transcendentalists. On inquiring what this appellatio... ... American Notes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, pl...

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... were in Napoleon’s position for mastering the German and the English. His continental policy moved en- tirely upon the pivot of central Europe, that ... ...t is litterateurs) and arithmeticians, the poor remains of the orators and philosophers of the past, and engaged them to accompany him from Italy to F...

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...lynesian trembled for the fu- ture. We may accept some of the ideas of Mr. Darwin’s theory of coral islands, and suppose a rise of the sea, or the sub... ...anged her course, or lay becalmed. I used to regard the king with veneration as he thus pub- licly deceived himself. I saw behind him all the fathers ...

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...ry pamphlets? Their sudden swarmings used to overwhelm the powers of every Continental po- lice like a plague of crimson gadflies. But this ex- treme ... ...tance, to point out the attitude of the old French aristocracy towards the philosophers whose words were preparing the Great Revolution. Even in Engla...