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...e are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets, witch doctors, noveli... ...ily member abuse and in prisoner abuse and torture? When I was at Stanford, Dr. Zimbardo, who was a psychologist, recruited a couple of dozen male s... ...s certainly not a universal. Eleanor Roosevelt got hers from her brains, as did Marie Curie. But back to Ardrey. He gives many examples of how male a... ...on. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preying mantis bites off the head of its male m... ...ll is God, tolerate all beliefs as being within the One. This doesn‘t mean that some Hindus will not fight to the death over whether Hindi or Englis... ...neffective method of reducing inferiority feelings. ―Then there was the movement to teach black children Ebonics, the name for black street Englis... ...y the society in which a person lives. It is based more on what is average behavior, the norm, rather than on what might be ideal behavior. An Englis...

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...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ...hantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put ... ...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...h from the outside. "As soon as one of the family had been selected all of the male members were looked upon as devoted to the same horrid purpose. It...

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...s also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing her... ...,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the curiously mangled form of English that patent law produces, it was described this way: A sealed cru... ...y products for us? Why do we have trademark law, this “homestead law for the English language”? 4 Why not simply allow anyone to use any name or attra... ...hen, and each time it was also extended retrospectively. Artists, musicians, novelists, and filmmakers who had created their works on the understanding... ...-mockery, as it explores the concerns of the rich African-American celebrity male. My favorite line is “If you ain’t no punk, holler ‘We want prenup!!... ...l, who uses her sexuality for profit. Put them together and you have bookends—male fantasy and male nightmare. Was that Mr. West’s point? Perhaps. The ...

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... possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the pa...

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...own acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. T... ...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ...pite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and be- came on the strength of that an universal... ...e moles and in the feluccas of the Mediterranean, so there is a free or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twan... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ... ...toms of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of m...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ........................................................ 77 CHAPTER VII – THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS ............................................................. ...kespeare bombastic and most absurd, and all of him written in very obscure English and wearisome to read. And not long ago I was able to lay by my lan... ...not of the confraternity. The sentimental old maid is a commonplace of the novelists; and he must be rather a poor sort of human being, to be sure, wh... ...so in a negative sense; in short, they are the typical young ladies of the male novelist. To say truth, either Raeburn was timid with young and pretty... ...them well enough for the purposes of art. Take even the very best of their male creations, take Tito Melema, for instance, and you will find he has an...

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...g the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song....

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ose bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a... ...ntry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English consti- tution, were entitled to hold themselves independent of feu... ...neral resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst of- 65 Sir Walter Scott fer him injury. At such mee... ...elin was well aimed—I heard it whizz through the air with all the wrathful malevolence of him who cast it, and it quivered after it had pitched in the... ...dered thy nearest and dearest—who shed the blood of infancy, rather than a male of the noble house of T orquil Wolfganger should survive—with him hast... ... obvious expedient. The name of Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff, th...

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...hite and half- white church—I had never been before, and was much in- terested; the woman I sat next looked a full-blood native, and it was in the pre... ...God, they may now stay! Perhaps you may suppose the day now over; you are not the head of a plantation, my juvenile friend. Politics suc- ceeded: Henr... ...had to sit down and write to you to keep my temper. Let me sketch my lads. —Henry—Henry has gone down to town or I could not be writing to you— this w... ...aces were all arranged with much care; the native ladies of the house facing our party; the sides filled up by the men; the guests, please observe: th... ...he most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by journa...

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...able. But be this as it may, in November, 1859, Mrs. Talboys came among us English at Rome, and soon succeeded in obtaining for herself a comfortable ... ...n her neighbours. She was very eager in denouncing the preju- dices of the English world, declaring that she had found existence among them to be no l... ...e enslaved. We had at that time a small set at Rome, consisting chiefly of English and Americans, who habitually met at each other’s rooms, and spent ... ...rs in discussing Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poets, nov... ...nd, not in any accustomed seat, but moving about the room as the different male mental attractions of our society might chance to move themselves. She...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y a year in his doubts of the decisive value of great battleships (see “An Englishman Looks at the World”); and he was sound in denying the decadence ... ...sources, arrest of material progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?... ...ely. It has not only killed and wounded an unprecedented proportion of the male population of all the combatant nations, but it has also destroyed wea... ...ches is a defeated army. The silly dictum was repeated and repeated in the English papers after the battle of the Marne. It shows just where our mili-... ...end, a fraction of his debt, and gets his discharge. “B’s” feelings, as we novelists used to say, are “better imagined than described”; he does his be... ...asted your substance—contemptuously. Now, mark you, you have multitudes of male children between the ages of nine and nineteen running about among you...

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...aculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical wor... ...tral quarters of the town. Boom is not a nice place, and is only remarkable for one thing: that the majority of the inhabitants have a private opinion... ...nd sparingly to one another, or raked us in the gaslight with a gleam of spectacles. For though handsome lads, they were all (in the Scots phrase) bar... ...ind my heart beat at the thought of this one. ’Tis to fail in life, but to fail with what a grace! That is not lost which is not regretted. And where ... ...aning than an oath or a salutation. We are so much ac- customed to see married couples going to church of a Sun- day that we have clean forgotten what... ...ar in reality!’ He particularised a complaint for every joint in the landlady’s body. Timon was a philanthropist alongside of him. And then, when he w... ... digging and hoe- ing and making dinner, this company of coquettes under arms made quite a surprising feature in the landscape, and convinced us at on...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... is. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at ... ...d oxen and things all have to fight for us, everywhere. Only in man is the male made the most impor- tant. And that happens through our maternity; it’... ...al conquering the essential. Originally in the first animals there were no males, none at all. It has been proved. Then they appear among the lower th... ...amental pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc., etc. Through a... ... shining through the quiet self-possession of her face. She was dressed as English girls do dress for town, without either coquetry or harshness: her ... ...il in Marylebone. So the talk went on, and presently they were criticising novelists, and certain daring essays of Wilkins got their due share of atte...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .... I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to be ‘God’s En- glishman’... ...s newspaper. In- stead of a frank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences... ... val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herds, a male, a few females, a child or so. He knew no future then, no kind of life... ...ed beyond his reach. Or sud- denly he became aware of the scent of another male and rose up roaring, his roars the formless precursors of moral admo- ... ...her. From the day when man contrived himself a tool and suf- fered another male to draw near him, he ceased to be alto- gether a thing of instinct and... ...cutely aware of secu- lar change than their predecessors were. The earlier novelists tried to show ‘life as it is,’ the latter showed life as it chang... ... of the world coming about like a ship that sails into the wind. Our later novelists give a vast gallery of individual conflicts in which old habits a...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...t is his turn to deal, selecting the game to be played. 5 Balzac Spanish, English, and German, with sufficient fluency to lead one to suppose that th... ...see in the stranger some great criminal, the possessor of enormous wealth. Novelists described the old man’s life and gave some really interesting det... ... the old style, and his linen was of dazzling whiteness. A shirt- frill of English lace, yellow with age, the magnificence of which a queen might have... ...Sarrasine came to Paris to seek a refuge against the threats of a father’s malediction. Having one of those strong wills which know no obstacles, he o... ...s frantic admiration could not long escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing ... ...e red facets sparkled merrily. He recognized the singers from the theatre, male and female, mingled with charming women, all ready to begin an artists...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...me. I gather, though I am not sure, that Mr. Wedmore, the latest writer in English on Balzac at any length, had not read them through when he wrote. N... ... la Nordier and a history of the fantastic and inconstant loves of a great English lady, the Duchess of “Sommerset” (a piece of actual scandalum magna... ...almost of his success as a novelist he was given, like too many successful novelists (not like Scott), to rather undignified and foolish attacks on cr... ...course, dismiss the child- ish scandals (arising, as usual, from clumsy or malevolent misinterpretation of such books as the Physiologie de Mariage, t... ...a far stronger hold. He was represented—and in the absence of any intimate male friends to contradict the repre- sentation, it was certain to obtain s... ... with a few phrases; but in society a wife is not always the female of the male. There may be two perfectly dissimilar beings in one house- hold. The ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...st be added, entirely indiffer- ent about his birthplace; but speaking the English language, and having been during the course of his life pretty gene... ...ke the trouble to inquire. He was a Bavarian by birth (his mother being an English lady), and enjoyed along with a dozen other brothers the title of c... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ...and our commission is to apprehend all able- 60 Catherine: A Story bodied male persons who can give no good account of them- selves, and enrol them i... ...onged to have colds in order to partake of the remedy. Some of our popular novelists have compounded their drugs in a similar way, and made them so pa...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...eputation was great among the virtuous, who form the larger portion of the English book- buying public. Election-seasons called him to ballad-poetry o... ...was no game-preserver, and could be popu- lar whenever he chose, which Sir Males Papworth, on the other side of the river, a fast-handed Whig and terr... ... Mind if I come across you when I’m loaded, you coward, I’ll fire!” The un-English nature of this threat exasperated Farmer Blaize, and he pressed the... ...themselves look as much like the public as it was pos- sible for two young malefactors to look, one of whom al- 35 George Meredith ready felt Adrian’... ...e defied. A summer-shower of cards fell on the baronet’s table. He had few male friends. He shunned the Clubs as nests of scandal. The cards he contem... ... attribute their successes and reverses. They are useful impersonations to novelists; but my opinion is sufficiently high of flesh and blood to believ...

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...” said he, “show Mr. William the letters from Voss, Brothers, and give him English copies of the answers; he will translate them.” Mr. Steighton, a ma... ...ers on the desk, and I was soon seated at it, and engaged in rendering the English answers into German. A sentiment of keen pleasure accompanied this ... ...then, the idea of a foreigner. In form and features he might be pronounced English, though even there one caught a dash of something Gallic; but he ha... ...d back to M. Pelet’s. “Look at this little woman; is she like the women of novelists and romancers? To read of female character as de- picted in Poetr... ...ly soothed her. Juanna T rista remained in Europe long enough to repay, by malevolence and ingratitude, all who had ever done her a good turn; and she... ...ot like her thus, so I cut short the tete-a-tete and departed. CHAPTER XIX NOVELISTS SHOULD NEVER allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.... ... teeth, complexion, shape, which hold at bay the admiration of the boldest male cham- pions of intellect (for women can love a downright ugly man if h... .... I thought it represented a very handsome and very individual-looking fe- male face, with, as he had once said, “straight and harmonious features.” I...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y young Duch-ss of Orl-ns (who, though she does not speak 4 Major Gahagan English, understands it as well as I do), said to me in the soft- est Teuto... ...she was the daughter of a native Rajah, and had been carried off by a poor English sub- altern in Lord Clive’s time. The young man was killed very soo... ...-morrow I shall storm the fort, and on taking it, shall put to death every male in the garrison, and every female above twenty years of age. For yours... ...his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 46 Major Gahag... ...her eyes. My mind was instantaneously made up as to my line of action. The male attendants had of course quitted the apartment, as they heard the well...

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...of taking it. There are methods of so-called presentation, I believe among novelists who have appeared to flourish—that offer the situation as indiffe... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...e implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splend... ...uch consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, above... ...f these was a remarkably well-made man of five- and-thirty, with a face as English as that of the old gentle- man I have just sketched was something e... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...