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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... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...nse. Viktor Frankl developed the idea that we need to find meaning in our lives and to be responsible for choosing and living our values. As a Jewish... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ... being only one God. This he passed down through his son Isaac to his progeny, the Jews. Jesus of course was always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish... ... drives of Freud? How much is a person‘s environment influenced by finding meaning in his or her life? Certainly our environments differ. The Jewish...

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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...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 ... ...his wise provision was a very much more liberal one than was made by the early Jewish rulers, or by any modern sect or religionists who have exacted t... ...ous and, not disposed to rush madly into any enterprise, he sent for a certain Jewish astrologer in whom he had great confidence. The Jew came, and as... ...mber of these statues lie prostrate, but many still stand with grim visage and Jewish cast of feature. Some lie in the craters of the volcanoes and no...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...x- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every phi... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ... that is, a born gentleman, speaks of bankers as we in England should of a Jewish usurer, or tricking money- changer. The liberal trades, such as thos... ...that God should vindicate by some memorable interference, since of all the Jewish institutions it was that one which only and which frequently became ...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...n- ess in the family of a fashionable portrait-painter , who had married a Jewish wife of means, and in their house she had met many distinguished peo... ...ons of love, and he felt in himself none of that uprush of emo- tion which novelists described; he was not car- ried off his feet in wave upon wave of... ...ple don’t commit suicide for love, as you’d expect, that’s just a fancy of novelists; they com- mit suicide because they haven’t got any money . I won... ...acetious remarks. The house opposite, six storeys high, was a workshop for Jewish tailors who left off work at eleven; the rooms were brightly lit and...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...stic poem regarding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s fu... ...ing impersonation seven times, “An Old Sweetheart of Mine” nine times, the Jewish story and the funeral oration twice; but now she was ardent and, bec... ...e Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the board them... ...n once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tenne...

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... raised a family, my eldest lad—I hadn’t begun to think of sons then—is an American citizen, and looking for- ward to leaving Harvard. There’s a touch... ...ty at the very beginning.” “What was his name?” “Graham.” “No, I mean—that American’s.” “Isbister.” “Isbister!” cried Graham. “Why, I don’t even know ... ...earn much in the schools nowadays. But I know all about him. He was a rich American who went from En- gland, and he left the Sleeper even more than Wa... ...itical control. Its last struggle was with the tacit alliance of the great Jewish families. But these families were linked only by a feeble sentiment,... ...w they work, marry, bear children, die—” “Y ou get that from our realistic novelists,” suggested Ostrog, suddenly preoccupied. “I want reality,” said ...

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...ed at random. Mr. Fortescue had been observing her for a moment or two, as novelists are inclined to observe, and at this remark he smiled, and made i... ...—”we don’t even print as well as they did, and as for poets or painters or novelists—there are none; so, at any rate, I’m not singular.” “No, we haven... ...he Church. In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of her time. These... ...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...of them in the end. Robert Brown- ing used to say that every great man has Jewish blood in him, and we must try to look at it in that light. And, afte... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...g circumstance, that there was not a single place where *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckwort... ...o! I know you!” “Pardon me, but I could wish that you were a member of the Jewish persuasion. You would give them to me fast enough then.” “On the con...

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...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ... in the neigh- borhood of Paris, but failed to meet Esther. That beautiful Jewish face, which he called “a face out of te Biple,” was always before hi... ... an old woman fully informed as to the unknown beauty’s affairs. Hitherto, novelists of manners have placed on the stage a great many usurers; but the... ...of his “Anchel’s” hands in both his, talking to her in his horrible Polish-Jewish accent, a jargon which must be as unpleasant to read as it is to hea...

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..., and 16 Thackeray struggle, Jerusalem agonized and died. . . . Y es, the Jewish city is lost to Jewish men; but have they not taken the world in exc... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ... ... herself? The Lady Rowena did certainly say with mighty magnanimity to the Jewish maiden, “Come and live with me as a sister,” as the former part of t... ...ould raise the dead up, did his Highness think it meet. “‘Did not once the Jewish captain stay the sun upon the hill, And, the while he slew the foeme...

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...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...anity, eighteen hundred years, and a new world?— that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Fort... ...ee from earth to heaven, and see there standing, still a fixture, that old Jewish scheme! What right have you to hold up this obstacle to my understan... ...moral grandeur and sub limity akin to those of his own Scriptures. T o an American reader, who, by the advantage of his posi tion, can see over that... ...Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelists ourselves. We are continually acting a part in a more interesting...

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...u man beings. The Stoics were, I believe, the first (except so far as the Jewish law constitutes an exception) who taught as a part of morality that ... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ... thought, and the perfection of style, there is no inferior ity. Our best novelists in point of composition, and of the management of detail, have mo...