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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...e teeth and afraid to fight, are bred out of the same land which begot the philosophers and heroes. But the “Half-way House” is passed by this time, a... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...and smoked cool pipes on his house-top, as we looked over the hill and the Russian palace to the water, and the Seraglio gardens shining 58 Notes on ... ...e covered with Christian, Jew, and Heathen. In the cabin we were Poles and Russians, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squat... ...arched court, and up a stone staircase, which turned out to be that of the Russian consul’s house. His people welcomed us most cordially to his abode,...

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Sandra Belloni Originally Emilia in England

By: George Meredith

...of decision of mind, we should not behold them turning contemptuously from philosophers in their agony, to find refuge in the arms of smirking orthodo... ...eap of papers and newly-opened foreign letters; to one of which, bearing a Russian stamp, he referred fretfully at times, as if to verify a monstrous ... ...s tapped his brow—”pluck,—you want pluck. It is your decadence. Greek, and Russian, and Yankee, all zey beat you. For, it is pluck. You make a pin’s h... ...k you, and not a countryman. A French- man?—oh, no! A German?—not a bit! A Russian?—never! A Yankee?—save me! I am a Greek—I take an Englishman.” “Wel... ... could buy up any ten princes in Europe —excepting one or two Austrians or Russians. He wears a coat just like mine.” “Does he?” said Emilia, involunt... ...iculty in the world to keep him back and let me pur- sue my course.) These philosophers are a bad-mannered body. Either in opposition, or in the suppo...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...h, let them take the consequence. Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks ... ...eign (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 of ... ...uriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances o... ... high even as at One to a Hundred (which, considering the Wages of a Pope, Russian Autocrat, or En- glish Game-Preserver, is probably not far from the... ...g the rock-hollows; and, shaggy, huge as the Hyperborean Bear, hails me in Russian speech: most probably, therefore, a Russian Smuggler. With courteou... ...is unknown. “The name Poor-Slaves seems to indicate a Slavonic, Polish, or Russian origin: not so, however, the interior es- sence and spirit of their...

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ring them magnificently, but who keeps the place up with loving care. Sham philosophers, studying themselves while they profess to be studying hu- man... ...ainst physical pain almost as powerful as that of the 26 Sons of the Soil Russians or the Arabs. “Here’s one of Cooper’s Red-skins,” thought Blondet;... ...rand-I-Vert, named Francois T onsard, commends himself to the attention of philosophers by the manner in which he had solved the problem of an idle li... ...Tall and strong, he belonged to the class of soldiers accustomed, like the Russians, to obey, passively and absolutely. Nothing hin- dered him in the ...

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Seraphita

By: Honoré de Balzac

... all to them. By the time they had swallowed their fifth cup of tea, these philosophers had come to think the mysterious scene of the preceding evenin... ... the icy lands which here surround me. Therefore am I tempted to cross the Russian steps and pour my triumphant human tide through Asia to the Ganges,...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

... to have Vision—” “I think those correspondence-courses are terrible!” The philosophers gasped. It was Mrs. Babbitt who had made this discord in their... ...and prosperous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham... ...ets of statistics, they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants. “Gosh,” Babbitt wailed to his wife, a...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

... explained by his actual suffering during the emigration. He served in the Russian navy until the day when the Emperor Alexander ordered him to be emp... ...intellect, without action upon the chastity of the body, would have amazed philosophers and observers, had any one in Nantes even suspected the powers... ...d truly, and for himself alone. Aurelie refused to make the happiness of a Russian prince who of- fered her five thousand francs a month. “You are a l... ...quis and endeavored to en- tice Madame Schontz away from him, but like the Russian prince they wasted their old age. “Listen to me,” she said to Finot...

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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

By: Honoré de Balzac

...se to his friend’s side as a soldier might keep by a comrade on the frozen Russian plains. During those early days of his acquaintance, he noticed, no... ...little Florville, are you cured already of your fancy? They told me that a Russian prince had carried you off.” “Who carries off women in these days” ... ...he management. The manager will go down on his knees to pray for some more Russian princes,” Florville continued, laugh- ing; “the forfeit money was s... ...nking-cup; Any catch is good, I wot, If good fellows take it up. Let philosophers protest, Let us laugh, And quaff, And a fig for the rest...

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...g power; it produces its immedi- ate effect, and that is all. But how many philosophers are there in life who are able to distinguish the difference? ... ...ce she made a proposal to her as follows: ‘A friend of mine,’ she said, ‘a Russian princess for whom one of the first upholsterers has just made splen... ...s had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seemed T urkish. Was... ...rnments employ as agents? Suppose the tale, more or less probable, of that Russian princess forced to sell her furniture to Brigitte were also that of...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...Mr Dombey alone remained unmoved. He might have been hung up for sale at a Russian fair as a specimen of a frozen gentleman. The prevailing influence ... ...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 ...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...er of all. ‘Viewed indeed from that position which was occupied by ancient philosophers, the existing contrarieties between na- tions might well appea... ...sily join in using the one Mota language, just as a Frenchman, a German, a Russian, a 575 Yo n g e Pole, an Italian, and an Englishman, all meeting i...

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The Illustrious Gaudissart

By: Honoré de Balzac

...not, in some con- ceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterpri... ... with com- parisons and her real India shawls imported by the suite of the Russian ambassador, and her silver plate and her Russian prince,—who to my ...

...king figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength? Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of...

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Under Western Eyes

By: Joseph Conrad

...te for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son of Isidor— Kirylo Sidorovitch-Razumov, If I have ... ...It is based on a document; all I have brought to it is my knowledge of the Russian language, which is sufficient for what is attempted here. The docum... ...or a long time in Geneva. A whole quarter of that town, on account of many Russians re- siding there, is called La Petite Russie —Little Russia. I had... ...le Russia at that time. Y et I confess that I have no comprehension of the Russian charac- ter. The illogicality of their attitude, the arbitrariness ... ...e pro- fessors. What must remain striking to a teacher of languages is the Russians’ extraordinary love of words. They gather them up; they cherish th... ...n this way the door of immortality, innumerable people, criminals, saints, philosophers, young girls, statesmen, and simple imbeciles, have kept self-...

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Rudin a Novel

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...RUDIN a novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State Elect... ...university. 3 Turgenev RUDIN a novel BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak LONDON: WILLIAM HE... ... because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it w... ..., Polikushka. He was certainly able to paint all classes and conditions of Russian people. But in his greater works Turgenev lays the action exclusive... ...n his greater works Turgenev lays the action exclusively with one class of Russian people. There is nothing of the enormous canvas of Count T olstoi, ... ...houlders. ‘Well, where’s the harm if I do? I ask: where is truth? Even the philosophers don’t know what it is. Kant says it is one thing; but Hegel—no...

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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

...is in store for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Beside... ...quier’s meditation. He plumed himself on belonging to the class of cynical philosophers who could never be “taken in” by women,—putting them, one and ... ...ncle announced in this sudden missive that Monsieur de T roisville, of the Russian army during the Emigration, grand- son of one of his best friends, ... ...h her money. But among the Bour- geoisie, the Vicomte de T roisville was a Russian general who had fought against France, and was now returning with a... ...ame Amphoux, which were offered to a bachelor, and not to the husband of a Russian woman. All these details were noticed and laughed at. The Abbe de S...

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Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White

By: Rudyard Kipling

...te. No breastplate at all. Simple leather strap across the breast—like the Russians. Hi! Jack never thought of that! MRS. G. (Entering hastily, her ha... ...ext cold weather for a cer- tainty; ourselves the first on the roster; the Russian shindy ready to come to a head at five minutes’ notice, and you, th... ...e heterodox women—is it not?—who were amusing and not fools. All the Greek philosophers delighted in their company. Tell me, my friend, how it goes no... ...said Lalun, when the last had gone. ‘They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawur. Show me, now, how the English M...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...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... ...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...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... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...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... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale— even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them... ...often possession is the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is th... ...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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Pierrette

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ult-findings she bore during the day. Like the hero of a ballad, German or Russian, I forget which, her sleep seemed to her the happy life; her waking... ... the hectic of death, is a wonderful fact worthy of the attention alike of philosophers and of heedless minds. He who has ever seen one of these subli...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...ility of tyranny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one might look at the chains of a slave. You imagine... ...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...

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