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......... 156 CHAPTER IX OF VANITY.......................................................................................................... 181 CHAPTER X OF MANAGING THE WILL .............................................................................. 247 CHAPTER XI OF CRIPPLES ...................................................................................................

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................................................................. 181 CHAPTER X OF MANAGING THE WILL ....................................................... ...ering apple, stops her career, and seizes the rolling gold.”—Ovid, Metam., x. 666.] He did the same, when he saw his time, by the second and the third... ...“’Tis to live twice to be able to enjoy one’s former life again.”—Martial, x. 23, 7.] Plato ordains that old men should be present at the exer- cises,... ...idden and concealed within, and has furnished them with parts improper for os- tentation, and simply defensive. Such proceedings as this that follows ... ...dred thousand men might sit at their ease: and, the place below, where the games were played, to make it, by 139 Montaigne art, first open and cleave... ...same, who insist upon prohibiting particular ways of speaking, dances, and games, to a people totally abandoned to all sorts of execrable vices. ’Tis ... ...of unkindness and falling out often proceeds. I for- merly loved hazardous games of cards and dice; but have long since left them off, only for this r...

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...ER VII - THE LANTERN-BEARERS........97 CHAPTER VIII - A CHAPTER ON DREAMS......107 CHAPTER IX - BEGGARS...................................118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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.........107 CHAPTER IX - BEGGARS...................................118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLE- MAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF A... ...ies for sale, and coming to a party who were at SEVEN-UP or CASCINO (our two games), upon a bed-board, slung down a cigar-box in the middle of the car... ... some can be alone in a back garden looked upon by windows; others, like the os- trich, are content with a solitude that meets the eye; and others, ag... ...picturesque so much as in their virtues. 127 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER X LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART W...

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...t and familiarity. “Yes, Pierrotin, very well. Please take good care of my Os- car; he is travelling alone for the first time.” “Oh! so he is going al... ... I shall be famous.” After that speech, uttered with bombastic assumption, Os- car flung himself back in his corner. “Husson of what, of where?” asked... ...Come, Oscar, we’ll make an end of them!” Georges and his partner lost five games running. After los- ing the thousand francs Oscar was seized with the... ...ed, oblivious to Oscar, who was still in the boudoir sound asleep. CHAPTER X ANOTHER CATASTROPHE ABOUT ELEVEN the next morning, a terrible sound awoke... ...shonored,—the son of the man to whom you owe your fortune?—for his name is Os- car Husson. Save him, or Titine will deny you forever!” “But how did he...

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...it, the rattle thereof terrifies the boldest!” 46 Sartor Resartus CHAPTER X PURE REASON It must now be apparent enough that our Professor, as above h... ...e, Christmas, and so forth; with a whole cycle of the Entepfuhl Children’s-games, differing appar- ently by mere superficial shades from those of othe... ...s of the Wiener Schub (Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad-singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New ... ...is called To- day; for the Night cometh, wherein no man can work.” CHAPTER X PAUSE Thus have we, as closely and perhaps satisfactorily as, in such cir... ...or Industry, of hand or of head, are the Fleshly Clothes, the muscular and os- seous Tissues (lying under such skin), whereby Society stands and works... ...ear to readers of the two following Chapters. 192 Sartor Resartus CHAPTER X THE DANDIACAL BODY First, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some sc...

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..., there was no reason why they should “mention him with Kor,” as Policeman X. has it) is almost always a faint type of goodness or wickedness dressed ... ...y plight of Robinson, who had, if I may so express myself, no charms for a gamester. If he had, however, any such inclinations, he had no opportunity ... ...ow not me. It is true, indeed, you heard me accused of being a cheat and a gamester; but who is my accuser? Look at my apparel, friend; do thieves and... ...amester; but who is my accuser? Look at my apparel, friend; do thieves and gamesters wear such cloaths as these? play is my folly, not my vice; it is ... ...d of two guineas, and then they both together attended the keeper. Chapter x Chapter x Chapter x Chapter x Chapter x Table-talk, consisting of a facet... ...r story;” which command he immediately obeyed. 125 Henry Fielding Chapter x Chapter x Chapter x Chapter x Chapter x Containing a letter of a very cur... ...the passage to you, as I know you have Greek enough to understand it:— Os rh’ epea phresin esin akosma te, polla te ede Maps, atar ou kata kos...

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...p, Mr. D quar- rels with this as unsuitable to a rustic congregation. Mrs. X., who is ‘under concern’ for sin, demands a searching and (as she express... ...table proportions, what if we should sketch a rapid out- line [Greek Text: os en tupo pexilabeln] of its elements, (to speak by a metaphor borrowed fr... ...e past, and security for the future.’ Years, how- ever, passed on; Charles X. fell from his throne; the Reform Bill passed; other things occurred, and... ...nt establishment, which was, that all conquerors in any contest, or at any games, olympic, or whatsoever they might be, were memorialized by statues e... ...the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had existed for two hundred years, mi- nus thirteen; and at the closi...

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... acquired the name of Homer, for the Cumans call blind men Homers.” [Note: Os ei tous, Homerous doxei trephein autois, omilon pollon te kai achreoin e... ...n army, they all draw up their forces in the same order. If he has funeral games for Patroclus, Virgil has the same for Anchises, and Statius (rather ... ...’er the tents, bestows The grateful blessings of desired repose.” 174 BOOK X BOOK X BOOK X BOOK X BOOK X AR AR AR AR ARGUMENT GUMENT GUMENT GUMENT GUM... ... XXIII BOOK XXIII AR AR AR AR ARGUMENT GUMENT GUMENT GUMENT GUMENT FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF FU... ...IN HONOUR OF FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF P P P P PA A A A ATR TR TR TR... ...hich they for a long time answered the purpose.’ (Hallam, Middle Ages, ch. x. pt. 1, p. 189) This fact frees Achilles from the apparent charge of sord...

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...erprising. The evening went off happily. Aunt Jane produced one of the old games which had been played at the elder Beechcroft, and had a certain hist... ...ut examinations had yet to be passed. 113 Beechcroft At Rockstone CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X A A A A AUT CAESAR A UT CAESAR A ... ...y after our walk—and after tea; but it had to be quiet play, not real good games, even before Fly was ill— at least we did have some real games when P... ...rrid,’ said Mysie stoutly; ‘I only fancied her so when she used to say, “V os coudes, mademoiselle,” or “Redresses-vous,” and when she would not let u...

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...ing three parts: Books I. – IX. . . . . W . Leaf. " X. – XVI. . . . . A. Lang. " XVII. – XXIV. . . . . E. Myer... ...on of that held by the third. Thus, for instance, the T ranslator of Books X. XVI. Would have preferred “c” and “us” to “k” and “os” in the spelling... ...ranslator of Books X. XVI. Would have preferred “c” and “us” to “k” and “os” in the spelling of all proper names. The text followed has been that of... ...en 4 The Iliad of Homer enclosed in brackets []. The T ranslator of Books X. XVI. Has to thank Mr. R.W . Raper, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, ... ...joined their moan. BOOK XXIII Of the funeral of Patroklos, and the funeral games. T HUS THEY THROUGHOUT THE CITY made moan: but the Achaians when ... ...m in the lists. If in some other’s honour we Achaians were now holding our games, it would be I who 290 The Iliad of Homer should win the first prize... ...at Buprasion, and his sons held the 298 The Iliad of Homer king’s funeral games. Then was no man found like me, nei ther of the Epeians nor of the P...

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...n and the emptiness of his new life are striking; and the remark is yet more appo- site to the Marquesas. In Samoa, on the other hand, per- petual son... ...d or declared by the acceptance or the refusal of gifts; and it is as natural for the islander to bring a gift as for us to carry a card-case. 60 In ... ...ugh, the carpentry amateur; but the effect, in that incongruous isle, was of unbridled luxury and inesti- mable expense. Here songs were sung, tales t... ...mong natives sits with captains, and is entertained on board of schooners. Five of these privileged dames were some time our neighbours. Four were han... ...es, to greet the king. If he be pleased with his welcome and the fare he may pass days on board, and, every day, and sometimes every hour, will be of ...

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... of the many charms of the bride, formerly Miss Carol Milford of St. Paul. Games and stunts were the order of the day, with merry talk and conversatio... ...e to wrap up warmly, and Raymie’s singing and Juanita Haydock’s prowess at games. Then she turned wearily to Kennicott in a house filled with quiet an... ...Seventeen, but Carol dared not go. She sat alone. 114 Main Street CHAPTER X The house was haunted, long before evening. Shadows slipped down the wall... ... he was in vogue, I re- member Mr. Warren saying that Swinburne (or was it Os- car Wilde? but anyway:) he said that though many so- called intellectua... ... the street today.” “Was he limping? If the poor fish would have his teeth X-rayed, I’ll bet nine and a half cents he’d find an abscess there. `Rheuma... ...e busting yourself keeping it up all your life.” She thought of surprises, games, to vary the days. She knitted an astounding purple scarf, which she ... ...rgical pa- tients, his indignation about fee-splitting, his pride in a new X-ray apparatus—none of these beatified him as did motoring. He nursed his ...

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...th. His temper was moody, fierce, and irascible; yet he must have had some os- tensible good qualities, as he was greatly beloved by Lord Kilpont, the... ... the Lord of the Castle made his appearance. 103 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER X. Dark on their journey lour’d the gloomy day, Wild were the hills, and ... ...ll branches, who were amusing themselves with chess, backgammon, and other games, which they scarce intermitted to gaze with curiosity upon the strang... ...ilus Insulanus (Rev. Mr. Fraser’s T reatise on the Second Sight, Relations x. and xvii.):— “Barbara Macpherson, relict of the deceased Mr. Alexander M...

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...speak of the share he had had in their moon- light walks and merry evening games; and dwelt a good deal upon his being so very good-humoured and oblig... ...leaving the tender and the sublime of pleasure to Harriet’s share. CHAPTER X THOUGH NOW THE MIDDLE of December, there had yet been no weather to preve... ...n the achievement, or been ashamed of it. There would have been either the os- tentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend it... ... your foot. Miss Smith, the step at the turning.” 193 Jane Austen CHAPTER X THE APPEARANCE of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquilli... ..., he would not, on this occasion, have found any thing to reprove. CHAPTER X ONE MORNING, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill’s decease, Emma was call...

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...utcher boy, driving with the noble recklessness of a charioteer at Olympic Games, dashed round the corner sitting high above a pair of red wheels. A g... ...ens. And if nothing happens very soon you won’t get even that. What’s your os- tensible occupation? What are you supposed to live by?” “I keep a shop,... ...d treasure of jewels, dropped in a dust-bin. 154 The Secret Agent CHAPTER X T he Assistant Commissioner, driven rapidly in a han som from the neighbo...

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..., but they are few in number.] **See Blackstone; and Delolme, book I chap. x.] 64 Democracy in America cans have retained them, however repugnant the... ...ded authority, with the destiny which is probably reserved for it. Chapter X: Why The People May Strictly Be Said To Govern In The United States In Am... ... gain their co-operation and to avail themselves of their support. Chapter X: Parties In The United States 197 Tocqueville Chapter Summary Great dist... ...is conduct in the political arena has been that of a shameless and lawless gamester. He succeeded at the time, but the hour of retribu- tion approache... ...ced in the schools of the rising genera- tion, where the children in their games are wont to submit to rules which they have themselves established, a... ...re was exhausted in order to re- lieve indigent citizens, or to supply the games and theatrical amusements of the populace. It is true that the repres... ... with managing and su- perintending the community in whatever directly and os- tensibly concerned the national honor; but in all other re- *In proport...

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...make her com- fortable! Sweet—sweet vision! Foolish—foolish dream! CHAPTER X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends AND NOW, BEING RECEIVED as a member of ... ...n from the Hall. It was to this effect: “The black porker’s killed—weighed x stone— salted the sides—pig’s pudding and leg of pork for dinner. Mr. Cra... ...in about him; for George was a jolly sociable fellow, and excellent in all games of skill. Once, after three days of absence, Miss Amelia put on her b... ...ed in at the Old Slaughters’, and called for Captain Cannon; played eleven games at billiards with the Captain, of which he won eight, and returned to... ...ed. “I’d like to sell him another horse, Beck. I’d like to play a few more games at billiards with him. He’d be what I call useful just now, Mrs. C.—h... ... her as a most artful and dan- gerous person. But as Madame the Duchess of X—had only been twenty years in England, she did not understand a single 3... ...ed hers ten times more.” “By God, you are a good feller, sir,” was all Mr. Os-borne said. It had never struck him that the widow would feel any pain a...

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...ty is prone to vio- lent antic bobbings on occasions when, for example, an os- tentatious garment shall appear disdainful our class and our- self, and... ... successive tributaries of conduct appeared as an irreflective flash and a gamester’s daring in the vein to men who had no deep knowledge of him and h... ...n sight, coming swift as the point of an outrigger over the flood. CHAPTER X SKEPSEY IN MOTION THE BEARER of his master’s midday letters from London s... ...overnment, Society! If ladies … but I do not venture. They are not against Games. But these are not a protection … to them, when needed; to the countr... ... and threw in a style to win the nod from the future official inspector of Games and Amusements of the common people; a deputy of the Government, prop...

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...it implied, and felt as a quivering butter- fly impalpably pinned. CHAPTER X THE CONFLICT OF THE NIGHT HER BRAIN was a steam-wheel throughout the nigh... ...re those of the finely- bred English; he had the English taste for sports, games, manly diversions; and in the bloom of life, under thirty, his head w... ... they were borrowed, and that a pattern morality could regard the woman as os- tracized: nor was it agreeable to be looked at through eye- lashes unde... ...eir lost light in them, her step was brisker; she challenged him to former games of conversation, excursions in blank verse here and there, as the moo...

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...ney. Why, they actually wanted me to put in! Well, I should smile. CHAPTER X. BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION THE R OUND T ABLE SOON HEARD OF THE CH... ...st and lamented day when a band of Yan kees slipped into London and played games of the sort that has given their race a unique and shady reputation...

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...ke a hen’s. His plum- age was fine—none of the half-mourning style of your os- trich—more like a cassowary as far as colour and texture go. And then i... ... I did it all the time. I tried to resign again, and Barnaby talked about “X” and “Z” and “Y” in the New Re- view, and gave me a strong cigar to smoke... ...way we began our talking. He talked about various things and came round to games. And thence to my figure and complexion. “You ought to be a good cric... ...very much to me, because I was a lonely little boy. They played delightful games in a grass-covered court where there was a sun-dial set about with fl... ...ne loved… “But—it’s odd—there’s a gap in my memory. I don’t re- member the games we played. I never remembered. After- wards, as a child, I spent long...

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...ountry, and was a member of several of their clubs for practising athletic games, at which he was particu- larly expert. At Ellangowan, Kennedy was a ... ...is situation, he was the father of a female infant, and a widower. CHAPTER X. But see, his face is black, and full of blood; His eye-balls farther out... ...ssessed of a singular power of eloquence, which reminded the hearer of the os rotundum of the Grove ,or Academe. Enthusiastically partial to classical...

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...?’ Beauchamp simply replied: ‘Come to her.’ 68 Beauchamp’s Career CHAPTER X A SINGULAR COUNCIL THE FOUR SAT TOGETHER under the shadow of the helms- m... ...en Heath, where we set up a booth for them, and try with cakes and tea and games to make them spend one of their happy afternoons and evenings. We suc... ...a prisoner’s window, her ‘eager heart could have termed it—of a remarkable os- tentation of cordiality between the colonel and Cecil, in the presence ...

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...HEIR CHILDREN................... 63 CHAPTER IX OF THE ARMS OF THE PARTHIANS .............................................................. 84 CHAPTER X OF BOOKS .............................................................................................................. 87 CHAPTER XI OF CRUELTY..................................................................................

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... .............................................................. 84 CHAPTER X OF BOOKS ................................................................... ...er himself has illumined the increas- ing earth.”—Cicero, Frag. Poet, lib. x.] We fluctuate betwixt various inclinations; we will nothing freely, noth... ...tant;” [“Half-dead fingers grope about, and grasp again the sword.”—Æneid, x. 396.] so falling people extend their arms before them by a natural impul... ...t commonly, we find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterwards, wi... ... Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that prepara... ...ith which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an eminence n... ...nda, Quem Venus ante alios astrorum diligit ignes, Extulit os sacrum coelo, tenebrasque resolvit;” [“As when, bathed in the waves of O...

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...e called the metaphysics of friend- ship or love. At the beginning of Book X. we return to the topic of Pleasure, which is now regarded from a differe... ...ot so, for it will of neces- sity act, and act well. And as at the Olympic games it is not the finest and strongest men who are crowned, but they who ... ...ured by the surrounding circumstances: which happens also in the gymnastic games; to the boxers the End is pleasant with a view to which they act, I m... ...ficult to gather, in outline at least, from what has been said. [Sidenote: X] Next let us speak of Perfected Self-Mastery, which seems to claim the ne... ...a given End, of which Practical Wisdom is the true conception.” [Sidenote: X 1143a] There is too the faculty of Judiciousness, and also its absence, i... ...d of resemblance (as when we add to a man’s name “conqueror in the Olympic games” the account of him as Man differs but little from the account of him... ... to speak of adding to the Chief Good. See Book X. chap. 11. [Greek: delon os oud allo ouden tagathon an eiae o meta tenos ton kath’ auto agathon aire...

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...ould stump him, and I don’t think it would have done so if he had not made os a mouth instead of a bone, in dealing with the ‘Wolf and the Lamb.’ He w... ...ly believed that his rejection was in consequence of his confusion between os, ossis, and os, oris, and was very sore about it, had gone with Allen an... ...r 91 Yonge dress; to talk and laughter that she could not understand, and games that seemed to her stupid, though everybody else seemed to find them ... ... and prim old duenna, and meekly bore Clara’s reproachful glances. CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X ELLEN’S MA ELLEN’S MA ELLEN’S MA... ...aid his mother. “For my part, I had rather see them playing at good honest games than messing about with that museum nonsense. The boys did not do hal... ...g?” “Well, yes, I’m afraid he is. He’s unpopular, for he does not care for games; but his brother is popular enough for both.” “Jock?—the monkey!” “Hi...

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...; Decry all recreations, with the names Of Isthmian, Pythian, and Olympick games; Exclaim against them all both old and new, Both the Nemaean and the ... ... friends and kins- folk, those had been carefully withdrawn so soon as the os- tentatious display of festivity , equally unnecessary and strangely tim... ...h old gentlemen in wrought nightcaps and furred gowns execute like so many games at chess, and displace a treasurer or lord commissioner as they would... ... the reader shall learn in the next chapter. 109 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER X. With throat unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard him call; ... ...longing for a third hand to make a party at tredrille, in which, as in all games, whether of chance or skill, that worthy person was a great proficien...

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...es leads gentlemen, as well as ladies, astray. 93 George Meredith CHAPTER X MY GENTLEMAN ON THE ROAD AGAIN NEAR A MILESTONE, under the moonlight, cro... ...g sun, all for honour and glory! Was it not enough to make her despise the games of men? For something better she played. Her game was for one hundred... ... Sul- tans and the Roxalanas of earth combine to exclude from their little games, under the designation of blues, or strong- minded women: a kind, if ... ...Parnassus, but Parnassus was broader and altogether better adapted for the games of the Muses. Round the edges of both there was a well-trimmed bush o... ...nimal spirits to my service for half an hour.’ ‘Yours, Countess, from the ‘os frontis’ to the chine!’ was the exuberant rejoinder. The Countess made a...