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...ly spent a day of his life on his own estate--was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance....

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...retty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well... ...ppeared that he had a hundred thou- sand roubles in hard cash. At the same time, he was all his life one of the most senseless, fantastical fellows in... ... captivated Adelaida Ivanovna’s fancy. Fyodor Pavlovitch’s position at the time made him specially eager for any such enterprise, for he was passionat... ...othing but a means for his happiness, or—how shall I say?—an instrument, a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life, my whole life, and t... ...ncies are fostered in them. They live only for mutual envy, for luxury and os- tentation. T o have dinners visits, carriages, rank, and slaves to wait... ...ail, rickety, bent and already de- praved. The stuffy workshop, the din of machinery, work all day long, the vile language and the drink, the drink—is... ... of them? I hate that America already! And though they may be wonderful at machinery , every one of them, damn them, they are not of my soul. I love R...

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... But Father Paissy, frowning again, begged all of them, at least for a time, not to speak of the matter “till it be more fully confirmed, seeing t... ... rarely appeared at mass. Visitors who came to do him homage saw him some- times kneeling all day long at prayer without looking round. f he addressed... ...led and began to struggle, and I made the sign of the cross over him three times. And he died on the spot like a crushed spider. He must have rotted t... ...othing but a means for his happiness, or—how shall I say?—an instrument, a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life, my whole life, and t... ...ncies are fostered in them. They live only for mutual envy, for luxury and os- tentation. T o have dinners visits, carriages, rank, and slaves to wait... ...ail, rickety, bent and already de- praved. The stuffy workshop, the din of machinery, work all day long, the vile language and the drink, the drink—is...

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...al place of honour in their scheme of life. The Icelandic community in the time of the Sagas also affords a fair instance. In such a community there i... ... the Todas of the Nilgiri Hills. The scheme of life of these groups at the time of their earliest contact with Europeans seems to have been nearly typ... ... ownership is not a dominant feature of their economic system. At the same time it does not follow that these are the smallest of existing communities... ...t least ostensible, useful purpose; and on the other hand, even in special machinery and tools contrived for some particular industrial process, as we... ... not ordinarily more serviceable — in the first sense of the word — than a machine-made spoon of the same material. It may not even be more serviceabl... ...ade spoon of the same material. It may not even be more serviceable than a machine-made spoon of some “base” metal, such as aluminum, the value of whi... ...ts, properly so called, are ornate, grotesque, inconvenient, and, at least os- tensibly, comfortless to the point of distress. The priest is at the sa... ...er classes, espe- cially among the hereditary leisure class. Moreover, the os- tensible serious occupation of the upper class is that of gov- ernment,...

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...nnected, nor handsome, nor clever, nor rich, even Lilia may discard him in time.” “No. I believe she would take any one. Right up to the last, when he... ...fallen in love with Lilia Theobald because she was pretty, and during that time Mrs. Herriton had hardly known a moment’s rest. For six months she sch... ... there she found “Central Italy,” by Baedeker, and opened it for the first time in her life and read in it as follows:— Monteriano (pop. 4800). Hotels... ...easure, were after all more divine than this well-ordered, active, useless machine. Now that his mother had wounded his vanity he could criticize her ... ...to send to Gino—the oddest letter; Philip saw a copy of it afterwards. Its os- tensible purpose was to complain of the picture post- cards. Right at t... ... of its body, thoughts and wonderful passions of its own. And this was the machine on which she and Mrs. Herriton and Philip and Harriet had for the l...

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...nt novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique ...

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... force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, ... ...th Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal con... ...st, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some time.” P... ... have im- proved a wood-planer and a file-maker. I have designed a textile machine, a bet- ter barrow, a good water-lamp. For most field laborers, th... ...tudio I sketch from memory: I am able to reproduce plants, birds, people, machines. Years ago I lost an important sketchbook and was able to reprodu... ...back and legs: insomnia exhausts me: I think of stairways, dikes, weaving machines, cylindrical sails, cadavers, faces... Many times I have seen Ch... ...proper to honor Prince Napoleon but there are few such obligations. I shun os- tentation. We have no right to ostentation these war times. That money ...

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... with that species of indefinite definiteness which mathematicians are, at times, forced to put up with in certain algebraic formulae. The date, I may... ...here is much carving about it, with but a trifling variety of pattern for, time out of mind, the carvers of V ondervotteimittiss have never been able ... ...V ondervotteimittiss have never been able to carve more than two objects—a time-piece and a cab- bage. But these they do exceedingly well, and intersp... ...his hole. A vast quantity of wheels, pinions, and other cabalistic—looking machinery stood opposite the hole, close to it; and through the hole there ... ... hole, close to it; and through the hole there passed an iron rod from the machinery. Between the wheels and the wall where the hole lay there was bar... ... was not all a desert, and Pompey not altogether cruel. The ticking of the machinery amused me. Amused me, I say, for my sensations now bordered upon ... ... nor fragility. I could not imagine a more graceful curve than that of the os femoris, and there was just that due gentle prominence in the rear of th... ...h?—why, not General John A. B. C.? Savage affair that with the Kickapo-o-o-os, wasn’t it? Say! don’t you think so?—perfect despera-a-ado—great pity, ‘...

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...iest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England. But in old times this contest was between subjects, or some classes of subjects, and... ...ainst his tyranny, they did not carry their aspirations beyond this point. A time, however, came in the progress of human affairs, when men ceased to ... ...ions among the politi cal thinkers of the Continent. A similar tone of sen timent might by this time have been prevalent in our own country, if the ... ...ill 69 fought, causes tried, and even churches erected and prayers said, by machinery—by automatons in human form—it would be a considerable loss to ... ...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescri... ...s do not now take their opin ions from dignitaries in Church or State, from os tensible leaders, or from books. Their thinking is done for them by m... ...would be greater, the more efficiently and scientifically the administrative machinery was constructed—the more skilful the arrangements for obtaining...

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...ined to oblivion in after-ages, have been loaded with laurels in their own time; while others, on whom Fame was one day to “wait like a menial,” have ... ...n house or estate”— and the heights of moral grandeur into which he can at times soar, whenever he has manly indignation, or warm-hearted patriotism, ... ...d the “Midsummer Night’s Dream” existed before the “Rape of the Lock,” the machinery in it would have proclaimed Pope a man of creative imagination. A... ...d moral nature is not so apparent in his poetry. Indeed, we are tempted at times to class him with his own sylphs in this respect, as well as in the e... ...llery, the most finished nonsense, and one of the most exquisitely-managed machineries in the language. His “Eloisa and Abelard,” a poem beautiful and... ... to the best example, one and entire, as contained in the proposition, the machinery is a continued chain of allegories, setting forth the whole power... ...have been by that faculty as evidently to raise our hap- piness, as by our os sublime (our erected faces) to lift the dignity of our form above them.’... ...ommon sort, but (as himself informeth us) in his very spir- its! and whose os sublime is not simply an erect face, but a brazen head, as should seem b...

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...s, produced because they are useful in the continual struggle of the human machine to maintain its environment in a favorable condition, a process inc... ...nded in each destroying the other to an extent doubtfully reparable in our time. It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be... ...s superseded by Acts under which newspapers were seized and their printing machinery destroyed by simple police raids a la Russe, and persons arrested... ...d by that of the soldier driving his spear through Archimedes. But by that time there was no coinage: only paper money in which ten shillings called i... ...mmediately an amazing frenzy swept through the country. Men who up to that time had kept their heads now lost them utterly. “Kill- ing saloon passenge... ...ngland was carrying on with the most formidable capacity and activity. The os- tensible England was making the empire sick with its incon- tinences, i... ...my father. He bought what was left of the business—the build- ings and the machinery and things—from the official trustee for enough money to enable m...