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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which g...

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...escu American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microf... ...marandache/ ISBN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought ... ... in the most notorious references in the present literary activity of the world, and notes and comments have been made on him in the most diverse in... ...d from him you accept that insolence and that irritation in regard to the world, because he does it with a refined intelligence, a superior spirit a... ...tween observer and object). * Abraham Moses proclaims the closing of the museums and the transformation of the artists in programmers of our phanta... ...nary or an encyclopedia); - poems that exist for their absence; - post-war literature: pages and pages full of banalities and nonpoetry; - paral... ...ion of the illusion. The historian Eugen Simion observes that in the post-war poetry Nichita Stanescu represents “the termination and the beginning”... ...e volume was launched to The International Poetry Festival from Bergerac (France, June 1992). It is the most spectacular volume in paradoxist manne... ...; and in World Poetry 95, 13th series, editors Kim Joung Woong & Kang Shin-II, U1 Chi Publ. Co., seoul, Corea, 1995, p.288-290. Yau, Emily, Florent...

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had pr...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn St... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publica... ...lay which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the profes... ... futilization in that overheated drawingroom atmosphere was delivering the world over to the control of ignorant and soulless cunning and energy, with... ... came upon horsebreakers and heartbreakers who could make the best of both worlds. As a rule, however, the two were apart and knew little of one anoth... ...slands we muddled through. Nature gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their be... ...y because they had not been prevented. They were not undone by winning the war. The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. The W... ...e flung off as an intolerable affectation; and the picture galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum i... .... Give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. 75 GB Shaw ACT II The same room, with the lights turned up and the curtains drawn. Ellie c...

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...ture and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, t...

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.... Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ...thority over dissentients openly controverted. The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted free... ...fford to wait for the salu tary permanent effects of freedom. In the modern world, the greater size of political communities, and above all, the sepa... ...ies has been so of ten discussed, I venture on one discussion more. CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: OF THE LIBER OF THE L... ...it is not On Liberty — Mill 63 of the nature of assassination but of civil war. As such, I hold that the instigation to it, in a specific case, may ... ...ve people who ever lived. On Liberty — Mill 83 It is individuality that we war against: we should think we had done wonders if we had made our selv... ...oins; as in the fashion of grossness which succeeded, in the time of Charles II., to the fanatical moral intolerance of the Puri tans. With respect t... ...s to stop railway travelling on Sunday , in the resistance to the opening of Museums, and the like, has not the cruelty of the old persecutors, the st...

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard S... ...not sure that this is not a portent of Revolution. In eigh- teenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Dider... ...ontent. But the lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. What at- tracts and impresses us in E... ...such enemies have always been popular. Don Juan became such a pet that the world could not bear his damna- tion. It reconciled him sentimentally to Go... ...st of us, Ramsden. The cup of our ignominy is full. 69 Man & Superman Act II On the carriage drive in the park of a country house near Richmond a mot... ... educate England. When he finds people chattering harmlessly about Anatole France and Nietzsche, he devastates them with Matthew Arnold, the Autocrat ... ...nite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyous- ness. T o his sculptor he ow... ...s and hidden the day with cloud vast wings. Where are they now? Fossils in museums, and so few and imperfect at that, that a knuckle bone or a tooth o...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ... brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfat... ..., also named Noah, was then but nine years old. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of Concord and Lexington, he went ... ...hat under which he had received his own education. 13 U. S. Grant CHAPTER II WEST POINT—GRADUATION IN THE WINTER OF 1838-9 I was attending school at ... ...ndependence, after many years of war, it was the most natural thing in the world that they should adopt as their own the laws then in exist- ence. The... ... offices are all located, the President resides, and much room is left for museums, re- ceptions, etc. This is the building generally designated as th... ...ed the only means of communication between Humboldt and the balance of the world. I was obliged to remain in San Francisco for several days before I f... ...” END OF VOLUME I. 317 U. S. Grant PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT VOLUME II CHAPTER XL FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTON—GENERAL ROSECRANS— COMMA...

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...FACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecuti...

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...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 3...

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... 4 I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... 6 III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 II — Reverence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...ving been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the e... ...ork impossible also gave unprecedented opportunities for quick notation. The world since 1914 has been like a house on fire. All the lodgers are on the... ...e civic discipline of Rome. One can imagine the first Frenchman born into the world looking about him confidently, and saying: “Here I am; and now, how ... ...ser scrutiny. But nine times out of ten they hit wild. Some years before the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United State... ... to average humanity that it bored people to death, and they locked it up in Museums to get rid of it. But this article is headed “Taste,” and taste, ...