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...s coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted. Summarised from: American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Stat... ... Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Malignant Self Love – Narc... ...y remember that. Any 'feelings' or emotions shown are like those put on by an actor on stage. They look good, but are only an act." "The person wit... ...ties. And when they withdraw the 'caring' and the 'loving' and start on the devaluation stage, then the contrast is so appalling that we are wrecked... ..., then the contrast is so appalling that we are wrecked, unable to understand (at this stage most of us had never heard of NPD) so naturally we thou... ...xed at what he was angry about. When I finally asked him, he turned to me with the most malevolent glare, and said: 'YOU! You are what is wrong with... ....htm "David: Are the behaviours exhibited by females the same or similar to those of male narcissists? Vaknin: Largely, yes. The behaviours are i... ...s will tend to abuse 'outside the family' (neighbours, friends, colleagues, employees). Male narcissists tend to abuse 'inside the family' (mainly t... ...o the prevailing ethos of capitalism. Social thinkers like Lasch speculated that modern American culture – a narcissistic, self-centred one – increa...

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...ually comprised of minorities, not Caucasian. And as everyone knows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European... ...ucasians in America have mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic t... ...d since we're the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange... ...hrow a baby off a cliff if it's a girl, only stopping until they conceive a male. In Asian culture, the first son is like winning a biological lotter... ...al. The main reason, obviously, is to get attention, hopefully attracting a male with a strong moral character and benevolent disposition yeah right!... ... Our waiter, also not Japanese even though he's wearing a traditional Jinbei male — kimono brings out a huge sushi boat, full of an assortment of del... ...od. Most people think of Hollywood as the movie capital of the world, where actors and actresses flow like water from a fountain. That's true, for th... ... Gabriel taps me hard on my left shoulder and points to a go-go dancer up on stage near the mezzanine. She is definitely gorgeous, amplified by the f... ...k around and see a voluptuous Vietnamese girl dancing by herself next to the stage. I walk up to her and say Hello. She stares me right in the eyes, ...

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...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...urrent nightmare than the numerable German Reichs and Serbia erupted upon the world stage no less frequently and regularly than its northern equival... ...population. The Ustashas committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age, but especially against helpless old peop... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ...arxist-Leninist" KLA or its self-appointed government) unequivocally. At a certain stage, he even accused Fatos Nano, his rival and the Prime Minis... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ...virtuous ideals of democracy and the harsh constraints of realpolitik. At this stage and with elections looming, Hashim Thaci sounds conciliato... ...ion and self-worth was attained through defiance. By relegating them to the role of malevolent heretics, the Orthodox made the sins of the Catholics... ...the majority of the population, purges and back-breaking labour further diminished male life expectancy. As a result of this tragic and brutal hist...

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... one profession, the one decent profession, I mean, for a woman—except the stage—is teaching, and there we trample on one another. Everywhere else—the... ... is. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at ... ...d oxen and things all have to fight for us, everywhere. Only in man is the male made the most impor- tant. And that happens through our maternity; it’... ...al conquering the essential. Originally in the first animals there were no males, none at all. It has been proved. Then they appear among the lower th... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...the profession.” “Oh!” said Ann V eronica. “I thought they made knights of actors?” “They may of Hal some day,” said Gwen. “But it’s a long business.”... ...rs. Warren’s Profession furtively with Hetty Widgett from the gallery of a Stage Society performance one Mon- day afternoon. Most of it had been incom... ...ean to fight this through if I possibly can.” “My God!” said Manning, in a stage-aside. “Earning a salary!” 99 H. G . Wells “You’re like a Princess i...

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...ed tough fellow-mortal our farewell. His Figaro has returned to the French stage; nay is, at this day, sometimes named the best piece there. And indee... ... heights, are peaceable masters of Verdun. And so Brunswick advances, from stage to stage: who shall now stay him,—covering forty miles of country? Fo... ...of Orleans; was the good Duke de la Rochefoucault. He journeying, by quick stages, with his Mother and Wife, towards the Waters of Forges, or some qui... ...ate Tronchet, some ten years older, does not decline. Nay behold, good old Malesherbes steps forward voluntarily; to the last of his fields, the good ... ...le. For this do Deseze and Tronchet plead, with brief eloquence: brave old Malesherbes pleads for it with eloquent want of eloquence, in broken senten... ... tears. (Moniteur (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 210). See Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, ii. 139.)—They reject the Appeal to the People; that having be... ...) ‘It is the Explosion and New-creation of a World,’ says Foster; ‘and the actors in it, such small mean objects, buzzing round one like a handful of ... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...in, yet destroyed and engulphed. Terror has long been terrible: but to the actors themselves it has now become manifest that their appointed course is...

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...au, are flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ... working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Fe- male Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. (See Dumont: Souvenirs, 6.) ... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...eaded in vain? Such visual spectra flit across this Earth, if the Thespian Stage be rudely interfered with: but much more, when, as was said, Pit jump... ... be rudely interfered with: but much more, when, as was said, Pit jumps on Stage, then is it verily, as in Herr Tieck’s Drama, a Verkehrte Welt, of Wo... ...iclers are trustworthy, as was not witnessed since the Age of Gold. Paris, male and female, precipitates itself towards its South-west extremity, spad... ...ranc etrier, on that old Herb- merchant’s route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, w... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...these problems are averted. Therapeutic cloning has vast untapped - though at this stage still remote - potential to improve the lives of hundreds ... ...y deleterious. We can render a system dysfunctional by inhibiting or reversing any stage in the complex processes involved - or by preventing the e... ...s "how are the laws applied". If a bias exists, if a party is favoured it is at the stage of administering justice and the impartiality of the arbit...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...these problems are averted. Therapeutic cloning has vast untapped - though at this stage still remote - potential to improve the lives of hundreds ... ...y deleterious. We can render a system dysfunctional by inhibiting or reversing any stage in the complex processes involved - or by preventing the e... ...s "how are the laws applied". If a bias exists, if a party is favoured it is at the stage of administering justice and the impartiality of the arbit...

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...pts and tenets. Consider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and... ...mic behaviours. h. Explanatory Powers – It must explain the behaviour of economic actors, their decisions, and why economic events develop the way... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...ses of the market-buttressed spiral of financial innovation thus: "1. In the first stage ... there is a proliferation of standardised securities su... ... possible the creation of custom-designed financial products ... 2. In the second stage, volume in the new market expands as financial intermediar... ...in the 1990s, permeated by criminal conduct as it is. Russians often compare their stage of capitalist evolution to the American "Wild West". Pig... ...evements, hierarchy, ruthlessness, drive - are both social values and narcissistic male traits. Social thinkers like the aforementioned Lasch specu...

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...the crop to ripen. In cultivating flooded fields, the heaviest and hardest stage is the ploughing, but in swidden cultivation, the vegetation must be ... ...inese extraction. From the perspective of this book, the city takes centre stage during celebrations of great annual festivals, and it includes pictur... ...widdens have become gardens where forest that has barely reached the scrub stage is burned, and soil fertility is maintained by fertilizers. Efforts h... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...vely to men. Women have done sewing and handicrafts, but tailors are often male, as was the case in Finnish villages; today, young men are already see... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ...ar, the groom on the bride's right. Each has their assistants, the groom a male best man, the bride one or two bridesmaids, who take charge of the mon... ...on, to deliver him a Songkran greeting. This ceremony was deemed to be too male-oriented, and a new celebratory tradition was created to better reflec... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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... Uni­ versity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracte... ...est. He of­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he mi... ...m of a necklace draped smoothly just above her breast. A row of square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of... ...arhan Cross Matloch was standing with Arthur Hill and Franklin Pierce just off stage and just out of sight of the spectators. Matloch pat­ ted Hill ... ...ou expect to raise those billions of dollars?" Richard motioned to someone off stage. Two hotel employ­ ees emerged unfurling a long banner. They un... ...oyant style was perfectly suited for Nicky's. It was a place for celebri­ ties, actors and Hollywood producers, deal makers, and men on the hunt for... ... impressed with you, Dr. Hawk. He's assigned us to do a story, you know ... the male, female angle." Emily Thompson wanted to slap him upside his he... ...right now, the stakes were high; very high. Pierce had spent years setting the stage, scripting every scene, and directing it with a deft hand. The... ... had a .357 Magnum pointed to his head. Pierce glanced at his watch, his prized actors would be arriving soon. The meeting would be taped and expert...

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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... ...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... ...to be the last important appearance of either Buccaneers or filibusters on the stage of history. The war with the Grand Alliance had gone against Fran... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...e with an exactness which is scarcely excelled by the best performers upon the stage of Europe; but the practice which is allowed to the virgin is pro... ...h from the outside. "As soon as one of the family had been selected all of the male members were looked upon as devoted to the same horrid purpose. It... ...i-circle on a table, in front of which lay the remains of a hog in an advanced stage of decay, which were taken up and held out towards Cook. With Koa...

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...passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publish... ...mendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM-IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated with them in any way.]... ...tely 2-16 percent. Almost 75 percent of individuals diagnosed with NPD are male (AP A, DSM-IV-TR 2000)." [From the Abstract of Psychotherapeutic As... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...ecent research by Roy Baumeister. Is pathological narcissism a blessing or a malediction? The answer is: it depends. Healthy narcissism is a mature, ... ...of dark and stupendous forces. In every deviation from his tenets he espies malevolent and ominous subversion. He, therefore, is bent on disempower... ... self- worth (possibly an inferiority complex). Question: Do you believe the actors and reporters want themselves to be as famous as the celebrities ... ...to develop narcissism. It would seem reasonable to assume – though, at this stage, there is not a shred of proof – that the narcissist is born with ...

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.......................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR ..............................................................

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............... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 .......................................... ...alamity, inevitably, and with- out restraint, we go on to consider it as a stage spectacle. Exclamations of—How grand! How magnificent! arise in a sor... ...nd then would come the rush up-stairs. Against this, as the only dangerous stage in the transaction, the murderer would have specially prepared. Mrs. ... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...ble me to solve it. At length, in 1812, Mr. Williams made his début on the stage of Ratcliffe High- way, and executed those unparalleled murders which... ...nic ulcer, superbly defined, and running regularly through all its natural stages, may no less justly be regarded as ideals after their kind, than the... ...onged to quite another cen- tury, would have frightened out of their wits. Malebranche, it will give you pleasure to hear, was mur- dered. The man who... ...proper light. Berkeley, when a young man, went to Paris and called on Père Malebranche. He found him in his cell cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus... ...l cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus irritabile; authors still more so: Malebranche was both: a dispute arose; the old father, warm already, became... ...time to review, to ponder, to compare. There have been great actors on the stage of tragic humanity that might, with the same depth of confidence, hav... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ...

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... would still be mine; for I, you know, should never have placed her on the stage. She would have lived obscure, well conducted, and mine. Oh! if you c... ...s she humbugs every one—she who knew nothing, not even that word.” At this stage the retired perfumer wiped his eyes, which were full of tears. The si... ...se, at the Theatre des Varietes, had recognized her father in a lower tier stage-box with Jenny Cadine, and had exclaimed: “There is papa!” “You are m... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent... ...ound him. Where does Madame Nourrisson—yes, that was her name—pick up such actors?” On the following day, Doctor Bianchon allowed the Bar- oness to go... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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... enormous compli- ment to a woman, and some outrageous panegyric about fe- male virtue, I always feel sure that the Captain and his better half have f... ...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...e fourth year of his reign, upon Thomas Viscount Castlewood and the heirs- male of his body, in default of which issue the ranks and digni- ties were ... ...Beatrix, you should retire off the scene awhile, and leave it to the other actors of the play.” As the Colonel spoke with a perfect calmness and polit... ...eath on the next day. And these two forming the whole of Lady Castlewood’s male domestics, Mr. Esmond’s faithful John Lockwood came to wait on his mis... ...e had done; he was seven hours a-head of us still when we reached the last stage. We rode over Castlewood Downs before the breaking of dawn. We passed...

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...INT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE STAGE PLAYS (CENSORSHIP) TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MI... ...E, AND APPENDICES. What the 4 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet phrase “the Stage Plays” means in this title I do not know; nor does anyone else. The n... ...e play, and may honestly see nothing but an ordinary “character part” in a stage figure which may be a libellous and unmistakeable caricature of some ... ...e official substituted for a court mar- tial. It is, in fact, assumed that actors, playwrights, and theatre managers are dangerous and dissolute chara... ...er branches of fine 31 Shaw art. To-day we have on the roll of knighthood actors, authors, and managers. The rogue and vagabond theory of the depravi... ... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ... submitted for license in which the relations of a prostitute with all the male characters in the piece was described as “immoral,” the Examiner of Pl... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th... ...he word of a woman of bad character. I stand on the honor and virtue of my American manhood. I say that she’s not had the oath, and that you darent fo...

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...kespear, there must have been many people about who idolized Shakespear as American ladies idolize Paderewski, and who carried Bardolatry, even in the... ... human race as Shakespear understood them, and not the vindictiveness of a stage Jew. Gaiety of Genius In view of these facts, it is dangerous to cite... ...ade her rather sore on the subject of her complexion; that no human being, male or female, can conceivably enjoy being chaffed on that point in the fo... ...s in Hamlet and Mercutio, is an- other. Shakespear never “saw himself,” as actors say, in Romeo or Orsino or Antonio. In Mr Harris’s own play Shakespe... ... plays are either strokes of character-drawing or gags interpolated by the actors. This ideal Shakespear was too well behaved to get drunk; therefore ... ...e Shakespear we get no such scenes of village snobbery as that between the stage country gentleman Alexander Iden and the stage Radical Jack Cade. We ... ...simply could not have hap- pened to a plumber. A poor man is useful on the stage only as a blind man is: to excite sympathy. The poverty of the apothe... ... Shakespear’s tragedies has thus been the history of a long line of famous actors, from Burbage and Betterton to Forbes Robertson; and the man of whom...

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... with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...de Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has issued on the stage; and ‘runs its hundred nights, ’ to the admiration of all men. By wha... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou... ... His- torical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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...h, fruits, and the like. Without the city are some theatres, where English actors represent almost every day tragedies and comedies to a very numerous... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...Baron Stourton. Nevill, Baron Latimer, died some years since without heirs male; the title controverted. Lumley, Baron Lumley. Blunt, Baron Montjoy. O... ...ed, both the blood and inheritance of the eldest brother for want of issue males, by which accumulation the house within few descents mounted, in culm... ..., not factious and ambitious of fame; such as came not to the House with a malevolent spirit of contention, but with a preparation to consult on the p... ...to that refined wit which since hath acted a disastrous part on the public stage, and of late sat in his father’s room as Lord Chancellor; those that ...

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...ng her on the steamer before the artists, and went with her to the landing-stage. The steamer soon came up and carried her away . She arrived home two... ... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ..., she talked of nothing with such pleasure and such warmth as of plays and actors. She bored us with her con- tinual talk of the theatre. My wife and ... ...d other stories Later on she used to bring with her dozens of portraits of actors and actresses which she worshipped; then she attempted several times... ...he theatre. T o my mind, if a play is good there is no need to trouble the actors in order that it may make the right impression; it is enough to read... ...vain in what is more important. When an actor wrapped from head to foot in stage traditions and conventions tries to recite a simple ordinary speech, ... ...lly, is a very clever man, and that “Woe from Wit” is not a dull play, the stage gives me the same feeling of conventionality which bored me so much f... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ... ...haracteristic reflection on the ill- behaviour of the young people in both male and female high- schools, the uproar in the classes. “Oh, he hoped it ...

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... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspi- ration and expiration of plants and animals;... ...or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Res nolunt diu male administrari. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist,... ...r run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. A mob is a society of bodies volu... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...rofes- sionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musi- cians, and actors, have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indu... ...ng in nature is bipolar, or has a posi- tive and negative pole. There is a male and a female, a spirit and a fact, a north and a south. Spirit is the ... ... and begins again with the first 280 Essays elements on the most advanced stage: otherwise all goes to ruin. If we look at her work, we seem to catch...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...d, the match meeting with pa- rental disapproval, had himself taken to the stage as a profes- sion. Notwithstanding Mrs. Poe’s beauty and talent the y... ...stanza from William Winter’s poem, read at the dedication exercises of the Actors’ Monument to 10 Poe in Five V olumes Poe, May 4, 1885, in New Y ork... ...ch it might be possible to travel. “It is true that balloons, in the first stage of their ascensions from the earth, are known to rise with a velocity... ...egan to fill me with alarm. It will be remem- bered, that, in the earliest stage of my speculations upon the possibility of a passage to the moon, the... ...e any thing to do with the proceedings but himself, and he has elbowed the male rela- tives out of the way, according to their representations, in a v... ...ng the rose in the key-hole; the ‘Marie’ upon the slate; the ‘elbowing the male relatives out of the way;’ the ‘aversion to permitting them to see the...

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...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...on, which continued to vibrate with a great and lasting effect. The little stage, with its speechless personages, which at the outset had only been ex... ...rious other pieces, which were indeed on too grand a scale for so narrow a stage. Al- though this presumption spoiled and finally quite destroyed what... ..., by dint of my mother’s support. There I sat in the pit, before a foreign stage, and watched the more 101 Goethe narrowly the movement and the expre... ...hought myself sufficiently well dressed; but it was not long before my fe- male friends, first by gentle raillery, then by sensible remon- strances, c... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, sec- ondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious cultu... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, secondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious culture... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

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...t it does. 20. Sticking on and under-propping. Whatever a learned 159 John Locke man may do here, an intelligent American, who inquired into the nat... ...in confu- sion. 6. Another reason for the necessity of names to num- bers. This I think to be the reason why some Americans I have spoken with, (who ... ... that, with language and reason and a shape in other things agreeing with ours, have hairy tails; others where the males have no beards, and others wh... ...s not distinguished by generation. Nor let any one say, that the power of propagation in animals by the mixture of male and female, and in plants by s... ...des, being actions which perish in their birth, are not capable of a lasting duration, as substances which are the actors; and wherein the simple idea... ... without being peremptory in defining the dif- ferent states which creatures shall come into when they go off this stage. It may suffice us, that He h... ...n lost among us, we should in a few ages be unavoidably reduced to the wants and igno- rance of the ancient savage Americans, whose natural endowments...

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...posite the fire, on a little table brought to him all ready laid as on the stage. When, therefore, he perceived that Charles’s cheeks grew red if near... ..., and in the niches constellations of gilt paper stars; then on the second stage was a dungeon of Savoy cake, surrounded by many fortifications in can... ...rsecuted la- dies fainting in lonely pavilions, postilions killed at every stage, horses ridden to death on every page, sombre forests, heart- aches, ... ...iosity , he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day... ...d be strong and dark; she would call him George; and this idea of having a male child was like an expected revenge for all her impotence in the past. ... ...erves. She had not eyes enough to look at the cos- tumes, the scenery, the actors, the painted trees that shook when anyone walked, and the velvet cap... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ... ..., near the espalier, and he ground his teeth; he raised to heaven looks of malediction, but not so much as a leaf stirred. A fine rain was falling: Ch...

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...RS QUESTIONED When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male prisoner. “Simeon Kartinkin, rise.” Simeon jumped up, his lips continu... ... away from their regiment any longer, for their leave was fully up. At the stage which Nekhludoff’s selfish mania had now reached he could think of no... ...e afraid of him,” said Khoroshavka, who managed to exchange notes with the male prisoners and knew all that went on in the prison. “He’ll run away, th... ..., and some military men and some civilians stood near them. The clatter of male and female voices went on unceasingly. “Enfin! you seem to have quite ... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...s the Frenchman’s name. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He makes wigs for the actors in the big theatre; it is a good business, so he’s prospering. He bo... ...suddenly uncovered his face, and smiled a very real-looking smile, such as actors express joy with, and began again with a sweet, gentle voice: “Yet t... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

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...light of steps leading into a square walled garden, with a couple of stone male and female ma- rine divinities accommodating their fishy extremities a... ...ng in indignant distress, and the bantering, indo- lent determination of a male annoyer. ‘Hark!’ exclaimed Berenger; ‘this must be seen to.’ ‘Have a c... ... a great and terrible tragedy, whose first act was being played out on the stage where they schemed and sported, like their own little drama, which wa... ...t in that weak, unwilling heart. It was not till the memoirs of the secret actors in this tragedy were brought to light that the key to these doings w... ...ble gallery accommodated the audience, and left full space beneath for the actors. Down the centre of the stage flowed a stream, broad enough to conta... ...dience, and left full space beneath for the actors. Down the centre of the stage flowed a stream, broad enough to contain a boat, which was plied by t... ...of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the deities Mercury and Cupid, who made a complimentar... ... and he was no more than a French duke distantly related to royalty in the male line, and more nearly through his grandmother and bride. The eight hun... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...getting up. We wrote with vast gravity about “starting rails” and “landing stages,” and it is still true that landing an aeroplane, except upon a well... ...hen coasted round to Spain and into the Mediterranean. And so by leisurely stages to India. And the East Indies.... I find my study unattractive to-da... ...imum of 5s., may be clever, but it is certainly not politic in the present stage of Labour feeling. To stamp violently upon obscure newspa- pers nobod... ...tinual repetitions. Now this human over-life may take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of hu- manity. It ma... ...uality of this American tradi- tion of unconditional freedom for the adult male citizen. I have shown that from the point of view of anyone who re- ga... ...ion. It may be that this is incorrect, and that in devotion to an accepted male and his children most women do still and will continue to find their g...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ... female adultery is malversation by the woman and theft by the man, whilst male adultery with an unmarried woman is not an offence at all. But though ... ...Shaw females lose their sex altogether and become workers sup- porting the males in luxury and idleness until the queen has found her mate, when the q... ...rous emergencies: in short, for treating their lives as more valuable than male lives, is not in the least a chivalrous reason, though men may consent... ...her, not by formal abolition, but by simple disuse. The private con- tract stage of this process was reached in ancient Rome. The only practicable alt... ...be said: it would be let alone as it always is let alone during the cruder stages of civiliza- tion. But the moment we refer to the facts, we discover... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...avelled first class with a third-class ticket, and then tried to go on the stage. But they wouldnt have him. He called himself Egerton Fotheringay. TH...

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...in which not one of that hero’s mille e tre adventures is brought upon the stage? To propitiate you, let me explain myself. You will retort that I nev... ...end. Why are our occa- sional attempts to deal with the sex problem on the stage so repulsive and dreary that even those who are most deter- mined tha... ...Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-T urgenieff stage, and were confronted with... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...licacy would initiate any effort in that direction. There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this mat- ter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexu... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... premier; for it is not in reason to suppose that a second such attractive male figure should appear in one story. The slim shapely frame, the elegant... ...N. I thought so, sir. Morality sent to the devil to please our libertines, male and female. That is to be the fu- ture of England, is it? TANNER. Oh, ...

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...e dark and grimy counter, strewed with old feathers, old yellow hoots, old stage mantles, painted masks, blind and yet gazing at you with a look of sa... ...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... .... 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.... ...w the youth did his foes engage; and at length they went off in the Gretna stage, the high-born dame and the peasant page. W olfgang beat time, waggle... ...(Have you not remarked, dear friend, how often in novel- books, and on the stage, joy is announced by the above burst of insensate monosyllables?) “To...

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...SMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, spe... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...and tearful eyes conveyed them. Then, perhaps, the pair reached that other stage which is not uncommon in married life, when the woman perceives that ... ...not to be imagined that Harry Esmond had all this experience at this early stage of his life, whereof he is now writing the history—many things here n... ...ordingly, he took leave of Castlewood, proposing to ride to London by easy stages, and lie two nights upon the road. His host treated him with a stud-... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...he lobby: and as he sat on the stage more people looked at him than at the actors, and watched him; and I remember at Ramillies, when he was hit and f... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...