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...e State was half witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all ... ...ade to fit, and holding a pint of chocolate, with brown bread, and an iron spoon. When they called for the vessels again, I was green enough to retur... ... racy, is a progress toward a true respect for the indi vidual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis o...

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...less thither-and-hithering of humanity, everyone trying to be at the door, spoon in hand, before his neighbour. B. said calmly, extracting his own spo... ...at you are a German too.” Then aloud, to the cook: “My friend here needs a spoon. He just got here this morning and they haven’t given him one.” The e... ...upon said to me: “You shall go to the window and say I tell you to ask for spoon and you will catch one spoon”—and I broke through the waiting line, a... ...approached the kitchen-window, and de- manded of a roguish face within: “A spoon, please.” The roguish face, which had been singing in a high faint vo... ...d arrived late last night. It disappeared, reappeared, and handed me a tin spoon and cup, saying: “You haven’t a cup?”—“No” I said. “Here. T ake this.... ...al in character with those which are sometimes pictorially attributed to a Chinese dignitary— in other words, the mustachios were exquisitely narrow, ...

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... homely illustration will bring out this dependence. A hand-wrought silver spoon, of a commercial value of some ten to twenty dollars, is not ordinari... ...ly more serviceable — in the first sense of the word — than a machine-made spoon of the same material. It may not even be more serviceable than a mach... ...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 which may be no ... ...the matter, one of the chief uses, if not the chief use, of the cost- lier spoon is ignored; the hand-wrought spoon gratifies our taste, our sense of ... ...lusive. It appears (1) that while the different materials of which the two spoons are made each possesses beauty and serviceability for the purpose fo... ...e communities of the Western culture, and so also the deformed foot of the Chinese. Both of these are mutilations of unquestioned repulsiveness to the... ...d out in various parts of the world; as, for instance, among the Japanese, Chinese, and other Ori- ental nations; likewise among the Greeks, Romans, a...

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...ances with his mother as he ate his dinner. Several times he laid down his spoon and cleared his throat, meaning to begin to speak, but after an inten... ...hter V arvara, a girl in her teens, with a pale ugly face, laid down their spoons and sat mute. Shiryaev , growing more and more ferocious, uttering w... ...to one another, we cannot help adorning our conversation with all sorts of Chinese mannerisms, such as “ As you so justly observed,” or “I have alread... ...en to mankind? Why, the difference between the learned Euro- peans and the Chinese who have no science is trifling, purely external. The Chinese know ...

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...ady carved dishes between the shoulders of the guests, with a touch of the spoon gave you the piece cho- sen. On the large stove of porcelain inlaid w... ...eld with her left hand in a silver-gilt cup, her eyes half-closed, and the spoon between her teeth. A lady near her dropped her fan. A gentlemen was p... ... teeth with his tongue; in taking soup he made a gurgling noise with every spoonful; and, as he was getting fatter, the puffed-out cheeks seemed to pu... ...ge quod agis.* He was so exasperated he quoted Latin. He would have quoted Chinese or Greenlandish had he known those two languages, for he was in one... ... Lheureux would certainly take off her hands. She bought ostrich feathers, Chinese porcelain, and trunks; she borrowed from Felicite, from Madame Lefr... ... she al- ways found some objection. One day she drew six small silver-gilt spoons from her bag (they were old Roualt’ s wedding present), begging him ... ...ace. Then, when her eyes wan- dered over the chimney-piece ornamented with Chinese screens, over the large curtains, the armchairs, all those things, ...

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...and more ashamed. I’d rather he had been a thief and taken all the apostle spoons than that I— Well, I must shut the front-door, I suppose. One more f... ...nt-door, I suppose. One more failure for Helen.” “Yes, I think the apostle spoons could have gone as rent,” said Margaret. Seeing that her aunt did no... ...jected the orange pekoe that the parlour-maid had provided, poured in five spoonfuls of a superior 42 Howards End blend, filled up with really boilin... ...ed lectures and took proper exercise, and was now glancing disdainfully at Chinese in case he 243 EM Forster should some day consent to qualify as a ... ...landlady came in with the cutlets. Tibby put a marker in the leaves of his Chinese Grammar and helped them. Oxford—the Oxford of the vacation— dreamed... ...ages, raising his eyebrows scornfully, perhaps at human nature, perhaps at Chinese. To him thus employed Helen returned. She had pulled herself togeth... ...only you had Helen.” “I have Tibby, Aunt Juley.” “No, but he has to do his Chinese. Some real com- panion is what you need. Really, Helen is odd.” “He...

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... viva cious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out. The Chinese are bribed to carry their ova from province to province in jars or ... ...gh it happens that I am better ac quainted with those of the Hindoos, the Chinese, and the Persians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. ... ...ughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German criticism. Read the... ...ays a French translator, speak ing of the antiquity and durability of the Chinese and Indian nations, and of the wisdom of their legislators, “there ... ... the col lected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Hebrews, and others, as the Scriptu... ..., and so I soon cooked my supper of rice, having already whittled a wooden spoon to eat it with. I sat up during the evening, reading by the light of ... ...he farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar. 239 H... ... cents, crumb your bread or cold pudding into it, and eat it with your own spoon out of your own dish. Any one of these things I mean, not all togethe...

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...eserves the sem- blance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples st... ...iscov- ery of the law that water rises to the level of its source. It is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over. It is a standing army, ... ...countess, who thus said or did to him. The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and rings, and preserve their cards and compliments. Th... ...circumstance gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote the hei... ...erns by love; and the metaphor of each has become a national religion. The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization. “I... ... since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world. “The virtuous pri... ... becomes as- trology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where our spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiol- ogy become phrenology and palmis...

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...in down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [startled] Dear me! LIZA [piling up the indictmen... ...morist, explained to them the method of the celebrated Dickensian essay on Chinese Metaphysics by the gentleman who read an article on China and an ar...

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...gns in copper-colored metal. Near the fireplace was a great bronze bell of Chinese shape, mounted like a mortar on a black wooden carriage for use as ... ... work. “Queer place,” he remarked, after a pause, alluding to the castle. “Chinese looking, isn’t it?” “It is considered a very fine building,” said A... ...e peace- fully in?” “You may think so, because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. But if you hadn’t to fight for that silver spoon, some...

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...h an air of restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a deli- cate Chinese handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were l... ... prince again laughed his frigid laugh. “Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attac...

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...ved a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been ... ... to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my ... ...n, a dipper, a wash bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp. None is so p... ... out the Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philan thropic activity, the...

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...ught of himself crashing naked through the film of ice into water black as Chinese lacquer. And when he climbed out numb and panting on the other side... ...ick steel-rimmed spectacles. Ex- cept for the eyes, the face had a vaguely Chinese air. “Hello, Heinz! Mr. Andrews, Mr. Heineman,” said Henslowe. 229... ...ineman bowed, his big grinning face bobbing up and down like the face of a Chinese figure in porcelain. “Lui est Sinbad,” he cried, pointing with a wi... ...ineman’s neck. Heineman, his face crimson, bowed to all sides, more like a Chinese porcelain figure than ever, and started singing in all solemnity th... ...wore form- less corduroy clothes, the color of his skin. Holding the small spoon in a knotted hand he was stirring slowly and continu- ously a liquid ...

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...an extraordinary fastidiousness. He would sit before his soup, take up his spoon and look into the soup, bend over it, exam- ine it, take a spoonful a... ... officer at all now. He served in the customs in Siberia, somewhere on the Chinese frontier, some puny little beggar of a Pole, I expect. Lost his job... ...ble day. Ringing, and mounting the staircase, which was dimly lighted by a Chinese lantern, he saw a man coming down, and as they met, he recognised h...

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... Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe... ...o defend the external source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to ref... ...ts, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window messages in Chinese are passed on to him (in the original experiment, two ty... ...late the messages received with other pieces of paper, already in the room, also in Chinese. This collage he passes on to the outside through yet an... ..., performs any other cognitive or mental function) the input or the output (both in Chinese). Searle generalized and stated that this shows that co... ...phants solitary. Male zebra finches are loquacious - the females mute. Female green spoon worms are 200,000 times larger than their male mates. The... ...es in him instead of her. The magnificent difference between male and female green spoon worms, for example, has nothing to do with their having di... ...worms, for example, has nothing to do with their having different genes: each green spoon worm larva could go either way. Which sex it becomes depen...

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...t counted it yet. Mavra, look what a lot of money; now we needn’t pawn our spoons and studs!” He brought out of his pocket rather a thick bundle of no... ...ce beamed with pleasure and sat- isfaction. Masloboev was wearing gorgeous Chinese slippers, a sumptuous dressing-gown, and dainty clean linen. Fashio... ...mething too. She’s crammed me into a linen shirt, stuck in studs—slippers, Chinese dressing-gown - she combed my hair herself and pomaded it with berg... ...she was very obedient; to-day, when I gave her her medicine she pushed the spoon as though by accident and it was all spilt over. When I wanted to mix... ... with an apparently quite acci- dental movement of her arm, she jerked the spoon, and all the medicine was spilt on the floor again. No doubt she did ... ...e again. But this time she made no pretence about it but simply jerked the spoon up from below with her hand and all the medicine was splashed on the ... ... one half crazy. We were having soup yesterday , and he couldn’ t find the spoon set beside him; you ask him one thing and he answers an- other. He ha...

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...by permitting divorce, but by making it compulsory in certain cases as the Chinese do. 57 Getting Married When the great protest of the XVI century c... ...the next election. And then lost it all the same: on cordite, on drink, on Chinese labor in South Africa, on all sorts of trumpery. REGINALD [lurching... ...e sign: one of those trifles that stamp a man. He eats rice pudding with a spoon. THE GENERAL [very angry] Confound you, I eat rice pud- ding with a s... ...l about them. And thats how I know more of the world than you. LESBIA. The Chinese know what a man is like when he is cut into a thousand pieces, or b... ...MRS GEORGE. Who is Billiter? HOTCHKISS. A man who eats rice pudding with a spoon. Ive been eating rice pudding with a spoon ever since I saw you first... ... ever since I saw you first.[He rises]. We all eat our rice pudding with a spoon, dont we, Soames? SOAMES. We are members of one another. There is no ...

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...a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door lintels No cheating here,—w... ...by accumulation, drove him out of doors: but Lieschen was his right arm, and spoon, and necessary of life, and would not be flatly gainsayed. We can st... ...pskin cloaks and wampum belts; phylacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilib... ...lso a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel bibs, and live on spoon meat? Did he ever, in rapture and tears, clasp a friend’s bosom to ... ...rcumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon meat, into whiteness, and if possible into manhood. The Heavens smi... ...gh was known at Entep fuhl. Heedless of all which, the Nursling took to his spoon meat, and throve. I have heard him noted as a still infant, that ke... ...luding those of Con stantinople and Samarcand: in most Colleges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying...

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...h an air of restrained animation as he stood sip- ping tea from a delicate Chinese handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were l... ... prince again laughed his frigid laugh. “Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got splendid soldiers. Besides he began by at- t... ...as each time her husband moved in his sleep behind her. There was only one spoon, sugar was more plentiful than anything else, but it took too long to... ... should stir my tea.” Mary Hendrikhovna assented and began looking for the spoon which someone meanwhile had pounced on. “Use your finger, Mary Hendri... ... of Alexander’s people, Moscow with its in- numerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says th... ...t is the highest class, re- spected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the ... ...u like a little mash?” the first soldier asked, and handed Pierre a wooden spoon after licking it clean. Pierre sat down by the fire and began eating ... ... ever tasted. As he sat bending greedily over it, helping himself to large spoon- fuls and chewing one after another, his was lit up by the fire and t...

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...e station fly has gone. The captain emerges from the pantry with a tray of Chinese lacquer and a very fine tea-set on it. He rests it provisionally on... ...m Mangan with his usual abruptness, and collects the empty tea-cups on the Chinese tray]. MANGAN [irritated]. See here, Captain Shotover. I don’t quit... ...ork it on them same as I worked it here. I break into the house; put a few spoons or diamonds in my pocket; make a noise; get caught; and take up a co... ...alk out and leave the job. RANDALL. When that happens, do you put back the spoons and diamonds? THE BURGLAR. Well, I don’t fly in the face of Providen...

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...vas. Then she brought out the last piece of bread, and set out a knife and spoons. ‘Eat, if you want to,’ said she. Simon drew the stranger to the tab... ... tell me that though many reli gions have been introduced into China, you Chinese consider Mohammedanism the best of all, and adopt it willingly. Con...

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...knickknacks: small vases, statuettes, groups in Dresden china, gro- tesque Chinese figures, old ivory, and Venetian glass, which filled the large room... ...t it; but he was made to, on account of his health. The footman forced the spoon into his mouth, while the old man blew energetically, so as not to sw...