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...ly tradition. In all Stair’s offspriung we no difference know, They do the females as the males bestow; So he of one of his daughters’ marriages gave ... ...e wants the thing, Is but a shadow scarce worth notic- ing. He learned the French, be’t spoken to his praise, In very little more than fourty days.” T... ...esemblance in their features, pointed her out as the mother of the younger female, and who appeared to listen with a mixture of displeasure and impati... ... the man urge his suit, the unresisting and passive despair of the younger female, the stern air of inflexible determina- tion in the elder woman, who... ...ot for him; France will gain him; and we will all set sail together in the French brig ‘L’Espoir,’ which is hovering for us off Eyemouth.” “Content am... ...lver that your lordship bestowed on Hew Hildebrand, your outrider; and the French velvet that went with my lord your father—be gracious to him!—my lor... ...t an hour, and whispered the bridegroom, who extri- cated himself from the dancers, and vanished from the apart- ment. The instrumets now played their... ...from the apart- ment. The instrumets now played their loudest strains; the dancers pursued their exercise with all the enthusiasm inspired by youth, m...

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...ife and Death and Respiration, W. Ogle, 1897. Poetica, with Notes from the French of D’Acier, 1705; by H. J. Pye, 1788, 1792; T . T win- ing, 1789,181... ..., 1891. De Virtutibus et Vitiis, by W . Bridgman, 1804. Politica, from the French of Regius, 1598; by W. Ellis, 1776, 1778, 1888 (Morley’s Universal L... ...ogether whose species cannot exist without each other, as the male and the female, for the business of propagation; and this not through choice, but b... ... equally advantageous to both. But there is a natural difference between a female and a slave: for na- ture is not like the artists who make the Delph... ...ter perfection than when employed on many; and yet among the barbarians, a female and a slave are upon a level in the community, the reason for which ... ...ame; as the business of him who leads the band is different from the other dancers. From all which proofs it is evident that the virtues of a citizen ...

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...crossed my path as though I had been stranded on a desert island with no female company for ten years. The chase was always more excit­ ing than the... ...ed cooking for them, although they had to settle for lots of pancakes and French toast, which were my specialties from Food Trades school days. My ... ...el Drum Band, the roving Dixieland Jazz En­ semble, or the movement of the dancers. This carnival of dancers had contracted brown fever. The symptom... ...his book was drawn first from the author's personal experience as a young female manager in a male-dominated industry and later from the thousands o...

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...lines into little squares, containing about a hundred heads of illustrious Frenchmen. This sheet was stuck on pasteboard for hanging on the wall, and ... ... of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revelled in the Cent Nouvelles of good King Louis XI. R... ...n mind—for the writer was Bishop of Agen, and his work was translated into French—as also the Dames Galantes of Brantome. Read the Journal of Heroard,... ...usbands. I pray you, my good lusty springal lads, if you find any of these females, that are worth the pains of untying the codpiece-point, get up, ri... ...urtiers, which are stuffed only with wind, to the great preju- dice of the female sex. For his shoes were taken up four hundred and six ells of blue c... ... her membretoon, her quickset imp: another again, her branch of coral, her female adamant, her placket-racket, her Cyprian sceptre, her jewel for ladi... ...t was dried neats’ tongues. When he was hoarse, it was an entry of morrice-dancers. When he whistled, it was a whole scuttleful of green apes. When he... ...s, interludes, and comical scenes were acted; they had also several morris-dancers with bells and tabors, and divers sorts of masks and mummers were l... ...ves, and removes. I was also at a loss when I strove to comprehend how the dancers could so suddenly know what every different note meant; for they no...

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...ef productions which throw light on these, must for the present suffice. A French diplomatic personage, contem- plating Goethe’s physiognomy, is said ... ... last into a highly-probable Nonentity. Follow- ing Locke’s footsteps, the French had discovered that ‘as the stomach secretes Chyle, so does the brai... ...rried in 1773 to John George Schlosser. Goethe’ s education was irregular. French culture gave at this time the prevailing tone to Europe. Goethe coul... ...onally wandered, at one time to his beloved Schiller, at another to a fair female head with black curls, some passion of his youth. His last words wer... ... or magistrate of the town. 34 Autobiography cook picked her salad there; female neighbors chatted with each other; and the streets consequently, in ... ...n my formal Sunday clothes. I made gestures, and leaped, as I had seen the dancers do at the fair-theatre. In the midst of this I looked in the glass,... ...valry . She boasted that she had the queen of the Amazons as leader of her female host. I, on the contrary, found Achilles and a very stately Grecian ... ...nch dancing-master, who was passing through the city. After the fashion of dancers, he was dressed in a close vest of red silk, which, ending in a sho...

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... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as fo... ... breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the g... ...who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families. He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones. And also ... ...- sage. The chest in the passage was the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostov household. And there in fact was Sonya lyin... ... Pierre said, laughing and blushing: “Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” “I am afraid of mixing the figures,” Pierre replied; “but if you ...

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... huntsman? You know, I am pot very fond of fellows like this,” he added in French, “and this one offends me particularly. Should it ever happen that—”... ...father had “taken her upstairs”—that is to say, made her one of his wife’s female servants. As chamber-maid, Natashka so distinguished herself by her ... ...ike so-much to have done.” At length, however, she answered the Princess’s French with Russian, and with a sharp accentuation of certain words. “I am ... ...h praise, Grandmamma softened to her a little. She began to address her in French and to cease calling her “my dear.” Likewise she invited her to 57 ... ..., I beheld from behind the fig- ure of the footman who opened the door two female fig- ures-one tall and wrapped in a blue cloak trimmed with marten, ... ...rly departure. Servants were gliding about with plates and trays among the dancers, and the musicians were carelessly playing the same tune for about ...

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...no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, mo tion, or deportment be taught our youth but... ...garb. Who shall regulate all the mixed conver sation of our youth, male and female together, as is the fashion of this country? Who shall still appoi... ...ar, preferred the natural wits of Britain before the laboured studies of the French. Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Transylvanian sen... ...ges,presenting Ludlow Town, and the PresidentUs Castle: then come in Country Dancers; after them the ATTENDANT SPIRIT, with the two BROTHERS and the L...

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...g to hesitate any longer, she rang the bell, and was presently joined by a French lady of polished manners—Miss Carew’s maid who conducted her to the ... ...sition, employed herself as a teacher of the scientific fashions in modern female educa- tion, rumors of which had already reached Wiltstoken. Alice w... ...t yours. And look at the politics of it. We’ve heard a good deal about the French to-night. Well, they’ve got executive power. They know how to make a... ...d how to fight behind it when they’ve made it. What’s the result? Why, the French, if they only knew what they wanted, could have it to-morrow for the... ... cousin, it was hard to spend quarter-hours with him that some of the best dancers in London asked for. She began to tire of the subject of Cashel and... ...t there were no strangers loitering about it, and ordered that none of the female servants should re- turn there until he came back. Then she sat down... ...d with fur, and heavily decorated with spurious jet beads. However, as the female inhabitants of Wiltstoken always approached Miss Carew in their best... ...hout their ability, or they are men of pleasure, which means that they are dancers, tennis-players, butchers, and gamblers. I leave the nonentities ou...

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...intro- duced into the mint of England till the 18th of Henry the VIII. The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, T royes weight... ... of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained all of them originally a real pen... ...the penny and the pound. During the first race of the kings of France, the French sou or shilling appears upon different occasions to have contained f... ...ns of subsistence. The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. are founded upon those two principles; the rarity and beauty ... ...letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of these has a certain value, regul... ...s who made no more distinction between elder and younger, between male and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distribution of move... ...that of sex, and that of age. The male sex is universally preferred to the female; and when all other things are equal, the elder everywhere takes pla...

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... they have insinuated the term ‘analysis’ into application to algebra. The French are the originators of this particular deception; but if a term is o... ...aring the D— cipher very conspicuously, and was addressed, in a diminutive female hand, to D—, the minister, himself. It was thrust carelessly, and ev... ...he “Isitsoornot” for the means of correcting the error. “Le mieux,” says a French proverb, “est l’ennemi du bien,” and, in mentioning that Scheherazad... ...anxious to have it made, and urged me to commence it at once. A male and a female nurse were in attendance; but I did not feel myself altogether at li... ...pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these ... ... accomplishment involved a chance of detection. At length, in reading some French Memoirs, I found an account of a nearly fatal illness that occurred ... ...al. But as my gondola arrived opposite the mouth of the canal San Marco, a female voice from its recesses broke suddenly upon the night, in one wild, ...

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...s warrant for such a view. In all com- munities the members, both male and female, habitually appropriate to their individual use a variety of useful ... ...ory of the Leisure Class stages of culture, apparently with the seizure of female cap- tives. The original reason for the seizure and appropriation of... ...they are the usual form of investment for a profit. T o such an extent may female slavery give its character to the economic life under the quasi-peac... ...rages and trinkets, in seemly apparel and architecture, in weapons, games, dancers, and the narcotics. This cultivation of aesthetic faculty requires ... ...ity for a manifestation of dominance and pecuniary decency which makes the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the Americ... ...possible than does the man’s high hat. The woman’s shoe adds the so-called French heel to the evidence of enforced leisure afforded by its polish; bec...

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...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many songs and a lo... ...d in unison. The music sped up and the faster pace widened our circle of dancers. Our bare feet kicked blossoms thrown by boys. We ate and danced,... ...y-five years, she tells me. I’ve had her for fifteen years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think ... ... with colorless, limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He... ...as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French...and all of the arts. When he trims my hair and beard he likes to f... ...cage and let a sick lion go; for days the young man had tried to cure the female. Running amok through town, she cre- ated quite a scare until she wa... ...e King’s kitch- ens! The King has a poet in residence who likes to recite female poetry—for the pomades and perfumes! He is a hunchback, with a shar... ...At the ball, boxers fought in an arena, sawdust-floored; there were Swiss dancers and yodelers; sword swallowers performed: they are the rage now. ... ... hospital, with proper light. I had adequate leisure. I dissected male and female ...eight or ten cadavers...over the years. Made my drawings in vari...

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........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ...but ah, how much I love! I go, ye nymphs! where furious love inspires: Let female fears submit to female fires. To rocks and seas I fly from Phaon’s h... ..., and each art he tries, On her bright charms to feast his longing eyes. A female form at last Vertumnus wears, With all the marks of reverend age app... ... power To speed his bliss, and haste the happy hour. Meantime the vigorous dancers beat the ground, And songs were sung, and flowing bowls went round.... ...sent: 410 They left the hall, and to his lodging went. The female tribe surround him as he lay, And close beside him sat the gentle Ma... ...hunders all his own! Stood up to dash each vain pretender’s hope, Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope! If there’s a Briton then, true bred a...

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... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- ing, ran as ... ...reast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the g... ...who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families. He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones. And also ... ...assage. The chest in the passage was the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostov household. And there in fact was Sonya lyin... ... Pierre said, laughing and blushing: “Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” “I am afraid of mixing the figures,” Pierre replied; “but if you ... ...tive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety . Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man tired of being run... ...and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers. “How sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said Denisov. “Who?”... ...est. Having lifted her head and let her arms droop life- lessly, as ballet dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, stepp... ...was on the first floor. Those in the rooms above were also awake. He heard female voices over- head. “Just once more,” said a girlish voice above him ...

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...tred in what a Parisian would consider good taste at the present day. Many females, for example, whose age could not have been less than seventy were ... ...eral side-dishes on the table, containing what appeared to be the ordinary French rabbit—a very delicious morceau, which I can recommend. “Pierre,” cr... ... charge?” “At present we have not more than ten, altogether.” “Principally females, I presume?” “Oh, no—every one of them men, and stout fellows, too,... ...into your article. Now write! “‘Aussi tendre que Zaire’—as tender as Zaire-French. Al- ludes to the frequent repetition of the phrase, la tendre Zaire... ...l- ludes to the frequent repetition of the phrase, la tendre Zaire, in the French tragedy of that name. Properly introduced, will show not only your k... ...me “silk.” Singular to relate, it was once much ad- mired as an article of female dress! Balloons were also very generally constructed from it. A bett... ... and pecu- liarities of life with the most wonderful exactitude. The rope- dancers, for example, are inimitable. When the clown laughs, his lips, his ...

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...was on the first floor. Those in the rooms above were also awake. He heard female voices overhead. “Just once more,” said a girlish voice above him wh... ...unctuation: “Unsoundly con- structed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating.” “T... ... vous envisagez la question sous ce point de vue,”** he began, pronouncing French with evident difficulty, and speak- ing even slower than in Russian ... ...l circles, each with its own particular tone. The largest of these was the French circle of the Napoleonic alliance, the circle of Count Rumyantsev an... ...e the second couple to enter the circle. Prince Andrew was one of the best dancers of his day and Natasha danced exquisitely. Her little feet in their... ... when after leaving her he stood breath- ing deeply and watching the other dancers. 56 War and Peace – Book Six CHAPTER XVII AFTER PRINCE ANDREW, Bor... ... When the cotillion was over the old count in his blue coat came up to the dancers. He invited Prince Andrew to come and see them, and asked his daugh...

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...leep at the right time. That they may not quarrel with one another, the good females! And about thee, thou unhappy one! Peace with God and thy neighbo... ... butterflies too much? 103 Friedrich Nietzsche Upbraid me not, ye beautiful dancers, when I chasten the little God somewhat! He will cry, certainly, ... ...owered beside her; and as a third, death-rattle still- ness, the worst of my female friends. Keys did I carry, the rustiest of all keys; and I knew ho... ... And when I spake unto all, I spake unto none. In the evening, however, rope-dancers were my companions, and corpses; and I myself almost a corpse. Wi... ... possible! So learn to laugh beyond yourselves! Lift up your hearts, ye good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good laughter! This crown of... ...a longing— —Open your eyes!—it hath a longing to come naked, whether male or female, I do not yet know: but it cometh, it constraineth me, alas! open ... ...on clamber back to the conven- tions of the age they intended reforming. The French then say “le diable se fait hermite,” but these men, as a rule, ha...