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...s of each, including his slaves. In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages ela... ... arise; and (the general progress of society assisting) the slavery of the male sex has, in all the countries of Christian Europe at least (though, in... ..., is in this case not confined to a limited class, but common to the whole male sex. Instead of being, to most of its supporters) a thing de sirable ... ...nglish, the Irish with the Swiss, the Greeks or Italians compared with the German races, so women compared with men may be found, on the average, to d... ... thought, and the perfection of style, there is no inferior ity. Our best novelists in point of composition, and of the management of detail, have mo... ...ntries which have produced first rate composers, even of the male sex, are Germany and Italy— countries in which, both in point of special and of gen ... ...three centuries have not produced fifty emi nent male composers either in Germany or in Italy. There are other reasons, besides those which we have n...

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...he Double – Dostoevsky 17 “Really?” “T o a cook, to a disreputable German woman from whom he used to get his dinners; instead of paying what... ...Would you believe it, Krestyan Ivanovitch? A low Ger man, a nasty shameless German, Karolina Ivanovna, if you know …” “I confess, for my part …” ... ... its entirety. “As for your hints concerning a certain person of the fe male sex, concerning the intentions, calculations and vari ous designs o... ...imself on the forehead, opening his eyes wider and wider; “so in that filthy German woman’s The Double – Dostoevsky 101 den the whole power of evil ... ...se, and finally die, following the example of some wretched German poets and novelists. Is that it, madam? But, to begin with, allow me to tell you, a...

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...doorpost a card on which was writ- ten in a woman’s handwriting: “WANTED A MALE AT- TENDANT WHO CAN KEEP ACCOUNTS. INQUIRE WITHIN.” The smoker was a p... ...ssons than those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she... ...nce of Lucian’s statement that the tenant of the Warren Lodge had a single male attendant. It was impossible that this glo- rious vision of manly stre... ...rs. The occasion will be a special one, as Herr Abendgasse, a remark- able German socialist and art critic, is to deliver a lecture on ‘The T rue in A... ... then, if you care to come. At nine o’clock, Herr Abendgasse, a celebrated German art critic and a great friend of mine, will read us a paper on ‘The ... ...eath of the morbid introspection and womanish self-consciousness of poets, novelists, and their like. As to artists, all the good ones are married; an...

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...open his mouth without making some other English- man hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible ... .... I’ve half solved it already. MRS. HIGGINS. No, you two infinitely stupid male crea- tures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards. HI... ...ional people in a small way were odious to her. She ran after painters and novelists; but she did not charm them; and her bold attempts to pick up and... ...lasses, learning bookkeeping and typewriting with incipient junior clerks, male and female, from the el- ementary schools, let me not dwell. There wer...

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...upassant was probably the most versatile and brilliant among the galaxy of novelists who enriched French literature between the years 1800 and 1900. P... ...ing on it, just as it took his fancy. When he had read his letters and the German newspapers, which his baggage-master had brought him, he got up, and... ...tto and Sub-lieutenant Fritz, who pre-eminently possessed the grave, heavy German countenance, said: “What, Captain?” He thought for a few moments, an... ...pot, which he filled with gunpow- der, and carefully introduced a piece of German tinder into it, through the spout. Then he lighted it, and took this... ...st enter into details. “We had only been there about five minutes when our male neighbor’s float began to go down two or three times, and then he pull... ...rom the cowhouse and had been found the next morning in front of Pros- per Malet’s mill, looking at the sails turning, or about a hen’s egg which had ... ... ven- ture to, and continued: ‘Do you know anyone among your parishioners, male or female, whom I could invite as well?’ He hesitated, reflected, and ...