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... 37 might consider being a psychologist or a teacher. If you have a sense of beauty and of geometry you might consider archit... ...ur problems with school shootings in America, but we are seeing the seeds of violence planted more often everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French... ... everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French police found that just under 10% of the mosques were under the control of extremists. Yet 23% of French... ... ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Archit... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev... ...age was done to public buildings, a thousand cars were burned and at least one death resulted. So an incorrect perception of truth started the French...

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... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ...sins. But Wanda, on the plus side of your tally, we have the monuments to architecture, sculpture and music, some orphanages and hospitals, and some... ...he highest of human potentials which have produced the pinnacles of human architecture. Look at the celestial achievements of the chisel and pallet—... ...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...d throwing in civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French were schooling them in a rudimentary way, missionarying among them... ... value it or even take any particular notice of it. But at last La Salle the Frenchman conceived the idea of seeking out that river and exploring it. ... ...ed. In the morn ing the chief and six hundred of his tribesmen escorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks ab... ...er, on the outskirts changes were apparent enough; notably in dwelling house architecture. The fine new homes are noble and beautiful and modern. They... ...n the Mississippi Mark T wain 218 the old flush times: for the steamboat architecture of the West has undergone no change; neither has steamboat f... ...uilt if he had not run the people mad, a couple of generations ago, with his medieval romances. The South has not yet recovered from the debilitating ... ... Institute building has long been famed as a model of striking and beautiful architecture. Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castle... ...ver tires of it; it always has a fine sound to him. There is a kind of swell medieval bulliness and tinsel about it that pleases his gaudy barbaric so... ...the advantage of the gentlemen of the cowl and rosary, and he will stay. His medieval business, supplemented by the mon sters and the oddities, and t...

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...escaped him in any heat of dispute, on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. 12 many declar... ...ght naturally to be favorable to the art of murder, as they were to church architecture, to stained glass, &c.; and, accordingly, about the latter end... ...leasing to be abridged; I shall give it, there- fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his ser... ...tes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The sailors, who took him for a foreign merchant, rather than a cav... ...ideous creatures, however visionary 8 , have a real traditionary ground in medieval belief—sincere and partly reasonable, though adulterating with men...

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...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th... ... front of the municipal buildings. CHAPTER XII What the Wives Saved THE RATHHAUS, OR MUNICIPAL BUILDING, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Midd... ...from a great distance down the bends of the river, and with just exactly room on the top of its head for its steepled and turreted and roof-clustered ... ..., in the garden, with the beautiful Neckar flowing at our feet, the quaint Dilsberg looming beyond, and the graceful towers and battle- ments of a cou... ...from a crevice in his upper teeth, laid him low, and said with composure: “Whar’s the boss?” “I am the boss,” said the editor, following this curious ...

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...bring out as soon as possible les Marguerites, those divine sonnets by the French Petrarch! We must carry our friend through on the shield of stamped ... ...ing to see the priest making this girl repeat Ave Maria and Paternoster in French. “That is very fine!” said Esther, when she had repeated these two g... ...was the life of Mazarin, the Italian cardinal, than that of Richelieu, the French cardinal. Richelieu met with opposition from the great nobles, and h... ...lain, tight dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are... ...ca of the 272 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding courses of hewn stone. This... ... pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture; and it is so still to the intelligent eye of the poet who hap... ...que—the three phases of ancient art—were harmonized in one building by the architecture of the twelfth century. This palace is a monumental history of...

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...is my account of them—of which I dare say, alas, que cela manque souvent d’architecture. But I would rather, I think, have too little architecture tha... ...h—when there’s danger of its interfering with my measure of the truth. The French of course like more of it than I give—having by their own genius suc... ...o Paris from Versailles, on that most ominous day of the first half of the French Revolu- tion, the carriage of the royal family. The only thing is th... ...sually very bad ones) or had been sent to superficial schools, kept by the French, from which, at the end of a month, they had been removed in tears. ... ...es. Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England no... ...rt in frames as pedanti- cally primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exha... ...istoric building in a narrow street whose very name recalled the strife of medieval factions; and found com- pensation for the darkness of her frontag... ...brightness of a garden where nature itself looked as archaic as the rugged architecture of the palace and which cleared and scented the rooms in regu-... ...of local colour. It had local colour enough, and though he knew less about architecture than about Limoges enamels he could see that the proportions o...

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...ith its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the midst, ... ...painted windows; and as often as he gazed at them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ... ...cutlery, books, chiefly little volumes of a religious Character, and a few French novels; toys, tinware, old iron, cloth, rosaries of beads, crucifixe... ...er strata of thought, it was delightful to catch glimpses of the grand old architecture that stood around the square. The life of the flitting moment,... ...ss and courtesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that Miriam h... ...tion of St. Peter’s was a structure of no definite out- line, misty in its architecture, dim and gray and huge, stretch- ing into an interminable pers... ...d white cloaks, were sta- tioned at all the street corners. Detachments of French in- fantry stood by their stacked muskets in the Piazza del Popolo, ...

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...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ... palace. This palace was distinguished by a feature not very common in the architecture of Roman edifices; that is to say, a mediaeval tower, square, ... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha... ...hey passed the portico of a T emple of Minerva, most rich and beautiful in architecture, but woefully gnawed by time and shattered by violence, beside... ... the nave. The interior of the church was of moderate compass, but of good architecture, with a vaulted roof over the nave, and a row of dusky chapels... ...as often as he gazed at 232 The Marble Fawn them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ...

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...imited range of produce; but Progress came shoving things into his window, French artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of... ...ing. The latter had an ivory plate bearing “statoscope” and other words in French, and a little indica- tor quivered and waggled, between Montee and D... ...t him thinking about lan- guages and trying to recall his seventh-standard French. “Je suis Anglais. C’est une meprise. Je suis arrive par accident ic... ... and her gorgeous plutocracy repeated V enice in the magnifi- cence of her architecture, painting, metal-work and sculp- ture, for example, in the gri... ... fought like junks, throwing grenades fighting hand to hand in an entirely medieval fashion. The risks of a collapse and fall on either side came near...

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... where there were no ob- ject lessons, and the studies of book-keeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken) under the guid- ance ... ...washbuckling carriage. And then came the glorious revelation of that great French- man whom Mr. Polly called “Rabooloose.” The Three Ps thought the bi... ...rter periods. He went to Canterbury and came under the influence of Gothic architecture. There was a blood affinity between Mr. Polly and the Gothic; ... ...imself, un- der the impression that he was naming a characteristic type of medieval churchman. He liked to sit in the nave during the service, and loo... ... of the church found an outlet in whispered criticisms of eccle- siastical architecture with Johnson. “Early Norman arches, eh?” he said, “or Perpendi... ... detailed interpretation of the phrase “Kick you ugly .” There’s a sort of French wrestling in which you use and guard against feet. Watch the man’s e...

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...had the best of taste, the best of inexpensive rugs, a simple and laudable architecture, and the latest conveniences. Throughout, electricity took the... ... mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and complacent ignorance of all architecture save the types of houses turned out by speculative builders; a... ...ding, as he did invariably, “And uh— Oh, and you might give me an order of French fried pota- toes.” When the chop came he vigorously peppered it and ... ...re’s a whole lot of valuable time lost even at the U., studying poetry and French and subjects that never brought in anybody a cent. I don’t know but ... ...mitation English hunt- ing-print, an anemic imitation boudoir-print with a French caption of whose morality Babbitt had always been rather suspicious,... ..., was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith. And... ...e stone rotunda, decorated with crown-embroidered velvet chairs and almost medieval tapestries, parrakeets sat on gilded lotos columns. With exclamati...

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...that my mind ran persistently that evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. P... ...- ing, towered over her, becoming for an instant at least a sort of second French Revolution, and delivered myself with the intensest concentration of... ...icourt and Donen. The hills beyond Spincourt were dusted thick with hidden French riflemen; the thin lash of the French skir- mishers sprawled out ami... ...any interest, its many emptinesses as inexplicable now as the cruelties of medieval Venice, the theology of old Byzantium. And they ruled and influenc... ...lley of the Four T owns, as the workers moved out, came to us to study the architecture of the residential squares and quad- rangles with which we had...

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...preparedness is, as he says, the final test of sincerity. Like Froissart’s medieval hero, who saw that “to rob and pill was a good life,” he is not th... ... haved bravely, admirably, and, in the final analysis, public- spiritedly. Medieval society, on the other hand, behaved very badly indeed in organizin... ...payers are not solid in defence of their position is that since we are not medieval rovers through a sparsely populated country, the poverty of those ... ...ey turn up their noses at their neighbors’ drains, and are made ill by the architecture of their neighbors’ houses. Trade patterns made to suit vulgar... ...the motion of eminent reformers, break no bones. It has been said that the French Revolution was the work of Voltaire, Rousseau and the Encyclopedists...

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...ty—of imperishable masterpieces of poetry, of painting, of sculp- ture, of architecture, of music, of exquisite fashions in dress, in furniture, in do... ... even to meet any of the company. All I can tell you is that the hero is a Frenchman [Savoyard is rather scandalized]: I asked her not to have an Engl... ...refer to the graceful and charming fantasies 9 GB Shaw of the Italian and French stages of the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries. SAVOYARD. Oh, ... ...e hes thoroughly English: never happy except when hes in Paris, and speaks French so unnecessarily well that everybody there spots him as an Englishma... ... brain, if you ask me; but no heart. GUNN. Oh, shut up, Bannal. This crude medieval psychol- ogy of heart and brain—Shakespear would have called it li...

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...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ...comes 33 Trollope used to bright colors, in carriage aprons as well as in architecture, and I soon learned to like them. Rhode Island, as the State i... ...ed whether perpendicular Gothic is capable of the high- est nobility which architecture can achieve. I do not pre- tend to say that these Canadian pub... ...ward. Of the library there is a large model showing all the details of the architecture; and if that model be ultimately followed, this building alone... ...there is, of course, none of that old- fashioned, time-honored, delicious, medieval life which lends so much grace and beauty to our colleges. There a...

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...on might defeat the allied sovereigns; but such an Englishman would kill a French cuirassier rather than be killed by him just as ener- getically as t... ...rels and to put upon Gallifet the brand that still makes him impossible in French politics as it was for Victor Hugo to bombard Napoleon III from his ... ...poet and composer of Siegfried, with the levity of a schoolboy, mocked the French republicans who were do- ing in 1871 what he himself was exiled for ... ...orative side, it was the same phenomenon in music as the Baroque school in architecture: an energetic struggle to enliven organic decay by mechanical ... ...olute music, starting partly from Brahms, and partly from such revivals of medieval music as those of De Lange in Holland and Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch in ...

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...her went; and although this is as undesirable an expertness as that of the medieval robber baron, it qualifies men to keep an estate or a business goi... ...rman engineering, as malignant abominations stand- ing towards British and French chemistry and so forth in the relation of heaven to hell, it was cle... ... have said if he had seen Ypres as it is now, or returned to Stratford, as French peasants are returning to their homes to-day, to find the old famili... ...ination and senses through stained- glass windows; and where sculpture and architecture came to the help of painting. Nobody ever reminded them that t... ...MRS HUSHABYE. —de Rougemont? ELLIE [innocently]. No: de Larochejaquelin. A French fam- ily. A vicomte. His life has been one long romance. A tiger— MR...

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...degrees of merit, in manly bev- erages and trinkets, in seemly apparel and architecture, in weapons, games, dancers, and the narcotics. This cultivati... ...ity for a manifestation of dominance and pecuniary decency which makes the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the Americ... ...gh, the local sanctuary is more ornate, more conspicuously wasteful in its architecture and decora- tion, than the dwelling houses of the congregation... ...y and serviceability are to be 103 Veblen seen, for instance, in domestic architecture, in domestic art or fancy work, in various articles of apparel... ...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... ...ons to this rule as are afforded, 207 Veblen for instance, by some of the medieval orders of monks (the members of which actually labored to some use...

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...er attention wandered, and she gazed at the audience, or the organ, or the architecture. Much did she censure the attenuated Cupids who encircle the c... ...means pleased by everything. There was a thing—some- thing about a faun in French—which Helen went into ecstasies over, but I thought it most tinkling... ...he superiority of the unseen to the seen. It’s true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.” ... ...be swept away? In the streets of the city she noted for the first time the architecture of hurry and heard the language of hurry on the mouths of its ... ... lady’s lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman, in whose blood there runs the very spirit of persiflage and of g... ... cried: “And that’s the man who beat the Austrians, and the Danes, and the French, and who beat the Ger- mans that were inside himself. And we’re like... ...6 Howards End all over England in the beginning of the last century, while architecture was still an expression of the na- tional character. That was ...

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... you; ah, thank you. I am sure Mr. Elliot would allow it.” Then he said in French to his sister, “Has there been the slightest sign of Frederick?” “No... ... than the Italians, though they did get closer to beauty. Greater than the French, though we do take all their ideas. I can’t help think- ing that Eng... ...Through the ad- vancing wall of waters he sees no grisly faces, no ghastly medieval limbs, but—But what nonsense! When real things are so wonderful, w... ...hought of with respect. It was built about the year 1800, and favoured the architecture of an- cient Rome—chiefly by means of five lank pilasters, whi... ...culture. A smattering of English Literature, and less than a smattering of French. “That is how we begin. Then we get you a little post—say that of li...

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...are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin’d city, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe. I am a free co... ...d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember on... ...he rebeck and guitar, I hear continual echoes from the Thames, I hear fierce French liberty songs, I hear of the Italian boat sculler the musical reci... ...n! You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 151 You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France! You Belge! you liberty lover of the ... ...hoever he looks at in the traveler’s coffee house claims him, The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the isla... ...most renown’d poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums. All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, (Did you think i... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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...uilt at dif- ferent periods, and devoid of all pretensions to any style of architecture; but the rooms, though not lofty, were warm and comfortable, a... ...ur- ing the Crimean War, that the Russians might be beaten— but not by the French, to the exclusion of the English, as had seemed to her to be too muc... ... Mr Supplehouse; and he points away to the East, where our dear allies the French are supposed to live, and where our head of affairs is supposed to h... ...e teeth. They were white and regular and lofty as a new row of houses in a French city. But then when she laughed she was all teeth; as she was all ne... ...even in this way any approximation could have been made, even in these old medieval days, towards a fair proportioning of the pay to the work. At any ... ...re and there in London, built in compliance rather with the rules of rural architecture, than with those which usually govern the erection of city str...

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...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th... ...d language, pretending to be students discussing various fields of study: “architecture” referred to the World Trade Center,“arts” the Pentagon,“law” ... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199... ...rson might be the appropriate official. 15. For the information technology architecture, see Ruth David interview (June 10, 2003). For the necessity o...