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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...eir body weight. Only the colony's queen breeds. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. The queen also lives much longer - up to 10 years, compar... ...nd Wisconsin refused to pass constitutional amendments to confer suffrage on black males. The Union army consigned black labor gangs to work on the... ...eat and, thus, attracts female flies eager to lay their eggs. Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Italy's Universi... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...ividuals have the chromosomal composition of a woman together with traces of the Y, male, chromosome. All hermaphrodites have a sizable penis, thou...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...rvisor looks very anxious. He shifts restlessly on his elevated seat, hawk-eyeing everyone malevolently. Sure enough, he doesn't like us. He clears ... ...rnoon, for months now, I eat my duck in garlic there. Sometimes, Eli and I adopt this mock Swedish accent and demand the most improbable of dishes,... ...hers approach and taste her hesitatingly. Five minutes later, she vanishes under a pack of males, tree branch obscured by bee hives. Only her toes ... ... friends and recounted some futile anecdotes. The ceremony held by the municipality in the Writers Hall was open to the public. I said to Nomi: "... ...e" – Dani is soft-spoken even when his words are not. That evening, Nomi and I went to the Writers' Hall. A woman with anorectic eyes compared our ... ...want to consider the third possibility: that she had been on many blind dates and that all males react the same. And I mean the exact same way. "Yo...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ....................................................... 30 TRADITION AND MALE POWER ................................................................... ...e on the lower end of the scale to voluntarily undergo sterilization. For males or females with no children for every point on the IQ scale that a ... ...ing jobs to become barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Marriage for the male university graduates was more likely to be with less educated women. ... ...less pay than men. Another option is working in the public sector. Half of Swedish women work in the public sector. Compare this with 30% in the UK a... ...ry, the right to marry and found a family, and other such rights. But the writers of the document put some boundaries on these rights. Military serv... ...tion for a crime, according to Article 5, or in the armed services. So the writers didn‟t allow individuals the rights to do anything they wanted if ... ...films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on writers with little imagination. Crash cars, yell „kill the cops‟, shoot p...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ever had a more tasty or a healthier breakfast. Seaweed salad with curry, Swedish sennaps sild, soy cakes, rice bran cereal, half the time I didn‘t ... ...saying one thing while doing something different? Why don‘t more American males wear condoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the risin... ...ier church council seriously debated whether females even had souls. If a male fetus younger than four weeks old is aborted, was it a human life? ... ... come from valid basic assumptions. But, as with the case of the Taliban, male supremacy reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-human status... ...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar... ...0 years. This gives a false picture of Norway‘s economy. The Finnish and Swedish economies have not been moving, and when they move it is often back... ... unemployment increased by 500%. If it had not been for Finnish Nokia and Swedish Ericsson mobile phones or Norway‘s oil these three countries would ...

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Fourth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

... paradossismo [in Italian, introduced by Dr. Felice Russo] - paradoxism [in Swedish, introduced by Kristina Staude] - paradoxism [in Albanian, int... ...rung: “Gedicht-Phänomen”, “Gedicht-(Seele) Zustand”, “Gedicht-Ding”. In der Malerei wie in der Bildhauerei – alles existierte bereits in der Natur,... ...ept the respect BONELESSNESS Prime cause of inferiority Manifested to be male chauvinism 66 LALEH FARABI and MOHAMMAD KHOSHNEVISAN (Iran) ... ...b and i have joined the paradoxism club. i am a 22 year old from nigeria, male, and i am a poet and writer. i’d really love to learn more about ... ...does all this so right and she doesn’t give a damn about the slyboots script-writers, narrow-minded and with pockets full of money. How big is the s...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c... ...stances and the parameters and characteristics of the universe that we inhabit. The Swedish Count Wallenberg imperilled his life (and lost it) smugg...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c... ...stances and the parameters and characteristics of the universe that we inhabit. The Swedish Count Wallenberg imperilled his life (and lost it) smugg...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...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... ...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... ...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... ...age, the Vega, was manned by two officers and seventeen men, volunteers of the Swedish navy. It was a staunch whaler of two hundred and ninety-nine to... ...d that progress was almost impossible. In this far off corner of the world the Swedish explorer came near meeting one of his countrymen, a whaler name...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long lost these attributes. The digital divides th... ... have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, G... ...ialog. For low volumes of messages, this is a good thing. But top-selling writers could not handle email from thousands of dedicated fans. Even in ... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscop... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyrosco...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...ublic festival. The body was accordingly divided; and every man retired to his own house to consummate the rite in secret, carrying his proportion of ... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s...

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Seraphita

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ce of stone, wood alone is used for all fences, even those of fields. This Swedish house, thus pro- tected against the climate, stood on rising ground... ...rough which she had been passing. Seraphitus seemed to be laying aside his male force and the too keen intellect that flames from his eyes. Pres- entl... ... left the house. A few moments later he reached the great courtyard of the Swedish villa. An old servant, over eighty years of age, appeared in the po... ...r some moments, watching the light which shone from all the windows of the Swedish dwelling. “What is the matter with me?” he asked himself. “No, she ... ...greatest disciple, ‘Flesh is but an external propagation.’ To poets and to writers his presentation of the marvellous is amazing; to Seers it is simpl... ...ed spiral letters (‘True Christian Religion,’ 278). Even in the North some writers have laughed at the gates of pearl, and the dia- monds which stud t... ...ys are spent in the state of mystical contemplation which was, so Catholic writers tell us, habitual with the early Christian solitaries, in whom the ...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...ell away from her, and for- sook her house. T o them succeeded a clique of male visitors, some of whom were doubtfully respectable, and others (like M... ... heard described, the sudden burst—the explosion, one might say—by which a Swedish winter passes into spring, and spring simultaneously into summer? T... ...Thirty Years’ war, both by the Bavarian, im- perial, and afterwards by the Swedish officers of rank. And it 247 Autobiographic Sketches marks the gre...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...n. This innovation upon the old practice of war had been introduced by the Swedish armies, whose north- ern habits and training had fortunately prepar... ... in the imperial ser- vice, they had received cheerful assistance; and any Swedish corps, which rumor had presented as formidable by their numbers, th... ...rest Paulina, that you are with us, I would think the risk not *It was the Swedish General Kniphausen, a favorite of Gustavus, to whom this maxim is a... ...r with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves through four centur... ...h a marriage went to incapacitate the children who might be born under it, male or female, from succeeding. On that account, as well as because curren...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ... now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But ... ...ll spare woman with flaxen hair trotted from the house. She was twanging a Swedish patois—not in mono- tone, like English, but singing it, with a lyri... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ...rs, presenting not only a lithographic young woman with cherry lips, and a Swedish advertisement of Axel Egge’s grocery, but also a thermometer and a ... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Span... ...and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a s... ...d incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; ... ...o a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn. Originally it was in itself acco... ... incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Warde... ...eaning may lurk here. There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers — the whale and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain lim... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an o...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ..., they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants. “Gosh,” Babbitt wailed to his wife, as they walked hom... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...EK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BA... ...and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a s... ...d incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; ... ...o a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn. Originally it was in itself acco... ...ncident to the Cinque Port territories become by as- signment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Ward... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their sub- ject, though it may seem but an...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...l deceit Punic faith, that is, Phoenician faith, and though no doubt Roman writers show them up in their worst colours, yet, after the time of Hiram, ... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ...ick, Lord Ruthven, one of the many Scots who had won honor under the great Swedish King, Gustavus Adolphus. A sud- den charge of the Royal horse would... ...ot to irritate Rupert, desired that Ruthven should array the troops in the Swedish fashion. It was a greater affront to the General-in-chief than the ... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...ou have not read her,” said Richard. “She is incomparably the greatest fe- male writer we possess.” “She is the greatest,” he continued, “and for this... ...n’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, edi... ...it, Monk? The thought of the immortal passions, or the thought of new-born males to keep the Roman Catholics out? I assure you,” he said to Helen, “he... ... Italian masterpieces hung on the walls, and views of Venetian bridges and Swedish waterfalls which members of the family had seen years ago. There we... ...she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, or if there were, that any one she... ...alise, the nature of the gulf which separates the needs and desires of the male from the needs and desires of the female… . At first they had been ver...

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The Moon and Sixpence

By: Somerset Maugham

... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...lows who might have stepped out of the pages of Honore de Balzac; members, male and female, of the pro- fessions which make their profit of the frailt... ...unters along the streets — Lascars off a P . and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japa- nese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Span- iards,... ...am and Eve — que sais-je? — it was a hymn to the beauty of the human form, male and female, and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely , a...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...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... ... working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Fe- male Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. (See Dumont: Souvenirs, 6.) ... ...iclers are trustworthy, as was not witnessed since the Age of Gold. Paris, male and female, precipitates itself towards its South-west extremity, spad... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul drag- ons,—if, alas, the ... ...d pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph-writers, Placard-Jour- nalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applauders, at thre... ...nce? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings. ’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, will lead Coalised Arm...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...nfluence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter especial... ...to me, considering these things, it seemed that there were a hundred other male brutes squatted round about, and treated just as reasonably as Bottom ... ...ourse of study, nor, indeed, possible; for, between ourselves, none of the male Fitz- Boodles ever could sing a note, and the jargon of scales and sol... ...t. “Eglantine dressed it this very night.” “For Countess Baldenstiern, the Swedish Hambassador’s lady,” says Eglantine (his Hebrew partner was by no m... ...r, and to remember that it has been modelled on the style of the very best writers of the sporting papers. 124 Men’s Wives * * * 4th round. C...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means... ...le in Rome, I had been honored by the friendship of Thorwaldsen, the great Swedish sculptor, and I had often met in his studio many of his compatriots... ...e than Bixiou’s, I would have chosen it. As it was, I have profited by the malevo- lent curiosity which induces that amiable lepidopter to in- sinuate... ...him to the spirit of party; shall you silence him every time he makes some malevolent insinuation about Monsieur de Sallenauve, and denies his honor a... ...s, recalled so little the week-day Desroches, dining in cafes with all the male and female viveurs of renown, that one of them, Malaga, a circus-rider... ...star,—destined, they say, to European success; an Italian, discovered by a Swedish nobleman, Comte Halphertius, through the medium of Madame de Saint-... ...ia?” “That was what I went for,—in the character, be it under- stood, of a Swedish nobleman. He asked if her talent was known. ‘Absolutely unknown,’ I...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... It seems when this allotment was made out, There chanced to be an odd male, and odd female, Who (after some discussion and some doubt, If... ...ter some discussion and some doubt, If the soprano might be deem’d to be male, They placed him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d togeth... ...him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d together, and it happen’d the male Was Juan, — who, an awkward thing at his age, Pair’d off with a ... ...e gift Of closing ‘gainst the light their orbs of vision; While gentle writers also love to lift Their voices ‘gainst each other, which is nat... ... of surrender By mowing Christians down on every side, As obstinate as Swedish Charles at Bender. His five brave boys no less the foe defied; ... ... lie. Good people all, of every degree, Ye gentle readers and ungentle writers, In this twelfth Canto ‘t is my wish to be As serious as if... ...le, filter’d through her woman. But this can’t well be true, just now; for writers Are grown of the beau monde a part potential: I ‘ve seen th...

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A House of Gentlefolk

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...and not only of them alone, of Rousseau too, and Helvetius, and many other writers of the same kind—but they were in his head only. The retired abbe a... ...y had to go about with bare knees and a plume stuck in his Scotch cap. The Swedish lady was replaced by a young Swiss tutor, who was versed in gymnast... ...l, it’s for you to straighten yourself! What’s the good of being a man, a male animal? And however that may be, is it possible, is it permissible, to...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...county or duchy conquered by the crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms;... ...rnalist, and has at this very moment in her house the most venomous of all writers,—so the post- master says, and he’s a juste-milieu man who reads th... ...iterature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixteen, he began what the Abbe Grimont called his philos... ...omankind. Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distin- guished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so C... ... the ranks of the bourgeoi- sie, to which we owe the greater number of our writers. “Which way did you come?” asked Mademoiselle des T ouches, colorin... ...oon, the fishermen were saying that they had seen a little vessel, Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian, in the offing.” This speech brought a flush to the c... ...k with him, as Mariotte remarked, cartloads of books. His aunt called down maledictions on the head of Made- moiselle des T ouches; but his mother, wh...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

... stakes—with locality to help, of course. Although I am away off here in a Swedish village * and those stakes did not stand till the snow came, I can ... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...vity contains either What Is Man and Other Essays 154 wit or information. Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the m... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ... ...plined service. Over and over again, where such knowledge is unexampled in writers unlearned in the law, Shakespeare appears in perfect possession of ...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

... seems the case in the “No- where” of Morris also. Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separa- tion, a... ...e most brilliant of modern discoveries by a certain school of sociological writers, who seem totally un- able to grasp the modification of meaning “sp... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter... ...- geration of implication, that no one laughs at talk about 197 H G Wells Swedish painting or American literature. And I will confess and point out t...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...e said, one only daughter. His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the los... ...ney, created Peer of France in 1581. It was a peerage which, in default of male successors, went to the female, but this descendant was not heir to it... ...idant. M. de Noyon had furnished on my return another subject for the song-writers, and felt it the more sensibly because everybody was diverted at hi... ...inals gave rise to. The Bouillons wished to be recognised as descended, by male issue, of the Counts of Auvergne, and to claim all kinds of distinctio... ...u- thority and menaces, and hastened the Czar’s departure and his own. The Swedish minister, charged with protests from the principal T urkish chiefs,...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... time at which to have lived, and these were all to be appropriated to the writers. The first read was— ‘Lily of the valley—truth—Joan of Arc—Padre Cr... ...ted to hear, called out,— ‘Sir Guy himself! No one else could whistle that Swedish air so correctly!’ ‘My uncle!’ exclaimed Guy. ‘I did not know that ... ...t he is disappointed at being no longer able to make us the puppets of his malevolence. Don’t answer, or if you do, tell me what you say in favour of ... ...tent of the injuries he had inflicted, the first perception that pride and malevolence had been the true source of his prejudice and misconcep- tions,... ...assed over, and settled the property on my father and you, failing his own male heirs.’ ‘No one would take advantage of such a chance,’ said Philip. ‘...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...ect that the most fre- quent cause of variability may be attributed to the male and female reproductive elements having been affected prior to the act... ...et it to breed freely under confine- ment, even in the many cases when the male and 16 On the Origin of Species female unite. How many animals there ... ...ndamental belief: doubts have been thrown on this principle by theoretical writers alone. When a deviation appears not unfrequently, and we see it in ... ... fact of some little importance to us, that peculiarities appearing in the males of our domestic breeds are often transmitted either exclu- sively, or... ...encyclopaedia. Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers. From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic ... ...us variation, in the enlarged stems, or roots as com- monly called, of the Swedish turnip and Ruta baga, plants which several botanists rank as variet... ...re very generally sterile, has, I think, been much underrated by some late writers. On the theory of natural selection the case is espe- cially import... ...pens to be nearly identical; no one puts 376 On the Origin of Species the swedish and common turnips together, though the esculent and thickened stem... ...in our domes- tic varieties, as in the thickened stems of the com- mon and swedish turnip. The resemblance of the greyhound and racehorse is hardly mo...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...ing like fists. At this crisis along comes a little boy. May God bless all males between seven and ten years of age in France! The gendarme offered a ... ...ted as I lay Dutch, Bel- gian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, French—and English) at distances varying from 51 e e cumm... ...g forbidden to exhibit any part of the female person at a window while the males were on promenade; to quell all fights and especially to prevent peop... ...ional receiving station whither were sent from various parts of France (a) males sus- pected of espionage and (b) females of a well-known type found i... ... at that) nothing perhaps is needed save that ancient standby of sob-story writers and thrill-artists alike—the Happy Ending. As a matter of fact, it ...

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The Forged Coupon, And Other Stories and Dramas

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...esh. Tolstoy the realist steps without cavil into the front rank of modern writers; Tolstoy the idealist has been constantly derided and scorned by me... ...he literary world throbbed with new life, and a brilliant company of young writers came to the surface, counting among them names of European celebrit... ...ting tone prevails. “A woman has but one moral weapon instead of the whole male arsenal. That is love, and only with this weapon is feminine education... ...le and subject matter. When Andreev, the most modern of all modern Russian writers, came to pay his respects to Tolstoy some months before his death, ... ...ch had become exceedingly white in prison: “And there were also two other malefactors, led with Him” – it means with Christ – “to be put to death. An... ...to the place, which is called Cal vary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Je... ... had another guest, a Swede. He talked of his work, his people, the latest Swedish novel. Some how, she herself did not know how that terrible fasci ...

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The Doctors Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

By: George Bernard Shaw

...est- headed materialist will become a consulter of table-rappers and slate-writers if he loses a child or a wife so beloved that the desire to revive ... ... be an outbreak of smallpox among them, she was snubbed as an ignorant fe- male who did not know that smallpox can be produced only by the importation... ...umphant homeopathist and the opsonist that other remarkable innovator, the Swedish masseur, who does not theorize about you, but probes you all over w... ...trained not to believe anything unless it is worded in the jargon of those writers who, because they never really understand what they are trying to s...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...en Years’ War the whole of German culture had been French. Even now German writers found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the ... ...hough it had already been intelligibly and urgently recommended by popular writers, the German physicians hesitated to perform an operation that seeme... ...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... ...table disposi- tion, in such contrast with his own. He studied the English writers diligently: Pope, if not his model, was his aim; and, in opposition... ...Hofrath Pfeil, author of the “Count von P .,” a continuation of Gellert’s “Swedish Countess;” Zachariä, a brother of the poet; and Krebel, editor of g... ...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...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphletee... ...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... ... 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, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...res);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Pa- triot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready- writer, now in the... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul dragons,—if, alas, the as... ... pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph- writers, Placard-Journalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applaud- ers, at thre... ...ance? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings.’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, 314 The French Revolu...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...r many years, gloomy for ever, and broken by continual storms—was now by a Swedish trans- formation all at once bright, genial, heavenly. So sudden an... ...haracter—sympathy in some with mere misfortune—sympathy in others with fe- male frailty and guilt, not perhaps founded upon an abso- lute unwavering b... ...nd Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The present nar... ...xperiments. This is the one creature of fifteen in all Spain, be the other male or female, whom nature, and temper, and provocation have qualified for... ...m, for many reasons, he could not be supposed to recognise—lapse of years, male attire, twilight, were all against him. Still, she might have the fami... ...o grandeur to him who has no space in the theatre of his own brain. I know writers who report the marvels of velocity, &c., in such a way that they be... ...: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of the too ...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...n, and have been more frequently taken notice of by histori- ans and other writers. We must generally, therefore, content our- selves with them, not a... ...mpence, however, seems to have been considered as the whole of it, by many writers who have collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient t... ...requently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Their writers on agriculture, indeed, the lovers and pro- moters of high cultivat... ...still continues to take place in so many parts of Scot- land. Mr Kalm, the Swedish traveller, when he gives an account of the husbandry of some of the... ...the Romans who made no more distinction between elder and younger, between male and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distributio... ... can be no indisputable dif- ference but that of sex, and that of age. The male sex is universally preferred to the female; and when all other things ... ...aestus”, says old Cato, “stabilissimusque, minimeque invidiosus; minimeque male cogitantes sunt, qui in eo studio occupati sunt.” Country gentlemen an... ...orld. The Swedes established themselves in New Jersey; and the num- ber of Swedish families still to be found there sufficiently demon- 460 The Wealt...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...y and pepper sauce and” — “Dump it in. Who ’s making this punch, anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the ... ...e of a glori ous ferment of sugar and sour dough. That was before your time,” Malemute Kid said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert... ... he had heard of this wild deed, when at Forty Mile the preceding winter. Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvar nished tale of ... ... but he must have come far. He was badly travel worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south. We heard of ... ...hree weeks away, and for two days now, carefully con cealed from the sporting writers, Carthey had been lying up, badly injured. There was no one to ...

...le too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per ann...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... the count, with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the ... ...Pavlograd commander. The com- manders met with polite bows but with secret malevo- lence in their hearts. “Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I ... ...always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of Prince Bolkons... ...myantsev, the Chan- cellor; Stein, a former Prussian minister; Armfeldt, a Swedish general; Pfuel, the chief author of the plan of campaign; Paulucci,... ...tions for the Emperor personally. To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General W olzogen, Wintzingerode (whom N... ...uted his arguments, others defended them. Young Count Toll objected to the Swedish general’s views more warmly than anyone else, and in the course of ... ... bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending ... ...e least of the transport soldiers. Moreover, the assertion made by various writers that his cold was the cause of his dispositions not being as well p... ... they speak of that flank march. But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the pro...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...rman work man who pushed the carriage. Close by was standing a flaxen headed Swedish count, whom Kitty knew by name. Several invalids were lingering n... ...es; I’m used to it,” said Madame Stahl, and she introduced the prince to the Swedish count. 220 Anna Karenina “You are scarcely changed at all,” the ... ... that any smile would jar on them. “Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female,” the priest read after the exchange of rings, “from Thee... ...e sums subscribed by the nobility of the province, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally,... ...of discussing metaphysics, hav ing derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied meta physics, and in Moscow Levin had had ...

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