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...an attachment that Madame Birotteau was inwardly touched, though, like all women, she made use of the love she inspired to gain her end. “Well! Birott... ...ks to me like a theft, be it said with- out offence.” “Good God! how queer women are sometimes, and how they mix up ideas! If Roguin were not in this ... ...object. Y ou are perfumer: be a perfumer, and not a speculator in land. We women have instincts which do not deceive us. I have warned you; now follow... ...h are said to dye hair or make it grow. Since the peace, men are more with women, and women don’t like bald-heads; hey! hey! Mimi? The demand for that... ... deigned to take notice of Cesar, perceiving, by certain symptoms known to women, that he came more for the seller than the goods. He dictated his nam... ... step-sister Augustine’s marriage with 35 Balzac the painter Sommervieux. Astronomers lived on spiders. These striking points of information on the F...

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... think of it all, the galleys and legions, the captives and officials, the women and traders, the speculators like myself, all the swarm and tumult th... ...rth it is that form these great circles about the tunnels known to earthly astronomers (misled by a false analogy) as volcanoes.” It was down this sha... ...ormous vertical shafts which open invariably in what are called by earthly astronomers the ‘craters’ of the moon. The lid covering one such aperture I... ...resently to the topic of this sponge caught lunar atmosphere. I am told by astronomers and physicists that all he tells is in absolute accordance with... ...by and pale coloured, are trans- ferred to the charge of celibate females, women ‘workers’ as it were, who in some cases possess brains of almost masc...

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... their heads, and clothed in long lace robes. They were surrounded by men, women, and chil- dren, who sang a kind of lugubrious psalm, interrupted at ... ...in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. Men, women, and chil- dren lay together. In the background, among the trees, the... ...e lesser stars which gravitated around him. Yet there was near by what the astronomers would call a disturbing star, which might have produced an agit... ...ld not be arrested. Opium is smoked every- where, at all times, by men and women, in the Celestial Empire; and, once accustomed to it, the victims can... ...lanquins, barrows supplied with sails, and litters made of bamboo; nor the women—whom he thought not especially handsome—who took little steps with th... ...ec- tators, comprising Europeans and natives, Chinese and Japa- nese, men, women and children, who precipitated themselves upon the narrow benches and...

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...den, for the beau- tiful afternoon I had hoped for, for the sweet friendly women and the waiting playfellows and the game I had hoped to 15 H G Wells... ...tle and remote. Who wants to pat panthers on the way to dinner with pretty women and distinguished men? I came down to London from Oxford, a man of bo... ...ow-lit doorways shouting the news to the passersby. “It is nearer.” Pretty women, flushed and glitter- ing, heard the news told jestingly between the ... ...-red tongues of fire. And in a rudderless confusion a multitude of men and women fled down the broad river-ways to that one last hope of men— the open... ...cerns itself only with the coming and the passing of the Star. The Martian astronomers—for there are astronomers on Mars, although they are very diffe... ... sternly and austerely, I might have wasted myself upon vain and worthless women, and at the thought all my being went out in love and tenderness to m...

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... is not so light nor so pure; nor is the sun any brighter. As for the beautiful men and women, you would see many of them in rags and many of them def... ...ill kept his countenance bravely, and merely remarked that, for as little as he knew of women, he had acted very prudently in not 68 Robert Louis Ste... ...pringing up and being suppressed in blood, battle sway- ing hither and thither, patient astronomers in observatory towers picking out and christening ... ...sort were greatly taken wi’ his gifts and his gab; but auld, concerned, serious men and women were moved even to prayer for the young man, whom they t... ...he hettest o’ the collieshangie, wha suld come up (for his sins) but the new minister. ‘Women,’ said he (and he had a grand voice), ‘I charge you in t... ...ng. Many of the men wore orders on their breasts and had the port of noble offices; the women were all richly attired; the canvases most of them by fa...

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...wns and trophies of gold to present to him, and companies of young men and women danced before him, and sang to him songs of joy and triumph. By all w... ...d a price of him, namely, one hundred tal- ents of silver, and one hundred women. Agesilaus in scorn asked, Why they were not ready to receive them? H... ... contrary, the fathers of the survivors hid them- selves at home among the women. If necessity drove any of them abroad, they went very dejectedly, wi... ...went very dejectedly, with downcast looks, and sorrowful countenances. The women outdid the men in it; those whose sons were slain, openly rejoicing, ... ...about of the old men, who were enraged at their present condition, and the women, yet worse, out of their senses with the clamors, and the fires of th... ...those who endeavor to lead them aright, perish the first in their attempt. Astronomers tell us, the sun’s motion is neither exactly par- allel with th...

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... very good creature, Mademoiselle de Coetlogon, one of the Queen’s waiting-women, fill in love with him, even to madness. She made all the advances; b... ... where Madame Ticquet was con- fined, were filled with spectators, men and women, many of title and distinction. There were even friends of both sexes... ...een kept in during sup- per overflowed. The Queen wept for her Piedmontese women. Like a child, as she was, she thought herself lost in the hands of l... ... spoke less than usual—that is to say, only about as much as three or four women—so that everybody soon saw this great change. It would have been stra... ...est able to Saint Cloud. Whoever was first ready started together. Men and women jostled each other, and then threw themselves into the coaches withou... ...e learned, and often the admiration of the historian, of jurisconsults, of astronomers, and mathematicians, the most profound. He was especially learn...

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...upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation’s final day. And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only b... ...he chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, ma... ...ny are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing g... ...ng of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women’s shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher. He p... ...difices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve... ...ll dance over your grave, I will—that’s the bitterest threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round corners. O Christ! to think of the green ...

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...s filled. Such honoured dwell in cities fair and free, The homes of lovely women, prosperously; Their sons exult in youth’s new budding gladness, And ... ... of Paris, And so she left that good man Menelaus. There should be no more women in the world But such as are reserved for me alone.— ... ...ead, and wives are husbandless, _290 And ancient women and gray fathers wail Their childless age;—if you should roast the re... ...IZARDS 1: ARDS 1: ARDS 1: ARDS 1: ARDS 1: We glide in Like snails when the women are all away; _175 And from a house once ... ...Pimp, and you shall be the Lover. _270 [To some old women, who are sitting around a heap of glim- mering coals.] Old gentlewome... ...s progress is not merely an oscillation, as has been surmised by some late astronomers. (Laplace, “Systeme du Monde”.) Bones of animals peculiar to th...

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..., that the re- cent improvements in science and mechanics have enabled the astronomers to make. Fortunately, he gave his discourses somewhat of the pr... ...nation of his hearers some just notions of its size, though so familiar to astronomers, produced a deep and unexpected impression on me. “Our instrume... ...yself whether I could afford to pay you fif- teen sous, when so many young women who have been regu- larly brought up to the business are willing to w... ...at the void of heaven. It was glittering with those bright stars which the astronomers tell us are suns of other systems, and the scene gradually drew... ... dark-looking 71 James Fenimore Cooper men, and of the flounces of pretty women. These two slight faults repaired, New Y ork society might rival that... ... Mr. Shoreham,” put in Julia, with vivacity, if not with spirit, “that our women do not dress as women of rank sometimes dress in Europe; but, on the ... ...smile, though I could not see her. “Some of the most brilliantly beautiful women I have ever seen, have been French—perhaps the most brilliantly beaut... ...e world. By Jove! I have seen in one opera-house at Rome, more beau- tiful women than I ever saw together, before or since, in any other place. Broadw...

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... you, passion, I can see, will be very different from what it is with most women.” She drew me gently to her and kissed my forehead. The kiss made my ... ...lls to me the inimitable sweep of her skirts as she sank back in it! These women of a past generation have carried off with them secrets which are ver... ...all put on my Madonna face; I mean to play the simpleton, and have all the women on my side. My mother is miles away from any idea of what I write to ... ...m, was barely noticeable amidst the gorgeous finery of most of the married women. Each had her band of faithful followers, and they all watched each o... ...ubjects which prevents me from appreciating it, as I saw that most men and women took a lively pleasure in certain remarks, whether fall- ing from the... ... universe be but for that subjection to fixed laws which, according to the astronomers, so Louis tells me, rule the spheres! It is not or- der of whic...

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...RMOGENES: I should say the wise, of course. SOCRATES: And are the men or the women of a city, taken as a class, the wiser? HERMOGENES: I should say, t... ...anax, the other name of Scamandrius could only have been given to him by the women. HERMOGENES: That may be inferred. SOCRATES: And must not Homer hav... ...36 termed concord, because he moves all together by an harmonious power, as astronomers and musicians inge niously declare. And he is the God who pr... ...e aware that our forefathers loved the sounds iota and delta, especially the women, who are most conservative of the ancient language, but now they ch...

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... darker than Helen’s—well, go to—there were no more comparison be tween the women: but, for my part, she is my kinswoman; I would not, as they term i... ...sand fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar’s praise may be; Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doi... ...ell, I woo’d you not; And yet, good faith, I wish’d myself a man, Or that we women had men’s privilege Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue... ...my name; call them all Pandars; let all constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids, and all brokers between Pandars! say, amen. TROILUS: Ame... ...end his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound: but when he per forms, astronomers foretell it; it is prodigious, there will come some change; t... ... Whose was it? CRESSIDA: By all Diana’s waiting women yond, And by herself, I will not tell you whose. DIOMEDES: To morr...

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...s; whereupon the footmen took agile leaps to the post of danger, while the women, in whose bosoms intense curiosity now supplanted terror, pro- ceeded... ...stay here?—Am I going away tomorrow?—What’s going to be done with me?’ The women found these questions of a youthful wanderer touching. Between kissin... ...eturned to him. He carried me almost the whole of the way back to Dipwell. Women must feel for the lucky heroes who win them, something of what I felt... ...ary agreed with both in every- thing, which reconciled them, for both good women loved me so heartily they were near upon disputing over the medi- cin... ...er, which is a quicker way of getting at facts; I know it is with boys and women. Mrs. Waddy cared much less to hear of Dipwell and its inhabitants th... ...ay, and we in our old Germany hold that the mind advances notwithstanding. Astronomers condescending to earthly philosophy may admit that advance in t...

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... and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of concupis... ...iged to dress themselves, al though their quality be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform on... ... he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in En gland do at the sight of a toad or a spider. However, when s... ...ats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. However, I was curious to see what an author of tha... ...n there. The inhabitants subject to fear and disquietudes. An account of the women. A t my alighting, I was surrounded with a crowd of people, but tho... ...tre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called Flandon... ...nd their discoveries Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 149 much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a catalogue of ten thousand fix...

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...y. His first intention was to write a picturesque history of France. Three women—Isabella of Bavaria, Catharine and Marie dé Medici—hold an enormous ... ...part of Catherine’s household, which was wholly composed of French men and women, for, by a law of the monarchy, the execution of which the Pope saw w... ...d of the house of Brosse made her one of the most powerful and best titled women in France. Catherine’s aunt the Duchess of Albany, the Queen of Navar... ... the Duchesse de Vendome, Madame la Connetable de Mont- morency, and other women of like importance, eclipsed by birth and by their rights, as well as... ... with excessive rigor. Catherine beheld on the one hand the court, and the women of the court, playing with the fire of heresy, and on the other, Dian... ...Agrippas (all in their turn phy- sicians of the house of Valois); also the astronomers, astrolo- gers, and alchemists who surrounded the princes of Ch...

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... chuckled over their rare wines, amidst their dazzling, wick- edly dressed women, and plotted further grinding for the faces of the poor. And amidst a... ...t will hurt you if you do.” She had been cowed into submission, as so many women of that time had been, by the sheer brutality of the accepted thing. ... ...wth of thought ceased in them. They set and hardened into narrow ways. Few women remained capable of a new idea after five and twenty, few men after t... ... epistle, had really imagined the affair was over forever —”I’ve done with women,” I said to Parload—and then there was silence for more than a week. ... ...… . A dark, quiet crowd, that was greater each day, a crowd more than half women, brooded as a cloud will sometimes brood permanently upon a mountain ... ... it assume the conventional tailed out- line, comets are supposed to have. Astronomers talked of its double tail, one preceding it and one trailing be...

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...imace. “For dreadful— dreadfulness!” “Oh, how delicious!” cried one of the women. He took no notice of her; he looked at me, but as if, instead of me,... ... high fashion, of good looks, of ex- pensive habits, of charming ways with women. He had for his own town residence a big house filled with the spoils... ... not only popped out at me as tigers and as Romans, but as Shakespeareans, astronomers, and navigators. This was so singularly the case that it had pr... ...furniture and arrangement of our house, and of the conversation of the old women of our village. There were things enough, taking one with another, to... ... so bowed with evil things, I had seen the specter of the most horrible of women. At this I was able to straighten myself; I went the rest of the way ...

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... his in solar physics—researches which are still a matter of perplexity to astronomers. Afterwards, for the space of seven years, save for the pass li... ...ith the model had just a touch of the quality of a potent incantation, and women have ever displayed an unreasonable disposition to imagine that when ... ... And the man had whole cityfuls of people to do his basest bidding— girls, women! Why in the name of passionate folly this one in particular? asked th... ...ancing and shouting with laughter at each suc- cessful blow. A lad and two women had broken heads, and he had smashed a man’s wrist; a little child ha... ...le people dining and talking in the private 127 H G Wells houses, men and women dining, playing billiards, and drink- ing in restaurants and hotels, ... ...s attire, and heaved a sigh to think that by reason of the unworthiness of women he must needs be the last of his race. “I was a smart young chap when...

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...hed, instead, Till his cheeks were sere and his hairs were gray. “There are women enough, God knows,” he said. . . . “There are stars enough — when ... ...m going, to Tilbury Town. The men are asleep, — or awake, may be, — But the women are calling John Evereldown. Ever and ever they call for me, And wh... ...oing so late, so late, — Why are you going, John Evereldown?” “I follow the women wherever they call, — That’s why I’m going to Tilbury Town. God kn... ...n may fall, The shadows may creep and the dead men crawl, — But I follow the women wherever they call, And that’s why I’m going to Tilbury T own.” 1... ...ood, As in the days they dreamed of when young blood Was in their cheeks and women called them fair. Be sure, they met me with an ancient air, — And y... ...ark Where no spark ever was; and thus we die, Still searching, like poor old astronomers Who totter off to bed and go to sleep, To dream of untriangul...

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... bands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their c... ... the doctrine of the Schoolmen bare great sway, that the Schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics and epicycles, and such engines o... ...rn. When the plantation grows to strength, then it 78 is time to plant with women, as well as with men; that the plantation may spread into generatio... ...s. The motions of factions under kings ought to be, like the motions (as the astronomers speak) of the inferior orbs, which may have their proper moti... ... appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their...

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... visible population, except half a dozen men in smock frocks, half a dozen women with umbrellas and pattens, and a washed out dog or so shivering unde... ...e once, no doubt, blooming chil dren were born, and grew up to be men and women, and married, and brought their own blooming children back to patter ... ... may read in the Hospital Report, with a glow of pleasure, that these poor women are so respondent as to have made, even in a toiling year of difficul... ...as “nursing a little child.” Nor are these things confined to the men. The women employed in factories, milliners’ work, and domes tic service, have ... ...should, a most decided determination not to be outdone by the men; and the women of Preston in particular, have so honourably distinguished themselves... ...wledge patiently acquired, modestly possessed, and faithfully used. As the astronomers tell us that it is probable that there are in the universe innu...

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...hree.] The Horatii and Curiatii. v. 41. Down.] “From the rape of the Sabine women to the violation of Lucretia.” v. 47. Quintius.] Quintius Cincinn... ... sphere, which has in that heaven a revolution of its own: whose circle the astronomers term epicycle.” v. 11. To sit in Dido’s bosom.] Virgil. Aen.... ...t walls. The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise 110 v. 98. When.] When the women were not married at too early an age, and did not expect too large...

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...s stopped by a sort of portcullis. The panic was not confined to the rich; women in the humblest ranks more than once died 8 The Note Book of an Engl... ...rants, meditating probably nothing worse than a robbery, but whom the poor women, misled by the London newspapers, had fancied to be the dreadful Lond... ...opo- lis there are many thousands of households, composed ex- clusively of women and children; many other thousands there are who necessarily confide ... ...ted the repulsiveness of his ghastly face, and amongst inexperienced young women won for him a very favorable reception. In particular, one gentle-man... ...as thus full and orbicular; and in that proportion the tendency of men and women, flutter as they might, would be helplessly and hopelessly to sink in... ...hich is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scientific of astronomers. For the man of science, equally with the populace, talks of th...

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... woman’s” name or to admit her girlishness. “I can’t think what minds some women must have—to try and get a girl’s young man away from her. But there,... ...e in the moonlight, and shouting, “Fizzle, you fool! Fizzle, you hunter of women! You hot-blooded hound! Boil! boil! boil!” Suddenly he caught up a ha... ...o obtain.” “I think none the better of it for that.” “Men must work though women may weep,” said Wedderburn with profound gravity. “Fancy dying away f... ...ard even in his youth of the greatness and riches of London, where all the women are white and fair, and even the beggars in the streets are white, an... ...body. I was battering madly at the drawers, when the butler, backed by two women-servants, intruded upon me. * * * That simply is the story of m... ...cerns itself only with the coming and the passing of the star. The Martian astronomers—for there are astronomers on Mars, although they are very diffe...

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...any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the impressionable senses; nor have we recourse...

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...e, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no vio... ... has done with pretending to retire, will walk straight into the hearts of women. Nothing so fatal to them. Self-satisfied it must be. Humbleness does... ...was a widow unmarried a second time, and it has been known of the stedfast women who retain the name of their first husband, or do not ham- per his ti... ...; he had more sub- jects, more slaves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself. His metropolitan experiences did not answer to ... ... and it is worth while for here and there a woman to be burned, so long as women’s general adoration of an ideal young man shall be preserved. Purity ... ...d health and beauty, the triune of perfect starriness, which makes all men astronomers. He looked on her, expecting her to look at him. But as soon as...

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...n the volunteers were again greeted with shouts and singing, again men and women with collecting boxes appeared, and provincial ladies brought bouquet... ...rince, and Lvov, whom he liked so much, and Sergey Ivanovitch, and all the women be- lieved, and his wife believed as simply as he had believed in his... ...bury him. He’s untying the sheaves, and giving orders, and shouting to the women, and quickly setting straight the strap on the moving wheel. And what... ...ng they were not our brothers nor fellow- Christians, but simply children, women, old people, feel- ing is aroused and Russians go eagerly to help in ... ...h, and I’m right in saying that the stars move. 57 Tolstoy “And could the astronomers have understood and cal- culated anything, if they had taken in... ...lways alike, and can always be trusted. And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observatio...

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...agnificent, (a word too often and lightly abused.) In reality, speaking of women, I have seen many beautiful figures, but hardly one except Agnes that... ... styled truly and memorably magnificent. Though in the first order of tall women, yet, being full in person, and with a symmetry that was absolutely f... ...m mere want of moisture, I could not separate my lips to speak. One of the women saw the vain efforts I was making, and hastily brought me a glass of ... ...f my heart. Then might be seen the characteristic differences of the three women. That one, whom I suspected, I heard rais- ing an upper window to loo... ...d law of her conduct, and his personal safety but the fourth or fifth. Yet women, and especially when the interests of children are at stake upon thei... ...ort of tax or fine levied for remunerating their own risks; and that great astronomers, as necessarily far trav- ellers into space, are entitled to a ... ...Glasgow, the stars are conscious of being watched every- where; and if all astronomers do not publish their observa- tions, all use them in their spec... ...e interplanetary ether, and other rarities, which the professional body of astronomers would naturally keep (if they could) for their own private enjo... ... a new one exclusively for this occasion, may be doubtful. What it is that astronomers think, who are a kind of ‘cosmogony men,’ the reader may learn ...

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... force in the opening scene, and will not “let him off” on the subject of women and children. Like Cephalus, he is limited in his point of view, and ... ...gument, and who refuses to let Socrates pass lightly over the question of women and children. It is Adeimantus who is the respondent in the more arg... ...k, do so, and I will answer ‘Very good,’ as they say to story telling old women, and will nod ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ Certainly not, I said, if contrary to ... ...c ers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, in cluding women’s dresses. And we shall want more servants. Will not tutors be also ... ...has there been any, quarrel between citizens; this is what old men and old women should begin by telling children; and when they grow up, the poets al... ... and consonances which are heard only, and their labour, like that of the astronomers, is in vain. Yes, by heaven! he said; and ’tis as good as a pla... ...pro posing to enquire about harmony. For they too are in error, like the astronomers; they investigate the numbers of the Plato’s The Republic 208 ...

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...son, disclosed at once the presence of one of those angels upon earth that women in adversity can be. It was a hard fate that she was watching over. M... ...man, I may have intelligence for the private ear of the States’ College of Astronomers of far more importance than the details, however wonderful, of ... ...s- 68 Poe in Five V olumes pecial antipathies to certain burgomasters and astronomers. Don’t understand at all. Secondly. That an odd little dwarf an... ...anquillitatis, Mare Faecunditatis, etc., given to the dark spots by former astronomers, Mr. L. has entered into details re- garding oceans and other l... ...mong the older negroes of the place. At length one of the most aged of the women said that she had heard of such a place as Bessop’s Castle, and thoug... ...g the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling ques- tions, are not beyond all conjecture. —Sir ... ...ntion,” he said, “by the party upon the stairs, were not the voices of the women themselves, was fully proved by the evidence. This relieves us of all... ... displaces. The bodies of fat and fleshy persons, with small bones, and of women generally, are lighter than those of the lean and large-boned, and of...

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...oul. The transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were; but men and women are only half human. Every 21 Emerson animal of the barn-yard, the ... ...f each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall reno- vate life and our social state, but we see that most ... ..., you shall lose your own. The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor. The vulgar proverb, “I will get it from hi... ...rchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the chil- dren will bring flower... ...rt, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world an... ...resses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization. The astronomers said, ‘Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct... ...mpulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it, for there is no end to the con...

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...c body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr... ...als.” Another, that “all the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stan... ... pardon him.”—The Gulistan of Sadi . Most people with whom I talk, men and women even of some originality and genius, have their scheme of the uni ve... ...able with warrant, travellers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar. There stands a gig in the gray... ...wn as if weary, and fell asleep in their seats. But all the while I saw no women, though I some times heard a bustle in that part of the house from w... ... With his soft wings, said, Surely, thou art not able to love. ON WOMEN Nature has given horns To bulls, and hoofs to horses, Swiftn... ...oroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers. There are perturbations in our orbits produced by the influ e...

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...rags are as becoming as purple. The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleido... ...eeded. The human race is interested in these experiments, though a few old women who are incapacitated for them, or who own their thirds in mills, may... ...one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor. While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways to the good of their fellows, I trust tha... ...l the falsehood and cant of this. The last were not England’s best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists. I would not subtract anyt... ...ll news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gos sip. There w... ...ouds. There are the stars, and they who can may read W alden 94 them. The astronomers forever comment on and ob serve them. They are not exhalations...

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...ness to trample on the elementary decencies of marriage. He gathered loose women into his house, and car- ried on orgies of debauchery in his wife’s p... ...vant, and on one occasion broke up the revels and drove all the disorderly women out of the house. In the end this unhappy young woman, kept in terror... ...nto that kind of nervous disease which is most frequently found in peasant women who are said to be “possessed by devils.” At times after terrible fit... ... He could not bear to hear certain words and certain conversa- tions about women. There are “certain” words and conversa- tions unhappily impossible t... ...for a long visit to Italy with her whole family, which con- sisted only of women and girls. Alyosha went to live in the house of two distant relations... ...I think, flying round the earth without knowing why, like a satellite. The astronomers would calculate the rising and the setting of the axe; Gatzuk w...

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...could have been no retreat, and no retrieval of character. The greatest of astronomers, rather than seem ostentatious or unseason- ably learned, will ... ...ghout Christendom to murder harmless, friendless, and oftentimes crazy old women. Meantime the witch of Endor in no respect re- sembled our modern dom... ...rous warrant; until at last the fiery fur- nace, which they had heated for women and children, shot forth flames that, like those of Nebuchadnezzar’s ... ...it? Who first no- ticed hunger and cold as awful realities afflicting poor women and innocent children? Who first made a public provision to meet thes... ...orribly—mentions, with a petrifying coolness, that he knew of desolate old women in Rome who passed three days in succession without tasting food. Did... ... at all only for the sake of Natural Philosophers or of the curious in old women. Char- ity, even in that sense, had little existence—nay, as a duty, ...

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...by tortures, but from grief Felt by those multitudes, many and vast, Of men, women, and infants. Then to me The gentle guide: “Inquir’st thou not what... .... As the rill, that runs From Bulicame, to be portion’d out Among the sinful women; so ran this Down through the sand, its bottom and each bank Stone ... ...g thus, a demon with his thong Struck, and exclaim’d, “Away! corrupter! here Women are none for sale.” Forthwith I join’d My escort, and few paces the... ...o the Lemnian isle His passage thither led him, when those bold And pitiless women had slain all their males. There he with tokens and fair witching w... ...rlot.] Envy. Chaucer alludes to this in the “Prologue to the Legende of Good women.” Envie is lavender to the court alway, For she ne ... ... sphere, which has in that heaven a revolution of its own: whose circle the astronomers term epicycle.” v. 11. To sit in Dido’s bosom.] Virgil. Aen....

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.... She struck a rock and began to sink. There was room in the boats for the women and children only. The colonel lined up his regiment on the deck and ... ...ay be saved.” There was no murmur, no protest. The boats carried away the women and children. When the death moment was come, the colonel and his off... ...her . Otherwise the girl would have been rung up, distress and all. I know women who would have gotten a No. 1 pleasure out of ringing Jane up—and so... ...nd you will get it every time. Look at Botticelli’s “Spring.” Those snaky women were unthinkable, but inspiration secured them for us, thanks to good... ...n tion of visitors; boys are always “showing off”; apparently all men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done a thing whic... ...s, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geolo...

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...gins are capable of it: and why so much desire it. Also, how long men and women are capable of it. THERE ARE VERY FEW, except some professional debau... ... benefit thereof are converted into seed. And this may also be added, that women, generally, are not so strong as men, nor so wise or prudent; nor hav... ...chalk, etc., which desire often occasions abor- tion and miscarriage. Some women have been so extrava- gant as to long for hob nails, leather, horse-f... ...indeed they sometimes happen through frights, or extravagant longing. Many women, in being with child, on seeing a hare cross the road in front of the... ... her eyes and mind upon some ill-shaped creature. Therefore it behoves all women with child, if possible, to avoid such sights, or at least, not to re... ...concerning your disorder. PART III ARISTOTLE’S BOOK OF PROBLEMS WITH OTHER ASTRONOMERS, AS- TROLOGERS AND PHYSICIANS, CON- CERNING THE STATE OF MAN’S ...

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...wenty-seven patients here; and, of that number, no less than eighteen were women; but, lately, matters have changed very much, as you see.” “Y es—have... ... She has her little eccentricities, to be sure—but then, you know, all old women—all very old women—are more or less eccentric!” 43 V olume Four “To ... ...—“my very good friends and assistants.” “What! all of them?” I asked,—“the women and all?” “Assuredly,” he said,—“we could not do at all without the w... .... The confusion and bustle in the streets were terrible. Men were talking. Women were screaming. Children were choking. Pigs were whistling. Carts the... ...on of years, is a proposition not to be entertained; and yet these ancient astronomers were absolutely cajoled, it appears, into believing that a deci... ... In the end, it is said, the island became, nine tenths of it, church. The women, too, it appears, were oddly deformed by a natural protuber- ance of ... ...ed; but analogous misfortunes had been long a subject of discus- sion with astronomers. I need scarce tell you, my friend, that, even when you left us... ... the ignorant that actual apprehension prevailed, upon the announcement by astronomers of a new comet, yet this announcement was generally received wi... ...bring it into very close proximity with the earth. There were two or three astronomers, of sec- ondary note, who resolutely maintained that a contact ...

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... it with my guide. There might be about four hundred men and three hundred women in the meeting. The women hid their faces behind their fans, and the ... ...doubt and uncer- tainty we listen patiently to everyone; we even allow our women to hold forth. Two or three of these are often in- spired at one and ... ...e world, neither his elo- quence nor his intrigues would draw together ten women in Paris. Were Oliver Cromwell, he who beheaded his sovereign, and se... ...oculation, which is mentioned with so much dread in France. The Circassian women have, from time immemorial, com- municated the small-pox to their chi... ...bject to the common frailties of mankind, nor ever had any com- merce with women—a circumstance which was assured me by the physician and surgeon who ... ...is opinion on the ordinary course of Nature, and on the observations which astronomers have made. By the course of Nature we here understand the time ...

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...I lived; indeed, nothing was to be seen but waggons and carts, with goods, women, servants, children, &c.; coaches filled with people of the better so... ...; but the voice of mourners was truly heard in the streets. The shrieks of women and children at the win- dows and doors of their houses, where their ... ...cunning people propagating them, that I have often wondered there was any (women es- pecially) left behind. 20 Journal of the Plague Y ear In the fir... ..., as there did the year after an- other, a little before the fire. The old women and the phleg- matic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I coul... ...g- matic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I could almost call old women too, remarked (especially afterward, though not till both those judge... ...ght that others did, knowing, too, that natural causes are assigned by the astronomers for such things, and that their motions and even their revoluti...