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... the young girl from the possibility of seduction. Though the good-man was gifted with a certain patriarchal eloquence, in keeping with his simple lif... ...he worst army tone, the habits of his province, and his own insuffi- cient education. How could she love Diard, she, a young girl all grace and elegan... ...im, and all her hours were occupied. She devoted what money she had to the education of her children, wishing to make men of them, and giving them str...

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...ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In truth every novel- ist must begin by creating for himself a worl... ...ces, which are by no means the outcome of malevolence, but depend on their education, their social status, even their professions. The good artist sho... ... a minute grain, may find its voice in some individual of that last group, gifted with a power of expression and courageous enough to interpret the ul... ...has been struck by the appreciation of Maupassant manifested by many women gifted with tenderness and intelligence. Their more delicate and audacious ... ...ned and curious, finding treasures of truth and beauty concealed from less gifted magicians. Contemplating the exactness of his images and the justice... ...y incisive in its scepticism, and a heart that, of all contemporary hearts gifted with a voice, contains the greatest trea- sure of charitable irony. ...

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...n in the philosophic sense. Philosophically, Don Juan is a man who, though gifted enough to be exceptionally capable of distinguishing between good an... ... is giving way to the new habit of locking them up. And since what we call education and culture is for the most part noth- ing but the substitution o... ...tera- ture for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real, education, as you no doubt observed at Oxford, destroys, by supplantation, ... ...wards truth in all books on matters where the writer, though exceptionally gifted is normally constituted, and has no private axe to grind. Copernicus... ...perman I do not know whether you have any illusions left on the subject of education, progress, and so forth. I have none. Any pamphleteer can show th... ...igible as elements in prac- tical heredity has demolished the hopes of the educationists as well as the terrors of the degeneracy mongers; and we know... ... a flock as this on broiled rabbit and prickly pears? I have seen men less gifted, and I’ll swear less honest, sup- ping at the Savoy on foie gras and...

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...beasts to be tamed by a system of blows and imprisonment which they called education; and of keeping pianos in their houses, not for musical purposes,... ...cal practice with inky penknives in school would be a very bad Minister of Education. It is on the question of method that your expert comes in; and t... ...statutes, but by persuading it that a certain minister and his cabinet are gifted with suffi- cient political sagacity to find out how to produce the ... ... of parentage, after perpetrating which crime the law would calmly send an education officer to take the child out of the parents’ hands several hours... ...nts’ hands several hours a day in the still more sacred name of compulsory education. (Of course what would really happen would be that the couple wou... ...w for whom I am trustee would starve occasionally, and the children get no education. And I’m probably as honest a man as any here. THE GENERAL [outra...

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...arty and cannibalistic. The defiance of the phrase showed that a Christian education in humility still rankled in his breast. 91 William James and to... ...e tried their hand at curing, but without success. People of cul- ture and education have been treated by this method with satisfactory results. Disea... ...e world. There are conservative ideas in regard to our early training, our education, marriage, and occupation in life. Following close upon this, the... ...ges- tive influence of environment plays an enormous part in all spiritual education. But the word “suggestion,” having acquired official status, is u... ...tisfied with the more modest but much more definite term contentment. What education should chiefly aim at is to save us from a discontented life. Hea... ...o far as it went, would prove him more excellent than ever the most highly gifted among mere natural men. But notoriously there is no such radiance. C... ...on communicated to me in manuscript by a friend in England. The subject, a gifted woman, was taking ether for a surgical operation. 379 William James... ...ertain view taken of Na- ture which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admi- rable and ingenious, ...

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...pect, that the whole man, visage, frame, and soul, seemed wrought of iron, gifted with life and thought, yet all of one substance with his headpiece a... ...the pernicious errors hitherto instilled into his infant mind. Dorothy was gifted with even a quicker tenderness than her husband, and she approved of... ... not entirely subdue. He knew, indeed, that Alice, in spite of her foreign education, retained the native sympa- thies of a New England girl. “Peace, ... ... of his footsteps, brightening as meaner glories faded, and confess that a gifted one had passed from his cradle to his tomb with none to recognize hi...

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... it as an engine of increasing his power and influence. Thus qualified and gifted, he was a dangerous antagonist to the fierce and imprudent Ravenswoo... ... than how to unharbour a stag, or take and reclaim an eyas. The Master has education, sense, and penetration.” “And yet is not wise enough to escape t... ...ter of Ravenswood. And you, sir, who seem to be a gentleman of fashion and education, must be sensible that the next mortification after being unhappy... ...n more favourable circumstances, had been so utterly neglected in point of education, that he was apt to think and feel accord- ing to the ideas of th... ... to the smooth and plausible conversation of the Lord Keeper, re- markably gifted with those words which win the ear, must be left to the reader’s ing... ...very dangerous claim, and the alliance of a son-in-law, noble, brave, well-gifted, and highly connected; sure to float whenever the tide sets his way;...

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...h his stories cost him—the story of “Ma- dame Bovary,” of “The Sentimental Education,” and “Bouvard and Pecuchet,” documents containing as much minuti... ...of exercise and habit, that is all! Of course, one requires to be a little gifted that way and not to be butter-fingered, but what is chiefly necessar... ...e eternal trick contained in these simple words: 48 De Maupassant “T o be gifted by nature and to practice every day for long, long years.” He had be...

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... kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies’ education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer Mr. Casaubon’s letter. Wh... ... of the world adapted to young ladies which had made the chief part of her education, Mr. Casaubon’s talk about his great book was full of new vistas;... ...to think, I should have said, ‘the most superior young men.’ But with your education you must know.” “What must Rosy know, mother?” said Mr. Fred, who... ..., when once we get our medical reforms; and what would do more for medical education than the spread of such schools over the country? A born provinci... ...ors in our provincial districts.” “Yes;—with our present medical rules and education, one must be satisfied now and then to meet with a fair practition... ... in any one before. To be sure, the listeners about Tipton were not highly gifted! Will talked a good deal himself, but what he said was thrown in wit...

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... kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies’ education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer Mr. Casaubon’s letter. Wh... ...urnish in moderation what was necessary for providing him with a scholarly education, and launching him respectably. I am-therefore bound to fulfil th... ... of the world adapted to young ladies which had made the chief part of her education, Mr. Casaubon’s talk about his great book was full of new vistas;... ...to think, I should have said, `the most superior young men.’ But with your education you must know.” “What must Rosy know, mother?” said Mr. Fred, who... ..., when once we get our medical reforms; and what would do more for medical education than the spread of such schools over the country? A born provinci... ... in any one before. To be sure, the listeners about Tipton were not highly gifted! Will talked a good deal himself, but what he said was thrown in wit...

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...ave me do?” he said at last. “Y ou know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. Hippolyte is at least a qui... ...unt Bezukhov’s distress some fifteen times. “That’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. “It seems that while he was abroad this ... ...e was said to be so well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive ... ...r through his wife, but the count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his d... ...two virtues—activity and intelligence. He himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two cardinal virtues in her gave her lesson... ... to insignificant matters. Natasha, who, of the whole family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of intonation, look, and expressi... ...ed in the role he had created for himself. As is often the case with those gifted with an ardent imagi- nation, though he had long known that Moscow w... ...pared in their little mental workshop—but the pleasure given by real women gifted with a capacity to select and ab- sorb the very best a man shows of ... ...think who say that the leading figures in history are heroes, that is, men gifted with a special strength of soul and mind called genius. This power c...

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...he Emperor for Leo X., and, in a word, all the celebrities of Paris— as my gifted countrywoman, the wild Irish girl, calls them— were assembled in the... ...y cries aloud for reforms. The infa- mous universities shall be abolished. Education shall no longer be permitted. A sacred and wholesome inquisition ... ...young men of the schools and the estaminets (cel- ebrated places of public education) allured by the noble words of Prince Napoleon, “Liberty, equalit... ...). I was a constant reader of the Notices to Correspondents, and, my early education having been rayther neglected (for I was taken from my stud- ies ...