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...ein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...hand. Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophis... ...redatory efficiency are deeply ingrained in the habits of thought of those peoples who have passed under the discipline of a protracted predatory cul-... ...eeding is achieved in the case of a goodly number of families and lines of descent. This synco- pated gentle birth gives results which, in point of se... ...ng in this direction, and indeed, he commonly does; but with a still lower descent into the levels of indigence — along the margin of the slums — the ... ...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...stance, as a typical case, even so late as the middle of this century, the Norwegian peasants have instinctively formulated their sense of the superio...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, takin...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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