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.... She was the only daughter of the banker, a charming young creature whose education was then being finished at the Gymnase, the plays of which she ad... ...an be restricted to mere military duty, little in keeping with their early education and their peaceful destinies. Men of science, pacific yet useful,... ...on at last dispersed completely his momentary frenzy. The teachings of his education, its religious precepts, but above all, so he told me, the rememb... ...n her from a convent, where she was finishing, rather late in the day, her education. For a long time her father refused to recognize her. She comes h...

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...d in his own day as a suc- cessful man of business. He had received a fair education and had been to the university; but having been born in narrow ci... ...s, auntie; that is his weak point, no doubt. Sergei Petrovitch has had no education: of course he does not speak French, still, say what you like, he... ...that, however, he did exert himself, after his own fashion, over his son’s education. Vladimir Nikolaitch spoke French very well, English well, and Ge... ...at crushed her. On the pretext that she was not capable of undertaking his education, she was scarcely allowed to see him; Glafira set herself to that... ...her hus- band considered that it was much more suitable to intrust Fedya’s education to Glafira. Ivan Petrovitch’s poor wife could not bear this blow,... ...tter, had reached his twelfth year, and the time had come to set about his education in earnest. Chapter X IVAN PETROVITCH returned to Russia an Anglo... ... Ivan Petrovitch’s system was applied in its full force only to Fedya; his education re- ally underwent a “radical reformation;” his father devoted hi... ...t drawn by a vague but strong attraction. He recognised the defects of his education, and formed the reso- lution, as far as possible, to regain lost ... ...ing eccentric. The Anglomaniac had done his son an ill turn; his whimsical education had produced its fruits. For long years he had submitted unquesti...

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...h so much tenderness and anxiety, lamenting so bitterly the neglect of her education, which she repre- sents however as wholly unavoidable, that I am ... ...et, especially as every visit is so much deducted from the grand affair of education, which I really wish to have attended to while she remains at Mis... ...atever might have been her errors they were to be imputed to her neglected education and early marriage, and that she was altogether a wonderful woman... ...r solid affection for her child is shown by placing her in hands where her education will be properly attended to; but because she has not the blind a... ... her as a daughter. She is extremely young, to be sure, has had a wretched education, and a dreadful ex- ample of levity in her mother; but yet I can ... ... force itself for- ward.” “Say rather that she has been unfortunate in her education!” “Heaven knows, my dearest Mrs. Vernon, how fully I am aware of ...

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...of ‘one’ or of ‘fifty drachms.’ Plato is desirous of deepening the notion of education, and there fore he asserts the paradox that there are no edu ... ...ten made in modern times by those who would depreciate either the methods of education com monly employed, or the standard attained—that ‘there is no... ...ucation com monly employed, or the standard attained—that ‘there is no true education among us.’ There remains still a possibility which must not be ... ... became a real chain of existences. The germs of two valuable principles of education may also be gathered from the ‘words of priests and priest ess... ... or overbearing, or annoying; moreover , this son of his has received a good education, as the Athenian people cer tainly appear to think, for they c... ...dides had two sons, Melesias and Stephanus, whom, besides giving them a good education in other things, he trained in wrestling, and they were the bes...

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...wn, and who has compromised with none of the lofty principles of a saintly education. Young girls are indeed a formidable public, for they ought not t... ... of the expense he would be to them at a school in Paris, where, she said, education costs so much. The doctor obtained a half-scholarship for his gre... ...d the abbe was the Fenelon of the Gatinais. Both had had a wide and varied education; the man of God was the only person in all Nemours who was fully ... ... and priest owed to their practical dealings with the souls, diseases, and education of men, was added to the num- ber. Monsieur Bongrand, the justice... ... an oasis in Mironet’s salon. The doctor of Nemours, who was not with- out education and knowledge of the world, and who greatly respected Minoret as ... ...he religious influence of the abbe, just as she had already come under the educational training of her friend Jordy. The captain, formerly a professor... ... obligation. This distinction is the peculiar sign of Christian 49 Balzac education. These principles, altogether different from those that are taugh... ...the ideas appertaining to the higher life belonged to the abbe. This noble education was not, as it often is, counteracted by injudicious servants. La... ... quickness and natural feminine perceptions were trained by her supe- rior education, and whose intelligence in its dawn was en- lightened by a religi...

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...lish chemist. She devoted much thought and many thousands of francs to the education of her daughter, who spent three years at a very superior school ... ... would have called her premiers frais. Ethel disapproved— she thought this education far too unconventional for an 14 Greville Fane English gentleman...

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...r with foreign powers, to maintain a supreme court of law. Everything else—education, militia, powers of life and death—the states retained for themse... ...weep all her youth into her army, to subdue her trade, her literature, her education, her whole life to the necessity of preparations imposed upon her... ...ear the views of one of those titled and influential ladies—with a general education at about the fifth standard level, plus a little French, German, ... ... curred grave wounds will still go on for a time—without feeling them. The educational, biological, social, economic punishment that has already been ... ...h I must have a quarrel with the word itself. The eccentricities of modern education make us de- 69 H.G. Wells pendent for a number of our primary po... ...s or newspapers, there was no need for the state to main- tain a system of education, and the affairs of the state were so simple that they could be d... ...e vote un- til one had remedied all the deficiencies of one’s arithmetical education. The fundamental principle of the thing, that a candidate who get... ...iscipline in the party machine or by court intrigue, who has continued his education beyond those early twenties when the mind of the “budding politic... ...ld do far better. Give man- kind but a generation or so of peace and right education and this world could mock at the poor imaginations that con- ceiv...

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... took hold of it and turned to it for satis- faction. He began to see that education was a thing of infi- nite usury; that money devoted to it would y...

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...neither brother nor sister. She had no neighbours near her fit either from education or rank to interfere in the conduct of her life, excepting always... ...ed herself of having, were much more easily counted. She had the birth and education of a lady, the strength of a healthy woman, and a will of her own... ...rted, he was not much above the farm- ers around him, either in manners or education. He had his merits, however; for he was honest, well-to-do in the...

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...otal of a nation’s reading, in these days of daily papers, greatly modifies the total of the nation’s speech; and the speech and reading, taken togeth... ...able stratagem. Lying so open is scarce lying, it is true; but one of the things that we profess to teach our young is a respect for truth; and I cann... ...th to the fact and a good spirit in the treatment. In every department of literature, though so low as hardly to deserve the name, truth to the fact i... ... sickness, in sorrow as well as in joy. It is this nearness of examination necessary for any true and kind writing, that makes the practice of the art... ...e on something that a dull person shall be able to comprehend; and for a dull person to have read anything and, for that once, comprehended it, makes ... ...which was difficult to do well and possible to do better every year; which called for scrupulous thought on the part of all who practised it, and henc...

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... fruit of reason— and thus, no doubt, checked the evil tendencies which an education like mine encouraged. Though my mother neglected me I was sometim... ...was sometimes the ob- ject of her solicitude; she occasionally spoke of my education and seemed desirous of attending to it herself. Cold chills ran t... ...ue of money, and what I cost them? Of what use were coffee and sugar to my education? Such conduct was the first step into all the vices.” After endur... ...row. My companion threw me a significant look,—one of those which form the education of men of the world. I had stumbled no doubt upon some maternal w... ...you ill,” she said, “the air of our valley will soon restore you.” “Modern education is fatal to children,” remarked the count. “We stuff them with ma... ...as that have rolled down upon you. What sort of future will this universal education bring upon us unless we prevent its evils by replacing public edu... ...le reason for the solitude in which the Count de Mortsauf lived. His early education was that of the children of great families,—an incomplete and sup... ... de Mortsauf had emigrated at the very moment when the second stage of his education was about to begin, and accordingly that training was lacking to ... ...ealthy and robust, he returned infirm and utterly worn out. Without enough education to take part among men and affairs, now broad- ened and enlarged ...

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...king out of detail.’ The spirit of the seeker was still rare in the world; education was unskilled, unstimulating, scholarly , and but little valued, ... ...n enormous advantage in be- ing the only trained caste. Their professional education and 33 H G Wells every circumstance in the manipulation of the f... ...ht of bolder rearrangements of so- cial interaction, property, employment, education, and gov- ernment, than had ever been contemplated before. No dou... ... thought was interwoven with the very fabric of that pioneer school in the educational renascence in England. After the customary exchange years in He... ...the classical school of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ education of the British pedagogues, probably the most paralysing, ineffec-... ...hat we have still to discover gov- ernment, that we have still to discover education, which is the necessary reciprocal of government, and that all th... ... en- ergy to manufacture wealth and appliances, and leave gov- ernment and education to the rustling traditions of hun- dreds of years ago? Those trad... ...mmon man were picked up haphaz- ard, there was practically nothing in such education as he was given that was ever intended to fit him for citizenship... ...m of inquiry, freedom of criticism, free communications, a common basis of education and understanding, and freedom from economic oppression. With tha...

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...a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl—I was born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France. When I had reached my eighteenth Year I w... ...be hard if I did not know something of the Matter, for it was a part of my Education that I took by far the most pains with. Mama always found me her ... ... which she was betrayed by the open- ness of her Heart, her Youth, and her Education. Hav- ing I trust by this assurance entirely done away every Susp... ...nd well disposed person whose opinions have been properly guided by a good Education—and this Argument is that he was a Stuart. Finis – Saturday Nov: ... ...nd her sister scarcely a twelvemonth younger. I flatter myself that their education has been such as will not disgrace their appearance in the World,... ...grace their appearance in the World, and that they will not disgrace their Education I have every reason to beleive. Indeed they are sweet Girls—. S... ...o reap the rewards of all my Anxieties and Labours towards you during your Education. You are this Evening to enter a World in which you will meet wi...

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...years Mr. Lewisham will have his five or six languages, a sound, all-round education, a habit of tremendous industry, and be still but four-and- twent... ... but appreciative sketch of his life, and enlarged upon his discipline and educational methods. At the end was a long and decorative schedule of his c... ...loyment for the rest of his life, came a marvellous blue document from the Education Department promising inconceivable things. He was to go to London... ...tally quite a number of times, in the corridors of the schools, in the big Education Library, and in the Art Museum. After a time those meetings appea... ...to Clapham alone, and Lewisham sat in the flickering electric light of the Education Library star- ing blankly over a business-like pile of books at u... ...pile of diagrams and text-books in one of the less draughty corners of the Educational Library, accumulating piles of memoranda. And nightly in the St... ...ut the loaning of books was re- sumed, the subtle process of his aesthetic education that Miss Heydinger had devised. “Here is a book I promised you,”... ...e botanical examination—Mr. Lewisham was ob- served by Smithers in the big Education Library reading in a volume of the British Encyclopaedia. Beside ... ...e hard and fast. Only years can give a mind tone—miti- gate the varnish of education. I gather from this letter—and your face—that you are one of the ...

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...the bedroom. Neither husband nor wife knew how to read,—a slight defect of education which did not prevent them from ci- phering admirably and doing a... ...the department, and she can do what she pleases with Graslin.” Veronique’s education, her religious ideas, and her bound- less affection for her paren... ...ploy to bear the weariness of their solitude. She gave herself that second education which most women derive from a man, but which she derived from he... ...widened immeasurably the horizons of her intel- lect and the extent of her education; in this way she opened the gates of her soul to curiosity. Durin... ...e in the rue de la Cite; but by this time she had acquired a fine literary education, and was fully able to think and to speak. An excellent judgment ... ...without a motive is unheard of, especially in a young man whose desire for education and whose laudable ambition gave him higher ideas and a superior ... ...res, books, and statues of our lives. Are we not artists in their earliest education? I say that this unknown woman, if she is not a young girl, has n... ...aughter, or the judge’s daughter,—in re- turn for the pastor’s care of her education. The forlorn condition of the house was distressing to be- hold; ... ...se in the prov- inces, where, if we do raise them, we never keep them. The education of that high product is too slow and too risky a speculation for ...

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... review the social organisation in a different way, to con- sider it as an educational process instead of dealing with it as a thing with a future his... ...osition of all peoples, white, black, or brown, a natural disposition that education seeks to destroy, is to insist upon uniformity, to make publicity... ...s return. It is essential to the mod- ern ideal of life that the period of education and growth should be prolonged to as late a period as possible an... ... MODERN UTOPIANS with the universally diffused good manners, the universal education, the fine freedoms we shall ascribe to them, their world unity, w... ...aving regard to a social organisation whose main ends are reproduction and education in an atmosphere of personal freedom. Each of these inquiries, wo... ... not choose to gather and assimilate to himself, or assign for the special education of his children, the State will share in the lion’s proportion wi... ...be sold at his death, and whatever he has not clearly assigned for special educational purposes will— with possibly some fractional concession to near... ... as the meanest of mean virtues. But in Uto- pia everyone will have had an education and a certain mini- mum of nutrition and training; everyone will ... ...competition. The modern State tends to qualify inheritance, to insist upon education and nurture for children, to come in more and more in the interes...

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...f all races and conditions, their social and reli- gious sentiments, their education and tastes; their industries, their commerce, their local governm... ... – age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are imposed, relate to his education or property, and to the fact that he has not been convicted of cr... ...ld propensities, and it has grown up like those outcasts who receive their education in the public streets, and who are unacquainted with aught but th... ...turn to place themselves under the protection of the laws, their political education had been perfected in this rude school, and they were more conver... ...large majority of colonies have been first inhabited either by men without education and without resources, driven by their poverty and their miscondu... ...on of our own time. All, without a single excep- tion, had received a good education, and many of them were known in Europe for their talents and thei... ... inadequately felt in France. But it is by the attention it pays to Public Education that the original character of American civilization is at once p... ...entionally or involuntarily, mingled habits and notions derived from their education and from the traditions of their country with those habits and no... ...y carried to its utmost limits in the new States of the West – Equality of education. Many important observations suggest themselves upon the social c...

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...ed all Europe. Thus the compactness of their ideas, and the tenacity which education grafted on their nature made the Flemish people a formidable body... ...ars of age, was what is called in France a fine man. He came to finish his education in Paris, where he acquired excellent manners in the society of M... ...for which rea- son she was supposed to have little mind. Yet, the mystical education of a convent had one good result; it left her feel- ings in full ... ...here, indeed, her passion for her husband and the care she bestowed on the education of her children tended to keep her. 31 Balzac Such had been, up ... ...ents by the tyranny of ideas. Madame Claes keenly regretted her defects of education and memory. It was difficult for her to sustain an interesting co... ...erstand, she ended by master- ing it. Then she interested Balthazar in the education of his daughters, and asked him to direct their studies. All such... ... his pupil, turned him from active life, and he now devoted himself to the education of his nephew, who was made an orphan at an early age. After the ... ...ife by constant study and a discipline that was almost cloisteral. Such an education, which would launch the youth unstained upon the world and render... ...epared for whatever might happen to us. Gabriel ought to have a thor- ough education and a personal value. But tell me, what ca- reer is best for a ma...

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...nced of her own inability to control, or in any manner to superintend, the education of her orphan niece. Julia was, consequently, entrusted to the go... ...the richest blessing of such a connexion in her ability to superintend the education of her daughter. A mother’s care was employed to correct errors t... ... to the mistress. This incident was said, by some, to have com- pleted her education rather within the usual time. Julia had her- self thought her fri... ...y attitude was that of a gentleman. Not to know him for a man of birth, of education and of fortune, Julia felt to her would be impossible; and she tr... ...nner that she did not comprehend, she attributed it to the improvements in education, and was satisfied. But Julia had furnished herself with a clue t... ...e believed she was about to listen to a declaration that her years and her education united to tell her was never to approach female ears without slig...

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...oches, might bring just such a petition against me. “ ‘That his children’s education has been neglected for this monomania; and that he has taught the... ... for this monomania; and that he has taught them, against all the rules of education, the facts of Chinese history, which con- tradict the tenets of t... ...at steps should be taken to preserve them from the evil effects of such an education; that they should be provided for as beseems their rank, and that... ...hat quarter, in order to be among the schools and to superintend his boys’ education. More- over, the state in which he found the place, with everythi... ...wing by his demeanor the dignified manners and habits due to a gentlemanly education. “We wish to speak with him on business exclusively per- sonal to... ...y for my follies. As I then had not enough to live on and pay for my sons’ education, I determined to educate them myself, to make them gentle- men an...