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...inding us by their situation of the smiling vine- yards about Neuchatel in Switzerland. The town still bears much of its ancient aspect; the streets a... ...ncerre is exceedingly proud of having given birth to one of the glories of modern medicine, Horace Bianchon, and to an author of secondary rank, Etien... ...om his birth, was very evidently the child of a man whose constitution had early been ex- hausted by the excesses in which rich men indulge, who then ... ...ted to an acknowledged income of about fifteen thousand francs. During the early days of her married life, Dinah had ef- fected some alterations which... ...ank, to be introduced 19 Balzac to Madame de la Baudraye, as they used in Switzerland, to be introduced to Madame de Stael. Those who only once heard... ...ed, she had become possessed of the Rougets’ furni- ture, sold at Issoudun early in 1824. She purchased some very good things at Nivernais and the Hau... ...hing, is the provin- cial woman. This remark points to one of the sores of modern society. It must be clearly understood: France in the nineteenth cen... ... empha- sized by gloomy poetic feeling, had inspired some passages such as modern poetry is too free with, rather too like the flayed anatomical figur... ...where she reigns. This social phenomenon, I am told, may be seen in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany; but in France, as in every country where there is...

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...nd millions at the time when the aristocratic republic was a power. If the early night is beautiful anywhere, it surely is at Genoa, after it has rain... ...hich Michael Angelo has placed at the feet of the Pensieroso, dress her in modern garb, twist 8 Honorine that long hair round the magnificent head, a... ...’s 11 Balzac house, I had a thirst to quench. As soon as I had read a few modern masterpieces, the works of all the preceding ages were greedily swal... ...ever again be built in France, tak- ing up as much space as the whole of a modern house. As we went up the marble steps, as cold as tombstones, and wi... ... seems to me, to The Monk. “The Count was already shaved, having to attend early at the law courts. T wo candelabra with four lights, screened by lamp... ...ven years I have had two cooks, who have become rich restaurant-keepers.’ “Early in the year 1826 the Count had, no doubt, ceased to watch me, and we ... ...e coward! The man had, no doubt, counted on the easy and luxurious life in Switzerland or Italy which fine ladies in- dulge in when they leave their h...

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...no heed to the gondolier’s repeated signals. If you have never traveled in Switzerland you may perhaps read this description with pleasure; and if you... ...eme in this little apartment, which Stendhal, one of the most ingenious of modern writers, and a keen student of Italian manners, has called a boudoir... ...andise coming in, go- ing to the four quarters of the world. The forces of modern industry no longer reign in London, but in his own Venice, where the... ...ries, to analysis and discus- sion, and always torn by civil disturbances. Modern music demands perfect peace; it is the language of loving and sen- t... ...rated C, reminds us by its shrill accent and playful rhythm of the song of early birds. “Thus the same key, freshly treated by the master’s hand, expr... ...he others, express all we have ever imagined of the sacred marvels of that early age of humanity. “And yet this fine concerted piece is no more than a...

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... imagination understand the mystical depths of the Scriptures? Could it so early follow the flight of the Holy Spirit across the worlds? Or was it mer... ... years with his uncle, an old and not uncultured Oratorian, Louis left him early in 1811 to enter the college at V endome, where he was maintained at ... ...tarting from Greece, I would get to Rome, and traverse the whole extent of modern ages. What a fine book might be written of the life and adventures o... ...writing down language? Then has it not left its traces by tradition on our modern languages, which have all seized some remnant of the primi- tive spe... ...ved in it, from the most obscure to the clearest. His brain, accustomed in early youth to the mysterious mechanism by which human faculties are concen... ... in monu- ments, and to their happiness in the welfare of individuals. Are modern monuments as fine as those of the ancients? I doubt it. The arts, wh... ... In three years, twice at intervals he was himself for a few days; once in Switzerland, where we went, and once in an island off the wilds of Brittany...

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... ancient literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various modern languages; and in all fields, in the classical as well, his lively f... ...ape from it. Accordingly there is, to a singular extent, especially in his early writ- ings, a certain tinge of Grecism and Heathen classicality trace... ...verse and unfitted. No profession could, in any case, have well gained the early love of Sterling. And perhaps withal the most tragic element of his l... ...ttempt to read their laws. To steal 57 Thomas Carlyle into Heaven,—by the modern method, of sticking ostrich- like your head into fallacies on Earth,... ...ty picked Spaniards, and Torrijos,—safe, though without arms; still in the early part of the year. 68 The Life of John Sterling CHAPTER XI MARRIAGE: ... ... allusion. The principle of this difference, observable often elsewhere in modern lit- erature (for the same thing is to be found, more or less, in ma... ...g well at pictures and such objects; ascended the Rhine; rapidly traversed Switzerland and the Alps; issuing upon Italy and Milan, with immense appeti... ...ey of the Rhone; which is consid- ered one of the least beautiful parts of Switzerland, and perhaps for this reason pleased us, as we had not been pre... ...irls. Calvert bought them, as a present, for ‘the bodies, ’ at Martigny in Switzerland, and I have had no earlier opportunity of sending them. Will yo...

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...ark out a social triangle on which the scutcheon of power is blazoned; our modern aris- tocracy must take its stand on these. A fine theorem is as goo... ...d the love that she had never known, and marked the subtle distinctions of modern passion, not with com- ment on the part of complacent hypocrites. Fo... ...rsonal perfections. Then followed the discovery still in Mme de Langeais’s early womanhood, that it was possible to be loved without committing hersel... ...ctions in the twinkling of an eye. And how if, in the future opened out by early ripened passion, he catches glimpses of the changeful delight of her ... ...th her breath, sat down to the piano, and sang the most exquisite songs of modern music, and so baffled the physical attraction which at times showed ... ...sis and con- sequent decline of severity. Armand happening to come in very early one evening, found M. l’Abbe Gondrand, the Duchess’s spiritual direct... ...ve just come across your coachman, the man is as tipsy as all the Swiss in Switzerland.” The Duchess made no answer; she was looking round the room, a...

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...irl in sight, had sur- prised him with the contradictory revelation of her modern sense of expediency and her old-fashioned standard of good 11 Edith... ...kind of free- masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they ... ...of course, was their chief prophetess; but even the intensely “bright” and modern young secretaries, Mr. Beck and Mr. Buttles, showed a touching tende... ...s, and he himself preferred to stick to his task. Only now he wrote in the early mornings, so that on most days they could set out before noon and ste... ...as secure, he was satisfied; and he had also, for the first time since his early youth, before his mother’s death, the sense of having some one to loo... ...ever of Susy’s cleverness and freedom from prejudice: she couldn’t be too “modern” for him now that she was his. He shared to the full her passionate ... ...nes and Violet Melrose to dine with the Vicar of Altringham, on his way to Switzerland for a month’s holiday, and to watch the face of the Vicar’s wif...

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...ghter of the schoolmaster, and that her husband was gone on a journey into Switzerland for some money a relation had left him. “They wanted to cheat h... ... of any cure, they would certainly be cured here. This is my birthday, and early in the morning I received a packet from Albert. Upon opening it, I fo... ...awn me thither before I knew Charlotte; and we were delighted when, in our early acquain- tance, we discovered that we each loved the same spot, which... ... the humble citizens. She was, no doubt, handsome in her youth, and in her early years probably trifled away her time in ren- dering many a poor youth... ...f wife; the shabbily-dressed I—, whose old-fashioned coat bore evidence of modern repairs: this crowned the whole. I conversed with some of my acquain... ... youngest of her children. I was silent. “And my husband has returned from Switzerland without any money; and, if some kind people had not assisted hi...

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...rning were connected with the floggings which he re- ceived at Eton in his early youth, had that decent and honest reverence for classical learning wh... ...es in a most cautious and deli- cate manner. In the first place he took an early opportunity of pumping Miss Briggs. That was not a difficult operatio... ...there. Although he went to the party in question, Sir Pitt quitted it very early, and his wife, too, was very glad to come away. Becky hardly so much ... ...alled a select library of all the works of the best authors of ancient and modern times and languages. He took the boys to the British Museum and desc... ... our son will new furnish the house, or perhaps let it, and go into a more modern quarter; your name will be among the “Members Deceased” in the lists... ...kenbury and Mrs. W ashington White passed through Boulogne on their way to Switzerland. —The party were protected by Colonel Horner, young Beaumoris, ...

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...urse on the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would be thrown up, until the ... ...nable at present to go to identify the remains of the loved and lost. My darling son would have been sixteen on Christmas-day next. He was a most amia... ...ood company, were two old women, upwards of ninety years of age. The younger of the two, just turned ninety, was deaf, but not very, and could easily ... ...have it misregulated, if such declaration may, with- out violence to the Church Catechism, be hinted to those who are put in authority over us. Any an... ...voyage to England, I read the Shipping Intelligence as anxiously as if I had been an under- writer. There was some stormy weather after I myself had g... ...the officiating young gentleman has over and over again inscribed Amelia, in ink of various dates, on corners of his pad. In- deed, the pad may be reg...

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...o believe their for- tunes made, and who find themselves their own masters early in life. It was not likely that my father, born in 1606, would live l... ...irst day some of the Gendarmes and of the light horse of the guard arrived early in the morning at the depot of the sacks, and commenced murmuring and... ...evening he had invited several of us to sup- per in his tent. I went there early, and found him stretched out upon his bed, from which I dislodged him... ... return of the Court from Fontainebleau this year, Puysieux came back from Switzerland, having been sent there as ambassador. Puysieux was a little fa... ...nor talk about religion or politics; but much and elegant wit, ancient and modern stories, news of gal- lantries, yet without scandal. All was delicat... ...ut Madame de Maintenon laughed at her chimeras, as they were laughed at in Switzerland. M. le Prince de Conti was another claimant. He based his right... ...tle protected. Thereupon, the King despatched a courier to our minister in Switzerland, with orders to go to Neufchatel, and employ every means, even ... ...which so cleverly unravelled the remote part, gave but a meagre account of modern days, except in so far as their military operations were concerned; ... ...by the usurpations of the bastards, the designs of the Parliament, and the modern fan- cies of a sham nobility. As soon as I perceived his suspicions ...

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...pact in virtue of which children hide each other’s peccadilloes, and which early teaches them the principles of honor, was null and void in my case; m... ...plation was first aroused by an incident which will give you an idea of my early troubles. So little notice was taken of me that the gov- erness occas... ...es” and “rillons” was the chief feature of their mid-day meal, between the early break- fast and the parent’s dinner, which was ready when we re- turn... ...s made 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 ... ...en from the heights above. Here I might have thought myself in a corner of Switzerland. The meadows, furrowed with little brooks which flow into the I... ...r of the privilege; you must admit, however, that on the dead level of our modern customs aristocracy can rise to great- ness only through unparallele...

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...emendation: of a] young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also... ... I had to—to keep my subject to a decent compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to ... ... a scale, for developments. What one had discerned, at all events, from an early stage, was that a young person so devoted and exposed, a creature wit... ...r only possible basis; she was just the contemporary London female, highly modern, inevitably battered, honourably free. She had of course taken her a... ...all, made good her presence. She had given her daughters the five years in Switzerland and Ger- many that were to leave them ever afterwards a standar... ...each other and to try for themselves whether a scheme of constancy on more modern lines could be worked? She had doubted, as they came to England, of ... ....” “Then we’ll go back.” Susie blenched. “Back to America?” “No, abroad—to Switzerland, Italy, anywhere. I mean by your staying ‘here’ for me,” Milly ... ...he Bayswater Road, but he stopped short, under the murky stars, before the modern church, in the middle of the square that, going eastward, opened out...

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...ight, swarms in the famous street of La Canebiere, — a street of which the modern Phocaeans are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the wor... ...e for his wealth, the liberty he so earnestly prayed for. But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither co... ...ges, so as to have been able to read all these?” “Yes, I speak five of the modern tongues — that is to say, Ger- man, French, Italian, English, and Sp... ...with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early paths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corre- s... ...Paoli and Napoleon. The next morning going on deck, as he always did at an early hour, the The Count of Monte Cristo 182 patron found Dantes leaning ... ...as the person for whom the yacht was intended had gone upon a tour through Switzerland, and was not expected back in less than three weeks or a month,... ... been visited since he went away; his treasure was just as he had left it. Early on the following morning he com- menced the removal of his riches, an...

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...e left school to study that science. He was then about fourteen, but these early years of his life are involved in obscurity. The next informa- tion t... ...daughter of a councillor in the Parliament of Bordeaux. The history of his early married life vies in obscurity with that of his youth. His biographer... ... well as with the character of its baths. The passage of Montaigne through Switzerland is not without interest, as we see there how our philosophical ... ...ir dogmas. He even had dis- putations with them occasionally. “Having left Switzerland he went to Isne, an imperial then on to Augsburg and Munich. He... ...rches of the old houses, upon which, as on slabs of rock, they raise their modern palaces. It is easy to see that several of the ancient streets are t... ...es. He set out, accordingly, with his wife and M. Bouillhonnas, his uncle. Early on the following morning, however, I had intelli- gence from Madame d... ...o have cudgelled my brains in the study of Aristotle, the mon- arch of all modern learning, or particularly addicted myself to any one science, I have... ... back so prodigious a mass, above twelve hundred leagues: besides that our modern navigators have already al- most discovered it to be no island, but ...

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... of a tone and color that would have delighted the heart of Delacroix, our modern Rubens. This path was formed in the shape of the figure of 8, thus, ... ...nt of the Cavalcanti, who most likely in Lucca fed upon trout brought from Switzerland, and lobsters sent from England, by the same means used by the ... ...ame!” exclaimed the baroness. “Oh, let us have no gestures, no screams, no modern drama, or you will oblige me to tell you that I see Debray leave her... ...n olive-green door, asked if the Abbe Busoni were within. “No, he went out early this morning,” replied the valet. “I might not always be content with... ...like me to converse with him?” Monte Cristo turned to Albert. “Do you know modern Greek,” asked he. “Alas, no,” said Albert; “nor even ancient Greek, ... ...on.” “Nothing is ever so firmly impressed on the mind as the memory of our early childhood, and with the exception of the two scenes I have just descr... ...ty thousand francs.” “At ten o’clock then, if you please; I should like it early, as I am going into the country to-morrow.” “Very well, at ten o’cloc... ...els, Liege, Aix-la-Chapelle; then up the Rhine to Strasburg. We will cross Switzerland, and go down into Italy by the Saint-Gothard. Will that do?” “Y...

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... deteriorating sperm counts are caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, swine flu, and other... ...ection and Élan Vitale is misplaced: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the ... ...e religious would add). 7. Finally, mathematics is useful: it works. It underlies modern science and technology unerringly and unfailingly. In tim... ...of Parapsychology echo the schism that opened in the monotheistic religions (and in early Buddhism) between the profane and the sacred, the here an... ...sights, was less formidable. Many of its tenets and procedures have been discarded early on, even by its own proponents and practitioners. The rule... ...y and all manner of substitutes (such as money) stand in for primary objects in our early formative years. To experience our true selves and to ful... ... APROFIM SA): Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland Manager of the Research and Analysis Division Man...

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...so belong in this category. In contrast, problems of nurturance and environment - early childhood abuse, for instance, or malnutrition - are "exte... ...orders (Suite101)" By: Dr. Sam Vaknin In their opus magnum "Personality Disorders in Modern Life", Theodore Millon and Roger Davis define personalit... ...et's look at the bird and see what it's doing – that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and k... ...ng: • The longitudinal course of the disorder(s) and their temporal stability from early childhood onwards; • The genetic and biological underpinni... ... of micro-processes and of the Universe without saying much about their "essence". Modern physics strives to provide correct predictions - rather t... ...interpretation of Quantum Mechanics) they invariably run into philosophical snags. Modern science uses metaphors (e.g., particles and waves). Metap... ... APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – M...

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... our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a...

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... Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 ...

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...-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psychobiolog... ... Human Psychobiologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter... ...onder Pg 218 Normality Pg 219 Reality Pg 220 Conclusion Chapter Four: Modern Humans Psychobiologic Totality Pg 223 The Slow Death of Hum... ...dumps were created from using this new technology of tool-making. Nearly all early artifacts come from these discovered waste dumps. Modern archeol... ...ern archeologists take nearly all of their assumptions of the intelligence of early Modern Humans from the biggest waste dumps they can find… or mor... ...ition: modern capitalism. An important reason for continued tool-use by our early ancestors, i.e. separation, was not only the advantage of making... ...r Africa’ where they played two matches: one in Federers’s hometown in Zurich Switzerland, and the other in Nadal’s Home turf Madrid Spain. When th...

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... in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is repr... ...n the text is reprinted with kind permission of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. Edward Conze (tr.), Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin Classics, Ha... ...ican Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotations from this paper that appear in the text are rep... ... roots of religious belief and practice I could find what I was missing in modern day religion. I enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the city o... ...formation. Although at UTS a friend had introduced me to Jung’s short book Modern Man in Search of a Soul which became a very close friend of my own s... ...Jung has frequently been called “mystical” in a pejorative way, because in modern Western scientific civilization there is no room for subjective expe... ...ured—have been found, in what appear to be religious chapels, even in very early village buildings. However, their specific significance and the relig... ...ly knit as in Egypt. 1 From this blend of religious cultures developed the early Hebrew reli- gious culture. In its initial stages Hebrew religious cu... ...y knit as in Egypt. 12 From this blend of religious cultures developed the early Hebrew religious culture. In its initial stages Hebrew religious cult...